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430 - Beltway Garage: Redemption (6/22/20)

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Matt and the prodigal Virgil return to the Beltway Garage to take a look at the state of the presidential race, tomorrow’s primaries in New York and Kentucky, and the slew of Qanon supporters running for office in 2020.

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0:00.0

We're on our way to the fairway to the sea rise we all love.

0:16.0

Gonna find out about the politics of the day and know what's going on.

0:22.0

Even though they might cancel the election we still want to know what's going on.

0:27.0

The Beltwink Arrive. That's right. If the Beltwink Arrive.

0:31.0

Hi guys, that's right. We're back after months and months of penitence and reflection.

0:37.0

We have returned to the Beltwink Arrive and in the Beltwink Arrive here he is,

0:43.0

Virgil Texas. Hello.

0:45.0

Hi junior mechanics, Virgil here.

0:47.0

Very excited to talk to you about the only real actual politics that exist,

0:55.0

or that anyone can engage in by which of course I mean electoral politics that's all conducted virtually

1:01.0

and through corrupt processes. It's it. It's all we have folks. Get ready. Get just deal with it.

1:05.0

And with that in mind, it is June 21st, a mere 80 months until the general election.

1:15.0

And as of right now Joe Biden looks like he's got a comfortable national lead over Donald Trump,

1:21.0

a high single digit lead in states such as Wisconsin, Michigan,

1:25.0

and a lead in voters over 65 with demographic that Trump he Clinton in last time around.

1:29.0

Matt, as a mechanic in the Beltwink Arrive, how do you feel about Biden's general election chances?

1:35.0

I think he's going to win. It looks right now as much as people have a hard time accepting that

1:41.0

because they're so used to Republicans blowing it specifically blowing it to Donald Trump.

1:45.0

I think that they're just failing to acknowledge that yes, he would have won.

1:50.0

Certainly, beaten Biden, if we assume that the economic conditions of early 2020 had held.

1:56.0

Although I honestly think that there's good reason to believe that wouldn't have been the case

2:00.0

even minus Corona because there's a good argument to be made that the US was already entering a recession

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