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Here's The Deal - May 19th, Hour 2
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All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941-SEAN.
If you want to be a part of the program, did you ever think in a year and a half this country could go down the tubes this way?
I just gave you the comprehensive list in the last hour.
I wish everybody could see, and I'll show you tonight the cover of the New York Post today, Joe's train wreck.
And it's Joe Biden in a little old choo-choo train, which, by the way, Linda's son, Liam, loves choo-choo trains.
Anyway, literally crashing down.
And it says, yeah, gas prices hit a brutal $6 a gallon.
The border crisis gets worse.
Ministry of Truth collapses.
Market dropped, what, 1164 yesterday.
It's been down a good part of today.
The baby formula disaster, the Afghanistan disaster, the energy price disaster.
I mean, it's just a disaster.
Um, and you know, the thing that strikes me the most is all of this was preventable and all of it is fixable.
It was preventable.
We wouldn't have chaos on the border if the Trump policies were maintained.
We wouldn't have, you know, record high prices ten days in a row now for a gallon of gasoline and predictions now that the average is going to be over six dollars a gallon uh if we kept the Trump energy policies.
We wouldn't be making deals with Venezuela and the murdering dictator thug there.
We wouldn't be begging OPEC, and we wouldn't be negotiating an insane deal with the Iranians to import oil from them and make them rich again.
On top of freeing up tens of uh billions of dollars and sanctioned money and even allowing Vladimir Putin to partner with the Iranians on a nuclear facility.
This is madness.
Um anyway, so Kellyanne Conway is with us.
She served as the senior counselor in President Trump's White House.
So you of course was the founder of a polling company.
Uh, but more importantly, the first woman ever to run and uh win a presidential campaign.
And anyway, she's out right now.
She's got a uh brand new book uh that we're really here, you know, very excited to talk about.
I've finally got a copy of it, and it's really amazing, and it's called Here's the Deal, a memoir, and it's in bookstores as of next week.
If you want a first edition copy, you can go to Hannity.com, Amazon.com, or bookstores everywhere as of Tuesday, but we're gonna get a quick first sneak peek.
Uh there's a special Sunday night on Kellyanne and and her incredible journey uh at 10 p.m.
Sunday night on the Fox News Channel.
Uh Kelly Ann, how are you?
Uh we've known each other what, 26, 7 years, eight years, something like that.
It's been a long time.
Sean, we've been conservatives, we've been conservatives that long.
And I think this is a very fraught but pregnant moment with possibility for our nation because of all the reasons you just laid out there.
And look, I think he had 1980 with Ronald Reagan, 1994 with New Gingrich and a contract with America in 2016 with Donald Trump and the forgotten man forgotten woman.
And I like to say Sean Forgotten Child because he is for school choice and the baby formula was never scarce.
He didn't have infants uh tied up, uh, hooked up to IV machines for basic nutrition when President Trump was in office.
So everywhere we look, we see that the the Trump revolution that gave us energy independence, economic freedom, low unemployment rate, all the way for teenagers, for veterans, for disabled Americans, for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women, you name it.
And I think a lot of the the COVID supplies that were surged, our cupboards were bare, and many of the many of the actions he took early on to try to meet this once in a century pandemic, even he doesn't take enough credit for when talking about all the things that were done.
But all that aside, Willie, look what's happening now.
Two things are really going on.
Number one, Donald Trump is still the leader of the party, was since before I took over the campaign.
By the way, how funny in Pennsylvania in that Republican primary, and they're still counting the votes.
Eighty-seven percent fully, the top three candidates all ran as Donald Trump make America Great Again.
Candidates, all of them.
Yes, we talked about this on your show on election night.
It's remarkable because that that actually is the case everywhere.
This is about the America First Agenda, what that stands for, protecting that legacy and meeting the moment of so many Americans, Sean, wanting vintage Trump 2015-2016 policies, meaning somebody who is talking about what they're going to do to make America great again, but really to put America first.
And look, this is this is America.
And as I state in my book, Sean in the afterward, this is America.
We are resilient, we are hopeful and optimistic.
We always think it will get better.
But right now, what Americans are actually saying, including those who didn't vote for the Donald Trump either time or the second time, they're saying, you know what?
It's not that it will get better, it's that it was better not that long ago, and I want that back.
