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Speaker 1: Hey, Michael Steele podcast listeners, you're listening to Make Mine

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a Double, a little segment I've put together where I

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can share just a bit more of what I really

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think about today's news and political crazy. So sit back,

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relax enjoin me for a few SIPs of sanity, and

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make mine a double. So I saw I'm outside. I'm

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trying to work on my tan and that's going swimmingly,

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by the way, it's really coming in nicely for the summer.

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And my phone starts blowing up. I get this pain

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that says Biden steps down, and I'm thinking immediately what

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He's resigned the presidency? And then I read, oh, oh,

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he's leaving the campaign. Wow, what a Sunday afternoon, folks.

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What an incredible turn of events. Now you can say

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we saw it coming. You can say it was in

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the in the cards that the Democrats were playing and

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dealing out week after week, as they were systematically and

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in many cases, sort of slow rolling the jabs to

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the man's back. But it's here, and the campaign for

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the presidency on the side of the Democrats has changed profoundly.

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And now what does it mean? Well, a couple of things.

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One Republicans really won't know how to run against Kamala Harris.

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They'll pretend they do, and they'll say some things that

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make you think they do. They don't. They're not ready

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for this, and Donald Trump especially isn't ready for it.

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And I suspect there won't be a Trump Harris debate.

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Just put a little pin in that. Two. What you're

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seeing now happen with Kamala is what should have been happening,

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and to the extend it did, it got cracked and

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broken a little bit with Joe Biden. The establishment of

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the various interest groups constituencies within the Democratic Party are

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coming out in endorsing from Jim cliber and the Black Caucus, Unions,

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the Hispanic Caucus, other members of the Democratic Party are

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making it known where they stand. That's good for her.

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It's good for her for a number of reasons. One,

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it creates early momentum that she's going to need because

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she's now got to consolidate not just the base, but

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the donors and the establishment around her to clean up

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the crap that's been left on Al nine, ten, fifteen,

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and twenty by the Democrats and going after Joe Biden.

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She's now got to clean all that up so that

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she can roll into the convention, working within the rules

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in the process of the Democratic Party, to secure the nomination,

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likely on the second ballot. I'm not that familiar with

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the Democratic rules, but I think the delegates are pledged

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on the first vote, So that's going to be even

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though Joe Biden is not on the ballot. But unless

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there's some kind of quirk and the rules that are

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not familiar with, he will at least get something out

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of that first round. But I don't know how that

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plays out. But however it plays out, Kamla will will

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not see I think, any opposition to her, So a

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lot of the ugliness that could have potentially been both

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the under and overtones of this Democratic Convention, she now

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has the ability to negate a lot of that and

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to put in place a narrative that will help her

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and whoever she selects as a VP to be nominated

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and create the kind of energy they're going to need

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on the back end to go into the battle in September.

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Historic moment, folks, and I think it serves the country well. Now,

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in a ironic twist of fate, Donald Trump is too

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old to run for the presidency seventy eight can barely

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string a sentence together. He likes to talk about sharks

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and electric batteries, and he has this fascination with Hannibal Lecter.

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Don't quite know what that is, psychiatrists. Maybe you should look

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into that. I don't know. But clearly, right now the

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age issue has gone away for the Democrats and has

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fallen squarely on the lap of the Republicans. How they

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intend to talk about that will be fascinating, but we'll see.

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The Other thing that's going to be interesting to watch

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is the vice presidential choice. You've got some folks out

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there talking about, you know, Harris Whitmer ticket. I think

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in another universe that would would lend itself to some excitement.

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I just don't know. I think the country still will

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have to wrap its head around electing a woman president,

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let alone a woman and another woman vice president. But

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we'll see. And this is an upside down year, and

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maybe in looking at this election and the way Kamala

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prosecutes the case, there may be some attraction there for

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the American people. I think there's still too much misogyny

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in our electorate for that to happen. But I'm not

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against it, and I think it would be fascinating to watch,

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but I think in the end you will see or

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she should look at a general or an admiral like

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Admiral mccraven. Certainly governor of Kentucky. Brasher would be a

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very interesting pick. But I think the one that I'm

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kind of really falling in like with is Senator Mark Kelly.

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I know his wife, Gabby. I know Mark. Gabby and

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I are Rhodell Fellows together. She's an incredible woman, having

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survived the attack of a gunman. They bring a lot

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to the conversation. And I think Senator Kelly, being from

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an astronaut, someone who served in the Senate, someone who

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understands the needs at the state level, I think would

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be an interesting choice. So there's a lot here, there's

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a lot of speculation that's going to be happening, a

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lot of people talking. But right now, folks, if you

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don't have an adult beverage that you like, you better

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find one quick because you're going to be needing it

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over the next four months three months as this campaign unfolds.

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So grab that popcorn, grabbed that adult beverage. And while

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I often say make mind a double because it's too

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painful to watch. This time, I'm saying make min a

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double because there's something good out here to celebrate. We're

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going to have a fun campaign and I'm ready for it.

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