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No, I love that.
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Okay, so I'm going to play you back a clip because you had some interesting criticisms of just the political system in general that seemed to resonate with viewers.
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I saw things in the comments, but also with James.
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And so I'll play you back this clip and then kind of hear your reaction.
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How did you feel about the response you got?
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Yeah, I'm actually curious.
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You seem very intelligent, so I'm actually curious what you were hoping you might hear from him.
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What do you think about the SAVE Act?
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I think it might have just passed the House, but just requiring a form of identification or maybe a government-issued ID.
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There's a lot of pushback from Democrats on that, but I think Fetterman supported it.
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What do you think about something like that?
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Yeah, I think that's a very good point and something I've been thinking about a lot.
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Democrats, you know, they have to kind of and I get it just
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It would maybe disenfranchise is not the right word, but it would affect a lot of people of color.
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It would make it difficult for them to vote if they had to have a form of ID or a specific kind of ID present with them when they showed up to vote.
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But just because that's true doesn't necessarily make it racist.
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And things that you've kind of heard, arguments you've heard, I think maybe Chuck Schumer might have said this, something like it's Jim Crow 2.0.
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You know, they kind of reach for the most inflammatory argument that these are racist ideas.
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You know, voter ID laws are racist.
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And you kind of see it sort of reinforces what you're saying, where it's like, oh man, like if we're painting the issue with that,