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I think let's try this, Dan.

I think this connection is okay.

We're just recording it for the audio, not the video.

Okay, so I can take my shirt off or put on a baseball hat or.

Go for it, man.

Hello everybody.

Welcome to my Zoom Nerdcast call. So at that time of year, it's the middle of campaign season, where presidential candidates

would normally be flying here, there, and everywhere.

To vote-rich swing-state cities like Milwaukee and Philadelphia and Detroit, and also to places that are just plain rich.

Malibu, the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, Jackson Hole, in search of fundraisers with big dollar donors

to power their campaigns.

Donors like Dan, actually.

Before the pandemic, you know, you have a kind of, you know, a roodex of people and you can call people and these in-person

fundraising events are the bedrock of political fundraising. The money raised from

donors who get to Gladhand to meet the candidate in. This is the main way that campaigns have been

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