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Monica Crowley podcast at gmail.com. All right, we've got a lot of great stuff coming up today. I want to have a pretty

in-depth conversation with a really interesting guy. His name is Nick Begich, and he just

flipped a congressional seat in the state of Alaska. Why is that important? Well, twofold. One, because anytime we can flip a seat

from blue to red is a good day, and it's helped to secure the Republican majority in the House,

which is an incredibly narrow majority. I think, you know, to have a majority, you need 218. I think in the end here,

we're going to have 220, which, you know, a two-seat majority, not my idea of a good time,

because we have plenty of rhinos and compromised people in there who are going to end up

voting with the Democrats or not showing up, not voting at all. It's not going to be

very easy to govern. I have a friend who's sitting in Congress right now, and she told me to get

a governing majority is going to be very difficult, even with the technical majority. So Nick Begge,

keep in mind, Alaska, because there are fewer than a million people spread across

a very vast state. And if you haven't been to Alaska and you have some resources to go, you can't

go now. Don't go in the wintertime. But in the summer, June, July, August, it is breathtaking. There's no other way

for me to put it. I've been there a couple of times. Alaska is an absolute jewel. And it is the most

spectacular in terms of the natural beauty, the most spectacular state, and probably place in the world

that you will ever see. But because there are so few people there, there's only one congressional

seat. And it had been held by a Democrat. Nick Begich, successful businessman, America First,

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