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'We need everyone to Unite' RNC chairman · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Voters will decide which party they think best represents America
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  Speaker 1: this November, as the fight for control of Congress remains
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  Speaker 1: a toss-up. But joining us now for tonight's big close-up
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  Speaker 1: is RNC Chairman Joe Gruters. Joe, I know you're coming
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  Speaker 1: off of Dallas and a... first ever midterm convention. And
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  Speaker 1: there were a lot of speeches, a lot of patriotism.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like a great crowd. Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: that midterm convention, the first ever, do you think that
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  Speaker 1: that's going to make a difference? Is that going to
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  Speaker 1: get the base riled up and ready to head out
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  Speaker 1: to the polls?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, millions of Americans from all over the country were
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  Speaker 2: able to watch our messaging directly from the president, the
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  Speaker 2: vice president. And listen, I think that that's what we
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  Speaker 2: needed to really start this barnstorming tour that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have with the president, over 35 rallies, 100 teletown halls.
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  Speaker 3: We are ready.
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  Speaker 2: We've been preparing. But we need everybody to get up
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  Speaker 2: and unite and help us make sure that we keep
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  Speaker 2: President Trump as our president.
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  Speaker 3: For four years.
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  Speaker 2: We can't let these guys win the House or the Senate. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a complete disaster. We have to win.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to win.
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  Speaker 4: Chairman Kevin Cork with you. I had a chance to
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  Speaker 4: watch each and every.
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  Speaker 5: Moment of the.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this was funny. We're calling it a convention,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm so used to, like, the one that happens
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  Speaker 4: every four years. Having a midterm convention is a novel idea.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just curious, how much do you think that will
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  Speaker 4: carry into November? It's not an easy thing. Everybody can
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  Speaker 4: be hot for the moment. But I'm just curious, what
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  Speaker 4: do you do to reach those people who are maybe disaffected,
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  Speaker 4: maybe disappointed, and help you pull the candidates over the
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  Speaker 4: finish line?
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  Speaker 2: Well, only four times in the last 150 years the
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  Speaker 2: incumbent party has been able to be successful in holding
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  Speaker 2: both chambers. That's why if we're going to win, we
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  Speaker 2: have to do things a little bit differently. That's why
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  Speaker 2: the president came up with the idea. I said it
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  Speaker 2: was brilliant. And a lot of people didn't think we
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  Speaker 2: were going to be able to.
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  Speaker 3: Pull it off.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we had 109 speakers. I think Vice
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  Speaker 2: President Vance had his best speech ever. I think Trump
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  Speaker 2: knocked it out of the park. But we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get our message directly to the American people to really
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  Speaker 2: show them two things— A, all the great things this
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  Speaker 2: president has done, and number two, show the contrast between
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  Speaker 2: what we're offering over the next two years, and that's
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  Speaker 2: common sense mainstream versus this craziness, these left-wing radical nutjobs
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  Speaker 2: on the left and how they want to fundamentally change
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  Speaker 2: our country moving forward. We can't let that happen.
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  Speaker 3: Chairman Gruters, let's talk about those midterms. We're only about
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  Speaker 3: 52 days out. Fox News power rankings are calling the
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  Speaker 3: House a toss-up. Nate Silver predicts the Democrats will win
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  Speaker 3: back the Senate. And of course, as we just mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: the GOP did hold its first ever midterm convention in
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  Speaker 3: Dallas to rally the voters. But Democrats did try to
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  Speaker 3: one-up the event with their own anti-Trump counter-programming.
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  Speaker 5: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: They chose the wrong place to hold this clown show
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  Speaker 6: of theirs. Anybody that is showing up here and bootlicking
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump, and that's what this is all about, is
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  Speaker 6: probably going to be disqualified in 2028.
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  Speaker 2: The most corrupt person to ever be president, go on
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  Speaker 2: stage and continue to lie to the American people.
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  Speaker 1: All are in good company today, surrounded by Republicans who
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  Speaker 1: are happy to coddle a president who is unfit.
