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It's Still About Getting Him Out of the Race · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, eighteenth day
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of July. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. We are working our
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way through this month of July rather quickly, aren't we. August before we
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know it. We're just knocking on the door, aren't we? All right?
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And August means lead up to Dragon Con in downtown Atlanta, and I'll
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so let's talk for just a little bit about President Trump, former President Trump.
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Who I saw this and I couldn't help but think, well, of
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course this is the case because this was always the eventual end game objective.
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But I saw a new story where this was a new story about a podcast
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and there is this what's the name of this podcast it is it's a liberal
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former NYU professor and podcast host and his name is Scott Galloway, that's his
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name. Got a show called Pivot and he was talking about I guess in
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the Kara Swishers the other co host, and they talked about President Trump.
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For President Trump, and they basically said that the prediction I guess from Galloway
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is that Donald Trump will not end up running for president next year. He
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doesn't think that's the case. That's what he says anyway. He thinks that
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there is eventually going to be some sort of a plea deal that happens now.
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Apparently he's not the first person to say this. I guess Chris Christie
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is one who has said something along these lines. And I know there's a
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lot of others that have been hopeful about it, but actually hearing it start
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to come out into the ether, it actually being spoken out into the world
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and being said. And I guess if Chris Christie said it, I missed
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it. I don't pay a lot of attention to Chris Christie, and I
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don't know what it would take for me to pay a lot of attention to
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him. Some also think that, I guess maybe even on this show,
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they said they thought Christie would end up being moving into second place behind Trump.
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But before all this goes down, I don't know that that's the case,
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but I don't know. I don't hold a crystal ball when it comes
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to elections, and I've admitted that many times. There are a lot of
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things that have happened in elections I didn't see coming. Trump was one of
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them. Obama was one of them. There's a few things I just didn't
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see it coming at all. So this idea, this concept that Trump would
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even possibly consider a stepping down and ending his candidacy for a plea deal just
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to get out of the running. And the argument is that he likes to
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play golf, he likes to do his thing. He can go do his
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thing and not have to worry about all these criminal charges and things. That's
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been the goal from the beginning for the criminal charges. Well, there's two
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goals. There's been two purposes for it, and I've talked about this great
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length. One and most importantly was to try to keep him from running,
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to make it so that he was incapable of running. And I guess this
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is going to be three things. That's the first goal. That's the first
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objective. I think the second objective was to give enough ammunition for whoever the
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Democrat nominee, is that they're able to be in a position where they can
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say Trump is a terrible person. These are the criminal charges against him.
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Therefore, no one should vote for him, and then the third option would
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be this one to try to figure out to use it as a way to
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leverage him out of the race. I do think all of these things have
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been part of the strategy. I've talked many times about friends of mine who,
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during the process of the second impeachment said to me, and I said,
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he's going there's note, this impeachment is silly. There's not going to
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be any end result in this other than it's just going to be a giant
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waste of time. And I had at least one friend tell me, but
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this is about preventing him from running again. And I'm okay with it because
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I don't want him to run again. And I said, okay, well,
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that's not what the impeachment is supposed to be for. I mean,
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that's not what impeaching a president before, is to keep them from being able
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to run for office again. And they said, well, I'm okay with
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it because I just I don't like him. And therein lies a problem that
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we have for a lot of people in the country is that they seem okay
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with the fact that we're stretching things just for the purposes of trying to get
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rid of someone that we don't like and trying to silence the vote of people
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who maybe do like that person and maybe do want to vote for them.
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And when we start talking about election integrity, when we start talking about people
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trying to cancel out other people's votes. And that's been something that obviously has
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been a major concern for a very long time for different reasons, and it's
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evolved over the years. There was a time when, especially in the Deep
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South, back when Democrats always won in Georgia, right, that changed in
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the mid nineties, that's when that changed. But that was a concern about
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you know, white Republicans don't want black people to be able to vote,
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and they want them to have IDs, and not everybody has an ID,
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and they're trying to stop them from voting, trying to hold up some sort
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of election integrity. And then we went through a number of elections now where
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there's been confusion. We seem to always have confusion in the Fulton County,
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we have confusion in the Atlanta area. George has become that state. It's
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become that joke state where people can just laugh and people can say, oh,
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they never can figure it out in Georgia and then we went through twenty
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twenty, where we know COVID certainly played a heavy hand in being able to
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change the way the election was run, the way that the election took place,
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and not just in Georgia but in a number of places. So those
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are things where people said that every vote has to count, even the ballots
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that strangely or picked up by someone and they're not handled properly, or maybe
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the signatures don't match, or they're not being checked or whatever was going on,
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but those votes need to count. They have to count. Those people
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need to have their votes counted. And then the same people who say that
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are the same ones who say that a former president who would like to run
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again, who has challenged whether or not the previous election was fair, and
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I guess that probably is the better. You know, some are challenging,
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and Trump has even said the outcome wasn't correct. But I mean many Americans
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I think still question the overall fairness of it and have said that, you
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know, maybe the election outcome was right, but was it all handled fairly?
