Abortion Is Top Of Mind In Ohio's Closely-Watched Senate Race
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🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, and congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Susan Davis from the MPR Politics Podcast. The news is out. We're finally going |
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| 0:26.5 | Hi, this is Cohen Van Court in Houston, Texas, where I'm a work readiness instructor for young |
| 0:33.8 | adults on the autism spectrum. It's the best job in the world. This podcast was recorded at 1236 |
| 0:41.7 | pm on Wednesday, September 14th. Things might have changed since then, but I'll still be counting the |
| 0:48.4 | days to like and see the MPR Politics Podcast live. Enjoy the show. I think at this point we're |
| 1:00.5 | counting the hours to the live show, not the days. She's in lockets coming up soon. Hey there, |
| 1:06.3 | it's the MPR Politics Podcast on Susan Davis, I cover politics. I'm Danielle Curtsley, |
| 1:10.6 | but I cover politics. And I'm Deirdre Walsh, I cover Congress. And today we're going to talk about |
| 1:15.4 | Ohio's Senate race, which is not exactly a state I thought we'd be discussing in the fight for |
| 1:20.8 | the Senate majority in 2022. To back it up a little, it's an open seat contest. Republican |
| 1:26.3 | Senator Rob Portman decided to retire. Republican JD Vance is running against Democratic |
| 1:31.7 | Congressman Tim Ryan. It's a Republican held seat in a state where Republicans have been |
| 1:36.7 | winning pretty comfortably statewide for a time now. So Danielle, you just spent some time in Ohio, |
| 1:42.3 | help us understand what's going on in the state. Sure. Yeah. So first things first, this race |
| 1:46.8 | pits Tim Ryan of Democratic Congressman who our listeners might remember. He ran for president |
| 1:52.2 | in 2020. And he is running against JD Vance, who our listeners also may have heard of. He |
| 1:58.4 | wrote the book Hillbilly Elegy, which was a big, big deal, just after Trump got elected. |
| 2:03.8 | Specifically, what I was reporting on in Ohio, though, was not the quote-unquote working class |
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