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means we chat with Ap Dylan from the North State

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Journal and her substack publication is called more to the Story, Ap.

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How are you today?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well. How are you pe?

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Speaker 1: I am doing all right. Earlier in the program, I

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was informed by a listener that over on the NPR

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affiliate here in town, there was apparently an episode of

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one A, which is like, I think that's the New

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York Times podcast or show that they do or maybe not.

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I don't know, but it's over on NPR, and they

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were apparently talking with Democrats that were now going to

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grow facial hair and that's going to win voters back

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to their side. They believe it's a lack of facial hair,

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which I was not aware of this. Have you ever

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have you heard of this analysis? No, no, I don't think.

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Speaker 2: It's I'm not a I'm not opposed. Facial hair is

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great on guys, But it's just more about winning the

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winning the mail vote back.

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Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah, so I think because they see

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they got a curse and they got to say y'all

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and they got to have they got to have facial

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hair apparently because it's not they were very clear, it's

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not their uh, their policies. It's just their messaging hasn't

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broken through somehow, and so that's the real problem. It's

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the it's their inability to message because they don't control

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enough platforms to push messaging. Yes, that's kind of bizarre,

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which is now also bizarre that you got another poll

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you write about at your sub stack. This new polls

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show people think the Democrats have gone a little too

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far to the left. It's not their policies though, I'm

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sure it's just the messaging here right.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, this was an I and I Tip Insights poll.

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It had about over four or fourteen hundred adults and

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the poll was taken from June twenty fifth to the

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twenty seventh, and I asked the participants do you think

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the Democratic Party has become too radical in its views

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and policies? And the result was forty five percent of

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voters currently viewed the Democratic Party as too radical, thirty

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six percent said the opposite, in eighteen percent said they

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were unsure either way.

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Speaker 1: Right now, that's largely I mean that forty five percent

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that's driven by the Republican response, right because the Republicans

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were at seventy three percent saying, yes, Democrats have become

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too radical.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, when you broke down by party, that's how

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that's how it shook out. But I mean even in

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independents were saying, yeah, this is this is too much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a problem that's at.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they didn't even know who their leader of

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their party should be. Thirty six percent was the plurality

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in that question, and they said they weren't sure. The

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top percentagegethers were Vice President Kamala Harris with ten percent,

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Chuck Schumer with nine percent, former President Barack Obama eight percent,

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House Meminori leader King Jeffrey seven percent, and tied with

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five percent, where AOC California governor Newsom and former President

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty sad too. But and look, this

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is the problem. You know, when you don't win the

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White House, then yeah, who is the leader of your party?

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And Republicans have enjoyed now a decade where Trump has

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been the leader. It's been very clear, right, So that

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and but I remember, you know, after w was out

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and Obama came in this the Republicans kind of suffered

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the same sort of dilemma as they you know, they

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tried to find, you know, who's going to be the

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leader of the party. And I guess that's why we

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got Mitch McConnell.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it looks like it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I did think this was interesting that that Republicans

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in this poll they at ten percent, they have Harris

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and it's like the Democrats they rated Obama at just

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seven percent, which is odd, Like why wouldn't still be

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the leader of the party, And like all of Biden

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world was basically retreads from Obama world, So like why

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why would you not be aware that Obama still is

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very much involved in this stuff. It's kind of I

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don't know, it's kind of weird that that the results

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showed that. So this is going to be a problem.

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I mean, unless, of course, everybody grows facial hair, then

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maybe they will be able to uh to get Roy Cooper,

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my good friend Ray as I like to call him,

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made it official. He is going to run for the

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US Senate because he just wants to serve us so badly. Yes,

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you are not surprised by this announcement.

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Speaker 2: No, no, nope. Several weeks ago, right around July eighth,

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I had multiple sources telling me that he was running,

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and that that was confirmed by an event at which

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Attorney General Jeff Jackson had said in the current tense

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that he was endorsing h Now, neither one of those

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parties would go on the record, because if I had

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identified the event or anything like that, it would have

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put the finger on who they were.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, a local outlet here decided to try

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to mock me for that, and it turns out I

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was correct.

