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

We're gonna talk, we got three topics to talk about today.

And again, just, I always like to remind everybody

that we record the podcast on Wednesdays, usually just after 12 noon.

So that gives you, again, a sense of where we are in time.

So we're going to talk about some polling information, some polls, which you probably know what we're going to talk about.

It's going to be okay. We're going to walk through it and you don't have to be frightened.

I mean, maybe you'd be frightened.

Like a little frightened. Yeah, I mean maybe you'd be frightened. Like a little frightened.

I mean, it depends.

And then we're gonna kind of out of the blue,

we're gonna do a debate, a Biden Trump debate.

I mean given who we're talking about I wouldn't be a hundred percent sure this is

actually going to happen but it seems to have come together pretty quickly. Just before we started out, I was talking to Kate

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