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Charlie Kirk Today | Andrew Kolvet & Brianna Lyman: | July 20, 2026

President trump had his big speech last night.
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Primetime address,
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Which was obviously not covered by the fake news media
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That caused a stir.
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Nbc, abc, cnn, all refused to cover it.
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In it, he alleged that the chinese had been meddling
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In our elections, pointing back to 2020
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That they have, secured voter files for over 220
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Million americans, including a revelation that
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Almost 300,000 non-citizens are registered to vote
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And that the intel community has intentionally
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Subverted the president, not informing him
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They were massaging intel reports,
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Burying the lead, and much, much more.
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I figured rather than just go through it,
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Clip by clip, i wanted to bring in somebody
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That's been studying this, very closely.
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And that's brianna lyman, elections
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Correspondent for the federalist.
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Brianna, welcome to the charlie kirk show.
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Thank you for making some time for us this morning.
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This is what you cover.
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This is this is your beat.
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Boil it down here.
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Distill it for us.
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What were to you the biggest takeaways
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Of last night that our audience needs to know?
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Yeah.
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And thank you so much for having me.
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I think the overall takeaway
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Is that despite what the left may say,
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The 2020 election is not beyond reproach and concern.
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And i go back to john ratcliffe when he was at the dni
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Back in january of 2021, he put out a statement
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And he had said that
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He had concerns that the intelligence community
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Was essentially downplaying or politicizing
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Their investigations into whether china influenced
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The 2020 election.
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And i think everything we're seeing in the past 24 hours
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Actually validates with john ratcliffe had said
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Five years ago.
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So, we did see that apparently the intelligence
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Community was trying to hide from the sitting president
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Intelligence indicating that china did have some,
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Attempt to influence the election
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Vis-a-vis social media campaigns.
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There was also reports suggesting
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China may have looked at the 2016 election,
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Identified states and sectors that supported president trump,
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And would then use
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Their own leverage to try and basically cripple
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Those entities so they couldn't help president
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Trump in the 2020 election.
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Those are all things that are
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Extremely, you know, cause for concern.
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We saw other declassified material indicating
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That the same, items
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That the intelligence community said in the 2021 report
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Didn't show china trying to influence elections.
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Mainly social media operations are the same things
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That the intelligence community then said in 2023 did
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Contribute to china influencing the 2022 midterms.
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So there's that politicization that we're talking about.
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Yeah, and the politicization is a huge issue here.
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And the fact that china seems to be intentionally poking
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At vulnerabilities
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In the american cultural and political system, including
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Trying to stoke racial animus and discord,
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And also working with journalists
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That were anti-trump journalists
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To write additional anti-trump stories.
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So so it's sort of an attack from multiple vectors.
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Now, i've seen there's some controversy
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Or disagreement about their access to these 220,
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20 million voter files.
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Some are saying you could pay
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A small fee and get these files at the state level.
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In some states.
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Break that part down for us, brianna, is is
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How worried should we be that they have these voter files?
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I know that there's
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Some concern about troops and where they're stationed
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And where they're voting.
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I that that to me is very relevant.
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But how accessible are these voter files
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And how nefarious should we consider it
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That china has access to 220 million of them?
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Yeah.
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Well, one of the reports talked about
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Just how china, russia, iran and even north korea had access
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Or could possibly gain access
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To our election systems themselves. right.
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But they are vulnerable to some kind of nefarious action.
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So i don't think it's beyond the panel to say how
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Secure our election systems, the machines we use
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And also how secure our our registrations
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And our voter files.
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And remember,
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These can't be too hard to get to
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Because you have to have local and state officials
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Who can access them because they are the ones
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Conducting and carrying out elections
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On the day to day basis during election season. right.
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So it's not,
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Unreasonable that china or another foreign actor
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Could possibly gain access to these,
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And you would think that this would be a watershed moment.
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Right?
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This is something
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That should be very apolitical and objective.
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There is a chance for foreign election interference.
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They can possibly access very important data.
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What can republicans and democrats do to stop it?
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And instead, the response you're seeing to the clips
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You guys played in the beginning from newsome
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And cory booker, is donald trump is a conspiracy theorist.
