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🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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A wave of POC candidates are swept into office in the 2017 election. One year after President Trump's victory, we ask, will this new wave last?
Hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela chat about this and more with In The Thick all-star Wajahat Ali.
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0:00.0 | It was, is that you? |
0:05.0 | Is that you? |
0:06.6 | Yeah, this is me. |
0:07.6 | Dude, it's a different kind of mourning |
0:10.0 | in the United States of America, |
0:11.6 | or afternoon if you may be listening to this in the afternoon. |
0:14.4 | The year after election day 2016, now it's 2017 and all of a sudden it became this like important |
0:21.2 | election. We just had to jump in water so so give me your |
0:23.9 | reaction to the election. You know I'm in Virginia for your listeners and it's it is a |
0:28.2 | bellwether state because the rest of the nation was looking at us to see what we do and |
0:31.6 | I was just sitting there all over as my kids are running |
0:35.2 | around me and my wife was like, all right, all right, I'll let you tweet this one time during |
0:39.7 | family time because it was so important. And you know it look let me put this way I don't |
0:45.7 | underestimate white anger and white rage and white anxiety so I am like a cautious |
0:51.8 | optimist but the same time I think after a year of |
0:55.6 | suffering through what we've seen as the mainstreaming of white nationalism we |
1:00.0 | have clearly seen a referendum on Trump's agenda in a purplish state which is |
1:05.1 | Virginia which is in the south ladies and gentlemen where we have a black |
1:08.3 | lieutenant governor we have a transgender woman uh... and Asian American woman elected to the assembly and I think |
1:14.1 | Democrats might take the assembly nobody was expecting that they're doing some |
1:17.2 | recounts and you saw north him you know there was he was supposed to be neck and neck |
1:21.8 | can beat Gillespie by three point percentage |
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