EP 1038 -Voting Day Dilemma – Should We Get the Day Off to Vote?

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Rated R Safety Show on Safety FM.

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Countdown to audio torture.

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The rated R Safety Show starts in 3, 2, 1.

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Let the eardrum pain begin.

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Forget the corporate bullshit.

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This is the Rated R Safety Show with your host, Dr.

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It doesn't matter who the host is.

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Oh, you so know it and I know it too.

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It does not matter who the host is.

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What has always mattered is who the listeners are.

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Anyways, today's Thursday, October the 24th of the year 2024, day 298th of the year and only 68 days left to go.

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Anyways, we are broadcasting from the Safety FM studios in Orlando, Florida and coming across the multiverse known as Safety FM.

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And then we are hanging out with our friends and colleagues over there.

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Yeah, I'm hanging out with our friends at Radio Big.

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No doubt about that as we're doing some thingos this morning.

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No doubt.

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Anyways, thank you for coming out and hanging out with us this morning because, you know, it's always an important part.

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It's kind of weird if I'm here by myself.

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I'll just put it to you that way.

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So we are hanging.

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We are banging.

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We are doing our thing today.

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So no doubt on what is going on.

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If you want to interact with the show, call in radio.com.

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We'll get everything moving and grooving for you.

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So that's call in radio to get everything going for you outside of that.

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Well, once you get there, it'll be video, audio and text messaging are the options.

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If you put anything inside of the social media platforms, I normally don't check them till later, which normally becomes a problem for most people.

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So that's why I always say, yeah, just go, just go to call in radio, call in radio.com.

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We'll get everything for you.

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It's the easiest format in doing so.

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So there you go.

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If you're new here, so safety in the news, news and safety.

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That's kind of what we do.

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That's what we talk about.

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That's what we move.

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That's what we groove through as we kind of go through, you know, a whole plethora of new stories that are out and about and people wanting to know what exactly is going on.

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So don't worry about any of that stuff.

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We'll take care of you throughout because that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

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So that's what we'll do there.

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So why don't we do this as we're getting started and moving and grooving?

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Why don't we start talking right away about what the hell was trending in the overnight?

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Here is what was trending.

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Rated R safety show.

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Okay.

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A sales slumps hit Starbucks and a new threat hit a new true.

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Well, hold on a new threat heads to the front lines of the war in the Ukraine.

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We're going to talk about that because that's going to get interesting for some.

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Also, another Diddy accuser comes forward and JT needs to rest.

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We'll talk about more about that in show business.

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Also, Nicole Kidman didn't hold back while filming her upcoming erotic thriller.

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So there you go.

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And Jason Segal's mom is ready to see so much of her son on the big screen.

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And what else we got a new take on the Sussex recent real estate purchase.

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We'll talk about that as we get into the details of some of the stuff that's going on.

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So I got news.

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I got stuff that's going on inside of the world.

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No doubt as I am talking, but I have some hold on.

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Hey now I have some things that I want to discuss with you that I was watching news story wise.

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And I just don't know when was going to be a good time to do this.

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So let's do this.

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Why don't we just get into our main news stories?

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I'll come back and we'll talk a little bit more on the back end on some of the stuff that's going on inside of the world of the multiverse.

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Because I got some some interesting stuff.

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And yeah, we're going to take that dive into politics today, you know, because we're getting so close now.

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So let's talk about the news.

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Here is the news on the Rosy Hour Safety Show.

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From Feature Story News in London, I'm Oli Barrett.

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Commonwealth leaders look set to agree to look into reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade despite UK opposition.

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The UK insists the issue is not on the agenda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa later this week.

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But diplomats are working on a summit communique, which would include language on reparatory justice from countries such as Britain.

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The sale of disposable vapes in England will be banned from next June.

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The government says it's to reduce environmental damage and protect the health of children.

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One new study found around a million people in England vape without ever having smoked cigarettes.

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Critics claim vapings help millions of adults give up smoking and say a ban will lead to a black market, which will put children at risk.

