Ryan Girdusky breaks down the biggest moments from the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas and what they reveal about the future of the GOP. Ryan argues that Vance’s convention performance looked increasingly like an introduction to the party’s next leader, while Marco Rubio again indicated he has no plans to run for president in 2028.
But Ryan sees one potential major challenger: Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz is beginning to separate himself from Vance and Trump on one of the biggest emerging political issues—artificial intelligence regulation. Ryan explains why Cruz’s call for greater AI safeguards could become a defining issue in a future Republican presidential primary.
Plus, Ryan reacts to President Trump’s proposal to give American adults $5,000 if Republicans retain Congress, including the potential trillion-dollar price tag and inflation implications.
And who was the convention’s breakout star? Ryan makes the case for Rep. Brandon Gill, whose opening speech contrasted the Trump and Biden eras and generated one of the convention’s standout moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to A Numbers Game with Ryan Groduski. Thank you.
This is your special mini weekend episode. I normally don't
do an episode on the weekends, but, you know, last
week was Labor Day on Monday, and then it was
two episodes on 9-11. So I didn't give my audience
anything about political news, and I always, and that's the show.
So I had to, like, you know, fill in the
information on politics, on AI, and everything happening in campaigns.
(00:21):
We're going to cover most of it next week, but
I want to fill you in at least a little
bit in the mini episode about the GOP convention in Dallas,
the very first midterm convention a party has ever held
you normally these mid these conventions are held during presidential
years where the party nominates the president and they get
generate you know lots of press lots of speakers it's
(00:42):
where a lot of times new upcoming talent gets a
lot of their start because they're a big speaker like
that what happened to obama in 2004 so they're a
big deal um make no mistake though this This route,
this this convention was meant to rally the base because
we've seen in a lot of polling, the base is
not as supportive as the Democrats are. There's definitely a
(01:06):
excitement gap going on right now in the election. It
also kind of signifies like, hey, look, summer's coming to
a wrap. We are in full campaign mode for the
last two month sprint of this election. Well, there were
a few points I really wanted to make about the convention. One,
the numbers, the ratings were pretty low overall. The only
(01:26):
networks really covering it were Fox News and a few
of the smaller conservative cable networks. Fox put out their numbers.
They had 2.5 million viewers for Trump's primetime speech, which
is basically what they usually get for Hannity and Gutfeld.
Like no new people went to watch this speech that
he gave. And also, I mean, to be fair, his
(01:48):
opponent was the NFL. So it was like the first
week of NFL games. So I think that that also
made it harder for, you know, maybe a lot of
men to be watching. I don't know. They definitely did
not plan that correctly as far as making sure that
the speech did not conflict with one of the most
important sporting events in America.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That was interesting. So when you're not doing something for
a live television audience, what are you doing for? You're
doing it for clips, right? You're doing it for social
media because that will receive hundreds of millions of views
if something is like really spicy and really hot. And
there were four points that I really wanted to go
to that I think kind of, you know, made it
(02:30):
out of the convention into the broader public. So the
first one being president Trump announced that if Republicans hold
the house and the Senate, he is going to give
every American adults $ 5, 000 each. Watch this clip.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
If the Republicans win the house of representatives and the
United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic
tremendous economic success, like in history, we've never had anything
like what's happening. But because of our tremendous strength and
success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult
(03:11):
citizen in the United States of America for $ 5, 000.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I mean, could it pass Congress? Probably. Congress loves spending money.
So I think that there would even be Democrat votes
that would be okay with giving out a $ 5, 000 check,
especially ahead of the 2028 election. They don't want to say, oh,
we voted against money for Americans to put in your
pocket while you're hurting. So is it popular? Probably kind
(03:40):
of popular. Is it good policy? That's another story. The
government is overspending and it's weakening the dollar. It's causing
more inflation. So, of course, you know, Americans don't realize
that they they don't put two and two together. So
is it popular? It would probably be popular. Is it
good politics? Probably not. And it would add $ 1 trillion
(04:05):
to the deficit, over $ 1 trillion. It's a lot of
money on top of a crazy high deficit already. We
should be talking about a reduced deficit, which is not popular,
but that's what both Democrats and Republicans should be focusing
on right now. Of course, they're not because it's a
campaign season. But that was interesting news. That was breaking news.
