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Trump 2024 · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  People assume that if I'm not a Democrat anymore, then I must be
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  a Republican or I must be conservative.
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  I still consider myself a liberal, but liberalism has
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  changed and I don't fit there anymore.
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  As a black kid growing up in Texas, you were taught that you
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  had to support Democrats because Republicans were for white
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  people supporting the rich. And we definitely weren't rich.
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  Basically, our default setting is to be a Democrat.
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  I'm a Democrat. My parents are Democrats.
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  I was a huge Obama supporter. In the 2016 primary, I voted for
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  Bernie Sanders. I mean, I was a socialist.
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  It wasn't until we got married and began expecting our own
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  family that I began to kind of question whether or not the
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  things that we were really promoting and supporting.
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  Were. In line with the way we were
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  living, and that was when the shift kind of began for us.
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  I was renting a room in this woman's apartment.
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  She had three or four kids from three or four different fathers.
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  She was my age. Most of them were incarcerated.
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  I asked her, what do you do? She goes, I'm in the system.
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  It feels like Democrats sort of get people hooked on this drug
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  of free money where they basically say, you know, if you
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  want your fix, you have to keep voting for us.
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  And then this bold man comes down an escalator in New York
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  City. I couldn't come out and say it
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  right away, but deep down the side I knew he was going to be
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  the first Republican that I ever voted for.
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  His entire campaign works for all Americans.
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  That was a turning point for me. One of the hardest things to do
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  is to challenge your own beliefs.
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  Going straight to the source is really how I was able to
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  overcome some of those pitfalls. And so I want people to hear my
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  story and know that you can actually go from being a
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  democratic socialist to a Trump supporter, But you have to look
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  deeper. I think there's a political
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  realignment that's taking place. I've always been very anti war
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  and now Trump is by a mile the anti war candidate.
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  I've always been very much for free speech.
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  Trump is now, by a mile the more pro free speech candidate.
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  What's at stake in November is pretty much everywhere you look,
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  you either see prosperity and liberty and things that you want
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  to preserve. Or if you're a Democrat,
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  everywhere you look you see something you want to tear down
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  and remake in the image of some other country that's not as
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  successful as we are. I'm trying to conserve our
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  values, our Constitution, our God-given rights, right to bear
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  arms, freedom of speech, all the things that has always made this
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  country great. You know, it took me a good long
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  time to get here, but I hope that Trump wins and that we can
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  continue with the progress that he's made and the policies that
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  he's put into place. Let's get our economy back on
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  track and let's be moving in the right direction.