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we might not know. >> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia, the final day of voting is 59 days away. that used to mean we'd be that many days in a couple of hours away from figuring out who would be the next president but maybe not this year for at least two reasons. first, by all accounts, the race is razor thin. new cnn polling of six battleground state shows a dead heat while harris has the edge in michigan and wisconsin trump has the advantage in arizona, there's no clear leader in pennsylvania, georgia, and nevada overall too close to call and it's not just cnn, a variety of other respected pollsters have similar results. the real clear politics average for pennsylvania as of yesterday, trump 47.2 who harris, 47 point to the washington post, just by illustration of another measure, nevada is a tie north carolina and arizona, it's trump by less than one. georgia

trump plus two michigan, harris plus two pennsylvania harris plus three wisconsin harris plus four curiously, you've got polling guru nate silver saying that donald trump today has a 61.5% chance of winning the election to kamala harris has 38.3. and that's the highest trump has been since july 30, one betting market seems to agree. poly market says there's a 53% likelihood that trump wins. although predict it gives harris 53% odds. here's one thing about which all observers agree. the most important state his pennsylvania were enjoying our moment in the sun it's been a few cycles now though the pennsylvania really has been the keystone to whether or not you're going to make it to the white house and talk to democrats. they've always made clear the most likely pathway for them is in the blue wall states, we're talking about pennsylvania, the daughter of the white house really runs

through pennsylvania. you're going to have to open this door, win this state in order to win the presidency for the next four years, the map has expanded a little bit more, but we're still playing off in some blue states. i think pennsylvania is going to it'd be the state that matters the most you can tell the candidates get the importance of the keystone state by how they're spending their time. >> and their money since the primaries on super tuesday back in march. the seven key swing states have seen nearly 590 million in political ad spending pennsylvania, the largest prize in the race far ahead of the rest with over 188.8 million already spent at another 145 million set to air. and just look at how much time they're spending in pennsylvania. harris's latest trip to pennsylvania to prepare for the debate marks her tenth visit this year while trump has campaign pain here nine times the racist close and pennsylvania matters most. here's the potential problem. and the second reason we might not immediately know the winner as the philadelphia inquirer

noted this week, election officials in pennsylvania are warning that because of inaction in harrisburg, the swing states votes may again take days to count, creating a window for bad actors to sow distrust in the results. county election officials have been petitioning state lawmakers to update the state's election code for years they've also persistently asked the general assembly to clarify questions surrounding which mail ballots can and cannot be counted to address voting rights litigation that has played out in pennsylvania since november's know, since no, excuse mail voting was authorized in 2019? but as november approaches, little has changed since 2020 when former president donald trump used the slow counting process to promote unfounded claims of voter fraud in the wake of his defeat back in 2020, it wasn't until the saturday after the election that's cnn was finally able to make the call after for long tense days, we've reached a historic moment in this election we can

now project the winner cnn projects joseph r. >> biden junior is elected the 46th president. because the united states winning the white house and denying president trump a second term, were able to make this projection because cnn projects biden wins pennsylvania, the former vice president. it is third run for the highest office, pulling off a rare defeat of a sitting commander chief so could this year be even later? >> do you remember the red mirage and the blue wave that was a reference to republicans showing artificial advantage as in-person votes were counted only to see the margin change when mail-in ballots favored by democrats were tabulated trump nevertheless used the red mirage to claim victory. the day after voting ended, he tweeted that people were quote, working hard to make his 500,000 vote advantage in pennsylvania disappear nearly five hours later, he tweeted again, we have claimed four

electoral purposes. the commonwealth of pennsylvania well, pennsylvania was and remains one of seven states that does not allow pre canvassing of ballots until election day. and as the enquirer noted, this creates a strain on resources which delays the final results and other litigation is ongoing. there are issues over whether counties should count mail-in ballots sent without secrecy envelopes, or whether county should notify voters if their mail-in ballots are at risk of rejection because of a stake in filling out the forms. and in a third case, the state's commonwealth court ruled that not counting votes because someone failed to put a proper date on the exterior of their mail-in envelope, which arrived on time, is in violation of pennsylvania's free and equal election shins clause. and more challenges will surely arise as steve oh, rick and editor at politics pa and an election official in york county during the 2020 election told me if pennsylvania is as close as it's been in the last two, anything will be fair game it could all create the perfect

