The Taboo Voting Issue GOP Candidates Danced Around | 11⧸9⧸23
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Glenn and Stu discuss the latest CNN primary debate, and debate whether or not Donald Trump won the debate. They also talk about who they think won the first presidential primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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So, Stu, what did you think of the debate last night?
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Apparently, the only person that anyone ever talks about is Vivek Ramaswamy, which is fascinating.
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Every conversation, every battle he's involved in.
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A guy who, you know, we've had on the show and, you know, multiple times.
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To the point where we're just like, okay, never mind.
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And as soon as we said, okay, never mind, he's like, hey, we can be on the show tomorrow.
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We hit the, yeah, and then now there's no turning back.
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But he's been on this one multiple times, right?
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You're kind of rubbing that in a little bit, aren't you?
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It was the front window of a pet store where he talked to mostly dogs and cats, but there
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But any place he can find an audience that is of any value, he'll go to.
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But he hasn't been able to make it to Pat Grandleashed quite yet.
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But Vivek Ramaswamy is something very unique in, I think, all my time watching presidential
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He's the most well-spoken person I've ever seen.
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I think the chat GPT thing, which was a criticism of his, that was popularized on the internet
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and then Chris Christie tried to roll out multiple weeks later during one of the debates.
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And, you know, she follows politics, but not live or die every second of her life, thank
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Uh, we've had him on a million times, and I asked, uh.
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Have you ever had him on Studios America, though?
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Yeah, actually, you know, he was on Studios America, and then we did another separate
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He was even willing to get up that time of day.
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And so he just came, because he didn't have time to come on my show when we asked him.
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I asked my wife, does it bother you at all that he doesn't say, um, or, like, hesitate
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There's this, like, um, new, quote-unquote smart Republican view that this guy's just
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He, you know, the, the more apt criticism of him might be that he's not necessarily ready
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As a, as, as I'm talking about president of the United States, he's done a good job running
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But like my impression of him last night, I, I'm, well, he's 38.
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I mean, that's fascinating, but like, look, he's, he's got a, a bold, uh, voice.
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He is someone that I think has value to the conservative movement, but like watching him last night,
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I feel like each debate, he's trying a completely new philosophy of debates.
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Like the, like he's like game one, he's running the West coast offense game two, he's in the
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Like he's been three completely different people in these debates.
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He's trying to gain traction and he's trying different methods to do that.
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And, and last night, I think his theory was, I'm going to be super aggressive.
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The first debate was, I'm going to get noticed.
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I'm going to make sure I'm not swallowed up in case people don't know who I am.
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Number two was people thought I was a little bit aggressive last time.
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I'm going to be super, uh, nice and, and defer to the other candidates and compliment them
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This one was like, I'm just going to start swearing at people.
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I think that was, maybe the debate was a half an hour longer stuff.
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I'm going to, I'm going to punch somebody in the face.
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He started out with the attack on the media, which was, which, which, wow.
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This is the perfect example of the weirdness of, of Vivek at some level in these moments.
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Again, I don't, I have no problem with the guy, but like in these moments, that attack
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would have been massively huge for him if it was timed right.
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This woman he attacked who I, you know, I have no, no patience for her politics or her
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Um, I don't even know her name, but she's an MSNBC.
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It was so, would connect so deeply with the, uh, conservative public, but she, she hadn't
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It was like he had so obviously planned this moment weeks in advance.
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And, and it, I think the same thing happened with the, with the heels comment where he goes,
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Like that's just the whole bogus attack on DeSantis is nonsense anyway.
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But it's like, you know, a guy who's written his, what he believes is his standup comedy
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routine six months in advance is going to go out and promote it.
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You know, we've, we've done, and I know you've done a million of these, especially going back
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to your morning radio days, you have, there's two different types of standup comedians that
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They blast out jokes throughout the entire thing.
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And then the type that have four pieces of material that they do on morning shows and
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your job is supposedly to set them up to get to these jokes that they've already done 10
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And there's a point with Ramaswamy that that's what it feels like.
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Like he's got seven buttons that he can press at any time.
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And for a guy that is that smart and can talk about anything, I don't know that that's the
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But again, we'll probably try a totally new one next debate.
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So we can just wait and see which next time he's going to be in the spread and we'll try
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I, but again, here is a guy who is in fourth place in the polls and we spent the first 15
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What's bizarre about it is he's done such a good job in getting people to, uh, to talk
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But in a way he's almost seemingly disproving the all publicity is good publicity thing because
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We were talking last night on the, um, post game coverage, uh, on youtube.com slash studios
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America, where we've been going live before and after most of these debates.
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And we'll be doing this throughout the election season.
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Um, but one person brought this up and, and, and they said, you know, look, part of the
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reason why if they can't move the polls is all of his voters are currently voting for
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Donald Trump and they're not going to move off of Trump unless Trump, you know, drops
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out, gets arrested and goes to prison and can't run, whatever the reason is.
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And at that point, he's going to be the Trump voters, number one choice.
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So maybe there is some strategy here with Vivek.