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Hazel Cheeseman, the chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, says the ban is important despite uncertainties.

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We don't particularly want to see people establishing an addiction that they could have for many years and potentially the use of vapes over many years could be risky to health,

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although some of these things are yet to be fully quantified through the research.

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North Korean troops are now in Russia. The United States has confirmed.

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Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters there is evidence of soldiers in the region.

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Ukraine's military intelligence earlier said troops were expected in Russia to join Moscow's fight against Ukraine's incursion.

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From New York, Sally Patterson.

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There may now be evidence of North Korean troops inside Russia, but what exactly they're doing in the region hasn't been confirmed.

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Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says it would be a serious issue if North Korea's intention is to participate in this war on Russia's behalf.

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There's growing international concern over what could be a dramatic new step in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Now, South Korean officials said on Wednesday that North Korea had sent 3,000 troops to Russia out of a promised 10,000 to be deployed by December.

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Microsoft says Iranian hackers have conducted surveillance on US election-related websites and media outlets.

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The software companies warned it could be a prelude to direct influence operations with just under two weeks until the presidential election.

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Ira Spitzer reports.

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In a blog post, Microsoft implicated an Iranian hacking group known as Cotton Sandstorm with scanning election-related websites in the US looking for vulnerabilities

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and warned the group could launch new influence operations imminently.

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The same hacking group, which is linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, has been accused of sending emails to US voters in 2020,

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posing as members of the pro-Trump group the Proud Boys.

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Microsoft also accused Chinese and Russian hackers with other activities related to the US elections.

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A spokesperson for Iran's Mission to the UN called the latest allegations unfounded and wholly inadmissible.

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From bureaus worldwide, this is FSN.

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With FSN Spotlight, I'm Simon Marks, looking today in more detail at the BRICS Summit, hosted in Kazan by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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It brought together the leaders of Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Russia, plus, controversially, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,

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his presence infuriating the Ukrainians.

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But what to make of the influence of BRICS on the world stage?

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David Lubin is a senior research fellow at Chatham House in London.

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I mean, the BRICS as an organisation and many, many countries in the developing world and in the global south

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are much more sympathetic with Moscow's position than many countries in the G7 would like them to be.

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But in a way, BRICS is operating within a slightly different universe away from the war in Ukraine.

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The only issue on which all of the BRICS members can really agree is about their common desire to reduce the importance of the dollar in the international monetary system.

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And so it's not really understanding BRICS is best not sort of understood in the context of geopolitical armed conflict.

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It's better understood in the context of a sort of more narrow desire to kind of move beyond what's called dollar dominance.

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And those governments attending the BRICS summit in Russia this year represent 45 percent of the world's population.

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With FSN Spotlight, I'm Simon Marks.

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To recap the top stories, Commonwealth leaders are set to agree to look into reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, despite UK opposition.

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The sale of disposable vapes in England will be banned from next June.

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North Korean troops are now in Russia, according to the United States, and Microsoft says Iranian hackers have conducted surveillance on US election related websites and media outlets.

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That's the latest feature story news.

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Oli Barrett reporting.

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OK, so you got to love when something just jumps entirely out midpoint because there was nothing else going on there.

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I mean, it is said I am not going to go through with whatever audio content you are trying to play because I'm going to do my own thing.

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That's I mean, that's what our system just told you.

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Anyway, sorry about that.

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So but now we're here.

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So that's I guess that's the important part as we are hanging.

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So let's do this. Let's talk right away about what the hell is going on inside of the world of the multiverse, because why would we not do that?

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I mean, come on.

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As you are aware, there it's election season out there in case you have not heard.

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So yesterday I was able finally to do some early voting.

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I mean, and I love it when you get to, you know, to some of these stands.

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There was a person there that had a Republican cheat sheet.

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There was a person there that had a Democratic cheat sheet.

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There were some people that were there that were like, are you sure that you know who you're going to vote for at the last moment?

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And I was like, how's this the last moment was 12 days?