storm one candidate again, complaining of a fix while ballots are still being counted in the normal course of events, while being egged on by some elements of a partisan media and that's only the domestic story. earlier this week, the doj accused to rush and employees of rt, the russian owned media outlet of working with a tennessee company to distribute its content to american influencers. and in july, avril haines since the director of national intelligence, issued a warning that iran is becoming increasingly aggressive in their foreign influence efforts seeking to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions it's enough to keep you up for the next 58 nights i want to know what you think. go to my website at smerconish.com. answer today's poll question, will the election end with a smooth and peaceful transition of power? joining me now is pennsylvania secretary of the commonwealth. our schmidt, who during the 2020 election was

republican philadelphia city commissioner secretary schmidt, nice to have you back. what is at the root of this? why doesn't pennsylvania begin the processing of received ballots before election day? >> state law in pennsylvania doesn't permit our county election officials to begin processing those mail in ballots until 7:00 a.m. on election morning. so plenty of other states, red and blue alike, allow that process to begin. days, if not weeks in advance. so you know, the results earlier, pencil we don't have that. it's a technical problem with the technical solution that has not been addressed since 2020 it might be technical, but is it deliberate? >> right. i mean, in light of 2020, you think that the commonwealth, the legislature, would have addressed this. they haven't. do you think there's a deliberate effort here too? wow, this process to play out so that some can sow discord and spread disinformation

mail-in ballot preprocessing has been a part of a number of pieces of legislation coming out of our democratic house. >> or, and our republican senate. it's just, it's typically coupled with if any number of other election changes that are not acceptable to the other party, our democratic house recently just a couple months ago passed a clean pre canvassing pre-processing bill that if the republican senate took it up or had taken it up, would alleviate this issue. >> so i wanted to talk about this today well, in advance of the election, so as to put on people's radar screen all across the country that the prospect exists, that we might not know the winner of pennsylvania on election night. we might not therefore know the winner of the election. on election night, but that's okay, it's in the normal course of business you of all people remember, well, what happened four years ago. i'm going to put on the screen something that then president trump said about you via twitter, a guy named al schmidt that would be you, a

philadelphia commissioner and so-called republican rhino is being used big time by the fake news it's media to explain how honest things were with respect to the election in philadelphia. he refuses to look at a mountain of corruption and dishonesty. we win. how worried are you that he'll do it again? and what is being done to prevent it? >> well, we work very closely with our county partners elections in pennsylvania are really run at the county level and then they certify the results up to the pennsylvania department of state. so we're working hand-in-hand with them to make sure that this process can proceed as expeditiously as possible while maintaining the integrity of it. all counting millions of votes takes time. it has always taken time. it's just different in pennsylvania because of that process can't begin earlier, like a can and other states how concerned are you? you heard my setup. i'm a lifelong pennsylvania. i'm worried about what's to come. are you i've been involved in

election administration for a long time. >> and anyone involved in election administration worries about everything there are no reduce their no do overs when it comes to elections, they always have to be perfect and it's important that we do our part in election administration and really hopeful that people on the outside candidates and campaigns are respectful and responsible in the information that they share. and not so distrust in an effort to undermine confidence in the results what's the prospect that in the next 59 days pre canvassing the rules that apply will be changed by the legislature and alleviating some of the concerns that you and i are discussing i can't really predict that, but what i do know is that it's very rare that you have changes to the election code and our state or any other very close to election day because people get the impression it's being done to try to advantage one party

or candidate or the other when in this case it's really not okay. >> so final question we're two months out in your capacity as secretary of the commonwealth, what's the message, if any, that you'd like to deliver to the nation about the way pennsylvania counts ballots. what should we file away so that on election night in 59 days, we remember that we heard al schmidt i think it's important that everyone be mindful of what you've discussed, that our state is a little bit different than many others. and voting by mail, which is still new to pennsylvania, is a very it's been very widely accepted. it's a great method for people who especially find it difficult to make it to the polls in the 13 hours on, on election day that the people be patient and that we understand that our election workers at the county level are working night and day, literally around the clock okay to cast to count your votes so that you can have your voice heard okay. >> and the way that i would say

