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Hey everybody, Michael Steele here. Welcome to the Michael Steele program. It's always good when you come into the neighborhood to spend some time with the kid.

Appreciate you very much. You know that voodoo that I love you to do is the download thing,

download the podcast. It's always a lot of fun. And certainly check us out on Twitter at

Michael Steele. And you'll be able to do the same with my guest, who is a really cool dude.

And he is someone I've gotten to know and work with and have enjoyed our association.

He is the executive director of the United America Institute and United America,

which is a national organization that works to bridge the growing partisan divide by enacting political reforms.

He also ran for the US House of Representatives in 2014 when he was about six years old,

from a Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district. And drew a lot of national attention as both the youngest candidate and the most successful independent of that cycle.

Gunnering over 22,000 votes Nick Trojan, welcome to the podcast brother man.

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