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Republicans 'need to be voted out' Why these MAGA voters broke with Trump · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Final day to vote in the midterms, just 12 days away.
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  Speaker 1: One of the issues that has really taken hold for
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  Speaker 1: voters this time around is data centers. Fights over those
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  Speaker 1: centers could be a factor in who controls Congress potentially.
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  Speaker 1: And President Trump is facing opposition to his support for
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  Speaker 1: AI data centers from some of his most loyal supporters.
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  Speaker 1: CNN's Donia O'Sullivan spoke to voters in Kentucky on why
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  Speaker 1: they're breaking with the president on this issue.
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  Speaker 2: We are responding to this huge data center overreach, what
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  Speaker 2: looks like an invasion across our country, this explosion.
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  Speaker 3: Here in Maysville, Kentucky, a Trump stronghold, activists and locals
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  Speaker 3: have gathered to protest the building of a massive AI
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  Speaker 3: data center by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta.
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  Speaker 4: Not all progress is good, all right?
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  Speaker 3: President Trump recently, I think he said, you know, communities
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  Speaker 3: that don't want AI centers want to stay backward or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. I did hear that. When you hear that,
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  Speaker 3: how did you feel?
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, I guess I'm going to be backwards
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  Speaker 2: and poor. But I also want to reiterate that not
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  Speaker 2: everything the president does do I agree with, but not
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  Speaker 2: everything my husband does do I agree with.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Republican, but due to his stance, I feel he's
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  Speaker 5: going to cost the Republicans the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe not big margins. It might be very slim margins.
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  Speaker 5: But he needs to reverse his stance.
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  Speaker 3: Max Moran is among the locals who have organized to
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  Speaker 3: oppose the data center.
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  Speaker 5: So that is Delcia there. She's actually nearly blind in
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  Speaker 5: her eyes. She's one of the landowners we've been helping
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  Speaker 5: since last year. They felt coerced into signing these contracts
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  Speaker 5: to sell their land.
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  Speaker 4: Zuckerberg and Mehta should have never walked out of that
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  Speaker 4: courtroom with a dime left in their damn pockets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah!
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  Speaker 3: Delcia and her mother, Ida, live on a 1,200-acre farm
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  Speaker 3: a few miles outside of town. The pair made headlines
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  Speaker 3: around the world when it was reported they turned down
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  Speaker 3: $ 26 million to sell their land.
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  Speaker 4: They come through the door around May 2, 2025. They said,
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  Speaker 4: we want to buy your land for $ 35, 000 an acre.
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  Speaker 3: Technically, on the contract, you don't know who's trying to
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  Speaker 3: buy your land.
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  Speaker 4: Nope, it's a non-disclosure agreement.
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  Speaker 3: But people here believe it's Mark Zuckerberg. It's meta.
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  Speaker 4: Mom goes through the contracts, really, with fine-tooth comb. She says,
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what you do, but get out of this.
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  Speaker 3: What does the land mean to both of you?
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  Speaker 4: Freedom. Yeah, life and freedom. Should I choose to... I
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  Speaker 4: live totally off of this land that we've got.
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  Speaker 6: I could.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have to be beholden to anything out there.
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  Speaker 3: Did they tell you what they wanted to do with
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  Speaker 3: the land?
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  Speaker 4: No, they did not tell us what they wanted to
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  Speaker 4: do with the land. They were just in a very
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  Speaker 4: big hurry to get it off you as fast as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Trump won this Kentucky county in the last election by
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  Speaker 3: a 44-point margin.
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  Speaker 4: I voted for Trump. I have every time he's run.
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  Speaker 4: I'd go questioning it now.
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  Speaker 3: Trump said if you're against data centers, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: end up backward and poor.
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  Speaker 4: And that sort of pisses you off when you're from
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  Speaker 4: Appalachia anyway. You've always been backward and poor.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think this issue is going to hurt Republicans
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  Speaker 3: in the midterms?
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  Speaker 4: I hope it hurts them. They need to be voted out.
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  Speaker 4: Voted out.
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  Speaker 3: In this Bible Belt household... This fight is spiritual. For you,
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  Speaker 3: it's about more than land.
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  Speaker 4: It's about humanity. If we don't stop this, there's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be a future for humanity. That's anti-human. That's
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  Speaker 4: what AI is. Oh, let's let it make the decision.
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  Speaker 4: But it doesn't have any morals. And it can't be
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  Speaker 4: held to God's standards.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any amount of money Zuckerberg can give you?
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  Speaker 3: to get the hell out of here? Nope, no.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 5: Really.
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  Speaker 4: Her last words to him was, you may get it,
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  Speaker 4: but you have brought me out of your feet first.
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  Speaker 4: You can bring the bulldozers if you want to. You'll
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  Speaker 4: have to bulldoze it down around my head.
