Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Salena Zito & Tammy Bruce ｜ 7⧸25⧸24
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Summary
It s been a rough 3 weeks, but there s a couple of really good things that have happened that you need to tie yourself to. First, Tammy Bruce has a new book out that s about how she s seeing a change in the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania. Second, the Palestinians are burning our flags in Washington, D.C. And I m moved by the bravery of the police in taking down the flag.
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All right. We talked a lot of a lot of things way out of this insanity with Tammy Bruce.
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She's got a new book out that is really, really excellent.
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Selena Zito talked to us about what she's seeing in the neighborhoods and boroughs of Pennsylvania.
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She's the one who said it doesn't look like 2016.
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We also talk about what happened on the streets in Washington, D.C., the president's speech.
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And we started with it's been a rough three weeks.
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But there's been a couple of really good things that have happened that you need to tie yourself to.
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I'd be willing to pay more money for a lower quality cell phone service if it meant not having to give money to the mobile companies who support awful things like Planned Parenthood.
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By the way, Richmond, Virginia, City Council, we saw what you did.
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They just gave away public land illegally, not even following their own rules.
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Anyway, if you have Verizon, they give money to Planned Parenthood.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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If you just joined us, you missed an effort to try to explain probably why you feel beat up and you feel tired.
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We all do because we have watched our country take an absolute beating from the debate right into the assassination, right into the, you know, people on social media screaming, how could you possibly miss?
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And then the Secret Service director, Cheadle, coming out and saying, yeah, well, it was a slopey roof.
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And so we don't like to put people on hot, slopey roofs.
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And they start saying, oh, no, she was never the border czar.
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When they were the ones who told us she was the border czar.
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And then last night, the president, while he's doing that, the Palestinians are marching for Hamas in Washington, D.C.
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and burning an effigy of Bibi Netanyahu and taking down the flags in front of the Union Station, a federal building, and burning the flags.
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Anyways, that's what happened in the last three weeks.
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And you're like, there's nobody doing anything.
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And let me show you what happened when the Palestinians took the flag down.
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And there was a group of Americans that went in for that flag.
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Let me show you the bravery it took to go in and get that flag.
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And they are getting the flag off of the ground.
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And they lock arms with the flag and back out of the area.
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And I am moved by the bravery of those officers.
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But you do not have a right to deface our monuments.
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And in a sane America, you would have been arrested.
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But I want to show you the parts that are standing.
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The left immediately went after Donald Trump when he stood up after being shot in the head.
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Secret Service wanted just to rush him out of there.
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And then he did something that I fear too many of us have already forgotten.
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He stands up with a clenched fist and says, fight, fight, fight.
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The press immediately tore him apart saying, look, he wants violence.
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There are far too many examples of people being cowards.
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I come to you today to ask you to recognize the light.
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But that is only possible when the light begins to get brighter.
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My executive producer, Ricky, this morning said it's been a rough three weeks.
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And she had tears in her eyes and she said, I'm just watching my country be destroyed.
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And all of us on the meeting, we all fell silent because we all felt exactly the same way.
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But it's because of her bravery to say how she felt that I am giving you and her this monologue.
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They have trashed our country for 20 plus years.
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They have brought us to the point to where we're at a breaking point.
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But the country cannot go on much longer like this.
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But I want you to take courage from the things, the two things that I just showed you that also happened this week.
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They're just not getting play in the media because that's not their narrative or their agenda.
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Your narrative, your agenda, my narrative, my agenda is to save the republic.
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Now remember, it was just four weeks ago that we were having the discussion whether we're a republic or a democracy.
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And the same people that are lying to you today about Kamala Harris and the border czar and are in this sudden whipped up frenzy to change history.
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And they are answering to exactly the same people.
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It's just Kamala that they're helping and covering for now and not covering for President Biden.
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They are also the same people that were telling you four weeks ago that we are a democracy.
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And when we spoke out and said, no, it's a very important distinguishing characteristic.
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But after that vote is taken, then we're a republic.
