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We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi this is the Josh Marshall podcast featuring Kate Riga. We are in the real campaign now.

We're under 30 days. This is the time of the campaign start

start happening.

The gloves come off, you know, campaign start trying things that they might not

have tried earlier in the campaign because there's not much time left.

You don't have many more chances.

And you're maybe whatever criticism you get for a kind of a low blow or something like that, there's not enough, you know, not a lot of time to talk about it.

So maybe it's fine.

And at the same time, related to that, it's when big and very consequential money decisions start

getting made. Some candidates, some House and Senate candidates get cut off by the national parties because it's clear they're going to lose.

Those kind of decisions get made.

Money gets redeployed.

Obviously no one cuts off a presidential campaign but states can get downrated right we've got

that one so zone up or something like that it it seems less likely that we're going

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