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And so it's concerning because these are
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The same people who told us that foreign election
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Interference was so bad that we had to impeach donald trump.
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And yet now when they're given actual evidence of foreign
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Election interference or the potential for it,
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They're pretending like it doesn't exist.
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Well, this is a great point you're making, brianna.
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The the fact of the matter is,
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All of these people are on record
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Having expressed concerns
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About the vulnerabilities in our own electoral system.
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And i can play clips of this, right.
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You have, here's obama in 2018,
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As a matter of fact, talking about hacking elections.
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So, okay, so at 20, cozying up to russia, what happened
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To the republican party, the threat to our democracy
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Doesn't just come from donald trump
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Or the current batch of republicans in congress,
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Or the koch brothers and their lobbyists, or,
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You know, too much compromised from democrats or
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Russian hacking.
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The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference.
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So he mentions it.
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Here's nancy pelosi, as a matter of fact, peddling
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The idea that republicans are going to be the ones
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That hack voting machines.
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Sot 19 always have concerns, but with this,
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President and these republicans who have no commitment to
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The rule of law and doing things
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The appropriate way, we're ready.
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There are so many things
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That you can do to protect the election,
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And they are being done, whether it's
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Litigation or legislation or just
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Mobilization, communication, all that.
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But in addition to that, we have to be on guard
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As to what they may try to do to the technology.
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They may try to creep into the technology
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And create a false count.
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O create a false count through the technology.
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So this seems to be something that they're very aware of.
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I've seen clips in the past of kamala harris going through,
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Walking through election facilities talking about
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Hacking vulnerabilities from foreign actors.
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So but all of a sudden, this is disinformation.
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And president
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Trump is trying to
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Undermine the confidence in our electoral system.
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Please explain that to me.
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Yeah.
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Well,
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I think the reason they're running with that line
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That trump is trying to
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Undermine our, you know, trust in the election system
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Is because they want to try and cast a shadow of doubt
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On any legitimate things
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That one president trump may bring up.
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Also, let's remember, there were legitimate concerns
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In 2020, specifically in places like georgia.
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And if president trump is able
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To prove with the declassification
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That there is evidence that there may have been,
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You know, some problems in the 2020
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Election that we should absolutely rectify
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Going forward.
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It would lead people to say, maybe we should take a look
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Back at some other things that had been dismissed
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By the democrats and by the propaganda press.
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So i do think they're concerned about that.
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I also think that they have to realize
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That the intelligence community lost
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Any shred of the credibility it had back in 2020,
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When they're the same people who said
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That the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation.
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And now apparently they're the same people
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That were actually trying to hide information
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From the president in 2020 about trying to influence.
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Hang that.
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Hang right there, brianna.
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We've got another segment with you
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We've got another segment with you
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So we want to,
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Of course, keep this, facing forward.
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President trump is very concerned
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With 2020 understandably, but he is the president now.
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We are in 2026.
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And i think you and i all would agree
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What matters most is where do we go from here.
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And so i think first of all, we should just highlight
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He president trump passed the ball to mark twain.
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We associate him of course, with deportations.
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But he's also been given a portfolio for the homeland
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Security aspect of our elections.
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And he was describing
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This morning
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The number of non-citizens who have gotten
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Onto our voting rolls in just a handful of states.
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Let's play a clip 29.
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We've identified 250,000 non-citizens
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Registered to vote in just four states.
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We also worked with proactive states,
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To identify 28,000
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Non-citizens on their voter rolls,
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Plus 400,000 individuals
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That are still registered to vote that are deceased.
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So that's in four states.
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That's just in four states.
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And even if those are large states, you calculate that out
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That that's almost certainly going to mean several
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Million people illegally registered to vote.
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If they vote, it's not going to automatically flag
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Anything as improper.
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What's the takeaway from this, brianna?
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What what does this mean for our country
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That this is possible to have happen?
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Yeah.
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I mean, if this wasn't enough
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To convince some of those republicans
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Who refused to get on board with the save america
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Act to get on board, i don't know what will.
