November 4, 2024 • 30 mins
Is there any chance we could cast ballots in this election that aren't marinated in anger and spite? Lucy and I talk about that, what happens when you try to swat away spam political texts, and check in with Sen. Grassley on this shock presidential poll out of Iowa.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorgies. I feel a little off today, and I
can they tell you exactly why that is. And it's
the biggest, whiniest, stupidest thing that anyone could ever admit to,
and I shouldn't even say anything about it. But since
holding my tongue has never been my strong suit, it's
nothing to do with the time change. I feel good
about the time change. I actually don't mind. I mean,
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I was doing that in the summer anyway, like, well,
it's a quarter to six, I'm gonna go ahead and
put my pajamas on and start easing towards bedtime. You know,
you do that in July and people think that you
have a problem, But you do that after the time
change when it's dark outside, and it says, it's fine,
it's just how it is. So I was doing that anyway.
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It's not the time change. It's it's something really, really dumb.
Today's my birthday. I don't have a problem getting older.
I wish that I was seventy years old today, because
then when people said, hey, happy birthday, how old are
you and I said I'm seventy today, it's a big day.
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I'm seventy, they go, wow, you look great for seventy,
but if they asked me how old I am today,
I'm turning and honestly, I have to think about it.
Not because it's a huge number or anything. It's just
that remember when you were a kid and it'd be
coming up on your parents' birthday and you'd ask your
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mom or dad like, Wow, how old are you going
to be? And they'd have to think about it, and
you're like, how do they not know? And then you
get to this point and you realize it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter. But the math suggests that I'm turning
forty eight years old today. Not a big number. It's
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not a big birthday. Other than I can't suggest I
mean yesterday, I could still say I was in my
mid to late forties. In terms of a vague classification
of how old I am, I can't say that anymore.
The turning the calendar page over one day, if you
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do the page a day calendar now means I'm no
longer in my mid to late forties. I'm officially in
my late forties. Okay, it doesn't matter to me, because
when you start going gray at twenty, suddenly it's like
my youth it's gone. I never had it even when
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I was young. I wasn't young. You know why. I
had friends when I was young who'd want to go
out and tear it up all night, and they'd always
invite me. Do you know why this is paid? No,
because I wouldn't get so drunk that I couldn't drive
everyone home.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's kind of paying that could always.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Be relied upon to be a good DD. That's a
designated driver. So even when I was young, I wasn't young.
But having a birthday is a very nice thing. There's
just one problem with it. You got no cake, and
this sounds so stupid. I don't know. My daughter brought
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me home a cake bite yesterday, so I have a
bite of cake waiting for me. I got that. My
son will probably find it and eat it first.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He'll be very sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Though, that's all right, No he won't. Well, you shouldn't
have lifted sitting there, which is true. I know that
as soon as my wife brings home food my son.
He's he turns fifteen this weekend. You know, he's got
a birthday coming up too. It's amazing. My wife will
come home and my son will be home and my
wife will be bringing home bags or if she goes
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to Costco and then it's like big awkward boxes full
of stuff. My son won't lift a finger to help her.
He won't run to the door and go, hey, mom,
what do you need help with or anything. But if
he's even if he's down in the basement playing video
games and my wife is upstairs, he can smell. He
can sniff out whether she's brought like pop tart or
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something that he wants to eat, and then he comes
running up there. Oh hey, I sense that you had oreos.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So I know because I also like to eat that stuff.
So I know as soon as she comes home with snacks,
I got to box him out. Otherwise I'm not going
to get any pop tarts, and I like pop tarts.
Lately it's been the smorest pop tarts. Really into those
good stuff. It's a lot. It's easier and not as
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messy to eat as actual s'mores.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Why do you even let him have any If that's
the way he's going to treat his mother.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We're not good parents.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh okay, all right, there is that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's the answer you want, that's it. So the reason
why I feel weird and this is so dumb to say,
especially since I host a talk radio show. Oh, my
wife just sent me a text and said, don't tell
people that Harrison does come and help me. If he's
the only one home when I'm home, it's you that
doesn't help me. Oh yeah, that's right. My wife's going
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to send me a text and say, I didn't say
that last part. Why do you keep doing this? Why
am I married to you? We celebrate twenty two years
of marriage. By the way, on Saturday, my wife and me,
twenty two years. I got to run for reelection.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You don't know if you're going to till tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No, no, you gotta win the election. No, No, The
election from my marriage was Saturday. That was That was
our anniversary. Okay, okay, So I got to run for
reelection in early November every year, okay, and this year
was close race, big challenge by Dan Osborne.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So is the song, wasn't it so.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Tony Vargas putting you know is knocking on the door
the other day? Hey is it too late to get
on this? And like Tony, come on, man, it's my wife.
So managed to win election. So I've got another year
as husband. Of course I could be impeached at any moment.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But to bring this point home eventually, it sounds so
stupid to say this because I'm a talk radio host.
I have a live microphone in my face a couple
of hours every single day. But the thing I really
don't like about it being my birthday is I don't
like the attention and the spotlight and the pressure. And
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yet I know it's so dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Who is bringing it up?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, that's because Jim brought it up on the Morning Show,
and of course Facebook brings it up. So I'm getting
all these emails and all the other and which is great.
I love shrouding myself and all of this warmth I get.