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If the Trump thing falls apart and if you can see a scenario and I don't know, what do
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If Trump, let's say Trump, um, had some, God forbid, some health problem and decided he
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himself couldn't run and came out with a full throated endorsement of Vivek Ramaswamy,
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would Ramaswamy shoot to the lead to the primary?
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If, if, if 50% of the vote that were Donald Trump and Trump himself came out and gave a
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full throated endorsement of Ramaswamy, would Ramaswamy lead the primary?
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And he might be the most likely to receive a Trump endorsement if Trump ever dropped
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out because he's not completely friendly to Trump.
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Certainly not at all times and not going to be Haley.
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Now, Scott is, is one you could see theoretically.
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Trump, Trump seems to have no problem with Tim Scott.
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So maybe, and you know, that's why a lot of people mentioned him as a VP candidate.
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Of course, the reason for that is he doesn't see Scott as a threat.
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And so, but maybe there could be some, but Ramaswamy, I don't know.
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I mean, it seems to be the only real strategy because he's not growing his numbers at all.
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He's really not very, I mean, nobody is really Nikki Haley, maybe a little bit.
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She's, she's come up somewhat in the polls and I think in some polls she's tied DeSantis,
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We should talk about her next because she was the other one.
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Like DeSantis, I thought was solid throughout and I don't, I don't think he has bad debates.
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He just doesn't seem to have amazing ones either.
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I noticed that on the Drudge report, it was Nikki Haley who won the debate, according to Drudge readers.
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Because I mean, the New York Times pundits said the same thing.
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So the fact that if she can win with both of those groups, that's probably a pretty good performance.
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Here's Ron DeSantis last night though, on why he should be president over Donald Trump.
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Now, if you look where we are now, it's a lot different than we were in 2016.
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And Donald Trump's a lot different guy than he was in 2016.
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He owes it to you to be on this stage and explain why he should get another chance.
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He should explain why he didn't have Mexico pay for the border wall.
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He should explain why he racked up so much debt.
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He should explain why he didn't drain the swamp.
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And he said Republicans were going to get tired of winning.
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Well, we saw last night, I'm sick of Republicans losing.
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One year ago here, we won a historic victory, including a massive landslide right here in Miami-Dade County.
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So I promise you this, as the nominee, next November, I'll get the job done.
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You know, I think every time I watch him, I'm thinking like, ah, these are all solid answers.
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I mean, you know, maybe there's a moment here or there, but generally speaking.
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On the other hand, I don't know if there's ever a time when you say, wow, that was spectacular.
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You know, but he's good and I like him and I could vote for him.
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It's just, we seem to be in that state of wanting these crazy moments, which is what kind of Ramaswamy is providing.
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But when you talk about who would actually be a really good president, I mean, I don't know.
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It just seems like he'd just be really good at the job.
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So Nikki Haley talked about why she should be president rather than Donald Trump.
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You know, everybody wants to talk about President Trump.
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I can tell you that I think he was the right president at the right time.
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I think that he put us $8 trillion in debt and our kids are never going to forgive us
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I think the fact that he used to be right on Ukraine and foreign issues, now he's getting
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weak in the knees and trying to be friendly again.
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I think that we've got to go back to the fact that we can't live in the past.
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We've got to start focusing on what's going to make America strong and proud.
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She would have us in a war on every continent on this planet, I believe.
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If you're going to have all these continents, what's the point of them if you don't have
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I think we'd be attacking penguins in Antarctica if she becomes president.
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And that might be the best one because they'd have a hard time fighting back.
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First of all, no one came out on the stage and said we should colonize Antarctica and I'm
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I want the candidate who's just going to take over Antarctica.
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Are you a single issue guy and that's enough to gain your vote?
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I have some sympathy for these candidates who are trying to walk this impossible line.
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They know the voting public likes Donald Trump and so they can't attack him like Chris Christie
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But they also know they have to be critical of at some level or what's the point of you?
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Like, you know, Ramaswamy at one point said, oh, well, this is in the previous debate, but
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he said, oh, Donald Trump was the greatest president of my lifetime.
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But like Haley's response, if he was the right president of the right at the right
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time that put us eight trillion dollars in debt, that's not a that's not a good point.
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If he put us eight trillion dollars in debt, he wasn't the right president at the right
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I think, you know, let's now, of course, he's not responsible for all that debt.
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And her other problem with Trump is that he's not aggressive enough on the world stage,
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which, I mean, look, his record at the time kind of disproves that.
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I mean, he was, I thought, pretty aggressive on the world stage.
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His rhetoric at times was much more the opposite.
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He would say, I'm best friends with Kim Jong-il or Kim Un.
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They didn't try to take over Ukraine at the time.
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The key with Trump every single time is to look at what actually is happening rather than
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And what he says is, I'm good buddies with Vladimir Putin.
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There is no problem with his policy against Russia.
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The fact that he would blurt out compliments to Vladimir Putin here and there is weird at
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I think a lot of it has to do with Trump trying to.
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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program.
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We're going to have to have a polite request here to everyone tuning in today.
