Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Salena Zito & Jason Whitlock ｜ 10⧸27⧸20
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In today's show, we talk about the early voting numbers, the early vote numbers, and the growing number of early votes being cast across the country. We also talk about Kamala Harris and why she's got a nervous tick.
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hello america it's a podcast time and a good one today we talk about the polls we actually
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we actually also um i mean i'm well i was gonna say i'm not a doctor but i am a doctor right
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stew oh yeah that's right humanities yeah so i can diagnose anything with the human
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condition at all um i'm gonna be doing podiatry later this week just stop by my office if you
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need some foot things uh anyway what things kamala harris there's something deeply disturbing about
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her there is something she's got a uh nervous tick that we need to address and we did in today's
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podcast we also went over the polls uh six ways to sunday selena zito is with us selena is really
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focused on ohio and pennsylvania and i thought she had some really good news uh for us all this and
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so much more on today's podcast don't forget to go to blaze tv.com slash glenn use the promo code glenn
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let me give you some good news with 1,294,660 ballots cast the gop leads the early vote in
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wisconsin 42 percent gop to 36 percent democrat about 46 percent of the estimated total votes of 2020 have
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been cast in wisconsin you can register and vote the same day still a close race over the last few
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days republicans have stormed the polls and are beginning to take the lead in early voting in
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several states um this is this data is derived from actual ballots cast the sample size larger than any
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poll um they say it's very accurate in determining the voter uh preference the data does not account for
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specific demographics or senate or uh segments of the electorate that still have to vote so that is
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that is good they say what's worrisome for democrats is the absence of youth voters this is something that
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they always get wrong in the polls democrats are always expecting the youth to show up the 18 to 29
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year olds they don't usually show up the only time it's ever happened is with barack obama
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voting is now up 309 from this time in 2016 then 2016 the raw numbers show the youth vote up
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in 2020 as a percentage of the electorate uh 18 to 29 year olds cast only five percent of the total vote
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in 2016 they were 17 of the vote the data suggests young people are not showing up at the same rate as
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they have in even 2016 good so yes this is a this is a good uh what happened in was it north carolina or
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south carolina there's the republicans are 10 points behind pat i think you were saying that what was
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that number yeah uh he's he yeah the republicans are 10 10 percent behind uh and at the same stage
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in the 2016 election hillary was up by 13.5 percent and who ate was and and trump still won and it was
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at south carolina north carolina north carolina yeah it's it's bizarre i mean it's like you know
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we mentioned this off the air but uh in pennsylvania it's 64 to 25 biden now again when we say biden
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we're summarizing here it's just party registration all these democrats could be voting for donald trump we
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don't know but when it comes to party registration it's 64 25 and that's big voting is compared to
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2016 is up 955 wow now a lot this is what's so weird about this election it's like the covid
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changes all these rules like i don't know what you can take out of this honestly i i really don't know
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what to read into it states right next to each other with the same demographic breakdowns have
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completely different results like i don't know what quirky thing is going on with the data or if it's
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just everyone is very indecisive well who knows but it's it's hard to read things out of early
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vote if you go crazy with it you you'll get really excited or really depressed and you may maybe may
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very well be for no reason but so far we are seeing massive numbers i mean way beyond anything we've ever
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seen so over 60 million people have already voted when you're talking about you know they expect about
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155 155 155 million here for the total might be the most uh the biggest turnout percentage wise since
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1908 did you did you hear feels right yeah did you hear that uh some democrats now are asking for
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their ballots back yeah after the uh hunter biden yeah and especially they're allowing those people to
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go back in and get their ballots it's legal in seven states and pennsylvania is one of them michigan's
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another so there are some swing states that you can but you gotta consult your local you know uh
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voting authority and find out how you do that because it's different and i find that that amazing
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yeah you know for somebody who had voted early for biden and then they see the the news for them to say
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that's enough for me to change my ballot i that that uh that doesn't bode well i think for joe biden
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if this news would have gotten out which is why the press didn't do anything um i i want to i want
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to play something uh that i find really telling uh let's play from kamala harris uh the two cuts
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let's here's cut one of kamala harris on 60 minutes you're very different in the policies that you've
