07-18-24 FULL SHOW - The Generational Torch was Passed Last Night

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The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored byBelle and Pollock, accident and injury lawyers,
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Keith sad Things, Folk of Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of
the show. I'm Mandy Connell onour fourth day of coverage from the Republican
National Convention in Milwaukee. And thereis scuttle butt happening right now on the
floor of the media room because NBCNews has tweeted out some stuff. And

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yeah, I'll get to the bloga little bit later, but I asked
Ross if he would stick around becauseI wanted to talk about this. They
just published a story on the blogthat says in the Biden circle are saying
that they are The phrase they're usingis the end is near. And after
the COVID diagnosis and him heading backto Delaware, NBC News publishing Biden World

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is getting ready for a world withoutBiden as president. And I want to
share a little bit of this articlereal quickly. President Joe Biden's political world
is collapsing. Top allies have eitherpublicly or privately called on the man to
step down, hang on a popup, bad just gotten my way.
Major donations have fallen off a cliff. Grassroots fundraising is not keeping up with

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the demands of a campaign that needsto aggressively scale up. Three months before
the presidential election. Members of hisown re election effort have already declared he
has no path to victory. We'reclose to the end. A person close
to Biden has said, obviously,this is the biggest story of the convention

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right now. And I asked Rossto stick around to say, you know,
this would be one way to suckthe oxygen out of the room right
before Trump speak. From a politicalperspective, it would be pretty remarkable.
It'd also be incredibly fast. Thethe in I mean, they've been we've
been talking about this for weeks,but it looks like it had looked like

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Biden was holding it off. Butthen what I think happened was Biden,
after the debate, needed to getout there and show that he was vigorous
and strong and coherent. And hedid all these interviews and this, that
and the other thing, and everysingle interview he did. Every single event
that he did just reinforced in people'sminds that he really is the guy who

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showed up at the debate. Andthat wasn't a bad night. And as
you said, the donors were absolutelydrying up. And then yesterday we had
all of these leaks that you don'tnormally get from dem Schumer went to him,
Pelosi went to him. Yeah,and and Mandy, you probably know,
like I've been telling my listeners,the only way Biden's gonna go is
if the black leaders in Congress tellhim to go. And now it's and

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reported that he King Jefferies has goneto him and said I don't know if
he said you got to go,but he said something. So last night
was the first time I was thinking, you know what, he might actually
go. Well, you know theold adage ross, when enough people tell
you you're dead, it's time tolie down. I mean it's true,
though, isn't it. I mean, his political life is over, and

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it's not like he has a brightfuture in the party, So there's no
need at this stage in the gameto treat him with kid gloves. If
you're the Democratic Party, who Ithink they've conceded that they are going to
lose the presidency. But right nowthey are scrambling to save the Senate races
and the House races. They're scramblingto save the down ticket races. So
I fully expect them to elevate KamalaHarris. They don't really have an option,

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right I mean, there's no theydon't have any good options right now.
They all suck. Every option sucks. So they're going to elevate Kamala
Harris. And that means the veepsteaksis wide open. Does our own Jared
Police does he even get a nod? No? Do you say that?
I'm not so certain, because,let's face it, Ross, he's a
gay man, he's a governor,he has a lot of executive experience,

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he's been in Congress. He wouldbring a lot to the ticket. Plus
Colorado is, you know, partof the Mountain West, and they think
he would be very helpful. Plushe's now managed to create this fake libertarian
governor profile over the last year.He has been all over the media like
banging that drum. And I thinkhe's not as horrible a choice as you

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might get. She can't pick GavinNewsom because they're both from California. No,
and she can't pick Shapiro because he'stoo conservative, even though they need
Pennsylvania. I wonder if she canpick Whitmer. I wonder if they would
think two women on the ticket isOh, I don't think they would pick
you women. I don't think theywould pick two women either. So I'll
say, uh, and now you'restarting to see my point. I'll say
Basher the governor of Kentucky. Oh, good lord, Oh oh that's that'll

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be my That'll be He'll be myguest. Bring. He brings literally nothing
to the ticket. Accept a counterbalanceto the russ Belt poverty story. That's
all they need. Andy Basheer grewup in wealth. He is he is
part of a political dynasty family.Yeah, but you know that because you
lived in Kentucky. But no,Yeah, nobody else is. So I
think, look who knows. ButI think not Jared for two reasons.

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One I think he wouldn't take it. I don't think he wants it,
and the other thing because because Ithink, why would you want that if
you were walking into a situation,situation where you're pretty confident you're gonna lose,
especially if you think you might wantto run for president somedays, just
to elevate your name I D ona national stage. Yeah, I don't
say it. I also think he'stoo conservative for what the demo. I

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mean, he's not really, buthe's he is, for sure legitimately more
conservative than Kamala Harris, and moreconservative than Joe Biden, and more conservative
than the Democratic Party base once justbecause he's he's very liberal, but he's
not quite insane. But don't theyneed that. I mean, here's the
problem that they're having right now.Ross They've alien some core demographics in their

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party. They've alienated lower middle classpeople. They've alienated African Americans, They've
alienated groups of people that they havekind of thrown overboard as they dove into
intersectionality. Right, Jared help withany of that? I mean, yeah,
because he's not a crazy progressive,That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
but he's a he's like one ofthe richest guys. He's super white.

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Oh yeah, he has total honkyRight, he doesn't do anything to help
you with black voters. I don'tthink he does anything to help you with
women voters. I just I don'tknow, I don't I don't I don't
see it, but it'll be it'llbe a really fun thing to bet on.
Yeah, well, they're gonna haveto do something soon. Their their
convention is in one month, Andboy did that just get a whole lot
more interesting, you know. Imean that this just changes the tone and

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temperature of their convention. And thisis something I've been talking about for the
past day or so. I can'twait to go to the DNC and and
feel how that feels different than theRNC, right because because they they both
have a vibe, and I'm interestedto see what that's like. I think
that you if this happens, andwhat we're talking about, if you're just
joining us, we're on the street. And NBC News published a story on

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their Twitter feed that said, basically, the end is near for Joe Biden's
presidency and so we're expecting some kindof information to come out soon. We
know he's in Delaware, and thatwould be if he decides to drop out,
why not do it today and eatup all of the media oxygen at
real estate that otherwise would be spenttalking about Donald Trump' speech. Acios report

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says President Biden may decide to dropout as soon as this weekend, according
to several top Democrats. But yeah, I mean, I do think you're
right. It would be interesting totake all the air out of that out
of that room. I also thinkthat one of the reasons I think the
vibe will be very different between theDNC and the RNC is the RNC is
a whole bunch of people who thinkthey're winning, and the DNC is a

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whole bunch of people who are goingto be scared that they're going to lose
everything. Yes. Oh, Ijust got a text for my friend Rich
Guggenheim. He said, do youthink the pro Palestine wing of the Democratic
Party would vote for Jered Polis?A Jew? Now, if you're trying
to shore up your Jewish voters,that makes Jared Polus a good pick.
Yeah. I just think in generalwe shouldn't describe too much to the importance

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of VP. More often than not, a VP can hurt a ticket but
not help it so much people arevoting for president. I agree. Oh
my gosh, Texter, that justcalled Polus ugly and so he won't be
president. That is not nice.And I realized that in our shallow society
it is harder to get elected ifyou are not good looking. But it

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is not impossible. So there yougo. Well, Ross, we'll keep
an eye on this story. We'llhave breaking news throughout the day otherwise until
we have something, because, likeyou just said, could be this weekend,
and that would be a great wayto sort of mitigate the post convention
bounce, right that is, traditionally, whoever has a convention the next week
or so, you get that fawningpress coverage, you get all the sort

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of warm reflections about what happened atthe r at the DNC or the RNC.
So that would be a way tomitigate that bounce. Although I just
don't think Joe Biden cares about thatright now, especially if he's stepping down.
He's stepping down. If he steppeddown, he would be a defeated
man. And and you know it'scertainly not what he wants. He's demonstrated

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that over and over again. We'llbe thinking about himself only, And I
get I get that, and youknow it might be about as good for
him to if he's going to doit, to do it, let's say
Saturday, and take all the airout of the Sunday shows and all the
talk over over the weekend. Iwant to respond to one quick thing on
the text line. Sure, evenRoss's parroting that Polus is a libertarian line,

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No, Jared Poulis is definitely nota libertarian. He likes people to
think that he is, and I'vesaid that consistently, So I don't put
words in my mouth. Yeah,we don't need that. Ross Pit's enough
enough words in his own mouth,right, we don't need That's right,
Ross. If anything breaks, we'regonna bring you back to talk about this.
So keep your ear, keep yourear on the news line there.

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But I think this is a veryinteresting development that definitely changes thing. I
don't know if it changes it enough, because right now, it kind of
feels like with everything that's gone on, it kind of feels like Trump has
a clear and solid path to victory. Right, That's the best way i'm
gonna say it. He has aclear and solid paths to victory. But
I'm not sure that this is goingto change that. But it definitely makes

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an impact for down ticket races.I think the at least Democrats are hoping,
so, yeah, they're hoping.So I think it depends very much
as to whether they think whoever thenew person is, can boost the lower
ones enough that they're not just wastingtheir money. I mean, there are
a lot of these billionaires who likegiving money to Democrats, but they're not
morons. They're not going to throwan immense amount of money in a complete

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losing cause, which is why allthe money to Joe Biden's dried up.
If they switched to Harris and it'sand it shows that, you know,
she's losing by five instead of six, it's still going to be really bad.
Oh one hundred. Now, somebodymentioned Mark Kelly as a potential VP
candidate. How about that one?Yeah, that's a that's a strong that's
a good call. Uh, andespecially because Arizona is an important swing stamp.