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We're going to target our target audience today are adults.
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Now, adults are people who don't lose their mind every time the candidate they like gets mildly criticized or the candidate they don't like gets a little praise.
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And it might only be four people left in America.
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Honestly, if you look at social media, that's what it feels like sometimes.
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But in reality, when I talk to actual human beings, they have the same conversations that we're having today.
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This is the time when we've got to sort through all the stuff and figure out who's the best candidate.
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And that involves criticism sometimes for somebody and then praising somebody else.
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But your time for your candidate is coming, too, because there's enough praise to go around for everybody and enough criticism to go around for everybody.
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A primary season, for whatever reason, like turns people's brains off.
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It's interesting because like, hey, you know, it's like Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees.
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Let's pick our team and let's be angry about it.
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Argue for bad calls every single time something goes wrong.
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This is not a decision between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton right now.
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This is a decision between a bunch of people who would probably all be somewhere between decent and really good presidents.
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So let's figure out which one this is going to be.
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There's no reason to blow your stack and lose your mind when we're talking about the primaries.
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We mentioned the shoe situation the other day on my show because it's a big controversy.
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We're making fun of the fact that Ron DeSantis either does or doesn't wear lifters in his shoes to be taller on stage.
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He's a great governor and he might make a really good president.
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Well, some of his supporters were really pissed.
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Well, they're making a big deal out of it right now.
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You didn't even mention that the governor of Iowa endorsed him.
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Yeah, well, neither did he last night on the debate, by the way.
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But also, it's also important to slap down idiotic controversies, which is what we do all the time.
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Which, by the way, is an important part of the show.
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If you don't like fun, then you're probably not going to like the Pac-Rae Unleashed broadcast.
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The point is, yeah, you're going to have a little fun with the news.
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I will say last night, of course, it was brought up.
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People missed this when Vivek did his line about the heels.
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Everyone was like, oh, Vivek just slammed Nikki Haley.
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I mean, he sort of did that with a Dick Cheney and three-inch heels.
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But when everyone went, oh, they missed the second part of his line where he said, oh, and there's two of them on stage right now.
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Like he was saying both Haley and DeSantis both wear heels.
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I will say Ramaswamy went down this road multiple times yesterday where he decided, I'm just going
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to go for these like sort of like low blow, wisecrack type of approaches.
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The other one was the Nikki Haley TikTok thing.
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Going after her daughter, who's 25 years old, by the way.
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Number one, going after your daughter and saying, oh, well, take care of your own family before
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But then secondarily, it doesn't make any sense.
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What the hell does Nikki Haley have to do with her 25 year old daughter's internet usage?
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Like that, there's no, it would be weird if she could get her daughter off of TikTok when
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What would that say about her 25 year old daughter?
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Mommy's still making my internet choices at 25.
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And then her, her moment after that, I thought was also weird.
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She called Vivek Ramaswamy scum, which at first I thought she said dumb, which she sort
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That's how everyone was reporting it, which is a little over the line too.
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The whole thing, that whole back and forth, I didn't, I didn't like all that much.
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I will say the debate was better than the second one, which was just people talking over
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I thought, oddly, I thought NBC did a decent job.
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Keeping it under control, though they did eliminate so much of the back and forth that really there
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was only a few moments where people were actually talking to each other.
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Largely, almost never goes after these other candidates.
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And I guess that's a, you know, I would assume at this point it's a strategy.
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It does mean he does not get the viral moments.
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It means that he doesn't get those big moments.
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And it's funny, from a guy who really rose to prominence among conservatives, by battling
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the media, he has not had really any of those moments during the campaign.
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All of them came previous to the campaign, where he was out there talking with the media,
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And I think that would help him a lot if he had more of those.
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Because for whatever reason, he's, you know, kind of staying above it.
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And I don't think that's a terrible approach, but it is, it sort of takes away one of his
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And then you had Christie and Tim Scott on the stage.
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I don't know if there's anything to say really about them.
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He just doesn't, it doesn't seem like it's going to happen here.
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And Chris Christie, we haven't liked since, well, when we thought he was really good back in 2010.
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Yeah, this is probably the last time we thought Chris Christie was good.
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It's interesting because Christie comes into this race as a guy who basically says,
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He's already run against Donald Trump and got slaughtered by him.
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But, okay, let's, what's, what's your case here?
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And then he really doesn't talk about Donald Trump much at all in these debates.
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I mean, he occasionally will, but he doesn't talk about him all that often.
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And you'd think if your goal is to have Donald Trump not be president really at any cost,
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what you probably don't want to do is weaken other candidates in a state like New Hampshire,
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You'd think you'd want those votes to go to somebody else so that someone else could beat Donald Trump.
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I think Chris Christie thinks so much of Chris Christie that he's not going to drop out before New Hampshire.
00:31:55.080
But that's really the only state he's doing anything in.
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And if anything, he's drawing votes away from someone like maybe Haley,
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who might be actually able to compete with Trump in New Hampshire.
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Some of the polls have him around 10%, which is not second.
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Because certainly Trump's way ahead, even there.
