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iticians easy to blackmail? I'm going there's an obvious reason. Do you know why? I mean other than the fact they do bad things but other people do bad things too. I have a feeling that one of the reasons people go into politics is that they're too ugly to get laid otherwise. Am I wrong? Look look at your politicians and then you subtract down some outliers. It's like okay JFK he was good-looking…

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ked the question just brainstorm right? I absolutely like that he asked the question. I had no problem with that at all. So when he asked the question what about Nikki Haley as vice president that is not an indication that he likes her on the ticket. To me that's the normal Trump way of doing business that he doesn't see it because if he saw it he wouldn't be asking am I right? If he felt she was the right choice he wouldn't be asking the question so he's not feeling it and when he asks the question it suggests that he's looking for somebody to make the best argument to see if it changes his mind. That is good. That's good for you. Should always check to see if somebody can change your mind because it's one of the biggest questions right. His VP is one of the biggest questions so he wants to get it right right.

And just like I was going to use that example when he got in trouble for asking about the injecting of the disinfectant the context was light as the disinfectant so he went beyond what you'd expect and asked the extra question well could you use light you know if you could inject the light inside the body would it work and then it got misinterpreted as drinking bleach of course but I wanted him to ask the question. I was happy he asked the question it just got turned out wrong. So yeah ask the question. I don't think there's any chance and as I posted I don't think I could support him if she were vice president.

Let me do a quick poll. Many of you are probably Trump supporters. Should he get the nomination you may maybe you're supporting somebody else but if he got the nomination how many of you would withdraw your support if Nikki Haley were the vice president? All right yeah it looks like people would withdraw support. Now let me ask you this question. Can you even think of another choice for vice president that would make you change your vote? People don't change their vote for the vice president but they would for her. I would. I literally that not hyperbole I that would be a hard no because I would lose confidence in Trump. I would lose confidence in his judgment if he took such an obvious wrong choice.

So Pence was a good choice because we didn't know much about him so you just say well all right whatever if you like him it's okay with me but Haley we know too much about especially in the military industrial complex way. Now I don't know if the accusations against Nikki Haley are you know as solid as they appear to be which is she's a little too close to the military spenders but it could be. I mean it's a huge red flag so it doesn't seem like the right fit for Trump. I'm glad he's asking the question. My personal assumption is zero chance it will happen zero chance but I think he and Haley have had a good history right am I right? I thought they got along when she was in the administration so I don't mind at all they ask the question because asking the question is how he finds out how other people feel about it and that's exactly what he should be doing. He's probably thinking that his own judgment let me put it another way because he worked with her and had a you know reasonably good association I think he's not trusting his own judgment and he wants to get some more objective opinions on it but he'll be fine. There's no way he's going to pick her.

But Nikki Haley does seem to be surging in the New Hampshire polling all the way up to just barely behind Trump who is polling at 33% with two or 29% the rest of the field is way behind. Now that's probably what triggered Trump to start asking the question but does New Hampshire mean anything to anybody? I feel like New Hampshire is the least indicative primary isn't it? It goes first so it can definitely change how we think about it but it shouldn't so I don't know I'm not worried about New Hampshire.

Trump was asked if he would debate a Republican and I guess you who had to ask him that and he gave exactly the right answer exactly the right answer. The right answer is yes if it gets close but it's not there yet because he wants to act strong like of course I would talk to them but he also doesn't want to look like he's wasting his time with the undercard so he gives the exactly the right answer. If somebody comes close yeah that would make sense have a debate. Just what you want to hear. He might not mean it but it's exactly the right answer.

Here's something you didn't see coming. Ron DeSantis had been backed by I guess one of the biggest backers it's the main outside group was a PAC political action committee called Never Back Down. Never back down. Let's get an update on Never back down. Oh they're backing down they're backing down. So they're not going to run ads in Iowa or New Hampshire. They're not going to run ads in Iowa or New Hampshire the first two primaries. I feel like they backed down. Let me give you some hypnotist and humorist advice. When you're picking the name of your group you should say to yourself how can this be mocked. It's exactly the same if you're picking a name for your child. If your last name is Cass don't name your child Jack am I right? B

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ecause you should ask yourself how will the school kids respond to naming my child Jack Cass? Do you think that will cause any problems? Now I only mentioned that because I grew up with somebody named Jack Cass. Yeah I mean he his born name was Jonathan but everybody called him Jack. So yeah don't do that. Never call your PAC Never Back Down if you think you might back down. All right surprise of…

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