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Senator Jon Husted Calls In 10-19-2026 · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greetings, salutations, welcome, my friends, to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on 610 WTVN. I'm Chuck Douglas, you know
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  Speaker 1: who you are, and we take it from there. We
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  Speaker 1: get one hour together, which means I talk really fast
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  Speaker 1: and you must listen even faster. My number's 821-9886-821-WTVN-1800. 610 WTVN.
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  Speaker 1: I have had him on as the incumbent senator from
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio several times. He's been on with me.
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  Speaker 1: He's been on with Mark. And he's been a senator.
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  Speaker 1: He's been a public servant. However, I wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: him on tonight, quite frankly, as a candidate because we're
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  Speaker 1: getting down to crunch time now. Early voting started already.
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  Speaker 1: People are out there. The campaign commercials, the propaganda, it's
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  Speaker 1: just– I've had– oh, my gosh, it's getting on my nerves.
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  Speaker 1: And– I wanted him on as a candidate tonight, largely
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  Speaker 1: because this Senate race in the state of Ohio is
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  Speaker 1: being watched around this country. It's being funded around this country,
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  Speaker 1: if not from around the world. People are really seriously
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  Speaker 1: into this. And when it comes to Sherrod Brown, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm not even going into personal stuff
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  Speaker 1: with Sherrod Brown. I'm going into logic, just logic here.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd have to think that voters from either side
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  Speaker 1: of the political aisle have to be thinking, look, 50
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  Speaker 1: some years in in politics, 32, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: in D.C. with a minimal list of accomplishments to show
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  Speaker 1: for it. And after all that time, not getting it right.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly you have the answers. And I just I don't
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  Speaker 1: see people buying that that bill of goods, as they say.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, you've got John Husted, who's you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's got two years in not even two years, really.
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  Speaker 1: In an appointed position, it takes time to learn who's who,
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  Speaker 1: what's what, and where the bathrooms are. He's been down
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  Speaker 1: there for a couple of years, and he hasn't had
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  Speaker 1: half a chance to really get himself established and get
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  Speaker 1: things moving, and yet he's still managed to get a
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  Speaker 1: few things moving. They keep throwing the data center issue
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  Speaker 1: at him. Oh, John, you're supporting data centers, and data
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  Speaker 1: centers are raising your bills. Okay, look, we're all flying
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  Speaker 1: blind with data centers right now. That's just fact. We
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  Speaker 1: all want the business. We all want the construction jobs.
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  Speaker 1: We all want to be that. What would they call us?
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  Speaker 1: The Silicon Midwest or something like that? Everybody wants that.
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  Speaker 1: The CHIPS Act during the Biden administration, of course, making
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  Speaker 1: much of this possible. So it wasn't like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 1: a Republican thing. No, it's not. We're all kind of
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  Speaker 1: flying blind. But what did John Husted do? He did
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  Speaker 1: have backup legislation after after voting. in favor of development
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  Speaker 1: of some data centers in the state of Ohio. He
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  Speaker 1: also introduced legislation that would make them accountable for their
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  Speaker 1: energy usage, that would make sure they're paying their way.
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  Speaker 1: They're not using our stuff and our bills go up
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  Speaker 1: for it. And they try to use that in commercials
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  Speaker 1: and say, well, Houston, he didn't make sure that they,
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  Speaker 1: he introduced the bill. Chuck Schumer wouldn't even bring it
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  Speaker 1: to the floor. There was no conversation. Why? Well, because
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  Speaker 1: that would make a Republican look good. And my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: we can't have that. So I'm a little frustrated, as
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  Speaker 1: you might be able to tell, frustrated on his behalf.
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  Speaker 1: And I wanted to get that off my chest before
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  Speaker 1: I bring him on because he's so mild-mannered, such a
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  Speaker 1: nice guy, such a genuine human being, that I know
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't get upset about things, at least not within
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  Speaker 1: the view of people. He doesn't get upset about things
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  Speaker 1: the way I do. And I just had to get
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  Speaker 1: that off my chest. With that said, let me get
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  Speaker 1: him on the phone here. The candidate, John Husted, Senator
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  Speaker 1: of the State of Ohio. Senator, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: It seems like you're the one that they've been running
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  Speaker 2: lies about on TV, not me, as frustrated as you are.
