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Our guest today is Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruders.

What are the keys to victory for the grand old party in 2006?

And what will the Democratic Party's hard turn left mean for electoral politics ahead?

We'll get into all of that coming up next on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Joe, thank you so much for being here.

Yeah, hey, thanks, Matt, for having me on.

Really appreciate you, uh,

uh, take an interest in wanting to talk about the GOP. No, absolutely. It's a big year coming up,

obviously, after a very big year in 2024. But let's start with you. Uh, you're fresh into this

job pretty much in the last couple of months how are things going so far listen things are

great mike wally who is the chairman immediately prior to me it wasn't you know set the very high bar

you know he uh set the tone and the stage of the party after you know during uh the presidential

election and and immediately after in terms of staffing up and making

sure we have the right people in place.

And, you know, I'm just so incredibly grateful to be able to have this position to be able to do

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