Is Kyrsten Sinema Toast?

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss Krysten Sinema leaving the Democratic party; Republicans’ good turnout, poor performance midterms; and the new documentary, Pelosi in The House. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Pelosi in the House Here are this week’s chatters: John: Watch Richard Nixon’s Watergate speeches at the Miller Center’s website. Emily: Jessica Blatt Press for The Philadelphia Citizen: “Hey, Phillly! Let’s Hire A Mayor!” David: Courtney Kan, Nick Miroff, Scott Higham, Steven Rich and Tyler Remmel for The Washington Post: “Cartel Rx: Fentanyl’s Deadly Surge: From Mexican Labs To U.S. Streets, A Lethal Pipeline”; The EverCrisp apple For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John get philosophical in preparation for the annual Political Gabfest Conundrum episode. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.3	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.4	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest.
0:11.5	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:20.0	December 15, 2022, the IS Cinema Toast Edition.
0:25.2	I'm David Plotts of CityCast,
0:26.8	and Washington DC is a great and dreary day here in Washington DC.
0:31.9	But there's always sunshine in my life because
0:35.7	shining radiantly from New York City is John Dickerson of CBS
0:40.9	Primetime, Hello John Dickerson.
0:43.3	You know, of Kirsten Cinema Ran in France,
0:46.4	she'd be Cinema French Toast.
0:48.8	Cinema Verite, and then also a beacon,
0:53.0	a beacon of warmth and gladness, and the darkness that is
0:57.6	impending winter is Emily Baz, a lot of the New York Times magazine in Yale University Law School.
1:01.5	From Philly today, hello Emily.
1:03.8	Hello, so glad to be in Philadelphia.
1:06.7	This week on the Gap Fest, what does it mean that Republicans
1:10.1	actually won the popular vote in November and pretty handily?
1:14.7	Then, how will Kirsten Cinema's defection affect the Senate,
1:19.7	and how it will affect the 2024 election,
1:21.8	and how it will affect Arizona?
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