Episode 343: GOP Autopsy! Challenges to leadership, midterm messaging massacre and more!
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Kevin McCarthy may have to sell his soul to be Speaker of the House.
Mitch McConnell fights for his life as leader of the Senate Republicans.
Even Scrimshaw takes a victory lap after nailing the midterms.
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| 0:00.0 | This is made possible by Dustin Campbell, Oh Them Bones, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, Nick Wood, and Craig. |
| 0:13.0 | Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. |
| 0:17.0 | Politics. Politics. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics program for |
| 0:38.0 | Wednesday November 16th 2022 year old pal Justin Robert Young joining you here in Austin Texas as I |
| 0:50.0 | speak to you now. The current count is Republicans at 217, Democrats at 2006. That is a net gain for Republicans of eight seats so far. |
| 1:07.1 | They are one official call away from officially securing the house. |
| 1:17.6 | We will see by how many seats that is, |
| 1:20.8 | obviously a tremendous underperformance compared to where people expected. |
| 1:27.8 | As of now we also have an official concession from Adam Laxalt in Nevada who loses to Catherine Cortez, Masto. |
| 1:36.8 | And we have a called Governor's Race, one of the most watched Governor's Races, and one of the most watched governors races and one of the most maligned Democratic candidates |
| 1:47.4 | this cycle. Katie Hobbs gets the last laugh over Carrie Lake. |
| 1:55.0 | Carrie Lake, doing what she has done throughout this process and |
| 2:00.0 | casting doubt on the legitimacy of the election but there is no doubt who will have |
| 2:05.3 | the governor's mansion and that is Katie Hobbs. So with that out of the way, let's also look to 2024. |
| 2:19.0 | Donald Trump allegedly reportedly will announce his intention to run for president, or he did last night, |
| 2:29.8 | Tuesday night, depending on when you listen to this, because I'm going to release it early. |
| 2:36.0 | If that is the case, he is the first officially announced into the race, a race for which |
| 2:40.5 | he wants to define a race that he wants to scare other candidates out of. |
| 2:47.0 | Other candidates like Ron DeSantis, who took a question about Donald Trump on Tuesday. Here is that sound. |
| 2:58.0 | One of the things I've learned like learning this job is when you're doing you're leading when you're getting getting things |
| 3:05.0 | done yeah you take incoming fire that's just the nature of it I roll out of |
| 3:10.1 | bed in the morning I've got corporate media outlets that have a spasm just the fact that I'm getting |
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