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