I honestly, I love it. It's just suddenly like it's
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my birthday and people might be listening, going, all right, best,
Scott's gonna have a great radio show because it's his birthday. Hey,
I don't know. I'm trying to talk between the political ads,
which is tough. I don't have anything like big and
bombastic plan like Jim said on the Morning Show, like
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you have all your big time, big shots celebrity friends
calling up here to wish you a happy birthday. Why
would I do that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Because it would be cool.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
My daughter took the night off of work to spend
time with me tonight for my birthday. I said, you
didn't have to do that, cause you're gonna take the
night off work and you're Here's what I'm gonna do
on my birthday tonight, you're ready. I'm gonna have my
pajamas on. The earlier the better. I'm gonna watch the
Chiefs game. I'm gonna eat some probably some sort of meat,
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and eat at least one bite of cake.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And that's you think.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And then I'm gonna try and rest up because tomorrow
night's gonna be a late night. So I'm totally focused
on the election. But I'll use the confluence of these
events to tell you what I want for my birthday.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you for
my birthday if you haven't already voted, which is about
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half of you according to the latest stats around here,
I'm not going to tell you what I want for
my birthday. Is if I want you to go into
that ballot booth and I want you to take that ballot,
and I hear are the ovals? I want you to
fill in, vote for this person, vote for that person,
vote for this initiative, vote against that. I honestly, I
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don't tell people how to vote. But I also really
don't like those people that say, just make sure you
do your civic duty and vote tomorrow. It's your right
as an American. You got to take part and you
gotta vote. I go the other way with it. Here's
what I want for my birthday. If you still don't
know what's at stake in this election and how you
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feel about it, and you're still like, I go one
way or the other on it, haven't really taken the
time to look. I'm not even sure what these initiatives
are all about. And I know the difference between this
candidate and that candidate, and maybe I'll vote for this
person and I'll vote for this other person of the
opposite party. We'll just see how that all shakes out.
If if that's your thought going into the election, here's
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what I want for my birthday. Don't vote. Go back
to your crack pipe. And that's fine if your existence
is just sitting there, just hitting the pipe and living
out an existence that some people might look at as meaningless.
I don't look at it that way. I see these
people who have very few responsibilities in life, and sometimes
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I wonder if I'm doing it wrong. Like I said,
started going gray at twenty. You don't do that by
just sitting around all passive all the time, going eh,
you know whatever. I think that comes along with a healthy,
maybe unhealthy amount of stress. There was sometimes I was
burning the candle at both then so much in those
days working on stuff. I wasn't partying. I was working
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and loving everything I was doing, but I was so
stressed out. But I think it was good, healthy stress.
I wanted the responsibility. I wanted to be a part
of things. I loved every minute of it. And there
are some people that they just kind of go to bed.
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When they go to bed, they get up, when they
get up and they do kind of what they want.
Maybe they smoke a big fat one and they kind
of fall asleep watching TV. And these are the people
that can tell you about TV's that are like, oh,
if you started watching this TV series, no, I haven't
heard of it, Well you better catch up. It's in
this fourteenth season. I'm like, well, what kind of time
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do you think I have to sit around I don't
have any room in my life for as TV series.
I've never heard of that everyone else apparently loves. It's
already fourteen seasons deep. I'm not going to get involved
in that. Maybe those people are doing it right. But
if you're one of these people politically and you're like,
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I don't really pay attention, I don't really care that.
Do you ever want a favor? Don't vote. I know
that's the about the worst thing you could possibly say,
but I mean, the heck, you haven't been a part
of this process to this point. Why muck it up now?
Why bother? Why try and make everyone else's lives miserable. Also,
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I think if you're casting a vote tomorrow out of
spite or anger or hate, and you could say that
about people on all sides of the political spectrum, I
would encourage you to maybe soften your stance a little bit.
If you're going to go vote tomorrow based on anger, hate, spite,
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if you soften that stance and go from a place
of more positive vibes. I wanted to say love, but
that sounds that's so touchy feely. If you can vote
from your heart in a place of love, like I
don't know anyone that really does that, but I.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Think post yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I think rather than saying I'm going to go vote
against this group of people I hate, well that's half
the country, rather than do that, and it might it
very well might turn out to be the exact same vote.
But rather than go in there with this anger and spite,
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I'm going to vote against this, I'm gonna vote against that,
and the people want to do that and I hate
them and they're all garbageing or whatever, Instead try and
think about when you're feeling in that that little oval there.
I'm voting positively for this candidate, initiative, movement, platform, whatever.
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I'm thinking about it from a more positive standpoint because
I want to see this for our country, and I
hope that it might result in people coming together. Hey,
you can shake your head and say that will never happen,
which Lucy Chapman's doing right now. Yeah, you're right, it
will never happen as long as we never work to
make it happen that way. But rather than all this
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anger and spite and all this vote from I'm so
positively happy to vote for this person, for this initiative,
or for this platform that will, you know, because some
people are going to get what they want on Christmas
Morning politically Wednesday, and some people are not. And if
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you go in there voting with hate and anger and spite,
and you think that the rest of the you know,
people you're voting against are all deplorable, progressive, un American
garbage terrorists, you know, whatever, how whatever people label each other.
