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<v Speaker 1>I say, this is the seventy seven WABC Mini Cast.

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<v Speaker 2>Friday Evening calling you today as we have Senator David

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<v Speaker 2>McCormick from the great state of Pennsylvania, a former Army

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<v Speaker 2>officer and a great US Senator in Pennsylvania. Along with Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>he looks like you might be a lot better than

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<v Speaker 2>we thought originally. Sanata Fetterman from Pennsylvania.

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<v Speaker 1>Give me hey, John.

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<v Speaker 2>Senator McCormick can give us an update. What's going on?

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<v Speaker 1>Well? Great, great, great to be with you. Yeah, listen,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm now a year and a half into into being

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<v Speaker 1>the Senator from Pennsylvania. I like to I like to

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<v Speaker 1>say I'm the best dress Senator from Pennsylvania, and even

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<v Speaker 1>John Fetterman, my buddy, agrees with that, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>he's probably the most popular. But that's been a great surprise.

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<v Speaker 1>We have found a way to work together. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we we vote very differently a lot of the time.

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<v Speaker 1>We have lots of disagreements, but we don't focus on that.

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<v Speaker 1>We focus on the things we agree on, stopping fentanyl,

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<v Speaker 1>unlocking energy of supporting the fight against anti Semitism, supporting

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<v Speaker 1>America's use of force abroad to protect America's interest in

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<v Speaker 1>the Middle East against Iran and a nuclear threat. And listen,

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<v Speaker 1>I trust him. He's been nothing but straightforward and we're

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<v Speaker 1>good friends. And so that's been a real pleasant surprise.

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<v Speaker 1>And the thing that's happened, John, is you've seen just

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<v Speaker 1>in that eighteen months, the Democratic Party has lost its mind.

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<v Speaker 1>And this extreme part of the party I like to

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<v Speaker 1>call it, the Graham Platner wing of the party, which

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<v Speaker 1>is anti military, anti law enforcement, anti business, anti Semitic,

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<v Speaker 1>and anti America. That part of the party has become

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<v Speaker 1>and gained the support of mainstream Democrats, including just recently

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<v Speaker 1>with the lsieed in Michigan. And I mean, this is

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<v Speaker 1>a direction that I never thought i'd see in my lifetime.

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<v Speaker 1>When I was a soldier, we were fighting against the

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<v Speaker 1>Soviet Union, and I never thought when the Cold War ended,

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<v Speaker 1>we'd have to fight against socialism and communism. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>those were in the dustbin of history. But that's been

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<v Speaker 1>the defining thing of the last eighteen months for me.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of common sense Democrats feel the same way

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<v Speaker 2>as you do, Senator, in what I tell all my

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<v Speaker 2>Republican friends is let's get all the common sense Democrats

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<v Speaker 2>working together with the common sense Republicans and take back America.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And listen, I just

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<v Speaker 1>came back from two thousand miles twenty six counties over

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<v Speaker 1>eleven days. And the thing you see across these communities

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<v Speaker 1>in Pennsylvania, they just want people to solve problems. They

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<v Speaker 1>want to stop the flow of fentanyl into their communities,

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<v Speaker 1>which we've made huge progress on. John it was four

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<v Speaker 1>thousand Pennsylvanians died in the last year of Biden administration.

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<v Speaker 1>It's now in one year due defense and all. It

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<v Speaker 1>was sixteen hundred in the first year of the Trump administration,

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<v Speaker 1>down sixty percent.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>They want the cost of living to go down. They

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<v Speaker 1>want to be able to buy a house, which is

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<v Speaker 1>why we just passed this Road to Housing Act, which

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<v Speaker 1>is going to bring down the cost of housing. When

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<v Speaker 1>I was right when I got out of the Army,

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<v Speaker 1>the average age for an American to own a home

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<v Speaker 1>was twenty eight It's forty one today. So they want

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<v Speaker 1>people who are going to solve problems. And so that's

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<v Speaker 1>why I've focused on voting for things that are going

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<v Speaker 1>to bring that kind of policy to working families in Pennsylvania.

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<v Speaker 1>The Working Families Tax Cut Act was a big part

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<v Speaker 1>of that. It's lowering the cost of living, it's bringing

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<v Speaker 1>back forty five hundred dollars for every family with an

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<v Speaker 1>average income of fifty five and childcare tax credit. These

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<v Speaker 1>are the things that they care about and they don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to get caught up in this crazy ideological leftist

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<v Speaker 1>part of the Democratic Party. And that's why I think

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<v Speaker 1>we will do better than people expect in the midterms.

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<v Speaker 2>I agree with you what you said before. The Democrats

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<v Speaker 2>might have the Republicans might have a few items that

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<v Speaker 2>not everybody agrees with, but the Democrats have lost their

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<v Speaker 2>Brian have lost their mind. I mean I we just

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<v Speaker 2>want common sense. And you know something, Pennsylvania, where you're from,

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<v Speaker 2>where I have a big investments in Pennsylvania, always had

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<v Speaker 2>common sense. Senator McCormick, thank you for calling in this Friday.

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<v Speaker 2>We got so much to talk about. Let's talk on

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<v Speaker 2>Sunday too.

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<v Speaker 1>You got it, John, looking forward to it. Thank you.