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cal claims and we can't really fact-check all that and people will just put it in context. It's just a political claim. Is it? I would say no. Here's a political claim. President Trump will cut your Social Security. It's not true. It's the opposite of what he says he'll do. And he's been pretty good about doing what he says he'll do and not doing what he says he won't do. He's been pretty good at…
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Of course you're all going to watch the VP debates tonight. I think the VP debate is going to be more interesting than you think. Might be more interesting than you think. Of course the big drama is that Kamala Harris is going to ask for a Plexiglas wall and Pence wants to have no wall. Now if it turns out that Kamala is in a plastic glass box and Pence is not, who wins? Who wins? Does Kamala Harris win because she's the one playing it safe and she's got her little Plexiglas cubicle? Or does Pence win because he's clearly far enough away from people to not infect anybody but he's also not being in a little plastic box? Who wins? Well it might depend. People will pick sides with their political favorite. I think Pence wins that in terms of the optics. You don't want to be the bubble girl. All right, if Pence is a free-range chicken on that stage and Kamala Harris is a bubble girl, bubble girl does not beat free-range chicken in optics. It's not even close. All right, so I don't know if it'll turn out that way. One's in a bubble and one isn't. But bubble girl doesn't have an advantage.
Now here's the other stuff. The first thing you need to know about vice presidential debates is that that's a good place to test out messages. So what you might see is Pence framing one of the issues or more in a way that you haven't seen before, which would be really interesting because if you see t
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hat it means he's testing it. Because that would be a normal procedure. You let the vice president test it. If it doesn't work you just don't do it yourself. If it becomes a big controversy and it's a problem then the president could say, well that was the vice president. Just listen to me. And sort of make it go away because that's typical too. Vice presidents do sometimes say something that the…
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