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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
I think that I neutralize them well enough for that.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
So anyway, I just, it's more meta on the JD thing because then I want to get to the MFest because he is obviously trying to like shore up any potential vulnerabilities he might have, assuming Donald Trump steps aside and he wants to be, you know, the next in line to carry the banner for the MAGA movement.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
And you could imagine a vice president in a different world thinking, well, okay, I need to focus on
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
you know, appealing to the more kind of non-political manosphere types, like a little bit less ideological, or I need to kind of shore up our issues with the Christian base.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
You know, like there are all kinds of different factions.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
The faction that JD seems the most concerned about shoring up is like the most conspiratorial, like MAGA faction.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
nationalist element of the party.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
He's got Tucker's kid on his staff.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
He will not disavow Fuentes or disavow anyone that is making anti-Indian comments, despite his family.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
Who he chooses to engage with online is generally usually going after
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
you know, more whatever establishment types and like being more defensive of, you know, kind of the fringe right.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
And I think that tells us like where he assesses the juices in the party.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
And I think that is like more important than where we assess.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
I think that it seems to me like the juices with the, you know, whatever Candace Tucker wing of the party.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
But I think it's pretty telling that the vice president agrees with that.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
Let's go to the folks who are trying to straddle this divide and can keep it together at America Fest.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
This is the end of the year Turning Point USA Fest.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
I've been to several times.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
The lineup is out.
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Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
They do a Coachella style lineup, you know, where they put the, you know, the top build people in the first row and then you get all the way down.