Are Centrists The Most Powerful Politicians?

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The crew discusses how a bipartisan gun control deal was reached and if this unwritten legislation could be passed by the end of the year. They also previewed and caught up on some elections, including Alaska’s special election to replace longtime Alaska congressman Don Young that took place this past weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And of course, the incumbent Republican congressional
0:05.9	representatives, I'm talking about R.
0:13.8	I could feel you like,
0:15.4	I know that's what I think.
0:17.3	One of them is not running against Trump.
0:23.4	And their name is Tom Rice.
0:27.5	Okay, you know what we're gonna try again.
0:31.6	You know the joy of non-life media is that
0:36.2	unless this becomes the cold open,
0:37.6	no one ever has to know what an idiot I am.
0:39.6	I'm
0:47.4	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast.
0:50.3	I'm Gaelin Drug.
0:51.6	Over the weekend, a bipartisan group of senators,
0:54.3	10 Republicans and 10 Democrats
0:56.8	announced that they had reached an agreement
0:58.6	on new gun restrictions and funding
1:00.8	for mental health services and school security.
1:03.9	With conventional wisdom suggesting inaction
1:06.7	was the most likely outcome,
1:08.4	what made this agreement possible
1:10.4	and will it actually become more?
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