Economic Pain and an Unpopular Trump Put G.O.P. on its Heels

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe New York Times reports inflation has squeezed farmers, truckers and shoppers, and Republicans are on their heels with three weeks to go.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJoining us, Earl Dunmore, commissary manager at FCI Pine Hollow.

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   Earl DunmoreThanks, Vera. I manage prices for four hundred men. A ramen went from two stamps to four. Nobody voted for that, and they noticed.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo price pain moves voters?

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   Earl DunmoreMoves them like a mattress. Safe cell blocks flip fast when the soup is overpriced.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEven in places that were safely Republican a few months ago?

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   Earl DunmoreVera, loyalty ends at the tuna. Allegedly, a raffle taught me that.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA raffle?

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   Earl DunmoreChurch raffle. Allegedly. Turnout was incredible, four hundred tickets from a town of two hundred. I'm here on a clerical thing.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEarl, is that why you're there? Four hundred tickets?

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    Earl DunmoreAllegedly, the second drum was heavy. Look, I hold a laminated price list. I'm qualified.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhat should the party do, then?

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    Earl DunmoreWin the raffle. Is this line recorded?