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Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the No-Chit Chat Podcast.

We like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today, of course,

is Donald Trump becoming a candidate for president again for the third time, 2015, 2019,

and now 2022. I think what we're going to talk about specifically is Trump's promise of

restoration to take the nation back to the conditions that existed when he was the president,

whether that could be a problem or not. Now, a little background. Now, Trump wanted to announce

his candidacy as 2024 candidacy. At that rally in Ohio on the evening of November 7th, it was

election eve. It was the night before millions of Americans were going to go vote in the midterm

elections. Trump did a rally outside Dayton, Ohio for JD Vance, the successful Senate candidate

that he had endorsed. So there were a lot of advisors in Trump's circle, big, kind of informal

unruly sort of circle, who were strongly opposed to the idea. Don't do it. They said it's too early,

and nobody knows how the elections are going to turn out. Better, safer, to wait. But there were a few

in Trump's circle who argued that a glorious red wave was on the way, and that Trump should be

out in front taking credit for it. So do it now. Do it now. Announce tonight. Election eve. Announce.

There was a spirited argument going on behind the scenes all day on November 7th, the night of

which he's going to be giving the speech. The cautious voices finally prevailed, and Trump did not

announce. So then the next day, several of his candidates, the candidates he endorsed, some of

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