Video: What’s With These GOP Senate Candidates?

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After dealing with some technical issues this week, David, Declan, Andrew, and—in her first appearance on Dispatch Live—Audrey discuss a handful of unimpressive GOP candidates for Senate in this year’s midterm election, the latest about the Mar-a-Lago raid (or was it just a search warrant served?), and the potential of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2024. 

If you are a Dispatch member and missed the livestream we apologize for the inconvenience. Substack, the platform that we publish on, was down entirely so we had to come up with a backup plan on to make the YouTube link available. Don’t worry, though.  To view this week’s Dispatch Live, just click the YouTube link below. No password is necessary. 

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    Ben Connelly

    David stole my idea! I thought I was original with “Darth Santis,” but David made the Sith Lord analogy!

    I’ll raise you one, David. To combat this new Sith master and apprentice from Florida, we need someone to convince an old hero of the Republic, whose name we know but whose name we don’t hear much anymore (who retired to a career in a backwater and part of the galaxy educating young padawans), that he needs to come out of retirement because he’s Darth Vader’s daughter’s only hope to combat the forces of darkness. You ask who could possibly beat Trump other than DeSantis?

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    Walt Hilker

    We were bummed to miss watching it live because of the Substack glitch - but I am curious: what was the workaround that enabled several Dispatch members to access the webcast live? Is there something I should bookmark for the future, should it happen again?

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    Pastorfbt

    Was it a glitch in the recording or did both Declan and Andrew repeat themselves verbatim in immediate sequence, more than once? The video gave no clue of a "skip" but the repetition was uncanny.
    We know David does this anyway but that's established.😁

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  4. PKirch

    Good one. The youngins are growing on me.

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    MarqueG68

    Nicely done, but it was so disappointing the live show failed. I turned down three job offers and a marriage proposal just to participated...

    Here's some stuff for the suggestion box:

    1) Have the participants say "Hi" or something when they're introduced. It's helpful in particular to the audio-pod users for orientation. And maybe even to viewers. I can hardly tell Declan and Andrew apart anymore without the mustache.

    2) Require Declan to regrow the mustache.

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      Aylene Wright

      Lol. I missed the livestream but saw a screenshot courtesy of John Daly, faithful TD subscriber. Andrew is the guy with the red hair and the ridiculously well stocked bar cart. 😀

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