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Skullduggery

Green Party virus blues

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Yahoo News Public Health Contributor Kathryn Jacobsen and Green Party Candidate for President Howie Hawkins join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Jacobsen gives the latest info on the coronavirus and what the projections are looking like here in the US. Then Hawkins discusses the challenges and frustration his party faces getting on the ballot for the general election, especially during the current pandemic.

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0:00.0

I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

0:03.0

And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

0:05.3

And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.

0:09.9

And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,

0:14.1

tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.

0:20.8

American democracy has been pretty much a two-party system since the earliest days of the

0:25.1

Republic. But third parties have also played a vital role, allowing those outside the political

0:30.5

mainstream, whether they be socialists on the left or hardcore libertarians on the right,

0:35.5

to have their voices heard, and in many cases influence the country's political debate.

0:40.9

But it turns out the coronavirus pandemic is making it a lot harder for third parties to even

0:46.5

get on the ballot this fall. The reason, in many states, those parties need to get

0:51.7

thousands of signatures on petitions, a task that could well be impossible given the social

0:57.5

distancing restrictions caused by the virus. We'll talk to a leading green party candidate for

1:03.1

president about what impact those restrictions are having for his party, and what that could mean

1:08.5

for the 2020 election on this episode of SkullDuggery.

1:13.6

Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of the crop, well I'm not a crop.

1:23.5

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions still

1:29.0

tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have sexual

1:36.0

relations for that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth

1:44.0

and nothing else.

1:51.0

I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News,

1:54.2

and I'm Dan Clyde, Manitator and Chief of Yahoo News. So you know, we've talked quite a bit

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