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American Fever Dream

#50 What’s Up With Puerto Rico? (From Puerto Rico)

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Wepa! Sami, Alise and Bryan are back and they’re coming to you from Puerto Rico. At 2:00 they talk about the upcoming midterm elections and the hilarious smear campaign ads that will accompany them. At 8:05 they talk about Betsy Devos’ new legislation that defends universities over victims in sexual assault cases. At 13:00 they talk about Hispanic citizens in the border states who are being denied re-entry into the US because the Trump administration just doesn’t want them to come in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and we're coming to the Betches up podcast I'm Elise Morales I'm Saming Fishbine

0:08.2

I'm Brian Russell Smith and we are coming to you today from San Juan Puerto Rico.

0:14.1

Yeah, guys, we have a really special episode

0:19.0

for you today.

0:20.1

We're going to run down the news really quick

0:22.2

and then we're going to talk to you a little bit about

0:24.4

What we've been doing. Yeah, we didn't just go on vacation. We did some stuff

0:29.2

No, we did things we I recorded a lot of video. Yeah, well if you go to the vet's up

0:34.7

Instagram you'll see our entire journey but we're gonna talk you through that

0:38.3

but first the news yes so I'll start yeah so just a quick midterms update there were a bunch of

0:46.3

primaries this week uh... Arizona uh... they're going to replace uh... jeff and Martha McSalle got the Republican

0:55.6

nomination which is kind of a good thing because she's like the least crazy

1:00.4

like she was up against Joe Arpeo and if you all remember Joe Arpeo is the guy that got pardoned by

1:06.3

Trump for shackling pregnant women in like pregnant immigrants together and basically basically let me

1:13.0

may or may not have killed a dog like yeah yeah he's up for craziest man in

1:18.4

America for sure yeah and and then um then the Democratic nomination went to Kirsten Cinema, which is all exciting because this is the first time that Arizona will have a female senator.

1:32.2

So no matter what happens.

1:33.7

We hope, oh right, but neither one of them.

1:35.8

Yeah, because they're both women.

1:37.9

Okay.

1:38.9

And apparently, cinema does have a narrow lead over McSalle in the polls,

1:45.0

but McSalle has already started running

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