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supported in the past you're considered the most liberal united states senator i somebody said that
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it actually was mike pence on the debate stage but yeah well actually the non-partisan gov track has
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rated you as the most liberal senator you supported the green new deal you supported medicare for all
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you've supported legalizing marijuana joe biden doesn't support those things so are you going to
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bring the policies those progressive policies that you supported as senator into a biden administration
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question what i will do and i promise you this and this is what joe wants me to do this was part of
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our deal i will always share with him my lived experience as it relates to any issue that we confront
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and i promised joe that i will give him that perspective and always be honest with him okay stop so she
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is so she is i'm gonna bring my lived experience but here's the problem uh you're the most liberal
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oh my my why is she laughing every time she is asked a tough question she laughs yeah listen to the next
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one and is that a socialist or progressive perspective no it is the perspective of a woman
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who grew up a a black child in america yeah who was also a prosecutor who also has a mother who
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arrived here at the age of 19 from india hardly anybody who also you know likes hip-hop
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what do you want to know well i want to give you i want to give you the opportunity to i mean it's
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seriously it's on stop it's unsettling it's unsettling she's going to be make no mistake
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she's going to be the president of the united states if biden wins if biden wins she will be the president
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i'm not saying that biden's not going to be the president for a while but he's not going to last for
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four years we all know that we all know that this is the next president of the united states and you
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know i'm really glad because when i said the president was a socialist uh i was called a racist i'm glad to
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see now it's not racist it's funny to be called a socialist i can't answer that so i'm just gonna
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well everything you believe in is right from marx
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why did you i mean you're belittling the honest question here and there wasn't an
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additional set thing said to joke or anything he just started laughing hysterically in the middle of
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so some would say that uh you got in cut a deal with biden that you would
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actually be the president at some point he would just step aside
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i don't know i just i just uh i think maybe we should pay attention uh to that just a little
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bit by the way the the media has excused uh joe biden's apparent bush trump mix-up did you hear
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about this yeah i think he's talking about george lopez yeah no i want i want to i just want to
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play this from yesterday if we still have it could we play when joe biden uh starts talking about we're
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gonna have another four years of uh of uh bush uh uh george uh george uh listen this is the most
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consequent not because i'm running but because who i'm running against this most consequential election
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uh in a long long long time and the character of the country in my view is literally on the ballot
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what kind of country we're going to be four more years of george uh george uh he uh is going to find
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ourselves in a position where if uh trump gets elected uh we're going to be uh we're going to be
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in a different world four more years of georgia uh george uh george lopez yeah that's that's what
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he's thinking this is not being said by a nobody this is the washington post my god the washington
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post is saying george lopez makes more sense uh than uh you know than george w bush does well yes
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yes that's that's true uh but so does george the curious monkey i mean that's read every night and
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we're gonna have another four years of george the curious monkey i mean that doesn't make any sense at
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all not at all uh he's talking about george clooney he really likes george clooney and he was thinking
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about another four years of clooney movies what a ridiculous explanation for that i'm gonna have
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four years of george jetson walking the dog on that automatic treadmill holy cow the press is just
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selena zito is uh with us she's the national political reporter for the washington examiner
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a columnist for the evil new york post and the co-author of the great revolt hi selena how are you
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good morning sunshine how are you i am i'm really good i'm really good how are you feeling about what
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the new york post is uh done with that hunter biden and those lies you know i i'm i applaud you know our
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job as journalists is not to take a team over the finish line but to come uncover the uncomfortable
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facts and that is what the new york post has done and i think that it is incredibly telling that our
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cultural curators all of them uh this time it is uh social media big tech are punishing them for
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for for doing essentially doing uh doing their job and i i think that when you meddle in things like
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that and you silence things like that that you um are doing not only a disservice to your uh consumers
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or your audience or whatever um but you are also um stifling the ability for people to um read about it
