55: Dr. Richard Murray on Taking Texas and Fred Wertheimer on the Influence of Dark Money

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

With only weeks to go, gigantic sums of campaign cash have washed over the electoral landscape, but when the country is this polarized does money still talk? James and Al are starting to become optimistic about a Biden election, and think this might be his chance to expand the map. University of Houston’s Dr. Richard Murray reviews the possibility of flipping reliably red states, while Founder and President of Democracy 21

Fred Wertheimer discusses the role of cash in 2020 strategy and where it comes from. After listening to them, do you think this is the year that the Democrats shock in the south?

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TIMELINE:

00:00 - Intro

03:00 - Liberty vs. Democracy

06:15 - The stain on Amy Coney Barrett

11:00 - Remembering Roberta McCain

15:15 - Taking Texas

17:00 - The real demographics

20:30 - An outstanding gerrymander

23:00 - The Texas Republican dilemma

27:30 - The most interesting county in the US

30:00 - Election bellwethers

36:45 - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Money

40:00 - Unprecedented cash flow

44:30 - Shining a light on dark money

48:45 - The fight for the courts

55:30 - Listener Q&A

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville, Dan and Mississippi and
0:10.0	I'm Alon here in Washington.
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0:47.8	Now with only a little more than two and a half weeks to go, let's get on with the show.
0:52.5	Hey James, there's so much politics to talk about but let's start with that Supreme Court
0:57.3	nomination hearings of Amy Coney Barrett and let's assess whether there are any political
1:03.8	implications to it.
1:04.9	Look, I think two things about her.
1:07.2	She is one of the most engaging nominees in Sandra Day O'Connor and she's also the most
1:12.8	right-wing nominee since Robert Bork.
1:15.8	She's going to be confirmed.
1:16.8	They have the votes.
1:18.3	They cheated to get there because of what they did in America, Garland four years ago and
1:22.1	not even having a hearing.
1:23.7	She will be a very right-wing judge.
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