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I like that call. Uh.This Texter said Mandy and Ross.
Well, I don't think that MichelleObama doesn't want to be president? What
if they put her in his VP? I know it's a wild idea,
but we're living in wild times.It brings Barack back to the spotlight again,
you guys. I don't think they'regoing to put two women up there.
I just don't think it's going tohappen. Identity politics aside they know

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that there's a good swath of Americathat's not ready for that. Right,
not just two women, but twoblack women. Yeah, and beyond that,
in what world if Michelle Obama wereinterested in getting into politics, and
I'm pretty sure she's not, Butin what world would she take the VP
slide right, the presidential and absolutelyno change? Well, and to you

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know, she's been very clear sheis not interested in that. And the
reality is is that she and herhusband are living rock star lives. They
have a house in Georgetown, theyhave a house in Hawaii. They're on
yachts with you know, Jeff Bezos. Why in the world would you want
to go into that daily grind again? Would you simply don't need to?
I think Michelle Obama knows what thejob is and that's why she doesn't want

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it. I couldn't agree with youmore. Yeah, I'm absolutely right.
That just doesn't make any sense.There's no way she's going to do it.
And I will know, lucky forRepublicans, that there's no way she's
going to do it because she's theone, yep, the only one who
could parachute in and instantly be afavorite to beat Donald Trump. Right,
exactly exactly this texter said. SoI'm listening to your program, and you

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guys keep talking about maybe Biden jumpingout and Kamala Harris jumping in. Where
has she been the last few months? I haven't heard a single word out
of her. I'd like to knowwhere in the hell she is and what
she's doing. Well, obviously she'snot fixing the border, okay, which
was her job as the borders are, but she has kind of been nowhere.
I mean, I am, butthen again, I don't watch the
places where Democrats will actually go,meaning I don't watch MSNBC. I don't

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watch those friendly outlets where they goto get softball questions. I'm just not
interested. Right And actually she's onTV right now campaigning in Fayetteville, North
Carolina. But to get a littlebit in the weeds, I will also
say that, as this conversation isgoing along about might she replace Biden,
it's a very very delicate thing forher because she wants to show support for

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Biden in some way, even thoughshe'd probably like to be president, But
she cannot seem to be wanting tobe president exactly. Which is now,
let me ask you this question isthat different for a woman or is it
the same for a woman and aman. Wow, you know, a
man obviously could do the whole.You know, President Biden's been amazing,

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but he's decided to step aside.And here I am. I think women,
and this is just a general sexquestion, is I think women are
expected to have a higher level ofcompassion and not as much ambition. So
I think it is kind of harderfor her right now. But all she
has to do is sit there,wait, wait until the announcement is made,
and then she steps into the spotlightand says, thank you, President

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Biden, you were amazing, butI am here to do the jobout.
How about this, Mandy, Whatif the next presidential debate is Trump versus
Harris and the next vice presidential debateis JD. Vance versus fill in the
blank. I well, somebody tweetedout something. I saw it on somebody
else's phone today. Somebody tweets,oh, it was the Trump campaign.

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The Trump campaign put out a messagethat essentially said, and I'm paraphrasing,
we don't know who JD. Harrisis going to debate. They said,
we're trying to schedule the vice presidentialdebate, but we can't do it until
after the convention. But we're happyto have JD you know, debate Kamala
or Gavin Newsom or and they justlisted a bunch of people. So that

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was this morning, so they weredefinitely on this. Can you imagine ruling
them at least and Trump? Pamalaand Trump. I'll tell you what I
mean. Kamala is terrible, butshe's better than Biden on the debate stage.
And Trump will need to do abetter job than he did. Trump
didn't win that last debate. Bidenlost it correct and Trump is going to

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have to be better in the nextdebate. I'm not saying the debate is
going to change the election, butKamala could beat him in a debate if
she's well coached. Kamala can't getout of her own word salad way ross,
and that's the problem she You know, here's an interesting little anecdote for
you. Back when I was doingpageants, when I was very young in

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high school and I was doing pageants, I got coaching on how to do
the interview, and the interviewer said, the key to doing a great interview
is to answer as briefly as possibleand then stop talking. She doesn't get
to stop talking part, and sheends up continuing to use words while not
making any sense. So that's herdownfall, is that she just she needs

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to think of where the period isright, just stop talking, and she's
not there yet. But she's beenin the public eye long enough she should
know that well. That Trump.If Donald Trump can take coaching well enough
to be disciplined and look humble,then Kamala Harris potentially could take coaching well
enough to stop talking a little bit. We shall see, we shall see

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it. To your point about Trumpneeding to have a better debate, don't
you think that he was given instructionslike basically, look, let him hang,
yep, let him twist. Justyou stand off to the side quietly
and let the president flail because theywere pretty sure that's what was going to
happen. And that's what happened.I mean, that was the strategy employed.
So we'll see what happens. Ihope he doesn't get over confident.

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To your point, if he doesdebate Kamala in thinking she's a word salad
master and not take it seriously enough, right that team, and if that
ends up happening. I would gofind the tape of Kamala's best speeches,
best debates, best everything. Youcan't focus on our week points and assume
the week one is going to showup and train against that. Exactly exactly.

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Somebody asked on the text line Mandyand Ross, do you think Biden
will resign for the remainder of theterm and give Kamala a presidency now or
wait until the election. There's norumors about him stepping down. They're just
rumors bubbling up that he is goingto drop out of the reelection campaigns.
Right, he would serve the restor his team would serve the rest of

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his term, because we all knowaccording to Karine Jean Pierre, he's his
team is the one that would answerthe phone in the middle of the night.
So his team is working very diligentlyto keep the country running and they
would be in office until the nextpresident was inaugurated in January of next year.
Yeah, I think, yeah.This came up in conversation with Leland

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Vidderd about half we're to go onmy show, right, and I just
I think that So the upside forthe Democrats would be that Kamala Harris would
be running as an incumbent president,which would be a big deal. Right.
I just think there's no way thatJoe Biden is going to go down
as the second president in American historyto resign. It's just not going to
happen, you don't think so.Oh no, from office, Yes you

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are calling from office from Yeah,you're totally right about that. One last
things that we got a texture inright now that said, are we at
the Republican Convention or the Democratic convention? Knock off the Biden stuff. If
you're just joining us, We're talkingabout rumors that are swirling that Joe Biden
is going to drop out of thecampaign. Could happen today, could happen
this weekend, but we will haveit for you when it does. We

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will have the breaking news. Ross. I appreciate you sticking around, my
friend. I'm going to go backto my normal show. If anything happens,
we'll jump. We'll bring you backin for sure. Sounds good,
All right, man, talk toyou later when we get back. Former
congressmen and self declared Independence Club isjoining us to talk about unaffiliated voters.
And this is going to be afascinating conversation. We'll do that next.

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It has been a glorious four days, but this is a hyperpartisan event as
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our trip to the RNC. Mynext guest is a former congressman and self
declared independent. He says, wegot to focus on the lost middle because
that's where things get done. It'sthe oil in the machine. And their
numbers tell the story. Seventy onemillion Centrists say they would vote for an

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independent or they are taking action.Scott Club, Welcome to the show.
Thanks very much, nice to behere. Now, well let's talk about
this. So we're you were inoffice, you were in this state house
or statement. No, I wasin the US Congress for eight years.
I was a Republican who represented Madison. Okay, So why are you now
out here talking about independent voters.Well, so it started actually when somebody

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grabbed me at a grocery store whenI was reaching for a bag of granola,
And of course that's how all thebest ideas exactly. He had me
on the show and I said,Cloak, what is and the f is
going on? He said that theRepublicans are running around the country taking books
off of middle school shelves and theDemocrats are trying to take the stove out
of my kitchen. It's like,who signed up for these people? And
I think there's a lot of Americanswho are just frustrated and puzzled and bewildered

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by what passes for political debate inthe country these days. I think the
country is still very much center.I don't think that's who's in Washington these
days. And I think there's amajor disconnect. I agree with you because
when you look at polling data onthe issues, more often than not,
even on something that is presented tous as highly controversial, like securing the

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border or you know, making immigrationform that works to allow people to come
here legally, when you look atwhat the American people think, they want
to get these things solved. Theywant to take care of these issues.
But then you get to the politiciansin DC and they stand there and go,
these are intractable, intractable problems.We can't possibly fix this. How
Why? But I bet that youand I and your producer, mister Rogers

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could head down to a coffee shopnear here, pull two people out of
boost, pull out a napkin,and in twenty minutes we'd figure out immigration
reform. Right, it's pretty simple. I mean, it's security at the
border, it's figuring out a pathwayto citizenship, and it's figuring out a
way for folks who've spent twenty fiveyears in this country, you know,
cleaning bathrooms and working on rooftops andpaying taxes, some way to get us

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citizenship. Now, the Republican platformthat was agreed on last week, a
lot of very conservative people are like, that doesn't go far enough. Is
this an indication that at least inthe platform, or maybe the Republicans are
like, maybe we need to lookat the center and find out what the
center sink and represent that a littlebit more in what we're putting out.
I think so, I would hope. So, you know, here's a

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great frustration. Right, So thisyear the House comes up with excuse me.
The Senate comes up with the deal, sends it to the House,
and the speaker kills it because Trumpwants it is an issue, and all
the Democrats howel well, in twothousand and six, the deal got cut
in the House, goes to theSenate, and Chuck Schumer kills it because
Obama wants it is an issue.And that's why I think most Americans go

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up, you know, a pok'son both your houses, and we don't
understand why they can't do it.You know, well, they don't do
it because you know in the House, for example, you know this,
and your listeners know this. Thedistricts are also wired in advance. Right
in the tire United States Congress fourhundred and thirty five seats, I think
there's only seventeen seats in which thatmember of Congress won the district and the

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party of a different the president ofa different party won it. So when
you wake up in the morning,if you're a Republican or Democrat in Congress
WI, you wake up worrying aboutis a challenge from the left if you're
a Democratic, challenge if you're aRepublican. And the way we've gotten in
this country is you don't get bonuspoints for actually getting things done and talking
to people. On the other side, we've been having conversations in Colorado about

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rank choice voting yep. And oneof the arguments being made for rank choice
voting is it disincentivizes exactly what you'retalking about, the primaries that focus on
the hard right or the hard leftin order to get the base. Because
in the primaries the basis who votesright? So do we need to do
something like that? Or In twothousand and eight, after George W.

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Bush left the White House, Isaw him speak at an event and someone
said, what's wrong with the polarizationin our country? And he said,
jerrymandering. Jerrymandering to your point isthat we have too many uncompetitive districts.
Is your organization working to sort ofaddress it from that point of view?
Are you working to address it forthat point? Okay, I'm addressing it.
I am an organization of one.Let me give you two points on

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jerrymandering. You know that actually goesback to the founding days of the of
the Republic. That's actually a memberof the founding of the founding fathers was
the person who wired the district toprotect themselves and it looked like a salamander.
His first name was Jerry, Andthat's where the term jerrymandering comes from.
No idea. Yeah, so somestates have actually set up independent commissions

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to do them. Some of themwork, some of them don't work,
and and so that's clearly part ofthe problem. Rank choice voting is a
little bit of a mixed bag.It's only used in two places at this
point. And two it's used inAlaska. It's just elected a Democrat the
Congress for the first time in fiftyyears. It's used in Maine, and
it's had It's a strange system becausein Maine you use it in the primary

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in the state legislature and final votingfor federal offices out there. It's really
schizophrenic. It works and it doesn'twork. So that the reason people would
would talk about this a lot isthat the woman who won in Alaska said
I I'm going to vote as anindependent and am a centrist Democrat. She
breaks with her party about fifteen percentof the time. Lisa Murkowski, who's

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a Republican in the Senate from Alaska, who did it the old fashioned way
beating a single Democrat breaks with theRepublican Party thirty six percent of the time.
So I don't necessarily know that it'sa one for one correlation, but
it's a hot idea, and Ithink I think it's going to catch on,
and they're going to try it inSan Francisco and in New York.
They've had some problems because there youactually have multiple ballots and people get confused.