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but you know people find ways to read about it yeah i think they've made this story even bigger
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right um selena let me let me talk to you now about pennsylvania a state you know very well you've been
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traveling back and forth you've been talking to people um there's a couple of things that we need
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to address first of all the riots in philadelphia yesterday uh caused when police shot a black man who was
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not unarmed is coming at them with a knife it was all on on tape um is this going to help or hurt in the
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election well i think that um the the challenge for democrats um in this instance is that uh the black
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vote has as little um uh trust in either party to um to uh have their back and they're going to i don't
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think that they're necessarily going to say this is donald trump's fault because it happened in
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philadelphia and it happened it happened in the city of philadelphia and the people that have um
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um sort of the the control of the city of philadelphia are democrats yeah and wildly corrupt
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city much much more local than national i think what i'm what i'm asking you about is the let's say
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the suburban voters and the voters that look at philadelphia and see riots on the streets um is this
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going to uh be good for democrats or bad for democrats well so here's what i think i think um suburban
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democrats or suburban republicans who could find no reason to come to to vote for trump are are going
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to do one of two things they're going to vote for biden because they think this what happened is an
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extension of donald trump i don't know why um uh but also i think it gives a reluctant trump voters who
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are afraid of biden's policies but are um you know face the peer pressure of living in the suburbs
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they're going to people tend to vote not for themselves but for their communities and a lot of
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people don't vote ideology they vote for the person who has their communities back i think in that way
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that trump benefits they either vote for him or they don't show up so let's talk about washington
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county because you have a examiner article where trump's 2020 coalition must come from in pennsylvania
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talk to me about washington county this is the largest producer of natural gas among all of the
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counties and the second largest producer nationwide yeah so washington county to me is sort of the
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boilerplate of what needs to happen in counties outside of allegheny where pittsburgh is located
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and outside of the philadelphia color counties now in 2016 they came out and about two now there
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there were 10 of them who were not convinced that mit romney was a good businessman who were
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convinced he was the guy who was going to actually come to their desk with a box rather than build a
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new company and they they saw in trump that he would be the guy that restarted things and so they they
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they took a gamble and they voted for him if there were 10 counties that just needed to turn out 2 000
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more votes over what romney did and uh they did now up to and he won donald trump won because of
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counties like washington county who have been dominant democrats registrated parties for years forever
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since like the 1930s the fdr the new deal coalition came in now you trump needs not only those 10 counties
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which is which is also erie luzerne westmoreland butler and beaver but they need the additional
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counties that run across the top of the state who are conservative counties but they were on they didn't
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show up in the high number for trump mainly because these are farmers and and gas workers who thought that
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trump trump in 2016 sounded more like a liberal new york democrat than a conservative now he has delivered
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and all all trump needs is about 50 000 votes total out of all eight of these what i call heat counties
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and no matter what happens in philadelphia or or in allegheny county that vote will um exceed the vote that
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the democrats have not by much it's going to be close but if trump wins it's on the back of those voters
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plus the voters who put him in office in in 2020 so those are the counties i'm watching election night
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if they have a high turnout uh or if that is telling me that he is on the road to victory so what do you
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what does your gut tell you because he he not only needs at least what he got last time he needs an
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additional three percent of the vote to to offset the numbers that have have uh have changed since 2016
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um and i think i think if the president wins five percent that's enough to offset any of the
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shenanigans or anything else does he have a do you are you seeing signs that that's happening
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oh gosh in 2016 i thought the signs were over the top you know i saw houses with trump on the side
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painted on the side i saw barnes it's all horse uh with trump painted on the side um this time people
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don't have one sign they have nine they also have two flags and a four by eight in their front porch
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awkwardly covering the front window um the enthusiasm is there and i want to be clear he doesn't need
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three trump doesn't need three percent more of all throughout the state just in those rural
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counties so that's about two to three thousand more votes in in some of these more rural counties and i
