The Bongino Brief - The Mike Johnson Conundrum

2024-04-20 00:09:59

He’s a former Secret Service Agent, former NYPD officer, and New York Times best-selling author. Join Dan Bongino each weekday as he tackles the hottest political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric.

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I'm Dan Bongino.

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We got to talk about Mike Johnson.

1Speaker 1
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He is the current Speaker of the House.

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And can we just put a dispositive period and full stop on this?

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He's not doing a good job.

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Okay?

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I'm with you, brothers and sisters.

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Much love.

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Let's grab each other.

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Let's hug.

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Just no sniffing and no groping like Biden.

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Okay?

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I get it.

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I'm with you.

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I totally get it.

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He's not doing...

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Evita, you're on the opposite side.

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Can we both agree Mike Johnson's doing a pretty sucky job?

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Thank you.

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Evita says terrible job.

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And she's correct.

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That's why we like her.

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However, Bongino Inc. here likes to hire people with different viewpoints who are smart like

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Evita.

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And we don't have to agree.

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Matter of fact, I'd be quite mad if we did.

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Because I don't like people who pander.

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I hate that.

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It's nonsense.

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Okay?

2Speaker 2
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Evita doesn't like Mike Johnson and wants him out.

1Speaker 1
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We had a little debate about this this morning.

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Folks, we can't do it.

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We can't.

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I'm going to tell you why.

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Here's why we can't.

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There's no plan, folks.

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What's the plan?

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We're going to dump Johnson for who?

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Why do I bring this up?

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Here's Tom Massey yesterday, a guy I respect a lot.

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Listen, Donald Trump didn't like him.

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I like Tom Massey.

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Always have.

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Having said that, I've spoken about Massey often.

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He is absolutely wrong on this.

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Here's Tom Massey.

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The audio is not great, but it's not Guy and Tony's fault at all here.

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Oh, you cleaned it up?

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Oh, thank you.

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Because it was very low.

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Here's CNN asking him, he is now going to back Marjorie Taylor Greene's resolution,

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apparently, to get rid of Mike Johnson.

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This is an absolutely terrible idea.

1Speaker 1
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Take a look.

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Yeah, I asked him to resign.

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When did you ask him to?

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He said he would not.

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And then he said, well, you're the one who's going to put us into this.

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Because the motion is going to get called.

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OK, does anybody doubt that the motion will get called?

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And then he's going to lose more votes than Kevin McCarthy.

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And I have told him this in private, like weeks ago.

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When did you ask him to resign?

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Right in there.

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Just today.

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So, Congressman, help us understand that he's not resigning.

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Are you going to push a motion to vacate this week?

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No, I'm not going to call the motion to vacate.

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But I will tell you that if it is called, there will be a lot of people who vote for it.

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How does a motion to vacate against Speaker Johnson help the country?

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He, some would say we'd be rudderless, but we have a rudder.

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We're steering everything toward what Chuck Schumer wants.

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There has not been a change.

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I mean, if the country likes Chuck Schumer,

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then they should like what Speaker Johnson's accomplished in the House.

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Totally agree with that last part.

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The Democrats are effectively running the House right now.

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However, I stopped the chat right here.

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Laszlo 55.

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Love you, Laz.

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Joe Duarte also.

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Love you guys.

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I'm glad you guys have it.

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You're with the Vito on this.

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Laszlo says don't care.

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Throw him out.

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And Joe Duarte says vacate.

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Joe, Laz, respect your opinion.

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What's your plan?

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I'm watching the chat.

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Guy, can you watch me?

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What's your plan?

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Aren't we entitled as citizens to know, OK, what's next?

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Because I remember reading to you this Newsweek article.

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It's right here.

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I brought it up again just in case you guys forgot.

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And believe me, fellas, ladies, whatever, I'm not trying to be a smart ass.

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I'm just asking you what the plan is because we've got an election coming up.

