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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

We've got the votes and screw the rest of you.

And Dr. Kabita Patel.

These might be some of the smaller moments,

you know, with all the bombshells, didn't catch people's eyes. Hello and welcome to Words Matter from the DSR network. Each week Norm

Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we head

into another cycle of elections.

And Norm, we've got quite the week.

I failed to mention that one of the things that happened

in your and my kind of neck of the woods after we had recorded this pod or we had touched on it in our last week's pod a little bit was just the kind of unfolding fabric of the primaries and the Senate races.

We talked about David Trone and Angela also Brooks and Larry Hogan and kind of what that dynamic of a Senate election seat in Maryland could look like, but we've constantly be

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