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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
03:05 - Mike Muse Returns
05:22 - Why Biden Dropped Out
12:53 - Could Biden Drop Out?
14:48 - What Happens Next
19:30 - Financial Aspect of the Campaign
22:17 - How Much Money Does a Presidential Candidate Need
33:19 - Caller: D9 Member Asks About Kamala Harris Speaking at the AKA Convention
35:29 - Why Obama Hasn't Endorsed
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the news that affects you Mike m with
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the political news on Sway in the
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Morning Shade
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45 we're going to start off today before
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I bring him to the
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mic with the official statement from
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President Joe Biden yes my fellow
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Americans it reads over the past three
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and a half years we have made great
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progress as a nation today America has
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the strongest economy in the world we
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made historic investments in re in our
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nation and lowering our prescription
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drug cost for seniors and expanding
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Affordable Health Care to a record
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number of Americans we provided
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critically needed care to a million
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veterans exposed to toxic substances
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passed the first gun safety law in 30
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years appointed the first
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African-American woman to the Supreme
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Court and passed the most significant
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climate legislation in the history of
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the world America has never been
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positioned to lead than we are today we
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never been better positioned to lead
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than we are today I know none of this
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could have been done without you the
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American people together we overcame a
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once in a century pandemic and the worst
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economic crisis since the Great
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Depression we protected and preserved
1:13
our democracy and we revitalized and
1:15
strengthened our alliances around the
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world it has been the greatest honor of
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my life to serve as your president and
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while it has been my atttention to seek
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re-election I believe it is the best
1:25
interest of my party in the country for
1:26
me to stand down and to focus solely on
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fulfilling my duties as president for
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the remainder of my term I will speak to
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the nation later this week in more
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detail about my decision for now let me
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express my deepest gratitude to all of
1:40
those who have worked so hard to see me
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reelected I want to thank vice president
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kamla Harris for being an extraordinary
1:48
partner in all of this work and let me
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express my heartfelt appreciation to the
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American people for the faith and trust
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you have placed in me I believe today
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what I always have that there's nothing
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America can't do when we do it together
2:05
we just have to remember we are the
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United States of America that's from
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President Joe Biden so we say salute to
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you President Joe Biden yes we do for
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your service as a president of this
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great country and your service to this
2:18
country even Beyond being president and
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your dedication to even want to be
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reelected at this time uh for the sake
2:26
of our democracy uh so salute to Joe
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Biden as a man I got a chance to
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interview a couple of times um had some
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cool conversations some challenging
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conversations as well M you know very
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transparent at a time when I was um