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  Speaker 3: They even rolled out former President Obama for a fundraiser
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  Speaker 3: to steal some of that spotlight. What do you think
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  Speaker 3: of that messaging and sort of counter messaging from the Republicans?
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  Speaker 2: Listen, anybody who would show up to go see, hear
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  Speaker 2: Pritzker speak, they had 40 shootings in Chicago last week
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  Speaker 2: during our convention. I mean, that guy is a complete
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  Speaker 2: loser and he should focus on his own state. But
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  Speaker 2: as for us, we think that the messaging worked. But
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats, this is what happens when you have your
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  Speaker 2: leaders of AOC, Bernie Sanders. I MEAN, THEY ACTUALLY HAD
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  Speaker 2: A CONVENTION, NOT DURING OUR TIME, BUT A COUPLE OF
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  Speaker 2: WEEKS AGO WHEN THE DSA HAD THEIR ANNUAL CONVENTION. THEY
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  Speaker 2: TELL PEOPLE EXACTLY WHERE THEY STAND, AND I THINK THE
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  Speaker 2: AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO REJECT THIS RADICAL LEFTISM THAT
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  Speaker 2: THESE GUYS ARE PITCHING. NOBODY WANTS TO HAVE OPEN BORDERS.
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  Speaker 2: NOBODY WANTS TO HAVE THE MASSIVE FRAUD THAT WE'RE SEEING
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  Speaker 2: ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. AMNESTY ACROSS THE BOARD, INCLUDING FOR THE
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  Speaker 2: RAPISTS AND This president's been working every single day for
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  Speaker 2: the average working American, and we're going to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that everybody has that chance of the American dream. That's
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  Speaker 2: why people are going to vote for the president. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to vote for his agenda, and they're going to
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  Speaker 2: vote for his policies this November 3rd.
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  Speaker 7: Chairman, you can't turn on any news network without seeing
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  Speaker 7: something about AI, but especially the data centers, the infrastructure
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  Speaker 7: behind it. It's become a major election issue. Democrats are
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  Speaker 7: trying to capitalize on public backlash against the technology.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this.
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  Speaker 4: Texans are sick of these AI ads.
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  Speaker 6: Data centers that are popping up in our communities. Ken
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  Speaker 6: Paxton has taken nearly half a million dollars linked to
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  Speaker 6: data centers.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump says data centers should be fast-tracked. I say
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  Speaker 3: not in Oregon and not on my watch.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has been all in on data centers.
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  Speaker 7: You have in.
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  Speaker 6: Trump the most dangerous and irresponsible president in the history
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  Speaker 6: of the United States.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, wherever you fall on data centers, and there's
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  Speaker 7: a strong argument for us to invest and be a
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  Speaker 7: part of creating AI and bringing it forward. People don't
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  Speaker 7: always understand what these data centers are used for. All
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  Speaker 7: that being said, 75% of Democrats, 63% of Republicans say
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  Speaker 7: they don't want these centers in their community, in their town.
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  Speaker 7: Yet President Trump seems to be the banner carrier for
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  Speaker 7: AI data centers. I mean, he posted about it just
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  Speaker 7: last week and said if you don't want them, you
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  Speaker 7: basically want to be poor and, you know, backwards. And
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  Speaker 7: so how do you bring a message forward out of
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  Speaker 7: a convention that is such a divisive issue but crosses
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  Speaker 7: party lines? How do you put a message out there
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  Speaker 7: to get people comfortable with it or even on President
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  Speaker 7: Trump's agenda for it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, the president's exactly right in terms of we've
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  Speaker 2: got to make sure we keep America's dominance over the
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  Speaker 2: AI system over China. We can't let them have any edge.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, we have to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that everybody, the constituency, that they're protected. Water bills shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: go up. Electric bills shouldn't go up. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: he's been pushing this ratepayer protection pledge. AND CONGRESS SHOULD
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  Speaker 2: PASS IT BECAUSE IF DATA CENTERS COME INTO YOUR COMMUNITY,
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  Speaker 2: THEN YOU SHOULD BENEFIT FROM IT. YOU SHOULDN'T BEAR ANY
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  Speaker 2: TYPE OF COST. THAT'S WHAT THIS PRESIDENT WANTS. AT THE
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  Speaker 2: END OF THE DAY, WE CAN FIND THE WIN-WIN SOLUTIONS
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  Speaker 2: BY COMING UP WITH BOLD VISIONS, BUT WE CANNOT LET
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  Speaker 2: CHINA HAVE ANY TYPE OF ADVANTAGE. AND I KNOW THE PRESIDENT,
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  Speaker 2: YOU KNOW, WHEN HE SAYS HE'S FOR IT, HE WANTS
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  Speaker 2: TO MAKE SURE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE WINNERS. THAT
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  Speaker 2: MEANS THEY BEAR ZERO COST BUT GET ALL THE BENEFITS.
