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hurt it. i think a celebrity will help mitigate the problem. but i think i could tell you as a guy who ran against a candidate who never lived in the district, this is what we call the 80% issue. it was in every message, it was powerful, the simple argument was how you could send somebody to washington to represent you who doesn t live in your community. you said that every time. every time. there was no other issue. it was the only issue. it was very effective. the powers that be in washington, said don t use that, that is not going to work until it was the only issue that was effective in every message. so the bottom line it may not be a disqualifying issue given his celebrity, but it is going to be a close race. you can t afford to lose people in frackville and bratford county. some people could be parochial about these sort of things. if i were dr. oz, that is a big issue. and he has to deal with the quack therapies that he s been pushing but i think this
joining me is amy walter. jake sherman, co-founder of the punchbowl news website, former white house political director during the george w. bush era. and sara fagen, and former congresswoman donna edwards. welcome to you all. i want to get to the como story. i want to get to covid politics here, amy. let s frame the discussion, biden, desantis. here is the back-and-forth. some governors aren t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and university who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. joe biden has taken to himself to try to single out florida over covid. this is a guy who ran for president saying he was going to, quote, shut down the virus. and what has he done? he s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border. by the way, both of them have