it is that if it's late on election night and you're looking at wolf well, you're looking at john king in front of the magic wall and they're saying we can't call pennsylvania relax. it's perhaps within the normal course of events, secretary of the commonwealth, al schmidt. thank you for being here. i appreciate you. >> thank, you michael what are your thoughts? >> hit me up on social media. i will read some responses throughout the course of the program from the world of x. in both cases, i think the transition will be peaceful at the white house, but definitely not on the streets alice van kaye, i hope you're wrong. i asked this question today, but of course, fingers crossed and god-willing that it all goes smoothly and one way that i think we can all especially those of us who have a platform in ensure that it goes smoothly is to educate the public and say, this is the way that we count the ballots. it may sound a little bit arcane. we wish that it was different, especially in my home state, and that there was pre canvassing in this and 60 it's other states but he just relax when we get there. i want to know what you think at home. go to my website at

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14-year-old suspected of gunning down and killing two of his classmates and two teachers at a georgia school according to a database kept by the associated press and usa today in partnership with northeastern university the shooting was the nation's 30th mass shooting in 2024, at least 131 people have died in such violence. >> and gun violence is the leading cause of death in our children every time these events occur, they spur an important conversation about mental health. this time is no different that the country is in the midst of a mental health crisis, is borne out in the data. in june, surgeon general vivek murthy issued an advisory saying gun violence demands a public health approach rather than a polarizing political response. this is a uniquely american problem that kills nearly 50,000 people a year. well, there's something else, uniquely american about it. within one in five u.s. adults live mental illness, but only about half actually receive treatment and one reason is that labyrinth that is our health care system with

insurance companies often restricting coverage, delaying treatment, and denying claims, especially among those for brain health a recent investigation by npr and propublica talked to a hundreds of mental health practitioners and found that many say they've been forced to leave insurance networks with devastating consequences for their patients who cannot afford to pay privately joining me now to discuss his propublica reporter, any waldman any thank you for being here after interviewing hundreds of practitioners, what did you learn why do so many mental health providers not accept insurance? >> yeah, so thanks for having me on michael in the most simple terms, we really wanted to understand why is it that when you have insurance, it can be so hard to access mental health treatment. and what most people don't realize is that insurance companies play a really big role in this after interviewing hundreds of therapists across the country, they told us it's really unsustainable and challenging to work with insurance companies. they described that the insurance companies have taken on an outsized role in

mental health care in this country. and it's often the insurance companies and not that therapists that determine who can get treatment, what kind of treatment they can get? for how long. providers also told us about red tape dealing with insurance companies, delayed and low payments, audits and reviews. and that's really what's contributing to squeezing them out. >> so these are not complaints that you would hear from an oncologist if we were talking about a cancer patient and whether they need chemotherapy, i imagine the bill gets submitted and it gets paid. why are we still not treating physical and what i'll describe his brain health the same yeah, that's right. >> mental health care has long been neglected by our health system. >> you know federal law actually requires insurance companies to provide the same access to mental health care in physical health care. >> but we heard numerous stories from patients and providers about how mental health care was he held back in ways that medical care may not be while you might be able to get access to chemotherapy if you have cancer, what we found

with mental health care, we heard stories of patients in the midst of a mental health crisis who needed intensive treatment, but the insurance company would only approve coverage for less intensive treatment first. and are according found that the limitations can lead to devastating consequences andy, what are the insurance companies have to say for themselves yes. we reached out to several insurance companies for our recording and they told us that they are committed to ensuring access to mental health providers. they emphasize that their plans are in compliance with state federal laws, and they also said that they have practices in place to make reimbursement rates reflect the market value to support and retain providers for which they are continuously trying to recruit. but that doesn't match up with what we heard from therapists or previous analyses have been done by policy experts are advocates what the bottom line is that there have been several lawsuits against insurers for failing to provide adequate coverage. state regulators and the department of labor are

starting to do more in recent years in terms of holding insurers accountable. but these issues continue to be a problem. >> i don't understand. we have just 30 seconds left. i don't understand why there's not a champion for this issue republican independent democrat who cares, who says, we're in the midst of a mental health crisis, and we've got all of these treaters who feel like they can't provide care for their patients because of what i described as the labyrinth of the health care system, we have a debate on tuesday night. i doubt anybody is going to say to kamala harris or donald trump, hey, what can we do for the half of those afflicted with mental illness who are not getting treatment because of the issue that you had propublica and npr have identified your quick thought who mental health care is not a partisan issue. and part of changing this conversation on mental health care is sharing and documenting these kinds of stories and experiences and shining a light on these complex issues. >> okay, nice job with the reporting. i encourage

