Episode 99 - Explosive Highlights from a Historic Debate. Breaking the Sound Barrier...By Accident. A Hot Mic Hot Take on Masks.
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In this episode of Hot Takes, Rep. Matt Gorsch talks about the 2020 Democratic primary debate, and why he thinks President Donald Trump won the debate. He also discusses the impact of the debate on the economy and the future of the country.
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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 let's talk about the news boy was that presidential
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debate engaging and provocative and interesting although some wish that maybe we would have had
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a little more clarity on vision you know in a prior episode of the podcast i warned that this
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debate would be less serviceable to the country if it was two men in their 70s arguing over grievances
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regarding the worst parts of the status quo and i thought the winner of the debate would be the
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person that maybe said the fewest words and i also thought that the winner of the debate would be
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whichever candidate could use maybe a light moment of humor uh self-effacing humor and certainly vision
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vision for the country where we're going how they're going to get us here and it appears that
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neither candidate took my advice in that regard instead choosing to hurl insults at one another
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i know there are many people who don't like the president who will see the traits that they didn't
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like reflected in the debate similarly those who were concerned about the fragility of joe biden
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likely did not have that alleviated he seemed to struggle to complete sentences and thoughts
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and one could only imagine how he would complete on the execution of any major policy reforms given
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that frailty clearly on display i had the opportunity to discuss the debate right afterwards on the sean
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hannity program take a listen joe biden did look frail here's the question america which of those two
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men are you picking to go up against president xi in a negotiation about your job i'm picking trump
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i'm not picking slow basement dwelling joe biden i'll tell you who qasem soleimani and al-bagdadi
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and osama bin laden would pick they'd pick joe biden you know trump killed two of them and joe biden was
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against killing the third and so i think that the president wins the debate also when he makes joe
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biden the candidate of lockdowns president trump showed empathy when he talked about the impacts of
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these lockdowns on people's lives and that's not washington nonsense that's exactly what's happening
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at the kitchen table for america's families and i think also president trump made joe biden the
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candidate of the mob it was just sad when trump pressed joe biden for a single law enforcement
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organization that supported him and by the way sean mostly they support democrats their unions these
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are police unions that in a lot of state in local races back the democrat candidate but they're all
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backing president trump because they see joe biden the candidate of the mob very effective night for the
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president he was the only strong leader in the debate he came prepared for the debate and he
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probably came prepared to moderate it i thought president trump's questions were better than
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chris wallace's and it's true we want trump on that wall we need trump on that wall washington is a town
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that needs to be interrupted if you don't have interrupters in washington dc you just get more of the
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same people telling you how things always used to be and how the machinery of the entrenched
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interests really ought to continue operating with the rest of us just standing by and looking and
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observing president trump in his interviews and his rallies and his exchanges with political opponents
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is on the balls of his feet he's sharp and that sharpness i think sometimes can cut both ways for him
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with some groups of voters but all in all i think the president did have the stronger performance and
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it's very significant that joe biden becomes the candidate of lockdowns we're going to listen to
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some clips in a moment i'm going to really try to condense this debate so that if you didn't see it
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you get some of the hot exchanges and key moments but i do think when the president talks about the impact
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of these lockdowns on people's lives and when he talks about joe biden as the lockdown candidate and
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the candidate of the mobs it is central to the president's strategy and it will move those voters
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to vote for the president who may not like him i mean look we all know that in 2016 president trump
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won this election because people who don't like him personally were willing to vote for him based on
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what they believe he could do for the country and i think that talking about the 10.4 million jobs that
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have been onboarded since coronavirus talking about our economic success before coronavirus showcasing
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the policy choices that led to that success certainly is the way the president is going to get the votes
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of people who again may not like the style may not like the tweets but who sure like the roaring
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trump economy and the sense of prosperity that america has enjoyed so i want to give you a chance
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to listen to that clip and plenty more from last night's debate we closed it down and now we're
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reopening and we're doing record business we had 10.4 million people in a four-month period that we've
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put back into the workforce that's a record the likes of which nobody's ever seen before he doesn't
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have any law would you support he has no law enforcement that's not true almost that's not
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that look all right who do you have name one group that supports you name one group that came out
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and supported you go ahead think we have time we don't have time to do anything all right
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all right one law enforcement group that came out and i think i'm going to i'm going to take back
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the moderator yes there is there's just systemic injustice in this country let me just tell you
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joe i've done more in in 47 months i've done more than you've done in 47 years joe we've done things
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that you never even thought of okay president trump you're holding large rallies with crowds packed
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together thousands of people outside outside yes sir agreed uh vice president biden you are holding
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much smaller uh events with nobody will show up people with did you use the word smart uh so you
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said you went to delaware state but you forgot the name of your college you didn't go to delaware
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state you graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class don't ever use the word smart
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with me don't ever use that word oh give me a break because you know what and there's nothing smart
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about you joe 47 years you've done let's have this debate if you would have had let me just tell you
