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The problem is that is the pattern that has held in council bluffs since LBJ.

It's just, you know how there are these regions, they're trending away from that, but

There are these regions that split their ticket, and Council Bluffs is one of them.

Council Bluffs votes for Stimson Nixon, votes for Democrats at the local level, and votes for Republicans at the presidential level.

It's just what they did, and Turek happened to be wrapped into that.

Now it gets us to the part about his rationale for the candidacy.

So he was born with spinal bifida, and that is in his early ads, his bio ads.

And he says that because his father was a veteran in Vietnam,

that exposure to Agent Orange produced the spina bifida may be true, and that as a result, he's gonna fight for veterans.

In a lot of the more recent ads, that part of the bio is fading, and it starts blending with this veteran, because the group that is supporting him is called VoteVets, and it starts to look like,

He's a vet.

Now, anybody who's followed it very closely knows that that's not the case.

But the more recent ads, starting to blur it just a little bit.

I'm curious for your take on this.

So let's roll one of these ads that has enormous amounts of spending behind it from vote vets.

Yeah, that's right on the line there, Ryan, where I'm like, wait, what?

It doesn't make it 100% clear.

If I had watched that cold without knowing a little bit of what you're talking about, I would have thought, oh, he must have gotten injured in combat or something like that.

Let's watch the transition again.

So here's the transition from this colonel