Your task will not be an easy one.

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hardt.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

There is the United States of America.

Good night.

And good luck.

Hey, folks, it's Rick, and welcome to the elephant in the room.

I am traveling this week, so the background's a little different than what you're expecting.

The light's a little different than what you're expecting.

And I'm a little bit, 8,000 feet of altitude, so it's a little more hoarse than what you're expecting.

However, I really want to talk to you tonight about two big things that are going on.

First off is that

expectations and reality sometimes diverge. And when they diverge, you have to pay attention.

We were told in the last two weeks that Joe Biden was a senile old man dribbling in his oatmeal

that he could barely recognize his own family, speak his own name,

stand up straight, walk in the straight line.

We were told that Joe Biden was done.

It was over.

It was completely out of the question that he would stay in the race.

Now, when I'm recording this on Thursday night, and it's been a hell of a Thursday night because Joe Biden went out and gave an hour plus

press conference after the NATO summit where the expectations for him were basically zero.

The frenzy, which has been going on in the media for the last two weeks, has had one goal

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