Daily Take: Is the Republican Argument Against Women Voting Getting New Traction?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The Republican nominee for governor of NC, Trump-endorsed Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, knows how to fix America’s political and social problems: prevent women from voting…
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| 0:00.0 | Is the conservative argument against women voting getting new traction? |
| 0:05.0 | The Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina this year, |
| 0:09.0 | Trump endorsed Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson knows how to fix America's political and social problems, prevent women from |
| 0:15.2 | voting. |
| 0:16.2 | In a video from his presentation to, ironically, the Republican women of Pitt County in March |
| 0:21.1 | of 2020, when Robinson was successfully running for |
| 0:24.3 | lieutenant governor he came right out and said it quote I absolutely want to go back to the |
| 0:28.7 | America where women can't vote Robinson argued do you know why because in those days we had people who fought for real social change and they were called Republicans. |
| 0:36.5 | That's the America we want to bring back. We want to bring back the America where Republicans and principals and true ideas of freedom rule." |
| 0:45.9 | Of course Robinson wasn't onto something new for the GOP. |
| 0:48.8 | What's new is that some of the party's most extreme voter suppression efforts, theoretically targeting blacks and |
| 0:54.4 | Hispanics will be working this fall to prevent women from voting as well. |
| 0:58.8 | The calls to disenfranchise women have been growing among Republicans in recent years. |
| 1:04.2 | Just a few months ago, Ann Coulter was again blunt. |
| 1:07.5 | Once again, it's time to reconsider our rash experiment with women's suffrage," she said. |
| 1:14.2 | Michigan Republican John Gibbs, it was revealed when he ran for Congress in 2022 as the official |
| 1:19.1 | GOP candidate for that state's third congressional district was ahead of the curve. |
| 1:23.6 | The former Trump administration official had created a website two decades ago that laid out |
| 1:27.4 | the conservative argument against women voting. |
| 1:29.6 | Quote, some argue that in a democratic society it is hypocritical or unjust for women who are 50% of the population not to have the vote. |
| 1:37.0 | This is obviously not true since the founding fathers who understood liberty and democracy better than anyone did not believe so. |
| 1:44.0 | In addition, all people under age 18 cannot vote, although they too comprise a significant portion |
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