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really on that campaign Trail trying to
2:43
make sense of politics and I know this
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is unprecedented in many ways what we've
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been witnessing in the past few years as
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Mike Muse has U consistently stated um
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over the past eight years I believe that
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phrase
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unprecedented has had its dominance in
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our conversation Mike mes is here
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citizens and listen can't nobody give us
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the Insight quite like he can right no
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right these things that are happening
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today he spoke on this last week you
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know Mike Muse has often said things
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about our democracy and what we can
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expect and why we should be paying
3:22
attention and then they come to fruition
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right and we're witnessing that today
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Mike musees welcome back home Mike m mik
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is here what's happening everybody happy
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Monday happy Monday yeah yeah it is
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Monday and welcome to living history
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living history history Mike where were
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you when you got the news I was in Cape
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Cod this weekend and I remember very
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distinctly uh I had just done my
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pre-call for Monday Morning Quarterback
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uh on GMA gma3 we do it on Sundays to
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figure out what our what we're going to
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do and I remember sitting on the ter
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really looking at on the beach and next
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thing I know uh some friends rushed
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outside to me and was like Biden is out
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Biden is out I was like wait what what
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and um yeah I went to check and he was
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out and the day never got normal from
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there um every hour was just call after
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call after call uh production calls
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figuring out how we were going to cover
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it today um thinking about next steps
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what does this all mean um also two
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Fielding calls where people were
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crying and some people were elated um
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some people were gutted um and I got
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that phrase a lot from people they said
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mik I feel gutted um so then I went to
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the phone started working my sources
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both from like elected officials um the
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donor class um those grassroot
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organization individuals um it was a
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mixed bag uh what people were feeling um
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and and really feeling about the
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excitement and then you're looking at
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who's endorsing who who's saying what
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and so it was just um a
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nonstop Whiplash of living history was
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happening and so there was moments I did
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take that in was just to know that wow
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we are living through history that won't
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be the same and I'm really glad that you
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read President Biden's statement the way
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that you did because you know before we
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talk about l Logistics before we talk
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about what's next and before we talk
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about was he right or wrong to to drop
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out at the end of the
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day you one would say this wasn't his
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decision um he was essentially forced
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out um he up to Friday was very
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steadfast that he was in this race um he