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  Speaker 1: I take it personally.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it, man.
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  Speaker 1: I take it personally. I know who you are. I
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  Speaker 1: know what you are. I know that you are a
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  Speaker 1: good and decent man of integrity that is trying to
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  Speaker 1: do his best, and you've had two lousy years to
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  Speaker 1: get yourself acclimated down there. I don't think it's time
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  Speaker 1: to be pulling the rug out from under you yet.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can do great things given the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Look, here's the deal. I haven't been there slightly over
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  Speaker 2: 18 months. What's the first thing we did? We cut
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  Speaker 2: taxes for working families. Working family tax cut, no tax
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  Speaker 2: on tips, overtime, Social Security, $ 2, 200 tax credit for families
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  Speaker 2: with children per child. So look, all of those put
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  Speaker 2: more money in people's pockets, let them spend and save
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  Speaker 2: on their priority. So they have more money in their
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  Speaker 2: paycheck at the end of the week to afford things, right?
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  Speaker 2: One of the ways you make things more affordable, you
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  Speaker 2: let people keep more of what they earn to spend
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  Speaker 2: and save on their priorities. Sherrod Brown, he's checked up
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  Speaker 2: taxes his whole life. We all know that. So I
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  Speaker 2: haven't been there very long, but I got that done. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we sealed the border. We funded border patrol, even though
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats wanted to stop border funding. They wanted to
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  Speaker 2: shut down the government over ending funding for border patrol
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  Speaker 2: and immigration and customs enforcement. We did that. We stopped it.
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  Speaker 2: Now I think it's, what, 17 months? Some crazy number.
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  Speaker 2: There hasn't been a border crossing. When we were, Sherrod
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  Speaker 2: Brown was for open borders that let people come in
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  Speaker 2: from all over the world, over 15 million people. We
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  Speaker 2: don't even know who's in this country because of the
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary cities and sanctuary states that he supported. So, look,
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  Speaker 2: this is an easy, easy decision, I hope, for your listeners,
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  Speaker 2: is that he's had over 50 years And I bet
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  Speaker 2: if they're driving, if they're taking a walk, whatever they're doing,
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  Speaker 2: they can't think of one thing he's actually done to
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  Speaker 2: make their lives better because he hasn't run one ad
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  Speaker 2: talking about anything he's ever done for you over that time.
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  Speaker 2: And the bottom line is I hope they'll vote for me.
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  Speaker 1: That open borders thing, turn on the news, look at France,
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  Speaker 1: look at Italy. You know, prepare for what could happen
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  Speaker 1: here because while ICE is doing their thing, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people here.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck, they never believed that could happen to them. They
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  Speaker 2: never believed that could happen to them.
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  Speaker 1: Of course not. Nobody expects this kind of thing. But
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  Speaker 1: we have a whole lot of undocumented people that came
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  Speaker 1: here through open borders, some of which are not fleeing anything,
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  Speaker 1: but they are here with a purpose. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can only pray to God that it does not
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  Speaker 1: happen here. But if it does, I won't be surprised.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you one quick thing. In the
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  Speaker 2: course of nine days, three Ohioans were killed on the
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  Speaker 2: roads by people who were illegally in this country. One
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  Speaker 2: of them received a driver's license in Connecticut in a
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary state, drove to Ohio, ran a stop sign, killed
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  Speaker 2: the driver, the dad, injured the mom and the child,
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  Speaker 2: and he's gone. They don't have a breadwinner anymore. All
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  Speaker 2: because Democrats want to look out more for, they care
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  Speaker 2: more about people who are in this country illegally than
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  Speaker 2: they do for American citizens. I was in Dark County yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: rural Dark County. You would think, well, how could illegal
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  Speaker 2: immigration affect a rural farm county like Dark County? Out
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  Speaker 2: on State Route 47, the illegal immigrant in this country,
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  Speaker 2: driving 124 miles an hour in a Range Rover, hit
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  Speaker 2: another car, killed his passenger and her unborn child. It is...