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And i think
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What people have to remember with noncitizen voting,
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It's very easy for a non-citizen to register
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To vote intentionally or even accidentally. right?
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The only thing
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Standing between a non-citizen and our free elections
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Is a little square box like this big,
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Really, this bag that says you would test
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Under penalty of perjury that you were telling the truth
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About your citizenship status.
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So it's a very toothless law.
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And i just did a report in new jersey a few weeks ago
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Where there are non-citizens writing into their county
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Election clerks saying,
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I didn't even know i was registered.
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I would like to be removed because otherwise
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I wouldn't be able to apply for citizenship.
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And so one of the problems is because of the way congress
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Works, people can get registered
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At the dmv, and people
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Who may not speak english
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Proficiently may accidentally register to vote.
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And because they're not prompted
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To prove that they are a citizen,
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They may just very well not know that they can register
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To vote.
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Of course, you could have nefarious actors as well.
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And so this should be that impetus that republicans
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And even democrats need to see that our elections
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Are not secure from foreign election interference.
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Non-citizens registered to vote and possibly voting
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Is foreign election interference.
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Yeah, that's such a great point.
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So you've got nefarious actions of china and others meddling
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Directly in our election.
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They're sending fake ids
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To people trying to get them registered.
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But we have a more central, fixable problem,
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Which is that non-citizens may whether whether or not
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They know it,
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That they're doing so or not, are registered
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To vote in this country.
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Now we have proof in four states, four states
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Of at least 250,000 foreigners that are registered to vote.
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Okay, let's that's one aspect, of course.
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Let's say let's pass the save america act.
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But there's a whole
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Nother aspect,
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Which is this deep state which seems to be intentionally,
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Obfuscating or,
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Concealing this intel from the president.
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Let's play.
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Sot 17 another official inside
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The fbi wrote that she was running, quote,
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A shadow government, unquote, to keep intelligence
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About china's election meddling from becoming known
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And to keep it away from the honorable press.
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Other officials who witness such efforts
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Perceive the motivations to be blatantly political.
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And i think sense like treason, brianna,
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I think you said elsewhere in the speech to that that they
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They have the cia
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Presidential daily briefings and they're keeping information
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Away from the president about china trying to influence
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The election.
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I think specifically because their research said
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They're trying to move the election, towards joe biden.
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And i guess we compare that with what we saw in 2016,
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Where they allegedly had evidence that russia was moving
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It towards trump.
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And so they just started a massive investigation
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Of the trump campaign.
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I just feel there's a huge divergence there
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That's very revealing about how they behave
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In the permanent part of washington.
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Yeah.
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And and the fact that they said
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They were massaging those daily presidential briefings
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Again, to water down
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The information they gave to the president is concerning.
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And for some reason,
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People
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Still want americans to believe that
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They should have full trust in our intelligence community,
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But they have shredded any ounce of credibility
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Starting in 2016
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With the russia collusion hoax to the, hunter biden laptop.
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And now to all of this declassified information.
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And so i think i
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When president trump says
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That he wants to kind of clean out house,
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And you have all those leftist detractors say
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That donald trump is upending society as we know
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It, donald trump is doing something
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That the founders probably would have really respected,
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Which is taking power away from unelected officials
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Who are actively working against the president.
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Right.
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If you're concealing
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Information about foreign threats
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From the president, you're working
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Against the president and the country.
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So i, i hope to see that president trump
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Has his administration
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Crack down on people who did take these actions
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To conceal they should be fired if they're still employed.
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If anyone did anything illegal,
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There needs to be investigations into that.
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So hopefully
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This is a first step toward the accountability
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We've been waiting to see for a decade.
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Yeah.
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So let's let's like
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Keep our facts here straight by the way,
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Because the left loses their brains about this stuff.
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I mean, they just went completely,
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Fully insane about this.
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Let's just play one clip here.
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Just just for fun.
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This is, the left losing the brain.
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All right.
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There's so many to choose from,
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I want to make sure i get the right one. how about this?
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Sorry, 18.
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Is claiming that china was able to get access to voter
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Registration information about millions of americans,
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Hundreds of millions of millions of americans.