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was doing everything that the Democratic
5:55
party asked of him he was did a great
5:58
job on the Press conf conference with
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the NATO Summit uh he spoke really
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strongly at the NAACP National
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Convention on Monday uh that crowd was
6:06
energized they were on their feet for
6:08
him the black base is the Democratic
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base just a couple days prior he was
6:13
with in Detroit um and the whole
6:16
audience was screaming we're with Joe um
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KLA Harris was in Dallas at the Alpac
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cap Alpha National Convention and they
6:24
were all screaming four more years they
6:26
were all with them and so if you can
6:28
imagine all that energy and then imagine
6:31
this imagine you are statistically tied
6:34
in the polls right you're in the margin
6:36
of error Trump was only up on Biden two
6:39
percentage points three at most but
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that's all in a margin of era and it's
6:45
July and you have to recognize that all
6:47
the economists just came out and said
6:49
that our economy is stronger than ever
6:52
granted people are still feeling the
6:54
impact of the grocery stores but a
6:56
present can only control so much because
6:58
there's like three conglomerate grocer
6:59
stores who are coalescing to what the
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prices are what they are right but it
7:04
was so the economy is getting so strong
7:06
to where the FED said by the Fall
7:09
they're thinking about lowering the
7:10
interest rates so imagine your economy
7:13
is stronger than ever workers wages are
7:16
above inflation about as of four months
7:19
ago so it's not really impacting
7:20
people's paycheck yet but let me say
7:23
this it's in their paycheck but mentally
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they haven't processed that it's in
7:26
their
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paycheck um and then you have this this
7:30
narrative that you have the most Su one
7:33
of the most successful presidential
7:35
records in history Joe Biden he is right
7:39
now ranked one of the number 14th
7:41
president in terms of success records of
7:44
what he's been able to accomplish in
7:46
just two to three years so imagine all
7:49
of that but everyone is saying you're
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old and you need to get out and then
7:56
imagine your friends now if there was
7:58
some other Democrats who are new to the
8:01
Democratic process who's asking him to
8:03
to leave but imagine like Nancy
8:07
Pelosi going on you know talk shows and
8:10
being ambiguous about whether or not she
8:13
should leave or not that's they're
8:15
homies right they're friends um there
8:19
was another gentleman who um needed Joe
8:22
Biden to help him win his primaries he
8:24
was losing Joe went to go uh to help him
8:26
out in the state um guy ends up winning
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um he's he's Joe Biden has invited him
8:32
over for dinner and he's one of the
8:34
first ones to say he needs to get out of
8:35
the race so imagine how you feel about
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loyalty to see your
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friends not really having your back and
8:44
speaking so publicly and more so
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Ambiguously the ambiguity of it all all
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of that combined with the ego every
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human has a ego and yes did Biden say he
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was going to run as a transitional
9:02
candidate absolutely but when you assume
9:05
that Oval Office you are singlehandedly
9:08
the most powerful person in the world
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everything is at your beck and call you
9:14
don't even carry a
9:16
wallet you fly around in equivalency of
9:19
the most hyped up private plane you
9:22
speak the markets move you speak you
9:25
cause War you speak you prevent War you
9:28
speak you send soldiers into Harm's Way
9:32
you speak you allocate funds in
9:34
disastrous situations you speak you
9:37
change American situation like that is a
9:40
powerful position to just say let it go
9:45
right and that's why you see people who
9:47
they say for term limits when they go
9:48
into Congress oh I'm for term limits and
9:51
people are too old but then you see them
9:53
staying 20 30 40 years because it's that
9:56
power of being a senator it's that power
9:58
of being in the house Representatives
10:00
right and think about it like we're in
10:01
New York City and LA right but think
10:02
about people who like live in Lansing in
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Toledo Ohio and Little Rock Arkansas
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those are the rock stars in their state
10:09
those are the celebrities that Tracy G
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reports on but in their Community right
10:13
that's hard just to let that go right
10:16
I'm not caping for anybody I'm not
10:17
making excuses for anybody but I'm just
10:18
letting know the human aspect of it so
10:21
all that good is going statistically
10:23
tied your friends are being ambiguous
10:26
about your
10:27
support and
10:30
you then have to let go of your ego to
10:32
say I'm going to walk away and this
10:34
really isn't my choice but clearly this
10:36
is what everybody else want so but my
10:39
record is so good though and then he has
10:42
to step away he had to relinquish that
10:44
ego which is the trait of a great leader
10:48
a great leader is can you follow yeah
10:52
and another great trait of a great