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You know, I was 13 days ahead, but whatever.

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So it's interesting, you know, everything that's set up in regards to that.

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But let's talk real quick.

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There's 12 days until election day.

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And here's what the state of the race is.

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Journalist Mark Hoppin coyly said there's a story about Donald Trump being shopped around if true would end his campaign and that he's not only reported or the reporter or outlet to have been presented with the information.

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No word on what that could be more about campaign ending than being accused of a rape and treason.

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But that's how things go.

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So the year of our Lord 2024, I'll be later clarified that he does not believe that the claims that were made or pitch earlier was was warranted.

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All right. It was even used as minstrel information for closing days of the race.

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So who knows?

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Also, Kamala Harris made a brief comment from her official residence Wednesday afternoon addressing reporting the Atlantic about statements that Trump made during his first term.

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I get alleging that he found that he's fond of Adolf Hitler.

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Depending on who you ask, these allegations were either discredited by witnesses at the time of proof positive of that the Republican nominee is very, very bad.

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Man, Harris will give a speech on Tuesday at the National Mall at the Washington Post, characterized as her closing arguments a week before election day.

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The Trump campaign has filed a federal election commission complaint against his opponent, accusing the Harris campaign of accepting foreign help after Britain Labor Party announced that it's deploying to the battleground states to campaign for her.

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The Department of Justice sent a letter to Elon Musk America PAC that his one million dollar a day lottery could violate federal election and law bearing payments for votes or voter registration.

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So there you go.

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I had to tell you that Elon Musk thing is pretty interesting because I've been I've been listening to all kinds of different news stories and one was saying, and you know I we always have to look more and more into some of this stuff was saying that if you could be in trouble for handing out the money, you could be in trouble for taking the money because on how the how it's all set up and I was just like I'm very confused on how you how a big company like X would get that through anywhere.

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And nobody know exactly what's supposed to be going on. It's kind of a it's kind of a weird one. If you really give a lot of thought process behind the whole thing, but that's just me talking. I mean, what the hell do I know you know what I'm saying.

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So there you go. Anyways, listen to this. I matter fact, should I say listen to this or should I go let's go into this. Maybe I should say let's go into this real quick, because I think that this new story is going to be long.

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And I'm going to share it and understand that I pull source from anywhere that I can not so much of you know what the hell is going on inside of the world. So I am going to give you source material that I pulled in regards of how the election could play out.

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It's going to talk about what Harris will need to do to win. It will talk about what Trump will need to do to win. And then it will give you some information that you're going to be like, I was not aware of this.

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And I'm going to tell you this is why I'm sharing the news story because I was not aware of this as well. So I find that some of these things are extremely interesting.

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So let's do it in this fashion. We're going to publish this over here and let's take a listen to our good old friends at NBC and what they have to say.

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Take a look. Let me show you the map from 2020. North Carolina was the only battleground states of the seven we're watching that he was able to hold right here coming back to the 2024 map.

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Now the Harris campaign is zeroing in on what they see as their most direct path. The blue wall. These three Rust Belt states Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

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They voted together for Democrats in seven of the last eight presidential elections and they carry Joe Biden to the White House in 2020.

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But tonight NBC News has new reporting that some Harris campaign officials look at this are worried there could be a crack in the blue wall this year.

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The Harris team is bracing for either Michigan or Wisconsin to be flipped by Trump. If that happens, that would make her road to the White House more difficult.

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So I so it's going to say that it's going to be more difficult, but he's going to show the path if she's able to win and then he's going to do the same thing for Trump to hold on real quick.

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But not impossible. Tonight we're going to walk you through the paths to the White House and there are several, but we're going to walk you through the main paths for both candidates to talk about what could happen on election night.

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So let's talk about Vice President Harris, right? First off, her easiest path is if she can maintain that blue wall that Joe Biden rebuilt in 2020.

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So she holds Pennsylvania. She holds Michigan and Wisconsin. Look at the number right there. 270. She's headed to the White House.