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They told us we are conspiracy theorists that are whipped up by the right and Donald Trump
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because it's our plot to make people believe we're a republic.
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When Ben Franklin was asked, as he emerged from the convention going on,
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whether the founders have given America a monarchy or republic,
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Franklin's response was, a republic, if you can keep it.
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Whether we keep our republic is now in your hands.
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Because the truth will be, there will always be people who try to hide the truth from you.
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And it is your responsibility, not the media's responsibility, not my responsibility,
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It's the only thing that will change our children's life for the better,
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And use that one day that we have a democratic, democracy tool at our disposal,
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You know, I was going to say, may God save the republic,
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that the president walked off stage two weeks ago,
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So we are at an all-time high now of 323 drug shortages.
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especially if we go into war or any other kind of shortage on this stuff.
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and they have made what's called the Jace case.
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And you start with just the four basic antibiotics,
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and then you can add on ivermectin or whatever you want.
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you don't have to worry about going to some strange doctor or whatever.
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You can have it with you while you're on vacation.
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I knew it was one of those organizations I didn't like or trust.
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And thank you for your kind words about my first book.
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it's your work that when we talk about the transition of someone like myself from the left to the right,
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really unlocks a lot of doors when it comes to the way I thought of things and what was possible.
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And it's about the different kinds of lies that abusers use.
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about how lies and fear is being used by really unscrupulous people.
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The most immediate example we have where there was an awakening of people
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was what governments around the world were doing with COVID.
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It's a technique that is thousands of years old.
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It is the notion of using fear to quell populations.
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and especially messages involving dire threats,
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So this is the issue becomes a major government.
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because this is like domestic violence writ large,
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is that the more afraid you can make a population,
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in a framework of your life is at stake in one way or another,
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And if you don't comply or adjust and pay allegiance to what we say is reality,
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of who's going to control what kind of medicine we need and what healthcare is.
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And then you don't know if you can pay your rent.
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It's like an onion adds in to this notion that if you do not behave,
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the new thought police was no warning people a quarter of a century ago.
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we know you can get fired if you misgender someone,
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but it all comes back around to making you unsure of what to think,
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and the wife of a friend of mine is refusing to have children because she's so worried about global warming,
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tell her that her child might be the person who fixes that issue for her.
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It is meant to be transitory so that you can use your logical and reasonable mind to make a plan.
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What the left has done is it has weaponized fear to make it chronic and that you adjust to it and it becomes normal.
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And you just begin to withdraw from a whole variety of things,
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that what the fear that we experience in our lives right now is not natural.
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And it can be stopped with some very simple personal action.
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I think that courage is contagious and we're starting to see it.
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That moment where Donald Trump shot in the head.
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I would have said the same thing shot in the head,
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especially after everything that he's gone through.
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And he stands up and he puts his fist and he says,
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That doesn't mean get in the streets and gun people down.
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That means fight for what you believe in fight for what you know is true.
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but we're seeing more and more examples come up with,
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real courage of their convictions that don't have to do it.
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That was a remarkable life-changing moment for,
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but also people who listen to you every day and people who listened to Rush Limbaugh every day are also examples that,
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and because I've experienced it on personal issues.
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but there are personal things that we experience.
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it was like a switch that went off where the moment you see dramatic courage.
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and this could have been his last public utterance.
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but he looked out and he realized the audience had not left him.
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And that still gives me chills because he said at that point,
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when I saw they were still there and that gave him,
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He gave them courage by standing up and by being himself,
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that is what generated the fist in the air and the fight,
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if you think you might be dead in 30 minutes or,
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you're going to encourage people to not give up.
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And that takes courage is not giving up because of what we face.
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And that's just what a regime perhaps hopes for is that even if it's an,
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they didn't have anything to do with it or whatever the things were,
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And we saw that with some of the left on social media.
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is that this is the kind of thing that reminds people of what's at stake.
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I have a series of packs that I write about at the end of the book is that we
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a genuine decision is powerful and it can change your life.
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It's not about thinking about something or entertaining an idea.
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the first thing we have to do is decide to not let strangers like these
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not let strangers control what we think of ourselves.
