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Now that the National Conventions are over, the race for the presidency is in the final stretch.

How can Trump be defeated?

Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news. My name's Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal

prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst. And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, the host of the Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly on this podcast.

But before I bring in Patty, I want to thank our patrons who brought us this episode.

With special thanks to Michelle Dew, Andrew Donnelly, James Frohmeyer, J. Gellhausen, Jamie and Isie Gordon,

Patrick, Steve Hungsberg,

Shania Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.

You too can become a patron on our website on topic podcast.com. Just click the support link at the top of the page. So Patty, you know, it is, this has definitely been an interesting time to be planning a podcast around the news.

The news is just driving a mile a minute lately between people being murdered on the street, you know, in part due to the color of their skin.

We have hurricanes coming, but probably no bigger hurricane than the hurricane of lies

coming from the Republican Convention this week.

Yeah, it is really, it feels apocalyptic at this point. But, and I think that for me, let's just say today, I feel intensely this animosity that people have because if you look at

Facebook if you look at social media it is the intensity is definitely

getting worse and and it there's more uncertainty than I have felt in the last few weeks.

You know, when Trump announced his candidacy first in July of 2015,

I had told my listeners when I was back at the radio station,

be very careful because this could be the next president of the United States and

some people thought that I was crazy but what I was responding to was kind of the same atmosphere that we're having now, not necessarily

the catastrophic levels to which we are at, but the vitriol that was expressed towards Democrats.

I think that the conservatives are masterful at

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