Trump & Penn / Osborn & Money

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez. Apparently Pennsylvania is having all the fun. All
the candidates are always camped out in Pennsylvania all the time.
And I was thinking about this last night as I
was enjoying the tweets from my friend Chris Degalls. We
were both watching the Al Smith Dinner Well I guess
squad ranual event in New York City. It's a big

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fundraiser for Catholic charities, and in an election year, the
presidential candidates always go. Kamala Harris skipped it. Trump was
there last night.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Pleasure to be with you this evening, amazing pleasure, and
these days it's really a pleasure anywhere in New York
without a subpoena for my appearance.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
He said, you know, I'm supposed to make some self
deprecating jokes this evening, But why would I take shots
at myself when everyone else has been shooting at me.
My favorite line last night was Tim Walls isn't even here.
Don't worry, He'll say he was. So I was enjoying
some of the wheats about it by Christigal. He's on
Philadelphia's nine to ninety The Answer and joins us now

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on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Good morning, Chris, my brother,
it is a real.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Pleasure to speak with you. Hang on this a second.
I'm still entering to win that thousand dollars because I'm
in radio and I could use a BSA m Okay, bad.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Morning at kfab dot com. That's right, and good luck
from news radio eleven ten KFAB and good morning from me,
Scott e V. Thanks a lot for hanging out here
this morning. First of all, what were you, uh? What
did you think about Trump's speech last night? The lines
were good. I thought that it went on way too
long and got into campaign rally mode, which I was

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especially fell with Cringey because he's taken there Chuck Schumer
sitting right there, all these New York officials, and he
noted last night, half the people in this room hate
my guts.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah. And then and then, in classic Trump form, pulled
back and said, well.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
You like me, right?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Trump is what I You know what I love about Trump?
Did you see when he was giving his first remarks
after the second guy was caught that was going to
try to assassinate him. He's describing the scene and this
is just such classic Trump. He says, as he's talking
about the assassin hiding out in his very lush bushes.
It's just, you know, only Trump can describe an assassin's

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hiding place in a complimentary way to his course, very
lush bushes.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I didn't note that because I was waiting for him,
and he did pay it off on you, because I
knew he was going to say, like I was lining
up a birdie putt, and that's exactly what he said,
because of course he was.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's just the joke that I'm not going to be
able to tell self deprecating jokes is exactly perfect. Actually,
I don't know who wrote the jokes. They were well written,
I must say.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think you'd agree, yes, I mean some of them
were were tough. I mean the Doug m Hoff extra
Maaritila affair came up.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Was in all truth, though, Scott, like I feel like,
and I don't know if you share this point of
view to me, the man literally has been you know,
nearly killed, it's and jailed, and he's you know, he's
home raided. And for me anyway, I kind of saw

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that as his moment and I didn't mind him taking it.
To be perfectly honest, he was far more deferential and
decent to most of those people than I would have been.
I mean to think that you're up on a dais
with the woman who's been trying to throw you in jail,
you know, like that's I don't think many of us
can consider what that must be like to try to
befriend and be kind and be nice to people that

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literally want to see you destroyed and jail. That's a
tough thing, right.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well, if he can go up there with a smile
on his face and just treat it like, Hey, this
doesn't bother me. But he doesn't quite have that. He's
he's got to have incredibly thick skin, yet at the
same time sometimes it seems a little thin. But you know,
that's part of the humanity that surrounds who this guy is.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I thought it was interesting last night. I thought what
was especially interesting was that Jim Gaffagin, who is a
comedian and a Catholic. He's performed for the Pope and
so he's also been playing Governor Tim Walls on Saturday
Night Live. But gaff again went off. I think this
was in twenty twenty. He just started unleashing horrible tweets

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about Trump and he's the worst thing ever. And I'm like,
I don't care. If you're not going to vote for him,
at least if you're going to take shots, at least
make him funny. I mean, gaffigin hates Trump, but he
sat there last night with a smile on his face
and he didn't get you know, the barbs by gaff
again last night weren't really all that that's that awful,
which I was surprised by.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, Gaffigan kind of softened it. And in fact, I
was delighted to see Gaffigan actually take shot at his
own party, and I didn't know he was capable of
doing that. And in fact, he even admitted, he goes,
you know, it's tough being in this position. He goes,
you know, if I'm tough on the Democrats, you know,
I'll lose a bunch of friends. And if I'm tough

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on Republicans. I wanted to say, I'll get more work.
I'll lose other friends, but I'll get more work or
something like that. You know, I appreciated that acknowledgment, at
least that he gave up the ghost of game. We
all understand what the game is, and you know, it's
Gaffigan's one of those guys that he didn't have to
get that lunatic. But there's something about this particular guy

