"Rooting For America's Failure" - Scott Jennings DESTROYS Democrats' DEVASTATING Decline
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A new poll shows that if an election were held today, 46% of registered voters would back a democrat, while only 43% would vote for a Republican. What does this mean for the future of the Democratic Party?
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wall street journal drops another story a poll democrats approval rating craters to 35 year low
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wow not a five-year low not a 10-year low we're talking about a 35 year low and they're not even
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in charge right now how much worse can it get than this normally when somebody takes office
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their rating goes lower and you have an opportunity to come up yeah not for democrats yep normally i
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mean he has all this stuff that's going on with epstein the polls keep favoring him more and more
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and more and so the poll comes out revealed that 63 of registered voters view democrats unfavorably
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compared to 33 with a positive impression marking the lowest since 1990 while trump's approval rating
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stands at 46 disapproval at 52 higher than the 40 at this point in his first term republicans approval
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rating is net seven points unfavorable and if election were held today 46 percent would back
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a democrat versus 43 for republican democratic pollster john anzalone who helped conduct the
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survey said the democratic brand is so bad that they don't have the credibility to be a critic of trump
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or the republican party let me read this quote to you one more time folks the democratic brand is so bad
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that they don't have the credibility to be a critic of trump you don't have no moral authority to say
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anything bad about trump or the republican party today voters trust republicans over democrats
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on inflation by 10 points immigration by 17 points handling illegal immigrants by 17 points
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though they disapprove trump terrorists by 17 points which we'll get to that here in a minute
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with republicans still scoring seven points harder than democrats on that issue
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anzalone stated until they reconnect with real voters and working people on who they're for
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and what their economic message is they're going to have problems scott thoughts on the story
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well democrats because of the biden presidency because they lied about joe biden's condition
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because they lied to the country about the inflationary impacts of his policies
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have dug themselves the deepest hole they've ever been in in the history of their party that's number one
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number two cultural radicalism i mean when when the hills you're willing to die on are
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boys and girls sports paying for transgender surgeries of inmates which kamala harris had in
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the last election when you're willing to die on these hills uh when you're willing to go uh and say
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maryland man uh unfairly deported back to his home country i mean when you're willing to die on all
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these 80 20 hills eventually your approval rating will wind up i'm no mathematician but around 20
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yeah exactly they're getting there and so this hole they've dug themselves in like if i can't trust
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you not to put a boy in my daughter's locker room why would i talk to you about taxation policy
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or inflation or tariffs or anything else you're trying to put a boy in my girl's locker room that's
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right why and so you have i agree with anzalone by the way he's a serious pollster he's been around
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the democratic party forever this is a serious guy he's got it dead right they have no credibility to
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is he a liberal himself yes he he is one of the most sought-after democratic pollsters the wall
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street journal poll they get a democrat and republican two serious people they do the poll together
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anzalone knows democrats he knows campaigns and what he said right there is dead right wow
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dead he is a serious guy by the way when you look at the scott question for you so this is the net
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favorability of each party right tom i need your help on this one here up until 2004 if you look at four
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for the most part both of them are positive right and then all of a sudden republicans fall that's
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obviously under bush obama gets a little bit of a spike in 08 and then he starts falling and then
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biden has a massive crash and republicans since 2006 have relatively stayed at that negative 10 number
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if you look at that but what is the difference that caused this goal from being positive everybody
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was positive then all of a sudden everybody being negative how did that happen tom what would you say
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well there's two things there's an erosion of americans trust in government and so when you talk
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about net favorability of each party you say how many of you favor how many of you unfavor and what's
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the difference there so the republicans have had a minus 10 percent favorability and if you take a look
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at the core of it goes in um it started crashing like oh four um which is basically bush's second term
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and then stayed down when obama was elected in eight re-elected in 12 and then only recently did the
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lines cross but you take a look at what happened starting with obama's re-election the democrat
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unfavorability as the average voter is finding out what it really means and what they stand for
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putting a boy in my daughter's locker room what really doesn't work economically the story of the
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chart is that even though people have eroded trust of the republican party it has stayed level and