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Was it all conducted fairly? And some still have that question. So
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if the question is if every vote should count, then why shouldn't every American
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be able to vote for who they want to vote for. Why is there
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a process that was taking place in Congress to try to prevent a former president
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from running again? Why and why are Americans okay with it? Why do
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they not have a problem with it? So two impeachments, basically just to
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show him, we're going to show this guy. The first one was to
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show him. The second one was to try to keep him from being able
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to run again, or at the very least, put that scarlet letter on
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him. Twice impeached. No other president's been twice impeached. It's not even
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a common thing for a president to be impeached. But now twice impeached president
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that wants to a former president that wants to run again. Oh, that's
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got to be an uphill battle for him with that scarlet letter, doesn't it.
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And then criminal charges, two cases of criminal charges where you're federal charges,
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things that you're able to hang on him as well, more scarlet letters.
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They're all over him. He's covered in scarlet and they're able to say,
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Oh, this guy, he's got so much baggage. There's no way
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people are going to vote for him. Let's help him be the nominee.
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And then let's also in the middle of this election cycle next year, let's
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have trials going on. Let's force him off the campaign trail to be involved
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in these trials. Some of it's backfired a bit. It's pushed him way
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in front for Republicans. He's got a commanding lead now to Santis, and
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some of the polls has slipped significantly as many of the others are all just
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trying to figure out how do we get close. We know de Santis's campaign
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they've had to let some staffers go because they're spending money like crazy trying to
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make up that gap with Trump. And now here we have this possibility even
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that they're going to try to work a plea deal, that there's even going
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to be a plea deal offered. Hey, if you just won't run again,
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if you just won't run again and guarantee you won't run again, and
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maybe we could drop these charges and get you out of the race. Would
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he even consider it? I mean, would he? I mean, I
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suppose somewhere there's a lawyer that might say we should talk about this. I
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don't know that he would would he? Again, I don't know. I'm
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not the best at predicting these sorts of things. I'm not the one who's
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going to go out on a limb on a show and make some sort of
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crazy prediction like this. But the point is it's being talked about and people
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are trying to at least put it out there. Now, do they want
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him gone? Do they want him out of the race? I think they
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should be concerned that all of their efforts have made him stronger, have made
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him more formidable. I think they need to be worried about that. I
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think a lot of people think that Biden is the only Democrat that could beat
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him. But I also kind of wonder if they can get him out of
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the race, could they then try to get Biden out of the race?
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Does that make it viable for them to, I don't know, try to
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get out. I'm a certain governor of California in there that they really seem
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high on, even though I don't think most of the country is. It's
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a possibility. You know, they're going to look right past the vice president.
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She's gonna be explaining to everybody that AI has two letters in it,
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and that's what she's good at, that's her strength. She wasn't a strong
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candidate. When she ran against Biden for the nomination, she was the first
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one out. She said a lot of really horrible things about him, many
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of them probably true, and then immediately was shown the door and was out
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of the race. So is it a possibility that they would want Trump out?
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But with enough time that they could try to get someone else, And
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there's not really a whole lot of someone else's out there. They don't have
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a lot of options. And I think they are convinced that if anyone,
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anyone, even Gavin News him, runs against Trump, They're gonna lose.
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It's got to be Joe Biden. He's the only one who can beat him,
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because he's the only one who has beaten him. And I think that
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they're convinced to that. I think that they can't go out and try to
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recruit Hillary. I don't know that. I mean, I don't know.
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It's Michelle Obama still something that people are thinking about and discussing with this convention
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for the Democrats happening in Chicago. I mean, I guess, but does
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anybody think that they could get Donald Trump to get out of the race with
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a plea deal? And then it would be, well, who is Trump
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going to support? Are they going to ask him also not to support anybody,
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not to campaign for anybody. I mean, I don't think it's a
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real option anyway, is it. I mean, his ultimate victory would be
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to win and pardon himself, right, I mean, isn't that ultimately?
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Like I mean, is there a greater mic drop moment in history than him
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doing that? Winning the presidency? And I guess you can pardon yourself,
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can't you? Do you? I don't know, say I'm gonna go have
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surgery today and the vice President's going to step in for the day and then
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they pardon you. I don't know. I don't know how that works.