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Speaker 1: Ah vindication. Yes, it's good, it feels good. All right,

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So what was the local who attacked you? It was

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w r L like the like on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: Uh No, they used one of their PolitiFact things to

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pick one piece out of the article that I wrote

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wrapping that information there. It was about a coffee with

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Cooper invite which she said he was going to be

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talking about the future of North Carolina. It was gonna

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take care take event in Winston Salem, and I had

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originally put it in the article and it was pending

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requests for comment from from the venue. And once I

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finally got a hold of the people at the venue

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and asked if anything was planned for that day, they

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said no. So that was that was out. And not

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only that, but the band I think, you know, after

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after I looked at it again, the band was not

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something that was going to be there, either there or

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somewhere else. So it looked like it was fabricated. But

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they held that up as though it was important, right

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like it was really the smaller part it was, you know,

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they The bigger part of it was that I had

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gotten this information that this was going to happen right

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ahead of them, and they weren't happy.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, not because I would have thought Cooper had him

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on speed dial, because I mean, they were one of

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the only ones that he would ever let on the

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phone to ask questions during the COVID briefings and stuff,

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which that's going to be fun to revisit. Right, So

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I made a list the other day pros and cons

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for you know, Cooper and Wattley, and I mean the

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stuff that Cooper is going to have to answer for.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: You got the COVID response, his terrible you know, disastrous

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disaster relief and response HB two, which you know, the

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vibe has shifted on that whole issue. Also all of

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the vetos, right, And in his announcement he was talking

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about balancing budgets and stuff like, dude, you vetoed every

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single budget that came down the line except for the

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last one. Also, I'm kind of curious, is what's his

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take on Gaza. I'm very curious because he's gonna run

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for US Senate. You're going to have to do some

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foreign policy stuff. So I'm wondering that he's.

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Speaker 2: Been working at Harvard as a as a lecturer there.

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Harvard has been under the microscope for its anti Semitic

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issues and protests. I mean, that's obviously going to get

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dragged in there. Yeah, you mentioned COVID. Yeah, there's a lockdowns.

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You know, our schools and our kids are masked longer

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than just about any other any other state in the nation.

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There's you know, how he treated the George Floyd riots

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where you know, everything was burning down, and then two

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days later he goes out walking around with the protesters

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with the mask dangling from his face. And then the

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reopened NC protesters who you know, staged arrests against one

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individual there to you know, send a message. There's the

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Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the alleged slush fund that went

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along with.

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Speaker 1: Oh I forgot about that one.

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Speaker 2: Pipe, the DOT budget that just went completely off the rails,

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and he had to replace the chief that he had

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in place there. The DMV is completely disaster. And why

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Goodwin was out there, you know, and then coming into office,

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you know, he he had the crime lab issues and

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the Duke Lacrosse issues and was involved in the Jim

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Black trial and all that. And then you know, just

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as he's heading in there and Josh sein is taking

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over as AG, we find out that North Carolina had

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the number one back backlog in the nation. He cleared out,

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said he cleaned Yeah, he said he cleared the crime

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lab stuff, so you know, but there it is, you know,

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and then what else was there? There was one other

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thing that came up, his his penchant for for punishing

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Democrats in his own party in the st Legislature. You know,

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there was Kirk devieer In, several other Democrats who we threatened.

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over school choice. She she's a very strong school choice supporter,

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and so when she switched over, you know that that

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kind of turned everything upside down.

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Speaker 1: Record on anti vouchers probably not going to play very well.

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never been the target of the amount of negative ads

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and fundraising outside of the state that he's about to be.

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So like, I'm genuinely curious to see how this campaign

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unfolds because I don't know if he's ever I think

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what he's about to experience is going to be out

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of the norm for him.

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Speaker 4: I think so too.

