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r arc is how many medical problems I've solved for other people. Like a lot. Thousands and thousands of people in a variety of different ways. It's a whole bunch of different special cases that if you put them together would be a weird story by itself. One of those special cases was I had an exotic rare voice condition years ago which made it impossible to communicate. I couldn't speak without my…

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you think there will be widespread cheating in the midterms that will affect the outcome? So remember the words are "widespread cheating" and "affect the outcome." So it has to be big enough that it could change who got elected. What do you think the general public thought of that? Do you think that the Republicans maybe thought there would be trouble but the Democrats said things would be fine? Is that what you expected? Well, 80 percent of the people who answered that answered that it was very or somewhat likely that there would be widespread cheating in the midterms that will affect the outcome. Eighty percent. Eighty percent of all the people. I'm not talking about just Republicans. That includes Democrats. Eighty percent of all the people. And that does leave about 20 percent who don't think that's likely.

Now do you remember when people used to tell me that I was crazy for saying this non-politician who wanted to get into politics was persuasive? Somebody named Trump. You've heard of him. And I said, oh you don't see what's coming. He's not just persuasive, he's crazy persuasive. And people said no he's not. He's not persuasive. Nobody's going to believe the stuff he's saying. It's crazy. Eighty percent of the country thinks our elections are ri

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gged. That's all him. That's all Trump. Now you can say other people are saying it too and that's true. But only because he said it first. If Trump hadn't kept this up it would have died out like every other election where somebody says it's rigged and then they forget about it. So that's amazing. Now I believe that the way the question was asked has the most to do with how we got this big number…

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