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  Speaker 1: Chairman Gruters, I want to turn now to something close
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  Speaker 1: to my heart, and that's America's ranchers. President Trump signed
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  Speaker 1: an executive order last week to try to help them out,
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  Speaker 1: but ranchers are still struggling to handle that influx of
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  Speaker 1: foreign beef.
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  Speaker 6: Take a look.
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  Speaker 5: We are affected by these inflationary prices just like everybody
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  Speaker 5: else is.
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  Speaker 7: Our expenses, our overhead is just killing us.
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  Speaker 5: We appreciate the Secretary and the President trying some of
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  Speaker 5: these measures to get us to grow the herd, but
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  Speaker 5: the confidence was shaken a bit when we imported 300,000
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  Speaker 5: metric tons from countries unknown.
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  Speaker 7: We had a 10% drop in the value of cattle.
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  Speaker 5: If that was in any other market, it would be earth-shattering.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to have to absorb that.
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  Speaker 1: And things may get harder for dairy farmers as well,
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  Speaker 1: because Canada has put a 50 percent tariff on American dairy. Chairman,
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  Speaker 1: you know as well as I do that American farmers
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  Speaker 1: and ranchers support President Trump. I believe, by and large,
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  Speaker 1: they certainly support our president's agenda. But they can't lie.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the influx of the foreign beef definitely hit
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  Speaker 1: them right in the heart and sometimes in the pocketbook
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  Speaker 1: as well. And they want to have the confidence to
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  Speaker 1: grow their herd, but they're a little worried that this
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  Speaker 1: importation of foreign beef is going to continue past that
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  Speaker 1: 90 days that President Trump promised. What do you say
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  Speaker 1: to those American farmers and ranchers out there that support
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  Speaker 1: the president? But this hurt him a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, this president's all about trying to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that we can help the American people who are suffering
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  Speaker 2: sometimes from going to the grocery store. And, yes, he
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  Speaker 2: put these— he allowed the beef to come in, but at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, he's allowing some of these producers to
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  Speaker 2: actually pack their meat at home or pack their meat
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  Speaker 2: in their, you know— at the ranches, and that will
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  Speaker 2: also provide some relief to them, hopefully, long term. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, what this president's
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  Speaker 2: trying to do is he's trying to— you know, he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that Americans are the winners across the
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  Speaker 2: board in all these trade deals. America has been taken
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  Speaker 2: advantage of for the last five decades because D.C. elitists
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  Speaker 2: do not care about the American worker. What this president
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  Speaker 2: has done is he turned the Republican Party into the
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  Speaker 2: party of the average working American out there. And everything
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  Speaker 2: he does is for the purpose to help everybody do
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  Speaker 2: everything they possibly can to achieve that American dream across
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  Speaker 2: the board. And he's trying to lower prices, but at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, he wants to protect the American people.
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  Speaker 2: not only our ranchers, but American manufacturers, everything else. We
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  Speaker 2: got to give this president time. We have to win
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  Speaker 2: these midterms. We have to come together as a party.
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  Speaker 2: I hope everybody out there that's watching will join us
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  Speaker 2: and make sure that we give the president full four years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Chairman Gruters, thank you so much for joining us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We certainly appreciate it. Thank you, guys.