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A lot of these names being tossed around for vice president already, and a
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lot of the candidates whose names are being brought up, like Tim Scott,
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are going I'm not running for vice president. I'm still running for president.
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I get it they're throwing names around for people to be Trump's VP pick,
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but I'm still running for president. Good for Tim Scott, he should keep
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running for president. This is a crazy This is gonna be a crazy next
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year and a bit a crazy next you know. Went sixteen months whatever we
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got. Oh gosh, are we getting down to that point? It's gonna
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be wild, and he should continue his candidacy. But it is interesting,
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isn't it that we've the cards are on the table now. This is about
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getting Trump out of the race. That's what it's been about all along,
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and ultimately canceling out your opportunity to vote for Trump again if that's your candidate.
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Carol Morning Show right after the break. All right, So I just recently
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got a new phone. I significant upgrade for me and really excited about it.
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And I'm still very careful with it. I always have to make sure
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I've got a case. I've always had big, bulky cases on my phone.
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I'm an auterbox guy, fan of the auter box. I've never been
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an autter box on like an iPad person, but my phone, I do
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have a tendency to drop it a lot. And I'm not alone apparently maybe
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alone on the autobox. I don't. I know a lot of people that
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use cases, and some use autter boxes that I know. But apparently.
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According to a new survey, the average person has one hundred forty moments of
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phone peril every year, broken down by age group. Gen Z the clumsiest
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with an average of one hundred and eighty seven oopsis a year. Sixty nine
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percent of people say they're currently using a phone that is partly broken. The
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most common problems are a cracked or scratch screen, battery problems, and overheating
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with their phone. But many of these phone peril moments relate to dropping it,
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spilling something on it, all those sorts of things. So, yeah,
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it does make me feel a little better to hear that I'm probably not
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close to one hundred and forty. That seems a high average, doesn't it.
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One hundred and forty phone peril moments a year, that definitely seems rather
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high. One hundred and forty in a year. If you're feeling cluttered in
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the bedroom, if you feel like you have a lot of people are dealing
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with a clutter. I feel like this time of year, when it's so
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hot, more people are indoors. I know, people are trying to get
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outdoors and they're trying to vacation, and maybe when they vacation, they come
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home and they look around and they go, oh, the place is cluttered,
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or they're just in their home more because it's so hot outside and they're
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trying to avoid the heat. Professional organizer named Jennifer Jarrett gave some tips that
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she says will help you have a less cluttered bedroom space. She says,
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get rid of old damaged sheets and blankets, reduce the amount of stuff on
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your nightstand. She says to get rid of expired makeup and beauty products and
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throw out old worn out socks. Ways that you can do clutter. Those
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are all. I don't have to worry about the makeup necessarily, but I
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do have too much stuff on my bedside. I do have what we I
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say we have. We've got a dog who likes to know, scratch around
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on the sheets and blankets and things, and that's just that's going to be
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the case as long as he does that. We can't replace those until we
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know he's gonna stop. And I don't know that he's ever going to stop.
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Speaking of dogs, there are some dogs that are rated cuddlier than other
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dogs, and experts say the five I guess this is a survey or an
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evaluation under the five cuddliest dog breeds. Okay, cuddliest is that the word
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most cuddly. They've got English bulldogs at five, the Great Dane at number
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four, Labrador Retriever at three, the Puget two, and the Golden Retriever
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at one. I don't have a problem with Golden Retriever. I think you've
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got a dog that's got golden in the name, it's probably going to be
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a pretty good dog on most accounts, right, I mean that seems to
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be. It seems to be pretty standard, right. I mean, they
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Golden Retrievers do really well overall. I just there's an absence of the terriers
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in here. I'm just as a terrier dad, I'm just saying there seems
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to be a significant gap there. I mean, what's wrong with the Jack
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Russell. You're telling me they're not cuddly. You're telling me they're not I'm
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telling you that they'll destroy your blanket, the comfort are on your bed.
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Absolutely, they'll try to dig it up, and they'll mess up the sheets
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and all that stuff they get in there. But doesn't mean that they're not
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cuddly, does it. And Finally, a female owner of a number of
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sick of male guests hitting on women at her hotels. She's known only as
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Lou and says that she wanted to give women a vacation place that they can
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relax without feeling like they have to socialize or deal with men looking for casual
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hookups. All right, that's fine as long as you know that when you
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go there. I mean, if that's your option and that's your choice and
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that's where you want to go, just no men, no dudes, dudes
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not allowed. Now, it would be interesting in the States if that would
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float, would you be able to We'd start getting into some complications, wouldn't
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we about who qualified to be able to stay there or not stay there,
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