10:53
leader is you want to surround yourself
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you want to have the acknowledgement
10:58
that I need to surround myself with
10:59
people who are smarter than me that's
11:01
also too letting go of your ego so he
11:03
finally had to let go of his ego to
11:06
literally say I am not going to run
11:08
again although my record is one of the
11:11
best records to run up again so just as
11:13
a human I just wanted to put that into
11:15
context of what he's facing and what
11:18
made it so much of a challenge okay um
11:20
Heather you wanted to chime in I did
11:22
because some years ago two things like M
11:23
some years ago you said whenever Biden
11:27
leaves office he will probably be
11:29
remembered for the economy his business
11:32
I remember you specifically saying that
11:35
because every president leaves an office
11:37
being known for something Obama with
11:39
Obamacare and so on and so forth and you
11:41
you noted about Joe Biden and what he
11:44
would eventually leave office for do you
11:47
think now he will be known for how and
11:51
why he left office instead of what
11:53
presidents are normally known for their
11:55
policies like you initially told us he
11:58
would yeah and this President Trump was
12:00
known for his mark on the Supreme Court
12:02
right so that will ever be Trump's um
12:04
identity when it comes to his presidency
12:06
so Biden will always go down as um
12:10
extreme Patriot um to the Democratic
12:13
party um and he will go down as a humble
12:17
servant um once the years will be
12:20
removed and I think both parties will be
12:22
able to recognize even Mitt Romney did a
12:25
statement where he acknowledged that he
12:27
acknowledged that the act of
12:29
selflessness uh of Biden to do what he
12:32
did that will be that will go down as
12:35
the most courageous bravest humblest
12:39
letting go of ego you would ever imagine
12:42
there is no there's no world where a
12:45
president wants to say I I don't want to
12:49
run again right like in particular when
12:51
your record is that good is it possible
12:53
because you spoke about loyalty and and
12:55
almost betrayal I think it walks a fine
12:57
line is it possible that people may know
12:59
that something is wrong uh maybe
13:02
physically or that comes with old age
13:03
you talk about Alzheimer's you talk
13:05
about different things that Parkinson's
13:07
or whatever do you think possible
13:09
somebody may know something and and
13:11
instead of saying a medical excuse just
13:14
by you need to leave out do you think
13:16
maybe that's where it's coming from for
13:18
his own safety he needs to drop out I
13:20
can't speak on what people may be Su
13:23
suspecting about President Biden um but
13:26
they have been in close corridors with
13:29
Biden um for these last couple of years
13:31
and so it's not like Biden became who he
13:35
is what we saw a debate overnight that's
13:37
always who he's been and if you've been
13:39
in meetings with him the last two years
13:41
that's exactly how he's looked uh that's
13:43
exactly how he sound it that's exactly
13:46
his Cadence we've all known Biden to
13:48
have a a a stuttering challenge um he's
13:52
addressed that openly um since he's been
13:54
a kid he's overcome that so it doesn't
13:56
come out as much um but that's sometimes
13:59
when you hear him say and I'm not making
14:01
excuses for giving him cover but
14:02
sometimes when you say when when you
14:04
hear him say anyways yeah or or or pivot
14:08
never mind that's because he's he's he
14:11
possibly could be about to stutter he's
14:13
always talked about he's had this
14:14
technique um that he usually does to
14:17
avoid him stuttering I just think as
14:18
you're getting older it's just harder to
14:21
keep that tactic and being sharp um to
14:24
do it but this is always who he's been
14:26
he's always mixed up names he's mixed up
14:28
names and he was in the Obama
14:30
Administration so all of this what they
14:31
were saying is nothing new so really you
14:33
have to ask yourself the Democratic
14:34
party especially the leaders who are
14:36
wanting them out now you had meetings
14:38
with him regularly you seen this could
14:41
you have done something sooner um to
14:44
have stopped been waiting this long to
14:46
have it done we talked about initially
14:49
what would the process be if he was to
14:51
drop out how would that happen would it
14:54
be enough time how effective could a
14:55
Democratic party be in finding a new
14:58
nominee
14:59
in in campaigning and then can it
15:01
resonate with the rest of the country in
15:03
a way where that person could be
15:04
competitive to Donald Trump so my
15:07
question to you is what happens next uh
15:11
for the Democratic party kamla Harris
15:15
although endorsed by many people is not
15:17
yet the nominee correct right um
15:19
president um Barack Obama Endor the open
15:23
nomination process right he didn't
15:27
endorse her specifically nope so what
15:29
happens from this point moving forward
15:32
all great questions it is such a moving
15:35
ball um and it's going to change Again
15:37
by the time we get off air this how
15:39
quickly this is moving and I am actually
15:42
shocked at the speed of all of this so
15:45
I'm going give you guys a date and I'mma
15:47
back into everything else and so the
15:49
date that we have to be paying attention
15:50
to is Wednesday July 24th which is this
15:53
Wednesday um at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard
15:56
Time two days from now yep
16:00
48
16:01
Hours okay okay all right all right
16:03
that's going to be a very pivotal day
16:05
because that's when the D and Democratic
16:06
National Committee uh their rules
16:08
committee they're going to have a
16:10
meeting it's going to be open to the
16:11
public we can all watch it on YouTube
16:13
it's going to be live stream where they
16:15
are going to outline and vote on what
16:17
the rules are going forward for this
16:20
nomination commit for this nomination
16:22
process what is on the table again this
16:25
is just what's on the table we'll know