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picked up just a tick since obama however starting with obama the dems dropped below the line in 08 see
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that pat yeah and went and look at the plummet because it doesn't work the bernie side the aoc side
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the marxist side the dei side does not work and it's leading to these high negatives and i have a
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lot of respect also for enzalone he's one of the ones i read and i respect also respect mark mitchell
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over at rasmussen mark knows what he's doing and they're seeing the same things they're seeing the
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same things and they're also seeing that you can't look at parties uniquely like this you have to peel
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back a little bit and on issues what the real story is what you read on the issues is issue by issue
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americans trust republicans by 10 points on inflation by 17 points in immigration by seven points on
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tariffs what else is there right so what is what is eroding it if the republicans are leading on that
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what is happening here what's happening here is all of the dei and the woke fallout has crushed
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the democrat party now we've got a year to to to pull a madman like the candidate in new york i call
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him madman and flip the script using the tools of modern communication what did you call it the
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modern communications ecosystem yeah the modern communications ecosystem where you step away from
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cable you step away the dominance of four channels on tv podcasts matter opinions matter so many other
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things are are bringing it out you still have a year for that and we've seen with mandami what can happen
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pat in a short time with the voting but we got a year to where this gets serious next august 1st is where
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it really gets serious because the the everybody that you read about on pollsters will tell you august 1st to
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october 1st next year is where the independents will move and choose as we go into midterms we'll see what
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happen adam your thoughts on this the democratic party is a sinking ship and i'm just so glad that
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i jumped off it uh a couple years ago i was on it for a little while scott it was a bumpy ride it was
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funny we were at dinner last night thank you for a great dinner pbd and we ran into roger stone and
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you're shaking roger stone's hand and vinnie and roger are doing their you know pleasantries and he's hey
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adam he goes this guy right here's the biggest donald trump fan out there i was like me and the reason i
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know he's joking about that is because once you sort of switch teams and you see what that team was
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you're so disgusted by what's going on over there that you can't help but just like look at these
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idiots over here and what i'm starting to see is my democratic diamond called them idiots yeah jamie
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diamond said said the following he said they uh they have big hearts and little brains and that's what
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i've experienced you know they say when you're young if you're not a liberal you have no heart if you're
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older and if you're not a conservative you have no brain jamie diamond is in the uh in the thick of
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things he couldn't say this five years no exactly and and trump winning has given people out of cover
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to really say the truth and then i think that's what's going on here the number one thing that i
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think in my opinion you know i go around i've said this a million times go around giving people
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american flags uh very few people say no i don't want one and take a guess who does not want an american
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flag it is the super liberal democrats who don't want to be caught looking like they
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love america say what you want about trump and the republican party i love that you do that let me
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tell you you have you know when i whenever i'm running you're giving people that american that's
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your thing that's your shtick i freaking love that you do that because it's a great case study to see
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how people react scott your thoughts so my uh comment on what you said is two years ago you joined the
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republicans i think in the last two to five years really since trump but really recently his branding of
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the republican party as common sense versus you know what's the alternative uncommon nonsense
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he has scrambled the ideological deck it's not really just conservative versus liberal anymore
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it's not really just republican versus democrat it's for him and he talked about it the inaugural
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it's just common sense versus the alternative and a lot of people who never thought of themselves
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as republicans who never voted who rarely voted who don't think of themselves as caring about
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politics at all who wouldn't want to be called democrat or republican they love to be behind
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the guys that's just a common sense thing yeah the branding that he put on this is genius because it
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makes your coalition more elastic you're allowed you can bring people in non-political people people
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who don't want to be caught up in the normal red blue of course they love common sense and that's
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what he's selling and by the way if you look at the polling it's working he's got a common sense view
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on immigration he's got a common sense view on cultural you know radicalism he's got common
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sense view on well maybe it would be better if we had tariff policy that was advantaging american
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workers and not foreign countries these are common sense concepts you don't have to be steeped in