The second part that went viral outside of just the
(04:25):
convention was was probably J.D. Vance's best moment in the
entire debate, which is when somebody started waving an American,
not the debate, the convention rather, when someone started waving
a Mexican and Palestinian flag. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What the people at home missed is that we just
had a protester interrupting us and waving the Mexican flag.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well....
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get
your ass over there.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'll buy you the plane.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ticket.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
OK, that's J.D. at his best. That is J.D. is
always been good in a hostile environment where he can
just take it over and use it to shine a
conservative policy like that's them saying you don't hear. But
after this speech, after that moment, the crowds are chanting 48, 48,
(05:19):
like for the 48th president. J.D. 's winning the crowd over,
especially highlighting the fact that, you know, Republicans are more patriotic.
And if you hate this country so much, you can leave.
If you're flying a foreign flag, you shall leave. It
was total red meat for the audience. There is no
question he is the party's nominee. I mean, I guess
(05:40):
there's a question. In my opinion, there's not really a question.
And for the record, by the way, during this convention,
Mark Rubio said yet again, he has no plans of
running for president in twenty twenty eight. Which I have
broke to you guys over and over and over and
over again. And I have said anyone saying that, oh,
he's running for president is either wish casting it. They're
(06:00):
hoping it's going to happen or they're trying to create
like a horse race for the media for clicks. It's
not happening. He's not running for president. Just he's not.
But Vance Vance was very, very good at it was
the convention speech was almost like. an introduction speech to
(06:20):
the audience for J.D. as the party's forebearer, as the
party's leader. Very much felt like that in some way.
I just, I think, I can't imagine it not coming across. Also, J.D.
's thing, very, very interesting. He said something to the
effect of, you don't have to support the war and
(06:42):
then vote for crazy people. Just because you don't support
the war, it doesn't mean you have to vote for
crazy people. We all know in the press that J.D.
had a lot of conflicts with the war in Iran,
more so than other people. So for him to signal
to people that they are that he is OK not
supporting the war or not being super pro war or
(07:03):
having questions about the war, take whatever path you want.
It doesn't mean you don't vote Republican. I thought it
was very, very, very important. And I think that it's Really,
we're going to see a lot more of that in
the future, especially if he runs for president, which like
more likely than not. But Vance does not mean he
will run for president alone because he will have more
(07:24):
than likely one major opponent. And that is Senator Ted
Cruz from Texas. Now, this thing that broke over the
week didn't come from the convention, but it came during
it wasn't at the convention. It was during the convention time,
the dates that the convention was happening. Senator Ted Cruz
appeared on The View, a program that, you know, I
don't ever watch, but I saw the clip. And he
was talking about A.I. There was obviously a big controversy
(07:47):
about A.I. and hacking and and the doctors trying to
break into A.I. to to create a bioweapon. Like there
was a lot of conversations on A.I. happening this week, which,
you know, I wanted to talk about so badly. It
was like, no, we are sticking to our 9-11 episodes
and I'm not breaking from them. So, you know, Vance
and Trump have been extremely pro-A.I., And Cruz has done
(08:10):
the only regulation on AI, which was about having fake
nudes of women being put up and basically having me
taken down. It's called the Takedown Act. Well, he was
on The View, and at the time, he was one
of only two Republicans who was saying, we need more
regulations on AI. It was him and Congressman Ana Paulina Luna.
Take a listen to clip three.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I have written and passed the only legislation that Congress
has enacted that restricts AI, and it was the Takedown Act. Mm-hmm.
And the Take It Down Act criminalizes using AI to
create deep fakes. And these target overwhelmingly women and teenage
girls where you can take innocuous pictures and use AI
to create what appear to be naked pictures or naked videos.
(08:53):
And they often target teenage girls. That is now, number one,
a felony. But number two, the tech platforms have a
legal obligation to take the content down the instant they're
notified by the victim. So we got that done. What
you're raising is a different thing. You're raising catastrophic risk.