And they're saying everything from gas prices to the grocery store supply chain crisis.
But this is the memoir because uh I lived truly the American dream, not unlike you.
I didn't go to Ivyque schools, I grew up fairly modestly, uh blue-collar.
I was raised by incredibly strong women, uh a single mom and my two unmarried aunts and grandmother in the household, South Jersey's version of the Golden Girls.
And I've known how manhandled jealous boys my whole life that came in in handy with the walk the walking.
Linda's cracking up in there too.
That was a great line.
I mean I want people to understand something though.
As somebody that has known you for all these years, now but there by the way, you you name names, there you it's no holds barred.
Uh there was always a lot of powerless intrigue going on in the White House.
But I I want to focus a little bit more on something else, and that's you, the person.
You became the first woman in American history to manage a winning presidential campaign that changed the American political landscape forever.
That is a huge, huge, you know, uh uh uh honor, I think that you earned working really hard over the years, all these years I've known you being involved in politics.
But it's even more than that.
It's how you have you have taken on the the shots, the barbs from the media mob.
Um, you know, how you've they've tr the mob has tried to drag you and your family through the mud.
I've watched this, and you you know occasionally I would shoot you uh a text saying hang in there, hang in there, because these people are just just jackasses, and and they don't care, they don't even care.
Kids are not even off limits for them.
And you've always done it, and you never did you you never lost your smile.
You always maintained your dignity and grace, and I give you so much credit for that because this is a rough, hard, rough and tumble, hard business, and there's nothing harder.
And I would argue politics is a the a blood sport, it's called the blood sport for a reason, and you've survived and thrived, unlike so many others.
Why?
Well, Sean, I appreciate that.
I'm a very blessed person.
The very last line in my book talks about how God gave me burdens that did not break me, but blessings beyond what I could have imagined or deserved.
And it's the latter part that I focus on.
Look, I was raised very modestly in a house of all women where we had very contemporary conversations, very adult conversations.
However, we never had a single political conversation that I can remember.
And I was raised to be a conservative without ever hearing the word.
We didn't have pictures of the uh Ronald Reagan and John Kenning in the law.
We had the Last Supper and whatever I had drawn in kindergarten that day.
But I think I was raised because they were small business owners, faith, family, country.
We had veterans in the family, we had men who woke up every morning with their high school degrees and skill set and went out and supported their families from the day they graduated high school to the day they retired or died through the trades.
They're carpenters, mechanics, iron workers.
Um nobody in my family had ever gone to college, let alone Ivy League school.
So I am the American dream in so many ways, but I learned to hold Your head high and not not air your dirty laundry out in the public.
And when it comes to the media, I hope people have a moment of reflection and introspection.
I don't think they will on a couple of things.
I write in the book, I have a whole chapter called Alternative Hacks, and it talks about how alternative facts lasted two and a half seconds.
It was immediately corrected.
It was never meant to be this thing, they all made it.
But Russia collusion lasted for two and a half years.
Actually, three years, but and a lot came out today in the in the suspension trial.
That's right.
So we're still living that.
And I also, you know, you ask me how I hold my head up.
Hi.
I tell my own children.
I'm going to tell anybody who ever listens.
I I lecture often, give speeches often to young audiences, and I tell them the same thing.
Nobody, Sean, can make you feel badly without your permission.
And so far I haven't granted it to a single person.
Plus, if you've seen these people, they don't know what I really think of them.
Um, these are these are troubled thin skinned people living in glass houses many times.
And that poison keyboard is becoming very dangerous.
Don't worry about me.
I'm a 55 year old, 55 year old woman, comfortable in her skin, who's got resources and and a smile on her face, joy on the job, four amazing healthy kids, a wonderful family, a great network of friends.
They love me.
Um many of them love Donald Trump and love me.
Many of them don't like Donald Trump and love me.
It doesn't matter because that's true friendship.
But I'll tell you this worry about a lot of our teens and tweens and adolescents because they are in their beds at night under the covers reading bad stuff about themselves.
They are there's fear of missing out, but there's also people.
It's the all of these social media sites can be so cancerous.
I don't even have access to any of my social media accounts.
And that's the God's honest truth.
I don't have passwords.
It's just corrosive.
Anyway, so I wrote this, and you you're talking about being the first woman.
