Episode 71 - Establishment Crumbles Under MAGA Support in Florida. Operation Legend Tackles Crime. Oppose BDS.
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In the wake of Florida's primary election, the establishment loses its grip on power in the Sunshine State, as primary voters cast their ballots for the first time in a primary with a primary system that was designed to elect a Republican to Congress.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates if we sound a little bit different today it's
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because i'm traveling i'm on the move following florida's primary election here i've got some
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meetings in washington dc we'll get back to our normal equipment and our normal sound quality
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very soon let's talk about the news and the news from florida's first congressional district is that
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republicans have voted for me to the tune of 81 percent in last night's election to represent
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our party on the november general election ballot and i've been in a few competitive republican
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primaries before for congress and for the state legislature and i have never gotten 81 percent
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of the republican vote and so this is really a high watermark for me very appreciative to my
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constituents and i'm appreciative to the democrats and independents that came out and voted as well
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because participating in our democracy is something we should never take for granted the fact that we
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get to choose our leaders sets us apart from a lot of people throughout the world and you know i take a
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lot of flack on social media and from some of the mainstream media pundits and the so-called
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washington experts about how someone ought to approach the job of congressman and i'm grateful
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that my fellow republicans back in northwest florida they seem to think that i'm doing okay and when
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you get a performance review from tens of thousands of your constituents and they give you an 81 percent
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when when compared to two other candidates it's certainly something that uh i know our whole team
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takes a lot of pride in so we look forward to continuing to serve our district and hopefully
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a lot of great floridians will be back out to vote in the november election as well
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what an election night in the sunshine state i've covered the little mini disputes over the frame and
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the focus of the republican party as they play out in some of these florida primaries i think that can
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be indicative of the way that republicans shape our candidacies and our candidates uh all over
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america and so in florida there were two races talked about them yesterday on the podcast uh ross
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spano the incumbent against scott franklin the challenger the republican leadership had backed the
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incumbent i backed the challenger last night scott franklin the challenger wins by about 1500 votes
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and what's interesting about the franklin win is that it required a real comeback on the election
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day vote you know in the state of florida around half the vote is actually collected and counted before
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election day and then the remainder of the vote is that election day turnout so in in about half of the
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electorate that had been counted before election day you had ross spano the incumbent leading by a little
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more than a thousand votes and then when you got the election day turnout uh you saw scott franklin
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prevail by about 2500 votes there for a margin of about 1500 votes so the establishment goes down
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brooke singman of fox news has the story and i have the quote the geop establishment had a rough go of it
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in my beloved sunshine state florida congressman says and that is yours truly because it was not just
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the spano race there is an open primary well i guess i shouldn't say open primary there's a primary
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without an incumbent congressman that is a republican so it's more of a free-for-all different members of
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congress pick different candidates to support and all of the republican leadership had backed
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pharmaceutical lobbyist amanda mackie i backed air force veteran anna paulina luna luna wins that race by
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actually a wider margin than i expected she had a small deficit from the vote before election day
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and then she has this really wash of support that shows up on election day and she ends up winning
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that race by uh by uh you know well outside what would be a polling margin of error so now anna paulina
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luna advances to compete with congressman charlie christ who is now a democrat who is the former
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republican governor of florida former independent candidate for u.s senate so charlie has checked
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all the bingo boxes on parties and now gets i think a very credible challenge from anna paulina luna
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we're not going to get into the you know who folks should vote for but in just in terms of the frame of
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the issue sets and sort of what it means about the different types of voters that vote on election day
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versus by mail or in early votes it's certainly an interesting analysis and it is certainly
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not the night that the establishment wanted but i think it's a great night for america first patriots
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and certainly was a great night for those of us who support president trump
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taiwan on did not literally used to mean only one adult beverage but according to a report from a
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federal committee that is what the u.s should change its health recommendation to for men
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going from a recommended two limit for alcoholic beverages per day to one alcoholic beverage per
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day as the recommended dosage yet to be seen is whether or not if you go dry from monday to thursday
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do you get to break that that hard cap of one maybe have a couple beers watch some sports get back to
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good old american life well alcohol may be a little more unsafe than we originally thought
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for the president and his administration to be successful delivering on the promises of his
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historic 2016 campaign we have got to continue making progress and success against illegal immigration
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the president's administration did so much to repatriate people from the northern triangle
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to ensure that the asylum process wasn't just a catch and release joke we've built more than 200
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miles of wall tens of thousands of asylum seekers are either waiting their hearing in mexico or in
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their home country rather than waiting in the united states of america so really monumental stuff
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has happened to try to rescue us from this invite everyone over the border illegally mentality that we saw
