Red Cloud

Yeah, the leaked recording had Dan Osborne saying some, eh, disparaging remarks about rural Nebraskans.

Uh, uh, he used a small town in southwest Nebraska, uh, Red Cloud, to talk about these, um, people who their lives suck, that they're just...

They see themselves on a winning team, uh, and that's the only reason that they keep voting for, for Donald Trump.

Uh, that audio came out.

I don't know if he was walking back it, but just saying, like, "Hey, look, I, I use colorful language and of course I don't think that their lives, uh, suck.

I think that, uh, they just, you know, are, are hurting and need some change." And he's had to kind of walk this line of saying why he said the things that he said.

He even went to Red Cloud and had a, a small town hall to basically apologize and hear from the town.

Um, but it is interesting to see Donald Trump, the president of course, uh, come to a very, uh, Republican part of Nebraska in Grand Island, uh, on Monday, uh, alongside both Pete Ricketts and the, the incumbent governor, who's up for re-election as well, uh, stumping and, um, trying to drum up support.

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Billy Bob out in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

His life probably sucks.

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I too am taken aback.

Oh, what are the chances? And, uh, when he said things like describing rural Nebraskans as Billy Bob and effing Red Cloud, Nebraska, et cetera.

Here's the clip as a reminder.

Billy Bob in red cloud, Nebraska, who lives next door to the truck store as you pull into town.

and is waving the Trump flag, all he knows is he's on the winning team.

It's really that simple.

Uh, "I will, I, I will do the blue version because, uh, why not today? Uh, we're talking about freedom of the press.

Billy Bob in fucking Red Cloud, Nebraska, who's next door to the fucking Trump Store as you pull into town and is waving the Trump flag, all he knows is he's, like, on the winning team." Then he goes on to say President Trump has been, quote, "so effective at taking Billy Bob and his wife, Mary Jane or Mary Jo, and telling them, 'Look, you're on the winning team,' and the at- that is all they care about because their lives probably suck." That is a direct quote.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, it was in The Wall Street Journal.

Can I make a-

... it'll get plenty of time

... can I make a historic point, Andy, about th- this, this town that he decided to just use as a foil, Red Cloud, Nebraska?

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After Jeff and I spoke, the Omaha World-Herald obtained an audio recording in which the paper said Osborne can be heard criticizing Trump voters.

Billy Bob in [censored] Red Cloud, Nebraska, who lives next door to the [censored] Trump store as you pull into town, is waving the Trump flag.

He's just, he just, all he knows is he's, like, on the winning team.

It's, it's really that simple.

Can I get cut 10, please? Dan Osborne

Billy Bob in [beep] Red Cloud, Nebraska, who lives next door to the [beep] Trump Store as you pull into town and is waving the Trump flag, he's just, he just, all he knows is he's, like, on the winning team.

It's, it's really that simple.

It is, and, and Trump, and that is why he's been so effective.

Cut 11.

Billy Bob in [beep] Red Cloud, Nebraska, who lives next door to the [beep] Trump store as you pull into town, and is waving the Trump flag, he's just, he just, all he knows is he's, like, on the winning team.

It's, it's really that simple.

It is.