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Speaker 2: And you know the other you know, on the other side,

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we've got you know, Michael Wattley. He was the NCGOP

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chair and he led several successful campaigns which you know,

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Republican majorities there. He was largely responsible for helping coordinate

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the judicial races. You know, he's he's run successful campaigns

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to keep super majorities in both chambers for the most part.

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off to the RNs and along with Laura Trump got

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you know, President Trump elected to second term. His his

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election background, you know, it's he's got strong on wasn't

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and winning races, just not one of his own yet,

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which is going to probably be the focus of the

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Cooper campaign. I can see them going after him for

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not having any real world experience as a and Mark Robins.

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Speaker 1: So Mark, they're going to hammer him on Mark Robinson.

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It's just gonna you are going to see more Mark

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Robinson in this election. He's not even running it, you know.

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Speaker 2: I know, but I think that I think that the electorate,

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you know, that's going to play to his bass. But

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because I mean, you're backing a candidate and then suddenly

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that that candidate turns out to be a problem, right,

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you know that that's happened in both parties. I can

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think of John Edwards being one yes, uh, you know,

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for that campaign. He was he was worked for that

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work for him, So there were there's that tie in there.

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And then you've got know the question of the North

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Israel platforms. You know, if it's if they're endorsing him,

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you know that that can be flipped on its script

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and go back at him with that. But you know,

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I think the fact that Botley has not been elected

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the counter that would be that, you know, he's been

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Dole, he was her chief of the exactly.

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Speaker 2: He knows how the sausage is made, so it's not

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like this he was. This is new waters for him.

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of both the President and Laura Trump, who had been

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in his favor and if the if the economy continues

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to go the way it's going, things getting better that

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the tariff de iers are having problems, you know, coming

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up with arguments of how they're networking when Trump keeps

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sealing all these deals, the latest one with the European Union.

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I think that the economy issue, as well as doing

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what he said he was going to do with deportations

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and immigration and cutting crime. I think those two things,

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if they continue into next year, we might see the

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Republicans hold onto more seats than people think they might.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, look, it's the trend is always to

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you know, the party that controls the White House loses

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seats in the Congress at the mid terms except for

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right after nine to eleven. So I mean it is possible.

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Like it's it's a trend, it's it's not a rule.

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So we'll see. I got to leave it there, Ap Dylan,

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I appreciate you joining us. As always. You can read

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her work at North State Journal that's nsjonline dot com

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and subscribe to her sub stack publication called More to

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the Story. AP. Thanks so much, Thank you, Pete. Take care.

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does every Monday at two o'clock and we chat about

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the news and such, which, yeah, like I kind of

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feel like we already we already did all of this

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on the Roy Cooper thing, right, I mean, I know

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it's the campaign's just starting and all, but we covered

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this last week, and I mean, I'm glad AP like

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listed those things. I gotta keep this. I'm gonna have to.

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I'm gonna have to make a list of all of

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the of all of the weaknesses of Roy Cooper Roy Cooper,

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and that's one right there. Like now we're all confused

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about how to pronounce his last name. Guy's been in

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public office for like forty years and uh like career politician.

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And then a year ago maybe two Wira l I

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think it was, or maybe it was the McClatchy papers,

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they did this whole big story about how do you

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pronounce Cooper? Like I didn't realize there was a different

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way to pronounce it it's Cooper or Cooper, but not

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really Cooper something like that. Anyway, my good friend Ray,

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and I call him that because that's what Hillary called

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him when she campaigned for him in twenty sixteen. She

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came to North Carolina. They traded endorsements and such and oh,

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my good friend Ray Cooper, well nine do Elinedray go back.

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You know, Gosh idged a bullet on that one. So

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also we got the new facial hair approach. Uh, this

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is one of they. So Democrats are going to win

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back some mail voters by apparently growing facial I am

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reminded of the Steve Buscemi scene where he approaches some

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high schoolers and he is obviously like fifty years old,

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but he's dressed like a skater kid and he's like, hello,

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fellow high school students. Like that's what That's the image

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I'm getting of this operation facial hair effort. But there's

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also a gender gap. Women are becoming Democrats, men are

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becoming Republicans. I'm sure nothing bad will happen to our

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entire civilization at this rate. So there's a Gallup poll

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on that. I will get to this after the news. Also,

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I have purposefully not watched Roy Cooper's Senate announcement video.

