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Good morning, good afternoon, Good evening, wherever you are.

And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland area attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

Here's our Ask the Politics Guys question for this week, Jay.

All right.

It comes from Christopher in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Dear politics guys. Wow, and Iowa voter.

Exactly, yeah.

So very influential, Christopher. Absolutely. I imagine he'll be caucusing. All right. Dear politics guys, assuming the Republican and Democratic establishment candidates win their party's nominations, do you think there will be any blowback from the base of the party that loses the general election. That's a pretty good question, I think.

So I think maybe the way to address this is to take a look at it first from one party's side

than the other.

I think it makes more sense to maybe start with the Republican since that's the primary

that's getting the caucus in Iowa's getting lost attention. So you okay with

looking at it that way, Jay? I am. And I guess, you know, the first thing I think about is we

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