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Presented by the American Bankers Association Good

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morning, everyone. I'm play book co-author Ryan

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Lizza. It's Wednesday March 20th. Here's what's

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driving the day Israeli Prime

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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will remotely address

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the Senate Republican lunch today less

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than one week after majority leader

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Chuck Schumer Used the

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Senate floor to rebuke Netanyahu's handling of

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the war in Gaza and call for

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new elections in Israel Note

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that for all of the bluster from BB

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and company about Schumer's alleged

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meddling in Israeli politics Netanyahu

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has long felt perfectly at

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home among GOP circles in

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Washington Next up there's

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increasing momentum around the idea of turning

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aid to Ukraine into a loan program

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With several Democrats now telling playbook

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they are either not opposed or

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outright Supportive of the idea which

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originated with Donald Trump and has

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spread like wildfire through

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Republican circles in Congress Dick

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Durbin told playbook yesterday we need

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to send them resources no strings attached But

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when pressed on the loan issue he added

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of course it'd be worth considering and

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one key Democrat told us flat out

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He'd vote for it. Senator Chris Coons

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a close Biden confidence said I'd

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support it because bluntly we've got to get

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this done The

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biggest story from Tuesday's election night

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was in Ohio where former car

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dealer Bernie Moreno the Trump endorsed

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candidate in the GOP primary Easily

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defeated two opponents backed by the

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Ohio Republican establishment including Mike DeWine

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the governor and Former

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senator Rob Portman Moreno will now face

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Democrat Sherrod Brown this fall in a

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race that could determine which party controls

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the Senate Joining me now to

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discuss the Ohio Senate race is

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politics bureau chief and senior

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political columnist Jonathan Martin. Good

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morning. Jmart You

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Were on Ohio and you wrote a column yesterday about

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this. Erase. Bernie. Marina one

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so sit idle for us going into

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last night. Would you learn another? Well.

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If ever there was gonna be

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a moment where the anti trump.

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Forces. In the party the

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old guard could sneak it can

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live through customs us it would

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have been this race you have

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a bit mad Dolan with the

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financial advantage because he's a self

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under you had a are you

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have occurred the race so he

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didn't have to get defeat Cf

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He and you know with the

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Republican Presidential Primary over a lot

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of the rematch your crowd you

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wouldn't necessarily show up because Trump

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didn't need that our Freedom Primary

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But you know this shows. As

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I wrote that even with that

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stop playing and Dolans favor the

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fact that he didn't when it

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was convincingly defeated. To shows the

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deaths of Or Trump's a hold

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on the Republican Party's you, Trump

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went back into the state on

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Saturday at a rally. the date

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in airports as you. He sends

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a message that Marino's my guys,

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that was the bulk of breeders

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paid advertising and guess what? that

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that's the most effective message in

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the public Can politics. Or

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so Jonathan, one of the

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seems of this cycles senate

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races is that you know

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Senator Danes and others have

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been doing a better job

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of recruiting more electable catalyst

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that they haven't had the

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same problem that has plagued

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them in in recent cycles.

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What it does, kind of

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that dynamic play here headed

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the of that. We knew

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the party which has sort

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of talked Trump into backing.

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What they see as the more electable

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person added that that dynamic play out

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behind the scenes with Trump to school

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and fallen for for marino. Well.

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this is the larger question iran

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and iraq in the fall or

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he is bonnie marino to

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be more vulnerable than Matt Dolan

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would have been against, Sherrod Brown,

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which is precisely the best

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Democrats made because Democrats came

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in and spent over $2 million in

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just the last week to lift

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up Bernie Moreno in a fashion

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that they've done more and more

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in recent elections. Democrats beating in

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Republican primaries to prop up the

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candidates they prefer to run against

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in the general. And that

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helped Moreno in the final days

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along with Trump coming in. He had kind

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of a double-barreled pro-Morano effort,

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Ryan, from the Democrats

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and Donald Trump. That

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was helpful. Okay, so I

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say Sherrod Brown's bad is that I