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I am going to watch it after the news when

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we come back, I'm going to watch it for the

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first time with you. Okay, all right, If you're listening

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more transfer parent. All right, so I have the clip

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of my good friend ray former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.

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I've not watched it yet, so this will aside from

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the one SoundBite that I've heard in our newscast, it

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will all be new to me. I don't know what

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he says in all of this is only like two minutes.

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All right, So here's here's the let me make sure

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that's on. Okay, good, here's the clips, say.

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Speaker 4: Governor Cooper.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, why do you support men being able to play

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women's sports? Can you let me, Governor Cooper? Why do

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you support men being able to play women's sports?

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Speaker 1: He's getting into the back of the Governor.

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Speaker 3: Cooper, could you please answer the question? God nice, Governor Cooper,

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are there are more than two genders?

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Speaker 1: Sorry? Sorry, that was not his announcement. That was the

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video of him at Harvard. Somebody went up to him

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with a with a cell phone video recording and asked

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him those questions and then he ran from them. And

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he it was funny too, because he went like there

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was a car. I guess an uber was picking him up,

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and he goes to get into the back of the uber,

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but it's locked, and that's when he's like, can you

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open the can you open the door? And then the

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guy pops the locks and Cooper then gets in, and

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then there's a woman who jumps in, so he has

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to move his seat over, but he didn't even let

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her go in first, like he just didn't want to

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answer the question. You're gonna have to figure an answer

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out to that question, Guvnor. I suspect it might come

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up in this campaign for US Senate. Okay, here's the

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actual video. It's two minutes and twenty eight seconds. He

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sent out a tweet with the video. It's just him

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wearing a blue blazer with a light blue collared shirt,

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no tie, and he's just staring straight at the at

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the camera and he says, I have, oh, look at that.

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His picture on his Twitter avatar is from this clip.

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He's wearing the same it's the same shot, so they

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updated his avatar. He says, I have thought on it

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and prayed about it, and I have decided I am

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running to be the next US Senator from North Carolina.

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And here's the statement.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't always a hard because being in the middle class.

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Speaker 1: Minute, hang on a second, is this the beginning? Oh wait,

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maybe I'll skip ahead. Let me see zero zero go.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't always a hard because being in the middle

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class meant something. You could afford a home, your kids

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went to good schools, your job paid enough to cover

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the basics, and most summers you could get away for

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a few days.

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Speaker 4: For the most part, life was pretty good.

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Speaker 5: I'm Roy Cooper, and I know that today for too

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many Americans, the middle class feels like a distant dream. Meanwhile,

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the biggest corporations and the richest Americans have grabbed unimaginable

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wealth at your expense.

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Speaker 1: Oh nice, Okay, good, so he's going full on class.

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Are fair, nicely done? I knew. See m gosh, he's

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gonna you're you're going to bring back the middle class.

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You are going to do this, and I'm sure you're

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going to cite all of the balanced budgets and the

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economic growth and that North Carolina has experienced, and like

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the boom that this state has enjoyed, largely due to

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the Republican legislature. Mmmm, I don't know. Why I expected it.

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I don't know why. I don't know why I expected

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anything different. He just he this is the thing, Like

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he comes across as this folksy, charming you know, uncle Ray,

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kind of a character or as a producer. Nick, do

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you want to do your you want to do your

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your impression. You got to turn your mic on. You

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gotta turn your mic on. Yeah, turn your mic on.

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Speaker 2: You're a great Thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: All right. So here's so here's Nick's impression of my

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good friend Ray. Just a simple country law. There you go.

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That's the image that this guy presents himself as. And

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it's so to me, transparently fake. It's like this guy

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is a political animal and we've documented an ap Dylan

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mentioned it. You know, he targeted his own fellow Democrats,

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like he drops the hammer on people like this all

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the time. Anyway, all right, let's go back to the video.