16:26
on Wednesday is there is some suggesting
16:28
that that it should be a a mini primary
16:31
um where if there are contenders who are
16:35
willing to go against vice president
16:37
Harris uh they would do forums around
16:39
the country um to get the voters and the
16:41
delegates to learn about them and their
16:43
platform that's one option uh the second
16:45
option is uh no one they opt out to do
16:50
the mini primary and they will let vice
16:53
president Harris and let's say candidate
16:55
B um have maybe a talk on the convention
16:58
floor on the stage um and then from
17:00
there let the delegates vote from that
17:03
aspect or there's option C where no
17:07
Contender goes against vice president
17:09
Harris and then at the
17:12
convention she gets nominated and voted
17:15
on by the delegates all right but let's
17:18
say she does have a
17:21
contender let's say they go to the
17:22
convention floor the delegates on the
17:25
first round um is pledged to President
17:28
Biden
17:29
but President Biden because he wasn't
17:31
the nominee yet although he's won the
17:33
delegate he is what we call the
17:35
presumptive nominee so let me give you
17:37
an easier example using former president
17:39
Trump so before the
17:41
RNC former president Trump was a
17:43
presumptive republican nominee after
17:46
Monday's roll call at the RNC he then
17:50
became the nominee so he was the
17:51
official n uh head of the Republican
17:54
party for president so up until right
17:57
now Biden is just a presumptive nominee
17:59
yes and so because he hasn't been sworn
18:01
in this what makes the rules different
18:03
so what he's done is he's asked his
18:04
delegates there's a minimum threshold
18:06
that you have to meet I believe it's
18:07
1700 don't quote me with the number
18:08
let's say it's 1700 he's already
18:10
surpassed that he's gotten 3,000
18:11
delegates so he has to ask his delegates
18:14
hey I'm not running I don't want this I
18:17
want you to vote for KLA Harris but he
18:19
can't make them vote for kamla Harris
18:20
okay and so in that moment in the first
18:22
round they can vote for KLA Harris let's
18:25
say 50% and then like another 50% votes
18:28
for candidate
18:29
there's no clear consensus then you go
18:31
into the second round and this is when
18:33
it gets interesting and controversial
18:36
because in the second round that is when
18:38
the Democrats have what's called super
18:40
delegates and the superdelegates are
18:42
elected officials and party leaders
18:46
they're the ones from the democratics
18:49
Constitution were put in place
18:51
essentially as a fail safe in case there
18:54
is a some radical nominee who gets
18:57
through the first round
18:59
their job is to stop that radical
19:01
nominee from advancing it hasn't been
19:04
exercised before so in this instance if
19:06
there is no clear consensus on round one
19:09
round two the superdelegates will be
19:11
able to vote and based upon their
19:13
numbers they'll be able to push
19:14
candidate a or candidate B over the top
19:17
so that is what all the scenarios that
19:19
can play out so we'll find out on
19:21
Wednesday if they're going to do a mini
19:23
primaries or if they're going to wait
19:25
until the convention floor to do that so
19:27
that's the logistical aspect of
19:30
it the second part of it is the
19:33
financial aspect of it okay and I think
19:35
that will eliminate
19:37
contenders so the challenge is right now
19:40
is how do you transfer that
19:42
money the rules
19:45
are only people who can access the Biden
19:48
Harris campaign are Biden and Harris so
19:52
essentially they're on the bank account
19:53
so Cy audience they're on the Chase
19:55
account Bank of America account the city
19:57
two names they're the sign
19:59
right so now that Biden is off the only
20:01
way that that money can be accessed if
20:03
is Vice President Harris is at the top
20:05
of the ticket if she's at the top of the
20:07
ticket legally she still has access to
20:09
that
20:09
money if she isn't for whatever reason
20:12
the
20:14
nominee the Biden Harris has a couple of
20:17
options the first option is they can
20:20
transfer that money to the Democratic
20:21
National Committee and let the DNC do it
20:23
what they want they can give that money
20:25
back to the donors if they choose or
20:28
they can transfer that money into a
20:29
super pack they transfer that money to
20:31
super pack they can only allocate $2,700
20:34
up to that point all right so that's the
20:36
bank account
20:37
statements where we are right now the
20:39
DNC did an amendment yesterday I'm
20:41
telling you this stuff is moving fast
20:43
damn Amendment they did an amendment
20:45
yesterday and but before so it's called
20:48
a joint committee so audience's joint
20:50
committee is now once you become the
20:52
presumptive nominee and the RNC does it
20:53
too once you pres nominee you blend um
20:57
The Campaign account with the DN account
20:59
and then you can raise your limits of
21:00
giving so it's almost like if you get
21:02
married you have a joint checking
21:03
account and then the two partners could
21:06
pay for more things yeah and so
21:08
basically you go from a limit of like
21:09
$4,700 that you can give um to now you
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can donate up to$ 35,000 when you have
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the Joint Committee all right so the
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Joint Committee account is it was called
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Biden Victory fund and Biden action fund
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the amendment now reads it's now the
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Harris Victory fund and then the Harris
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action fund the Harris action fund are
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if she's becomes an nominee already has
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$40 million in it uh the Harris uh sorry
21:33
Harris Victory fund has $40 million in
