Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, I just want to say it's been three years since I took over as the host of the Lincoln Project. And I cannot say thank you enough to each and every one of you who listens, who downloads, who shares. I meet people out who said, I've heard you talk. Thank you so much. And all I can say is thank you. Thanks to everybody out there. As we get deep

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Welcome back to the Lincoln Project.

I'm your host, Reed Yalen.

Today, I'm joined by the one, the only, my Lincoln Project co-founder.

We are in person together in the same room, in the flesh, the one, the only the Rick Wilson.

Rick, welcome back.

Reid, good to be with you in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles, the city of angels, where what city is better represented by its airport than Los Angeles?

I told somebody that this morning. If I go to hell, it will look just like LA. All right, Rick, lots to go over here. It's a busy time. It's hard to believe we're almost to March. We were just having a meeting, and we said eight months to go. And I feel like every time we have another call or another meeting, Rick, it's another month gone by. And so there's always the, you know, there's nothing longer than a week in politics and there's nothing seems to be shorter than a year in politics. You know, there's an old clash look, the minutes drag and the hours jerk. And right now, there's been this long window where the primary in the Republican side felt like it was going to last forever. A lot of people wanted it to last longer and dreamed it was going to

last longer. But now we're in reality. Now we're in a world where, as we've been telling people

for two years, two and a half years, this race will end up being between Donald Trump and Joseph Robinette

Biden. And that's the only battle people should really have been thinking of from the beginning.

Everything else was a fantasy. Everything else was a dream. And as we go into this next part of the

year, you know, you can see what's happening. The behavior is going to get more markedly crazy.

Trump is going to ratchet up

the rhetoric, the violence. And folks, read and I talked about this earlier today, do not buy

any of the spin that the Trump campaign is feeding to the New York Times of Trump will now be

talking more about policy and he will moderate his positions and he will be

talking about his plans for the future. No, he is going to eat up all the scenery, set his ass on fire,

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