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conservative ideology to go oh yeah that sounds right to me common sense scott beautiful when did
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you flip because you know daily show did a nice little hit piece on you and basically uh saying that
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you were very critical of trump at one point you know just like jd vance just like myself just like
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a lot of other people what caused you to flip well i voted republican my whole life and i did vote for
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him three times but like everybody else i didn't get it i mean i've readily admit i did not get it i did
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not understand it i did not get how this guy who hadn't been a republican was coming along to take over
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the republican party i just i did not get it um and so over time i began to realize what he was doing
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and i also began to realize the choice and you know in 2024 for me there was no i mean kamala harris
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versus donald trump the idea of common sense versus whatever it is she was selling and so i plus his
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opposition the reflexive nature of his opposition to hate and try to delegitimize him
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uh on everything he does i think is terrible for america i mean they're rooting i mean you wear
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that pin they're rooting against america yeah on the tariffs all april they were hoping it would
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fail imagine that they're hoping it would fail america on iran when we when we when we bombed the
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missile sites what's the first thing that happened we got to impeach him oh he didn't do that much
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damage yeah the immediate delegitimization of this guy every time he does something they root for
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america's failure so does he does he everything he does do i no no politician i'm 100 all the time
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but i'll tell you this i like it that he roots for america and i hate it that they root against
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america just because he did it bingo and i think that's why a lot of people are fine with it let me
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ask you a follow-up on this because forget about regular people talk about the people that you sit
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down with every single day i'm gonna assume they're not fans of donald trump no starting with
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abby phillips all the way down that that cast of characters do they hate trump do they not love
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america i mean you're arguing with these people left and right what is the common thread with most
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of these people oh i think for the left for the ideological left the motivating issue for them and
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this is the this is the core of the democratic platform if trump is for it we're against it if he
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if he decided to do something it inherently must be wrong and every conversation is framed with that
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in mind and so then you debate it out from there uh but i think because they hate him personally
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all decisions he makes must therefore be attacked or stated that it's going to somehow lead to
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america's downfall tax cuts tariffs judges immigration policy everything he ever does think about the
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apocalyptic language they use to describe everything and it you know it doesn't really turn out that way
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tax cuts were good for america uh you know control turns out controlling the border means you can you
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can't actually close the border it turns out the tariffs do give you leverage in trade negotiations
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and so i just think it's a it's a personal disposition they hate this guy most of the people i debate with
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they hate this guy have you moved anybody have i moved anybody you moved anybody a little bit
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has anybody's like you know yeah your friends yeah i think i think i have made points that people say
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i hadn't thought of that uh but but you have to understand i'm debating people who
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fundamentally see the world differently than i see it and and you know look i come from kentucky
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i'm a lifelong republican i'm a conservative they're they don't come from middle america they're lifelong
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liberals and they also carry and harbor this personal hatred yeah for trump and and you know when that
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that sort of colors your thinking about policy you can see where the debates go rob can we see a
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clip of this daily show going after i'm trying to see how do you go after scott oh man
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the 29 year old wunderkind part of a nefarious white house scheme to systematically fire disobedient
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u.s attorneys dennings declined to answer most questions in the face of sharp complaints from
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democrats senator pursuant to the president's uh assertion i must respectfully decline to answer
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that question at this time i must respectfully decline to answer your question how long ago is this
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decline to answer this is this is three days ago yeah yeah yeah july 27th if you keep playing it
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it'll get to the point right here i'll have to decline to answer that wow worst jeopardy contestant
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ever i mean not not the point but he's weren't identically what you were wearing here
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pretty soon he's gonna he's gonna get those arm tats and won't shut up about his therapist we get it
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but that was the last time jennings would ever decline to share his opinion because he soon
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joined cnn where he made a name for himself as a rare conservative voice who would openly attack
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donald trump he's clearly violated his oath of office uh to preserve protect and defend the
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constitution this is outrageous it's beyond the pale every republican ought to be able to say so
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we need a new nominee if we nominate him again what year is this scott what year is this all this going