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it the Harris action fund has $23
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million in it and the Biden campaign has
21:39
$91 million in it so we're looking at
21:42
around $120 million already on day one
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that will go into vice president Harris
21:47
that she will have access to if she's a
21:50
nominee if another Contender let's say
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was to challenge her ends to win okay
21:56
they would start out at Z and so with
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100 days remaining the Democrats have to
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ask themselves they want to pick the
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person who has $120 million or they want
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to pick the person who's going to start
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out at zero dollar and so that I think
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that is going to push a lot of
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individuals out from not wanting to run
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against her amongst other things but I
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think that that money is a key piece
22:16
we're going to open up the phone lines
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too 8 888 742
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3345 and and thank you Mike and just to
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put things in perspective cuz you was at
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one point you you were a fundraiser
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right so so this is my specialty
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action I going this
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way where the money
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going this literally is uh what I'm so
22:42
so real talk to get the audience um
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context this is what I'm known for in
22:46
politics yeah um is understanding the
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money raising the money doing the joint
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accounts doing the joint committees
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doing the $35,000 dinners um I've
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created Victory funds on top of Victory
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funds on top of Victory funds I mean
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audience it gets so deep I'm not giving
23:02
anything Secrets everyone does it and
23:05
it's because of the Supreme Court
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allowed um campaign Finance legislation
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where you can have these super packs
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give unlimited money it's called the
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citiz citizens act so because of that
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we're allowed to do this so if you cap
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out at $35,000 a donor can I remember we
23:19
had a very um difficult uh time with
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Florida and it was going to be a really
23:25
contested race in Florida so we needed
23:27
to raise more money and we still had
23:28
people who had Deep Pockets who could
23:30
give more than $35,000 so we end up
23:33
creating a Florida Victory fund which is
23:35
separate than a DNC Victory fund which
23:37
was separate from the other can Victory
23:39
fund to keep getting money um from these
23:42
donors and so I'm very aware of like the
23:44
legislation the legal aspect of it and
23:46
and how important the money is when you
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mention these these um amounts um 91
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million 40
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million 20 million million combined and
23:58
that's still isn't enough necessarily to
24:01
run a successful presidential campaign
24:03
right no so what on a minimum what are
24:06
what would she need or any candidate
24:08
need to raise to be effective and
24:10
impactful be able to compete great
24:12
question so if you consider if she let's
24:14
play this hypo hypothetical no I'm not
24:16
saying she is but if she becomes a
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nominee to get to November the 4th it
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would have they would have raised over
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almost $2 billion did you say2 billion
24:29
between a billion and two billion when
24:30
between now and November 4th mhm yeah uh
24:34
in ' 08 we were at $750 million in 2012
24:39
we hit the billion dollar Mark um and
24:42
it's only gone up since then and I want
24:45
to be very clear people are not
24:46
pocketing this money um so and there
24:48
aren't Stak dinners and cavard dinners
24:50
in the campaign offices I mean these
24:51
people are literally like using their
24:53
cell phones to make phone calls what if
24:54
you lose Mike then where does the change
24:56
go so the money goes to pay down your
24:58
debts so to like your final payments to
25:02
contractors vendors you know people who
25:05
refill the water the campaign offices
25:07
and so these money I mean think about it
25:09
this is a 50 state strategy right and if
25:11
you want to win for president you have
25:13
to compete in all 50 states and on top
25:15
of that you have to compete in the
25:16
Battleground States right so you have to
25:18
spend money on top of money on top of
25:20
money so sometimes I mean your campaign
25:22
staff in a state let's say like of
25:24
Michigan or P let's say Pennsylvania
