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The Byron York Show

Democrats Increasingly Out of Touch

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In Washington, Democrats are trying to pass the most ambitious agenda since the Great Society without having won a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate. How is that supposed to work? (Answer: It won't.) There are increasing signs that party leaders are deeply out of touch not just with the public as a whole […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.

0:11.3

Brought to you today by StartMail.

0:13.2

We'll talk about that in a little bit.

0:15.0

First, we want to get right into it.

0:17.6

And we're going to talk a lot today about Democrats.

0:23.0

A lot that's going on in the party, trying to pass an agenda without having won a majority

0:31.4

in the Senate, which you may have heard is tied 50-50.

0:37.9

And running into huge resistance, trying to pass a new voting bill.

0:44.3

So I'm going to start off with a real debacle, I think they've suffered over voter ID.

0:51.4

Now we have known for many years that most Americans favor laws requiring voters to produce

0:58.4

identification in order to vote.

1:01.4

I mean, we all know it.

1:02.4

I mean, how many things are you required to present an ID to do?

1:07.4

Check into a hotel, rent a car, buy an antihistamine that has some sort of drug in it.

1:14.1

I mean, just all sorts of things you are required to present an ID to do.

1:20.8

In fact, it sometimes seems like the entire world wants you to present an ID to do anything

1:26.2

except vote.

1:27.2

So anyway, Democrats who passionately claim that voter ID is discriminatory, perhaps even

1:33.8

racist, simply do not have the public on their side.

1:38.0

Now sometimes a new poll comes along at just the right time.

1:42.7

Now we've known this about voter ID a long time, it's always been popular with the public.

1:48.7

But now a new poll just comes just as Democrats are pushing this draconian new bill that would

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