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Yeah, but you know, Ithink the state's of the laboratory of
experiment. Let's try all these ideasand then at the end of the day
pick the best ones, and I'lltell you the best one in the country.
We've got a huge problem right nowwith poll workers. Half of the
pole officials in the country have quit. Right. Listen to what Nebraska does.

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It's the only state in the countrythat sends out subpoenas to residents like
you use for jury duty, andso half of the people Nebraska who are
working on elections are only there becausethey get arrested and pay a fine if
they didn't show up. Now,it does two things. It exposes people
to how the system actually works insideof it, right, And the second

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thing it does, do you wantto try to commit fraud an election.
Good luck doing it when half thepeople in the room are there. Certainly
don't get elected. So I thinkthose are all kinds of ideas worth trying.
I'm not sure there's really a magicbull. And yet they remember will
be perfect. Yeah, And alot of the stuff we've done you will
end up going, which that couldreally work out the way we thought.
But I think it's worth trying.And Nevada, which is a swing state,

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pass ranked voting on a ballot initiativethis fall. We I think we
do too. In Colorado. Ibelieve they made the ballot, so we
will find out what happens there.It's already being demagogued against pretty hard by
both parties. Scott Klug is myguest. He's a former congressman. He's
got a book, The Lost Middle, got a podcast, Lost Middle.
Oh, very nice talking about theseissues. I appreciate you making time for
me, absolutely, and you canfind it wherever you get your podcast just

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Lost Middle dot com. And let'stalk about Wisconsin and the battleground Midwestern states
as we get closer to it.All right, that Scott Klug, We'll
be right back, thrilled to havewith me. Coach Joe Kennedy, he
you may remember, was the footballcoach who took his case right up to
the Supreme Court, who ruled thatthe school could not keep him from doing

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an on field prayer that violated hisFirst Amendment rights, and they said the
school district could not restrict him.Now, Coach Joe, do they call
you coach or should just call itcoach? Whatever makes you good? What
I found interesting about your story isthat right after you got that ruling,
you said I'm done. Yeah.Well, I went back early for spring
ball, okay, and you knowthat's a two week thing. They hit

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me with all the red tape andI didn't even get a step on the
field. I said, let's tryagain this fall, and so I came
back. I did fall camp withthis entire team, So that was a
month long. And then after thefirst game, my wife and I decided
what was best is actually let theschool heel and let them just get a

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move on. Yeah. Yeah,that's unfortunate, but I think that that
was a kind choice. Let's talkabout why this became an issue in the
first place. You know, Ireally don't understand that still, because it
was just a compliment that started everything. And from there, of course,
when you get a compliment, youhave to do an investigation. Things got
out of control, and then thelawyers got involved. Right once the school

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district lawyers got involved, everything brokedown. You couldn't talked to the school
board members, you couldn't have talkedto the superintendent. Everything was just shut
down, and I had no legalrecourse unless I fought court. Now,
to be clear, you were doingan on field prayer before football games.
Was it voluntary? Absolutely voluntary.No kid was required. Never was it
a parent that complained or was itsomeone in the community. No, it

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was actually somebody from another school districtcame to one of our games and saw
what we were doing and called theprincipal the next day and said, hey,
I want to tell you what yourfootball program is doing is awesome.
So what was a compliment to runinto the news. Then you get the
people coming out of the woodwork andstart rebelling against it, and it became
a mess. Obviously, your manof faith or this would we wouldn't even

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be talking right now. You wouldbe coaching football somewhere, working in the
summer, getting ready for the season. How important is your faith in your
life? And obviously it was strongenough that you went, I'm I'm going
to die on this hill. Youknow this, this is what I'm gonna
do. Tell me about that thoughtprocess and those decisions were made. That's

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a hard one to go through becauseas a as a you know, a
believer, what do you do?Do you love these people? Do you
get into what they're saying? Imean, who's right in this? As
the United States Marine? It reallyreally bothered me as a Christian. It
bothered me, but not as muchas the American side of me. And
I said, if they're doing thisto me, who else were they doing
this to? Right? And Iwas going to die on that hill.

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This was one hundred percent all aboutthe principle of it. And nobody in
America should ever have to worry aboutbetween their job and their faith. I
agree, And I have to askthis question, what was were you in
the Supreme Court when the arguments werebeing made? It was just post COVID
So yeah, so they allowed twolawyers from each side and the press but
not me. Oh my gosh,go figure out robbed on that one.

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What did your players? What ifyour players and you're obviously you're not coaching
right now, But what did theplayers say as you were going through this
whole process. They were one hundredpercent behind me. They couldn't understand why
I can't just give in, Andit would have been the easiest thing to
do, and there was a lotof me that wanted to do that.
But could you imagine me as beinga coach and telling these guys to keep

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fighting even if it's the tough youknow, the tough times. All of
a sudden, I'd be the biggesthypocrite in the world. This is my
chance to actually show leadership by exampleand go through something that's hard because it's
the right thing to do. Andthat's a powerful message for any group of
young people. Since you went throughthis process, you've now said down,
what do you do with your life? Now? It's gotten really crazy.

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We did the book Average Show andit tells the whole story of my life,
and we just got done film inthe movie Average Show that comes out
October eleventh nationwide, so hopefully everybodywill be inspired by that. It's a
good, high quality film that everybody'sgoing to be able to take their family
to and their friends and really senda message to Hollywood that you don't need
just junk. We need more upliftingthings to be out there. You know,

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I am I'm a woman of acertain age, and I grew up
in the eighties, and I amalso a Florida State University girl. So
I remember Bobby Bowden, one ofthe greatest coaches of all time in college
football. After practice, he wouldinvite the young men who wanted to come
and do a prayer. And afriend of mine who was on his team,

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I said, you know, doesthat bother anyone? Is anyone?
Because at this time I was adirty foot hippie liberal, so it was,
you know, a different time.And I said, how do you
How don't you feel like making it? He goes, he does it for
us, not to us, right, And I thought that was a really
interesting way of looking at it.But growing up in the eighties and the
Deep South, we had prayers beforeevery single football game over the loud speaker.

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Oh yeah, this is nothing else, this is not so. The
fact that this required the Supreme Courtto weigh in just shows you how far
we have changed in the last fortyyears. Our nation has just gone crazy.
It really has, it really hascoach Joe Kennedy. His book is
Average Show, his movie is AverageShow, and it's coming out knocked too.

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Who made that movie with you,God's Not Dead? The ones that
also did. We had Dan Cataon you a couple of days ago.
Yeah, American Sniper and The Blind. Yeah those guys. Yeah, they
were just fantastic. What a wonderfultime to be alive when you can get
a movie like this made and youdon't have to worry about the studio system
to do it exactly. Yeah,we just went tore bypass all of that

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and had high quality people doing it. Coach Joe Kennedy, I appreciate your
time today, Enjoy the rest ofyour world tour of the RNC, and
best of luck to you in thefuture. I hope your movie does way.
Thank you, rous. We willbe right back. The Mandy Connell
Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock, accident and injury lawyers, live from

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Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention.It's Mandy Connell and Conn's presented by Rocky
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(33:35):
keeping sad Thing. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the
show, I'm your host, MandyConnell, and of course broadcasting live from
the r n C the Republican NationalConvention. Today is the last day and
we are going to be home tomorrowmorning, so we are going to have
everything about Donald Trump speech tonight.Now, if you miss the beginning of

(33:57):
the show, the beginning of theshow started with me and talking about rumors
that are swirling that Joe Biden isgoing to step down. NBC News did
a story saying people around him areusing the language the end is near,
so we are obviously going to havethat. If it's breaking news. I
don't think it's going to happen todayfor a variety of reasons. We're talking
about maybe this weekend. If hedoes it this weekend, then that sucks

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the air out of the post conventionbounce. But I didn't do the blog.
So you guys in the second hourthat don't get to hear the blog,
now get to hear the blog.You can find the blog by going
to seven eight going to mandy'sblog dotcom. That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look
for the headline that says seven eighteentwenty four blog The Generational torchist passed last
night. Click on that and hereare the headlines you will find within Anyone's

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listening off with Patlan Hips and Clipmentplan Today on the blog, tonight is
the night jd Vance is the nextgeneration. It's amazing how you can watch
the same speech and get something completelydifferent. The party switch is almost complete.
We've been super busy on social mediathis week. Scrolling, scrolling,

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scrolling. Tonight's anthem is being sungby this absolutely wonderful woman. Sorry I'm
in the wrong place. And thoseare the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog
dot com. Now the blog issuper short, obviously because you can't even
imagine how busy we have been.But I want to direct to you to
our social media if you don't followus on social media and you are not

(35:29):
on social media. I embedded alot of the videos that we did for
social media on today's blog, includingan interview with the woman named Mary Milden.
Mary is going to be singing thenational anthem tonight, and I am
telling you this woman is incredible.I have the opportunity to meet her and
sit with her at the Steamboat Institute, and she is as lovely as her

(35:51):
voice, So you definitely want tosee tonight's national anthem that is on the
blog along with all the other stuffand helping us out this week, A
Rod here, I am here.Rob Dawson has been doing Yeoman's work out
there, gathering news and stories.What you got on your plate right now?
Ron, Well, you know,I think we're we're hearing about the
reports about Biden dropping out, andyou know, I've been trying to go

(36:14):
along the room. You know,you know when the room has a feel
a little bit, especially we haveClay and Buck next to us. Right
when that report, when they sawit on Twitter came out, they were
scrambling. They actually I had Housespeaker Mike Johnson the podium at the time
when they were welcome when all thatnews was happening. So they said,
excuse me, how speaker. Weknow, we don't know where this is
going, but we may have to, like you may be react existent breaking

(36:36):
news here. It was interested in. There's a David Rban CNN, you
know strategist. I just talked tohim after he was done with w T
a M which is next to us, and he basically has been saying when
everyone else is saying they waited toolong. Yes, if they're going to
make a change, they waited toolong to do it. And I asked
him, does any change with thetop of the ticket for the Democrats to
change the Republican strategy. He's like, no, you either run scared or

(36:59):
on as you run through the tape, that's what the Drum Campaign's is going
to do. There you go,And so we'll have that in breaking news
if it is breaking today. Nowcoming up in the next hour, I
have a lot of audio that wechopped up a rod and I are actually
gonna leave. The floor of theconventions area is so loud in here I
can't even hear in my headphone,so we want to play a lot of

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snippets of the speech. So inthe next hour we're gonna find a quieter
space and we're going to share withyou some of the highlights I think of
the convention. But right now Ihave the opportunity. So I'm standing here
in the media the media area,and we did a video yesterday of the
media area. If you want tosee what we're talking about, just go
to Today's blog at mandy'sblog dot com, because I put it on the blog

(37:42):
today where you can see the layoutand see exactly where we are and all
that stuff. It's really cool.It's just it's cool, you guys,
So check that out. But I'mwalking down the hall and I see this
long, tall drink of water comingup at me and I was like,
hey, that's Enis Canter. Andwe had a chance to sit down with
Eniscanter, and this is what hehad to say. You're not going to
believe who I just saw walking throughthe media road. I look over and

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there's a guy who's actually taller thanJesse Kelly, which I didn't think was
possible. You may know him asEnis Canter, but the world knows him
as Eniscanter. Freedom, a choicehe made when he became an American citizen
after being born in Switzerland. Wereyou raised in Switzerland as well? Turkey?
I was gonna say, if youraised in Switzerland, I just went
there in my god, oh mygod, absolutely amazing. So you come

(38:30):
here, why why have you decidedto take a stand? Why did you
change your name? Your last name? Well, everybody knows I'm a freedom
guy, So come in here seeingall the patriots. Who cares about their
freedom? Who cares about you know, the markers who cares about America.
It touches my heart, you know. So it's this is my first actual
convension and this is a little likea big family me, you know,

(38:51):
all the kids and elderlies and politiciansand not much athletes. But you know,
we'll get there one day. Butit touches my heart. Is beautif.
Well, I was talking yesterday,we were talking on the show about
this feels like a sports rally,like we're all rooting for our team exactly,
and I think tonight is coming.Yeah, yeah, true speech.