25:25
Battleground State you probably want at
25:27
least minimum 200 field offices opened
25:30
up and that's like so think retail
25:32
offices so audience think like strip
25:34
malls you know think office space next
25:37
door to your CVS right and that's not
25:39
the most well- conditioned Place air
25:41
conditioned place that's not the most
25:42
well heated place in the winter time
25:44
right so it's like these people are
25:46
literally making minimum salaries using
25:49
their own cell phon sometimes they're
25:50
using their own computers but it just
25:52
cost that much and then it get out the
25:54
vote effort what you want to do is you
25:56
want to rent shuttles you want to rent
25:58
van hands to because what you do is you
26:00
want to knock on people's doors and say
26:01
hey do and and aren't Republicans do
26:03
this too you want to say you know person
26:05
a on 47 Main Street do you know your
26:07
polling location do you need to ride to
26:09
the polls and they say yes then you have
26:11
to coordinate them getting the ride to
26:13
the polls so you have to rent shuttle
26:14
Vans right so all this is It's expenses
26:16
it cost it all adds up Mike we got a few
26:19
a lot of people on the line listen when
26:21
you call up quick let's just get
26:23
straight to the question all right quick
26:25
question hang up today yeah man just get
26:27
straight to the question okay okay all
26:29
right Sam Sam is in KC what up Sam hey
26:33
Sam thank you
26:37
Sam okay all right all right wow wow
26:40
things are moving fast moving fast oh
26:44
sorry I thought I got hung up oh sorry
26:46
so you so you stayed all right go ahead
26:48
what's your comment go ahead no I just
26:50
really wanted to just thank you uh all
26:53
um you really shed light on just the
26:55
importance of doing your research with
26:56
votes I think when when I was in my
26:58
teens I found myself really just knowing
27:01
the information around the president but
27:03
really not understanding the impact of
27:05
the city officials that we elect and and
27:08
what role they play and just our
27:10
community development so really just
27:11
wanted to just say you know thank you
27:13
Mike Muse and just the whole team for
27:15
really just shedding the importance you
27:18
know Google is at at our fingertips
27:20
these days so it takes a couple of
27:21
minutes and that's just kind of been the
27:23
message I've been saying to people is
27:24
just make sure you do your research make
27:27
sure you're just not selecting Democrat
27:29
because that's who you vote for without
27:31
knowing exactly what they stand for so
27:33
just want to say thank you thank you
27:35
apprciate you all right Sam thanks for
27:36
your call appreciate it man what hit me
27:38
up Sam I Am Mike Muse there it is I am
27:41
Mike Muse uh Carolyn is on the line for
27:43
nin that was s
27:45
Carolyn car no it's Carlin c a r l y n
27:50
Carlin I just don't like your tone right
27:52
now
27:54
car I'm not a first I'm not a first time
27:57
calling always go through this I know
27:59
you yell at me every time yo let's do
28:03
this okay so next time she call put c a
28:08
r l y l YN give me L YN I won't mess
28:13
that up all right Carlin how are you
28:16
doing I'm doing fantastic and I want to
28:19
thank Mike for that Flex he just gave a
28:21
whole bunch of flex in there he needs a
28:24
Quick Clip notes for all these younger
28:26
people that we do need to run for office
28:29
on what they should expect as being the
28:31
money man and I also see why you're not
28:34
married now you know about the money and
28:36
how
28:39
work'll be in Mike Pockets before you
28:41
know it stick to the
28:44
politics okay so he already know so no
28:47
we not doing this no I don't need
28:49
joints this that the third no car what's
28:52
your question car car what's your
28:54
question car give me your two to of
28:58
presidential picks if you haven't
28:59
already discussed in one bullet point
29:01
why because I know we limited on time
29:04
and I'm if it is Vice President Harris
29:07
uh she will be looking at three
29:09
candidates so the first one will be
29:10
Governor Basher from Kentucky uh young
29:12
white male uh who just won a competitive
29:15
race in a Republican state which is a
29:16
Southern state the second one she'll be
29:18
looking at is Governor Cooper of North
29:20
Carolina North Carolina is a purple
29:22
State leans red could be blue um Cooper
29:25
is a slightly older white man with gray
29:28
hair so he would add a little bit of
29:32
stability and comfort to the white male
29:34
audience and a lot of white female in
29:36
the suburbs who may be opposed to voting
29:38
for a black female and North will get a
29:40
North Carolina ticket and he'll be able
29:42
to speak Rural and then she'll be
29:44
looking at Governor Shapiro Pennsylvania
29:46
young guy competitive race that he won
29:48
in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania is a
29:49
Battleground state that Republicans and
29:51
the Democrats would need to win and so
29:53
if she was to have him on his her ticket
29:56
it would be uh an advantage to possibly
30:00
winning um Pennsylvania Carlin thank you
30:02
for your question you know we love when
30:04
you call you're a super citizen Bria in
30:06
Texas what up Bri Bri how you doing B
30:08
hey Bri hey good morning guys doing well
30:12
doing well thank you for taking my call
30:14
uh Mike number one thank you for
30:16
everything that you're doing sir I am so
30:17
deep into politics because of you
30:19
because of what you're doing I trust
30:21
your word you're a verified so thank you
30:22
sir God bless you bless okay um correct
30:26
me if I'm wrong and I hope I'm not the
30:28
only one who was thinking this question
30:30
uh might correct me if I'm wrong so we
30:32
the people during presidential elections
30:34
go and vote for who we want that is the
30:36
people's vote that is the popular vote
30:39
then each state has a Electoral College
30:42
um I think some states have more some
30:44
states have less but those people are
30:46
supposed to take our voice our vote and
30:49
