Episode 77: Are we truly prepared to not know a winner on election night? Trump's testing fumble.
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
- With another election stretching past election night and only more mail ballots on the horizon, is it time we realized that Election Week 2020 is coming?
- Trump's Tulsa rally was a big missed opportunity but not as big as his position on testing.
- We speak with Joanna Schwartz (UCLA) about Qualified Immunity, the arguments for/against, if it will be replaced by congress and why it might be the only thing Justices Thomas and Sotomayor agree on.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Andy Beach, Paul Boyer, Michael Bolick, and Will Harris. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics |
| 0:36.2 | podcast coming to you live from an undisclosed location in Oakland, California in my self-selected quarantine bubble. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm your host Justin Robert Young. It is June 24th. I can't believe we're already |
| 0:57.3 | knocking on Independence Day here. This year man, 2020. |
| 1:02.8 | What a kick in the groin! |
| 1:06.2 | We are going to talk about qualified immunity. |
| 1:08.0 | We got a great guest to talk about the legal ramifications of what qualified immunity is, how it could be repealed if it would be |
| 1:18.4 | effective if it were repealed and why it is something that may not have the effect that you would think on |
| 1:27.6 | law enforcement that's coming up. I also have some more meta thoughts about what the Tulsa rally means and why I the more I think of it, |
| 1:45.0 | I'm very puzzled on Donald Trump's strategy |
| 1:50.0 | on testing specifically. But we begin with this. |
| 1:56.0 | It's 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning on the West Coast, |
| 2:02.0 | where I am recording this. on the The Democratic Party for the right to run against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, |
| 2:15.7 | Pitt Establishment, blessed Amy McGrath against Progressive Upstart Charlie Booker. |
| 2:21.9 | As of recording this, 62% of the results are in and McGrath has a 7% advantage. |
| 2:31.2 | But yet to be counted are thousands of mail-in ballots that could tip this race either way |
| 2:40.2 | And while there's more to discuss about this race, including the reduced number, namely one of the polling places, or rather place in Louisville, and uncooperative poll workers closing the doors on voters. |
| 2:53.5 | I want to draw your attention to something that has happened more and more this election |
| 2:59.0 | sees it, both before and after COVID. |
| 3:03.0 | And that of course is the waiting. |
| 3:07.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, |
| 3:09.0 | and the waiting is the hardest part every day. The Iowa Caucus was of course a total cluster and |
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