I can tell you there's legislation that I'm working on
with Amy Klobuchar and John Thune to try to address
(09:17):
catastrophic risk.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It is dangerous. It is frightening.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
How?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Explain how that would happen.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
For AI that would implicate biological issues or nuclear issues
that have the potential to have catastrophic risk, it would
require government supervision and approval before they can be implemented.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So that is interesting for a couple of reasons. Remember
on this show, and I said this clip and it
did well on social media, I said to Ted Cruz,
what are you going to run on aside from Israel
that is different from Vance? What are you going to
say that is going to be popular and interesting? And
(09:56):
AI is the thing. AI is the first thing, I'm
telling you, all, Cruise is hitting the nail on something
that's important. Now, he went on to say something very
stupid in a different interview about AI, but he This
is an interesting break. And also because Cruz is a
conservative Republican, it signals to other conservatives, it's okay to
(10:18):
support some level of AI regulation. You're not all lefties
for wanting something on AI done. A kill switch, for example,
with nuclear weapons. That's not a crazy thing to be against.
That was very, very interesting. I think it was very,
very smart. And I think that this is the signal
(10:40):
to conservatives, hey, you don't have to be afraid. It's
okay to want some level of AI regulation. It will
be a different avenue. And I'll be very interested to
see if the vice president makes a comment about this
in some way signaling that he also supports some kind
of legislation. The last clip that I think went viral
(11:01):
came from my friend, Brandon Gill. He was on this
program once and I've been friends with Brandon for a
very long time, so I'm a little biased, but I
thought it was really, really great. It kicked off the night.
It was his, or kicking off the convention. It was
his first, he was the first speaker, and I thought
it was a very smart line and one of his best.
Play clip four.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's an honor to be here at the Republican National
Convention in the great state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Woo!
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Now, I think it's only appropriate that we kick this
convention off properly with a land acknowledgement. I'd like to
acknowledge that we stand here today in the great state
(11:56):
of Texas and the United States of America, the ancestral
homeland of great American patriots, pioneers, and explorers who put
down roots, fought for freedom all over the globe, and
bled and died to build the greatest civilization ever known
(12:17):
to man. My friends, we live in the finest country
in the history of the world. And we're no longer
going to apologize for that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Okay, this was smart. And I will say that line
was Brandon's idea. That didn't come from a speechwriter. That
was Brandon. This was smart for so many reasons. One,
it makes fun of how ludicrous Democrats are about acknowledging
Native American tribes every place they go. Because it's so fake.
It's so phony. They're not giving their houses to Native
American tribes. It's all acting. Then it was smart for
(12:59):
another reason because... It began it lightened up the mood
beginning of the convention. But Brandon's speech overall was a
it looked and examined the Trump administration versus the Biden
because people memory hole the Biden administration. He talked about inflation.
He talked about the border. He brought a lot of
economic conversation there. And it was really about trying to
(13:23):
juxtapose this administration from the previous one and say, I
know you may not be happy about everything, but guess what?
we are in a way better place than we were
four years ago or three years ago, whatever it was.
That is very, very important. I think he was the
breakout star of the night. I think that there's no
question in anyone's mind that he is a rocket ship,
you know, heading straight for the stars as far as
(13:44):
a Republican politician goes. It's just, I thought it was brilliant.
I thought it was a great way to start the
whole debate. I think he was the breakout star. If
you ever had to have a breakout star, I think
that was him. I wouldn't doubt, I have no pre-existing
knowledge with this, but I would not doubt if during
the presidential convention. He is also a speaker because he
is just, you know, he's probably the biggest new star
(14:04):
in the Republican Party. Let me know your thoughts. Let
me know at Ryan at a numbers game podcast dot com.
Ryan at numbers game podcast dot com. If you have
any opinions like that about the convention, if you saw it,
if you didn't see it and what you thought as
far as big moments, important policy points. And if Brandon
was the only breakout star, I think that he was
the breakout star. Will the convention get the GOP a boost?
(14:25):
That's the big question. I don't think it will give
the boost necessarily in the polls as far as like, oh,
I watched the convention, therefore I'm going to support the Republicans.
That doesn't really happen as much anymore as it did
back in the 2000s when a lot more people were
watching the television. But I think that it was I
think it'll do just fine to one, activate the base
(14:46):
and tell them it is election season and also to
get all the big money people and all the big
consultants and all the big candidates in one room and
one space and say, Let's hit the ground running because
what happened during that convention's time was the announcement of
a lot more money coming into these campaigns. We're going
to talk all about that on Monday's show and what
(15:07):
that means. So you have to stay tuned for that.