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I'll try to let it play along, all right, no promises.

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Speaker 5: Actually it's time for that to change. I grew up

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in Nash County, working on the farm every summer. My

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mom was a public school teacher, my dad a small

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town lawyer and farmer. It's where I started my family

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taught Sunday school for years and started my law practice

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that helped everyday people in small businesses. When you made

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me your attorney general, I prosecuted criminals.

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Speaker 1: He skip over your whole terms in the in the

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House or Senate, Like, why'd you This dude is a

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career politician, he was in the legislature, he was a

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Senate leader, like, and then he became attorney general. Why'd

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you skip over all of that? Is it? All the

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gerrymandered maps? Is that why you're a little embarrassed about

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all the gerrymandering that you did when you were in

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the legislature, got sued every single year over crazy drawn districts. Anyway,

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now it says I'm running for your senate.

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Speaker 5: And took on scammers, big banks, and drug companies. When

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you made me your governor, we balanced the state budget

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every year.

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Speaker 1: You have to do that by law. You have to

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have a balanced budget. It is the law every state does.

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This is so absurd, Like you don't get to print

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money like the federal government does. You're touting balanced budgets.

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You vetoed every budget. You vetoed every one of the

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accept the very last one. Your final term or final

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year in office. You signed that one because I had

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the Medicaid expansion in it. Right, Come on, Roy, you

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held teacher pay raises hostage, like as part of your

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your budget maneuvering. Just this guy, Oh, it's just terrible.

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All right, we'll pick it up again.

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Speaker 5: And worked with Republicans to raise teacher pay. Oh I

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recruited thousands of better paying jobs and expand Medicaid to

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more than six hundred and fifty thousand working North Carolinians.

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Speaker 1: You didn't, Okay, you did not do that. The Republicans

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did that on their own. They flipped. They they are

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the ones that did that. You were along for the ride.

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You didn't pressure Republicans into doing that. They found out

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a way to offload the costs onto the federal governm

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and then they expanded it. I opposed it, but oh

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I worked with him to give teacher pay raises. You

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literally vetoed all of their pay raises. You always said

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it was never enough. You wanted to give him bigger

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pay raises, so you would veto budgets. And now you're

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claiming that you worked with Republicans on teacher pay raises.

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Just shameless.

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Speaker 5: But right now, our country's facing a moment as fragilous

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any I can remember, and the decisions we make in

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the next election will determine if we even have a

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middle class in America anymore.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. So there's your catastrophizing right, there's your

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doomsday pitch. You gotta panic people. There's gonna be no

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middle class. Like if Roy Cooper doesn't win in twenty

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twenty six, the whole middle class goes away. There's no

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Who you are, visit creative video dot com guy, I

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still got a minute of this thing. Yeah, there is

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some production. It's not the whole video of Roy Cooper.

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He's not I mean, he is staring at the camera

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and he's you know, delivering his his script. But when

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you know he's like when I was Attorney General, they're

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like showing his you know, old video and pictures of

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him doing stuff, you know, walking with cops. You know.

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I am unclear. Yeah, I got some some movement on

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the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick gmc pete.

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There would be this is from Steve in China Grove. Whoa,

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whoa China Grove, Pete. There would be a benefit if

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our friend Ray is the next senator, he would at

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least be more conservative than his predecessor Tom Tillis, Audios Tom,

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that's from he asked. He asked for the rim shot.

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I don't know. Andy says, we actually did have a

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much better middle class before all of the policies, all

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of the policies of the Democrats made the middle class

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shoulder load for people who don't work. And I think

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that might need to be edited. Didn't our Cooper teach

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at one ivy League school? Yeah, he's up in Harvard.