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Yeah, that's going to be veryvery cool. When you when you came
to the United States, tell meabout growing up in Turkey. First of
all, I mean it was itwas a very different childhood, especially under
Dictator Alguin's regime. You know,we had no freedom of speech, no
freedom of foligion, no freedom ofexpression, and no freedom of protests.
And if you criticize the governments,you and your family members will be in
jail. And that was the reasonmy dad was in jail. Wow.

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But you know, coming here inAmerica and in the first because you keep
hearing about this, the craziest thingsabout America. If you live in Middle
East. Oh my god, Americais the Devil's nest. They are horrible
people, crazy people. But cominghere, actually sitting down and having a
conversation with people for the first time, it was amazing. I was like,
Wow, this is not the Americathat I heard and when I was

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a Turkey. Was it challenging foryou to work with people who maybe didn't
have that appreciation, because I thinkthat in the United States, a lot
of people don't have any frame ofreference from the stuff you just gave,
so they're ready to criticize us forour faults because we're not perfect. But
I guess from your perspective, wereyou just like, shut up and sit
down, listen. We have alot of work to do in America.

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Yes, correct. But you know, I remember one time I was sitting
in a locker room and my teammatesstarted to criticize America and said, oh
my god, America is trash,America is horrible, and blah blah.
Right I walked in, I waslike, listen, guys, our season
is about to be over, andwhatever deseason over, I'm going to buy
your first class ticket and let's goto someone is countries out there. Let's
go to you on, Let's goto China. Let's go to Russia and
North Korea and Turkey. You guyswill see the real dictatorship. You guys

(40:44):
will see forget about call it intrash. You criticize those governments, you
and your family members will be atorture to death. People don't know how
lucky and blessed we are in thiscountry. What are some of the things
that you would try to say toyoung people who maybe their little brains washed
by going to college and being toldthat America is bad. Don't take your

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freing for granted. You're very blessed, and one day when you travel,
you're gonna understand how lucky you are. One last question. We need some
help on our bench with the nuggets, and you know, are you available
and we should we have someone callyou. I'm just I'm curious if you're
available, if you're working out,I mean, what are we doing here
in working out? I'm healthy,I'm in goo shape. But you know
what, it's just because of China. I don't think it's going to happen

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because the relationship between China MBA isbillions of dollars and once you criticize China,
you'll be out of the league immediatelyin a heartbeat. But you know
them, they have an amazing team, amazing bench, and it's like a
cheap coat. Whenever you go there, they're already in shape because of the
altitude. I hated going there.I haded to playing against them, but
hey, maybe they're an amazing theamazing job lately in a scared for free

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Tom, thank you so much forgiving me a few minutes. Appreciate it
right. I found that fascinating whenhe said, not because of China.
I'm not going to be back inthe league. Because the NBA has capitulated
to the Chinese government. You know. We talked to a woman yesterday,
a Chinese immigrant, and it wasa very interesting conversation. She was there

(42:13):
and was injured in Tianaman Square inthe freedom movement. She as a young
person, was in the Department ofPropaganda, and she talked extensively about the
Chinese government's plans to overthrow the UnitedStates. And she said, we know
at the time, she said,fifty years ago, China was very poor,
so militarily they didn't stand a chanceagainst the United States. But their

(42:37):
strategy was to divide the American people, divide and conquer, and at the
same time, they have done agreat job in filtrating the country using things
like the Confucius Foundations that are allover in college campuses that not only spread
Chinese propaganda but tamp down any Chineseanti Chinese sentiment. The fact that he

(43:00):
just said yeah, and he saidthis before, I know I've heard him
say it before, but he's like, no, as long as the NBA
is cow telling to China because theywant access to a billion people, nothing
is going to come of it.And that got me to thinking how many
of our organizations here in the UnitedStates are doing that exact same thing.
Right, They're doing the exact samething, And it's just kind of gross

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considering that China regularly just absolutely destroysthe rights of the people who live there.
It's time to take a quick timeout. We'll be back from the
RNC thanks to our friends at RockyMountain. Oh you're right, it's the
second hour, you guys. I'mexhausted. I'm not gonna lie. That's

(43:43):
fantastic because I have other things thatI want to talk about, including a
New York Times column that I haveon today's blog, and I actually embedded
it in such a way that youshould all be able to read it without
it being paywalled, because let mesee here, they have a column on
the New York Times today. I'mtrying to pull it up right now that

(44:05):
the parties are the ground is shiftingunder Biden and Trump is the headline.
And I want to just share someof this with you because this has been
on full display this entire week,and this is a great encapsulation. It
is have Democrats and Republicans traded places? How has the ascendants of well educated,
relatively affluent liberals among Democrats, alongsidethe dominance of non college voters in

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the Republican coalition altered? The agendasof the two parties are low turnout elections
and laws designed to suppress voting nowbeneficial to Democrats and detrimental to Republicans.
Would the Democratic Party be better offif limits on campaign contributions were scrapped?
Nicholas Stephanopolis, a law professor atHarvard, contended that the answer to those

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last two questions is changing from noto yes. In a paper posted last
week, Election Law for the NewElectorate, Stephanopolos argued that the party's long
standing positions on numerous electoral issues havebecome obsolete. These stances reflect how voters
used to, not how they nowact, and thus no longer serve the

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party's interest. Stephanopoulos described the consequencesof the reversal of the traditional class basis
of the two parties like this,One of the old rules of elections that
no longer holds is that poor voterslean Democratic, while richer voters tilt Republican.
Strikingly, the dominant traditional cleavage andcapitalist society's material well being doesn't currently

(45:40):
divide the American electorate. If anything, more, affluent voter voters now modestly
prefer the party of the left.This switch reflects what Stephanopoulos described as a
post Marxist electorate. Data cited byStephanopolos demonstrates how Donald Trump. Trump's entry
into presidential politics has accelerated these trends, pulling more voters without college degrees into

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the Republican party while repelling Republican leadingwell educated suburban voters. At the same
time, Stephanopolis continued, the partisandivide between minority and white voters has narrowed
somewhat. Cities have also become modestlyless democratic. Exurban and rural areas have
grown far more republican, and suburbshave shifted from a reddish to a bluish

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shade of purple, and wealthier individualscampaign contributions have followed their votes by flowing
increasingly to Democratic candidates. A fundamentalreason for the erosion of the traditional lines
of cleavage, Stephanopolis contended is theemergence of education as a potent new axis
of electoral segmentation among white voters.In particular, individuals with at least a

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college degree are now a much moredemocratic constituency than people with less Schoolingos also
described the slow process of racial depolarizationas Republicans make gains among minorities and white
voters become more democratic. The citeddata collected by Catalyst, a liberal voter
analysis firm. This shows that theshare of African American voters backing the Democratic

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presidential candidate declined from ninety seven percentin twenty twelve to ninety one percent in
twenty twenty. The share of Hispanicvoters backing the Democratic candidate fell from seventy
percent in twenty twelve to sixty twopercent in twenty twenty. Simultaneously, the
fraction of white voters preferring the Democraticpresidential candidate increased from forty one percent in

(47:43):
twenty sixteen to forty four percent intwenty twenty, and it goes on from
there. But you're getting the message. And this is something that we've talked
about throughout the week, right,is that the policy positions that have been
talked about here in the RNC arevery much about working class voters, very
much about bringing in immigrants to telltheir stories and why freedom is so important.

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You just heard from Eni Scanter abouthis experience in Turkey. The Republican
Party is courting these people because thesepeople know the ultimate end of the policies
from the countries they're from. It'sreally easy to convince someone who escaped a
dictatorship that freedom is the way togo. So this switch has been absolutely

(48:30):
cemented, i think, in thisRepublican Party. But it remains to be
seen whether the Democratic Party is goingto fight for these voters or they're just
going to say, well, thisis who we are now and we're moving
forward. I'm thinking it's the formerand that they're going to try and fight
for these voters but we had achance to talk to Madeline Breem yesterday.

(48:53):
She is the mother of a manwho was killed. He was a veteran
come back to New York City,he gets murdered. Alvin Bragg said,
basically, we're going to let yourkillers, your son's killers, go free.
She was told. I asked her, did you post that? Oh,
he's posting it on social right now. You've got to go watch this
interview I did with her. Butshe was a life long Democrat and the

(49:15):
Democratic Party turned his back on her. And you have to wonder how long
minority voters are going to keep votingfor the same party who make big promises
right before an election but then neverfollow through. That's the big issue.
They don't do what they say they'regoing to do. And minority voters under

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Donald Trump had record low unemployment,had record high income games, and the
communities were doing better. So we'llsee if he can pull even more of
them away from the Democratic Party alongwith working class voters. We played some
or we're going to play some DougO'Brien speech the Teamsters Union president. They

(49:59):
may be in play. I'm notgetting my hopes up for that. I
would be really shocked if they actuallycame out and endorsed Donald Trump, but
they may hold an endorsement at all. Jesse Kelly, how tall are you?
Okay? Jesse Kelly is six eightLadies and gentlemen. That's something I
learned this week. So there yougo. Sorry, I got distracted by
something shiny. Mandy. Did yousee Joe almost kiss a woman that looked

(50:22):
like doctor Jill? Is it anywonder his eyesight is probably also going?
Mandy? You and a Rod shoulddefinitely get a pay raise or award for
this week. You guys have killedit, Ay, Rays, do you
want to second that real quick?Just you know if our boss Dave Tepper,
He's been listening all week. Ijust want to make sure. Should
we repeat it? Let me readit one more time, Mandy, you

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and a Rod should definitely get apay raise or award for this week.
You guys have killed it. I'mgonna throw in Rob Dawson as well.
Second. We're seconding that. Yah, thank you, We have a second.
There you go? What was that? There you go? Okay,
good Mandy. Random news flash.Lauren Bobert wants to be the secondcretary of
the Interior if Trump is elected.Where did you get that, Texter?

