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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

166: The Battle for Arizona with Yvonne Wignett Sanchez

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News Commentary, Politics, Government, News, National

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Now that the midterms are only a few weeks away, James and Al summon WaPo political reporter and Arizona expert Yvonne Wignett Sanchez for a deep dive into the crucial gubernatorial and senate races there. In their analysis, they discuss the impact of MAGA extremism and transplanted voters, the decisive importance of latinos and suburbanites, and compare the candidates while looking ahead to 2024.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Politics World Room of James Carville and I'm Alha.

0:15.6

This week our guest is an expert on Arizona politics from the Washington Post.

0:20.7

Von Wingette Sanchez, this is our weekly series on key battleground states.

0:26.6

Remember we love taking your questions right in the politics world room at gmail.com

0:31.1

or send a tweet to adpleticon for next week's show.

0:34.4

We'll get to as many as we can and don't forget to tell us where you're from.

0:38.4

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0:44.0

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0:48.3

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0:53.2

Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.

0:58.0

Hey James, we got a lot to talk about with the election less than a month away but we got to start

1:02.3

with Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville who said Democrats are pro crime and they want reparations

1:09.0

for those criminals. Now Tuberville who didn't know the three branches of government when he got

1:14.4

to the Senate is too stupid to use a dog whistle so he's just an out and out vile racist.

1:21.1

Former football coach at Auburn elsewhere whose success was due to the labors of very good black

1:28.7

players and he can be dismissed as just a modern day billbober. Where are the Mitch McConnell's

1:34.2

or the Lindsey Graham's or other Republicans to condemn this racism? Basically nowhere.

1:40.2

And then this week, you know, every college football player, every sports reporter who's covering

1:45.2

whether it's Wake Forest, they don't have a game but covering Clemson or covering Florida,

1:49.6

covering any place else, want to ask the coach what they think of what Tommy Tuberville says.

1:54.9

They're all going out in the field with 70, 80 percent black players. And similarly,

2:00.6

Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, caught in one lie after another, it just keeps going.

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