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that can turn the guy that's doing hot pockets jokes
into a raving lunatic.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
And I don't pocket.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
I don't get it, Scott. I really don't get how
you cash in your career to go in hard on
half of the electric I've never understood that.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, and I don't like I said, I don't care
as long as you're gonna make them funny.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I come to Jim Gaffigan for comedy anyway. I come
to you this morning, Christa Gall from nine to ninety
the answer and philled it. What was the question?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
By the way, it's really sort of an eternal question?
Is there ever really an answer?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yes, well there is. It's on nine ninety AM and
Philly and Christa Gall is your morning show host and
with us here for a few more minutes on eleven
ten KFB. Yes for now. Yeah, that's we're all currently
Soros free for now. I don't know about you, my friend,
but when George Soros buys our radio station and says

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and says, you guys have to be all in for Kamala.
I'll tell you what. I'll be your biggest cheerleader because
my kids need to eat.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah. No, me too. We're gonna have to start our
own new I don't know, internet based company or something.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, I'll just sit here and I'll promote how great
Kamala Harris is. My kids need to eat. I don't
have any other skills. You know, I've got to do
this golf.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
You play a great round of golf, maybe before in Trump.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, my kids would not eat if my golf needed
to put food in their mouths. So all the presidential
contenders are in Pennsylvania. What does Pennsylvania want? So it
seems like this presidential election is going to twist and
turn on the whims of your state. What do you
people want.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Philadelphia? And I will tell you that I can't. Philadelphians
do not like you to pretend that you speak for
them if you're not one of them. So I always
am careful caveat. I don't represent the Philadelphians in like
you know, there are hardcore needs and wants, but I
think I've studied them long enough to know that. The
interesting thing about majority black Philadelphia, By the way, a

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lot of people don't know that, but at the four
million some populace, it's a majority black city. And what
really alarms Democrats right now is there, as you've heard,
there is a trend it seems, with black men away
from the Harris ticket and toward Trump. And there's a
trend away from the lower socio and I'm at groups
away from Democrats to Republicans. There's a terrible fear. And

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there's been some write ups in Politico from the Harris
people and a lot of finger pointing now that at
a minimum, they don't have the base of support excited
to vote for her that they did. And Joe Biden,
Joe Biden is like Pennsylvania's third senator, you know, he
comes back to Pennsylvania Lands and goes to rohol with
and his beach houses every other week, and he's constantly

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in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania's grant and Joe that whole business.
So he had union support and local support. She does not.
She has none of that. And there seems to be
a lot of disorganization and dispassionate feelings about her, and
there's a real thought that she's going to lose Pennsylvania
because of it, she's not connecting well.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
There are a lot of people who say, no, wait
a second. I'm born and raised here. I'm doing the
best I can raising my kids here. I go to
work and I just try and work hard and make
a living. Meanwhile, I see tens of thousands of migrants
in this country under some sort of temporary status, and
they're brought into my community. They're given housing, in many instances,

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much better housing than I can afford. People are working
to provide them jobs. They've got phones, and as far
as everything from health, they go to the emergency room
if they have the sniffles. The kids are in school,
Our public safety resources are stretched to the limit, and
you know what, this doesn't seem fair. I want to

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give people a good shot, but it seems like someone
ignored me here along the way. There's a lot of
Americans feeling that way, aren't there?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh my gosh. Yes. And if you go out in
you go outside Philadelphia and the collar counties of Philadelphia,
that's where you really start to see it. I don't know.
If you read the work of Selena Zito, she spends
a lot of her time in western Pennsylvania. She famously
travels through the small towns and communities of working class
Pennsylvanian reports back in my recent conversation with her, that's
exactly what she said everything you just laid out, And

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then she also confirmed that this feels very similar to
twenty sixteen to her in that there was a total
lack of connectivity. It's not even necessarily an overly enthusiastic
Trump support necessarily, although that's there. It's that Hillary Clinton
was so inauthentic and so couldn't understand the needs of

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those working class people you just mentioned. And now there's
something even worse, if you can believe it, about Kamala Harris.
She not only doesn't connect, but she comes across as
completely phony, and there's really no evidence that she even
deserves to be here running for office right now. And
you take those three elements with people that are out
there busting their humps every day, it doesn't appear to

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be selling. I can't predict, I wouldn't dare, but this
has all the hallmarks of some kind of really really
big landslide kind of Trump victory. But I wouldn't put
my money on it, but it feels that way.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, we have been completely ignored here in Nebraska. Governor
Walls is coming back to his home state here, and
then we've got RFK Junior and Taulsey Gabbard here. Over
the weekend. You at Elon Musk camping out in Philadelphia
yesterday doing a rally and support of Trump. What's your
read on Elon Musk?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Really curious guy. I had some great calls today. In fact,
I had a call from a guy and I talked
with him at links. He was an RFK Junior supporter
and was eager to get to see Elon. He's a
computer science guy by training, and so he wanted to
hear what Elon had to say. And I asked him,
you know, what his connection was to RFK Junior and
what he thought about Elon, and he loved it. Thought
he was interesting. Hard to take away from him that

