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#400: Lt. Gov. Dan Forest Fights for Conservative Principles in North Carolina

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On today’s podcast, we’re featuring an exclusive interview with North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest. He recently visited The Heritage Foundation while in Washington and spoke to us about how tax reform has changed his state, as well as his thoughts on the national political scene, including the left’s push for government-run health care and the Green New Deal.Also on today’s show:• Your letters to the editor. Next week your letter could be featured on our show; write us at letters@dailysignal.com or call 202-608-6205.• An uplifting story about the amazing rescue of a newborn baby in South Africa—and what it means for the sanctity of life.The Daily Signal podcast is available on the Ricochet Audio Network. You also can listen on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts.If you like what you hear, please leave a review or give us feedback. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, February 19th. I'm Rob Bluey,

0:09.6

editor-in-chief. And I'm Rachel Del Judas. Today we're featuring our exclusive interview with North Carolina's lieutenant governor.

0:16.0

His name is Dan Forrest and he recently visited the Heritage Foundation, well in Washington.

0:21.0

We'll also share some of your feedback on Rob's recent interview with Black Lives Matter

0:26.2

activists Hawk Newsom.

0:28.2

And Michaela Stedman joins us later in the show to tell us about an amazing rescue of a newborn baby in South Africa.

0:34.6

Up next is Dairn Forest. Hello this is Rob Lewy for The Daily Signal.

0:45.3

We're joined on today's show by North Carolina's lieutenant governor, Dan Forrest, a

0:49.7

familiar face for the Daily Signal, and at our audience audience it's good to be with you.

0:53.4

Well thank you guys for having me on it's always great to be back at the Heritage

0:56.4

Foundation and a huge fan of the Daily Signal as part of my daily reading

1:01.2

material so thank you for everything you guys do.

1:03.4

Well we appreciate that and we appreciate the past interviews you've done with us and

1:06.7

visiting heritage today.

1:08.3

You know I want to ask just to kick things off for our listeners.

1:11.2

Tell us what's going on in North Carolina,

1:12.6

some of the issues that you're working on today.

1:14.3

Well, we're kicking back up our session again

1:16.2

in North Carolina, now it's our long session.

1:17.9

And we've been in Republican control down there

1:20.6

for about eight years.

1:21.6

And really what I tell people every day is kind of more of the same for us.

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