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you know people go to selenazito.com i lay it out uh completely like every county to watch i wouldn't
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watch philadelphia first of all i don't even think they'll have their um their numbers in until at least
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friday um but i would see what was the enthusiasm in the rural counties which we are going to be able
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to see uh uh probably faster than philadelphia and and the caller counties selena i don't know
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what you're doing and who you're with but i'd love to have you on uh our coverage uh for the uh for
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the election if you would wouldn't mind dropping in and uh telling us all about uh pennsylvania and what
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you're seeing on um on election day i would absolutely love to all right selena thank you
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so much she's the national political reporter for the washington examiner columnist of the new york post
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uh she does dispatches from ohio and pennsylvania by the way do you have any information on ohio selena
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oh yeah i wrote also go to selenazito.com it's about the third story down i say if if ohio is
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about three to four percentage for trump on election go the polls going into election day
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uh uh the democratic wave that people in dc and new york have been writing about and was honestly very
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possible that means it's gone and and that means that trump um at least is standing a better chance
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in pennsylvania and michigan and north carolina um states um that are a little more democratic than
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ohio but if ohio's coming in at like a three to four to five percent win for trump um all things are
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even going into election night what did he win last time in ohio i think it was eight percentage
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points um i i i actually think that it's going to be maybe six percent in ohio um and i did a good
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layout of ohio as well um a couple days ago um for the examiner if y'all just go to my website
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and check it out selena zito selena zito z-i-t-o dot com selena the um uh the polls are showing the
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exact opposite are you meeting very many people that voted for trump last time and are not voting
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this time for him i've never met that person you've never met that person i've never met that person
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uh it doesn't mean they don't exist i'm sure there is yeah yeah there's there's all kinds of social
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pressure with in particular the suburbs but what i tend to meet are people that i mean there there
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is a story i have of of the line of people um in cambria county home of jack murtha you remember jack
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murtha um glenn um this this this county has always been democrat registered uh county line of people
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who voted for clinton and were changing their party registration to republican that is now a republican
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county it blows my mind that korea county johnstown pennsylvania um is now a republican county selena
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thank you so much god bless uh she is uh she's an amazing reporter and she is the one that said
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right after the election the problem is is that uh the media took his words literally and didn't take
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him seriously where the voters took him seriously but didn't take his words literally uh i thought that
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was a great understanding of donald trump right after the election the best of the glenn beck program
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jason whitlock the host of fearless with jason whitlock he's a sports writer uh he can be found
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at outkick.com now and uh jason joins me now uh i jason welcome to the program i want to start with
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something you just wrote for outkick uh president trump's dragon energy entices ice cube uh kanye
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west 50 cent and other black men 12 years ago when i trashed sarah palin in the huffington post column
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and across social media on a daily basis no one cared no one told me to stick to sports although a
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non-voter my preference for barack obama joe biden was quite clear i'm still a non-voter but my preference
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for donald trump and mike pence now is quite clear my critics passionately want me to stick to sports
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my presidential preference is now offensive i've sold out i've changed i'm a hypocrite this wednesday
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i visited the white house to interview president trump i wanted to probe him on why black voters
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particularly black men seem to be breaking from the facade that he is the grand wizard of the ku klux
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clan what's happening jason what's what's happening in the black community well i i really believe
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the facts are starting to speak for themselves and that donald trump's record of accomplishment
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particularly as it relates to african americans speaks for itself that uh he actually has a record to stand
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on uh unlike even uh barack obama when when he was president i don't think he had much of a record
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to stand on in terms of hey what did he actually deliver uh for african americans president trump has
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things he stands he can stand on and you know beyond that i think black people understand when he starts
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talking about black unemployment rate and america's unemployment rate and and then when you just
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add in for black men the facade we've been putting on as it relates to president trump is is is embarrassing
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to be quite honest with you uh just because we have celebrated him in hip-hop music yeah uh we have uh
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uh we have been friends with him and socialized with him in every way possible uh from oprah winfrey to