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because that's the gaslighting that they're telling you,
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If you think that men shouldn't be in women's sports,
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but we are not going to let the lunatics of the world determine what the
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they want to kill our courage with fear and making you feel there's nothing
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it's what helped me get out of the left in general.
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And to see other people meeting Rush Limbaugh at a station.
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a conversation with him for two hours changed my life.
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Getting to know you makes a difference and continues to make a difference.
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you don't know the burden you've been carrying like fear until it's off your
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You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.
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am I reading the tea leaves right from you that you are seeing things that
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but basically because it's a blueprint for what's happening right now.
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It tells you everything that's happening and why,
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but makes you understand why and how this conservative politics,
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populist movement sort of began and strengthened.
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And I remember writing in 2020 after Biden won,
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very similar to Hillary Clinton in that she is very disconnected from the
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very people that will make this election go for one person or the other.
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People that do not live in Pittsburgh or Philly or New York or DC or Milwaukee,
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this election is very much about those voters and,
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And Harris is much further left than either Hillary was.
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if there's no change in her and there cannot be,
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because she is on the record talking about herself,
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And she will probably do four points worse than Hillary in a state like
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I read your article yesterday that lifetime Pennsylvania Democrats are now,
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very emotionally different to be one party and vote the other party.
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the identity of being a Democrat in Pennsylvania.
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It's such an emotional part of who you are because it's what your parents were.
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to vote for a Republican if you're a registered Democrat.
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it is very difficult to literally change your party.
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what is giving you the impression this is happening a lot?
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They can just find me on Twitter at Zito Selena,
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but the massive movement of Democrats changing to Republicans in Pennsylvania
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even I would have never predicted it because it is common to,
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But for you to make that emotional decision is very,
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And I think that the Democrats had a 600,000 vote over registration than Republicans in,
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And that is now whittled down to under 300,000.
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And it's happening in counties that will swing the election.
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the election is not going to be decided by Allegheny County where Pittsburgh is,
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those numbers essentially stay right about the same.
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They're maxed out where it is decided is in the margins in the small counties,
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thousand more votes that changes the entire election.
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where president Trump did his rally in Butler there,
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And the coalitions of the parties have also changed.
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Democrats were always the party of the working class since the new deal
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when the Republicans lost the house and Senate that year,
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but you saw when Republicans voted for Democrats that year,
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They all are located their headquarters in the super zip codes that were the
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most wealthy and most powerful live in Washington and New York.
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They're very disconnected from the people that who's,
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they're all sort of this like incestuous group,
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They just don't know the people that they serve,
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including their schools and including our government.
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I have argued forever that the RNC should be located in Columbus,
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all these large institutions need to decentralize because they have lost
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touch with the people that buy their products or who they serve.
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let me play something from Chuck Schumer just a couple of days ago where he was
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So now that the process has played out from the grassroots,
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we are here today to throw our support behind vice president Kamala Harris.
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trying to convince people that this was something that the average person voted
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Are any Democrats a little disgusted by they were told to sit down,
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you can't have a primary when they wanted a different person.
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And now they're just trying to make it look like everybody's for Kamala Harris.
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even though I don't particularly care for them anymore.
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the assumption that they believe that voters are stupid,
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and you earnestly worked really hard volunteering,
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whatever throughout the entire primary process as well into this general
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And then you're being told that someone you never voted for,
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who's never earned a vote is that this was all orchestrated by the elites.
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And there's no way to put lipstick on this pig.
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Are we at the place where Woodrow Wilson got to,
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so badly about progressivism that they had to change their name and go
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undercover and become liberals and take that seat.
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are we at that place to where this is about to turn on them hard for a long
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I do believe this is going to be a transformational election cycle.
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I think the person and the people who change that polarization more so is,
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will be the Democrats and not the Republicans because of what they're trying to force their
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there is that we are going to see a temporary day of,
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because of the way this was handled so heavy handedly.
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the only reporters that I think you can really trust.
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but Selena is on top of my list because she actually talks to people,