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Steve Bannon: Trump's tariff threats are working at the border - YouTube
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former White House chief strategist
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Steve Bannon he is also joining us this
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morning from the border state of Arizona
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Steve it's great to have you this
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morning thanks so much for joining us
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Maria thanks for having me on you've
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been doing a lot at that border first
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off give us your take on where we are in
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this crisis we have seen a real
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improvement in the last two months given
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the president's partnership with Mexico
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how do you see it from on the ground
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well listen it's a crisis but President
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Trump I think his actions are starting
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to have a huge impact you know he's got
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to deal with Guatemala the safe harbor
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the safe nation deal which is - let's
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sort the problem out of the asylum
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seekers down there in the northern
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triangle he's also worked with Mexico on
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the migrant protection program now that
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they go back to Mexico to wait in
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addition he this threat of the tariffs
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really got and I can tell you because
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I've been on the down on the southern
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border for about the last three or four
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weeks he's got the Mexican Marines in
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the you know Mexican military up on the
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northern border to stop the cartels this
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is all about the cartels the cartels
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control the border on the Mexican side
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what President Trump is doing he's
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trying to break the back of the cartels
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and now like your previous guest said
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from a couple of weeks ago or from last
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week getting that defense money that 2.8
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billion President Trump and the Army
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Corps of Engineers are trying to build
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long swaths of new wall and replace old
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wall on the southern border so I think
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things are heading in a positive
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direction but that's because President
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Trump having fought everybody from from
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Congress to the media to the progressive
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left is now and the cartels is really
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starting to see I think we're starting
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to see some real traction yeah you make
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a good point about the drug lords when
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we took the show to the border a couple
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of months ago I was stunned at what I
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witnessed in terms of children being put
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in these dangerous situations and what I
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was told by the Border Patrol people
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they were kids crossing and that this
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this picture here is an 8 year old and a
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10 year old they lost their mother and
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we were just shocked at what was going
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on in terms of these kids being put into
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these positions because some of them are
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with people who are not their family and
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they were rented to these people so that
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they can look like families because the
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because the the the loopholes allow them
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in but but the issue is is that once you
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get close
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the border the drug alarms want to shake
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you down and say okay you can't go these
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extra five steps until you give us money
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so really is a very dangerous situation
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with those drug lords looked at these
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cartels are very sophisticated
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paramilitary operations they understand
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that the human trafficking part of this
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Maria is a higher margin business and
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even the drug trafficking and that's
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what's been allowed to happen President
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Trump is trying to stop there remember
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the whole purpose of the wall is to get
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people to go through the ports of entry
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where the rule of law takes place and
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you can sort all this situation out
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that's why the southern walls so
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important it's not a total solution but
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it's the beginning of a solution but
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you're seeing right now and I think
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Mexico Ramallah others understand the
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threat that these cartels pose to the
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citizens of northern Mexico to the
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citizens of Guatemala and the citizens
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of the border towns United States
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President Trump had things taking pretty
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dramatic action you have been trying to
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work with private property owners to
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build wall where you can away from the
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government's efforts right tell us what
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you're doing Steve
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well the Army Corps of Engineers
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remember president Trump's going to
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build I think like 1,200 miles of ball
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there are certain sectors were private
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the property owners have that the Army
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Corps of Engineers have either deemed is
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too difficult or just bypass it we built
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our file of wall actually down in El
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Paso sector in the most dangerous part
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which the Border Patrol told us the most
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dangerous part on Mount Cristo Rey
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really going up the side of a mountain
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we have stopped the incursions 100%
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since we built the wall I'm down here in
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Arizona this this private group is we
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build the wall that the the triple
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amputee hero Brian Cole faj the Air
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Force veteran has found it we've raised
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about 25 million dollars I'm down here
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in Arizona we're in the Rio Grande
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Valley we've had about 30 different
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private landowner to approach us now
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they've seen our wall in in New Mexico
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in Sunland Park to actually help them
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these are areas where the Corps of
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Engineers has determined these are
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niches we're a niche player President
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Trump in the Army Corps building long
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runs of wall on the southern border
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right now this of course is a campaign
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promise that the president is keeping I
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want to ask you about the state of play
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for 2020 going into this incredible
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election that we have up until just two
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about a month ago a lot of the president
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skeptics or you know the Democratic home
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Falls have been calling it a
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manufactured crisis you've seen the dent
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the Democratic contenders who do you
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think is most poised to be a real threat
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to President Trump I gotta tell you
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right now and I said this last week of
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Maria I don't see anybody it's on that
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stage right now they can take president
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Trump one-on-one you know I pride myself
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he's calling his his star pupil his top
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pupil I've been studying this pretty
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thoroughly don't you see the state of
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play and I don't care what the polls say
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on Biden Joe Biden is not gonna be able
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stand up to Donald Trump he's weak on
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China he's in business with China you've
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seen this soft focus in the last couple
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of days if the Democratic Party thinks
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that Joe Biden's gonna be able go
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mano-a-mano with Donald Trump in a
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general election campaign they've got
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another thing coming he will run the
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tables on Biden now the second tier
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candidates are the other camps like
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Kamala Harris Elizabeth Warren I just
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haven't seen it yet I haven't seen it on
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that stage and I certainly haven't seen
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in an aisle well I think they're taking
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a very unsophisticated approach to China
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I just haven't seen it I don't believe
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and I say this I'm not so sure that his
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opponent has even declared yet I think
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you got to watch guys like Bloomberg
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Hillary Clinton Michelle Obama a whole
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raft of potential that I think I look
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very closely and see if anybody because
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the Democrats number one focus is to
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defeat Donald Trump so I don't know I'm
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so sure that you've even seen the
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candidate up there right now certainly
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nobody on that stage I think takes on
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Trump one-on-one so you think Michelle
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Obama Hillary Clinton or Michael
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Bloomberg can still come into this race
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I think there's I think there's gonna be
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ample opportunity to come into this race
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later in november/december even when the
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primary start may be a candidate can't
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win the primary season but they can take
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it into the convention look the
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Democrats are going to be very focused
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on one thing this is why Tom Steyer
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jumped in so late last week our two
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weeks ago the Democrats are focused on
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defeating Donald Trump they realize
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unlike something Republican
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establishment
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he's a historic figure and a
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transformative president they wanted
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just like an 18 they are totally focused
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like they focus on the House of
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Representatives they are focused on
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defeating Trump that's where they want
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to go and I got a tip on in the primary
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season I think there's a number of
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potential Democratic candidates still
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out there that could
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in this race
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