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Coronavirus Won’t Stop GOP Voter Suppression

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman about the 2020 presidential primary vote in Wisconsin, disenfranchised voters and a glance back at Jim Crow laws, why there’s ever any argument against mail-in votes, risks of the coronavirus negatively impacting the process of voting in the presidential election, and ways this could impact the process for the better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Not only was everyone being asked to go out and vote

0:03.1

in the middle of a pandemic,

0:04.7

but they were also being asked to stand in line

0:07.6

very close to other people for hours and hours and hours

0:10.5

to vote.

0:11.3

They were given the choice and God bless those voters

0:13.6

for wanting to exercise their right.

0:15.5

They were given the choice.

0:16.7

Either lose your vote, stay home,

0:18.6

or go outside and vote in a pandemic.

0:21.0

And you just ask again, why?

0:25.5

I laid out the five things I thought he should be doing now.

0:29.8

He should fully implement the Defense Production Act.

0:33.3

You know, I don't know what the world is going to look like in November.

0:35.9

Nobody does.

0:36.8

But I will tell you that I and many of my colleagues

0:40.0

are working as hard as we can to come up with the money

0:43.1

and more to make sure that in November,

0:45.7

if it is necessary that the American people can vote by paper ballot.

0:53.4

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:55.0

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:56.2

So I can't think of a time on this show

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