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Tell me if you think this is the right way to look at this right now.
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essentially two different things going on at the same time.
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And Ron DeSantis has the real decision to make, I think, more than anybody else when it comes to this.
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I know this sounds weird, but like that is the way we normally think of these things, right?
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You try to actually defeat all the other candidates and come out on top and get the nomination.
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The other way, which is like unique, it's like special, it's a special 2024 edition of primaries.
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What you do is you run and act as if Donald Trump isn't doing anything at all.
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He's almost like he's a third party candidate or something.
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And what you do is try to win this second place primary
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with the assumption that there's a decent chance that Donald Trump winds up in jail, right?
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That the deep state comes out and is successful in one of their 95 charges against him
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and wind up somehow removing him from this race,
00:33:37.900
either because he feels like I can't do this for some reason,
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or they put him in prison, or whatever reason he decides he's going to drop out,
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Maybe they remove him from ballots all over the country.
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If that happens, there may be a need for a second place person.
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And your goal is not to win this primary, but to just come in second place
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so you are the next choice if the Trump thing falls apart.
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Because you realize, I can't actually win if he's there the whole time.
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DeSantis is in that middle ground where he still is competitive in Iowa
00:34:18.040
And he also has enough people who like Donald Trump that are voting for him.
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And he's often the second choice for people voting for Donald Trump.
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So he's kind of in that weird mode where he could try to beat Donald Trump,
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Haley's votes all seemingly come from the never-Trump type of people in the party.
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So she really, it's going to be hard for her to gain
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the 50% of people who are voting for Trump right now anyway.
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So for her, you got to run for this second place ticket.
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Like, you're running for a second place primary.
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DeSantis has a choice of whether to go for the whole thing and just beat him
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or to hang back and go for that second place decision.
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And I feel like he's in between those two choices right now.
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And I was wondering if last night he would be a little more aggressive.
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Like, I mean, it's amazing that we would go through an entire debate
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Donald Trump was the guy standing next to Anthony Fauci
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when the 15 days to slow the spread was uttered.
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And Trump himself, who goes after people and destroys them.
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He just destroyed the rest of the field, all 17 or 18 of them.
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I don't think they want to even mention his name.
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They want to pretend like, yeah, he's not even here.
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There was a story from early in the campaign from behind the scenes.
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And this was sort of a leak from the DeSantis campaign.
00:35:57.920
But the report was that they tested a bunch of different ways
00:36:00.640
to message DeSantis as a better president than Trump.
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That's obviously what he should be doing right now.
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There's no reason to elect Ron DeSantis if he's not as good a president
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or would be as good a president as Donald Trump.
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The same thing with Ramaswamy or Haley or anything.
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If you're not better than Trump, then you might as well just pick Trump.
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Their early pick was, hey, let's call him out on the lockdowns, right?
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He was the person who he was on stage when 15 days to slow the spread happened.
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And while he was certainly better than Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo
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and the worst of the worst, you know, Democratic governors,
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He gave Fauci a medal of commendation at the end of his term.
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And one of their ideas was they tested, what about the lockdowns?
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How do you feel about the lockdowns to Republican primary voters?
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It turned into they got mad at the person delivering that message because they associated Trump with it.
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And at some level, we can be critical of these candidates.
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But if that is the reality with voters, that they get mad.
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You could say these guys are not running great campaigns.
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But like in reality, how do you beat someone who has that power?
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If he's able to maintain that magical power throughout this primary, you don't beat him.
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That's not saying much because the first two were terrible.
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I said the same thing, and I was like, God, that was the best one.
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And there were some times when Lester Holt especially showed his, you know, progressive bias.
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One of the things that, I mean, right after DeSantis talked about people mentioning Islamophobia instead of concentrating on all of the hatred of Jews right now and the anti-Semitism that's going on.
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What does Lester Holt do but go right to, what about all the Islamophobia going on right now?
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I mean, he had just skewered Biden for the same thing and talked about Biden and the media.
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And then he shows the example of it by asking a question about what are you going to do about Islamophobia?
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The typical warmongering last night I was interested in from Nikki Haley,
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and to a certain extent Tim Scott, too, and Chris Christie.
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Those are the three war hawks, I think, on the stage and that are running for president.
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What I like from Ron DeSantis, one of the things, was that he wouldn't commit.
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He's not going to send troops to Ukraine, but he will send troops to the U.S. border.
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I like that, except I could hear people screaming at their television.
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He's going to deal with that if that really happens.
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If he were to become president and actually fulfill that promise,
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Maybe I didn't take it as, you know, I did the old,
00:47:59.520
maybe I did the old Trump thing here where I took him seriously,
00:48:04.240
You know, there's a lot of legal wrangling that would need to go on
00:48:10.380
But the point is, I do want someone who's going to take the border seriously,
00:48:14.160
and maybe that prioritizes our own country over foreign escapades.
00:48:22.480
and I think Tim Scott as well, but he's just not as big a factor in the election.
