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Rick: Nikki Haley announced that on Feb 15 she'll announce she's running for Pres. The pie fight begins.
Doug Jones: I think a lot of Repub Pres. wannabes see Trump as a wounded animal. I think "pie fight" is being a little too gracious, Rick!
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Doug Jones: Nikki Haley started out wanting to do her best for the people of SC but then became too entrenched in the Trump organization. She's trying to outdo DeSantis.
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Doug Jones: This primary will be about division, about whipping up a base. Every candidate will talk about unifying the country but when you strip away those sound bites, you'll see culture wars coming out of nearly every GOP candidate.
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Doug Jones: We've heard for 40 yrs that Dems will confiscate guns. No one's done it yet--it's the most ridiculous thing I've heard. There's big money in some of the special interest groups, & there's also big money in media.
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Doug Jones: I think DeSantis is stoking fears; I think Youngkin is stoking fears in VA.
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Doug Jones: I want to give a shout out to Chris Stirewalt & his book, Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back. Chris is the one who called AZ for Biden & got fired for it.
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Doug Jones: People will do or say just about anything to get & keep power.
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Doug Jones: Raising the debt limit is for all of those bill that have been stacking up over time, incl those that stacked up during the Trump admin. The consequences are dire. At the end of the day, the debt ceiling needs to be raised one way or another.
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Doug Jones: It would be a worldwide problem if the US defaulted on its debt promises.
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Doug Jones: Inflation is slowly getting back under control but we still have the war in Ukraine.
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Rick: Medicare & Social Security are not entitlement programs--we earned those. We pay for them with payroll taxes.
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Doug Jones: The Fed raised rates by 1/4 point instead of 1/2 point or more. That's a good sign.
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Doug Jones: We're seeing an uptick in union membership. Alabama led the country in union membership last year--we're a union state & it helped the state a lot.
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Doug Jones: Donald Trump & his tax cuts for the largest corporations contributed a lot to the debt. Another big part of the debt is COVID. Something not a lot of people know is that the Biden admin has lowered that debt by $1 trillion.
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Doug Jones: If people want to play chicken, do it for just a little bit. The closer we get to the debt ceiling, things get jittery & people get nervous. They'll move their stocks into cash.
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Doug Jones: All of this is about the documents, about getting them back. That's why the DOJ gave Trump every benefit of the doubt to return the documents. Someone in the Trump world kept saying to come back, there's more--and there was.
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Doug Jones: I can tell you first hand--way too many documents are classified. We need to classify fewer documents. I'd love to talk more about that another time.
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