Could Roe’s fall secure Democrats’ Senate majority?
Left, Right & Center
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s the week after Labor Day, which marks the unofficial final push of midterm election campaigning. Democrats are optimistic thanks to an unexpected bounce in President Biden’s approval rating. It tanked at 37% in July but recently landed at 42%, reports FiveThirtyEight. Will Democratic candidates hold on to this momentum?
Plus, since the Supree Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women are out-registering men and voting in historic numbers to protect abortion rights. And a bill to protect same-sex marriage is on Congress’ fall agenda. How will all this play out in elections?
Guest host Molly Ball discusses with Zac Petkanas, Democratic strategist, on the left; and Tim Carney, columnist at the Washington Examiner, on the right. And special guest Tara Palmeri, senior political correspondent at Puck, weighs in on how voters are feeling before November.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Molly Ball on the National Political Correspondent for Time magazine and your guest |
| 0:05.4 | host this week on Left, Right, and Center. |
| 0:07.9 | This is the show where we take on all the political issues, even the complicated ones that |
| 0:11.2 | might divide your own family. |
| 0:13.0 | It's the first week after Labor Day, this week campaigning for the November 2022 midterms |
| 0:17.4 | kicked into high gear. |
| 0:19.0 | Primaries are mostly over, candidates for House and Senate and Governor and all the way down |
| 0:22.6 | the ballot are starting to debate each other. |
| 0:24.4 | President Biden's out there railing against what he's calling MAGA Republicans, making |
| 0:28.5 | the case that democracy itself is on the line. |
| 0:32.0 | Historically midterm elections are bloodbaths for the party in power and for months it's |
| 0:34.8 | been the conventional wisdom that a big Republican wave was practically guaranteed. |
| 0:39.0 | But recently we've seen momentum seem to shift in the Democrats favor. |
| 0:42.1 | Some prognosticators are now saying the president's party could hold on to the Senate, even |
| 0:46.0 | possibly the House. |
| 0:47.6 | Let's bring in our Left, Right, and Center panel to discuss these last two months before |
| 0:50.9 | the midterms. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm your host representing the center. |
| 0:54.2 | On the left we're joined by Democratic strategist Zach Cattcanis. |
| 0:57.7 | On the right we're joined by Tim Carney, columnist at the Washington Examiner and senior fellow |
| 1:01.5 | at the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 1:03.4 | Hello to both of you. |
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