Biden Must Win the Midwest
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Rep Mark Pocan takes your calls- on Gaza, inflation, climate change, Trump's crimes... What are the issues that will move the election? What will people vote on in the key swing states?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Congressman Mark Pocan on the line with us. |
| 0:20.0 | Congressman Pocan of course represents the second district of Wisconsin. |
| 0:23.6 | He's the current member and chair emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:27.9 | Co-founder and co-chair of the Labor Caucus, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus. |
| 0:32.4 | You can find his website at Pocan. |
| 0:34.0 | House. |
| 0:34.8 | You can treat him a Rep Mark, Pocan, M-A-K-P-O-C-A-N. |
| 0:38.8 | Congressman, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:40.6 | What's up in Congress this week? Not much, Tom. You know, that's our problem. |
| 0:46.0 | You know, we really can't get too many things done given the Republicans' inability to govern. |
| 0:51.0 | Marjorie Taylor Green still trying to, you know, |
| 0:54.4 | have a hammer over Mike Johnson's head. |
| 0:57.8 | I think we passed yet another resolution |
| 1:01.0 | on anti-Semitism, which is getting to be a little bit tragic. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, the fact that, you know, we keep doing this because Republicans have decided to weaponize |
| 1:11.0 | anti-Semitism rather than actually address. There are many members who are |
| 1:15.2 | anti-Semitic and past and current comments. But Congress is the House anyway is severely broken |
| 1:21.1 | under this Republican leadership so we show up and we try to |
| 1:24.3 | get something done but bluntly November is can't happen soon enough yeah I you know |
| 1:30.4 | I totally get that I'm the the article I wrote today over at Harbin Report.com is about how Republicans |
| 1:38.2 | are planning to do voter intimidation, how they're purging people from the voting rolls. |
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