Top Virginia Dem Urges Voters to 'Let Your Rage Fuel You'
3 Martini Lunch
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
First, they cheer the news that the U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 3.8 percent in the second quarter of 2025, an upward revision from the earlier 3.3 percent estimate. Surging consumer spending drove the gains. Can we keep it going?
Next, they hammer Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger for urging her supporters to “let your rage fuel you.” While Spanberger claims it was a call for political engagement, the rhetoric comes off as tone deaf in the wake of recent violence. They also update listeners on the latest developments from Wednesday’s shootings at the ICE detention facility in Dallas.
Finally, they laugh as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cuts through the noise surrounding Harris’s decision not to pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate. While Democrats and the media obsess over identity politics, Bessent argues that both Harris and Buttigieg failed miserably in their past roles and would have been disastrous as president and vice president.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:05.0 | Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.0 | Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.0 | So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:17.0 | Jim, we are getting closer to the weekend, but we have no shortage of stories that we |
| 0:22.5 | definitely need to talk about today. We'll be talking about the latest twist in the Kamala Harris, |
| 0:28.3 | Pete Buttigieg story, and it actually comes from a Trump cabinet official. We'll also take |
| 0:34.2 | a closer look at what we've learned over the past 24 hours from the Dallas |
| 0:39.7 | ICE shootings. |
| 0:41.2 | But we begin with good economic news. |
| 0:44.5 | And given the recent jobs numbers and some other economic indicators and the Fed feeling comfortable |
| 0:50.0 | lowering interest rates, people were starting to say that the economy is slowing down and |
| 0:53.8 | there may still be some indicators that that's the case. But when it comes to second quarter GDP, the |
| 1:00.1 | revisions just keep getting better. Here's Rick Santelli from CNBC. Now on the GDP side, |
| 1:05.7 | this is our third time around the block on Q2, and we see a really solid revision. 3.8%. I'm a bit shocked, to be honest. |
| 1:15.3 | Usually the revisions get to second and third become smaller and smaller. So 3.8% would be the |
| 1:20.7 | best quarter going back to, and we have to go back away here, to 4.4, and that was the third |
| 1:26.8 | quarter of 23. Now, it is important to point out |
| 1:30.7 | that if you look at the first quarter final, down half a percent, there's a balance there. But the |
| 1:36.0 | balance is moving in favor, and momentum is moving in favor for better growth. So then over at CBS, |
| 1:41.0 | it says consumer spending buoyed the economy in the second quarter, rising |
| 1:45.1 | at a 2.5% pace up from 0.6 in the first quarter and well above the 1.6% the government |
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