If your side loses, if your candidate loses, you're gonna
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wake up on Wednesday and you're just gonna be bitter
and angry. And so there are some people who've carried
bitter and angry with them politically and they've let it
seep into their personal lives going back well probably eight years,
like I said an hour ago. So much of this
has to do with voting for or against Trump. You'll
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ask people which candidate do you think is better on
these issues that you care about? Which you said is
the economy? You said, is the border or whatever? And
most people will say, well, I think Trump's better. Are
you gonna vote for Trump?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I hate that guy? Well, then what do you think
is gonna happen with these issues he said you care about?
People don't vote on platform or anything. It's it's just
I vote for or against Trump. Lucy, are you getting
a barrage of text messages as well? Vote for this candidate,
vote for this initiative all the rest.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, there's actual There's actually a little part of me
that kind of likes it, because, you know, I don't
usually get a lot of texts, so I don't have
a lot of friends, and so these are my new friends.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Do you try and talk to them than times? Thanks
for telling me to vote for initiative? Blah bah bah,
you know, tell me more, you know, And they're like,
we don't know what to do. The bots are talking
to each other. What do you do when you get
the political text message?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I just delete them.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Do you delete and report spam?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't report spam. There has been a few times
that I've typed out stop mm hmm, but no, I
don't report spam because they're just doing a job.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm surprised that you have replied with stop. You you
as the official conspiracy theorist, I would think that you
would be the first one to say don't report a
spam and don't reply stop. That just seems to let
them know on the other side of the computer there's
a live human being checking these messages. Stop means go.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Maybe that's true. I had not thought about that.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Because it seems like to people the more they hit
stop or report spam or whatever, the more messages they get.
In fact, here's an article on the Wall Street Journal.
This oneman's name is Joanna, and so she was replying
stop to all these but she says, in the game
of political texts, stop apparently means go, go go. She's
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now inundated with dozens of additional texts after she tried
to opt out of getting them. So she starts reporting,
doing some digging, some journalism. A political texting expert says
that unscrupulous texting vendors have flipped the scripts. She says,
perversely using your request to stop the messages as a
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data point. Oh, we found a live number. Get her.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I see, I had not considered that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
She says. Don't show signs of life. This, I'm sure
many of you are like, this would have been useful
information to have learned two weeks ago. Right, don't show
signs of life by replying to all the texts you
may get, As she says, that helps trigger even more
text to you just ignore them. You can send unwanted
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text to your junk or spam folder. You can block
the numbers, but rarely do the messages keep coming from
the same number, right, so that that kind of goes
back to stop or whatever. And here's the other funny part.
You can if you get a text from a number
that's not saved in your phone, which is all the
political ads, you can delete and report text as spam
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or whatever. You know what happens in those instances.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, my guess would be that your phone would blow
up with more text.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Now no, I mean, what is the process. You get
a text message that you don't know and you just
hit a delete and report as spam. Do you know
what happens with that? Nothing? It triggers the if you've
got an Android or iPhone, it triggers someone somewhere that
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spam messages from this number might be spam in nature.
But like I said, rarely do the messages when it
comes to political ads, rarely do they come from the
same number. So that effectively does absolutely nothing. It doesn't
trigger anyone like the next person that's gonna get that
spam text. It doesn't stop anyone from stopping that number
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from texting anyone. It doesn't do anything. It doesn't take
your putting your number into any kind of list and
say stop texting this person. She's tired of it. It
doesn't do anything. But they also say it also, it
doesn't tell the senders we got a live number here
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and we should spam it more. It just seems like
the kind of a thing that your phone would tell
you if your phone was trying to hide the fact
that it's spamming you constantly. And if you bring up
in conversation when your phone's in your pocket and not
even turned on, you say, you know what I'm thinking about.
You know, my son turned sixteen here in a year,
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and I think I'd like to get him an old truck.
And next thing, you know, old trucks start showing up
in advertisements on your phone. You're like, how did this happen?
So I think what I'm trying to say is if
you have a phone, smash it with a hammer. I
think that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Wipe it clean, yeah, like with the club.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah. And then and then let's do let's go back
to doing things the old fashioned way, where people just
start coming and knocking on your doors. Yeah, hello, all,
I'm done, Bacon. I want you to vote for me. Hello,
I know you're in there. Like if we stay quiet,
he'll leave. It's a pleasure to welcome back to the
program here someone who is a political figure but not
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on the ballot tomorrow in Iowa. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley
is back here on news radio eleven ten kfa B.
Good morning, Senator, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I'm glad to be with you. And you're right, I'm
not on the ballot, but I am going to be
working with Congressman None today. He's Southwest Iowa congressman and
I want him reelected. And I also heard that commercial
against Deb Fisher. Deb Fisher is a very good senator
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and I hope people in Nebraska will send her back
to Washington to represent the conservative values of Nebraska. So well, well.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Let's address that first then, because there have been some
people who said, look, I don't see Deb Fisher out
there on TV all the time. I don't see her
doing these rallies and all the rest of this stuff.
