Elizabeth Dole

Typically, when a campaign goes in this direction, and by that I mean the Ramaswamy campaign, it is considered to be an act of desperation.

That there was an ad in 2008 in the North Carolina Senate race where incumbent Senator Elizabeth Dole's campaign released an ad.

It's been a while since I've looked at this because it's obviously over a decade and a half ago, but essentially accusing her Democratic opponent, Kay Hagan, uh of atheism in this religious state because of uh who was backing her and what was said at some campaign funders you can find the ad online but it's considered quite controversial uh at the time for the obvious reason uh and it was also understood to be the sort of thing that a campaign that thought they were ahead would probably not do in the last week or so before the campaign And Elizabeth Dole did lose.

And it wasn't very close.

Of course, that was a Democratic wave year, the year that they were Democrats picked up eight Senate seats by election.

Financial compensation.

And just the impact of like knowing that these women were still alive and that they couldn't have families of their own and watching the bill pass that could give them that financial compensation back like that impacted him and the second time was when he was dealing with the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina that's something I covered a lot so I was really interested to see his insight into this and he said you know he you know this is something that started with And different lawmakers from Elizabeth Dole to Richard Burr to him, it just kept passing down whoever was senior senator kind of held the baton and it kept going down.

He's the one who finally got it passed through the House and the Senate with a lot of help from a lot of people, which he acknowledges.

But he said, you know, through the years he's been working with different members of Lumbee.

So, um, my soon-to-be husband worked in the office that was immediately next door on the other side, which I neglected to mention, which was Bob Dole.

And, um, we, um, he was Senator Dole's driver, senator and Liddy Dole's driver.

She was Secretary of Transportation-

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And this is the first week of October and the Senate race is as good as over right here.

I mean, I don't even think it, I mean, in 2008 when Elizabeth Dole was running her losing effort against Kay Hagan, you could feel that the tide had turned against Elizabeth Dole, but she was still fighting and clawing all the way until the godless ad that But she was still putting up a fight.

And now we saw it yesterday in the News & Observer.

The Watley people are saying, we're not even going to run TV ads anymore.

You see almost a dynastic view of service.

Yeah, I mean, we've seen this with Janet Reno, Condi Rice, Elizabeth Dole.

The Bushes.

The Bushes.

In their own words, what could go right? What could go wrong? And then you can see what requires a policy and regulatory response, and what do we need to communicate to the people.

I remember during the Reagan years, uh, Elizabeth Dole, who was the, the Secretary of Transportation, came out with a statement saying, "We want zero aircraft deaths." And there was only one way to make that happen, stop flying airplanes.

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That was it.