I love talking to Jim Jim has been at several of our conferences in DC.

He's addressed our student seminars. The great thing that Jim brings other than his bubbly personality

is the fact that he has served in both the legislative branch,

the executive branch, he's been a foreign service officer,

he has worked in Congress in the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is that right, Jim?

No, the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

The People's Front of Judea.

Splitter! So anyway Jim has great insights. He's worked around the beltway for many decades and now he's a peaceful farmer in Virginia.

But Jim, thanks for joining us today.

There's just a couple of things we want to chew on, I think, that are in the news,

some things that happen over the weekend,

and in fact, I want to start with something that happened just this morning and it's you know essentially breaking news depending on how closely you monitor things and that is the Supreme Court ruling a unanimous ruling that states cannot remove

presidential candidates from the ballot.

Jim have you seen it and what are your thoughts on it?

I have seen it.

I haven't had a chance to digest it in detail but read through it quickly.

I think this was expected.

I think it's good that it was unanimous.

I've been saying all along that Plan A for November was to keep Trump off the ballot. I think

there's still a little wiggle room with regard to maybe a state conviction,

but I think that that wiggle room for the the states that want to keep them off the ballot

is is pretty narrow at this point so I at this point I think they're got the resort to

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