00:48:27.600
The one thing I will say about Haley is she is outwardly advocating for her point of view
00:48:35.820
I mean, she, look, there is still a large percentage,
00:48:39.680
or let's say a significant percentage of conservative voters who view the world that way
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and want to be more aggressive in a foreign policy capacity.
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And that is a significant group of voters in the primary,
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and they should have someone who's representing their views on stage.
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I don't know that the energy of the party is there right now.
00:49:07.620
Now, when you talk about a general election, it's kind of a different story.
00:49:11.600
I mean, the polling on Ukraine is not bad from a general election perspective.
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continued funding for Ukraine is something like 58-38-4.
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Especially on the day yesterday where Volodymyr Zelensky
00:49:32.780
said, yeah, it's not the right time for elections.
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They've got an election coming up that's supposed to happen in Ukraine.
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Yeah, this is not the right time for elections.
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After, or even as, the Republican candidates are calling, you know,
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Ukraine this beacon of democracy and freedom and all of that.
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And they're the ones who are fighting for all of that.
00:49:55.040
And as Zelensky is saying that, yeah, we're not going to do an election now.
00:50:05.080
I thought he had just, did he just revise that and say that now it is the time
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I thought he had just come out with that recently.
00:50:12.120
No, yesterday, or Monday, he said it's not the right time for elections.
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I don't, I mean, I don't think, I don't get an infatuation with it.
00:50:34.440
I mean, I think it's an issue where I totally understand from the Ukrainian's
00:50:43.420
But I just don't know that it needs to be our job to do this.
00:50:47.320
And like, if, I think the sensible place to be.
00:50:54.620
And our founders would be adamantly against it.
00:51:00.080
I do think there is a, there are U.S. interests in this particular battle
00:51:07.840
because I don't like the idea of no buffer state between Russia and NATO.
00:51:13.340
And NATO is essentially us when it comes to war, unless we're dropping out of
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So we, so having that buffer state is important to us.
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I think that is within the scope of American interests, but that does, the
00:51:24.820
scope of American interest does not extend to getting every inch of territory back
00:51:40.320
Who was it that said we have, they haven't had that since 2014?
00:51:43.400
That was Ramaswamy, which I don't think is right.
00:51:50.340
Now there, there have been times where Putin's like, well, we ran a poll and they said they
00:51:57.840
But it was not understood to be part of Russia, certainly at that time.
00:52:03.600
The point is that what our interest is, is avoiding World War III.
00:52:12.100
Like, you know, sometimes I was like, oh, gosh.
00:52:15.320
I was super into, gosh, what's Return of the Jedi going to be?
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Yeah, I feel like they should take their time in the development.
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Keep it in the edit bays for a while, and let's wait on that one.
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To avoid World War III, to avoid having to get involved in a NATO type of conflict with Russia.
00:52:54.060
And so to that end, everything behind the scenes should be directed in that way.
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Instead of telling, hey, Zelensky, we're going to keep giving you unlimited weapons for an unlimited amount of time until you have your ultimate victory and every inch of territory is clawed back.
00:53:09.220
In fact, you might say those things publicly because, obviously, once you back off of that, you're no longer negotiating from a place of strength.
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But privately, what this should be is, hey, guys, we'll do this until this date, which is really soon.
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They've probably got landmines all over this territory anyway.
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It's going to be a catastrophe even if you get it back.
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Look, behind the scenes, let's find a way to wind this thing down because it's not unlimited support from us.
00:53:48.480
It doesn't seem like there's a lot of passion from that from a Haley or Biden.
00:53:52.500
You do see that, I think, probably from DeSantis.
00:53:55.100
At some level, you probably see it from Trump and maybe Ramaswamy.
00:53:59.960
But the Haley position on this, I don't think is consistent with where the voters are in the primary.
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I mean, I don't think – I think if Nikki Haley was president –
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Do they know how much we've already funded that war to the tune of?
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If you include the military with the humanitarian, whatever else, you know, the small business loans and all the stuff we're giving them, it's over $200 billion.
00:54:37.320
And are you willing to keep that spigot open the whole time?
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If Nikki Haley is elected president, there is basically – I mean, almost no chance that this war has ended or we're funding it in 2029.
00:54:56.440
Like, that is, like, basically where I think her position is.
00:55:01.240
There's some smart national policy-type conservatives or international policy conservatives who say this is the direction it should go.
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I'm not saying that, like, hey, let's just let Russia overrun Ukraine and – I don't think that's the right answer either.
00:55:20.160
But our goal cannot be the exact same goal as Ukraine in this situation.
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Our goal is different because our interests are different.
00:55:29.860
Our interests are not, hey, they need to have full control of Crimea.
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It was their territory and it was taken from them.
00:55:44.280
We have to be pragmatic in these moments, not just say, hey, well, this is – we're going to keep giving them money.
00:55:54.920
For an unlimited period of time that drags into the 2030s and 40s.
00:56:04.120
Hey, Bill, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.
00:56:10.480
I think DeSantis needs to man up a little bit, take his shirt off, ride a horse bareback or something,
00:56:15.680
just to give a little bit more masculine-type feel to him.
