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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 292 - Last night we had 2 historic victories and 1 crushing defeat

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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I learned a long time ago that victories come so rarely, that you have to celebrate them when you have them. Last night two brilliant candidates won essential elections, but another brilliant candidate lost as well. Let me unpack and explain all three races. ----- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0

During what I think is one of the most difficult times that I've ever seen to campaign. It is really, really hard to

0:46.2

campaign and vote during this pandemic. But there were very important primaries in

0:52.2

Detroit and St. Louis and we had two really important

0:59.0

victories and one heartbreaking defeat and I want us to celebrate those victories and talk for a moment about that one defeat.

1:07.0

Can't wait to share the good news and we'll talk about the loss as well.

1:11.0

This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown. I learned a long time ago that when you have a victory if it's fighting for a policy.

1:27.0

I learned a long time ago that when you have a victory if it's fighting for a policy certainly if it's

1:36.2

fighting for an election or candidate you have to celebrate it because the

1:42.1

victories are few and far between,

1:45.0

a doubly so in 2020.

1:48.0

Like, this year is so hard and as difficult as it is if we're not fighting tooth and nail for

2:01.6

everything that we think we need from racial justice policies to

2:06.0

criminal justice policies to to the candidates that we believe in.

2:10.8

We're not fighting tooth and nail there's no way we'll win.

2:14.8

And in a lot of cases, including in one of the stories I'm about to share with you,

2:19.4

even when we fight with our whole heart, you still might not win. Well yesterday there were two

2:27.7

huge victories and the truth is in Missouri there were a lot of great victories yesterday but there were two candidates that I've

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