Hey everybody it's Joe

it's Joe Trippi and welcome back to that Trippy show with Grandpa Joe and Alex Ashlow.

That's right.

I wasn't around last week because well a daughter and baby are great and so is the father of my grandchild.

First one show, congratulations to you and Christine.

Yeah, first one.

So, and thanks to Alex and Simon Rosenberg

for feeling in for me.

Timing didn't work out to be in both places at the same time.

Anyway, Alex, it seems like you and Simon had things under control,

and I really do appreciate Simon coming on last week.

With just a month to go in the race, let's zoom out and get into where I see things.

Did the VP debate change anything?

What about Jack Smith's new indictment?

We get into all of that and your questions, Alex, where should we get started?

You know, a lot of the questions we got this week were basically, it's been a couple weeks since we got Joe's take on the race.

So Joe we're gonna put you on the spot right away. I know you and I know I was out the week before you were out.

So we wanted to just give our listeners a fresh update on where we see the race and like I said it's been a few weeks.

Well let's start with the presidential.

Joe my question you is do you still feel like it's shaping up to be 5346 here what are you seeing it's always been

53 46 it's always been that the structure that the boat could be 51 46 or

something or it could be 46 46 but the structure of the race is 46 for

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