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Laura Coates Live

Democrat success in special House elections

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonights show starts with President Joe Biden's slate of recent legislative wins and his announcement of a plan for forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 annually. We talk with community organiser Maxwell Frost who could become the first member of Gen Z elected to Congress after he won the Democrat nomination for Florida’s 10th Congressional District – the deep blue seat vacated by Rep. Val Demings. Also: The Uvalde school board expected to discuss whether to fire Police Chief Pete Arredondo, a Federal judge in Florida gives Trump until Friday to refine the legal arguments in his request for a special master to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the Mar-a-Lago search and Chris Stirewalt the ex political editor for Fox News, speaks out. Hosted by Laura Coates To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight and look, something, well, it's shifted.

0:06.7

Not exactly how sure and how much that actually has been the case, but we've ridden the political

0:12.0

roller coaster enough to know that no one knows for sure what's going to happen in

0:16.6

an November midterms.

0:17.6

But remember that big red Republican wave that so many political suit sayers were predicting?

0:24.0

Well, if last night's primary results were any indication, we might have some clues that,

0:29.5

look, that may not hit so hard after all.

0:33.3

Here's the first clue.

0:34.3

Have we been watching a little news coverage on the edge of our seat?

0:42.5

I honestly can't believe it.

0:45.5

I cannot believe it.

0:47.7

Well, that's Democrat Pat Ryan.

0:50.2

He apparently surprised himself that he won a special election against a Republican in

0:55.0

a New York swing district that many expect it to swing toward the GOP.

0:59.2

After all, Biden only won the district by what a point and a half in 2020.

1:04.0

And we all know that when it comes to midterm elections, if passed his prologue, the party

1:09.2

in the Oval Office doesn't really get the benefit of the spoils.

1:14.0

And that leads us to clue number two.

1:17.0

I'll let Pat Ryan explain that one too.

1:20.1

And I think these Supreme Court decisions, especially on both guns and on row or dobs, I should

1:27.2

say, struck a real nerve that's much deeper than some of the other issues people are experiencing

1:34.6

and kind of hit guardrails of democracy.

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