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But if something were to happen, like if she were to lose Pennsylvania, then she has to win North Carolina or Georgia and then she can head out West, either Arizona or Nevada puts her over the top.

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But if she were to lose two battleground states like say Michigan and she just holds Wisconsin, she has to flip North Carolina.

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She has to win in Georgia and then she can go out West and she can win there. And if she were having a very bad night election night, say the blue wall just collapses, right?

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She loses Wisconsin. She loses Michigan. She loses Pennsylvania. That means she has to win North Carolina. She has to win Georgia.

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She has to win Arizona and Nevada. She has to win in the East and she has to win the West.

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Again, that's going to be a very rough night for Democrats if that happens, but that's a path for her.

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Let's talk about Donald Trump now, the former president. He won in 2016. His easiest path on election night would be to win North Carolina once again.

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He holds North Carolina. He flips Georgia back red. Remember, he lost in 2020. He won in 2016 and then he wins Pennsylvania.

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This East Coast strategy, it takes him to 270. But if he can't win Pennsylvania, remember all eyes are on Pennsylvania.

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19 electoral votes, the most money and the most time spent by these candidates. If he says he wins Michigan and he holds North Carolina flips Georgia, all he has to do is win Nevada or Arizona.

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One state out West. If it's Wisconsin that he wins and he loses Michigan and Pennsylvania, it's a little trickier because the math doesn't add up.

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He has to hold North Carolina, Georgia. He has to win in Arizona and then Nevada as well. And that's one of the paths that he can get to get over there.

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The final path, and this is kind of a strange one, is if there would be a tie.

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Okay, so this is where it's going to get interesting and take a listen to how Nebraska is laid out because I think that this plays a huge factor into some of this.

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So take a listen real quick. Yes, there could be a tie. Let me walk you through how this would happen. If Harris wins the blue wall, she wins Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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She gets to 270. So you're going to say the race is over. Sort of. Watch this. If we go to Trump and we give them the states out West, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, 268.

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He's still two electoral votes short. So what happened? Let's go to North. You see Nebraska here in Maine. They sort of have this where's Waldo effect. They're both blue and red.

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What does that mean? Well, they hand out their electoral votes in different ways by popular vote, but also by congressional district. Let me show you.

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So as we go into Nebraska right here, you have the popular vote at two and then each congressional district gets one electoral vote.

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So congressional district two, that's the city of Omaha and Sarpy County. If Trump were to flip this and he won this in 2016, I should remind you then look at this number 269 269.

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So you're asking yourself what happens? We're not at 270. Well, here's what happens. It then goes to the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives would select the president, not the current house, the house that wins on election night.

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So if Republicans are in control of the House, each state gets one vote and it stands to reason that if the Republicans have the majority, they're going to select Donald Trump to be the president.

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Same for Democrats. If they win the House, they're going to pick Kamala Harris. So what happens with vice president? It gets stranger. The Senate then picks the vice president.

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So if the Democrats hold the Senate like they do right now and if they hold an election night, they would pick the vice president.

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So yes, there's a scenario where Donald Trump could be the president and then Governor Tim Walz would be the vice president and vice versa. Kamala Harris is president and JD Vance is the vice president.

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It's completely strange. Listen, this hasn't happened in 200 years with this many states, but it has happened in our country's history. So just one of the many scenarios we're going to be ready for on election night.

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And again, we're going to be covering all this as we head into those two weeks into election. Thanks for watching. Okay, so there you go. I mean, I don't think you can get any stranger if you put it in any other way, shape or form.

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So what do you think there? Because I think that that could change everything. Think about that. If you had quote unquote a Republican president and a Democratic, let's see, vice president, that could be interesting.

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If you had a Democratic president and a Republican vice president, that could be interesting as well. So it's going to be some serious business depending on how the layout of the land goes.

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Listen, I'm going to say the same thing that I say all the time. Don't care on who you vote for. What I care about is that you actually do it. That's a whole other story to talk about.