I don't know that she's doing anything in Washington. You
work with her, what does she.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Do well, first of all, she's a great voice for
agriculture of the Midwest. Nebraska and other Midwestern states need
a strong voice on the Agriculture Committee. And she's very
strong speaking for our strong national defense, the number one
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responsibility to the federal government to protect the American people. And
she is strongly for the stuff that Trump is for
fighting inflation and protecting our border. You know, you can't
have an open border and they'll law be abided by
because you can enter the United States without our permission
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and we have ten million people. And Devis Fisher is
a fight to make sure that that isn't repeated over
the next four years.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You know, when it comes to independence, should Dan Osborne
beat deb Fisher here? You've had a chance, working for
several decades in the United States Senator to work with
a few people who have been registered independence. The only
ones that really that come to mind are all of
those who lean liberal or started off liberal and maybe
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lean a little bit more right now, I mean, what
is life like if you go to the United States
Senate as a freshman senator and you're an independent? Can
that person do anything in the US Senate?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, first of all, most independents. I'm not sure that
I can remember serving with an independent that caucus with
the Republicans. Most of them caucus with the Democrats and
they vote the Democrat line. And that's what's going to
happen with the independent from Nebraska, even though he said
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he's not going to join any caucus. Well, how do
you get anything done if you aren't working closely with people,
either Republicans or Democrats. And in the United States Senate,
you have to have the ability to work across the
line because of the sixty vote requirement, and Republicans never
have fifty or sixty people and Democrats seldom do. So
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you've got to work in a bipartisan way, and Fisher
has demonstrated the ability to do that. But if you
aren't going to caucus with either Republicans or Democrats, as
a Fisher's opponent says, he's not going to do, I
don't know how you get anything done.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I am curious as the polls and your reflection here
on what you're thinking about what might happen on election
day tomorrow to change the balance of power or maintain
the balance of power in the United States Senate. What
are you looking at in terms of what do you
think Republicans might keep control of the House and maybe
take control of the Senate no matter what happens with
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the presidency.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Well, if we have a Republican president, I'm sure that
we're going to have immigration laws enforced, We're going to
close down the border, there's going to be more fiscal responsibility.
We're not going to have the biggest tax increase in
the history of the country. If Harris is elected. She
wants to abandon the twenty seventeen tax bill that reduced
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taxes for about ninety percent of the people in this country,
including middle class, and it increase the amount of money
that wealthy people were paying into the federal treasury from
about forty one percent of the total bill to about
forty six percent. And so it's been very progressive, very
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fair to the middle class. And Harris wants to abandon that.
And Trump's going to see that that and Republicans in
the Congress, we're going to see that that tax bill
that runs out December thirty first next year is re enacted.
So we don't get the biggest tax increase in the
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history of the country without even a vote of Congress.
Because you just automatically go back to the tax law
prior to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, it's interesting to me that a lot of people
look at Nebraska for that blue dot second district, maybe
throwing the election for Kamala Harris, and if Fisher loses
to an independent Dan Osborne, that might take the Senate
away from Republicans. But as we talk here with Iowa
Senator Chuck Grassley this morning on news Radio eleven ten, kfab,
I want your response to the poll here today from
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the Des Moines Register suddenly shows a lead for Kamala
Harris in Iowa forty seven to forty four, tipping for
Hay Harris over Trump. What do you make of this poll?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's an outliar, And I think the fact that the
respected Emerson poll came out the same day shown Trump
ten points ahead, that we that it's an outlier. I
think that proves it. And the only vote, the only
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poll that really counts, is on election day, and that's tomorrow,
and so I don't worry about that, and I think
that that's exactly the way it should be looked at.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You've had a chance to serve several years in the
United States Senate I don't know if we've ever had
an election quite like this where it seems like Republican
and Democrat. It doesn't really matter anymore. It's not about that.
It's about those who love Trump versus those who hate Trump.
You're either casting to vote for Trump or you're casting
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to vote against Trump. What's your assessment of the role
that he's played in politics these last eight years.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, I guess the only gauge to go by is
not the last four years, but the four years that
he was president. We had the highest employment and for
minority groups like Blacks, Hispanics, Asian and women as a majority.
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But for all those groups they got higher in wages
than they had ever been in the history of the country.
And I would think people would want an economic environment
like that that would be be very beneficial and things
of that. And this shouldn't be You mentioned Trump as
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a name and as a person, but it shouldn't be
a vote about personality, but a vote about policy. That's
what counts. So you got Trump running for re election
stating that he's going to close the border, have legal immigration, only,
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fight inflation, get the cost of groceries and gasoline down.
He's going to drill, baby drill. You've heard him say that.
And energy, it isn't just what you paid you're put
in your car. Energy effects the cost of everything that
you buy because of transportation costs and things of that nature.
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So people know what he stands for. And you couldn't
even get Harris yesterday to say that she was for
Proposition thirty six in California when she cast her vote
on that reperendum. And seventy eight percent of the people
in California think that you shouldn't be you should be
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prosecuted if you steal nine hundred dollars stuff from a
grocery store, supermarket, stuff like that. And so she has
a plan, but you don't know what her plan includes.
