It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning everyone.

So no matter what you think of Donald Trump,

I think it's fair to say, it's hard not to be at least somewhat moved

by a presidential nominee who was shot in the head, surviving an assassination attempt by a fraction of an inch two days ago,

appearing at his nominating convention, and appropriately enough, people had tears in their eyes even if you think

Trump is bad for democracy not having this election decided by a bullet is good

for it.

As you heard, Trump also had his classified documents

criminal case dismissed yesterday, at least for now.

And he named Ohio Senator JD Vance

as his running mate.

Vance was on this show in June of 2016

when he released his book, Hill Billy Elegy,

a memoir of a family and a culture in crisis. The culture in crisis part of that is why

Vance said at the time that he couldn't support Trump for president. The good

side of Trump is that I think he recognizes that there are a lot of folks in the Republican electorate and the Republican base who are struggling economically, who are struggling socially.

I think that for too long the Republican establishment has sort of ignored

those folks and in some ways Trump's election or Trump's nomination is just the

result of people finally having enough and saying look we're gonna

we're gonna vote for somebody who represents our interests

uh... the flip side of that is that i think

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