♪ WALKING IN AND OUT OF THAT
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KENNEDY: I’M BACK.
ELECTION DAY IS A LITTLE OVER A
MONTH AWAY, AND SENATE RACES ARE
TIGHTENING UP ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.
IN PENNSYLVANIA, REPUBLICAN
DR. MEHMET OZ GAINING GROUND ON
DEMOCRAT JOHN FETTERMAN.
FETTERMAN’S UP BIG FOR MONTHS,
BUT THE RACE, IT IS NOW
CONSIDERED A TOSS-UP.
IN ARIZONA REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
BLAKE MASTERS PULLING WITHIN
JUST 3 POINTS OF INCUMBENT
DEMOCRATIC ACCURATE SENATOR MARK
KELLY WHO WAS UP BY 11,000
POINTS A FEW MONTHS AGO.
AND IN GEORGIA, HERSCHEL WALKER
BATTLING A BIG OCTOBER SURPRISE
WITH A WOMAN NOW CLAIMING WALKER
GOT HER PREGNANT AND THEN PAID
FOR AN ABORTION.
COULD THAT ALLEGED SCANDAL COST
HIM THE SEAT?
REPUBLICANS AND THE SENATE
MAJORITY?
HERE WITH ME TONIGHT, FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR AND RECENT GUEST ON
MY PODCAST, BEN DOMENECH.
WELCOME BACK, BEN.
>> GREAT TO BE WITH YOU,
KENNEDY.
IT’S A REALLY COMPETITIVE
SITUATION GOING INTO THE FINAL
WEEKS, HEADED INTO INNOVATE.
AND I -- NOVEMBER.
I CERTAINLY THINK THAT ALL THREE
OF THE RACES THAT YOU
HIGHLIGHTED ARE REALLY GOING TO
BE DECISIVE IN DETERMINING WHAT
THE OUTCOME REALLY IS AND
WHETHER REPUBLICANS ARE ABLE TO
TAKE THE SENATE.
ING.
KENNEDY: I DON’T THINK THAT
WALKER’S GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO
IT.
I WAS WATCHING THIS COME OUT
THIS WEEK, AND I WAS, HIKE,
OKAY, THIS IS FOUR AND A HALF
WEEKS OUT.
THEY’VE GOT MUCH MORE ON HIM, I
DO BELIEVE, AND WHAT HAPPENS TWO
WEEKS OUT AND ONE WEEK OUT?
I THINK HERSCHEL WALKER’S IN
REAL TROUBLE.
>> SO THERE’S TWO SIDES OF THE
WHOLE KIND OF CLEAR THE FIELD IN
ORDER TO BECOME THE NOMINEE
THING, WHICH IS WHAT HERSCHEL
WALKER DID, YOU KNOW?
HE HAD THE TRUMP ENDORSEMENT, SO
HE DIDN’T HAVE TO GO THROUGH A
COMPETITIVE PRIMARY IN ORDER TO
GET TO THE POINT OF BEING A
NOMINEE.
THE TOWN SIDE, OF COURSE, IS
THAT NONE OF THIS DIRTY LAUNDRY
GETS AIRED EARLIER IN THE CYCLE
WHERE YOU COULD HAVE HAD AN
OPPORTUNITY TO RECOVER FROM IT,
TO MESSAGE IT, TO TRY TO WORK
AROUND IT, TO HAVE SOME KIND OF
GRACEFUL PERIOD OF SAYING, YOU
KNOW, I’VE LEARNED FROM MY PAST
MISTAKES.
INSTEAD, YOU HAVE THIS KIND OF
COMING AT THE END OF THIS VERY,
YOU KNOW, FRACTIOUS CAMPAIGN.
AND I DON’T THINK THAT HERSCHEL
WALKER IS NECESSARILY SOMEONE
WHO HAS THE POLITICAL CAPABILITY
TO BE ABLE TO NAVIGATE THIS
SCENARIO.
NOW, ULTIMATELY, I THINK FOR
REPUBLICAN VOTERS IN GEORGIA
THEY’RE GOING TO BE THERE FOR
HIM.
THEY’RE GOING TO COME HOME, AND
THEY’RE GOING TO SUPPORT HIM
BECAUSE HE’S THE RED TIE VERSUS
THE I BLUE TIE.
THEY WANT TO HAVE A SENATE
THAT’S RUN BY REPUBLICANS AND
NOT BY DEMOCRATS.
BUT I THINK FOR A LOT OF
INDEPENDENT VOTERS THIS IS KIND
OF THING THAT TURNS YOU OFF.
