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

We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is really the thing that

a lot of people are talking about, which was the debate between the Democrat John Federman

and the Republican amendment Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race on Tuesday night.

So you've probably heard a lot about it already. So I want to talk about what is next

after this really disastrous debate. First, I want to say that I think the place to start here

is with early voting in Pennsylvania. It is well underway in Pennsylvania.

And one reason that John Federman, who is recovering, as everybody knows from a serious stroke,

wanted to delay the debate as late as possible. I got October 25 as the date. Delay the debate

with Oz. The reason for that was to bank as many early votes as possible before the debate.

Doesn't matter what those people think about the debate, they've already voted.

Maybe it would never change their mind, maybe it would, but they've already voted.

So you delay the debate as long as you can. Meanwhile, early voting has begun and votes are

piling up and you're getting them in the bank. Given Federman's disastrous performance in the debate,

it was a good idea to do that and it worked. So I'm going to cite some numbers from something

called the election project, which compiles early voting figures from around the country.

Through debate day, 685,289 Pennsylvania and Ted Cass, they're ballots. Of those, 499, 396

were registered Democrats. So the Federman team wanted to get its team to the polls

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