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get a weak opponent like I did

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six years ago and I

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can defy political gravity again in Ohio

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because of my own brand and because

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of a lackluster opponent. The

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challenge for Brown this time is that

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unlike six years ago, which was a

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very favorable midterm for Democrats, this is

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going to be a presidential cycle. And

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Ryan, he's not been on the ballot

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in one of those in Ohio since

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Ohio was a battleground state. And

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by the way, a battleground state that that year,

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2012, Barack Obama carried

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and helped Sherrod

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Brown. So a very

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different state and a

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very different cycle for Sherrod Brown this time.

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But, no mistake, Democrats got the candidate they

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wanted in Bernie Moreno. Right, so

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he hasn't been on the ballot in a Trump

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presidential cycle. So this is going to be a

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whole new world for him. Exactly,

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because 16 and 20, he was on the ballot. That's

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right. I mean, Ohio has been one

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of those states that has just, you

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know, where the Republican Party, as the

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Republican Party has become more of a

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working-class party, Ohio has been sort of

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ground zero. So let's talk about

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Sherrod Brown for one sec, Jaymart. Biden isn't going

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to play in Ohio. Ohio is not a swing

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state. This is a presidential cycle, right? Right, yes.

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So Brown is a very good state. Going to

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have to win over quite a

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few Trump voters to polar a

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three peat. Here I'm right. had

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as he to that it Does

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he See You know, he's obviously

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a is gonna have a good

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bond with working class voters in

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Ohio. He's much more of a

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bright sort of nationalist riot Democratic

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overlap more with Yeah on some

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of these issues. but does he

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go that route and double down?

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Or. He. Does he have

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to go for the Nikki Haley

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Suburban inexorable Our worked up about

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a boy Some And and democracy.

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It's a great question because there's

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nobody who is tried to create

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more of a populist identities in

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today's Democratic party that Sherrod Brown

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and he was there when it

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before it cool. Or

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well before Donald Trump is Sherrod.

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Brown survives for one last year

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be in by the What Keep

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a My Secret Browns first time

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on the ballot. Ryan was ninety

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seventy four the Watergate baby year

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when he ran and wanna state

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a house seat as ah, twenty

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two. Euros have seized runnings for

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a long time. That's an amazing

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fact. He does not seem that

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old. Yeah, And. Might the winds.

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First race was seventy six. So either

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this or to all Ohio alliances winter

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so it's shared kiwi one more time.

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It'll be not because of the guy

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on the lock in Toledo or and

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them a holding valleys. It'll be because

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of the country club bread. It'll be

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because the old boss republican party A

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T and R By the trope of

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Fides Ethiopia it's m a vote for

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democratic candidate for president senator so that

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the are already here. That Sarah Brown

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yes he's gonna try to l. Ron

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his party's brand with with working

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class white voters there's no question

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about but he's gonna be even

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more reliance on the Trump issue,

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on the abortion issue, on democracy

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to try and appeal to people

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who are the kind of and

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synthesis of what his bills his

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identity I didn't. Your career which

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is to say, Villa. Yo

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lo! For a crowd in suburban

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Cincinnati, Columbus, in Cleveland and Marino

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makes that more of a strategy

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for him then ah, then Dolan

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would handle on what? Oh yeah,

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no because goal would would. It

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would have really made it difficult

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offers your eyebrows when over those

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voters speakers Magdalen If one of

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the. Above his they

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have the old The Creeper baseball franchise

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right? Good. Stuff Mark Thank

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you for breaking this down and through the

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Us in Ohio again soon. Now. It's.

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Gonna be off a competitive stay

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at least down the ballot. The

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cycle. And.

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For your schedule today, the Senate and the

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House are in. Prison. Fine

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will spend the day out west. He

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campaigns in Phoenix in the morning and

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then has to fundraisers and the Dallas

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area scheduled to night. A

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mindless a thanks for listening. I'm

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