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What we don't yet know is whether they were able
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To do anything with that information.
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There is no evidence
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That they were, again able to change the outcome of votes.
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So that's abc that was willing to talk about
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How safe and effective the vaccine was, that hunter
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Biden's laptop
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Was actually russian disinformation,
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That joe biden was at the top of his game,
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That kamala harris was nominated
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And it fully democratic process.
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Blm riots were mostly peaceful.
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And here he is telling you,
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We're not going to air the president's speech.
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And by the way, there's nothing to see here at all.
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Brianna lyman, thank you so much for joining us.
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We got tyler boyd. you're up next. don't go anywhere.
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We got tyler boyd. you're up next. don't go anywhere.
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People don't people probably don't
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Fully appreciate what turning point action is doing.
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And what a massive difference turning point action
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Is made in this primary season.
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So i'm going to do this for you, tyler,
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Because you're the man who's orchestrating so much of this.
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But think about this.
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We got biggs andy biggs.
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The primary is on tuesday.
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The polls have him up anywhere between 30 and 50 points.
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I mean, just massive, iowa zach
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Allen, joe mitchell, younger party dynamics.
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We're bringing young amazing candidates to the fore.
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We actually, you know, endorse
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People that other people endorsed against and we want.
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All right. put it that way. indiana.
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We spoke up. we laid down the law.
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We got rid of all those senators, though,
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State senators that were standing
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In the way of redistricting.
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We had a massive route that night.
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I it's we have a memory that's about 20s long
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In this country.
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And i want everybody
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To remember that texas we were early on paxton.
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The president followed us.
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We're grateful for that.
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Paxton ran away with it.
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And we we've got his back in the general.
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Okay.
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We got a heck of a fight with talarico,
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But i like our chances there.
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So, tyler, all of this combined, like,
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Explain our guiding philosophy why we're doing
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What we're doing.
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And what we're doing in the field.
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I mean, we're talking about fundamentally
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Changing the republican party for the better.
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Andy biggs, you mentioned first.
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We'll start there because that's the big thing
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That we're going to cover on tuesday.
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We're probably going to live stream tuesday,
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And you're going to want to pay attention
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Because arizona
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Again, for everybody that's listening at home,
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Is the most important state for 2028.
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For republicans, the most, bar none important state.
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And so explain why.
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Well, just quickly and we're going to synopses
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This because we're going to talk about this
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A whole lot for the next two
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And a half years, essentially two, two and a quarter years
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Is that if we lose arizona in 2028,
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The statistics on winning the presidency
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For republican go way down the drain.
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The left has some states like this michigan,
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But all the different combinations
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That you need to win the presidency.
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Arizona's a part of a majority, a vast majority of those for
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For republicans,
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Especially if you start losing states
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Like north carolina or georgia or some others.
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Right.
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So you have to win arizona.
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And so you have to win now andy biggs is is the best way
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I can describe it for most of the country is
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When ron desantis won freedom caucus member got it.
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And people weren't super sure he had the capability
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Of winning at the time,
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The democrats put through everything they possibly could.
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He won by a very small, very small margin.
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And in 2018 it was like 40,000 votes or something.
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Right.
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Which is nothing in florida,
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Because you're talking about millions of dollars
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To a guy who has since been arrested a few times.
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Exactly. right.
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Yeah, yeah, lots of scandals.
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And thank goodness that ron desantis won.
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But when he won,
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He fundamentally transform that state and shifted
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Not just florida, but the entire party ideologically.
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And a lot of that is, again, thanks to the president.
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The president got behind ron desantis.
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He didn't have to do that. he did it.
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And it helped.
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It helped ron desantis win.
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But ron desantis becoming governor of florida
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Fundamentally changed
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How elections happen everywhere,
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Because the
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Democrats abandoned that state and went other places
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And the same thing could easily happen here in arizona,
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Another swing state, because florida was considered
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A swing state at that time
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Where andy biggs wins freedom caucus member
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Fundamentally changes,
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And then the democrats have to rearrange
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So they abandon the state.
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They have to go other places.
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They have to try to win other places.
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That is what is at stake and how that impacts 2028
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Is if we do that now, we win.
