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can thought. You didn't even get close. But if you watch CNN, you think he did. One of the things that I find interesting is that whoever gets to do the rebuttal, it means that the party has decided that this is somebody who's going to get a little attention. And as I watch the 2024 race start to come together, I feel like we're going to see another repeat of 2016 in one sense. Am I wrong that th…

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win and we're just going to do that. Win, win, win is all we want. Who would they run? Let me give you a proposal. So this is not my suggestion of who should be president, just a mental exercise. Imagine a ticket of Tim Scott and Richard Grenell. Yeah, does that ticket lose? How would they ever lose? Seriously. You put one of the most successful gay open politicians as vice president, which is probably right where his experience level would put him. You take the most successful Black Republican senator, I think fully qualified, put him at the top of the ticket. Did you watch any Republicans last night say anything racist about Tim Scott? Nothing. Nothing in this big old racist Republican party allegedly got millions of racists. Not only that, but white supremacy is the biggest problem according to the intel agencies. It's the biggest problem. And who do the Republicans say let's put our champion up there? They pick a highly qualified Black senator to be their champion. How many racists did you hear saying I wish we hadn't picked the Black guy? Zero. How many Republicans are there? 80 million? I don't know, 70 million. What is the number of Republicans? Not a freaking person. Not even one said, you know, he's Black, maybe we shouldn't have it. No, not one. Not even one.

So how would that ticket ever lose? You know, because again, Tim Scott's right down the middle of Republican thinking. So every Republican is going to be on board. Black voters are going to say I don't like Republicans, but he's pretty solid and maybe this time I'll give a little extra effort to show up and vote. I don't know. I think that ticket would be unbeatable.

Let me give you another ticket that I think would be unbeatable. Trey Gowdy at the top and anybody at vice president. I don't think he could possibly lose. And here's why. Have you ever seen him talk? There's nobody who has a better grasp of persuasion and the facts. I don't think anybody's close right now. There are lots of people who have the facts and are really solid. Take a Tom Cotton, who I'm liking quite a bit lately, especially because of his stand against China. But Tom Cotton is not quite as interesting, am I right? He's not quotable. Trey Gowdy is quotable as hell, which is unfortunately 70% of being president is being really quotable. He's interesting to look at. He's never boring. Have you ever been bored by Trey Gowdy? Nope, not once. When he's on, if you're flipping through the channels and Trey Gowdy is talking, you stop, don't you? How many other people would make you stop flipping through the channels? Just immediately say, oh, I got to see what he says. Trump, right? But then the list is really short of people that you wouldn't just switch the channel.

Some people are saying Trump will win a third. I don't know. He might be happier as a kingmaker and a power behind the power, and he might have some legal issues, etc. Somebody says you act like RINOs aren't a thing. Ridiculous. How am I acting like that? I don't know what that means.

If you put any of the people that I mentioned for a candidate for Republican for the presidency, Republicans are not going to vote for the Democrat because they don't think they're Republican is perfect. That's not going to happen. Somebody says Gowdy is a RINO. That's why he would win. Sorry, that's why he would win. The fact that he can't be pre-painted as so right wing that he's crazy, that's why you'd win. Do you know why Obama won? Because you couldn't really paint him as left as you wanted to. He was just a little too darn centrist and it made him hard to attack. So while Republicans might say damn it, that RINO, that RINO is not doing what we want, and they might even be right, but who the hell are they going to vote for? They're not going to not vote for him if the other option is Kamala Harris, for example. So it just doesn't matter if he's a RINO or if he agrees with you on everything. It does matter. He would still win easily, in my opinion.

Now, I think DeSantis has a solid shot unless there's some opposition research. You always have to wait for the opposition research. God knows what any of them have in their past. But he's solid. But he's not interesting. So Ron DeSantis has the not-interesting problem. He's sort of more of a technician and a strategist and a wonk and a manager. He's a leader, definitely a leader, which not all managers are. He's definitely the leader. But it just doesn't have the sizzle that you might need to get people to show up. So you're gonna have to have somebody with a little edge just to get people to show up.

I see Matt Gaetz being mentioned a number of times. Every day that goes by, Matt Gaetz gets stronger because if you're not hearing him getting taken down, and we haven't even heard that there's a real person who's an accuser of anything. So he just went through this giant scandal situation and weeks later, weeks later, not even the name of an accuser or even proof that there is one. It's not even that we don't know the name. We don't really know there is one. So if it turns out that this was always a biased hit job the way it looks, he could become Teflon if this doesn't take him out. So you know the whole don't go after the king unless you can finish him off. You don't want a wounded king who knows who you are. That's really bad for you. It's been two and a half months. That was weird. My phone just started up on its own.

So if Matt Gaetz does not get completely taken out by this scandal, he will be the politician that lived through this scandal and it didn't take him out. That covers you with Teflon because the next time somebody wants to take him out, they're going to say well, it's going to have to be better than that one because that didn't even put a dent in him. So if he recovers, he's dangerous. But we'll see if he does.

The Arizona audit, we're not hearing anything about that yet, are we? Is there any evidence coming out of that that's reliable? But I can't wait for that. Now, the Arizona audit is fascinating because I don't know exactly what they're testing or checking or auditing, so I don't know if they're really going to see the whole picture or not. But let's say that they're going to see a lot of the picture and they're going to see a lot of the things that at least Republicans claim there should be some problems there they suspect. What happens if the audit comes out clean? Do any of you expect that to happen? Because I think that could easily happen that the audit looks at everything and it's kind of okay. Do you think that's possible? That's totally possible. You know, I'm seeing people say no chance, no way. Yes, no, it's totally possible because they're not looking everywhere, right? So even if you believe that there's some bad stuff hiding somewhere in the system, I doubt that the audit is seeing

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enough of the system that you could know for sure if you found anything that was there. I don't know that we'll ever know. But what happens if they don't find anything? What happens if all the ballots are at least accurate or enough of them are that it obviously looks just like errors, nothing to worry about? I heard that Mike Lindell had a tough appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, but I haven't seen tha…

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