Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: For twenty five million, and it would be better. It
would be better. See this pen ride here in our
stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.
Speaker 1: So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money.
Speaker 2: So this pen is very inexpensive.
Speaker 1: But it writes well, I like it.
Speaker 2: I picked those drapes in my first term. I always
like gold.
Speaker 1: I love the government like I love myself economically.
Speaker 2: And I got all you people looking, and you say
there must be something wrong with Trump, and you.
Speaker 1: Think Tom Tillis is going to give you.
Speaker 2: We're going to have to financing my dad. But that's
why Tom Tillis is no longer a senator. Okay, on
the aid of Tom Tillis is no longer a senator, right,
he's on his way out. Well, no, he quit, but
he quit. I want to peel back a little bit
more on the cognitive decline thing, because the one thing
that struck me, because I think it's really an instructive
relative to what we're seeing in the polling. We go
back and you look at the conversation around Joe Biden
that was largely a Republican effort media campaign to paint
the president as cognitively impaired old and all of that
reinforced by our media ecosystem that wrote those stories and
put that in front of voters. And in this situation,
though we're the president is sitting at thirty three percent, Claire,
I don't see a whole lot of stories being written
about that cognitive decline. We show you just a small
tip of the stuff that happens in this town every
day out of this White House by this president, and
it's not covered the same way. What it tells me, though,
is that the voters see this for themselves. They now
see and understand for themselves exactly what's at stake here.
The man has taken us to a war they didn't want.
He's cost families and communities and small business owners a
lot of their hard earned money that they have set
aside for savings that they plan to educate their kids with.
Hell just to get groceries this weekend, they can't fill
up their gas tanks anymore. There's only one person to
look at for that. And when they look at him,
they hear the stuff that we played in the Cliff
standing sitting there at the desk talking about how much
he likes a pen, or bragging about the fact that
he hung drapes in front of a hole in the
wall while this war gets prosecuted. And now which again
we haven't talked about because the press, I don't know
why they're not leveling it up. Y'all know there's a
draft coming for your eighteen to twenty six year old
child this December. Your son, right, y'all know that. So
I think voters are beginning clear to so to see
this thing a little bit differently than they may have
seen it with Biden, largely because you don't have that
sort of filter.
Speaker 1: I think that's right now. Trump has one advantage that
Joe Biden didn't have, and that is that Trump has
always said stuff, and so a lot of the Republicans
just write off that, well, that's just Trump being Trump,
and Trump, Oh, he's a kidder.
Speaker 2: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at
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