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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Yer.

Speaker 1 (00:00):
White House correspondent John Decker joins is now for an
update on what's happening on the campaign trail.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
What already, John, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah, already. You know, both parties looking ahead to the
midterm elections. The President wants to hold on to the
House and the Senate for the midterm elections next year,
and for good reason, you know. I mean, there's so
many things that he'd like to get accomplished during the
course of his final two years in office, not just
the first two years. So the president's first fundraiser is

(00:29):
going to be for someone who's been very loyal to him.
That's Lindsay Graham, Republican senator from South Carolina, who actually,
believe it or not, has a primary challenge, and I
think that this fundraiser for Lindsay Graham essentially sends the
message to that challenger, you don't have a snowball chance
in hell in terms of beating Lindsay Graham. Right, right,

(00:50):
So the president there's a very narrow majority that Republicans
have in both the House and the Senate, and typically
the party in power that's obviously Republican, they lose seats
in the midterm elections, but the President wants to rebuff history,
wants to show history up and actually win seats during
next year's midterm elections in November.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You know, John, I've seen the President wigh in on
Mandannie running for mayor New York Cities, also waiting in
the New Jersey campaigns and races going on there, and
the Virginia race is there.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Does he get out and support.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
The Republicans in places like this or does he just
stick with the congressional seats and Senate seats.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well with the mayor's race that you know, I mean
as it relates to New York City. Curtis Lee was
the Republican, but he doesn't really have an opportunity or
a chance to win. So the President, you know, he
hasn't said, you know, he endorses Andrew Cromo, but I
think that's the subliminal message. He would rather see of
the three candidates competing for mayor of New York City,

(01:53):
Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, win that race.
I don't know. I have to see what ultimately happens,
but he certainly it's involved. In some of the other races,
he'll get involved. There's a governor's race in Virginia, there's
a governor's race in New Jersey, and he'll certainly get
involved in terms of trying to get his supporters to
support the Republican nominee in each of those races.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Also, the East Wing now under construction and demolition as
they're building a two hundred and fifty million dollars ballroom.
Trump says, this is all going to be private donations.
This isn't the first time the idea has come up
to do this.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Correct, Well, it's not the first time, and the person
who had the idea is Donald Trump. President Trump speaks
about how when he was a private citizen approaching President
Barack Obama saying, look, I'd like to build a ballroom,
no charge to the US government, build a ballroom at
the White House, and the president president at the time,

(02:49):
President Obama said thanks, but no thanks. But now Donald
Trump is president and he wants to build a ballroom,
and he's building a ballroom. And as you point out,
the demolition of part of the East Room took place yesterday.
So this whole process is going to take probably two
years time to build this ballroom just outside the East

(03:11):
Room of the White House.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, that's pretty interesting.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean it's going to expand obviously from the current
space there from I sink six fifty to nine hundred people.
You've been in the White House a bunch, You've seen
inaugural parties, You've seen guests come to the White House?
Is this needed? Do you think it's just a renovation
to upgrade? Why do you think it's end?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well, I've been in so many events in the largest
room at the White House, that's the East Room. I
was in the East Room yesterday for a celebration for
LSU and LSU Shreveport Spaceball Championships, and those rooms are packed.
They really are, you know. And if you want to
have an event in which you want to have the
opportunity for hundreds of people, there really isn't space at

(03:56):
the White House for doing just that. And I think
that's the reason why the press that it feels that
a ballroom is necessary at the White House to do
those types of events. And that's what he says, this
ballroom is all about.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
All right, good for him, quickly shutdown. We're still got
the government not working like it should.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
What are you hearing?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, Day twenty one, the eleventh opportunity to reopen the
government failed last night in the US Senate. I don't
know of any indication of ending the government shutdown anytime soon.
You know, to me, just looking at it as an observer,
it doesn't seem like Democrats really have a strategy. You know,
they seemed in this array right now as it relates

(04:36):
to this, and you know, we just spoke about the
midterm elections next year.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
JT.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
This could hurt Democrats, you know, in their efforts to
win back control of the House and the Senate. This
continued government shutdown. We'll just obviously have to wait and
see how the public views it. But it's not a
good look for either party, but I think for Democrats
in particular.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, one hundred percent with you there. Thank you, John Deck.
I appreciate you. Don't forget you, and get more John
Decker on the iHeartRadio app. It just searchs the White
House Briefing Room with John Decker and be sure to
set that preset button.
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