It was a historic moment, it was incredible, but we have to finish the sentence there, comma, and it's Donald J. Trump who put me there.
It wasn't it Romney or John McCain or anyone else.
He was different, and he took a chance on somebody that was different.
The walking reco violation that is the Republican male consultancy of decades in Washington and elsewhere, uh, they never freely gave me a seat at the table.
They rolled their eyes, they made snarky comments, and sometimes worse.
But I can't but they did me a favor, Sean.
You know why?
They would keep me out of politics um here and there, and it forced me to go get corporate clients, nonprofit clients.
So I literally have the gift of my professional life was I've been in all 50 states sitting with Americans.
I gosh, the polling company was a massive company before you did this.
Yeah, and so and Donald Trump that was the that was the right moment because Americans for decades had been saying, I want somebody who run for president who has a ton of experience but not in politics, and you're scratching your side, well, who can that be?
And he came pre-verified as a job creator, successful businessman, and he made promises to do things differently.
And he's also a political outsider.
Most people feel like they are political outsiders.
So whether he runs in 2024 or not, I suspect he will.
Um, and I uh obviously in very close touch with him.
He is somebody who would would want to capture that life ice again.
People are looking for things to be done differently.
They took a chance on Barack Obama, then they took a chance on Donald Trump, and then they reverted to forms with Joe Biden.
And the only the only good reason you would have for putting somebody uh 50 years, the Loch Nash Monster of the Swamp for sure, 50 years in Washington.
The only reason you would want to do that, Sean, is because he can work across the aisle and unify the country, and wrong, or he's got great relationships and respect for our country and for himself as a commander-in-chief around the world.
Strike two.
He goes to Europe and just embarrasses us, as does his vice president.
So people they want back what they had.
And I gotta tell you, in 2016, we were underfunded, understaffed, under-resourced, underestimated, underdog.
I think the 2020 campaign was more sophisticated, but it was less strategic.
You know, Trump is a man of swagger, hunger.
He was out there with the people rally after rally, he made it happen.
And I think the 1.4 billion dollars in 2020 was deceptive.
That plus the global pandemic, because I think that in many ways, the fastest way to make a small fortune is to have a very large one and waste most of it.
And that's a cautionary tale for the future, because um you've got to deal with you've got to understand what the people want.
You look at what's going on with Biden, the Democrats.
They're trying to tell people don't believe what you see, believe what we say.
And you have to listen to people.
That's been the gift of my professional life.
What is it they're hungering for, they're looking for?
And you see a realignment right now.
All right, more with Kellyanne uh Conway on the other side or book out Tuesday, but you can get a first edition copy.
It's called Here's the Deal of Memoir.
It's uh out Tuesday, but it's on Amazon.com and in Hannity.com right now.
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We continue with Kellyanne Conway, who's joining us.
Her new book is out on Tuesday.
You can get a first edition, first print edition copy at Amazon.com Hannity.com.
It's called Here's the Deal, a memoir.
It's out Tuesday in bookstores everywhere.
I I would never bring this up except I did ask your permission because I never do this to anybody.
Because I think kids should be off limits and I think family should be off limits.
So much of your private life was brought into the public which I felt was so nasty and so vicious and so unfair.
And I wrote you about it not once but a number of times you talk about that.
What do you want to say now?
We only have about two minutes left.
Thank you, Sean.
Thanks for raising it.
I certainly do.
First of all, there's this unspoken contract among all of us that we treat each other's kids like they're kids.
In this country we're treating kids like they're adults and adults like their kids way too often and of course my family's off limit you know I've never been in Instagram mom posting pictures of look how much fun we're having at the zoo.
Now we're eating ice cream.
I just I've never had an Instagram account like I don't have to be I don't do that either.
And so it was very shocking and jarring to me that people thought it was relevant and you have adult reporters and I do name names.
I try to leave a lot of the media out because it just elevates them in my book but some people had to have their names named this Taylor Lorenz character from the New York Times now the Washington Post who direct messaged a 15 year old girl she's 35.
Would we all feel better everybody if she were a man?
No, you'd be disgusted.
So why is she direct messaging a teenage girl whose parents are easy to find and and people should not have been doing that.
First of all my kids are amazing.
They're still off limits.
They are they're just they're incredible.
