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Love the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the politics. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational and civil debate on American politics and policy. I'm Troy Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University. And I'm joined by May Mayamun, my conservative counterpart and former Trump White House lawyer.

May, welcome to the Supporters' exclusive Midweek Show.

Hey, Trey.

You know, we kept kind of getting close to all of the questions on the main show that supporters had.

So it's been a lot of fun getting to do the

midweek or the full week show with you, May. And so I am really excited to get a chance,

because what we're going to do is just take on listener questions. And I don't know if you know

this, but I think most recently, I have probably taken the most, I don't know if you know this, but I think most recently, I have probably taken the most, I don't know, flak maybe might be the best word for trying to read your comments and the most positive light across social media.

It's a listener.

So I feel like I finally get to kind of ask you the questions that I have been like,

you know, ascertaining.

So I'm kind of excited about this too.

And so we've got a number of them, some for you, some for me, some for both of us.

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