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Warning, you're about to enter the arena and join the battle to save America.

With your host, John Parnell.

Good evening America.

Welcome to Battleground live from sea to shining sea and

everybody in between welcome Patriots. It's great to have you here in the trenches

on debate night Trump versus Biden. The stakes could not be higher.

You got the original gangster and Donald Trump and the animated corpse that is Joe Biden those two will be on the stage tonight

folks it's it's a huge deal and I've mentioned to you many times many times and you know sometimes I recap things because we get new listeners,

new viewers every single day and they haven't heard these stories.

But if you're an OG member of the battle crew,

maybe you've heard this story before and you've heard me say this before,

but I've run for office. I've had my name on the ballot twice. Very high profile runs. One for the House, one for the Senate. I got to tell you, I have

been on that debate stage before. I know what it feels like to prepare. I know what the

anticipation feels like in here. If you're an athlete or have a competitive bone in your body, it is like

gearing up for an MMA fight or a boxing match or any hockey game that I've ever played baseball wrestling

except for the stakes are so much higher because you know in my case you get one debate when I was running for Congress you got one

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