DOJ Vows To Protect Election Workers
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed to two debates on Wednesday. In agreeing to the debates, Biden and Trump are bucking the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which had been organizing debates since the 80s.U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said this week that the Department of Justice will “aggressively” prosecute anyone who threatens election workers ahead of the 2024 election.
The announcement comes as a new poll from the Brennan Center for Justice found that more than half of local election officials are scared for their safety. Alexis Johnson, a former VICE News reporter who covers race, politics, and culture, says despite good intentions, Garland and the DOJ will likely struggle to keep that promise, leaving election workers vulnerable.
And in headlines: Inflation dipped slightly in April, the number of Americans who died from a drug overdose decreased for the first time in five years, and a high-level Biden appointee resigned in protest of the U.S.’s continued support for Israel and its war in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 16th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Priyanka Erebindi. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is What a Day, |
| 0:06.0 | the show where we're dancing on the grave |
| 0:08.0 | of the Chuck E. Cheese, |
| 0:10.0 | Crepey Animatronic robot band. |
| 0:12.0 | The company officially announced that they are pulling |
| 0:13.7 | the plug on the band forever and our nightmares got a little less scary afterwards. |
| 0:19.7 | Truly creepy I don't know why this was a good idea. Who thought of this? |
| 0:24.0 | Probably whoever thought of the terrible Chuck-A-Chi's backstory, look it up. |
| 0:28.0 | On today's show, inflation takes a tiny drop, plus New York City Mayor Eric Adams puts |
| 0:35.8 | his foot in his mouth yet again. |
| 0:38.3 | But first... |
| 0:39.3 | Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. |
| 0:41.7 | The sense then he hadn't shown up for debate. |
| 0:43.5 | Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again. |
| 0:45.8 | Well, make my day, pal. |
| 0:47.5 | I'll even do it twice. |
| 0:49.4 | So let's pick the dates, Donald. |
| 0:51.0 | I hear you're free on Wednesdays. That was President Joe |
| 0:54.2 | Biden challenging former President Donald Trump to two debates on Wednesday and |
| 0:58.2 | Trump agreed. Biden and Trump will face off first on June 27th on CNN weeks before either of them is |
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