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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein. And it gives Democrats more hope that they've

had in a very long time. And Dr. Kavita Patel. It's not something that started with

Leonard Leo and the billionaires. And welcome to Words Matter from the DSR network. Each week

Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country. It's me head into the

midterms and what our leaders are saying and doing about them. Today we're going to

go on a different multitude of topics that start with our primaries that were of consequence.

I will say there have been many primaries that I think Norm and I are tracking, but we've

just had a recent slate of them. We will also talk about the dark money that has always

been a key part of this disenchantment of like political norms. I would say norm we can

discuss that, but has really been ramped up and put on steroids lately by some characters

such as Leonard Lane Leo on with our show. We've got I think a pretty busy agenda here.

I've got my own slate of kind of primary results or key pieces that I have been watching

for. How about if we start with you and talk through some, well, number one, were there

any surprises to your kind of comment that we've made in past podcasts around things

that we did not expect or things that we did expect? And then in terms of where we can

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