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The Playbook Podcast

April 2, 2021: Boehner unloads

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Backlash against Georgia's sweeping new voting restrictions, news from our sit-down with Ron Klain and the latest on Gaetz-gate. Plus: Playbook dishes on former House Speaker John Boehner's scorching new book.

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0:00.0

Presented by Facebook. Good Friday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your

0:06.1

Playbook Daily briefing. The backlash against Georgia's sweeping new voting law is getting loud

0:11.7

and fast. Faith leaders in the state are plotting a boycott next week of some of the state's

0:16.5

biggest businesses, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Delta, and Biden himself is waiting into the fight.

0:23.2

He's calling on Major League Baseball to move this summer's All-Star game out of Atlanta over the new law.

0:28.9

Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp took to Fox News to slam Biden's call.

0:33.8

And things got personal. Kemp pulled out a side-by-side chart comparing voting regulations in Georgia and Biden's home state of Delaware, often without crucial context.

0:44.5

Kemp and other Republicans are defending Georgia's new voting restrictions in the name of election integrity, despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

0:54.0

And in the wake of the new law,

0:55.5

Biden's pushing Congress to pass election reform ASAP, namely HR1, which would reform ballot access

1:01.9

and campaign finance, as well as the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore

1:07.4

struck down provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Keep an eye on how this shapes

1:11.8

Biden's position on the filibuster. He suggested he's open to nixing it for issues like voting rights.

1:18.4

Yesterday, your playbook crew had a one-on-one convo with Ron Clayne, and we covered a lot of ground

1:24.7

legislative strategy for the American jobs Plan, taxes, immigration, student

1:29.4

debt, antitrust policy, and how Clayne thinks about his role as chief of staff.

1:34.7

Clayne even made some news in the interview on student debt. Here are our four biggest takeaways.

1:40.5

Number one, on student debt, Clayne says he's expecting an education department memo on federal

1:45.5

student loan cancellation in a few weeks. But don't cancel those monthly payments just yet.

1:51.3

Claim said Biden still hasn't made a final decision on whether to use executive action

1:55.8

to cancel some of the nation's $1.5 trillion in outstanding federal student loan debt owed by roughly 45 million

2:03.4

borrowers. Number two, the White House wants bipartisanship on Biden's infrastructure bill,

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