But I'm looking forward to it. Anyway, guys, that's it
for this mini episode. Hope you have a wonderful weekend
and I will talk to you guys on Monday. Have
a good one. And if you like this episode, please
like and subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever
you get your podcasts and on YouTube.
Welcome back to A Numbers Game with Ryan Groduski. Thank you.
This is your special mini weekend episode. I normally don't
do an episode on the weekends, but, you know, last
week was Labor Day on Monday, and then it was
two episodes on 9-11. So I didn't give my audience
anything about political news, and I always, and that's the show.
So I had to, like, you know, fill in the
information on politics, on AI, and everything happening in campaigns.
(00:21):
We're going to cover most of it next week, but
I want to fill you in at least a little
bit in the mini episode about the GOP convention in Dallas,
the very first midterm convention a party has ever held
you normally these mid these conventions are held during presidential
years where the party nominates the president and they get
generate you know lots of press lots of speakers it's
(00:42):
where a lot of times new upcoming talent gets a
lot of their start because they're a big speaker like
that what happened to obama in 2004 so they're a
big deal um make no mistake though this This route,
this this convention was meant to rally the base because
we've seen in a lot of polling, the base is
not as supportive as the Democrats are. There's definitely a
(01:06):
excitement gap going on right now in the election. It
also kind of signifies like, hey, look, summer's coming to
a wrap. We are in full campaign mode for the
last two month sprint of this election. Well, there were
a few points I really wanted to make about the convention. One,
the numbers, the ratings were pretty low overall. The only
(01:26):
networks really covering it were Fox News and a few
of the smaller conservative cable networks. Fox put out their numbers.
They had 2.5 million viewers for Trump's primetime speech, which
is basically what they usually get for Hannity and Gutfeld.
Like no new people went to watch this speech that
he gave. And also, I mean, to be fair, his
(01:48):
opponent was the NFL. So it was like the first
week of NFL games. So I think that that also
made it harder for, you know, maybe a lot of
men to be watching. I don't know. They definitely did
not plan that correctly as far as making sure that
the speech did not conflict with one of the most
important sporting events in America.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That was interesting. So when you're not doing something for
a live television audience, what are you doing for? You're
doing it for clips, right? You're doing it for social
media because that will receive hundreds of millions of views
if something is like really spicy and really hot. And
there were four points that I really wanted to go
to that I think kind of, you know, made it
(02:30):
out of the convention into the broader public. So the
first one being president Trump announced that if Republicans hold
the house and the Senate, he is going to give
every American adults $ 5, 000 each. Watch this clip.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
If the Republicans win the house of representatives and the
United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic
tremendous economic success, like in history, we've never had anything
like what's happening. But because of our tremendous strength and
success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult
(03:11):
citizen in the United States of America for $ 5, 000.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I mean, could it pass Congress? Probably. Congress loves spending money.
So I think that there would even be Democrat votes
that would be okay with giving out a $ 5, 000 check,
especially ahead of the 2028 election. They don't want to say, oh,
we voted against money for Americans to put in your
pocket while you're hurting. So is it popular? Probably kind
(03:40):
of popular. Is it good policy? That's another story. The
government is overspending and it's weakening the dollar. It's causing
more inflation. So, of course, you know, Americans don't realize
that they they don't put two and two together. So
is it popular? It would probably be popular. Is it
good politics? Probably not. And it would add $ 1 trillion
(04:05):
to the deficit, over $ 1 trillion. It's a lot of
money on top of a crazy high deficit already. We
should be talking about a reduced deficit, which is not popular,
but that's what both Democrats and Republicans should be focusing
on right now. Of course, they're not because it's a
campaign season. But that was interesting news. That was breaking news.
The second part that went viral outside of just the
(04:25):
convention was was probably J.D. Vance's best moment in the
entire debate, which is when somebody started waving an American,
not the debate, the convention rather, when someone started waving
a Mexican and Palestinian flag. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What the people at home missed is that we just
had a protester interrupting us and waving the Mexican flag.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well....