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I'm not doubting you. It wouldactually kind of make sense in a weird
way. Secretary of Interior obviously overseesall of our federal lands, our national
parks, all of that stuff.Where did you see that? Google Bobert,
Department of Interior. See if that'sactually a thing or just wild speculation.
And you know, wild speculation isn'talways bad. That entire column,

(51:29):
by the way, is on theblog today linked in such a way that
you can that you can watch thewhole thing, isn't it. Oh?
Okay, So let me give youa little inside scoop. Yesterday Lauren Bobert
was supposed to be on the show, and then her calms guy said,
Hey, she's on a really bigcall, so she can't do the show.

(51:52):
Okay, fine, no problem.So maybe that's why. Now it
would be great for her to nothave to run an elected position, and
it would be great for the fourthcongressional district. Do you ask me anyway?
That was a little saucy comment thatI made. I should have made.
I'm trying to you to fy theparty and do the right thing and
all of that stuff. I'm tryingto make sure that we you know,

(52:15):
big tent blah blah blah blah blah. It's fine. When we get back,
we're going to take a quick timeout here. I want to talk
about two things. Number One,if you've been to the blog today at
mandy'sblog dot com, we listened tojd Vance speak last night, and I'm
gonna talk at lengths about his commentswhen we get back. But he gave

(52:37):
an uplifting upbeat. He was smiling, There was laughing. He told stories
about Mamma which were fantastic. Hewas glib, he was making jokes.
He was Lucy Goosey. So whenI went to find an uninterrupted version of
the speech, I found it onYouTube at the PBS News channel. Look

(52:57):
at the screencrab they found, Hey, Rod, look at that. Look
at he looks angry. He literallyI just don't know even better. But
let me bring it up for you. Okay, Batman, just now realize
is a spinning image for the ofthe Undertaker. Wow, I mean,
come on, that is look atthat. Look at that man that in

(53:20):
that look at that. How harddid they have to work to get that
screen grab? You know, becausethe rest of the speech. It was
uploading, there was smiling, therewas nothing they do benefit of the doubt.
Sometimes a screen grab on YouTube candefault. Maybe they were just a
smidge lazy and left that as adeepen Yes, because I'm going to as
a content creator benefit of the dow. They just did not put a thumbnail

(53:42):
because because you got to push thata lot of content, some ablems,
you're gonna forget to upload your owncustom thumbnail. I'm luck I don't think
that's what happened, because I'll tellyou. When I have a picture of
Joe Biden, I go to GettyImages, which we have a contract with
it, I heart and I tryto find the most unflattering one. Here's
my analogy that right there, thatthumbnail makes them look like the Undertaker makes
sense because he came back from thedead, as VP can after he said

(54:05):
he was a never trumper. Thatis fantastic segue. We'll do that next
right after the news, traffick andweather. We are live from the Republican
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back. We are having our lastshow. Obviously, the convention ends today.

(54:30):
Donald Trump makes his acceptance speech tonight. Now, we had some rumors
at the beginning of the show thatit looks like and again rumors, but
it's being reported by NBC News thatpeople in the Biden campaign are essentially saying
the end is near and lots ofpeople are expecting him to step down.
It's just a matter of when,right, So I think it's probably gonna

(54:52):
be tomorrow or Saturday. To dotwo things. Number One, absolutely take
the air out of the post conventionbump that every single candidate gets and suck
up all the oxygen on the Sundayshows, as it would be of the
media, a perfect excuse to pivotaway from Republicans and start their conversations about

(55:14):
how to save the Democratic Party.But last night jd Vance accepted the nomination
and in the next hour we havesome of the audio from his speech.
We've got to go to acquire room, you guys, because I cannot hear
anything in this room. I knowthe background noise has been driving some of
you crazy. You cannot imagine howloud. It is NonStop activity. So

(55:35):
we're going to dip off where wecan hear the audio and do the last
hour of the show and kind ofdo a recap. We've grabbed some great
sound from some of the really mostI think consequential speeches, including JD Vance's
speech last night, and I wantto ask you guys, you can weigh
in on the common Spirit health textline. If you watched the speech last
night, what did you think?And if you were not excited about a

(55:57):
jd Vance vice presidency, are younow? Because I thought jd Vance did
an amazing job last night, andhe absolutely laid the groundwork to be the
guy to go talk to people andlots of people that are in the rustbell
He mentioned Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, hementioned Ohio. He mentioned all of these
swing states that Trump has to winover and over and over again. He

(56:22):
also shared his story, which isincredibly compelling. He comes from nothing.
He grew up in grinding poverty,raised by his mom or excuse me,
by his grandma, because his momwas a heroin addict. One of the
best moments of the night during hisspeech was when he introduced his mother,
who is ten years sober. Now. I want you to think about this

(56:45):
for a second. Rob, Howold did I mean? Do you think
she's like sixty maybe a little bitolder? She doesn't look she doesn't.
She's not ancient, is what I'msaying. He's forty. JD. Vance's
mom. Wow, oh yes,yes, and she well, he said
sixty right around I think I saidsixty. Okay, but she has only

(57:05):
been sober for ten years, right, So that chose to show you the
struggle, right Vance and his familyhave had to go through. Yeah,
And he introduced her and they putthe camera on her, and she's obviously
so proud, and she leans overto speaker Mike Johnson and says, that's
my boy, my boy. Andit was so I think everybody can relate
to. Every parent can relate tothat moment. His speech was fantastic last

(57:30):
night. I thought it was justgreat. And he's going to be the
guy out there to go out andmake the case for the economic policies that
Republicans have now adopted, which isall about the working man. You know
what crossed my mind? You knowhow, for better or for worse,
vice presidents get a thing to workon. Yes, okay, Project yes.

(57:50):
Projects. Of course, we weretalking about Vice President Kamala Harris and
the border and how that probably hasnot succeeded. But I was listening to
Vance's speech and when he talked aboutthe people back in his town or in
the state of Rhio, and hesaid, you know, I get a
call or I talk about someone andI remember them, and he's like,
and now I hear that they diedof an overdose. I'm wondering from that

(58:14):
particular thing in Ohio is one ofthe hardest in states in that area,
wondering if anything about him like thatcould be his project, Like fentanyl dis
order it goes because the border isan integral part of the fentanyl that's flooding
over the southern border right now.I think that would be it. I
actually see him leading some kind ofyou know, arm of the government that

(58:38):
talks about AI in tech. Ithink that's a natural fit for him to
say, look, we've got tofigure out what we're doing here with AI
and tech. That would be aninteresting take as well. It could be
like in the Biden administration where anythingJoe Biden doesn't want to deal with,
he's like, Kamala has got thisKama is going to take it. We
shall see. She had oldest sisterat eighteen, so she is probably fifty

(59:00):
eight, fifty nine, maybe sixteen, So she's been an she was an
addict for fifty years. That's incredible. But she looks great now. And
he obviously is so proud of hismother, obvious, and he wants the
ten year sobriety party to be inthe White House. I can you imagine,
But can you imagine just the visualof that, like having the vice

(59:22):
per brother in there, could beinspirational for other people. Exactly exactly right
now that all happened last night.I embeded the speech that he gave and
I thought it was fantastic, andI'm very happy with the way that JD.
Vance presented himself, and I thinkhe's going to be a very valuable
asset on the campaign trail. Weget some text message, Oh, his

(59:44):
sister's five years older than JD.So he's thirty nine, so she's maybe
sixty too. Yeah, so Mandyisn't Vance's Project twenty Project twenty twenty five.
You guys, I'm talking to someonefrom Heritage tomorrow. I've got a
short interview in the can actually fromthe convention. We're going to play tomorrow

(01:00:06):
with a woman from the Heritage Foundation, and when you hear it, you
are going to be like, oh, okay. Project twenty twenty five is
just this election's boogeyman because the Democratshave nothing to run on. I mean
absolutely nothing to run on. Hey, Mandy, I bet they will announce
Biden stepping down right about the sametime Trump starts his speech. Give the

(01:00:27):
networks a reason to go into specialcoverage and break away from Trump. I
don't think that would go the waythey would want it to go, because
everybody would see it as a cravenmove to suck the oxygen out of the
air. One thing about that.In twenty twelve, the beginning of the
NFL seasons happened during the Democratic NationalConvention, and they moved Thursday night football

(01:00:49):
to Wednesday night because they knew Obamawould speak Thursday. Right, NBC had
to basically did bonus coverage Thursday tomake up. I feel like the networks
in that situation want hours for bothparties, right, So NBC had because
we were wondering, why iSBC goingon three hours early? Well, they
have to make up because they didn'tdo Wednesday Night. Well, they also
sell commercials. Yeah, I meanthat's the reality. They also sell commercial

(01:01:12):
Yeah, they commit to it,and the commercials that are airing are not
cheap during this stuff, Mandy,I can't get your new theme music out
of my head. I know itis infectious, isn't it. I sing
it so and there's people who absolutelyhate it. Sorry about that, Mandy.
What about JD's wife. She didnot look thrilled to be there.
I'm guessing she had already heard anairful from the Housewives of Yale and she's

(01:01:34):
embarrassed to be on the Trump train. Jared and Boulder. Now, Jared,
I want to I want to cometo Usha's defense, because, first
of all, they just found outlike ten days ago that JD. Vance
is gonna run for the vice presidency. So here she is thrust into a
spotlight that she was not prepared for, and all of a sudden, she's
on the RNC stage giving a speechto millions of people. Now, I

(01:01:58):
know, you think to yourself,a titian's wife should be able to do
this. He's been a politician forthree years, so she's not a seasoned
politician's wife. She is a lawyerwho may or may not be comfortable with
that level of public speaking. I'mwilling to cut usha a break. And
I think Van Ross said this earlier, and I think he's absolutely right.

(01:02:20):
He could be a tremendous asset.She could be a tremendous asset to not
only A JD's campaign, but alsothe Trump campaign. Her story is very
compelling, she's very very smart.She could be a very nice counterbalance to
JD. And there you go.Hey, Mandy, is JD Vance likely
to lose a lot of boomer votesover his stance on Social Security and Medicaid?