everybody to read what you what you've published. thank you thanks for having me let's see what you're saying via social media. this comes from the world of x, formerly twitter. if this is about mental health and gun violence, the real issue is guns not a lack of mental health insurance really david content? you think you think that up 14-year-old, i'm not excusing anything. okay. i'm just analyzing you think that a 14-year-old who walks into school and kills two classmates and two teachers, is well from a mental health standpoint you must be blanking me up ahead. >> a new debate, showdown. we're just three days away from former president donald trump facing off against vice president kamala harris the very first time. i'll talked to a trump surrogate about what we can expect to see from the republican candidate and ask what the campaign thinks about a major harris endorsement from a former republican bigwig plus donald trump will not face sentencing in his new york hush money case until after the

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president of the united states is voting for kamala harris, warning that former president trump can never be trusted with power again and no, it's not al gore or another democrat, its republican dick cheney is daughter liz cheney, the former republican congresswoman who famously broke with trump over january 6, had already announced that she would be voting for harris, joining me now is republican congressman byron donalds of the great state of florida. he is also a surrogate for the trump campaign. congressman thank you for coming back. you know about this cheney announcement. here's in part what he said quote, in our nation's 248 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than donald trump. what would you say to vice president cheney in response to that? >> my first responses, i really don't care. what he thinks secondarily, if you look at the way kamala harris and joe biden have led the current administration. they suppressed the free speech of the american people. it was the biden campaign that lied to the world

during the last presidential election using the intelligence since agencies and 51 intelligence officers to lie about the laptop from hell, that's something the biden campaign did. they lied about the all the impacts using the covid-19 vaccine? they tried to use osha to mandate 80 million americans getting that vaccine they fired over 10,000 soldiers from our military over the same situation. and right now, we have a situation where kamala harris has lied to the world about the health and mental capabilities of joe biden so you put all that together and then you have this statement from dick cheney ahmed. look at what actually been happening with kamala harris and joe biden. and the threat they are to democracy, not what dick cheney saying common ground, among other things, you and i agree that laptop should never have been suppressed. >> i'm sure there's more that we agree on, but still, he's a conservative icon, you're a conservative guy? i you must

have a response to what he said on the merits look, i will tell you i became a republican back in 2010. >> that's when i changed my party registration. it was not because of the republican establishment at the time led by dick cheney. it was about the conservative constitutional movement wanting are contrary to live within its means, wanting our country to actually follow the rule of law. and one of our country not to being embroiled in khan and calm in countless endless wars. that's why i became a republican. i'm a republican who's looking towards the future of our party, not the past of our party. so i respect dick cheney and his service throughout all of the decades to america. but quite frankly, he's wrong about this. donald trump is the person we need to be president of the united states today going forward congressman, tuesday night is a big night. >> the question that i have, i have a question about the vice president and that is whether she can explain exactly where she stands on a whole variety of issues that are question mark to me. the question that i

have for your guy is whether he can exercise any self-discipline. and here's what comes to my mind yesterday a jobs report, awfully soft, hundred and 42,000 jobs comes out and in part, here's what he was discussing. roll the tape frankly, i know you're going to say it's a terrible thing to say, but it couldn't have happened. it didn't happen and she would not have been the chosen one. she would not have been the chosen one she has gone around for years saying the store everywhere i go, she says her story and it's a total lie now, i assume she'll sue me now for defamation like i got sued by e. jean carroll it's like political malpractice day after day. >> he just can't stay on his economic message. what makes you think that he will on tuesday night?

>> well, two things. first of all, i would say that if you've actually listened to everything that donald trump says, he mostly talks about the economy, what he's going to do to repair it from the damage of kamala harris and joe biden border security and foreign policy but unlike a scripted politician like kamala harris, he talks about all issues. he talks about everything that's going on in the world, not just a talking points out of the campaign. he has been on message. it's just that the press only likes to talk about when he talks about others the issues outside of the core things in the debate, you're going to see the same donald trump that you saw a couple of months ago in georgia with joe biden. he's going to be calm, cool, and collected. he's going to set up the contrast between the disastrous administration of kamala harrison, joe biden, and how the world well to a safer, our economy was better and our nation was secured under donald trump, you're going to see it again on tuesday night, and i will add that who has lots of proven it's the betas kamala harris, not donald trump. so she's got