We have excellent relationships they are they're healthy they're thriving and they're kids.
And here's what I want to say we cannot in this country this is the last point of it we cannot in this country decide whose kids have more value whose sexual assault matter matters more whose marriage is on lives on limits or off limits who's more of a of a human being based on her politics or her day job.
That has to stop and it usually comes from people calling themselves feminist and we need to unify and can't we all get along start with yourself.
Look in the mirror people I know there's going to be a lot of angry people when they read this book but that's that's between you and them but more importantly appreciate you taking time it's called Here's the Deal a memoir.
It's out next Tuesday but you can get a first print edition at Amazon.com and Hannity.com and next Tuesday bookstores everywhere.
Kellyanne thank you so much for being with us.
Thank you Sean.
All the best God bless driving the liberals nuts.
Sean Hannity is back on the radio right now.
I have voted voted overwhelmingly for Democrats historically overwhelming.
Like I I'm not sure I I might never have voted for a Republican just to be clear.
Right.
No this election I would 25 now till the top of the hour toll free on numbers 8009 four one Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
Uh joining us for an update on the gubernatorial primary that is going to take place Tuesday in the great state of Georgia is David Purdue, who's taking on the incumbent Brian Kemp.
Uh uh Senator, welcome back to the program.
Thanks for being with us.
Um, thanks for having me again, man.
Why do you think the polls have Kemp at such a big lead?
I never saw him as that popular.
Um and I'm just giving a general observation.
Well, I've said all along, and I know you have a lot of respect for Matt Tyree as I do, and he and I are looking at the same thing.
He sees the same thing I do, I need I believe now, and that is that to date, uh almost uh a little over 350,000 people have voted early, Sean, in the first two and a half weeks.
Half of those people who are voting early in Georgia did not vote in 18.
And those people were disqualified when the pollsters are qualifying and looking for Republican primary voters.
They have to have voted in three of the last primaries, and these people didn't do that.
They didn't vote in 18.
Now they're voting in space.
It's uh it's a really a very pleasant surprise out here in Georgia right now.
So explain who you think these new voters are, because that is that is an anomaly that you don't see very often.
You really don't.
I don't think we've ever seen it here in Georgia.
Uh my supposition is that these are people that are really mad about something in the government.
It's not just the election, it's Rivian, it's Buckhead City, it's what the woke mob is doing in our schools.
It's the fact that they don't feel safe, not just in Atlanta.
We're short.
Twelve hundred police officers, Sean, in in the five major cities.
Atlanta alone, where we have the highest murder rate in the country, we are short four hundred and thirty police officers.
People are really upset about all this, and I think they're coming out in droves to vote against the current administration.
You know, I I would think, especially in this this primary, it's always take it's hard to take on an incumbent, um, but you have incredible name recognition.
What is your closing message?
Because now we're we're now we're gonna this this race will come down to day of voting, which is next Tuesday.
What is your final message to the people of Georgia?
Well, Sean, thank you so much.
Look, this is a race that's bigger than Georgia, and it's about who's going to be president in 24 and whether we get the Senate majority back this year.
This governor's race will be a vote uh that is of national importance, just like my Senate race was a year and a half ago.
My closing message is this if they want Stacey Abrams to be governor of Georgia, don't vote.
If they want to save our state and therefore stop the woke mob and the radical left in Washington, we have to get out and vote right now for me in this election in the primary.
Well, we're gonna watch this very closely.
It's uh gonna be on Tuesday night in Georgia.
I guess early voting stops as stopped at this point, right?
Well, it stops tomorrow.
We still have the rest of the day and all day tomorrow to vote early.
I'm telling everybody to get out and vote early, but make sure on Tuesday, get out and vote.
All right, David Purdue, we're watching this very closely.
It's on our list of uh races that we're gonna watch.
Uh 800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
Eric is in Florida.
Eric, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Thanks for checking in, sir.
Thank you, Sean, for taking my call.
Um, I've got a lot to say.
I want to tell your listeners why I support Dr. Oz.
Um first off, uh, we tend to forget that Dr. Oz saved thousands of lives during his career as a surgeon.
For perspective, let's just put ourselves in his shoes for a second.
Just imagine uh we're in the operating room at 7 a.m. holding the scalpel, and it's our job to go in and fix that child's broken heart.