00:56:22.320
If you put him in the octagon with Nikki Haley, Warwarn, or Nikki Haley, I think she'd probably beat him up.
00:56:33.160
My 87-year-old mother thought he thinks he's sort of wimpy.
00:56:40.120
Otherwise, he just comes off as that schoolyard brat kid you just want to punch in the face.
00:56:44.020
Ronald McDaniel needs to go because she's clueless on what's going on,
00:56:48.940
and Trump needs to be less decisive or divisive,
00:56:53.240
and we bring more people into the fold as far as the Democrats.
00:57:00.660
and I think he should be pushing to bring people together under that to bring more of the Democrats on board.
00:57:10.520
The idea that Donald Trump is going to be this big uniter, it's not a schtick, right?
00:57:17.120
I don't think at 77 years old, all of a sudden he's going to be like,
00:57:26.120
and he needs to get 50.1% of those people to be really passionate and come out and vote for him.
00:57:34.520
You're on the Glenn Beck program with Patton Stu.
00:57:41.080
so I'm not rallying behind one candidate at this point.
00:57:44.120
But the reality of this debate is that it was a race for VP and not president.
00:57:48.560
And they need to play into the wheelhouse of the current leader of the GOP, which is Donald Trump.
00:57:53.920
So the winner of this debate that brought attention to truth,
00:58:02.640
He did it when he called out Nikki Haley on being part of the military-industrial complex.
00:58:07.500
And he did it when he called out the pay-for-play corruption of the current president with Ukraine.
00:58:12.160
I think that's, I think he, look, Vivek is the most, most divisive candidates among conservatives that I've ever seen.
00:58:24.500
I mentioned this earlier, but it's true in that people either love the guy or can't stand the guy.
00:58:31.480
I mean, I honestly don't feel that way about him.
00:58:46.380
He's a busy, busy man who has no time for a morning show.
00:58:52.060
At least not an early morning show, because this show does happen live in the morning.
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I'm here on this show, but on Pat Gray Unleashed, which is from 6 to 8 Central.
00:59:08.820
And we even, I even said, look, you know what we could do is tape the interview later in the day.
00:59:36.940
Really, I don't know what it is about Ramaswamy where he just hits people that way.
00:59:44.360
I don't think everyone on stage is running for VP.
00:59:47.500
Ron DeSantis is not running for VP because there's no chance he will get VP.
00:59:52.740
I don't think Chris Christie is certainly not doing that.
00:59:55.540
And Vivek brings nothing to the table for Trump.
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So, it's unlikely to me that he would be the pick for vice president.
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You need somebody who's going to help you in a swing state.
01:00:09.520
I mean, first of all, his home state is Ohio, right?
01:00:11.640
So, I mean, I don't know if you don't really need him in Ohio anymore.
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That was a swing state in 2004, not really so much today.
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But we did see the results from this week that were not positive.
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Bigger, though, I think what Trump wants out of a – I don't know what Trump wants out of a VP.
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And God only knows because Mike Pence doesn't fit this at all.
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But what it seems like he would want is someone who will go on television and argue passionately for his positions when he's not there to do it.
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And Ramaswamy would be really good at doing that.
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I didn't think he was rambling at all, but just wore my battery down being on hold.
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Listen, I went to the Trump rally last night in Miami-Dade County, the city of Hialeah, which is heavy, heavy Hispanic, predominantly Cuban.
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I think if that was a question of what the other candidates might be looked at when you were talking about the debate, there was no doubt about that last night.
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Trump arrived, he delivered a great speech, the crowd was, it was, the place was packed, full of energy, and he did go on the immigration thing.
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I mentioned Hialeah and the Cubans' immigration about Trump saying, let's, we have to remove people, and the crowd erupted with applause.
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There was a lot of, maybe you said it was packed, a lot of people were posting pictures of it not being quite packed.
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Well, it depends on what time of day you pack it.
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They had the bleachers, and this is South Florida in November.
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The sun's shining on one side of the bleachers.
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You know, we're not going to go stand there in the sun for a couple hours.
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But, yeah, the side was in the shade, was packed, and then as the sun went below the, the horizon of the, the bleach on our side, the other stands were packed.
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Yeah, because that's, the big story, the takeaway from the press on that last night was that there was a lot of empty seats.
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And I will say, as a person who's gone to many Texas Rangers games in the old stadium in the middle of the summer, that's how the stadium would look.
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One side is completely empty, and the other side in the shade is completely packed because it was just so hot.
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Although, November, I mean, November isn't, is it that hot in Florida?
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I went to a BYU game at, in Austin, at the University of Texas a couple of weeks ago.
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And, uh, it was 86 degrees, and the sun was beating right in my face the whole game.
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I, I was wishing I would have stayed home because it is miserable.
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So, yeah, it's kind of understandable that people wouldn't stand there for a couple of hours in the Miami heat.
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And, you know, it's probably humid there, too, I would, I would suspect.
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So, uh, that's an interesting perspective for somebody who was actually there, that it was packed, and that there weren't a lot of empty seats.