a lot to me. because nobody really knows what she stands for. >> give me the 62nd answer as to why she has so easily been able to eclipse president biden because i didn't see this coming. i looked at her numbers as being as underwater as biden's. and if you had told me two months ago that she would replace him and catapult to where she is today. i wouldn't have believed it so how she been able to get that done well, first of all, if the democrat billionaires are going to drop almost $1 billion and over 60, over 60 days if the press never gets a chance to ask her a serious questions because she hides from the media and that if everybody treats her as if she's a hollywood starlet as opposed to a serious candidate for the president of the united states. >> yerden poll numbers are going to rise. it would happen to anybody in modern politics but kamala harris has been hiding from the press. she's been hiding from scrutiny because if you look at her record and if you look at what she has supported throughout

her entire political life, it is radical, it is dangerous, it is not the recipe for success in the united states of america, tuesday night's debate might be the only opportunity for the american if people to see who the real kamala harris is, because she's been hiding from everybody as i said, my question is, is she going to provide some definition to her views? >> and my question about your guy is, can he exercise self-control? we'll watch tuesday night. thank you, congressman. appreciate you coming back thank you what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media. i'll continue to read some throughout the course of the program. the debate will have little to no effect on the polls. the candidates will continue their rhetoric pandering to their base, a waste of time since the majority of americans do not identified either party. these polls will prove to be inaccurate come november. so andrew, if that had been your tweet, right before the trump and biden debate, i would have said, well, he's right, but then came to trump and biden

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judgment day for donald trump in his criminal new york hush money cover up case has once again been delayed. >> judge juan merchan explained in a letter that his decision to push the sentencing until november 26 after election day is in part to avoid any appearance of affecting the outcome of the presidential race. joining me now, cnn senior your political commentator, former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod acts great to see you as always, i want to play what karl rove had to say about this yesterday he had gone forward with this. it would have ironically enough to serve the interest of donald trump. donald trump has risen in the polls. the more that people have reacted negatively to his treatment in the courtroom. and if the judge had gone ahead with this, it could have easily been the october surprise that has to say he would have potentially gone after donald trump in his verdict and the reaction of the american people might have been the holy negative on it. and help to advance the cause of donald trump in the election it sounds

like a strange question to ask, but politically speaking, would trump have been better served had he been sentenced? i guess my answer to you is if he thought he would have been better off with their fought so hard to push the sentence off i can only judge by what they did. and look, i think if you part of it depends on what the sentence would have been. if the sentence was probation or something that was viewed because relatively lenient. i'm not sure that it would have helped him but in any case, i don't think they want all of this center stage right now. and i think as a, as a sort of survival strategy, trump's hope is to push this all off until after the election when imposing any kind of set that and sign him we're going forward with any of the trials that are pending would be impossible david, here's a headline for you. kennedy wins two states michigan and north

carolina, meaning he's been successful in getting removed from the ballot of what significance, if if any look, i think that this is a very close race and nobody should make any mistake about this. this is going to go right down to the wire and these battleground states are going to go right down to the wire and anything that makes a marginal difference in the outcome is significant i think that kennedy once kamala harris became the candidate, i think much of his democratic support melted away. and what was left was sort of hardcore anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theory buffs, and so on, who are more likely if they vote to gravitate to donald trump than kamala harris. so kennedy's name on the ballot? on balanced probably helps harris more than trump because i think he'd take a few more trump voters

whether it will be determinative, i can't say tuesday night is a huge night. tell me what you're looking for in each i've already said on this program relative to trump, i want to see if he has any impulse control and relative to harris and i'm not alone. axios, in fact put the headline up on the screen. axios had a report yesterday talking about how thus far she has been able to dodge scrutiny and they listed nine issues, everything from decriminalizing border crossings to straws where she either doesn't have a position they recognize or has switched. how do you see tuesday well, look, i agree with your analysis with trump. everybody's strength is their weakness. he's an improv artist. sometimes, and i've seen him pop artists, but nonetheless, an improv artists. i don't think he's going to be any different on that stage than he has been the six other times that he's been on a debate stage. and remember, he is except perhaps a little less

