A Historic Vote on Equal Rights, and Hopes for Gun Control

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🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On Thursday, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton presided over debate on a bill to advance the Equal Rights Amendment. After the bill passed, she sat down in her office with Isaac Dovere to discuss the historic ERA vote and how she thinks Congress can take action on gun violence. Also on the show: thoughts on New Hampshire and an exclusive exchange with Andrew Yang, recorded as he prepared to announce the end of his candidacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you, New Hampshire.
0:13.0	New Hampshire.
0:14.0	We love you, New Hampshire.
0:18.0	Welcome to the ticket.
0:20.0	I'm Isaac Daubert.
0:21.0	Hello America, I'm Amy Klobuchar and I will beat Donald Trump.
0:28.8	Tuesday night I was in Concord, New Hampshire at Amy Klobishar's election night party.
0:33.0	To some people, her third place showing was the story of the night,
0:35.7	though of course Bernie Sanders and Pete Budajaj again both won the most votes
0:39.5	with the Vermont senator at the top with close to 26% of the vote. Now that is an unusually small
0:44.6	share to win in a primary. It's actually the closest New Hampshire primary ever.
0:48.3	Which means of course there are still a lot of names left on the ballots even though that list is starting to
0:53.6	shrink. So before we get to this week's interview I wanted to spend a moment on
0:58.3	that shrinking list. Right before I drove to Klobuchar's party I was in a bar
1:02.1	basement where Colorado Senator Michael Bennett announced he was ending his bid.
1:06.0	While I was standing there next to the Crudate display, Andrew Yang dropped out.
1:11.0	And with former Massachusetts Governor
1:12.8	Devall Patrick also calling it quits, that meant a Democratic field that
1:15.8	began as the most diverse ever has become strikingly a monochrome, all
1:20.1	before a diverse electorate even gets to vote.
1:23.6	Now I knew Yang was ending his run.
1:25.6	We'd actually sat down together on Monday night
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