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on uh the first stuff you saw was back when i worked for president bush just as a uh as a quick
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history lesson there was a kerfluffle in washington about bush's dismissal of some u.s attorneys
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it was a handful of them i was a deputy to carl rove uh and they subpoenaed several of us to talk
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about it uh carl did not show up at the hearing that day i did and the president gave me a letter
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to tell the congress he was asserting executive privilege over my testimony so what i did i had to
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go there that day for several hours and effectively assert executive privilege over it ultimately nothing
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really happened uh bush left office and you know it all sort of went away but it was a it was a it
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was a big kerfluffle in 2007 let me ask the other question how much weight did you lose i've lost a
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lot of weight i'll be honest i've my weight's been up and down i fought it my entire life um you know
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at my high point you know i probably weighed 275 pounds today i weigh about 178 pounds holy 100 pounds
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by the way i don't even recognize you yeah yeah that that you know you that i don't even recognize
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you good for you for having uh having done that the kids call it a glow up you're glowing up now
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yeah but but but but to be honest i fight it every day i mean i'm not i'm not unique in that but it's uh
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it's a hard thing to do you know who uh who else talked openly about it that way ethan suplee i
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don't know if you remember ethan but ethan was a whole do you know ethan suplee is if you type in
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ethan suplee you'll know who he is remember the titans remember the titans oh yeah yeah of course
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he's uh he's a complete different place but okay all right so while we're talking about this
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rob can you go back to that poll just one thing for me to add to the poll uh what do you call it
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uh democrat yeah that right when you look at that poll if you look at the two biggest declines if
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these were two stocks look at the biggest drop-offs one of them is after 9-11 okay which is what
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president bush and the other one is what after covet look at that decline after covet massive drop-off
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after covet the democrats try to fully go crazy with ideas and the american people just said i don't know
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if i'm gonna go that wild with you by the way do you think the amount of people that are partyless like
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they're not linked to any party today do you think that's getting bigger or do you think some of the
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people are like man because it is negative right it's still negative it's like it's not like it's
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positive and the republican party went up or you know it's still in the negative do you think there's
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millions of people that are trying to find a party that they don't relate to i think i think there are
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more people who dislike politics period and they don't necessarily trust political institutions or
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either parties i think the republicans are in far better shape uh but yeah i think we have a growing
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number of people in this country who you know they just don't think of themselves as being party people
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they they might like an individual candidate obviously there are people who love donald trump
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but they don't they just don't think of themselves as as partisans they think of themselves in some
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other way and uh and the democrats you mentioned covet it's not wasn't just covet it was covet but
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remember the summer of 2020 the riots uh the uh cultural sort of disposition that you know everybody
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else has to be locked in your house unless you're out protesting for a good reason and then you're
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absolved somehow i want to give you a shout out because you pointed out something that we sort of just
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glossed over about how bad this is let me tell you how bad this is in the last 35 years the lowest any
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party has ever been is minus 20 and the democrats are like you know what hold my beer we're gonna
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about to go way lower than that the democratic brand is so tarnished we've never seen a major party
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this low the lowest the republicans were yeah after 9-11 after before covid what i'm asking is the
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following yep i'm asking to see scott for you that follows all these stories and the polls and
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everything that's going on is there an appetite for a musk america party like remember when ross
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pro started the reform party when it got 18.4 percent and then he ran again in 96 and he only
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got 8.4 percent are we at a place that we have an appetite for people to join the third party i don't
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think so first of all our system is not built for independent candidacies but i would just tell you i
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think we already we already lived through this trump was our independent moment i think the way he won in
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16 and the way he won in 24 when you look at the people who voted for him yes most republicans but
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his attraction of people who were not terribly political didn't think of themselves as being
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republicans or conservatives or had voted democrat i think they were attracted to him because they saw
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him as an independent actor somebody who would not be hemmed in by any political party or any political
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system i think we already lived through this in my opinion he's our he's a republican he's had a republican
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party but he is also i think for a lot of people somebody who was external to the system and
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