(01:02:45):
I don't know. I don't thinkJD. Vance is going to lose
any votes. People don't vote forvice president. I mean they really don't.
They never have. It's not likeyou're unless you put like a you
know, neo Nazi or something that'swearing a swastika. I don't think the
vice president has that much impact.It may bring some people to the ticket,
but have you ever voters gone,you know, I'd really like to

(01:03:05):
vote for that person for president,but that vice residential pick? Eh?
No one knows that absolutely not.Someone just said totally disagree, But I
don't know. What you're disagreeing with. You have to understand how the text
line works. Texters. Stuff keepsrolling through, It absolutely keeps rolling through.
Now we are going to play nowan interview good Anthony Rodriguez made me

(01:03:29):
do. Right after this, we'reat the RNC live in Milwaukee. Thanks
to our friends at Rocky Mountain Voice. Go to the Rocky Mountain go to
Rockymountain Voice dot com every day toget your news from an unabashed, center
right perspective. They're doing an incrediblejob covering Colorado and thanks to them for
bringing us here. We'll be rightback, joined by the man who is

(01:03:51):
referred to by the entire world asthe MyPillow Guy. Mike Lindell built a
company and sold a lot of pillowsand sheets, and he is I think
probably the most unabashed supporter of DonaldTrump in the country. Mike ustuff for
a lot because of your support forDonald Trump. Still you're here in our

(01:04:11):
inc. What keeps you on thistrack? Well, we have to save
our country. And there's two thingsI've been attacked for. When I first
went in in twenty sixteen, Imet him and went all in on this
great man, and that I thoughtwould be the greatest president ever, and
he was and he has been.In fact, back then I said,
everybody loves our president. Some justdon't know it yet. That's coming to

(01:04:33):
fruition. But the other thing wasis I wanted to as the twenty twenty
election. After that unfolded, I'vespent three and a half years now trying
to get to paper ballots, handcounted and secure our elections. Many countries
around the world about machines, manycountries about lot early voting. We have
everything here that we need, bestpractice, We need to be the example.

(01:04:58):
I have been attacked. My pillowhas been de bank d platform employee
owned company more than any company inhistory, and the whole last year being
attacked. Are people attacking me becauseI still want to overturn the twenty twenty
election. No, they're attacking mebecause I want to go to paper ballots,
hand counting, same davoting, which, by the way, the RNC
just a year ago passed a resolutionpaper ballots, hand counting, same day

(01:05:23):
voting, precinct level of signature required, voter ID. I mean that's the
best it could be. Right,Obviously we're not you know, we might
not get there for this election.We've had two hundred and fifty counties I
believe in the country that are goingto paper are going to do in the
twenty twenty four. But I've gota great plan for everybody to secure your

(01:05:44):
mail in ballot. Get your mailin ballot, don't open it. And
when you go to vote, ifthey say you've already voted, no,
I have not. It's right here. This is very important because it happened
across our country in the last threeelections. And you get there, and
it just happened in Texas with ademocraticistic attorney. She got there, they
told her she voted. She goesno, I did no, Sure you

(01:06:04):
dan, Well, she had aplatform, a voice, right, so
they could get to the bottom ofit. We know citizens don't. So
by having that mail in ballot inyour hand, you know, and plus
just pulling it off the voter rolls, so you know at least you got
it. And then let's see,you can't vote on same day if something
mergers comes up, you got it. You can vote early. Right.
Do you still believe that the electionwas stolen? Hundred percent? I do

(01:06:27):
not think it was. I knowit was. I did. I spent
three and a half years digging intoeverything and what really confirmed it was.
Under the Freedom of Information Act,you can gets called the cast vote record,
and this is the order of thevotes come in right. So remember
I bought every single voter rolls andregister you know, and from the around

(01:06:48):
the country, all fifty states ofthe twenty twenty election, the twenty twenty
two election. The twenty twenty election, I have one third of all the
cast vote records in the country.In the twenty twenty two election, I
have one to the United States.What cast vote record is like if you
let's say you missed the football gameand you you want to go back and

(01:07:08):
see the highlights whatever say, andthe order the scores were right. First
quarter seven to seven, second quarteris seventeen to ten, third quarter is
seventeen to three. They don't goin reverse. Numbers don't go in reverse.
So when you have a cast voterecord, it either shows computer manipulation
or it doesn't. It's come rightout of the machine. So that the
government has to hold them for twentytwo months. So we had to get

(01:07:31):
them by September third of twenty twentytwo. All those records. We had,
every single one that's one thirty ofthe counties and we only got one
third. Every one of them wascomputer manipulated. Everyone. What do they
say when you ask, when youpoint out that you've now gone backwards in
your total, what kind of right? Here's heres? Well, first of
all, is the worst have beenthe Red States bar none, South Dakota,

(01:07:56):
Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Tech. You'd think I'd be able to
go right in there and show themand say, hey, we got to
fix these. We got to fixthis right, we got to get this
right. I'll give you my firstone. This is where I was up
against these uniparty Republicans. Some peoplecall him rhinos. I call him unit
party. It's deeper than a rhino. I went down to Alabama. The

(01:08:16):
Secretary of State Thursday was John Merrill. In the summer of twenty one.
First date I went to, Igo, I'm going to go to Alabama.
I paid him for his voter rolls. They charged the one of the
highest the nations. I had paidforty two thousand. Yeah, I had
to pay forty two thousand dollars gethis voter rolls. I going to talk
to him, Go, John,look at you have four six hundred and
sixty people voted that are over onehundred and ten years old in Alabama.

(01:08:39):
You know what he said to me, He goes, well, Mike,
we lived pretty good here in Obama. I thought he was making a joke,
but he never looked into it.They just turn a blind's eye.
It's so sad. Michae Lindella ismy guest. Mike. I don't have
very much time. I got tostart a show here in just a second.
But do you how much money doyou start telling that forty million?
Every dime I've had, every singledime. You want to help anybody,

(01:09:00):
go to Lyndell plan dot com becauseI've got to get all the efforts of
hundreds of thousands of people to thefinish line. We have four months to
do it. Lyndell plan dot com. If you want to help out,
I spent everything I have. Youknow what, it can't call me a
grifter because I'd be the worst learninghistory. You're not doing it right,
Mike, You're doing it backwards.Mike Wendell, Thank you, thank you,
thank you. That is Mike Lindell. A rod made me do it.

(01:09:25):
Coming up for the next hour,We're actually gonna leave this floor where
we are because I have a bunchof sound bites from the speeches that happened
this entire week as we get readyfor Donald J. Trump to accept the
nomination tonight. You're gonna want towatch that. Tomorrow we will be back
in the studio with Well I willA Rod's going to be on the morning
show and uh, it's been agreat week, thanks so much to Rocky
Mountain Voice. And coming up next, we got lots of sound for you

(01:09:47):
right after this live from Milwaukee forthe Republican National Convention. It's Mendy Connell.
It's presented by Rocky Mountain Boys,fum Can the Nice by Connald You

(01:10:14):
sad Babe, Welcome, Welcome,Welcome to the third hour of the show.
A Ron and I have cut overto a little side room to have
a little quiet so I can hearthe cuts that we're going to play for
you. This hour is kind ofgoing to be a review of what you
might have missed, and we're goingto talk a little bit about the theme
of the RNC because it has beenFirst of all, I have to say
and Ross and I talked about this, this has been a week of discipline

(01:10:39):
from the RNC. From the Republicansthat have spoken here, with very few
exceptions, there has been a continuingmessage of unity. Everybody's talking about,
you know what it's like to toget the party together and move forward.
From the speeches of the Vanquished thatwe heard the other night where all the
former opponents of Donald Trump in theprimary came out and so reported him.

(01:11:00):
Those speeches were incredibly important, butI chosen some snippets of some speeches that
I actually think had the most impactbecause one thing that we saw this week
was a concerted effort by multiple peopleto humanize Donald Trump. You know,
in twenty sixteen, he ran asthe brash businessman. He was an outsider.

(01:11:21):
He was the guy that was goingto fix things in the country because
he was not a traditional politician.Well, fast forward, We've now had
eight years of the demonization of DonaldTrump, where you have many on the
left who have been calling him,let's see nazi, I've been calling him
a fascist. We now have theDemocratic Party jinning up outrage about Project twenty

(01:11:44):
twenty five, which the President literallyhas nothing to do with. It is
a Heritage Foundation situation. By theway, I've got somebody from Heritage coming
on tomorrow, So you're gonna hearthat talk about Project twenty twenty five tomorrow,
so stay tuned for that. Butthey went to great links to also
make an effort to broaden the tentright, make the bigger tent. We've

(01:12:06):
always heard that we need a bigtent, and I will tell you there
was two speeches on the first nightthat I thought were absolutely earth shattering.
The first one, which has notbeen well received by hardcore right wing conservatives
like Matt Walsh, I thought wasa brilliant stroke. I don't really care
about amber Rose, but amber Rosehas twenty four million followers across social media.

(01:12:31):
She is a young, mixed racewoman. She was talking not to
me, not to you. Shewas talking to young disaffected voters who are
worrying about where they're how they're goingto get ahead, how are they going
to buy a house, and moreimportantly, she urged them to do their
own research. Here she talks abouther own conversion. My entire family is
racially diverse, and I believe theleft wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a

(01:12:56):
racist. My father said, no, he's not. Ami, what are
you talking about? And when Iinsisted, he said, prove it so
to prove my father wrong, Idid my research and looked into all things
Donald Trump. People have to dotheir research. I watched all the rallies,

(01:13:20):
and I started meeting so many ofyou his red hat wearing supporters.
I realized Donald Trump and his supportersdon't care if you're black, white,
gay, or straight. It's allof And that's when it hit me,

(01:13:49):
these are my people. This iswhere I belong. That is Amber Rose
making the pitch, and her pitchwas so effective that Van Jones on CNN
later said that was the most dangerousspeech at the RNC. Think about that
for a second. First of all, a Ron, we got to get
Van Jones on the show because he'sbeen the guy on CNN to point out

(01:14:12):
since like eighteen months ago, topoint out the harsh reality that the Democrats
are facing right now. There isa column you may have heard me talk
about it earlier on the show fromthe New York Times where they are saying,
have the parties switched places? Anddemographically you are seeing the Democratic Party
increasingly become the party of college educatedwhite liberals living in urban centers, and

(01:14:34):
they've really kind of taken over theparty in a way. That is to
the detriment of people who are notin that category, minorities and people living
on the lower edges of poverty.Now, the second speech on Monday night,
that was absolutely shocking. First ofall that had happened, but second
of all, the content of thespeech came from Teamsters Union President Doug O'Brien.

(01:14:56):
Listen to the intro of his speech. I also want to thank President
Donald Trump for opening the rnc's door, so the Teamster's Union and inviting me
to speak before you tonight. Itravel all across this country and meet with

(01:15:17):
my members every week. You knowwhat I see an American worker being taken
for granted, workers being sold outto big banks, big tech corpus in
the elite. And I'm not theonly one who sees this everyday. Families
see it. The American people aren'tstupid. They know the system is broken.

