Episode 320: Exactly how screwed are Republicans on the abortion issue in the midterms? Pretty bad, that's how!
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
How and why the Republicans have painted themselves into a corner on abortion. How some candidates are trying to claw out of it.
We take a LOOK OUT! at some late-breaking poll trends in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania (GOV AND SENATE!) as well as Georgia.
Tom Merritt joins the show to discuss what the hell is happening at Twitter as a former security head has filed a whistleblower complaint further complicating the already complicated Twitter situation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is made possible by Dustin Campbell, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, Nick |
| 0:10.6 | Wood, and Craig. |
| 0:13.0 | Politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics |
| 0:37.0 | program for August 31st. |
| 0:41.6 | 2022 year old pal Justin Robert Young, joining you. |
| 0:47.0 | We've got a hell of a show here for you. |
| 0:50.0 | We're going to talk about the predicament. |
| 0:54.6 | The Republican Party finds themselves in on abortion. |
| 0:59.3 | Quite simply, in my opinion, the Dobbs decision is something that has changed the dynamics of |
| 1:05.8 | the midterms. It is a gift for the Democrats as now they have an opportunity to rally a crowd for which might not have been |
| 1:16.4 | excited to go to the polls and yet the Republicans don't have an answer. |
| 1:25.0 | It's not that they have no possible recourse, |
| 1:30.0 | it's just that they have no branding around it. |
| 1:33.3 | We take a look at the problem, |
| 1:35.8 | where some candidates are already turning, |
| 1:39.6 | and whether or not I think it'll be enough. |
| 1:45.9 | We're also gonna do a fun little segment. A fun little segment I like to call, look out! Because right now, oh these polls, these polls are all around about the midterms. |
| 1:55.0 | They're buzzing around like flies. They just hit you in the face on Twitter. |
| 1:59.0 | All of a sudden, oh my God, there's a new poll. Ah, look out! |
| 2:03.0 | I got a couple of them for you. |
| 2:05.0 | And they point to a roiling storm in what's going to be, in my opinion, a very close and telling mid-term election. |
| 2:19.0 | And finally we are joined by the one, the only, the magnificent. |
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