DeJoy Division
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The DNC was set to begin today in Wisconsin, but instead, it’s beginning in Zooms across America. We talked to Wisconsin Democrats Senator Tammy Baldwin and party chair Ben Wikler about the state’s recent electoral history and how Biden can win there this year.
The USPS warned that it may not be able to accommodate last minute mail-in ballots. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to call the House back early to counter recent changes at the Postal Service, and is calling for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to testify next Monday.
And in headlines: more people are facing food insecurity, pro-Democracy protests in Thailand, and Apple angers gamers.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 17th. I'm Akila Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Gideon Ressike and this is what a day where we spent our entire weekend |
| 0:12.8 | protecting defenses mailboxes. Yeah, I had like a baseball bat with nails sticking out of it and |
| 0:18.0 | I don't know if I was actually helping but they didn't take the mailbox. |
| 0:22.0 | I was dressed like Freddie Krueger and I made a child cry. |
| 0:30.1 | On today's show, the state of the state of Wisconsin, then some headlines. |
| 0:38.8 | But first the latest. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm down for the whole song. |
| 0:53.4 | The conversation surrounding the United States Postal Service reached a fever pitch this weekend |
| 0:57.3 | as people saw examples of the whole slowing down the mail and holding up funding thing. |
| 1:01.5 | But let's get into some updates on where we stand with Trump and Postmaster General Lewis |
| 1:05.3 | to Joy, who is a Trump mega donor who was appointed in May. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, so the next part of the saga will be congressional hearings. |
| 1:12.5 | How Speaker, Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats want to join a testified next Monday, |
| 1:16.8 | August 24th, which is sooner than his previously scheduled September testimony. |
| 1:20.9 | And this comes after Trump's comments, which we talked about last Friday, but then also a warning |
| 1:25.3 | from the Postal Service to 46 states that it may not be able to accommodate last-minute mail |
| 1:30.0 | and ballots in the middle of a pandemic. The General Council for the Postal Service |
| 1:34.2 | urge those states with tight schedules to require that residents request ballots at least 15 days |
| 1:39.2 | before an election to ensure that they get returned with enough time to be processed. |
| 1:42.8 | Yeah, it seems like it's going to be important to do it as soon as possible. |
| 1:46.0 | All right, so Democrats have been speaking out about this as have voters. |
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