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economist. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim

Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast. Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassel, a

Wall Street Journal podcast, and our end of the year episode. This has been an exciting year for us

launching this podcast in the run-up to a seriously consequential election and getting to talk to some

of the biggest newsmakers of the cycle. And in commemoration of that

launch and year, we've decided we would use this final 2024 podcast to highlight portions of

interviews with prior guests who, in retrospect, laid out points that proved to be absolutely

key to the election results we saw in November. And we're going to start with some observations

from Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who we interviewed at the end of October as he was on the road

campaigning for re-election against Democrat Colin Allred. This is Cruz talking about what Republicans

needed to do to connect with key voting groups. How big of a problem is it for Republicans?

They don't always have the best spending record.

And do you feel like when you go out there and you talk to this, some voters are like

both parties are as bad as each other?

Well, there's certainly that sentiment.

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