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Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.

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Speaker 2: Some of these fights are all primary races that we're

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seeing tonight. Some of them are about electability and about

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making strategy about who you who you think is the

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best person for your party to carry the day in

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November when it's going to be tight. But a lot

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of these are not that very safe seats, and these

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very safe seats, it's not about electability. It's about values.

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Speaker 1: It is a lot about all of that, and I'm

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so excited all of it. Where is my where's my corn?

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Speaker 2: Oh? We have popcorn. I have jersey. I have jerky though,

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so you I'm a jerky god.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Oh yes, oh see I.

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Speaker 2: Found somebody to share my jery.

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Speaker 1: This is good. So you know, I look at this

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from I have a very interesting perch because I had

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the perch here with my colleagues here at MS NOW

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to sort of look at this and listen to the analysis.

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And then of course there's the person that Nicole and

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I share and Jim shares from the political perspective, and

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what this boils down from me tonight in the beginning

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of this election season, given everything that we've seen, everything

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we've heard from this president, to disrupt, to break up,

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to dissuade, to make this feel unimportant to the American people.

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Don't worry. I played over and over the day clips

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in my head of Donald Trump saying, Hey, we'll get

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to the point where you don't never have to vote again. Right.

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What we saw in these three primaries, especially in Texas,

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a little bit in North Carolina, is the American people saying, oh, no, no, no,

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we're ready to play. We're ready to come out, We're

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ready to turn out, We're ready to let you know

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what we think about what this administration is doing was

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happening in our own backyard with the local leadership that

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we've elected. And so they're going to speak, and they're

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going to speak in a profound way. You know. I

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want to set this up as between the old school

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versus the new school, as we were just talking about,

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with incumbents who've been there since nineteen ten versus folks

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who want to come into the door. Now, that's a

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good thing, that's a healthy thing. Yeah, that is saying.

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Speaker 2: That's a live party.

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Speaker 1: Right on the Republican side, we'd just like to now

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sit down, wait to her turn. That's why women aren't

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leading in the Republican Party. That's why young men of

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color aren't leading in the Republican Party despite Wesley's Hunts effort. Tonight.

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It's nice to have you on the ballot, but we

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really don't need you. The Democrats are leaning into that,

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which kind of takes me back final point to very

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interesting moments in the twenty ten cycle, which I said,

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this cycle is a combination meal of two thousand and

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six and twenty ten, neither one. While twenty ten was

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good for Republicans, this time they're playing the role of

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the Democrats in this cycle. And what's interesting when you're

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looking at you just referenced the most candidate we can

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talk about on Mondomini here, Mndonni here in New York.

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The progressives have found a voice that connects with the

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American people in the way that I think Republicans didn't anticipate.

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Donald Trump likes the mayor of New York right all

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right now, no matter what you say and how you

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want to use that. That says a lot about Donald

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Trump's cleaning in cluing into what's happening right now, which

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is a thread in this let.

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Speaker 2: That's right, they're trying to use the progressive alliance between

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somebody like an AOC or a Mumdani or something as

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some sort of kiss of death, and it's not necessarily

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playing that way everywhere they're trying it.

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Speaker 1: It's bringing the jerky. That's Michael Steele on the weeknight,

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