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jesse jackson to just any number of african-american celebrities and you know this whole thing that he's
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you know some flaming racist it just doesn't ring true and people are having to deal with that reality
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and uh i i think for black men it's just his mask his masculinity his fearlessness it just resonates
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and rings true to us you know i jason i got a lot of heat for saying uh i don't know about six or
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maybe maybe as long as a year ago um i said that donald trump is the alpha male and that he is one of the
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the only examples in in public life outside of sports perhaps that is an alpha that doesn't mind
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saying yeah i'm a man i'm all man and you may not like the way he manifests that in some ways but he's
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not ashamed of it and we're living in a culture where we are told to be women men are told to be women
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or damn near and he's not he's not and i think that plays a role in the psyche of a lot of men
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i think without question uh you know we've been on this tangent that like everything masculine is evil
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right toxic and that's just not true and i i think for men and a segment of the female population i think
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a pretty large segment we just don't buy that we understand that american freedoms were won
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through masculinity and there is a way to be responsibly masculine yes and there's a way to be
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irresponsibly masculine we need to get rid of the irresponsible but to paint all masculinity as toxic
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and evil and a detriment to the country is just wrong and i i just people aren't buying into it
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and look i think the black lives matter rioting looting disrespect when you have any sort just
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ten percent christian values five percent it just it black lives matters and all what we've seen all
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summer it just doesn't jibe with any kind of christian values or faith-based values
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american values american values american values it's but but let's say you want to have some
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anti-american sentiment because listen i love my mother she's a hardcore democrat you know hard she
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tossed me over a bridge for barack obama but i'm constantly questioning her like hey how do these
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policies coincide with our religious faith this is what's been at the foundation of our family this is why
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you took me to church every sunday as a kid this is why i was baptized these things that you're
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supporting politically it's so crystal clear now they don't coincide with our religious what is what
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does she say it she doesn't have a great answer she just gets frustrated and she thinks that she's been
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convinced that racism is the sin above all sins and and i'm not trying to diminish racism but it is just a
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sin it and when i say just a sin it's it's no greater worse uh than any other sin and sin and it's like i
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explained i was like look you understand the biblical tea sin entered the world unfairness entered the
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world and if someone gets angry and says the wrong word that does not mean they're not human that just
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means they're a sinner like you i've heard you say the wrong word i've but does that really drive your
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actions on a daily basis and so we've made racism the how you judge people and uh and we and the media
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can define almost anything as racist so anything can be a dog whistle so but how do you um have you
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said to your mom what you said last week uh about antifa being you know the modern day clan of course
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yeah but people live in their own little bubbles and again when you live in a bubble uh framed for you
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by msnbc and cnn yeah you know she doesn't antifa you know maybe i heard something about it joe biden
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said it was an idea she hasn't seen she doesn't know what's going on in portland and seattle every
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day she doesn't know that there are paid organized protesters looting and burning down these
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cities yeah she doesn't know because her that doesn't get into her bubble and you know listen
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what i've explained to her and i've spoken at the church i grew up in and i've explained to them
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because i still financially support the church i grew up in but i'm like we can't let politics become
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our religion amen we can't we can't and i've asked my mother all the time and i finally got her to quit
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but i was like you can't talk about trump and obama more than you talk about god that's that's not we
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can't be that and some of it is starting to get through and it's funny glenn president trump gave me
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a present to give to my mother and uh i told my mother this when i came back from i said he gave you
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a key to the white house it's very nice i'm gonna send it to you and she thought i was joking and and
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i was like no my mom's serious and so literally her reaction was like she didn't think president
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trump was capable of an act of kindness that's how much tv and my mom's 80 and so you know she's at home
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she's like a lot of old people watching a lot of tv and it kind of shook her up a little bit like oh my
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god this guy is a human being and it's it's you know but jason it's weird because you get i get that
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reaction i get that reaction from people who meet me i mean i had a guy that was so that hated me so
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much that came into a meeting with me his hands were shaking he called me the devil when we first sat
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down 45 minutes into it he said wow uh i mean you are nice you're a nice guy and he felt bad he