(01:15:42):
We all know how Washington has run. Working people have no chance of
winning this fight. That's why I'mhere today because I refuse to keep doing
the same things my predecessors did.Today today, the Teamsters are here to

(01:16:05):
say we are not beholden to anyoneor any party that Doug O'Brien from the
Teamsters union just appearing at the RNCwas an earthquake. But we'll have to
see if this is just designed toget the attention of Democrats. But I
talked to several people during the conventionwho said, look, you know,
the Biden administration is micro managing thecar industry right now, and that industry

(01:16:29):
has an incredibly powerful union. He'sputting edicts for electric cars that are putting
union guys out of work. Sowouldn't be all that surprising to them if
the teamsters actually endorsed Doug O'Brien.Now, when we were talking about him
earlier in the week, I hadseveral teamsters from the Denver Metro text us
and say, look in my shop, we're all Trump guys. And this

(01:16:50):
is the problem that Doug O'Brien has. He's got a very divided union.
The many urban centers are still verypro Biden. But he also has a
large and growing contingent of teamsters wholove Donald Trump and would prefer to see
him in the White House. I'mtelling you these two speeches on the first
night of the convention may prove tobe two of the most significant speeches because

(01:17:12):
the Amber Rose speech has gotten alot of legs, so we're gonna have
to see. I'm not convinced thatthe Teamsters are going to endorse Donald Trump.
The best I would hope for isto not endorse Joe Biden and not
endorse Donald Trump. But as ofyesterday, two days ago, Doug O'Brien
said, look, I reached outto the RNC and the DNC at the
same time, and only the RNCand Trump responded. He still hasn't heard

(01:17:36):
from the Democrats, he used tophrase, crickets. So we'll have to
see when we get to the DNCnext month in Chicago, if the Teamsters
are there, and if they arethere, if they're going to throw their
weight behind Joe Biden. But Igot to tell you after that speech sort
of putting Democrats on notice that theywere not beholden to one party. We'll
see what happens if they're there atall, and if they endorse anybody.

(01:17:59):
Okay, we're going to take avery quick time out. When we get
back, I want to talk aboutthe move this week to do two things.
Number One, tie significantly bad outcomesto the policies of the Democrats and
a continuing effort to humanize Donald Trump. Again, Thank you so much to
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(01:18:25):
you just starn't right. Rockymountain Voicedot com, thanks for sending us to
the RNC. This has been amazing. Now, one of the things that's
been pretty consistent throughout this event isthat speaker after speaker has taken to the
podium to tell very personal stories abouttheir experiences one on one with Donald Trump,
try to give us a feel forthe man behind the caricature. And

(01:18:46):
I got to tell you, Ithink it was very very effective. Now,
people who really hate Trump are notgoing to be moved or swayed by
this, But for an average voterwho doesn't really pay attention, I think
some of this is going to cutthrough. We'll see. I doubt that
the mainstream media is showing it,but there's a lot of these cuts flying
around social media. And one ofthe best was his daughter in law,

(01:19:10):
Laura Trump. She's the co chairof the RNC. She was the keynote
speaker the first night of the conventionand She started out her speech by talking
about what happened last Saturday while shewatched television and watched her father in law
get shot. Well, it maynot be a surprise that I actually had
a very different speech that I wasprepared to give up here tonight. That

(01:19:32):
all changed at six' eleven onSaturday evening. Nothing prepares you for a
moment like that. Our family hasfaced our fair share of death threats,
mysterious powders sent to our homes,tasteless and violent comments directed towards us on

(01:19:53):
social media. But none of thatprepares you, as a daughter in law,
to watch in real time someone triedto kill a person you love.
None of that prepares you, asa mother to quickly reach for the remote
and turn your young children away fromthe screen so that they're not witnessed to

(01:20:15):
something that scars the memory of theirgrandpa for the rest of their lives.
The prayers and well wishes we've receivedover the last seventy two hours have been
overwhelming, to say the least,and my heart goes out to the family

(01:20:38):
who lost a husband and a fatherbecause of this senseless act. All of
you here tonight and watching at homemean the world to all of us in
the Trump family. If Donald Trumphas shown us anything it's that when it

(01:21:00):
feels impossible to keep going, thoseare the times we must keep going.
Those were just part of her commentstalking about her father in law, how
important he is, what kind ofgrandpa he is. It was definitely a
different tone and tenor than what we'veheard before about Donald Trump. But he
wasn't the only one. Now,I thought the rising stars of this convention,

(01:21:21):
Sarah Huckabye Sanders has to be inthat conversation because she gave an absolutely
fantastic speech that served a big purpose, and that is to remind people who
who have been running around since Saturdaytalking about how basically Donald Trump being shot
is his own fault because of thekind of rhetoric he's been engaged in in
the past. Sarah huckeby Standers tookto the stage to remind us that it

(01:21:45):
hasn't always just been Donald Trump doingmean things. This is what she had
to say, and in that role, I endured relentless attacks from the left.
I was insulted as a guest atthe White House correspondence dinner, my
family was denied service and kicked outof a restaurant and a parent at my

(01:22:15):
three year old son's preschool spit onmy car. And in those moments,
it was President Trump who defended me. And when an MSNBC host, the
author of several books on empowering women, said I was unfit to be a
mother, and another MSNBC host saidI was vile, not even human,

(01:22:44):
and that I should be choked,MSNBC again did nothing, but our President
pulled me aside, looked me inthe eye and said, Sarah, you're
smart, you're beautiful, you're tough, and they attack you because you're good

(01:23:05):
at your job. Never let themstop fighting. And that was Sara Huckabee
Sanders, and I think her speechwas very very effective in that she did
live through all of those things thatshe just explained. As Laura Trump talked
about the sort of threats and vilerhetoric that they have been subjected to.
This is a really interesting way toreframe the conversation that we're having right now,

(01:23:28):
not just about who's responsible for thecurrent climate, but to dispel the
notion that somehow it is only peopleon the right that are rude or nasty
or all of those things. Ihave to say, I was very impressed,
and I said this at the beginningof the show or at the beginning
of the hour. I was superimpressed this entire week at the discipline that
the Republican Party showed. And Idon't know if there was someone behind the

(01:23:50):
scenes, like vetting these speeches beforethey were made. I don't know if
somebody said, run this copy byyou, but the consistency was really really
good. And when you have peoplelike Sarah Huckaby Sanders and Laura Trump coming
out to explain exactly what it's liketo be a high profile Republican and deal
with the kind of hate that they'vehad to deal with on the left,

(01:24:11):
it's it's kind of narrative changing.I guess that's the way I'm looking at
it. And that's one of thethings that I think the Republican Party has
done really well this week. They'vechanged the narrative in such a way that
the Democratic Party has no choice butto respond somehow at their convention in a
month. And as a rod andare going to be at that convention as

(01:24:32):
well, I'm really interested to hearwhat their overarching theme is. And I
mean, you know, we foundout yesterday the president has COVID again and
now has been canceling events. Oneof the things that I heard yesterday from
a few of the delegates is whata contrast between President Biden getting COVID where
he says he has very mild symptomsbut he has COVID and then canceling speeches

(01:24:57):
and Donald Trump gets shot on Saturdayand he's at the RN every single day.
It's quite the contrast and not agood one for the Biden campaign.
So I'm interested to see how thisis different. But when we get back,
we've got sound bites from some ofthe regular everyday people that spoke at
the convention, and I think theywere some of the best speeches out there.
We're going to dip our toes intothat when we get back. Keep

(01:25:19):
it right here on KOA. Thanksto our friends at Rockymountain Voice dot com
for sponsoring our coverage. You cancheck out all the coverage Right Leaning Perspective
in Colorado Rocky Mountain Voice dot com. We'll be right back. This is
kind of our wrap up of theweek, and there were some just fantastic
speeches, but some of the bestwere by what the campaign referred to as

(01:25:40):
everyday Americans, and one of themost gut wrenching was from a woman named
Madeline brain Her son, who servedhonorably in the military, served in combat,
came back only to be stabbed inNew York City. Listen to what
she had to say after da AlvinBragg, the same who spent millions of
dollars in resources prosecuting Donald Trump,decided to let her son's killers walk.

(01:26:06):
Listen to what she had to say. The Democratic Party that poor minorities have
been loyalty for decades, including myself. All right, they portrayed us,
They stabbed us in the back.Joe Biden and Pamala Harris, who claimed

(01:26:29):
to represent us, have abandoned us. They neglected the poor minorities communities across
America. But mine eyes have beenopen, just like just like so many

(01:26:55):
of them poor minorities across the America. Donald Trump, sheff our values,
love of God and family and country. He's been a victim of the same
corrupt system that I have been andmy family has been. That was Madeline

(01:27:21):
Brayman. We actually had a chanceto interview her. She was on the
media floor and we grabbed some commentswith her. You can see those on
our social media platforms. The videoof that and her comment to me,
which was so heartbreaking. I askedher, I said, was your son
killed before or after the Black LivesMatter movement? And she said, my
son was killed in twenty eighteen beforethe Black Lives Matter movement, And one

(01:27:44):
of the das in Alvin Bragg's officetold her that her issue was her son
just got killed at the wrong time. And when she said that, it
made me physically ill, absolutely physicallyill. But what a powerful statement from
a black woman at the Republican Nationalcan But that wasn't the only person to
talk that was negatively impacted by JoeBiden's policies. They showed an absolutely gut

(01:28:09):
wrenching video focusing on the service memberswho were killed during the withdrawal from Afghanistan,
and family after family pointed out thatthe experience of meeting Joe Biden was
less than satisfactory and that apparently JoeBiden and Kamala Harris have never even said
the names of the service members whowere killed. Plus Joe Biden said not

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too long ago that no service membershave died during his administration. These families
took it personally and the mother ofSergeant Nicole G got up on stage to
talk about when she met Donald Trump, who came to their home for six
hours to sit with the family,and this is what she had to say.
I had expected to meet an arrogantpolitician. Instead, I met a

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man who had empathy for us.He was passionate, and he spent time
with us because he knew it wouldmake us feel better. Thank you,
President Trump. That was Nicole G'smom, and then her aunt took to
the stage to continue the conversation.Joe Biden said, the withdrawal from Afghanistan

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was an extraordinary success, an extraordinarysuccess. Look at our faces, look
at our pain and our heartbreak,and look at our rage. That was

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not an extraordinary success. The humiliationof our nation was not an extraordinary success.
Joe Biden may have forgotten that ourchildren died, but we have not

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forgotten. Donald Trump has not forgotten. And that really sort of outlined the
differences. It was shocking when theysaid that the names of these service members
had never been said. That wholeentire segment with the gold Star families was
absolutely gut wrenching. There were alot of people crying in the audience.

