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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP147: Hour 1 - The GOP Moves Past the Past

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The GOP is ready to move on from the past but media and the left can get past their old playbook plus progressives can’t handle descent as they further embrace emotion over anything else.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

0:13.6

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson across America. I'm glad to have you with me today.

0:19.0

The full number, well, I'm not going to give it to you yet because I need you to just sit here and listen to me for a few moments. To begin with, I want to play this audio from David Chalain. He is CNN's political director. He was on last night after Liz Cheney lost her election in Wyoming.

0:38.0

This is the general sentiment of the media today.

0:40.9

I think the civil war motifs on is sort of why she brought up Mar-a-Lago.

0:44.6

I think she wanted to tie, it sounded like, in the speech,

0:48.2

Donald Trump releasing the names of FBI agents,

0:51.9

and then the violence or the threat warning that has been put out

0:56.1

since the Moralago search and seizure of his property. I think you wanted to tie in the real

1:02.4

violence we've seen and the threats of violence that we have heard about from the government

1:06.6

to this whole notion of this brewing potential civil war.

1:11.9

I do think, though, there's...

1:14.0

She was a truth teller tonight.

1:16.8

Like, that's the other thing that Liz Cheney has on her side.

1:20.0

She has the truth.

1:20.9

She has the truth about the 2020 election.

1:22.6

So when she cites these Republican nominees who have won their primaries

1:26.9

who deny the truth about the 2020 election.

1:30.3

She has that on her side.

1:31.7

And I think she leaned into sort of being a truth teller tonight.

1:35.6

Okay, the truth teller.

1:37.4

She compared herself to Lincoln.

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