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It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

Things are changing.

And the second big reason for inflation is Vladimir Putin, not a joke.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world.

Well, that good listeners was the voice of President Biden today in New Hampshire, talking about prices, inflation, supply chains, all the things that are

be devling him and pulling at his approval rating, Amurfe.

Yeah, do you think he was eyeing the Canadian border, thinking time to run north and start again?

Pulling numbers are looking pretty grim. And to talk about all that, I am excited today.

An old friend of mine, we've been we've been at this racket longer than we care to admit.

We have Dr. Whit Ayers, North Star Research, a great Republican strategist and poster.

We did the old Lamar Alexander, come on along campaign together back in 95 and worked a few other races.

Whit is a former president and chairman of the American Association of Political Consultants. He started as like a Marvel Superhero Backstory.

He started as a college professor at the University of South Carolina, but got pulled into politics like all of us and his workers

and consultant all over the place, highly respected in the Republican Party.

And an expert on the South, which is where a lot of the action is in our Republican world these days.

So Whit, welcome to Hexland Tap.

I'd great to be with you Robert. Great to be with you. Looking forward to this.

So much to talk about, why don't we start with Biden and then maybe we'll go to the big picture a little bit of how we got here.

But here we are. We got another incumbent president with low numbers.

Now, not unnatural in the first term, but they seem to me to be kind of extra lower.

You know, if it isn't first beat up by COVID like every incumbent, now beat up by inflation,

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