Sam Stein
speaker
58 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Sam Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me just note that to extend the all-star analogy, you have me batting clean up here, just noting that going forth.
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You earned it, buddy.
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You earned it.
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The fans voted you in.
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What can I say?
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They voted you in.
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First ballot.
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Look, Thune's in a weird spot because if you were to bring this bill to the floor, it would be defeated, and that would be bad for the party writ large.
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They would look feckless, and not only that, Trump would –
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lash out against the lawmakers who voted against it, and you'd have a bad situation.
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Yet Trump obviously clearly wants this, so he's demanding that they stay.
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And for August, he's already coming back off that request.
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Sort of in the macro elements, every party in power in the midterm has to deal with this type of equation.
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Usually you want to sort of downplay how great things are because you don't want voters to feel like you're out of touch or leaving them behind.
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But Trump is incapable of doing that.
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He continuously talks about this being a golden age and how everyone's 401k is skyrocketing.
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So there's cross currents there.
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But the biggest curiosity to me is that he's sitting or his committees and allied committees are sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars.
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in cash that they've raised, and they haven't spent it.
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And if you were someone who was desperately worried about losing control of Washington, D.C., about having the Democrats take over, have subpoena power and check on your presidency, you would be spending that money, right?
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