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how are you feeling how what are your feels Scott Galloway it's nice of you to ask I felt a mix of relief excitement
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and sadness and I was actually quite stressed over the week I yeah you know in general I don't know if it's I'm
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getting older or the world is really a shitti or more unstable place but between October 7th Donald Trump Biden I
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have I I find this all quite actually quite stressful what what are how do you how are you feeling this has got a lot
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of interesting possibilities obviously the Republicans are are very nervous I think and they are because it's exciting
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and the fundraising is just indicative of that um and so uh how speaking of fundraising how many texts did you get
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from Democrats yesterday they got they more than $50 million online on Sunday making it the single biggest day for
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online Democratic contribution since the 20120 election people there was an everybody was waiting they didn't want
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to give it to Biden uh because they felt sad and like you're going to lose they're going to throw the money away uh
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how do how many did you get oh it's it's it's everywhere but it's exciting people
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seem really um I I do I I empathize I I feel like when he first announced I was just
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like this had this cathartic release of a mix of sadness and relief and then as we came into this morning I just there's
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a palpable sense of hope and optimism and excitement and one of the stats uh I love is that Trump immediately boasted
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that post his conviction he raised $53 million uh and what it ends up is that 5050 million of that that came from one
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person right right right and the the biggest Hall I believe in this election cycle so far has happened in the last 24
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hours for for for vice president Hara so that's very exciting and not only that it's small it's mostly small donors
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which which I think people are just really excited to get behind fresh yeah to get behind to get behind someone
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other than Biden and specifically someone other than Trump that's right it's given them an alternative
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especially if she makes the right choices now you've been lukewarm on her in the past have you changed your I have
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not I know very well and I really think she's still it's not unsung it's just she's had a lot of accomplishments that
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that like JD Vance has no accomplishments and he gets touted and she has real accom like real up and down
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by the way I don't agree with everything she's done but certainly an accomplished
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person I really like her husband quite a bit I think he's fantastic um uh and she's not what people think she is like
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you know she's much more conservative she's much more um she's certainly open-minded but she's not the leftwing
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there's she's conservative for California she's conservative I'll tell you that but anyway what is has it
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changed your mind at all or is it just her being vaunted there makes her more substantive to you I'll give you what I
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see the pluses and minuses and I'll and also I just want to acknowledge I think you're a great judge of character and
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it's heartening for me that that you admire her and think a lot of her um so here are the pluses the reality is we
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are where we are and she starts at letter e or F if she just they just pivot the infrastructure the field
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offices the money the staff I mean she she she doesn't she starts at a not a Sprint but or not a Gallop but a caner
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right right it just the momentum is maintained if she's the pick I do think that while uh secretary Clinton didn't
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didn't break the glass ceiling I think she shattered it and I think that America looks back on that election and
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says you know we're we were ready for a woman president then and we're definitely ready for now I I really do
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think people America is ready for its first female president in terms of a race in a competition I think in terms
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of brand it's about offering distinct lines of differentiation when she gets on uh stage with him at a debate she's
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going to make him look as old as he made Biden look right the having a woman of color who's attractive he's just going
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to I mean the first tweet I put out this morning was that every presidential candidate in history at this age has
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dropped out Donald Trump is too old to be president I saw that yeah I like all of a sudden he's the there's going to be
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Stark relief and what's interesting is that just as age was the primary consideration in Trump versus Biden I
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actually think it's going to be the primary consideration here but it's going to be our asset not our liability
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right the brand um positioning I would absolutely go after if I were her is I'm a prosecutor he's a felon I would just
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be like this is what I did to people who ripped off people she put a bunch of uh
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degree Mill universities out of business and say this is what Trump did he was the degree Mill guy I would absolutely
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Macho myself up around the AG stuff I'm the prosecutor he's the Fain now the downside she has not been a successful
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presidential candidate she is not battle tested she dropped out before she ever won a single de delegate she has not
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resonated with the American people in a role as vice president some people will say that she hasn't been given a fair
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shot there's probably some truth to that but I think actually the most the most negative thing you could say about her
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is that I find her staff has done a really bad job of messaging because what they talk about or what I hear is that
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she hasn't been given a fair Shake as opposed to saying she's outstanding so I think there's nothing's perfect but I'm
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sort of at a point where I gotta be honest here I'm I just want someone who can beat Trump I'm not going to get
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perfect is not on the men and the menu for me right now I think I think if they rrap her with tal with talented people
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they'll there's not by the way there's not enough time for her to [ __ ] up that much that's the one
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thing is the time frame is squeezed right and she's the best known person she makes the right two things she makes
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the right choice on vice president she'll get a lot of credit um and and there's just it's just not enough time
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but you know her pretty well and like one of the things I've noticed is on online he's popular on crazy Twitter
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she's popular on Tik Tok What what should first of all what should Dem rats do in the next week from your
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perspective and well I want I'm going to push it back to you it sounds like you're advocating for what I Loosely
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call a coronation versus a competition you think why is the word coronation she's the obvious choice she's a she's
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the vice president she's been speaking of those those 14 million votes they were voting for Biden but she was on the
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ticket car no no presidential candidate with the exception of Gerald Ford has not been forced or asked to run
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something resembling a campaign with competition I just I I don't think there's time for it unfortunately I I
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think I think that's a good argument but let's be honest it's a coronation not a
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competition well well except that they that that the people that are picking are the Democratic party it's not just
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the the poas no it's not which by the way there's some problems should it be should it be the party Elders making
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well I I heard the dean Phillips argument I heard the dean Phillips argument that he made yesterday I I'm
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kind of quite frankly I think I at the end of the day I think I'm on board with you I think I'm just sort of we've gone
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through I feel like we're like a a like an abused family at this point and we've
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like got some reasonable sense of function back in our household and we just need to go with it you know what I
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mean I'm not well also by the way I don't think we're dysfunctional at all I think the Republicans are dun they
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there's so many Republicans who don't want Trump and they can't say anything they're in a cult that look at JD Vance
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he's had to literally castrate himself for Trump in terms of he's a unic he used to be anti-trump then he had to do
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things um these people are this is healthy to argue okay I I won't use the word coronation you think we should w
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around Vice har you don't want you don't want a series of debates to try and battle be happy I'd be happy to have her
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do that I think she's quite good on the stump Nome Whitmer Buddha jedge they've all like all the ones that would be her
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competition have have have have pieced out and they do let me ask you a question do you think that was part of
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the deal I don't think organize it that fast but maybe they certainly in touch with each other I would guess right
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right I I wonder if if part of the deal was Biden saying look this needs to be my part of my legacy is handing it off
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to my vice president and he called out these folks and said I'm going to drop out and you're going to endorse her
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within 12 hours because it all happened pretty fast they didn't quite Obama didn't immediately hasn't immediately
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done it I think all the candidates were smart from a from a a political perspective there's no reason for more
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chaos at this point yep I think it's a good argument