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I would like to say one thing about last night's debates.
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You know, it's funny how all these Republicans are running with all the ideas that Trump did already, making America energy independent, safe borders, protecting America, and stopping wars from happening, the lowest GDP, the lowest unemployment, the lowest inflation.
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Now, when you think about all these candidates, do you want a copy, or do you want the original back in office?
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Which one of these candidates do you think will hit the ground running, accomplishing all these, uh, uh, achievements?
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I don't think we're going to brag about the lowest GDP.
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I don't know, that's actually, uh, you want the highest one.
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Um, but look, that's the argument for Trump, right?
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He's done it already, and if you believe he accomplished all of those things, you're going to vote for him.
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Yeah, but I also believe DeSantis is capable of that.
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I think he could hit the ground running, but I don't know.
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I haven't made up my mind yet, and that's what the primary process is all about.
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Let me quickly just mention this Harry Dunn situation, the Capitol Police Officer.
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You want to check out the latest on The Blaze about him.
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But he lied repeatedly and ridiculously on the stand, on the witness stand.
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The guy's mentally ill, left out a whole bunch of issues that he faces.
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And then watch the Blaze for when that comes out.
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Seems like I just read about that this morning.
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We got the debate situation from last night, which was, as we mentioned, I think, and I
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think you do too, Stu, the best so far, which is not saying an awful lot.
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It wasn't a ton of back and forth other than the highly publicized...
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And honestly, I kind of understand the approach after the last one, which was completely catastrophic.
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I mean, it was the worst debate I've ever seen in my life.
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So I was happy to see at least some conversation.
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Again, I think someone pointed this out a little earlier, one of the phone callers.
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This seems like everyone's just kind of running for vice president.
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It doesn't have the juice of a normal debate season because Trump has decided not to do it.
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And, you know, when they're, in one case, 47 points, I think, behind in one of the polls.
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Even the closest candidate to Donald Trump is so far behind him that you're like, okay, they don't have a chance.
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And that's the one where everyone says, well, it's a lot closer in Iowa.
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It is closer in Iowa, but it's still 30 points.
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Now, he did get this big endorsement from the Iowa governor that we mentioned earlier.
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But, you know, endorsements don't typically make massive differences, but it could move the polls a little bit.
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Haley is in second place in New Hampshire and South Carolina now.
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Of course, South Carolina is going to be one of her best-performing states, you'd think,
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considering she's the former governor of the state.
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But still, if you looked at this kind of in normal terms, you'd still look at this race and think it's not really a race.
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I mean, when the best days of RFK Jr. in the Democratic primary looked somewhat similar to where the Republican primary is right now.
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I mean, you know, like, RFK Jr. never really was consistent around 20%.
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But if you look at him around 20% and you say, well, DeSantis is also around 20%, that gap is large.
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And, of course, you still have the RFK Jr. independent candidacy, which is going to...
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I think more polls have showed it's going to hurt Biden than Trump, but there have been examples where it hurts Trump as well.
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I have no idea what's going to happen on that one.
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Too many conservatives have been hoodwinked by that guy because he's good on a couple of issues.
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If you didn't like what happened during the pandemic, he's really good on that.
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He's really good on the border right now, but he hasn't always been.
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He's really, really bad on abortion, on climate change.
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He hasn't come on the show, by the way, has he?
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Glenn did a collection of questions to all the candidates.
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If you go back to the 60s and 70s, you'd find a lot of people who...
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Surprising in the Kennedy family, because they're all old school.
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You were the one that brought this to my attention, I don't know, probably five or ten years ago now.
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But the clip of Harry Reid going off on the border in the 90s...
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Same with Chuckie Schumer back in the early 2000s.
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There was a time where Democrats took the border seriously.
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Not because they care about the border, but because they care about union jobs.
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And they were worried about union jobs being undercut.
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That was the position of the Democratic Party for a long time.
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He's also very similar to 60s and 70s Democrats when it comes to war.
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That whole era of Democrats were anti-war basically at all costs.
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I mean, I don't know whether to trust the guy on some of the things that...
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You can trust him that he really doesn't like vaccines.
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That's been fundamental to who he is for a very long time.
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And if that's what you're voting on, then you're probably going to like RFK quite a bit.
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But you probably already liked him for a long time.
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You know, I don't know how he's appealing to conservatives outside of that one issue,
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which is obviously just a brand new issue for conservatives.
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There's been conservatives who have been there.
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But overall, you're talking about people like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey.
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And, you know, that's been the collection of people who were really passionate about that
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and one issue voters on that particular topic largely were more left in the past until COVID.
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So that's, you know, I'm not surprised he made some inroads there.
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But do I think he's going to get 22% as an independent?
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I don't think that's actually going to hold up.
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Hi, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Stu.
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I'm very concerned about inflation, and nobody's mentioning it.
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If you take these four items that I heard an economist talking about,
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it was the electric, the gas in your car, your food, and the heating oil for your home.
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They're all going up after the first of the year, an average of 7.5%.
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Now, he gives the people that depend on Social Security 3.2%.
