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The Brian Lehrer Show

Brian Lehrer Weekend: Abortion on the Ballot; A Record-Breaking U.S. Open; Labor Day Deep Dive

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

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0:00.0

Hi, Brian Lairer here.

0:01.3

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

0:03.0

three of our favorite segments from the week,

0:05.0

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

0:07.6

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

0:11.2

on WNYC and WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. So Donald Trump, a Florida voter,

0:40.9

says he will vote to uphold the six-week abortion ban in the state. He said that last Friday,

0:46.4

one day after he said he's against the ban. Here's Trump last Thursday when asked by NBC News

0:52.3

about the six-week ban versus a Florida abortion rights referendum

0:57.7

that will be on the ballot in November.

1:00.3

I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.

1:03.3

So that wasn't quite an endorsement of the abortion rights referendum, right?

1:08.4

But anti-abortion rights groups freaked out that he said he'd be voting

1:13.1

that they need more than six weeks. And the very next day asked if he would vote for the

1:18.1

abortion rights measure again. Trump said this. So I'll be voting no. Yeah. So what just happened

1:25.5

here in the context of the presidential race, where abortion rights

1:29.1

likely to drive so many voters to the polls to vote yes, is it time to ask what was previously

1:36.4

an unthinkable political question? Could Florida, after so many years as a solidly red state,

1:42.4

be back in play as a swing state in this presidential election.

1:46.6

Let's take a closer look at the Florida referendum and the election year politics of the

1:51.6

sunshine state overall now with Grace Panetta, political reporter for the 19th, the news site

1:57.6

named after the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave

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