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  Speaker 2: it's harming people every single day, not to mention, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you have an influx of all of these people
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  Speaker 2: here illegally, they drive down wages of entry-level workers and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. So these policy, Chuck, I know they're
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  Speaker 2: in campaign commercials, but the policy implications to real people
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  Speaker 2: that Sherrod Brown has put in place really harm people,
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  Speaker 2: and they harm them And we've got to stand up
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  Speaker 2: and fight, man, or we're going to have the same
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  Speaker 2: problems they have all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Broadcast the future for me a little bit here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: John Husted. I'm senator. I want to be elected to
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  Speaker 1: another full term in the Senate because I want to what?
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  Speaker 1: What's on your agenda?
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  Speaker 2: Look, Chuck, it's always been jobs in the economy to me.
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  Speaker 2: My dad lost his job when the factory he worked
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  Speaker 2: at closed right after I graduated from high school. My
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  Speaker 2: whole family had to leave the state. because there was
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  Speaker 2: no place to go to work and Ohio was a
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  Speaker 2: dying state. And I've dedicated my life and economic development
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  Speaker 2: and my public service to bringing jobs back to Ohio. And, and,
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  Speaker 2: and we reformed the tax code. We did all of
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  Speaker 2: these things, cut regulations, took Ohio from one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst states in the nation to one of the, to
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  Speaker 2: now CNBC rates is the number one state in the
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  Speaker 2: nation to, to a business friendly state in the nation.
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  Speaker 2: Why does that matter? Now we have the most jobs
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio history and the lowest unemployment rate in Ohio history, 3.3%.
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  Speaker 2: Last time we had a Democrat governor in the state,
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  Speaker 2: the day he left, the unemployment rate was over 9%.
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  Speaker 2: So what is it to me, Chuck? It's always about
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  Speaker 2: making sure that what happened to my family never happens
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  Speaker 2: to yours or your listeners, that they always have jobs
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  Speaker 2: that they can go to in the state because if
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  Speaker 2: you got a job, you got an education, you live
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  Speaker 2: in a safe community without crime, then you have a
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  Speaker 2: chance at your version of the American dream. But if
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  Speaker 2: you have crime, you have drugs, you don't have a job,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have the skills to get ahead, then you
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  Speaker 2: have a much harder road in life. And so I'm
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  Speaker 2: all about giving people the fundamentals that they need to
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  Speaker 2: get ahead and not making them dependent on government for
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  Speaker 2: their livelihood because then you're not free. If you have
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  Speaker 2: to depend on government, this very untrustworthy government that– we
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  Speaker 2: have that has put us in $ 40 trillion in national debt,
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  Speaker 2: then you're not really free.
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  Speaker 1: Another one of the sticks they keep trying to beat
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  Speaker 1: you with. And by the way, if you're a Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: you work billionaire into your commercials just as often as possible.
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  Speaker 1: But the money, you took money. Les Wexner gave you money.
