How to pronounce “afflict”(noun) in English

of all these people then they've gotten in a lot of the other coverage and some of that reflects badly on the candidates, and some of it reflects really well on the candidatesand I think all of them show in the book the real mix that affects and afflicts, in some ways, all politicians...between the high nobility of their polling and a lot of the personalqualities that sometimes trip them up. I will try to do two things over the course of the next half an hour, based kind of on experience of having done a fair number of these talks