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It was really, really dramatic andif you want to continue the conversation.
One of the biggest rounds of applauselast night was kind of surprising. It
came for Peter Navarro. Peter Navarrois an advisor to President Trump who was
subpoenaed by Congress and decided that histestimony would be covered by executive privilege like

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many people have done. But Congressand the January sixth Committee decided to hold
Peter Navarro in contempt of Congress.And unlike Eric Holder, who was not
prosecuted by the Department of Justice forhis contempt of Congress charge, Peter Navarro
was prosecuted. And yesterday, yesterday, he walked out of a jail in

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Miami after serving a four month sentence. Flew to the Republican National Convention on
the same day he got out ofprison, and when he walked out on
stage, the crowd went absolutely insane. Everybody knew who he was. It
was kind of a moment. Canyou imagine I can't imagine. First of
all, I can't imagine walking outof prison. Let's just start with that,

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okay, But can you imagine gettingout of prison like going through the
whole process. You get your suitback. You know, you don't have
to wear your orange jumpsuit or whateverthey wear in the federal prison in Miami.
You get to walk out of theprison. I'm sure there was a
car waiting for him. They tookhim right to the airport. Probably a
private jet zipped him from Miami toMilwaukee. And all of a sudden,
he's standing in front of an adoringcrowd where everyone is screaming because they know

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he was unjustly prosecuted. And Idon't care how you feel about Donald Trump.
You only have to look back atwhat happened or didn't happen than to
Eric Holder, who was declared incontempt of Congress for not showing up to
talk about selling arms to drug dealersin Mexico. And compare that to four
months in prison on a misdemeanor chargefor Peter Navarro. This is what he

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had to say this Indeed, thismorning, I did walk out of federal
prison in Miami. Joe Biden andhis Department of Injustice put me there tonight.
I'm here with you in this beautifulcity in Milwaukee. I got a

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very simple message for you. Ifthey can come for me. If they
can come for Donald Trump, becareful, they will come for you.
If we don't control our government,their government will control us. That was

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an all ongoing theme of the night, and not just the night, but
the entire convention. Donald Trump said, I don't even know when he said
it, but I heard it somany times this week that I should know.
He said, at some point,they hate you. I am just
standing in the way some variation ofthat, and that was repeated over and
over and over again, like yourgovernment despises you, and the only thing

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standing in the way between that governmentapparatus and you and your safety and your
family's safety is Donald J. Trump. So that comment was made over and
over and over again. And frankly, I'm not necessarily I don't necessarily think
it's wrong because Peter Navarro's right.If they can do that to him,
then what can they do to everyoneelse? And we've seen it happen with

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the January sixth defendants who have seenridiculously long prison sentences for what they did,
and the way that the Department ofJustice is continuing to go after the
people who protested on January sixth,whether or not they did anything bad or
not. So it was a greatspeech. I was shocked at how much
the crowd went crazy for Peter Navarro. They cheered for a solid minute when

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he came out on stage. Itwas quite the moment, and the rest
of his speech is great too.You should check that out. By the
way, I'm going to give alittle shout out to PBS News Hour on
YouTube because they have every speech,unbroken, embeded on their YouTube page.
So if you missed any of thesespeeches and you want to see these speeches,
you can go and find them.They did a great job with it.

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They're probably the best. So that'swho I've been using for the past
few days. If you want towatch any of these speeches, that's where
I would go. PBS News Houron YouTube. Now, there was another
young man who took to the stageto talk about what has become a huge
issue for the Democratic Party, andthat is it's anti Semitic wing. There's
no other way to put it.There is a chunk of the Democratic Party

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that is anti Semitic. Shabaz Kestenbaumis a student at Harvard or I'm not
sure he's still a student at Harvard, but he was a student at Harvard,
and he's currently part of the lawsuitagainst Harvard for not protecting Jewish students,
for allowing anti semitism to flourish oncampus, to allow these students to
be harassed and yelled at and reallybe made to feel unsafe on Harvard's campus.

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He gave a scorcher of a speechlast night, and this is just
part of it, my fellow Americans. The anti Semitic bigotry unfortunately extends far
beyond the universities. Although I oncevoted for Bernie Sanders, I now recognize
that the far left has not onlyabandoned the Jewish people, but the American

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people. The Democratic Party, theparty I registered to vote for the day
I turned eighteen, has become ideologicallypoisoned. And it is this poison,
it is this corrupt that is infectingfar too many young American students. Let's

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be clear, the far left,anti Semitic extremism has no virtue, and
the radicalism on our campuses and onour streets has no moral legitimacy. You
know. Unfortunately, the Democratic Partyis going to have to come up with
a response to the anti Semitic wingof their party. And it is significant

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that was something that this young mantalked about at length about his experiences on
Harvard's campus and how college campuses arenot teaching kids what to think or how
to think. They're teaching them whatto think, and often they're teaching them
that people of faith are terrible.It was a great speech, but the
big news of last night was thatjd Vance, who was a young man

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thirty nine years old, came toaccept his nomination as vice president. And
I've got to tell you, Ihave seen a lot of political speeches.
And I was texting with a friendof mine who is a liberal. Okay,
she is a liberal, and shenever watches this stuff, and she
said, let me know what he'scoming on. I text her and said,
he's coming on right now. Soshe was texting with me about his

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speech as it was happening. Andshe didn't have everything in the speech because
some of the policy things she didn'tlike. But she said, I've never
been able to watch political speeches becauseI find politicians so boring. But this
guy is really good. And notonly was he good, he was relaxed.
He looked comfortable, and I couldn'thelp but think we may be seeing
like the generational torch be passed.And this speech last night, Now,

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I thought yesterday and I knew thatthis is what was going to happen,
is that JD. Vance was goingto kind of lean into his story because
he's on the ticket to talk tothose sane people that Doug O'Brien was talking
about. He's talking about the peoplethat have been left behind in our economy.
And he started out by giving usa little window into the world of

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the woman who raised him, andthat's his mamma. This is what he
started with. In my life,I had a guardian angel by my side.
She was an old woman who couldbarely walk, but she was tough
as nails. I called her Mamma, the name we Hillbillies gave to our
grandmother's. Mamma raised me as herown. Excuse me, Mamma raised me

(01:38:19):
as my mother struggled with addiction.And Mamma was in so many ways a
woman of contradiction. She loved thelord, ladies and gentlemen. She was
a woman of very deep Christian faith, but she also loved the F word.

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I'm not kidding. She could makea sailor blush. She once told
me when she found out that Iwas spending too much time with a local
kid who was known for dealing drugs. That if I ever hung out with
that kid again, she would runhim over with her car. That's true,

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and she said, JD. Noone will ever find out about it.
That was a little bit of hisbackstory. But ultimately JD. Vance
is going to be the guy whogoes to talk to the people in the
rust Belt. We learned that forsure last night because Aron, how many
times did he name check the swingstates in the rust Belt. I mean,
we heard about Michigan, we heardabout Pennsylvania, we heard about Ohio.

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And what was funny is when hecame out on stage, the Ohio
contingent started doing their ohioh chant thatpeople from Ohio do. And as a
spouse of someone from Ohio, Ican tell you that that's just a spontaneous
thing. Chuck breaks into on acap. No, I'm just kidding,
he doesn't actually do that. Buthe looked at the Ohio contingent and said,
hey, enough, Ohio love,we still have to win Michigan,

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which was absolutely well received. Thecrowd ate his speech up, by the
way, absolutely ate it up.But he got right to right down to
it talking about and I want youto listen to this particular clip, because
what we saw in this Republican NationalConvention was a significant shift in party identities.
Right. We talked about it earlyin the show that it's almost like

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the parties are changing places. Andthis is what jd. Vance wanted the
crowd to know about the priorities ofthe new Republican Party. My fellow Americans
here in this stage and watching athome, this moment is not about me.
It's about all of us. Butit's about who we're fighting for.
It's about the autoworker in Michigan wonderingwhy out of touch politicians are destroying their

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jobs. It's about the factory workerin Wisconsin who makes things with their hands
and is proud of American craftsmanship.It's about the energy worker in Pennsylvania and
Ohio who doesn't understand why Joe Bidenis willing to buy energy from tinpot dictators

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across the world when he could buyit from his own citizens right here in
our own country. So obviously,the big shift is that we're for the
little guy. But what's interesting is, instead of being demonizing to corporations,
the Republicans have been very, verycareful to point out how government actually gets
in the way, how government makeslabor worse, how government edicts are actually

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hurting the American worker. Now,I got to tell you my favorite favorite
thing from his speech last night wasa second story about mamma and I did
you look at the at the telepromptera rod to see if it stopped.
I don't know if this was offthe cuff or if this was in his
speech, but I laughed so hardbecause I know people just like his mamma

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that would do exactly this thing.While we're on the topic of grandparents,
let me tell you another mammal story. And my mamma died shortly before I
left for Iraq in two thousand andfive, and when we went through things,
we found nineteen loaded handguns. Theywere now the thing is, they

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were stashed all over her house,under her bed, in her closet,
in the silverware drawer, and wewondered what was going on. And it
occurred to us that towards the endof her life, Mamma couldn't get around
so well. And so this frailold woman made sure that no matter where
she was, she was with anarm's length of whatever she needed to protect
her family. That's who we fightfor. That's American spirit. Now here

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you've got on this ticket. Nowyou have Donald Trump, a man who
was born into relative privilege, whohas made a lot of money, but
started from a position of privilege.And now his running mate is jd Vance,
who's talking about his mamma, usingthe F word and threatening to run
a drug dealing kid over with hercar so nobody would find out. This

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kind of stuff is exactly designed totalk to those people that the Republican Party
is now courting because the Democratic Partyhas left them behind. What's been interesting
is that this message of populism,this message of economic opportunity for everyone,
no matter where you start, nomatter who you are, has been extremely
well received by the very well healedRepublican delegates who are at this convention.

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You got to be real, youguys. It costs a good chunk of
money to participate in a national convention. They have to pay their own way,
they have to pay their hotel,they have to pay all of their
own expenses. So this is nota crowd of people in the lower classes.
But they have absolutely loved the messagethat America is the opportunity, the
land of opportunity for everybody, andthey have been extremely supportive of the comments

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that have been made. Jade Vancewent on to talk about the future in
a really aspirational way. We've heardabout villains and their victims. I've talked
a lot about that, but letme tell you about the future. President
Trump's vision is so so simple andyet so powerful. We're done ladies and
gentlemen catering to Wall Street. We'llcommit to the workingman. We're done importing

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foreign labor. We're gonna fight forAmerican citizens and their good jobs and they're
good wages. We're done by anenergy from countries that hate us. We're
gonna get it right here from Americanworkers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and across the

(01:44:39):
country. We're done sacrificing supply chainsto unlimited global trade, and we're gonna
stamp more and more products with thatbeautiful label made in the USA. The
speech was absolutely fantastic. And Ihaven't even talked about jd Vance's wife.

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Her name is Usha. She isof Indian descent. She's an attorney.
He talked last night about when hegot together with her he went from a
meet or. She talked about thefact he went from a meat and potatoes
guy to adopting her vegetarian lifestyle andeven learning from her parents how to cook
Indian food. I love everything abouttheir story. And tonight is the big
night. Tonight is the night thatDonald Trump is going to accept the nomination.

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I am like everyone else here,I am excited to see this speech.
I'm excited to see if the perceivedchange in his own demeanor that we've
seen this week. He's been very, very mellow, I guess is the
word very. He's been very grateful. People say nice things about him on
the stage, and you see himmouthing thank you, thank you. He's

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been downright humble. So what dowe expect from the speech tonight. I
don't know, and I think thatis why it's going to be probably one
of the most watched speeches at aDemocrat or any convention in a very long
time. To be back tomorrow,Arod and are flying home tonight, So
we'll be live tomorrow from the studioand we'll talk all about the speech.
We'll also have some cuts from thespeech. But man, what a great

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