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Columnist George Will Hopes Election Will Remove Trump and his ‘Congressional Enablers’

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will left the Republican Party in 2016 to protest the nomination of Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential candidate. In a recent column, Will goes a step further, calling for the defeat of President Trump and the Republican Senate majority in November. The long-time conservative thought leader joins us to talk about the presidential election and why he’s denouncing Trump now more than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. Welcome back to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. Politzer Prize winning columnist George Will left

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the Republican Party in 2016 to protest the nomination of Donald Trump as the GOP's presidential

1:23.1

candidate. And in a recent column, he went on a step further, calling for the defeat of President

1:29.2

Trump and the Republican Senate majority in November. Longtime conservative thought leader

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joins us to talk about the presidential election and why he's denouncing Trump more urgently

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than ever. And welcome George Wilgood, to have you back with us. Glad to be with you.

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I guess the place to begin is, did you ever

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imagine that you would be talking about wanting to essentially get rid of all your fellow

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Republicans? This seems not only unprecedented, it seems quite radical, frankly. I didn't imagine

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it until about three years ago when I saw that he was being normalized.

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That's why I left the Republican Party on June 3rd, 2016, because on June 2nd, 2016,

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