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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Michael steal here is so glad you to

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join us on this very special make mint a double

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vice presidential pick edition. Kamala Marris. Kamala Harris has selected

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her choice to be her running mate. That is Minnesota

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Governor Tim Waltz, who was a dark horse. I guess

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for some people, not so much for some others. But

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it's a good pick. I think it's a solid pick.

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A little bit about the governor. He served as a

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member of Congress, so I believe about ten years. He

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was a family guy, a former football coach who took

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his team to the state championship for the first time

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in the school's history. He's a command sergeant of major

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in the Army National Guard who went on to college

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under the GI Bill to serve his nation. He won

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his first race in a Reportublican district representing the needs

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of farmers uh in rural America. So this idea that

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this guy somehow can't connect with western Pennsylvania is a

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load of bullshit. And those folks out there, Republican and

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Democrat who are pushing up that narrative just don't know

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this guy. He is someone I think is going to

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be much more connected to Middle America than perhaps even

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Josh Shapiro. You know, I think that a lot of

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folks misread the tea leaves here a little bit. Josh was.

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I liked Josh and had tagged him as a pick.

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I liked Mark Kelly especially, had some good vibes about

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this particular choice in Tim Waltz. But I think a

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lot of folks are overreading the Pennsylvania play here. It's

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not that it's not important. Democrats absolutely need Pennsylvania in

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order to win. But I think this idea that somehow

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this guy who is America's dad, who comes off that way,

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you know, tells, you know, crazy dad jokes from Tom

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to Tom, is willing to go toe to toe against

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adversaries and has a connection to farmland America to rule

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America that he's not going to be able to translate

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in a state like Pennsylvania. I think people are just

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sort of whistling crazy. Right now, Let's see what this

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ticket does. Clearly, the Vice President saw something in him

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that made her feel very comfortable, that made her feel

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that on day one, should anything happen to her, God

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for bid, he could step into the oval and run

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the country and I think those are important attributes for

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any of these candidates, and I think all of them

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that she considered probably would fit that bill. But I

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also believe that this idea that somehow this individual would not,

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you know, settle out with a lot of Americans is

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kind of misreading particular tea leaves with respect to what

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he can do. Is a lifelong Midwesterner who speaks Midwestern right,

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and he has a way I think, you know, to

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translate that which he did as a high school teacher.

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You mean to tell me this guy doesn't know how

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to talk to young Americans, won't know how to convey

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sentiments about what their administration would do, but more importantly,

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what's at stake for the country. You know. You know,

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Governor Watson, his family struggle, struggle for years with fertility challenges.

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He can speak to those issues as well. So it's

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not just being pro choice. It is about being pro family,

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wanting to start a family and being unable to do so,

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and having that conversation on the heels of the Dobbs decision.

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You know, this is a guy who's been in a

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fight for a lot of Americans who are long forgotten,

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whose voices aren't often heard, and I think the Vice

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President Kamala Harris has made not just a wise choice,

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but an intriguing one, because already you have Republicans like JD.

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Vance out here spearing a more stupid narrative, you know, saying, quote,

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they will not have picked Shapiro frankly because of anti

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Semitism in their own caucus, in their own party. The

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far left doesn't like the fact that he's a Jewish American.

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That's just stupid. It's race baiting and it's stupid. It

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has nothing to do with him being Jewish or not

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being Jewish. It has nothing to do with anything other

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than the fact that right now JD Vance sounds stupid

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and crazy in that, you know, this is the same

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crew that, had they picked Shapiro, would have talked about

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Shapiro being anti Israel. So it just you just got

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to know what you're dealing with here, people, and stop

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and stop falling for the crazy. You know the other thing,

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you know, this idea that somehow this picket makes this

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ticket to progressive is another bullshit narrative. If you want

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to go and play the ideological game, have at it.

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But at the end of the day, for me, This

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is a race between Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz against

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a populist, a fake populist, authoritarian oriented dictatorship. Want to

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be ticket of Trump and vance. Not a complicated scenario,

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nor pick for me, nor I hope for a lot

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of Americans. When you look at Tim Waltz's record in Congress,

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the last thing you can say it was progressive. You

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look at his record as as governor, feeding kids, is

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that's a progressive idea? Okay? I think I think they're

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conservatives who benefited from those school lunch programs, in those

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morning morning breakfast programs in Minnesota public schools. So I

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think we just need to be a little bit more

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smart about throwing around the term and understanding what it is. Yes,

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does he call himself a progressive. He does, But as

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he says, if if you know, defending a woman's right

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to decide make her own choices over what will happen

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to her body is progressive. Otherwords, that's that's actually more libertarian.

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But we don't want to get into that. Fine, let's

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have those debates, but let's not get stuck on stupid

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in the face. So, the the very eminent threat of

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Donald Trump and JD Vans. I love the setup with

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the vice presidential picks. I think you've got you know,

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the hillbilly ellergy against the real hillbilly and that's going

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to be fun to watch. So, you know, when it

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comes to how this plays out, the race has been set.

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The games afoot. The convention is next for the Democrats.

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Will see what happens there. I suspect they will, you know,

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do a marvelous tribute to the to the President Joe Biden,

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and then very very forthrightly hand over this race to

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Kamala Harris and her now pick for Vice President, Tim Waltz.

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Come Labor Day. This race will be one for the ages,

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and what's at stake is nothing short of how we

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see ourselves as a nation and which leader is best

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positioned to take us into the future as either free

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and an open society or a dictatorship. But you know what,

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do I know you ultimately will make that decision. So, folks,

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I'm excited for the race ahead of us. I hope

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you are too. I'm encouraging everyone to go out and

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get themselves registered to vote if they aren't, and to

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get engaged in this campaign. You can't afford to sit

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on the sidelines here. Your choice is stark and clear.

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The decision is yours, as the founders intended. And now

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you've got to go out do your homework, be smart,

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be engaged, and elect the future. In the meanwhile, I'm

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going to go make mine a double, so i'll see

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you out on the hustings. Take care,