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He was up in Harvard on like one of these

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little scholarship programs that they give democrats after they are

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out of office and you know, need a soft landing

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pad with a lot of money just to tie them

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over till the next run. So, yeah, he was up

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at Harvard. Didn't he receive a salary? And does that

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not increase the cost of tuition? How is that helping

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the middle class? Major dumbassery help. The spelling is correct,

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it is Brian from Fort Mill. And Andy also said,

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why did say that our best days are ahead of

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us and then turn around and say that the middle

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class used to be so much better and so much

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more wealthier. Yeah, and actually there is this bifurcation, but

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it's you've got a lot more people that are making

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more money. We have a larger wealthier population. Now anyway,

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all right, let's go back. I got to finish playing

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this thing. Just it's like medicine. I gotta take it.

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I gotta watch it. It's it's you know, it's news.

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All right. So here's the second half of Roy Cooper's

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announcement video.

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Speaker 4: I never really wanted to go to Washington.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you don't have to. You don't have to.

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Nobody's making you go to Washington. Oh. I Like I

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heard Nancy Mace, the quote of hers that's on the

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newscast when she's like, I'm for I'm going to be

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forced to run for governor. Like, no, no, no one's

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forcing you to run for governor. No one's forcing you

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to run for Senate. He's like, oh, I didn't want

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to go to Washington, Well, then don't don't go to Washington.

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Oh no, no, But it's a sacrifice I'm sure that

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he will make for us.

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Speaker 5: I just wanted to serve the people of North Carolina,

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right here where I've lived all my life. I knew

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it that these are not ordinary times. Politicians in DC

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are running up our debt, ripping away our healthcare, disrespecting

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our veterans. If I'm cutting health for the poor and

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even putting Medicare and social Security at ah.

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Speaker 1: There we got. You gotta throw in the good. They're

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coming for your social Security, they're coming for your medicare.

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Always got to throw that in there. I mean, he

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is a Democrat. This is just all boilerplate, bumper sticker stuff,

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you know. But he says it with a smile and

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that folksy accent, that slow, lilting droll, so you can

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trust him. His hair does look good, though, I will

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say that he's got good hair.

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Speaker 4: Just to give tax breaks to billionaires. That's wrong. And

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I've had enough.

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Speaker 5: Oh I've thought on it and prayed about it, and

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I've decided I want to serve as your next United

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States Senator because even now, I still believe our best

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days are ahead of us. I love North Carolina, and

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I know you do too. I need you to be

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with us, and I can't wait to see you out there.

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Speaker 1: And then it just as Roy Cooper for North Carolina,

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Roy Coop paid for by Cooper for North Carolin. There

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you go, that's it. That's the end, all right, we

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made it. Oh my gosh, I just I feel like

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I'm going to be really annoyed this campaign season. Just

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I just feel like that I mentioned some polling. I

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got to pay this off because I mentioned it. The

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gender gap in the country is widening and is especially

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stark among the younger set. David Strom at hot air

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dot com as this linked up. As women have taken

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the lead in college attendance, pay and all sorts of

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measures of well being, they have grown to despise men

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more and more, and the male backlass just keeps growing.

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Democrats are the party that booted David Hogg out of

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his elected position because he was a heterosexual, white dude.

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And this is a Gallup poll that Strom is talking about,

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and it's this widening gap, this separation of the sexes

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more pronounced among the younger people. Gen Z women and

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gen Z men have the widest gap between them. Men

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moving right and also becoming happier by the way, women

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moving left and they become unhappier. Young women have rates

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of depression three times higher than young men. And then

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they are blaming men, which is such a woman thing

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to do. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

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Leftism is toxic for nearly everybody except the technocratic elite

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who are selling it to great profit. Yeah, most young

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men aren't buying what the Democrats are selling. And it

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doesn't matter if you've got facial hair or not when

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you're trying to sell us this stuff. Right, I know

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that they think this might be this might be the key.

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They're gonna say y'all a lot like this is the

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North Carolina Democrat Party chair Anderson Clayton's thing is like

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say y'all all the time costs a bunch. Make sure

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you use a bunch of bad words. Shows you're fighting,

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maybe get yourself arrested at like an ice event or something.

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And now facial hair sounds like the Democrats are are

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well strategized for the upcoming election. All right, that'll do

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it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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