But she did say on television when she was asked
by the women on the view that what would she
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change if of the last four years that Biden did,
and she said, I can't think of a single thing
I would change.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley spelling it out for you here
this morning, not on the ballot tomorrow, but working on
behalf of those looking to be elected, I presume as
Republicans in Congress serving the great state of Iowa, Senator Grassley,
always a pleasure. Or what will you be doing tomorrow
night as the returns come in.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I'm going to be setting at my farm in Iowa
with the clenched fists, concerned about the future of the
country and hoping that Trump gets re elected.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right, Senator, enjoy that. If you're going to have
your fists clenched, you know those things that you can
do to work out your hands, one of those hand workouts,
you might as well do that. It might be better
on it might be better on the hands. Someone's got
to get Senator Grassley a stress ball. Thank you very
much for the time today.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Goodbye, Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio
eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vorgies. I feel a little off today, and I
can they tell you exactly why that is. And it's
the biggest, whiniest, stupidest thing that anyone could ever admit to,
and I shouldn't even say anything about it. But since
holding my tongue has never been my strong suit, it's
nothing to do with the time change. I feel good
about the time change. I actually don't mind. I mean,
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I was doing that in the summer anyway, like, well,
it's a quarter to six, I'm gonna go ahead and
put my pajamas on and start easing towards bedtime. You know,
you do that in July and people think that you
have a problem, But you do that after the time
change when it's dark outside, and it says, it's fine,
it's just how it is. So I was doing that anyway.
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It's not the time change. It's it's something really, really dumb.
Today's my birthday. I don't have a problem getting older.
I wish that I was seventy years old today, because
then when people said, hey, happy birthday, how old are
you and I said I'm seventy today, it's a big day.
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I'm seventy, they go, wow, you look great for seventy,
but if they asked me how old I am today,
I'm turning and honestly, I have to think about it.
Not because it's a huge number or anything. It's just
that remember when you were a kid and it'd be
coming up on your parents' birthday and you'd ask your
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mom or dad like, Wow, how old are you going
to be? And they'd have to think about it, and
you're like, how do they not know? And then you
get to this point and you realize it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter. But the math suggests that I'm turning
forty eight years old today. Not a big number. It's
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not a big birthday. Other than I can't suggest I
mean yesterday, I could still say I was in my
mid to late forties. In terms of a vague classification
of how old I am, I can't say that anymore.
The turning the calendar page over one day, if you
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do the page a day calendar now means I'm no
longer in my mid to late forties. I'm officially in
my late forties. Okay, it doesn't matter to me, because
when you start going gray at twenty, suddenly it's like
my youth it's gone. I never had it even when
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I was young. I wasn't young. You know why. I
had friends when I was young who'd want to go
out and tear it up all night, and they'd always
invite me. Do you know why this is paid? No,
because I wouldn't get so drunk that I couldn't drive
everyone home.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's kind of paying that could always.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Be relied upon to be a good DD. That's a
designated driver. So even when I was young, I wasn't young.
But having a birthday is a very nice thing. There's
just one problem with it. You got no cake, and
this sounds so stupid. I don't know. My daughter brought
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me home a cake bite yesterday, so I have a
bite of cake waiting for me. I got that. My
son will probably find it and eat it first.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He'll be very sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Though, that's all right, No he won't. Well, you shouldn't
have lifted sitting there, which is true. I know that
as soon as my wife brings home food my son.
He's he turns fifteen this weekend. You know, he's got
a birthday coming up too. It's amazing. My wife will
come home and my son will be home and my
wife will be bringing home bags or if she goes
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to Costco and then it's like big awkward boxes full
of stuff. My son won't lift a finger to help her.
He won't run to the door and go, hey, mom,
what do you need help with or anything. But if
he's even if he's down in the basement playing video
games and my wife is upstairs, he can smell. He
can sniff out whether she's brought like pop tart or
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something that he wants to eat, and then he comes
running up there. Oh hey, I sense that you had oreos.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So I know because I also like to eat that stuff.
So I know as soon as she comes home with snacks,
I got to box him out. Otherwise I'm not going
to get any pop tarts, and I like pop tarts.
Lately it's been the smorest pop tarts. Really into those
good stuff. It's a lot. It's easier and not as
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messy to eat as actual s'mores.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Why do you even let him have any If that's
the way he's going to treat his mother.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We're not good parents.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh okay, all right, there is that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That's the answer you want, that's it. So the reason
why I feel weird and this is so dumb to say,
especially since I host a talk radio show. Oh, my
wife just sent me a text and said, don't tell
people that Harrison does come and help me. If he's
the only one home when I'm home, it's you that
doesn't help me. Oh yeah, that's right. My wife's going
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to send me a text and say, I didn't say
that last part. Why do you keep doing this? Why
am I married to you? We celebrate twenty two years
of marriage. By the way, on Saturday, my wife and me,
twenty two years. I got to run for reelection.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You don't know if you're going to till tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No, no, you gotta win the election. No, No, The
election from my marriage was Saturday. That was That was
our anniversary. Okay, okay, So I got to run for
reelection in early November every year, okay, and this year
was close race, big challenge by Dan Osborne.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So is the song, wasn't it so.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Tony Vargas putting you know is knocking on the door
the other day? Hey is it too late to get
on this? And like Tony, come on, man, it's my wife.
So managed to win election. So I've got another year
as husband. Of course I could be impeached at any moment.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But to bring this point home eventually, it sounds so
stupid to say this because I'm a talk radio host.
I have a live microphone in my face a couple
of hours every single day. But the thing I really
don't like about it being my birthday is I don't
like the attention and the spotlight and the pressure. And
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yet I know it's so dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Who is bringing it up?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, that's because Jim brought it up on the Morning Show,
and of course Facebook brings it up. So I'm getting
all these emails and all the other and which is great.
I love shrouding myself and all of this warmth I get.
