69: Seats of Blue in ‘22
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The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Comedian and Host of LPTV’s We're Speaking, Maya May. For this podcast, we’re once again shaking up the format and answering questions asked by YOU, the members of the Lincoln Project community. Listeners ask about the upcoming 2022 midterm elections and what individuals can do TODAY to ensure Democrats maintain control of Congress, “widening the tent” of the Democratic party, the upcoming statewide election in Virginia, and more! Plus, how can our nation heal from the plethora of political polarization? As mentioned in the show, be sure to check out the myriad of Lincoln Project Facebook groups: https://www.facebook.com/thelincolnproject.us/groups.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today, I'm joined by Maya |
| 0:13.9 | May, comedian and host of LPTVs We're Speaking, which is back for a brand new season this |
| 0:19.6 | week. Maya, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me back, Reed. Absolutely, and everybody |
| 0:24.4 | just remember that if you can't catch any of our LPTV shows live, you can always find |
| 0:28.8 | them on our YouTube channel. I hope you'll tune in. So Maya, we did this a couple of months |
| 0:33.6 | ago, and I think we had a pretty good time doing it, which is taking questions from our listeners |
| 0:37.7 | out there and getting some of our unvarnished feedback, although we don't put a lot of |
| 0:42.3 | varnish on anything I guess to begin with. But I just wanted to hear from listeners and |
| 0:46.4 | fellow members of the Lincoln Project community. So Rob and the production crew have taken |
| 0:51.5 | questions from social media, emails, town halls, and remember, anytime you ask a question, |
| 0:56.7 | you could hear it on a show like this. So Maya, if you are ready, let's get into it. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, let's do it. Alright, so let's get our first question. This comes from Kathy. |
| 1:07.6 | Despite past history, is it possible for Democrats to keep control and increase numbers |
| 1:12.0 | of Congress? What is the best thing I can do as an individual to ensure Democratic |
| 1:16.4 | Congressional control in 2022? Well, I will say this is that, yeah, history is not on |
| 1:22.3 | our side when it comes to this. Only three times in the last 120 or so years has a president |
| 1:29.2 | in their first term. Has that president's party picked up seats? The last time was 2002 |
| 1:34.7 | with George W. Bush. That was, remember, though, about a year after 9-11. So Republicans |
| 1:41.0 | and Stuart and Rick were involved in that campaign talked about national security that |
| 1:46.1 | this was a matter of making sure that, you know, the American people were safe. And so |
| 1:50.1 | Maya, I think not unlike what Republicans did then, we will need to nationalize this |
| 1:56.4 | election, frankly, against a threat. And that threat is the Republican party and what |
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