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get
your ass over there.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'll buy you the plane.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ticket.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
OK, that's J.D. at his best. That is J.D. is
always been good in a hostile environment where he can
just take it over and use it to shine a
conservative policy like that's them saying you don't hear. But
after this speech, after that moment, the crowds are chanting 48, 48,
(05:19):
like for the 48th president. J.D. 's winning the crowd over,
especially highlighting the fact that, you know, Republicans are more patriotic.
And if you hate this country so much, you can leave.
If you're flying a foreign flag, you shall leave. It
was total red meat for the audience. There is no
question he is the party's nominee. I mean, I guess
(05:40):
there's a question. In my opinion, there's not really a question.
And for the record, by the way, during this convention,
Mark Rubio said yet again, he has no plans of
running for president in twenty twenty eight. Which I have
broke to you guys over and over and over and
over again. And I have said anyone saying that, oh,
he's running for president is either wish casting it. They're
(06:00):
hoping it's going to happen or they're trying to create
like a horse race for the media for clicks. It's
not happening. He's not running for president. Just he's not.
But Vance Vance was very, very good at it was
the convention speech was almost like. an introduction speech to
(06:20):
the audience for J.D. as the party's forebearer, as the
party's leader. Very much felt like that in some way.
I just, I think, I can't imagine it not coming across. Also, J.D.
's thing, very, very interesting. He said something to the
effect of, you don't have to support the war and
(06:42):
then vote for crazy people. Just because you don't support
the war, it doesn't mean you have to vote for
crazy people. We all know in the press that J.D.
had a lot of conflicts with the war in Iran,
more so than other people. So for him to signal
to people that they are that he is OK not
supporting the war or not being super pro war or
(07:03):
having questions about the war, take whatever path you want.
It doesn't mean you don't vote Republican. I thought it
was very, very, very important. And I think that it's Really,
we're going to see a lot more of that in
the future, especially if he runs for president, which like
more likely than not. But Vance does not mean he
will run for president alone because he will have more
(07:24):
than likely one major opponent. And that is Senator Ted
Cruz from Texas. Now, this thing that broke over the
week didn't come from the convention, but it came during
it wasn't at the convention. It was during the convention time,
the dates that the convention was happening. Senator Ted Cruz
appeared on The View, a program that, you know, I
don't ever watch, but I saw the clip. And he
was talking about A.I. There was obviously a big controversy
(07:47):
about A.I. and hacking and and the doctors trying to
break into A.I. to to create a bioweapon. Like there
was a lot of conversations on A.I. happening this week, which,
you know, I wanted to talk about so badly. It
was like, no, we are sticking to our 9-11 episodes
and I'm not breaking from them. So, you know, Vance
and Trump have been extremely pro-A.I., And Cruz has done
(08:10):
the only regulation on AI, which was about having fake
nudes of women being put up and basically having me
taken down. It's called the Takedown Act. Well, he was
on The View, and at the time, he was one
of only two Republicans who was saying, we need more
regulations on AI. It was him and Congressman Ana Paulina Luna.
Take a listen to clip three.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I have written and passed the only legislation that Congress
has enacted that restricts AI, and it was the Takedown Act. Mm-hmm.
And the Take It Down Act criminalizes using AI to
create deep fakes. And these target overwhelmingly women and teenage
girls where you can take innocuous pictures and use AI
to create what appear to be naked pictures or naked videos.
(08:53):
And they often target teenage girls. That is now, number one,
a felony. But number two, the tech platforms have a
legal obligation to take the content down the instant they're
notified by the victim. So we got that done. What
you're raising is a different thing. You're raising catastrophic risk.
I can tell you there's legislation that I'm working on
with Amy Klobuchar and John Thune to try to address
(09:17):
catastrophic risk.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It is dangerous. It is frightening.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
How?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Explain how that would happen.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
For AI that would implicate biological issues or nuclear issues
that have the potential to have catastrophic risk, it would
require government supervision and approval before they can be implemented.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So that is interesting for a couple of reasons. Remember
on this show, and I said this clip and it
did well on social media, I said to Ted Cruz,
what are you going to run on aside from Israel
that is different from Vance? What are you going to
say that is going to be popular and interesting? And
(09:56):
AI is the thing. AI is the first thing, I'm
telling you, all, Cruise is hitting the nail on something
that's important. Now, he went on to say something very
stupid in a different interview about AI, but he This
is an interesting break. And also because Cruz is a
conservative Republican, it signals to other conservatives, it's okay to
(10:18):
support some level of AI regulation. You're not all lefties
for wanting something on AI done. A kill switch, for example,
with nuclear weapons. That's not a crazy thing to be against.