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You're going to see old people with tents sitting in the streets.
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Now, there's some understandable reasons for that, considering international affairs have
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dominated the past month of coverage, so I understand why they may be led with international
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It took about an hour to get to something domestic.
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The one thing that I wanted to point out is that the United States made a promise to
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Ukraine back when Ronald Reagan was president, when Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.
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Nikki Haley pointed that out and did it very well.
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And for us to abandon Ukraine at this time is just wrong.
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The other thing is, the way that we support them is with use of weapons, not with money.
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Money is just an easy way to corrupt themselves.
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And that is a point, again, that came from Nikki Haley.
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Nobody makes that support from the stage about Israel.
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And trust me, I think we should support Israel.
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But when we're talking about Ukraine, I really think that's a bigger deal than Israel is, because
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But when we're talking about Ukraine, you're talking about the next country in line in NATO.
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Look, I think there being a buffer state between Russia and NATO is in our interests.
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Again, it's not about letting Russia overrun everybody in Ukraine.
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No, it's not about abandoning them necessarily.
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It's trying to end this thing somehow as quickly as possible, because you don't know how it's
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And yes, you know, you could say, well, we don't want to send money.
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But it also is worse in some ways, because Russia is a nuclear superpower on...
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They are seeing a situation in which we are supplying weapons that are killing their soldiers.
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I mean, like, they, at some point, especially if they start losing, Vladimir Putin's going
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to look for a way to escalate this, because he can't lose.
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So, look, it's in our interest to not to let them get overrun and have a bunch of people
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be murdered, but it is in our interest to try to get this over as quickly as possible.
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And Israel is a huge ally, probably second only to Great Britain.
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And there are some other responsibilities there to Israel, as far as I'm concerned.
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As a Christian person, we've got some responsibilities there, biblically speaking.
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There's people who disagree with that, of course.
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But it's also strategically incredibly important in the Middle East.
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So, and not to mention the fact that we've got 20 hostages in the hands of Hamas.
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And our soldiers have been attacked by Iranian forces and Iranian proxies in the Middle East.
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And we've, there's been, what, 40 injured troops who are U.S. troops on bases in Syria being
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And by the way, just another recommendation, if you happen to be running a small to moderate
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sized country that's a nuclear power, don't give up your nuclear weapons, even when America
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This situation would be much better if Ukraine had just kept their nuclear weapons.
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Because, and I know that's, that was controversial.
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Once you have them, you don't want to give them up.
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This is why we want to prevent people like Iran from getting them.
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The only country who has ever given them up, really, because, I mean,
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They were technically the Soviet, and they were splitting from the Soviet Union.
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So, in a way, they weren't theirs, but I would have held on to them if I were Ukraine.
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South Africa is the only one who's ever done it.
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And again, they're not in a region where it's necessarily all that important.
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But you don't give them up once you get them, because this sort of stuff can happen
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And Ukraine is facing the ramifications of that decision many years later.
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Jay, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Stu.
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I did watch the debate last night, but I kind of want to pivot a little bit.
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But how come I don't hear more people talking about what we're doing to prevent the election
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I mean, it was pretty conclusive that they produced midnight votes via mail-in ballots.
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I think you've touched on Stu's favorite topic.
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Well, here's my issue, and I appreciate the call, Jay.
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And it's a question that a lot of people have, so it's good to talk about.
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But, like, I think we should do more as Republicans, or if you are a Republican, I'm actually not
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But we should be encouraging our base to get out the vote, to gather up people like Democrats
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do and take them to the polls and make sure they can vote, too.
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Even if they didn't steal the election, let's do the things that get mass amounts of people
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Well, I guess my- this is- you're highlighting, I think, how- where my concern comes in on
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Why should we do the things you just recommended?
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Because if you're convinced that every election is going to be stolen, there's no real point
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I think a lot of people say, okay, well, maybe it happened last time.
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I mean, if you've watched Dinesh D'Souza's 2,000 Mules, you know there were some problems.
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But I think the question is whether you're talking about it or not.
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Now, the right thing to do is, obviously, places like Georgia and Texas have passed really
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good laws that have helped, I think, the security of the vote going forward.
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But you have to realize that a lot of these states that people are concerned that were stolen
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last time have Democrats in control and have had Democrats in control ever since the last
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So if you get to that point where it can become a sort of defeatist loop, right, where you're
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thinking only about the election being stolen and not getting people out.
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If the election is going to be stolen, we're all screwed.
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There's probably no way to stop it because Democrats have control of enough states to be
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So the better way to go forward is to do everything you can to protect the election and the election
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But in addition, act as if none of that's going to happen and do the best job you can do to
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get people out to the polls and all the things that Pat just suggested.
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Because if they're going to steal it, you're probably screwed anyway.
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I'll tell you, in Ohio, Republicans just didn't come out.
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It was because pro-life side is unpopular in Ohio.
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It was because Republicans did not get activated in Ohio.
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They were outspent and did not get activated and did not show up to vote for life.
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Emergency situations come in a lot of different forms