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something joe now if you would have had the charge of what i was put through i had to close the
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greatest economy in the history of our country and by the way now it's being built again you see
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the economy in the next segment sir president trump did a phenomenal job we did we got the gowns we got
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the masks we made the ventilators you wouldn't have made ventilators and now we're weeks away from a
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vaccine but i'll tell you joe you could never have done the job that we did you don't have it in
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your blood you could have never done that you i beat bernie sanders not by much i beat him a whole
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hell of a lot i'm here i'm here standing facing you o'clock hunters would have left two days early
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you would have lost every primary knows how to do it on super tuesday you got very lucky
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director of national intelligence john ratcliffe sent a very significant letter recently to judiciary
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chairman lindsey graham regarding the russia hoax i had a chance to discuss right as this was
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happening on lou dobbs take a listen i am very disappointed that we are not getting indictments
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from john durham before the election but just the clinesmith indictment shows that you've got more
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people that have committed crimes at the fbi than you ever had in the trump campaign or in the trump
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white house but remember lou it was myself and jim jordan mark meadows who back in 2017 said that we
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don't we needed a special counsel to investigate the activities of hillary clinton and had we done that
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we would have known what john ratcliffe just told us well before but we had the spineless speaker
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paul ryan who blocked us at every turn you know he acted like we were the tinfoil hat wearing crazy
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republicans but the reality is we were telling the american people the truth people in washington on
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both sides of the aisle were lying to the american people and now we know exactly where the russia hoax
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began exactly what the purpose was and you know what this mail-in ballot nonsense the ballot harvesting
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that's the new russia they're going to use ballot harvesting to try to delegitimize what will almost
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certainly be a win for president trump on election day and you talked in your reporting about the
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importance of this debate i guess joe biden didn't get his two breaks i think earlier he'd requested
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nap time or something like that but when you talk about businesses outside boarding up they're not
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boarding up for people with maga hats you know nobody with a maga hat is running down the streets
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setting stuff on fire trying to destroy our nation it's the radical left that threatens safety and
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security and tranquility on our streets that should be the central point that donald trump makes joe biden
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will allow the portland woketopia to take over america this is still the greatest country in the
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world you write about it in trump's century and it's still a country worth fighting for it is very
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consequential that hillary clinton cooked up the russia hoax fed it to the obama team and then used it as
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an excuse for the obama biden clinton team's policy failures and hillary clinton's election losses
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everything we were saying about this being a setup about the president being targeted about bias at the
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fbi and the department of justice a willingness to carry out the most devious plans cooked up by hillary
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clinton it has all turned out to be true how fake the russia hoax really was
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there are a lot of flash polls that come out following these presidential debates some have an
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ideological tilt based on who they survey some do not telemundo had one that caught my eye in the
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flash telemundo poll two-thirds of respondents saying that donald trump won the debate only one-third
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saying that joe biden won the debate and if you've been listening to the podcast we've been
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chronicling this movement of hispanic voters toward donald trump in a substantial degree i think if
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there was any one issue any one substantive policy matter discussed that likely influenced that telemundo
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poll with a lot of hispanic respondents it would likely be just the inability of joe biden to distance
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himself from the mob from the chaos and destruction and arson that has been visited upon
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too many american cities and communities and that is not something that the hispanic voters that i've
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spoken to in florida want to see and it very well may be why the president continues to do well
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with this key demographic it'll matter in florida it'll matter in arizona it'll matter in texas and
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look you know even in places like pennsylvania and michigan where thousands of votes hundreds of
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votes may decide the election everyone is key and this major shift certainly enores to the benefit of
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the president pennsylvania governor tom wolf on the hot mic saying that masks are political theater
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take a listen so wendy i'm gonna take i'm gonna take my mask off i don't as well i'm just i'm waiting
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so that we can do a little political theater okay so that it's on camera it does feel sometimes at
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public events where you're outside or where you've got a lot of sunlight directly on you or whether
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it's windy and you've got distance that people do feel pressured to wear the mask over the virtue
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signaling i still support wearing a mask i wear one when i'm close to folks as much as practical i'm
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sure i could be even better at it but it's just indicative of the way people view politics to see
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folks saying one thing doing another and then expecting everyone to sort of watch the show and
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adhere to it and i think that we ought to be honest if we have disagreements with the mass policy if
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masks aren't necessary in a particular setting we shouldn't just wear them for the virtue signal
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if you happen to be in paris france last night and you heard a loud noise that sounded like an
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explosion french police have confirmed that it wasn't a fighter jet was flying over paris and
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i guess accidentally broke the sound barrier and so that noise was a sonic boom from that experience and
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i wonder how you even accidentally break the sound barrier i wonder if there's a fighter pilot in
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trouble for that that can have quite the effect and certainly the people of paris were initially
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concerned but now can rest easy it's not the sound of an explosion it's the sound of freedom it's the
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sound of your military protecting you we hope no one was injured by the noise we hope everyone is
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able to get back to normal in paris france whatever that may be thanks for listening to hot takes i'm
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congressman matt gates join us tomorrow and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any hot takes