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you think there will be widespread cheating in the midterms that will affect the outcome? So remember the words are "widespread cheating" and "affect the outcome." So it has to be big enough that it could change who got elected. What do you think the general public thought of that? Do you think that the Republicans maybe thought there would be trouble but the Democrats said things would be fine? I…

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gged. That's all him. That's all Trump. Now you can say other people are saying it too and that's true. But only because he said it first. If Trump hadn't kept this up it would have died out like every other election where somebody says it's rigged and then they forget about it. So that's amazing.

Now I believe that the way the question was asked has the most to do with how we got this big number. I don't believe the country is actually this skeptical about the elections. Here's what I think people were thinking when they answered the question. I think what they were thinking is they don't trust the other side. Don't you think if you said what are the odds that the other team will cheat, what would be the answer? Eighty percent, right? What do you think of the odds that the other team, the team you're not on, what do you think of the odds that they would cheat? Oh, 80 percent, whichever team you ask, right? So I think that's all that happened. I'm not sure this is actually a snapshot of some gigantic persuasive change. I think it might be just a team play situation. Could be in the way that the question was constructed. That's one of the pitfalls with polls is that the exact way the question is constructed will get you very different answers. You think it's the same questio

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n but it's not interpreted that way. People will throw in their own assumptions there whether you like it or not. So I'd keep an eye on that. But I do think there's more skepticism than before. How many of you saw Trump's interview with Hannity last night? I guess the first major interview since the boxes at Mar-a-Lago were an issue. And if you saw it, how do you think he did? Because I haven't s…

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