That was very, very interesting. I think it was very,
very smart. And I think that this is the signal
(10:40):
to conservatives, hey, you don't have to be afraid. It's
okay to want some level of AI regulation. It will
be a different avenue. And I'll be very interested to
see if the vice president makes a comment about this
in some way signaling that he also supports some kind
of legislation. The last clip that I think went viral
(11:01):
came from my friend, Brandon Gill. He was on this
program once and I've been friends with Brandon for a
very long time, so I'm a little biased, but I
thought it was really, really great. It kicked off the night.
It was his, or kicking off the convention. It was
his first, he was the first speaker, and I thought
it was a very smart line and one of his best.
Play clip four.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's an honor to be here at the Republican National
Convention in the great state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Woo!
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Now, I think it's only appropriate that we kick this
convention off properly with a land acknowledgement. I'd like to
acknowledge that we stand here today in the great state
(11:56):
of Texas and the United States of America, the ancestral
homeland of great American patriots, pioneers, and explorers who put
down roots, fought for freedom all over the globe, and
bled and died to build the greatest civilization ever known
(12:17):
to man. My friends, we live in the finest country
in the history of the world. And we're no longer
going to apologize for that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Okay, this was smart. And I will say that line
was Brandon's idea. That didn't come from a speechwriter. That
was Brandon. This was smart for so many reasons. One,
it makes fun of how ludicrous Democrats are about acknowledging
Native American tribes every place they go. Because it's so fake.
It's so phony. They're not giving their houses to Native
American tribes. It's all acting. Then it was smart for
(12:59):
another reason because... It began it lightened up the mood
beginning of the convention. But Brandon's speech overall was a
it looked and examined the Trump administration versus the Biden
because people memory hole the Biden administration. He talked about inflation.
He talked about the border. He brought a lot of
economic conversation there. And it was really about trying to
(13:23):
juxtapose this administration from the previous one and say, I
know you may not be happy about everything, but guess what?
we are in a way better place than we were
four years ago or three years ago, whatever it was.
That is very, very important. I think he was the
breakout star of the night. I think that there's no
question in anyone's mind that he is a rocket ship,
you know, heading straight for the stars as far as
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a Republican politician goes. It's just, I thought it was brilliant.
I thought it was a great way to start the
whole debate. I think he was the breakout star. If
you ever had to have a breakout star, I think
that was him. I wouldn't doubt, I have no pre-existing
knowledge with this, but I would not doubt if during
the presidential convention. He is also a speaker because he
is just, you know, he's probably the biggest new star
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in the Republican Party. Let me know your thoughts. Let
me know at Ryan at a numbers game podcast dot com.
Ryan at numbers game podcast dot com. If you have
any opinions like that about the convention, if you saw it,
if you didn't see it and what you thought as
far as big moments, important policy points. And if Brandon
was the only breakout star, I think that he was
the breakout star. Will the convention get the GOP a boost?
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That's the big question. I don't think it will give
the boost necessarily in the polls as far as like, oh,
I watched the convention, therefore I'm going to support the Republicans.
That doesn't really happen as much anymore as it did
back in the 2000s when a lot more people were
watching the television. But I think that it was I
think it'll do just fine to one, activate the base
(14:46):
and tell them it is election season and also to
get all the big money people and all the big
consultants and all the big candidates in one room and
one space and say, Let's hit the ground running because
what happened during that convention's time was the announcement of
a lot more money coming into these campaigns. We're going
to talk all about that on Monday's show and what
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that means. So you have to stay tuned for that.
But I'm looking forward to it. Anyway, guys, that's it
for this mini episode. Hope you have a wonderful weekend
and I will talk to you guys on Monday. Have
a good one. And if you like this episode, please
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