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Do you really want three, four weeks of trying to pick a new speaker

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while Republicans then resign?

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And if we get Speaker Jeffries, Newsweek, five other House Republicans could resign after Ken

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Buck.

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This ain't me saying it, gents.

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Here's Ken Buck, a guy who probably knows the other Benedict Arnolds in our Republican

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party.

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They all kind of joined together.

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These guys all suck, right?

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He was asked by Axios about other colleagues leaving.

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Ken Buck, who was a, you know, was a Republican.

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It was because he has a total fraud.

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Buck then hinted that more colleagues might resign, saying, I think it's the next three

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people that leave that's good, that they're going to be worried about.

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Folks, can I just walk through not even a hypothetical, but a probable path?

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They vacate, right?

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Kick them out like Laszlo and Joe Duarte one.

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I get it.

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Makes us all feel he's done a terrible job.

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I'm with you.

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Then three more people resign.

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They're telling us they're going to leave.

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Buck is saying, hey, I know about three more people.

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And by the way, I've heard this from multiple people, not just Ken Buck.

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In case you're saying, oh, we can't trust Buck.

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He sold us out.

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He did.

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But sellouts, no other sellouts.

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And I've heard this from multiple people that there's probably three to five who are ready

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to go to that.

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Johnson's trying to keep in the Republican pen.

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What happens when they leave?

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The answer is, yes, sir.

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You got Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.

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You want Speaker Hakeem Jeffries running the house during a presidential election where

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there's no doubt the Democrats are going to cheat.

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With, by the way, with a majority in the Democrat Senate right now, you want them to pass.

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Here's the first thing they'll do.

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They'll pass the Insurrection Act of 2024 through the House that will go to the Senate

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that will declare anyone involved in and they'll redefine an insurrection to make it about

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Donald Trump cannot run for president.

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Guaranteed.

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And then we'll all look back, Joe and Laz, and we'll be like, wait, that kind of that

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kind of sucks, man.

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We got our balls kicked in.

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Yeah.

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And to Joe, Laz and others out there, maybe you don't maybe you don't maybe you don't

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agree.

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Oh, it's fine.

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Maybe again, we're not all robots here.

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And I love you guys.

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I'm not trying to single you out.

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I just stopped the chat right there.

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I'm sure there's hundreds of others in the chat who agree.

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I can't read every single one.

1Speaker 1
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Our chat goes really fast here because we have already 88000 people watching.

2Speaker 2
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Maybe you don't trust me.

1Speaker 1
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Maybe you're like, I'm crazy.

2Speaker 2
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Well, do you trust Trump?

1Speaker 1
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I want you to look at this Politico piece from the other day.

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This is actually from about, I think, six days ago.

2Speaker 2
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In Politico, Donald Trump's people, you guys got that screenshot there, Politico in this

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Donald Trump's own people know that this is going to be a total disaster.

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So, again, even if you don't, maybe you don't trust me.

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Maybe you're new to the show.

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Do you trust Trump here?

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How Donald Trump could ride to Johnson's rescue here?

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I'm reading from Politico, OK?

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These are like bullshit artists who aren't eager to help anyone, but they're quoting

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Trump people directly.

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Trump world isn't happy with Marjorie Taylor Greene's threat to throw the House GOP into

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chaos.

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There's a fear that an election year speakership battle will undercut the party's goals of

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keeping the House and flipping the White House and Senate.

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One Trump insider said this is 100 percent a distraction.

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It's unwanted and just stupid.

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Guys, the Trump team is running a ridiculously efficient campaign right now.

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They are.

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Chris LaCivita, he's a former military guy, is running a military like observation behind

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the scenes.

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Trust me.

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I've seen it.

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They are up in multiple states.

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Some swing states, they are up by seven to 10 points because they're doing it right.

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If these guys are looking at all these numbers behind the scenes telling you this is a really

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bad idea that could do significant damage for the election, why would we do it?

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