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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil Choonhah.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Thanks for bringing us along with you. I've asked David
Zanati to come into overtime. We're kind of having a
discussion about the tantrums the reactions, but we don't really
see a clear response yet from the Democrats. They may
not have one. Then I'm overhearing David and RHDD have
this conversation off the year, which is the reverse of that,
how can the Republicans reach into the jaws of victory
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and grab defeat? And Red brought up something You brought
up something brilliant, David early on months ago. If this
is viewed in terms of twelve years and not the
next four years, that'd be the first smart step for
the Republicans. Then I heard Red say something brilliant off
the year, which is Donald Trump is going to view
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because he already had a presidency. Then he goes away
for four years, he comes back completely different for a
second first term is what it feels like, and a
second first one hundred days, and then he can view
the midterm as his re election because it really wasn't
a red wave as much as it was a Trump
Orange wave, and he's got to be able to combine
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that and kind of the party must, you know, not
absorb it, but be changed by it. These are all
keys to how they play it. And the history has
been that you scandal, as you brought up. But the
other history is never underestimate the ability for the Republicans
to blow it at the state level in the Senate,
in the House and so on, and that could be
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the play. I mean, most of what we're discussing is
the difficulty in getting the presidency in the next twelve years,
but there's not huge difficulty in getting control of Senate
in two years.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, and I'm looking at those Senate numbers right now
read and I've been talking over the break as well.
This if this election was held today, there'd be no
change in the Senate except that the Democrats may lose
the deceit in Georgia. I mean, it could be a
Republican plus one right now, even though the exposure of
the seats is twenty two to thirteen as far as
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the Republicans having more exposure than the Democrats. But right now,
when you look at the actual numbers, the districts, the
results and the candidates, and right now there's no retirements
that have been announced. But I think right at the
best point, if Trump treats that election like it is
his final term and his last election, then that can
guarantee that situation.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
If they don't crack.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The Senate and the Republicans hold the House, now everything changes.
And you said, why don't we just got.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Done with an election.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's like a couple of days in inauguration?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You real that's how close to twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Twenty you do?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's here already. So and then you brought up earlier
the transferral of leadership, and that speaks to how Donald
Trump handles things, probably not the first hundred days, but
immediately after the first hundred days. To set the table,
we presume for JD vance although DeSantis is in the wing,
Marco Rubio's in the wings. Quite frankly, you could make
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a case maybe even somebody like Telsea Gabbard or RFK
Junior is in the wings to pair up with JD.
Vans explain what you mean by that, because there has
to be a seamless transition, otherwise it's going to go
right back to being R versus D. And that isn't
what was victorious in this previous election.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
For momentum to continue. You don't know the interference of
primary challengers. That's what George W. Bush had going for
him when the open seat was going to be available
after Obama, the Republican Party united in that regard. Now again,
I'm not a Republican. I just happened to do elections
for a living, and I can tell you that right
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now the first hundred days has got to be the
first fifty. We don't have one hundred das, we only
have fifty. And that's why Schumer is doing. The only
thing you can do is to try to slow down
the clock. So these are all now. The one thing Michael,
I do want to make sure that I say is
I personally because public policy is the mission field that
we serve in the American policy round him in the
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public square. I don't plan to ever ever let anyone
I talked to who wants to know forget that for
five years we had someone running for the presidency and
in the White House who couldn't put two sentences together
back to back. We were so vulnerable. It is the
merciful grace of God it is that we didn't get
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wiped out in that five year period.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But there are a lot of Jews who died a
terrible death. There's a lot of Ukrainians who died a
terrible death. That could have been a lot worse here
at home if passed his prologue. I want to end
on this note. This goes back to something I observed.
I've never heard anybody else say it. I don't know
that I could even prove it, but I know that
I know that I know that I'm right, and it's
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more of a gift of discernment. I will go to
my grave believing Donald Trump wanted Marco Rubio, not Jdvance.
Donald Trump Junior wanted jd Vance. And it's interesting, that's
why you saw Marco Rubio get Secretary of State. And
that leaves DeSantis on the sidelines. So now when we
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move forward minus Trump, jd Vance is in the position
to be the anointed one, but Dessandis is still on
the outside. Rubio's on the inside. How does past prologue
play out with those two? I don't know that there's
obviously there's not room in the ticket for both.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, it's such a great insightful question. I think that
I know just enough about Ron DeSantis' personal commitment and
character that he's more concerned about the country than he
is about himself. And if he can finish strong in
Florida and still be of service, he will serve wherever
he has that best opportunity. I think that's what Marco
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Rubio did. So you've got three, and there's at least
three more great names. There's Glenn Youngkin, There's Sarah Sanders Harkerby,
There's there's at least three Christino. There's at least three
more gored names the Republican Party, even though you understand something.
The Republican Party is not Donald Trump. Donald Trump is
a free agent. But if these people can walk through
that period of transition and put those six people or
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seven people or eight people, and there are more Byron Daniels,
there's all kinds of people that they can move into leadership.
They if they have that mindset, then then you're looking
at a wave of historic proportion for.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Our time, for all time, or at least we would
say in the next twelve to twenty years. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
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Thanks for going overtime with us.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
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