Hurricane Milton Set To Make Landfall
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In Texas, Democratic Congressman Colin Allred is making Republican Ted Cruz work hard to keep his Senate seat, with polls showing the race within three percentage points. Cruz’s campaign seems to think the best strategy for winning re-election is to lean into anti-trans messaging. Semafor politics reporter Dave Weigel joins us from the campaign trail in Texas to talk about how Cruz and other Republicans are leaning into anti-trans fearmongering this election cycle.
Later, Grace Panetta, political reporter for The 19th, talks about how voter ID laws make it more difficult for trans people to vote.
And in headlines: Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall as soon as tonight, former President Donald Trump has reportedly spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘as many as seven’ times since leaving office, and the Supreme Court flirts with putting restrictions on one specific type of gun.
Show Notes:
- Dave Weigel’s reporting: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/08/2024/anti-trans-ads-didnt-work-in-2022-republicans-think-this-time-will-be-different
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 9th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Jane Kosten, and this is What a Day, the show where we are sending out our 90s |
| 0:07.0 | Kid Bat Signal because Limited 2 announce that it's making clothing for adults. |
| 0:11.0 | Yes, the iconic brand that is traditionally aimed at pre-teens has launched an adult |
| 0:15.0 | line because as I can attest, the desire to dress like you did when you were in sixth grade is extremely |
| 0:20.3 | strong. I'm not thinking about frosted lip gloss right now, but I'm not not thinking |
| 0:25.9 | about frosted lip gloss. On today's show how Republicans are using anti-trans messaging on the campaign trail. |
| 0:35.0 | Plus, adult film stars launch a swing state campaign to stop Trump and Project 2025. |
| 0:40.0 | But first, |
| 0:41.0 | Headlines. |
| 0:55.7 | This is literally catastrophic and I can say without any dramatization whatsoever if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas you're going to die. Wow that's Tampa Mayor Jane Castor speaking with |
| 1:00.5 | CNN Tuesday about just how dangerous Hurricane Milton could be. |
| 1:04.0 | The storm is expected to make landfall along Florida's golf coast as soon as tonight or early Thursday. |
| 1:08.8 | It will be the southeast's second powerful storm in less than two weeks. |
| 1:12.0 | As of Tuesday evening, Milton was on course to hit the city of |
| 1:14.8 | Tampa. It had also re-strengthened to a category 5 storm. More than 5.5 million people in the |
| 1:20.6 | Tampa Bay Area have already been told to evacuate. |
| 1:23.0 | Some are headed inland to Orlando. |
| 1:25.0 | That's where Amanda Billings lives with her family. |
| 1:27.0 | They got a room in a hotel ahead of the storm. |
| 1:29.0 | She talked to us on Tuesday. |
| 1:31.0 | Being in a tourist area, it's hard because we're just trying to get our lives together and make |
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