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ONELEGUPALEX MEDIA REMINDS EVERYONE THAT PRESIDENTS MAKE ENDORSEMENTS 5-20-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. You know, I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about it today as I heard last night Thomas Masthew's out.
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  Speaker 1: Clybird in South Carolina is out. All these different Rhinos
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  Speaker 1: and Democrats and establishment voted out. Looks like Trump's endorsing
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton now in that race. But as I was
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  Speaker 1: listening to Mike Gallagher this morning, I want to formulate
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  Speaker 1: my own take on this, because for a long time
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, Trump's dictating the party. Trump
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  Speaker 1: is saying who to vote for in his old weight.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Obama made endorsements too, and no one
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  Speaker 1: ever said he's controlling the Democratic Party. Obama made endorsements
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  Speaker 1: and actually lost a lot of them at the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody ever said, oh, look at Trump, Obama's trying
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  Speaker 1: to take over the party. Presidents make endorsements. When are
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  Speaker 1: people gonna get that through their head? Presidents make endorsements.
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  Speaker 1: Biden made endorsements during the midterms, and he failed miserably
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  Speaker 1: at some point too. I mean, it's not a new
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  Speaker 1: thing that a president makes an endorsement. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: MAGA versus GOP establishment. It's just a president making an endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think his holds weight over what Obama
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  Speaker 1: has to say and what Biden has to say. But
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  Speaker 1: can we cut the bull crap at one look up
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  Speaker 1: alex Media that oh, Trump's trying to take over the party. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I do think there's some feeling that, you know, his
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  Speaker 1: word everybody takes. But that's okay. A president tries to
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  Speaker 1: influence elections. Or Obama wouldn't made all those endorsements and
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  Speaker 1: failed at a lot of them, or Biden would have
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  Speaker 1: made a lot of endorsements but failed at them. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna say one more time, presidents make endorsements. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, this isn't the end all be all. These
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  Speaker 1: primary candidates now have to win in the general. There's
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  Speaker 1: still a good chance that some of these Trump endorsed
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  Speaker 1: and some of these Republican nominees could lose in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know yet. We don't know how they're going
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  Speaker 1: to go head to head in the Democrat primary, in
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat versus Democrat in the general election. But to say,
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  Speaker 1: like MTG is saying in others, that Trump's re routing
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  Speaker 1: the entire party, He's making it a maga, okay, But
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  Speaker 1: where was the outcry for Democratic presidents making endorsements. No
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  Speaker 1: one ever right, right, no one ever criticized Obama for endorsing.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you what, he sure as hell got
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  Speaker 1: laughed at when all of his adorsements pretty much lost
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  Speaker 1: in the mid terms over the years. Biden, same thing.
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  Speaker 1: No one ever criticized him for making endorsements, but they
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  Speaker 1: laughed at him when his candidate would lose. So no,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't something new and out of the blue that
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  Speaker 1: a president endorses a candidate. This isn't something out of
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  Speaker 1: the ordinary. I'm sure Bill Clinton Maine endorsements back in
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  Speaker 1: the day for mid terms and all that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a presidential tradition. And for people to think he's
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  Speaker 1: commandeering the party by inserting his voice, you're dead wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You're dead wrong. He is simply making an endorsement on
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  Speaker 1: his truth social page, and that's okay. Now, what I
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  Speaker 1: don't like is if he does it out of revenge.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I understand Massy and even Bill Casside, who
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  Speaker 1: lost over the weekend did try to vote impeach him
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  Speaker 1: out and all that. Maybe Trump had some revenge there,
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  Speaker 1: but overall, he's making endorsements on who he thinks will
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  Speaker 1: be best. That's not tyrannical, that's not dictatorial, that's not
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  Speaker 1: taking over a party. It's what a president does. It's
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  Speaker 1: what a president does. Have we lost our track of
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  Speaker 1: history over the last one hundred, two hundred and fifty years,
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  Speaker 1: presidents make endorsements. I'm pretty sure Washington might have probably
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  Speaker 1: endorsed the second president of the United States. After the fact,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Jefferson became our third president, endorsed by many
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  Speaker 1: of the founding fouls. This is a long standing tradition.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't some out of the blue thing that Trump
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  Speaker 1: is all of a sudden trying to assert his dominance
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  Speaker 1: by making endorsements. Presidents do that. Presidents do that. You
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  Speaker 1: can fault them on a lot of things and whatever
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  Speaker 1: else if you want to, but don't criticize them, and
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  Speaker 1: don't act epic ris when the same people saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: why is it making endorsements now? Apparently it was a
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  Speaker 1: whole swath of wins for the Trump endorsed candidates last night.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to give you some context. Obama endorsements
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  Speaker 1: that won or lost in twenty eighteen, roughly eighty sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight percent were winning in UH and other losses of
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  Speaker 1: course he wanted Stacy Abrams she lost in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: On Terry mccauliffe he lost in twenty one. But there
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  Speaker 1: were times where Obama and Biden struggled to get the
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  Speaker 1: endorsement wins. But for the whole promise of this premise
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  Speaker 1: is this is for the left and maybe some on
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  Speaker 1: the right to always complain about how Trump pass his
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  Speaker 1: finger on the pulse and weighs in on these elections.
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  Speaker 1: It's his job, It's literally his job to endorse, like
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  Speaker 1: it was Obama's job to weigh into the midterms, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's Biden's job to wait into the midterms, like it
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  Speaker 1: was Clinton's job, George W. Bush's job. But because he's Trump,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's a tyrant. Where was that criticism
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  Speaker 1: for Obama when he made endorsements, huh? Or Biden when
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  Speaker 1: he made endorsements. They weren't tyrannical. They were just doing
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  Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do endorse And in fact, some
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  Speaker 1: candidates would run away from the president's endorsement, depending what
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  Speaker 1: it is, but others gladly accepted the president's endorsement over
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  Speaker 1: the years. Did they not gladly accepted the endorsements. So
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  Speaker 1: let's cut the crap that because it's Trump, there's some
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  Speaker 1: tyrannical effect to it. No, it's Trump doing his job,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the candidate appreciating the endorsement. Win or lose.
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  Speaker 1: To be endorsed by the President the United States is
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  Speaker 1: an honor, and Trump's not the first president to make endorsements.
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  Speaker 1: We should know that by now. We should know that
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  Speaker 1: by now. So the fact that his candidate's won yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a problem with it. You might because
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  Speaker 1: you don't like it ieology, but the premise of it,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a problem with it. I'm just sorry
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  Speaker 1: that Obama couldn't get all the endorsements he wanted elected.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that Biden could get his elected endorsements he
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  Speaker 1: wanted elected. But don't take that out on this present
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  Speaker 1: for simply endorsing and weighing in that is a requirement
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  Speaker 1: I feel like of being the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And that's my message today on the news side of
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  Speaker 1: one like Up alex Media