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he you know this from SpaceX to Tesla, you know,
to the satellite communications system that he said of Starlink.
The guy is, you know, he's like a modern day
Thomas Edison that we're watching, and I think everybody sees it,
and particularly people that are you know, into that, who
were maybe a political before. Now he's decided to engage

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and people want to hear what he has to say,
and he's packing arenas all over Pennsylvania to do it.
Seventy five million dollars of his own he's pouring into
a Trump pack. I mean, this is a guy that's
he's leading a renaissance, and he's saying, I can't continue
to do this if government continues to trend the way
it is. And so he feels passionate enough to engage
and spend dollars And I don't know him. And as

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you say, RFK Junior Tulci getting involved, they're getting ears
that Republicans typically wouldn't listen to. The real question to
me is can the Republican Party hang on to these
alternative voices that would never have looked at them before
once Trump's gone, whether that means after a term of
Trump or you know he uses, will they ever get

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it back again?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah? I don't know who that next person is who's
going to engage the same people he's engaged who traditionally
have not felt like they've been part of the establishment
Republican Party. But this I couldn't have predicted this Trump
era of politics. Who knows what happens next. All I
know is they keep saying that whoever wins Pennsylvania wins

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the White House. And just to make things even more odd,
your Senator John Fetterman's been making a lot of sense
here recently. I don't know what to think anymore other
than Chris. I always enjoy talking with you. Chris Degaull
his Morning's on nine to ninety the Answer out of Philadelphia,
and Chris, good luck here in the next couple of
weeks two and a half weeks, and we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm going to have you on my show to explain
what the heck that little blue dot is in the
middle of Nebraska. Soon.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, we've got the blue dot and you'll have to
look for the Trump sign. There's a red dot with
kind of a yellowish Trump hair. That is pac Man
after the blue dots. That's a popular sign around town
right now. It's good stuff.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Get this email from Chris so Scott. I certainly hope
that nobody believes Dan Osborne, whin that recent ad talking
about how he'll fight like hell to secure the border.
He's a Democrat who can't call himself a Democrat because
he knows it's toxic in Nebraska. If he gets a lot,

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we're stuck with him for six years and you can
just watch the border dissolve, just like always. That's the
assessment from Chris emailing via the Zonkers custom Woods inbox
at scottikfab dot com. There are a couple of things well,
and I'll say I talked to Dan Osborne. I talked
with him a couple of times here this election cycle,

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when he got into the race. I talked with him
when he was leading the charge there picketing against Kellogg's
here in Omaha, trying to get his workers, you know,
a fair deal and all the rest of his stuff.
Kelloggs finally gave in, and then first chance they got
announced we're leaving Omaha. We're gonna shut down the Kellogg's

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plant in Omaha. There will be no more jobs for
these guys in Omaha. And I'm like, you know, does
dan Osborne? You don't hear that? You don't hear dan
Osborne stood up to Kellogg's and got his workers more.
Then kellogg said, you're all fired. We're leaving now. You
can move to Battlecreek, Michigan or wherever. Maybe have a
job here, but we're leaving Omaha. Kellogg's is leaving Omaha,

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and it seems to me Dan Osborne has a lot
to do with that. You don't hear about that in
this campaign from either side. I'll say this about Dan
He's a good dude. I mean, I like talking to him.
He's got some thoughts that are pretty well established conservative thoughts.
He's certainly got some thoughts that I think are much

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more liberal. The question I have is who's voting for him?
If these polls keep coming out saying, oh, yeah, Dan
Osborne neck and neck, he's either a head of deb Fisher,
he's just behind, or it's dead heat and all the
rest of this stuff. I think I'd tend to believe
that more if I could wrap my head around who's

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voting for him. And the reason I say that is
because the Fisher Osborne race is not the only Senate
race in Nebraska. Because of how everything is shaking out
here with Ben Sas leaving and then Ricketts was appointed,
and then we had the special election. Now we've got
this to fill out the rest of the term. You've
got Ricketts against Preston Love Junior. Preston Love Junior is

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a Democrat. Preston Love Junior has virtually no support in
this election. You never hear, oh yeah, Preston Love Junior
really gaining on Pete Ricketts in this race. Now you've
got the same dynamic. You've got an established Republican senator

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in Nebraska running for reelection, Pete Ricketts deb Fisher. Yet
you've got one who has the full support of all
the blue dot people mean the state Democrat Party, all
the good Democrats throughout not just Nebraska Second District with
the Blue Dots, but also the Democrats across the state,
which frankly there aren't very many when you get outside