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  Speaker 3: You're really going up against, it's David and Goliath here.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll remind you, it only took one stone to
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  Speaker 4: bring down a Philistine. One itty-bitty little stone in the
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  Speaker 4: right place can bring down any giant that there is
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  Speaker 4: on this planet.
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  Speaker 6: There is one state, one state where I'm really looking
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  Speaker 6: for the impact of AI and data centers. It's the
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  Speaker 6: state of Ohio. It's the Buckeye State because the New
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  Speaker 6: York Times-CNN University poll polled across all the key swing states,
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  Speaker 6: all the key Senate races. and the state in which
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  Speaker 6: the highest share of voters said across those swing states that,
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  Speaker 6: in fact, data centers was their most important issue, it was,
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  Speaker 6: in fact, the state of Ohio. You can see it
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  Speaker 6: right here. It's in blue. It is an issue that
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  Speaker 6: Sherrod Brown, of course, the former senator trying to become
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  Speaker 6: the next senator from Ohio, has been running on. Data
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  Speaker 6: centers is huge in Ohio. A lot of money has
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  Speaker 6: been spent on data centers there in terms of the advertisements.
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  Speaker 6: So to me, this is the state where if data
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  Speaker 6: centers are going to have an impact, is going to
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  Speaker 6: be the great state of Ohio, Boris.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of money has also been spent on that
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  Speaker 7: bow tie. It looks absolutely luxurious.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I think this is the first time I've worn a
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  Speaker 6: tie on air since 2018 or something like that. I
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  Speaker 6: figured I'd do something special for you.
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  Speaker 7: You may want to move it just up slightly.
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  Speaker 6: What do I know about putting on ties anyway? As
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  Speaker 6: I said, it's been like eight years since.
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  Speaker 4: I wore one.
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  Speaker 7: How do voters in Ohio, to get back to the point,
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  Speaker 7: feel about data centers generally? Do they welcome them?
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, no, they feel about them the same way
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  Speaker 6: that my ability is to put on a bow tie.
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  Speaker 3: Poor, poor.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, look at this. I mean, just take a
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  Speaker 6: look here. OK, Ohio net support for data centers. Overall,
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  Speaker 6: it's 32 points, 32 points in the negative. And what
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  Speaker 6: about those non-college voters? Those are the voters, of course,
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  Speaker 6: that Donald Trump had really connected to. in his three
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  Speaker 6: bids for the presidency in 2016, 2020, 2024, that allowed
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  Speaker 6: him to carry the state of Ohio all three times
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  Speaker 6: after Barack Obama had carried it twice. And look at this,
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  Speaker 6: non-college voters, the net support for data centers. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: this is way down there in the Ohio River. 38
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  Speaker 6: points underwater. So no matter which way you splice it
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  Speaker 6: or slice it, what we're seeing is data centers is
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  Speaker 6: something that, of course, Democrats would want to run on,
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  Speaker 6: given that President Trump, of course, has been very much
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  Speaker 6: in support of him. And perhaps there's no clearer the
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  Speaker 6: case than the great state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 7: So who then benefits from that sentiment among voters in
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  Speaker 7: terms of who's running for office?
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  Speaker 6: You know, this is one of those issues, right, when
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  Speaker 6: it comes to data centers and AI that almost seem
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  Speaker 6: to pop up overnight, right? But one of the people
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  Speaker 6: who's been running hardest on it is Sherrod Brown, right?
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  Speaker 6: We spoke about him trying to re-become a senator from
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  Speaker 6: the great state of Ohio. And, I mean, you can
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  Speaker 6: see it right here. Ohio Senate trusts more in data centers. Overall,
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  Speaker 6: Sherrod Brown by 10 points. That, in fact, I believe
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  Speaker 6: was the largest lead of any Democratic candidate across the
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  Speaker 6: key swing states that the New York Times pulled. A
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  Speaker 6: 10 point advantage. And among the non-college voters, look at this.
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  Speaker 6: Sherrod Brown by four, a group that overwhelmingly went for
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump on the key issue of data centers. They
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  Speaker 6: are trusting Sherrod Brown even just a slight bit more
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  Speaker 6: than you might expect, given, of course, that non-college voters
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  Speaker 6: had been a base of the Republican Party during the
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  Speaker 6: Trump era. But when it comes to data centers, they
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  Speaker 6: are more likely to trust Sherrod Brown. I expect to
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  Speaker 6: continue to see him running on this election, running on
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  Speaker 6: this issue in this election in the same way that
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be running to take this bow tie
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  Speaker 6: off once.
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  Speaker 3: We're off the air. No, no, you better keep it on, Harry.
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  Speaker 3: You want me to keep it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You want me to keep it?