I honestly, I love it. It's just suddenly like it's
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my birthday and people might be listening, going, all right, best,
Scott's gonna have a great radio show because it's his birthday. Hey,
I don't know. I'm trying to talk between the political ads,
which is tough. I don't have anything like big and
bombastic plan like Jim said on the Morning Show, like
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you have all your big time, big shots celebrity friends
calling up here to wish you a happy birthday. Why
would I do that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Because it would be cool.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
My daughter took the night off of work to spend
time with me tonight for my birthday. I said, you
didn't have to do that, cause you're gonna take the
night off work and you're Here's what I'm gonna do
on my birthday tonight, you're ready. I'm gonna have my
pajamas on. The earlier the better. I'm gonna watch the
Chiefs game. I'm gonna eat some probably some sort of meat,
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and eat at least one bite of cake.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And that's you think.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And then I'm gonna try and rest up because tomorrow
night's gonna be a late night. So I'm totally focused
on the election. But I'll use the confluence of these
events to tell you what I want for my birthday.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you for
my birthday if you haven't already voted, which is about
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half of you according to the latest stats around here,
I'm not going to tell you what I want for
my birthday. Is if I want you to go into
that ballot booth and I want you to take that ballot,
and I hear are the ovals? I want you to
fill in, vote for this person, vote for that person,
vote for this initiative, vote against that. I honestly, I
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don't tell people how to vote. But I also really
don't like those people that say, just make sure you
do your civic duty and vote tomorrow. It's your right
as an American. You got to take part and you
gotta vote. I go the other way with it. Here's
what I want for my birthday. If you still don't
know what's at stake in this election and how you
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feel about it, and you're still like, I go one
way or the other on it, haven't really taken the
time to look. I'm not even sure what these initiatives
are all about. And I know the difference between this
candidate and that candidate, and maybe I'll vote for this
person and I'll vote for this other person of the
opposite party. We'll just see how that all shakes out.
If if that's your thought going into the election, here's
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what I want for my birthday. Don't vote. Go back
to your crack pipe. And that's fine if your existence
is just sitting there, just hitting the pipe and living
out an existence that some people might look at as meaningless.
I don't look at it that way. I see these
people who have very few responsibilities in life, and sometimes
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I wonder if I'm doing it wrong. Like I said,
started going gray at twenty. You don't do that by
just sitting around all passive all the time, going eh,
you know whatever. I think that comes along with a healthy,
maybe unhealthy amount of stress. There was sometimes I was
burning the candle at both then so much in those
days working on stuff. I wasn't partying. I was working
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and loving everything I was doing, but I was so
stressed out. But I think it was good, healthy stress.
I wanted the responsibility. I wanted to be a part
of things. I loved every minute of it. And there
are some people that they just kind of go to bed.
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When they go to bed, they get up, when they
get up and they do kind of what they want.
Maybe they smoke a big fat one and they kind
of fall asleep watching TV. And these are the people
that can tell you about TV's that are like, oh,
if you started watching this TV series, no, I haven't
heard of it, Well you better catch up. It's in
this fourteenth season. I'm like, well, what kind of time
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do you think I have to sit around I don't
have any room in my life for as TV series.
I've never heard of that everyone else apparently loves. It's
already fourteen seasons deep. I'm not going to get involved
in that. Maybe those people are doing it right. But
if you're one of these people politically and you're like,
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I don't really pay attention, I don't really care that.
Do you ever want a favor? Don't vote. I know
that's the about the worst thing you could possibly say,
but I mean, the heck, you haven't been a part
of this process to this point. Why muck it up now?
Why bother? Why try and make everyone else's lives miserable. Also,
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I think if you're casting a vote tomorrow out of
spite or anger or hate, and you could say that
about people on all sides of the political spectrum, I
would encourage you to maybe soften your stance a little bit.
If you're going to go vote tomorrow based on anger, hate, spite,
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if you soften that stance and go from a place
of more positive vibes. I wanted to say love, but
that sounds that's so touchy feely. If you can vote
from your heart in a place of love, like I
don't know anyone that really does that, but I.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Think post yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I think rather than saying I'm going to go vote
against this group of people I hate, well that's half
the country, rather than do that, and it might it
very well might turn out to be the exact same vote.
But rather than go in there with this anger and spite,
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I'm going to vote against this, I'm gonna vote against that,
and the people want to do that and I hate
them and they're all garbageing or whatever, Instead try and
think about when you're feeling in that that little oval there.
I'm voting positively for this candidate, initiative, movement, platform, whatever.
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I'm thinking about it from a more positive standpoint because
I want to see this for our country, and I
hope that it might result in people coming together. Hey,
you can shake your head and say that will never happen,
which Lucy Chapman's doing right now. Yeah, you're right, it
will never happen as long as we never work to
make it happen that way. But rather than all this
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anger and spite and all this vote from I'm so
positively happy to vote for this person, for this initiative,
or for this platform that will, you know, because some
people are going to get what they want on Christmas
Morning politically Wednesday, and some people are not. And if
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you go in there voting with hate and anger and spite,
and you think that the rest of the you know,
people you're voting against are all deplorable, progressive, un American
garbage terrorists, you know, whatever, how whatever people label each other.
If your side loses, if your candidate loses, you're gonna
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wake up on Wednesday and you're just gonna be bitter
and angry. And so there are some people who've carried
bitter and angry with them politically and they've let it
seep into their personal lives going back well probably eight years,
like I said an hour ago. So much of this
has to do with voting for or against Trump. You'll
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ask people which candidate do you think is better on
these issues that you care about? Which you said is
the economy? You said, is the border or whatever? And
most people will say, well, I think Trump's better. Are
you gonna vote for Trump?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I hate that guy? Well, then what do you think
is gonna happen with these issues he said you care about?