Now I ask you, can any other candidate in this Senate race say that they did something so noble, so courageous, and so selfless before running for public office?
I'm I think McCormick serma service to be blunt is is admirable and inspirational.
Um I think Kathy Barnett's life, as much as she hates me.
I just, you know, unfortunately, she's the one that said this crazy stuff and and well won't even own up to it, but um I I find her life story inspiring.
I mean, everybody in that race had some good qu had good qualities that I looked at very closely.
Um Jeff Bartos, what a great guy.
He's a wonderful person.
There were good people there, but you have to pick the person that's most conservative that can win, and that's where my vetting took me.
I had a local talk show hosting, how dare Hannity involve himself in Pennsylvania.
Excuse me, whoever you are, I don't know what your name is.
Uh, but it was relayed back to me today.
My answer to you is the balance of the United States Senate.
It is hanging by a thread.
We must win this state in the general election.
That's why I got involved as guy as a very proud American citizen.
Go ahead.
All right.
And I also want to mention that Dr. Oz is an excellent communicator.
He will bring a unique understanding of our health care system to Washington to help fix a system that's a wash and red take.
We need senators who understand health care and can make improvements.
The last thing I would add to that is when you're on TV for 15 years and have such a successful show as he's had, people know your hearts.
So we we have in TV what's known as Q scores.
And it probably wouldn't surprise you, is my name recognition is high, and I'm I'm pretty much a 50-50 person.
If you don't like my politics, you're not gonna like me.
If you like my politics, you tend to like me.
It's really that basic and fundamental.
Dr. Oz was liked his Q score was way, way through the roof as his favorable versus unfavorable.
Now, he had forty five million dollars dumped on his head in this campaign.
I didn't recognize him by the end of it, to be honest.
And I think that uh that's all part of the process.
But but Pete, there is a a there's an unshakable bond that he's built with people, and no ad campaign is gonna break it for those people.
Um I I just don't know I I think it fits much better in the general election than it would in a Republican primary.
So um I'm I'm enthusiastic about the prospects of him winning that race uh and and becoming the next senator from Pennsylvania.
I hope so.
I think he should be honored and elected.
And by the way, I will hold him accountable.
I will make sure if he everything I I vetted him in great specificity and detail.
And if he deviates, uh, I'll be the his loudest critic.
I promise you.
Of course.
That makes sense.
It makes sense.
All right, my friend, God bless you.
Thank you.
Uh let's stay in Pennsylvania with Linda.
Linda, you're on the Sean Hannity show, although last call was from Florida.
What's up, Linda?
How are you?
Um great, great Sean.
I'm a huge fan of yours, listened for years.
Was in very important that you um endorsed us.
And but I looked at Kathy and I was a little bit torn until um the other day when she said, and if I don't win, I won't support our candidates.
We cannot do this.
This is like giving them the race.
We can't do that.
She's not going to support it.
What if what if the what if it was reversed?
What if she won and they all said, nope, we're not going to support you.
We're handing it to the Democrats to like a Stacy Abram.
I I'm just so concerned about this.
Well, you have every you have every right to be concerned.
Um of all the candidates in Pennsylvania, based on her incendiary comments, and it's not just one, it's not a one-off, it's not a two-off, it's not uh, you know, when she was 28 years old or 35 years old.
I mean, it's it's fairly it's recent.
And it was r repeatedly said on her Twitter line.
And when asked about it, was your Twitter account hacked?
She never said it was hacked.
Uh that just doesn't sound like me.
Um it was these were very lame answers to very important questions, uh, because then it goes to the viability of a general election, about whether or not she can win the general election.
I have nothing against her.
You know, if I were to offer her advice that she would never take from me, it would be uh to take a good long, hard look at the things she said and the things that she wrote and own it and either stand by it, if that's what she believes, or or maybe have a change of heart and say, you know what, I think back, I I shouldn't have said this, this, this, and this.
But that's up to her.
I mean, I'm not the I'm not the thought police here, but I I needed to point out because it's my job to tell my audience the truth.
And I the truth after I saw all of this and examined all of it was that I came to the conclusion that unless it was the biggest wave election in the history of the country, I did not think her chances of winning a general election were high if at all.
I thought it would be next to impossible against a very weak and a very extreme leftist candidate.
