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magine China might take advantage of if they wanted to. So yeah, it's a problem. But I don't know if it's a plot. It might be. So you have to worry about it exactly as if you know it's a plot. But I don't know. I don't know. It could be just they need food. So they create a bunch of farms in places that have good conditions for farms and then they ship the food back. So it might be 80% food, 20% y…

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dge, as we know from the Supreme Court, is about 80% predictive in terms of how things are going to go. So it does expose the system quite a bit.

All right. Trump had a big rally in Philadelphia. The big story is there's no big story. The big story is, and I will compliment the Trump campaign again, people who went there described it as flawless. In other words, the organization of it, the attendance, the design of it, Trump's performance, the equipment, you know, all the logistics, flawless.

Now compare that to Biden who's hiding in his basement pretending to get ready for a debate. I tell you, there's a little bit of the dog not barking here, but every day that Trump doesn't do a Trump-like provocative thing that makes you say, why'd he do that? Everything was going so well until he did that. And he's not doing that. It's not an accident. It's not a coincidence that Trump is running a flawless campaign. He's got skill that is employed in this. I don't know who exactly. It could be a combination of people, but he's got really really smart people working on this campaign and you can just see it. You can see it every time he does something that it just has this little extra envelope of smartness around it that you didn't see the first two times he ran. You didn't see it, but you see it now and you see it just so clearly.

Here's another example. Some Republicans are suggesting that his best campaign strategy would be to be not Trump. In other words, don't talk over, don't be combative and in a non-debate way. You know, just don't go too hard. And the thinking is he just has to describe the path that he gives you, the path that B

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iden will probably give you, the fact that you've seen both of them at work. You have a full four-year interview essentially for each of them and Trump can simply say here's what Biden gives you, here's what I give you. There's no contest. I agree with that with the caveat that nobody can really advise Trump. So he still is the one who's going to decide and a lot of it will be spontaneous. I don'…

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