IT’S CLOSER TO THE ROY MOORE
EXPERIENCE THAN SORT OF THE
DONALD TRUMP ACCESS HOLLYWOOD
EXPERIENCE IF THAT MAKES
SENSE --
KENNEDY: YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
REPUBLICAN IN ALABAMA LOST TO
DOUG JONES AT THE LAST MINUTE,
AND HERSCHEL WALKER’S SON SAYING
MID DAD IS A LIAR --
>> LOOK, I THINK HERSCHEL
WALKER’S A TALENTED GUY, HE’S
OBVIOUSLY SOMEBODY WHO, YOU
KNOW, WAS AN EPIC SPORTS HERO
FOR THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA AND
FANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT I
ALSO THINK HE’S SOMEONE WHO WAS
AN OUTSIDER WHO NECESSARY NEVER
WON OR RUN STATEWIDE BEFORE, AND
THAT REALLY TURNS OUT TO BE
HISTORICALLY A DEFECT.
SO IT’S A REAL COIN FLIP, I
THINK, AT THIS POINT WHEN IT
COMES TO THE GEORGIA SEAT.
KENNEDY: WELL, WE’LL SEE WHAT
HAPPENS IN THE NEXT COUPLE
WEEKS.
SOME POLLS HAVE THEM A POINT
APART, SOME HAVE WALKER UP BY A
POINT.
WE WILL SEE.
ARIZONA, BLAKE MASTERS, YOU
KNOW, AGAIN, ONE OF THOSE
CANDIDATES THAT WAS
TRUMP-ENDORSED, AND A LOT OF
PEOPLE WROTE HIM OFF BECAUSE HE
WAS SO FAR BEHIND MARK KELLY.
HOW HAS HE COME WITHIN THREE
PERCENTAGE POINTS?
>> WELL, MARK KELLY IS, UNLIKE
KYRSTEN SINEMA THE OTHER SENATOR
FROM ARIZONA, SOMEONE WHO’S
REALLY BEEN A LOCKSTEP DEMOCRAT
VOTE WHEN IT COMES TO ALL OF
THESE LEFTIST POLICIES.
HE’S NOT SOMEONE WHO HAS CHARTED
HIS OWN PATH OR BEEN AN
INDEPENDENT VOICE IN ANY REAL
WAY.
AND WHILE HE MAY HAVE A NICE
STORY WHEN IT COMES TO HIS
BACKGROUND AND BEING AN
ASTRONAUT AND THAT KIND OF
THING, THAT ONLY BUYS YOU SO
MUCH.
BLAKE MASTERS IS NOT SOMEONE
WHO’S NATURAL NATURALLY GIVED
WHEN IT COMES TO RETAIL
POLITICS.
I THINK HE MIGHT ADMIT THAT.
HE’S KIND OF A SILICON VALLEY
NERD GUY WHO IS RUNNING IN
CAMPAIGN BECAUSE HE HAS STRONG
IDEOLOGICAL VIEWS, AND HE HAS
THE SUPPORT OF BILLIONAIRE PETER
THIEL WHO, MOST RECENTLY, IS
CLEARLY GETTING BACK INVOLVED IN
THIS RACE WHICH I THINK COULD BE
A CRITICAL AND DECISIVE FACTOR.
ARIZONA IS NOT A RED STATE OR A
BLUE STATE.
IT IS A PURPLE STATE CONCERN.
KENNEDY: AND THEY LIKE IT THAT
WAY.
THEY ACTUALLY LIKE THAT --
>> THEY DO.
KENNEDY: -- SINEMA DOESN’T TOW
THE PARTY LINE.
THAT’S WHY SHE WAS ELECTED.
ALL RIGHT --
>> EXACTLY.
KENNEDY: WE ONLY HAVE 30
SECONDS.
OZ VERSUS FETE EASTBOUNDER --
FETTERMAN, WHO WINS AT LEAST AT
THIS POINT?
>> I ACTUALLY WOULD PUT MY MONEY
BEHIND DR. OZ, AND I BELIEVE
THAT FETTERMAN, HE DOESN’T HAVE,
I BELIEVE, THE MOMENTUM BEHIND
HIM ANYMORE IF.
I BELIEVE THAT OZ HAS CONVINCED
ENOUGH PEOPLE HE’S ACTUALLY
BETTER AT RETAIL THAN I THINK
FETTERMAN IS AT THIS POINT,
UNFORTUNATELY, GIVEN HIS HEALTH
ISSUES.
KENNEDY: YEAH.
>> AND I THINK THAT OZ IS
ACTUALLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO TO
DELIVER AT THE END OF THE DAY IN
WHAT COULD BE THE MOST DECISIVE
RACE THAT WE SEE ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.
KENNEDY: WELL, IT’S GOING TO BE
EXCITING.
WE WILL BE THERE FOR ALL OF IT.