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  Speaker 1: He's not indicted. He's not charged. He's not found guilty
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  Speaker 1: of anything. But he's an Epstein co-conspirator because he appeared
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  Speaker 1: in the files like a whole bunch of people, actually,
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C. and Hollywood, California. he gave money to
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  Speaker 1: pretty much anybody running for anything in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: That's what rich people do. I can cut to the
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  Speaker 2: chase on this one. First of all, I voted to
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  Speaker 2: release the Epstein files. I never voted against releasing the
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  Speaker 2: Epstein files. I voted to release the Epstein files. That's one. Two,
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  Speaker 2: any donations that I received went directly to a women's
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  Speaker 2: or a victim of human trafficking fund that's right here
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  Speaker 2: in Columbus that helps victims of human trafficking. What did
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  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown do? He took over $ 150, 000 from 12 people
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  Speaker 2: who were co-conspirators inside the Epstein files, including Larry Summers,
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  Speaker 2: who was the president of Harvard, who Sherrod Brown worked
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  Speaker 2: with when he was at Harvard, took money from him, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And later Larry Summers resigns in disgrace and literally Sherrod
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  Speaker 2: Brown kept all that money and is running TV ads
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  Speaker 2: about me with it. That's just such a lie, hypocrisy
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  Speaker 2: like you've never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: And you, none of your campaign commercials talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: And that is, I guess, one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 1: it was so important for me to have you on tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Because again, because you're a nice guy, you don't, You
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  Speaker 1: don't get down in the mud like that. But people
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  Speaker 1: need to know this stuff, John. They need to understand that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand they do.
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  Speaker 1: It's being manipulated. Real things are being manipulated into not
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  Speaker 1: real things, and people are being sold this bill of
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  Speaker 1: goods every time you turn on the TV. You can't
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  Speaker 1: even watch a YouTube video without a campaign commercial right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. It is full of noise right now, and lies,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just... You know, but.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to respond and talk about the issues
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  Speaker 2: he wants to talk about. I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he was there over 50 years and
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  Speaker 2: he failed. He didn't do anything. Raised your taxes, including
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  Speaker 2: your gas taxes. He was for open borders for men
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  Speaker 2: and women's sports, transgender surgeries for kids. We know all
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  Speaker 2: of these things that he stands for that are part
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  Speaker 2: of the left coast liberal agenda, the coastal liberal agenda
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  Speaker 2: of And he stands with them, not with you, not
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  Speaker 2: with the people of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: And it is a sad thing that I guess you
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  Speaker 1: have to work so hard to convince people of that because, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the voters just don't pay attention to the world around
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  Speaker 1: them anymore. They wait for someone to tell them what
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  Speaker 1: they just saw, what they should think, and how they
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  Speaker 1: should act.
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  Speaker 2: I'm counting on you and your listeners, Chuck, the people
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  Speaker 2: who are within your shot listening to this show tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I need them to go be the minister of truth
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  Speaker 2: out there and justice and help spread the word about
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  Speaker 2: what the truth really is.
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  Speaker 1: I have complete faith in you. You know that I
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  Speaker 1: am wishing you the best. And I'm sure you've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of doors still to knock on and things
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  Speaker 1: like that during the course of this campaign. But we
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  Speaker 1: are– what is it, 17, 18 days now? Something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're at 15 days.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: It's two weeks from tomorrow, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks from tomorrow. I am sure. But don't count
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  Speaker 2: the days. Make the days count. That's how I live
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  Speaker 2: my life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you are going to be out there doing
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  Speaker 1: your best, and hopefully the day after I'll be calling
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  Speaker 1: you to say congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thank you, and thanks to all your listeners for
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  Speaker 2: listening in, and I need you all to go out
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  Speaker 2: and tell the truth. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Get out there. Cast your vote. Thank you, Senator John Husted.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. We will talk again soon. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to spend some time with him tonight as
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  Speaker 1: the candidate. And as you just heard from his mouth,
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  Speaker 1: from his mouth, that money that came in, he did
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  Speaker 1: what he considered to be the right thing with it. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: if I would have got money from Les Wexner, I
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  Speaker 1: would not think that it was my fault that he
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  Speaker 1: appeared in those documents. Now, if he were ever actually
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  Speaker 1: found to be complicit in something, that's a different matter.
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  Speaker 1: But right now you've got a bunch of people pointing
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  Speaker 1: fingers and wanting to take his name off of buildings
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  Speaker 1: and using that reflection to make somebody else look bad.
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  Speaker 1: And as he said, Mr. Brown took a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questionable money as well, but you never
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  Speaker 1: seem to hear about that. You need to find these
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  Speaker 1: things out, educate yourself and vote.