Blue Wall Former Governors on the Battle Lines and Their Fears of Election Certification Chaos

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tara is joined by former governors Tom Corbett (R-Pennsylvania) and Jim Blanchard (D-Michigan) to discuss the state of the election in their respective swing states as we head closer to November 5th. They shine a light on the governors’ bipartisan efforts to protect election integrity through the Keep Our Republic initiative, share which local counties will be the most pivotal, and examine Kamala Harris’s last-minute campaign efforts. To learn more about the Keep Our Republic initiative, click here. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guests: Tom Corbett and Jim Blanchard Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're a fan of the inner workings of Hollywood, then check out my podcast, The Town, on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:05.6	My name's Matt Bellany. I'm founding partner at Puck and the writer of the What I'm Hearing newsletter.
0:10.4	And with my show, The Town, I bring you the inside conversation about money and power in Hollywood.
0:15.1	Every week, we've got three short episodes featuring real Hollywood insiders to tell you what people in town are actually talking about.
0:21.7	We'll cover everything from why your favorite show was canceled overnight, which streamer is on the brink of collapse, and which executive is on the hot seat.
0:29.2	Disney, Netflix, who's up, down, and who'll never eat lunch in this town again?
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0:53.3	Okay. Follow the town on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Tara Palmeri.
0:55.0	I'm Puck's senior political correspondent, and this is Somebody's Got to Win.
0:59.0	On the show, I talked to two former governors from the all-important swing states of Pennsylvania and Michigan.
1:05.0	Governor Tom Corbett was the Republican governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015, and Governor James Planchard was a Democratic
1:13.5	governor of Michigan from 1983 to 1991. These governors know these battleground, blue wall states inside
1:21.6	and out. So we talk about what they're seeing on the ground, how they're interpreting early
1:25.3	voting returns, what counties they'll be looking at
1:27.9	on election night, and who's left, if anyone, to persuade? But first, we talk about why this
1:33.2	bipartisan duo has banded together to fight against any attempts to override the election results.
1:40.2	Governor Blanchard of Michigan and Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, thanks so much for joining
1:46.9	the show. So happy to have you on here. Well, thank you for having me. Happy to. So you're a bipartisan
1:52.8	duo. We've got Governor Blanchard, who was a Democratic governor from Michigan, and Governor Corbett
1:59.1	is a Republican governor from Pennsylvania.
2:03.4	Obviously, these are the all-important battleground states in the blue wall that everyone is paying
2:08.3	attention to right now. And these are the states that you have governed for so many years and
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