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Now the democrats have to restack the deck.
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They have to completely change their entire game plan.
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So this is really important.
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Fresh strategically as a party to win in arizona,
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Not just for arizonans but for the entire country.
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You brought up a couple others.
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Well, let's stay on arizona just for a second here, tyler.
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So remember, back to 2024.
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We were having these huge voter gains.
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We were outpacing them.
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I mean, arizona
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Has a lot of independents, but if you just
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Look at republican v democrat, we were crushing them.
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Right.
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So especially in 2024 was a lot of news on that.
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How have we done since november 2024 on the voter red side.
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So has actually expanded since 2024.
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So, you'll see a couple of negative news stories
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Because the democrats
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Have been putting a ton of they're trying to play catch up
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Now in the in the final months of voter registration
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Ahead of this election.
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And so, they've made some gains in maricopa county.
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You know, obviously when when you clean the voter rolls,
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You lose voters.
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And so if you don't
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Replace them and go out
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Proactively do that, our team is out there doing it.
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And we're actually slowing the the losses, let's say per se.
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And we saw plenty of these in 2020 even ahead of 2022.
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The democrats invested a ton into voter registration.
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But what did you know?
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At once usaid went away.
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What's, you know, soros money and international money and c3
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And things like that started having a lot more eyes on them
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After the trump administration got in.
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They've had a tougher time, just like free freely
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Registering tens of thousands,
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Hundreds of thousands of voters across the country.
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So, so the republicans have done a good job
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At registering voters in 2024, and we've expanded in almost
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Every state.
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But,
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You know, again,
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The democrats are going to last minute
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Try to squeeze in and do everything
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They possibly can to manipulate, voter rolls
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And get as many people in and try to salvage
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As many of their voters that they kept.
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And that's important to keep an eye on.
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But we've expanded our voter reg advantage
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In the state of arizona since 2024.
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That's correct. bottom line.
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Yeah, like catch up right now.
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So maybe that they've had a couple good months.
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But overall we're still ahead even
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Even since 2020 by a lot is great great
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And hundreds of thousands of voters.
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So great. yeah.
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What is the if do you know the delta where it's at currently.
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Yeah.
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So we're just over 300,000 right now.
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More republicans, the democrats.
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But keep in mind to arizona, like many states,
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North carolina is the same as as this has a huge,
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Has a huge faction of independent voters.
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And so, the independents in arizona
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Lean like california, lean a little bit more left.
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A lot of them are early california transplants,
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Things like that.
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And so you have a lot, a lot of younger people, too,
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Who don't identify with the party,
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Who lean a little bit more left.
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And so it's not a huge disparity.
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It's not one of these things where it's like,
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You know,
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The democrats have 80% of the independents,
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But, you know, there's
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Independent misnomer, right?
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So a lot of people think independent.
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They think, oh, that person goes back
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And forth between republican and democrat.
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No, that's not the case.
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They just don't register the party.
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Most people identify as like a liberal independent
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Or conservative independent.
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Yeah.
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I think even like
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Sometimes the conservative leaning
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Independents are basically just
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Republican voters who they're very attached to.
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Like, i'm not a member of a party.
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Yeah.
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Or they're or are they view themselves
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As more conservative than the republican party.
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Also that and so those those people exist on both sides.
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There's slightly more left leaning
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And so again, the republicans have, have an advantage.
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They've got to chase every single republican voter,
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Plus all of your republican independent leaning voters.
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And in the state.
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So, tyler, just so everybody's aware,
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Every week i get pictures sent from trainings
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That are going on at hq, whether it's in, arizona hq
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Or if it's in nevada,
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We've got a field office in nevada
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Now or a field office in new hampshire.
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We're training up hundreds
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And hundreds of these ballot chasers,
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In what we're calling the red wall as we seek,
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You know, gains
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In the midterms, but also looking ahead to 2028
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To make the math really, really hard on democrats.
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Tyler, we're going to have you back on soon.
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Yeah?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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A-z early action.com slash a-z early.
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Check it out today.
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Tyler boyer, ceo of turning point action.
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Thank you, my friend.
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