So I don't know what she's going to do about the fact that she's not going to win.
And I'm gonna win.
And then what is she gonna do?
Drag half of the the the uh listen, it's the this race is gonna in the end, we've done all the math, all the extrapolating you can possibly do.
Uh and what we've come up with is he'll Oz will win between 400 and uh by a thousand votes.
That's what it's gonna end up at.
Well, that being it was a very hard fought race.
Uh I don't like it when Republicans are, you know, go nuclear like what happened here, but I understand it.
It's a blood sport.
I've I've I've watched this my whole career, and uh as long as they can coalesce around the winner, um, whether she decides to join or not, that'll be up to her.
Um I think this is a a seat that we've gotta save if we have any chance of taking control of the Senate, which is very important for the country.
Well, God bless your work, Sean.
God bless you.
Yeah, I mean, I have nothing against her.
Um, but it's you know, she's blaming me.
I I didn't I didn't take I I didn't hack her Twitter account and say all these crazy things.
She did.
And we took nothing out of context.
We told no lies.
There was no editing.
There was nothing.
We just put it up there.
And when people found out, remember it was a late, late surge, and nobody had done any vetting on her because they didn't think she had a chot at that point.
So thank you, by the way, for the call, Linda.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
Peter, Florida.
Peter, how are you?
Doing well, Sean.
Um Yeah, we I I was wondering, uh I wanted to get your opinion in regard to term limits.
Now, as I understand it, uh when you know the House of Representatives and the Senate were established first in Congress, um, there was no idea that they would become lifelong employees, so to speak, who would um serve themselves so much.
Now I understand it's uh double-edged sword as far as experience versus you know, fat cats, basically what they've become.
Um what do you think would be appropriate term limits and how many election cycles you think it would be until we would have responsible for the city?
It's interesting.
I I have even vacillated on this issue in my own mind.
I've I've said about term limits, it's a bad idea, but it was time may have come.
And I would rather a free people be more engaged and more involved.
But when you look at the reality of everyday life for the people that make this country great, the men and women that get up every day and they shovel, you know, a cup of coffee down their throat, and they're half exhausted, and they make their kids lunch and they feed them breakfast, and they shovel them off to the school bus or drive them to school, whatever they might be doing.
Uh they go put in their 12, 14 hours a day themselves.
They come home, they eat dinner, do homework, pass out, you know, wash, wit, rinse, repeat, and do it again.
They pay their taxes, obey the laws, and they contribute mightily to society.
Um it's I I I can see a reality where they're not living in my world, and my job, which is to provide news and information and a service because they don't have the time to do it themselves, and news you're not gonna get anywhere else.
But the reality is is that people are so over taxed and so overstressed and so busy, you know, taking the kids to practice, taking them the you know, piano lessons, uh taking them to tutors, whatever you're doing.
I mean, it's um I'm just glad I'm past those years, to be very honest.
I'm saying this, Linda's looking at me like, yeah, thanks a lot.
Um I'm kind of glad I'm past those years because they're hard.
Um and I I I felt as a father that you know, with my background and when I started it to get a little bit successful, I just could not stop myself.
And and in some ways I have some regrets about it.
I think uh at times I was gone too much, and I regret it.
And I've told my kids I've apologized to them for it.
And And they just shrug it off.
They're like, Dad, you're a great dad.
You know, they're obviously being very nice to me, but um, you know, I did a lot of traveling.
I did a lot of book writing.
I did it four hours a day, and it takes a lot of prep.
And being the parents of the most important job you have.
The good news is I spend more time with them now than I ever have.
But I will just say, so I just don't think realistically people will ever have the time to fully vet their candidates.
So that's why it may be the bad idea that's time has come.
I hope that does that answer your question.
Well, I I understand that basically they are our representatives are subject to um to term limits every two and six years.
But if we had a maximum, say it was 14, 16, 18 years, maybe something like that, it would give a chance to bring some younger blood into the mix.
And um it would it would be a good idea.
I also I'd like you're right on that last point, and then I got a roll, but I also like the idea that that people don't go to Washington and immediately start running for reelection.
And that's what so many of them do.
And then they get addicted to being called congressman and senator and whatever, guberna, governor, lieutenant governor.
You know what?
It's it's I hear where you're coming from.
Anyway, good call, Peter, appreciate it.
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