So, Welcome on an all to another episode of the damage report with me, John de Rola, and joining us after

six week gap in which, you know know some things have happened around the country to discuss

Michael Shore returns Michael how's it going it's great John I'm glad to be back

yeah when we last visited we were in Milwaukee I think right when I lasted

Was the RNC? Wasn't even the DNC? The RNC we didn't even do the DNC. I don't know why I wasn't invited but we'll talk about that off the air and then

yeah it was a combination of business and personal yeah anyway I it felt like 98 to personal business but yeah we I'm sure our last conversation was how

will President Biden you know navigate JD Vance right?

Exactly.

Dear God I mean we've not only had you know we've had one assassination attempt since then

and a new candidate and J.D Vance showing himself to be J.D. JD Vance and I just want to briefly say and I'm not saying it was 100% right but I remember at the RNC when JD Vance was picked and I think I kept making the point. This is a really bad pick. And I was saying go for, you know, I think I was going for Ben Carson at that point.

But I believe that both you and Jen thought it was a good choice and he

I don't believe I said it was a good choice. I was I said it won't matter.

Yeah. Oh no, you definitely said that it won't matter. That is that is fair. I didn't think there was a good choice or a bad choice. I just didn't think it would matter and I don't know that it will matter but we'll see I mean this is essentially remains an election about

Donald Trump that's true and and so you know I do were at the RNC I don't know

it was on your

would step aside and Harris would be the nominee and she would close the

enthusiasm gap unpredictably to a lot of people there and that's true.

Yeah you were a lot you were way more confident I thought it was a

possibility still but I I wasn't betting on it I didn't think it was likely to happen at that

point and you were you were admittedly very confident and it happened just a couple of weeks after that so kudos to you.

I still think you should go with Ben Carson but anyway no I'm kidding. Okay well we have a lot that we're going to be talking about, both on the national level, New York in the news for a couple of reasons that most of you are probably familiar with, and that's in the first hour. lots of interesting stuff to talk about.

There's so much election stuff that we can't talk about polls from around the country.

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