People don't vote on platform or anything. It's it's just
I vote for or against Trump. Lucy, are you getting
a barrage of text messages as well? Vote for this candidate,
vote for this initiative all the rest.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, there's actual There's actually a little part of me
that kind of likes it, because, you know, I don't
usually get a lot of texts, so I don't have
a lot of friends, and so these are my new friends.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Do you try and talk to them than times? Thanks
for telling me to vote for initiative? Blah bah bah,
you know, tell me more, you know, And they're like,
we don't know what to do. The bots are talking
to each other. What do you do when you get
the political text message?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I just delete them.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Do you delete and report spam?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I don't report spam. There has been a few times
that I've typed out stop mm hmm, but no, I
don't report spam because they're just doing a job.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm surprised that you have replied with stop. You you
as the official conspiracy theorist, I would think that you
would be the first one to say don't report a
spam and don't reply stop. That just seems to let
them know on the other side of the computer there's
a live human being checking these messages. Stop means go.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Maybe that's true. I had not thought about that.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Because it seems like to people the more they hit
stop or report spam or whatever, the more messages they get.
In fact, here's an article on the Wall Street Journal.
This oneman's name is Joanna, and so she was replying
stop to all these but she says, in the game
of political texts, stop apparently means go, go go. She's
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now inundated with dozens of additional texts after she tried
to opt out of getting them. So she starts reporting,
doing some digging, some journalism. A political texting expert says
that unscrupulous texting vendors have flipped the scripts. She says,
perversely using your request to stop the messages as a
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data point. Oh, we found a live number. Get her.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I see, I had not considered that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
She says. Don't show signs of life. This, I'm sure
many of you are like, this would have been useful
information to have learned two weeks ago. Right, don't show
signs of life by replying to all the texts you
may get, As she says, that helps trigger even more
text to you just ignore them. You can send unwanted
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text to your junk or spam folder. You can block
the numbers, but rarely do the messages keep coming from
the same number, right, so that that kind of goes
back to stop or whatever. And here's the other funny part.
You can if you get a text from a number
that's not saved in your phone, which is all the
political ads, you can delete and report text as spam
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or whatever. You know what happens in those instances.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, my guess would be that your phone would blow
up with more text.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Now no, I mean, what is the process. You get
a text message that you don't know and you just
hit a delete and report as spam. Do you know
what happens with that? Nothing? It triggers the if you've
got an Android or iPhone, it triggers someone somewhere that
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spam messages from this number might be spam in nature.
But like I said, rarely do the messages when it
comes to political ads, rarely do they come from the
same number. So that effectively does absolutely nothing. It doesn't
trigger anyone like the next person that's gonna get that
spam text. It doesn't stop anyone from stopping that number
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from texting anyone. It doesn't do anything. It doesn't take
your putting your number into any kind of list and
say stop texting this person. She's tired of it. It
doesn't do anything. But they also say it also, it
doesn't tell the senders we got a live number here
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and we should spam it more. It just seems like
the kind of a thing that your phone would tell
you if your phone was trying to hide the fact
that it's spamming you constantly. And if you bring up
in conversation when your phone's in your pocket and not
even turned on, you say, you know what I'm thinking about.
You know, my son turned sixteen here in a year,
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and I think I'd like to get him an old truck.
And next thing, you know, old trucks start showing up
in advertisements on your phone. You're like, how did this happen?
So I think what I'm trying to say is if
you have a phone, smash it with a hammer. I
think that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Wipe it clean, yeah, like with the club.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah. And then and then let's do let's go back
to doing things the old fashioned way, where people just
start coming and knocking on your doors. Yeah, hello, all,
I'm done, Bacon. I want you to vote for me. Hello,
I know you're in there. Like if we stay quiet,
he'll leave. It's a pleasure to welcome back to the
program here someone who is a political figure but not
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on the ballot tomorrow in Iowa. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley
is back here on news radio eleven ten kfa B.
Good morning, Senator, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I'm glad to be with you. And you're right, I'm
not on the ballot, but I am going to be
working with Congressman None today. He's Southwest Iowa congressman and
I want him reelected. And I also heard that commercial
against Deb Fisher. Deb Fisher is a very good senator
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and I hope people in Nebraska will send her back
to Washington to represent the conservative values of Nebraska. So well, well.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Let's address that first then, because there have been some
people who said, look, I don't see Deb Fisher out
there on TV all the time. I don't see her
doing these rallies and all the rest of this stuff.