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too often from the obama administration and now the president makes the trip back to yuma arizona
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here's the president under the trump administration if you cross our border illegally you are quickly
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we are proudly defending the job safety and security of the american people which is what i promised to do
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nobody told me it was going to be this hard nobody told me i was going to have the democrats go totally
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you know why they don't talk about it anymore because they know it's bad politics because they
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know having a wall they can't win that one so they just say let's forget it ever happened
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because we won and they say let's forget they don't want to talk about it that includes the millions
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of incredible hispanic americans who follow our laws uplift our community
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with the help of these patriots we've stopped the rampant asylum fraud shut down the human smugglers and
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we're finding the drug dealers traffickers predators and we're throwing them to hell in jail or sending them
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for the first time that you've ever seen this ms 13 is totally on the run
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many of its leaders are right now behind bars and we're deporting its members in record numbers
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we've never reported i can't believe how many there are
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the woketopian left is not done cancelling conservatives in fact in many ways they're just
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getting started but that certainly doesn't stop them from going after some of their own
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fox news is ron blitzer has the story biden campaign distances itself from former woman's
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march leader sarsour after dnc appearance so apparently this lady linda sarsour is a women's march
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original organizer but she has said some pretty rough things about israel a very anti-semitic in the
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view of biden's frame on the bds movement biden casts the boycott divest sanction movement as an
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effort to delegitimize israel he then says as a consequence he will not support that movement
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she was a strong supporter of bds many in the congress and throughout the country really see that
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as an eruption of anti-semitism and the utilization of economic power to try to stop israel from even
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having the opportunity to exist and provide for its own people i certainly oppose the bds movement
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strongly in the congress and while democrats are the only ones that have supported it it certainly
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does not appear to be the goal of the biden campaign to support it which is why it makes it a little
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awkward that linda is on the video screen during one of the showcase moments of the democratic convention
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last night and so the biden campaign today has to come out and say they're not associated with her
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not affiliated with her but it raises the question why was her image and her likeness that which was
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promoted look you know i i think there's probably some technician or some low-level producer in the
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campaign somewhere who probably put that in and didn't realize who they were using i don't get the
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sense that we ought to use the tools of the left to cancel people i think we should use these absurd
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moments to mock how ridiculous the cancel culture is but without question the bds movement is something
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that from a policy standpoint cannot be supported and i'm frankly glad to see that biden himself
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attorney general bill barr giving a press conference on operation legend let's listen in
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we launched operation legend in kansas city and one of the key factors in that decision was that we
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were working with a superb police department and outstanding police leadership three weeks ago we've
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substantially expanded operation legend and we are now underway in nine u.s cities the operation is named
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for legend talaferro a four-year-old boy who was shot while he was asleep in his apartment the most basic
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duty of government is to provide for the safety of the community operation legend is the heart of the
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the federal government's response to this upturn in violent crime its mission is to save lives
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solve crimes and take violent offenders off the streets before they can claim more victims
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fernando tatis jr might be the best player in baseball right now leading the league in home runs
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the 21 year old phenom is in the news though for another reason did he break one of the unwritten
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rules of baseball did he apply a different sense of competition and incentive and reward to a game that
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values tradition and a little more collegiality is that a generational thing so i want to talk about
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let me set the scene for you the rangers are losing to the padres the rangers are in the field
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the padres are up like you know seven runs the bases are loaded 3-0 count and tatis gets the
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take sign that he apparently misses he swings at the pitch and hits a grand slam now the unwritten rules
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of baseball would say bases loaded 3-0 count you got a big lead you take a pitch you're just trying to get
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the game over with but not for this 21 year old free spirit as his manager called him and after the
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game what i found interesting is that the managers of both teams criticized tatis and said that it
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wasn't the right thing to do to swing at the pitch so here's the question for the listener what would
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you do in that situation if you were leading the league in home runs and had the chance to hit another
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one if your compensation was going to be based on these objective metrics of production like rbis and
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runs if you know you're going to get a good pitch 3-0 with the bases loaded are you taking that pitch
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are you taking the swing i'm taking the swing all day and i'm standing with fernando tatis jr i think
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that in a world where we try to get the maximum compensation and value for our skills in a capitalistic
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economy one ought to be able to perform at their highest level if that is the reward based system
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so uh in the following at that the pitcher juan niasco actually throws behind the hitter for the
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padres who was on tatis's team and that sparked a warning from the umpires a little message getting
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sent back and forth but i want to live in an america where every time you're up at the plate you have
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an opportunity to swing for the fences and in baseball we should do no less thanks for listening
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to today's episode of hot takes i'm congressman matt gates tune in tomorrow for more hot takes