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Morning Announcements

Friday, May 7th, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we have some quick news for you. We start with Florida’s new voter suppression bill, the GOP’s plans to replace Liz Cheney, and the EU’s rapid vaccine rollout. And lastly, Caitlyn Jenner is sad that her friends are leaving California.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today is Friday, May 7th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements Presented by

0:07.3

Betcha's Media.

0:08.3

Today's episode is brought to you by COM, the number one mental wellness app.

0:12.6

Sleep more, stress less, live better, with COM, I'm Sammy Sage.

0:19.5

We have a really quick news day today, which is obviously an amazing Friday treat.

0:23.3

Yesterday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Florida's new voter suppression bill into

0:27.5

law.

0:28.5

The law limits the use of ballot drop boxes as identification requirements for voters

0:32.8

requesting absentee ballots and requires them to request absentee ballots for each

0:36.9

election instead of being signed up automatically.

0:40.2

But the fun part of the story is that DeSantis would not allow any media outlets into the bill

0:44.0

signing, and instead just gave Fox News an exclusive to broadcast the bill signing ceremony.

0:49.1

I think DeSantis severely overestimated how much people cared to watch him sign something.

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Because it is still a slow news day, I'm going to report again on Liz Cheney.

1:00.7

The Republican caucus is officially holding a vote of no confidence next week to House

1:04.5

Liz Cheney.

1:05.5

Yes, another one to follow up the one they held in January, but this time it is expected

1:09.8

to pass, and she is likely to be replaced by Representative Elise Stefano.

1:14.0

If you're wondering what Elise's leadership vibe is going to be, she went on Steve Bannon's

1:18.1

podcast and said that she is committed to sending a clear message that we are one team,

1:22.7

and that means working with the president and working with all of our excellent Republican

1:26.3

members of Congress.

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