I don't know that she's doing anything in Washington. You
work with her, what does she.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Do well, first of all, she's a great voice for
agriculture of the Midwest. Nebraska and other Midwestern states need
a strong voice on the Agriculture Committee. And she's very
strong speaking for our strong national defense, the number one
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responsibility to the federal government to protect the American people. And
she is strongly for the stuff that Trump is for
fighting inflation and protecting our border. You know, you can't
have an open border and they'll law be abided by
because you can enter the United States without our permission
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and we have ten million people. And Devis Fisher is
a fight to make sure that that isn't repeated over
the next four years.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You know, when it comes to independence, should Dan Osborne
beat deb Fisher here? You've had a chance, working for
several decades in the United States Senator to work with
a few people who have been registered independence. The only
ones that really that come to mind are all of
those who lean liberal or started off liberal and maybe
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lean a little bit more right now, I mean, what
is life like if you go to the United States
Senate as a freshman senator and you're an independent? Can
that person do anything in the US Senate?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, first of all, most independents. I'm not sure that
I can remember serving with an independent that caucus with
the Republicans. Most of them caucus with the Democrats and
they vote the Democrat line. And that's what's going to
happen with the independent from Nebraska, even though he said
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he's not going to join any caucus. Well, how do
you get anything done if you aren't working closely with people,
either Republicans or Democrats. And in the United States Senate,
you have to have the ability to work across the
line because of the sixty vote requirement, and Republicans never
have fifty or sixty people and Democrats seldom do. So
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you've got to work in a bipartisan way, and Fisher
has demonstrated the ability to do that. But if you
aren't going to caucus with either Republicans or Democrats, as
a Fisher's opponent says, he's not going to do, I
don't know how you get anything done.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I am curious as the polls and your reflection here
on what you're thinking about what might happen on election
day tomorrow to change the balance of power or maintain
the balance of power in the United States Senate. What
are you looking at in terms of what do you
think Republicans might keep control of the House and maybe
take control of the Senate no matter what happens with
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the presidency.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Well, if we have a Republican president, I'm sure that
we're going to have immigration laws enforced, We're going to
close down the border, there's going to be more fiscal responsibility.
We're not going to have the biggest tax increase in
the history of the country. If Harris is elected. She
wants to abandon the twenty seventeen tax bill that reduced
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taxes for about ninety percent of the people in this country,
including middle class, and it increase the amount of money
that wealthy people were paying into the federal treasury from
about forty one percent of the total bill to about
forty six percent. And so it's been very progressive, very
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fair to the middle class. And Harris wants to abandon that.
And Trump's going to see that that and Republicans in
the Congress, we're going to see that that tax bill
that runs out December thirty first next year is re enacted.
So we don't get the biggest tax increase in the
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history of the country without even a vote of Congress.
Because you just automatically go back to the tax law
prior to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, it's interesting to me that a lot of people
look at Nebraska for that blue dot second district, maybe
throwing the election for Kamala Harris, and if Fisher loses
to an independent Dan Osborne, that might take the Senate
away from Republicans. But as we talk here with Iowa
Senator Chuck Grassley this morning on news Radio eleven ten, kfab,
I want your response to the poll here today from
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the Des Moines Register suddenly shows a lead for Kamala
Harris in Iowa forty seven to forty four, tipping for
Hay Harris over Trump. What do you make of this poll?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's an outliar, And I think the fact that the
respected Emerson poll came out the same day shown Trump
ten points ahead, that we that it's an outlier. I
think that proves it. And the only vote, the only
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poll that really counts, is on election day, and that's tomorrow,
and so I don't worry about that, and I think
that that's exactly the way it should be looked at.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You've had a chance to serve several years in the
United States Senate I don't know if we've ever had
an election quite like this where it seems like Republican
and Democrat. It doesn't really matter anymore. It's not about that.
It's about those who love Trump versus those who hate Trump.
You're either casting to vote for Trump or you're casting
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to vote against Trump. What's your assessment of the role
that he's played in politics these last eight years.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, I guess the only gauge to go by is
not the last four years, but the four years that
he was president. We had the highest employment and for
minority groups like Blacks, Hispanics, Asian and women as a majority.
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But for all those groups they got higher in wages
than they had ever been in the history of the country.
And I would think people would want an economic environment
like that that would be be very beneficial and things
of that. And this shouldn't be You mentioned Trump as
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a name and as a person, but it shouldn't be
a vote about personality, but a vote about policy. That's
what counts. So you got Trump running for re election
stating that he's going to close the border, have legal immigration, only,
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fight inflation, get the cost of groceries and gasoline down.
He's going to drill, baby drill. You've heard him say that.
And energy, it isn't just what you paid you're put
in your car. Energy effects the cost of everything that
you buy because of transportation costs and things of that nature.
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So people know what he stands for. And you couldn't
even get Harris yesterday to say that she was for
Proposition thirty six in California when she cast her vote
on that reperendum. And seventy eight percent of the people
in California think that you shouldn't be you should be
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prosecuted if you steal nine hundred dollars stuff from a
grocery store, supermarket, stuff like that. And so she has
a plan, but you don't know what her plan includes.
But she did say on television when she was asked
by the women on the view that what would she
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change if of the last four years that Biden did,
and she said, I can't think of a single thing
I would change.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley spelling it out for you here
this morning, not on the ballot tomorrow, but working on
behalf of those looking to be elected, I presume as
Republicans in Congress serving the great state of Iowa, Senator Grassley,
always a pleasure. Or what will you be doing tomorrow
night as the returns come in.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I'm going to be setting at my farm in Iowa
with the clenched fists, concerned about the future of the
country and hoping that Trump gets re elected.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
All right, Senator, enjoy that. If you're going to have
your fists clenched, you know those things that you can
do to work out your hands, one of those hand workouts,
you might as well do that. It might be better
on it might be better on the hands. Someone's got
to get Senator Grassley a stress ball. Thank you very
much for the time today.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
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