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told everybody after i left the meeting how badly he felt about saying those things people just
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don't believe that conservatives for one and in some ways you know democrats are decent people we
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just make them into these monsters if you're on that side you're a monster that is the power of social
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media and i keep explaining to people twitter instagram facebook they're some of the most secular
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places on earth and we've reduced everyone to a tweet that we disagree with yes and we used to not
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be that way we used to i don't find it like james carlville's wife i i they were on the side of the political
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aisle i know and it's like we've illegalized all of that i know and we used to live in a time where
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people could disagree politically still see the humanity each other still love each other enough
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to get married and now it's like oh we disagree politically you're the worst human being on the
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world that is how much social media and the mainstream media have divided us we've defined each
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other on different sides of the political stripe as evil and take someone like me glenn i'm not
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political i've never voted it drives my parents crazy what drives me crazy too i i'd like to i wanted to
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ask you that why have you never voted because i don't believe in politicians i am a person of my word
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and so if i say hey i'm gonna do something i'm really going to do it and i'm going to hold you to that
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expectation politicians don't stick to their word and this is why and it's taken me time to realize
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take me three and a half years to realize it like the reason why i kind of halfway like trump he's not
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a politician and it's like oh my god the stuff that he actually said he was going to do he's actually
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tried to do it and has done a lot of it that has made me i've waited too late to register to vote here
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in tennessee if i hadn't i think i'm to the point i would have vote i would have voted this election
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because i actually believe the guy he you know whether i agree or disagree but oh man the stuff
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he says days i have to tell you he called me oh i don't know a year ago when uh i first started
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saying maybe a year and a half ago when i first started saying i was wrong about him and i was wrong
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about him because i didn't think he'd keep any of his promises because he was a you know he's a
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businessman in new york and there's no way he's going to keep his promises um and i started saying
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on the air he kept his promises and i think he's actually doing a good job um and he called me and
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and he you know thanked me for that and i said no i you don't have to thank me it's my responsibility as
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a as a uh as a decent human being to call you know call him as i see him and i didn't i didn't like you
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at the beginning and i didn't think that you were going to do any things but but you did and so i've
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got to admit that and i said but i didn't mean i like everything i said your your trade policy he
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talked to me for probably 25 or 30 minutes about trade policy he asked me really intelligent questions
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he uh went back and forth with me and in the end he said yeah i still i i just like trade policy so
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i'm still going to do him he didn't say to my face what every other politician has ever said well you
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know what i'm going to look i'm going to think about that he didn't he just said but i don't agree with
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you and i loved that i love that yeah i i think if he would get off twitter and if i'm hoping if
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he gets a second term that because he's made his point about the media and so and i agree with him
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about the media being the enemy of the people and fake news i agree with i just like to see him be a
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bit more kinder and gentler in his second term where it would just be easier for people to focus
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on what he's actually done yeah and what he's actually done particularly for me as an african
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american the support of hbc use the opportunity zones uh his platinum plan there's a sincere commitment
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to make things better for everyone and again the america first thing as i told him in our interview
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that's the number one thing for me and my parent my mother was a factory worker my dad was was a
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didn't graduate high school factory worker who then started a bar business in the inner city
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for factory workers we got to do something about getting manufacturing jobs back here in the united
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states so that people like my parents can uplift their children despite them not having college
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education there's some kind of white collar job me and my brother and i got a stepsister i'm very
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close to all of us college graduates all of us doing well in life off the backs of factory workers
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and manufacturing jobs i love the america first agenda i beg my mother watch the inauguration speech
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it's one of the greatest speeches i've ever heard and he's speaking directly to you
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jason i i have to run but i thank you very much uh for standing uh for what you believe in whether
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we agree or disagree um fearless with uh jason whitlock is exactly the right name uh for anything
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that you do thank you jason appreciate it thank you you bet bye bye jason whitlock uh sportswriter