certify that and say this is what Texas
30:51
wants I'm in Texas so I say this is what
30:52
Texas
30:53
wants with the Hillary um election we
30:58
said we wanted her we put our vote in
31:00
and cast for her but we lost her due to
31:03
the electorial college so those people
31:05
did not listen to us and voted their own
31:08
interests and put Trump in correct me if
31:10
I'm wrong so if that's the case right
31:14
and those electorial College really has
31:16
the power to say what state what's who
31:20
Republican or Democrat whatever person
31:22
what is the point of the electorial
31:24
college and what is the point of we the
31:26
people voting now I am not saying I am
31:28
not voting I am still voting my voice my
31:30
vote still counts hopefully but please
31:33
is is that correct um and if this
31:35
question is too deep I can call back on
31:37
Friday to De I'll be
31:40
Friday I'll be I'll be a we we a little
31:43
easier on
31:45
Friday like you taking care my heada
31:48
today do that I'll be able to answer
31:50
that pretty succinctly and quickly so I
31:52
want to make sure that we don't confuse
31:53
the audience so everything you said up
31:55
to a certain point was accurate up until
31:56
the end
31:58
um so I want to be clear with that but I
31:59
want to be mindful audience this is the
32:02
electoral college is separate than the
32:04
primary process in the delegates so I
32:06
don't want to confuse the audience right
32:08
so audience what I'm about to answer is
32:11
everything that happens on November the
32:13
4th not anything leading up to November
32:15
the 4th the Electoral
32:17
College nothing was taken away from her
32:20
every president has to get to 270 votes
32:24
and this is why it's a 50 state strategy
32:26
and so what you want to do is want to
32:28
get it that way the number of votes
32:30
different per state because it's
32:31
supposed to be based upon state
32:32
population and density but then also to
32:34
the point oforal College was that so
32:36
that you know every candidate
32:38
presidential candidate didn't just go to
32:40
California and promise everything to
32:42
California because they had the most
32:43
dense population so idea is for them to
32:45
spread out to go to Iowa North Dakota
32:47
because they're Americans too they have
32:49
issues they care about and so that was
32:51
the kind of goal of it she didn't get
32:53
the 270 she won the popular vote but she
32:56
didn't get the 270 you can win the
32:57
popular the vote because you can win
32:58
Texas you can win California Hillary
33:00
Clint Hillary Clinton you can win New
33:01
York you can win Florida all these
33:02
popular these dense popular cities and
33:05
states but that didn't change the fact
33:06
that she didn't win the two 270
33:08
electoral C that's needed so every
33:10
candidate has to get to 270 uh Bria
33:13
thank you for your question call back
33:15
Friday anyway okay okay all right thank
33:17
you guys have a beauti beautiful day
33:19
you're citizen you're but take one more
33:21
Mike de is in Chicago this is fun de
33:24
right I never know what they're gonna
33:25
ask how you doing Dei I'm good good
33:28
morning everyone my fellow fellow D9
33:32
brother yo what up yo yo kamla is
33:35
scheduled VP VP Harris is actually
33:38
scheduled to speak to um me and my S
33:43
sister I am AA so she is scheduled to
33:46
speak to 6,000 plus black women on this
33:52
Wednesday and um she is still coming so
33:56
do you have any idea on if that would be
33:58
like a campaign type speech or any
34:02
thoughts on what she may be able to say
34:04
to us majority of us support her but
34:07
there are some some some naysayers
34:09
within within the body so really really
34:12
great questions and congratulations on
34:13
you guys' uh convention your blouet
34:16
shout out to the Zetas out there uh the
34:18
ladies of uh of the blue and white
34:20
nothing finer right can I I'm sorry I
34:22
don't me to interrupt Mike's flow but DD
34:24
my brother is a sigma yeah okay five
34:28
beta yeah story bro so just know every
34:32
time like all right just know from here
34:34
on out every time BP Harris pops out it
34:37
is going to be uh a
34:39
campaign just from here on out yes she
34:42
still has a role as vice president so
34:44
she still has do vice presidential
34:45
duties but you better believe every time
34:47
she pops out now it's going to be a
34:49
campaign speech and she knows that black
34:50
women are the core for her audience in
34:52
the core of the democratic base and and
34:54
what she did say in her statement um is
34:57
that
34:58
she receives President Biden's
35:00
endorsement but she says she still knows
35:02
that she has to earn it and so she is
35:05
aware of that and so every time you see
35:07
her she's going to fight to earn the
35:09
nomination so that it isn't a coronation
35:11
Dee thank you for your uh call we really
35:14
appreciate you you a super citizen all
35:17
right Mike m is going to be busy all
35:19
week long but he'll definitely take your
35:21
uh your mess yeah hit me up I am Mike
35:23
Muse M snme Twitter Instagram and
35:26
threads you asked me something offline I
35:29
want to just bring it in here really
35:30
quickly so people may not know U some
35:32
people may be wondering why Obama hasn't
35:34
endorsed um Obama never endorses he he
35:38
never he never endorses primaries he
35:40
always waits to a candidate has been
35:42
selected as that nominee then he then
35:45
supports and endorses and so he doesn't
35:47
want this what triggered me he doesn't
35:49
want this to be a coronation okay he
35:51
doesn't want the Democrats are trying to
35:53
avoid what they did with making it seem
35:55
like Hillary was a coronation and so
35:57
they're trying to avoid that narrative
35:59
and so that's why he's saying however
36:01
the process is whatever the DNC decides
36:03
to do on Wednesday however that
36:05
candidate emerges I'll wait and then
36:07
I'll endorse he'll endorse the party's
36:09
decision he's the Elder Statesman okay
36:10
thank you Mike Muse this was amazing hit
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