discipline he has been on that stage. he will be this will be the seventh time michael. no. no one else in history has participated in more presidential debates, but trump has been off his game. i think since harris got in the race, he thought the race was one. he thought he had biden beaten. she came in the race and she has what he most fierce, someone who looks and sounds good on tv, big crowds. she's raising a lot of money. and he has been acting out since she got into the race and the question is, is that what he will do on the stage? and does she use that to her advantage and use his negative energy and in a jujitsu and says to the country, is this what you want now, in terms of harris, there's no doubt that she has been doing a lot of scripted event hence, since she got into the race and she hasn't done many media interactions other than the big interview with dana bash on this network and she's going to have to do

more, but this is the biggest test. this is the biggest event planned event that we know of for the rest of the race. and she is going to be scrutinized here and she's going to have to be prepared for that. i do think from this point forward, she's going to have to do more media as well, not for the benefit of journalists, but because the public wants to see you untethered from from scripts it's going to be a huge night. i know we say that about every election most important election of our lifetime, huge debate, biggest debate ever but this time we mean it yes we, do we, do. i think this, you know, i think as i said, this race is tight as a tick and there's a lot to kamala harris can pick up a lot of ground here if she continues to introduce herself to the american people and talk about the future and answer some of the questions that you raised. but i think it's most important for to focus on where she wants to lead the country.

i don't think a majority of americans want to vote for donald trump. they want to know if she's an acceptable alternative. this is the biggest opportunity she'll have to answer those questions and create the contrast that i think ultimately may work for her david. >> thank you. as always great to see you. >> michael. >> you to again, you've still got time to vote on today's poll question at smerconish.com, will the election end with a smooth and peaceful transition of power fingers? crossed, hoping that will be the case, check this out from rob rogers. one of our cartoonists that's were cottage.com, hey, by the way, by the way, every week, you see the work of editorial real cartoonists that i feature in my daily newsletter. steve breen, jack ohman, rob rogers, scott status. well, their work throughout the election of 2024 in crime i'm a logical order is going to be released in book form. a coffee table book. as soon as the election ends. copies of what we call smirk comics 2024 available for presale right now, only only at

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another four years to fix the election counting. they are doing nothing. you are making excuses for them already. are you blanking me? i'm making excuses. i just shined a spotlight on exactly. i that secretary of the commonwealth as a guest to say this hasn't been fixed, it ought to be fixed. it's not his problem by the way. it's the fault of the legislature. and i wanted to inform the nation that if the election doesn't end that night, if john king's not in front of the magic wall telling you who won, everybody, just chill because that's the reason why more social media reaction. what else do we have? i'm not defending it at all. it's a disgrace shitshow, guaranteed, said william mosley, i have nothing to add. i'll have what he's having one more reaction. what do we have? smerconish, why do you give this rabid trump sycophant airtime? byron donalds. he has no mind of his own and echoes the trump talking points. fat and stupid okay. i'm not even gonna go there because there was a

comment i could have made instead, i'll say, of course, i'm giving them a microphone. and of course i'm giving them a platform. we're in the midst of the closest race of any of our lives. and he's a member of congress and he's a spokesman for the trump campaign. and i want to hear what they have to say that doesn't mean i'm going to agree with everything that he said. by the way. you're not going to like this either. did you notice the agreement between congressman byron donalds and david axelrod who was senior strategist to president obama. both of them agreed that vice president kamala harris is going to have to come out and have something to say about the issues so that needs to be said. i mean, the idea, i guess this is what offended you the most about byron donalds the idea that we're this far into the campaign, and i know how she got there and there hasn't been a single substantive one-on-one interview as a political strategy, it might be brilliant because it seems to be working but as a voter isn't that borderline

offensive i mean, at what point does she come out to play? that's that's my view. so in that regard, i agree with byron donalds, where i disagree with him is when he offers his explanation as to the lack of impulse control of his candidate, donald trump. i mean, the guy just cannot stay and message to save his life, to save his political life go vote if you haven't already order a book, summer comics 2024 at my website, i'll see you next week. >> did you know sling has all the election coverage for the best price election coverage for the best price election coverage for the best price best price election coverage for $40 a month. >> sling lets you do the ergo smart base from tempur-pedic automatically response to snore. >> so no more hiding under your pillow because this system actually detect snoring than adjust tell producing, don't miss our biggest sale of the year with savings to $700 on

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