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And today we have a special

guest, Miles Bruner, who, if you haven't seen it yet, I would encourage you to read his piece

for the Bullwark. It's on our site. It was mailed out this morning, Monday morning. It is about

Miles' journey through Republican politics, but mostly his journey recently,

into realizing that the Republican Party isn't necessarily the right home for him with Trump

as its head.

Miles, I'm going to shut up and let you do much of the talking, but before I do, thank you

for writing the peace for us, for doing this video with us.

I want to just stress that I understand completely how difficult this is, or is for you, I should say.

I don't personally understand it, but also that's just tricky in this moment in time to do something like this when you understand how vindictive an administration can be and how viciously online political culture can be.

So I don't take lightly the fact that you do this.

Can you start off and just tell us a little bit about yourself prior to your decision to leave the Republican Party?

Tell us what you did for the Republican Party.

So for the last six years, I've served as a senior fundraising strategist for a digital

fundraising firm in the DC area. And then prior to that, I worked at the state level in California

for a Republican official in this California State Senate.

So, and then I've been involved in politics at almost at every level, save for the

president's presidential level, going back to when I was in high school in 2004.

So I have, I have some deep roots working in politics.

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