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Omahon Lincoln. But you've still got all the Democrats polling
Forston Love Jor against Pete Ricketts. And Preston, God love him,
he has got no chance.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yet.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Dan Osborne, if all the polling and details are to
be believed, is going to either give deb Fisher a
run for her money or a beater. Now this would
only be if every Democrat votes for dan Osborne. Well

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that could be the case. But if every Democrats voting
for dan Osborne, then you would also see Preston Love
Junior right there on the heels of Pete Ricketts or
ahead of him like we see in the Osborne Fisher rays,
which then it would have to mean that there are
people who are so disillusioned with Deb Fisher that they're
either not going to vote for her or they're going

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to vote for Dan Osborne instead. Now, what has made
Deb Fisher such a bad Republican that there are those
who say, well, I've got two votes in front of
me here for US Senate out of Nebraska, Rickets and Fisher.
I'm gonna vote for Ricketts, but not Fisher. I'm not

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hearing that much of a division between people, like yep
for Ricketts, Nope, for Fisher. I'm not hearing it.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Now.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
It could be quite possible that no one's checking with
me about anything. But you know, I get these emails.
We've been talking about this for a very long time.
I've just not seen it here. I don't know. Then
you look at this and I just saw the still
have the inbox open, Gena emails and says and I

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noticed that Dan Osborne has a new accent in his ads. Yeah,
I noticed that too. In his latest commercials, dan Osborne
seems to have a bit of an accent, kind of
folksy pandering, just like that's what Gina says. But when
I look at the contributions in this Senate race between
Dan Osborne and dev Fisher, both of them clearly have

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more out of state donations than in state. When you're
a city and US senator and you've got the National
Republican Party, especially if they see that this is a
race that they could lose, you're going to have the
Republican Party fueling a bunch of money into the Nebraska
Senate race. So Dev Fisher is enjoying that her out

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of state campaign contributions are north of two point six
million dollars. Now in the state of Nebraska, those who
have donated to her campaign is just shy of a
million dollars, so million bucks here in Nebraska, solid two
point six from out of state. That's a lot of money. Clearly,

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the Republican Party thinks deb Fisher is vulnerable in this
race and the want her to win. Now, what about
Dan Osborne. He's got a lot more out of state
contributions from who It's not the Republican Party giving him
this money, is it the National Independent Party giving him
all this money? One point four million dollars for Dan Osborne,

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but almost almost a million and a half dollars for
Dan Osborne from outside the state of Nebraska to his
Senate race campaign here in Nebraska. As far as the
in state donations only, Like I said, Deb Fisher had
about a million bucks from the people of Nebraska to
her campaign, and in Nebraska, Dan Osborne has got not

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even one hundred and forty thousand dollars in in state donations.
I thought he had all the union support here in Nebraska.
He just had the big union boss here to campaign
for him here. And that's a big reliable demokrat block.
So who are these out of state people. Where are

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the majority of these campaign contributions coming from. Well, when
it looks at dev Fisher, when you look at dev Fisher,
her top three places that she's getting campaign contributions first
of all from Omaha. North of four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars have come from Omaha. And then you've got
four hundred and sixteen thousand dollars from Washington, DC. This

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is the National Republican Party propping her up in this campaign.
And then you've got over two hundred thousand dollars that
have come from Lincoln. Top three for Dan Osborne one
hundred and twelve thousand dollars from San Francisco, one hundred
and seven thousand dollars from Boston, ninety thousand dollars from Omaha.

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Dev Fisher got four hundred and fifty five thousand dollars
from Omaha. So far, dan Osborne's got ninety thousand dollars
from Omaha and he's in Omaha. Guy, where's the outstate
support for Dan Osborne coming from? When Deb Fisher is
a third district former state senator, then you got money
coming from Los Angeles and New York for Dan Osborne's campaign.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
It's just.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's interesting, it seems to me because Dan Osborne was
on that call. This is the call. We talked about
this a couple of weeks ago when he said that
Deb Fisher's staff members were all Hitler youth. And I
went off about that, How what an awful misrepresentation of
her campaign staff members, many of whom I either know

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or I've seen or I've worked with or heard great
stories about. And he said, oh, yeah, the Hitler youth.
Why because a lot of them are you know, young
Republican guys. That means you're Hitler youth you're gonna sit
here in an advertisement and say, oh yeah, I'm an
old school in the Bread conservative, but those young Republicans
are Hitler youth. I have a hard time believing that

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when he's on there asking New York Democrats to donate
to his campaign. It was on that call when he
called Fisher's people the Hitler youth that let's say he
gets elected, who's he going to caucus with independence? Traditionally
caucus with the Democrats. You're telling me they're going to

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fund his campaign and then that be just fine with
him saying, oh yeah, I'm a Nebraska Conservative. Uh be independent,
but I'll caucus with the Republicans. The money suggests otherwise.
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