Major Win for Democrats, Minor Debate for Republicans
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Democrats pull out critical wins for abortion rights in Ohio and Andy Beshear in Kentucky, and deal a big blow to Glenn Youngkin in Virginia. Jon, Dan, and Tommy discuss how Democrats did it, and what it all could mean for Joe Biden next fall. Then, did somebody say "ship gap"?? The third Republican debate goes in some very odd directions—while the front-runner shows off his own brand of crazy at a Florida rally.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau. I'm Dan Fyfer. |
| 0:23.6 | Dan Fyfer. Hey Dan. |
| 0:25.7 | How's going? |
| 0:26.7 | Good to have you down here in L. A. A lot of faces. |
| 0:28.7 | Yeah, Dan is sick of our faces. |
| 0:31.7 | We're not sick of his, that's for sure. |
| 0:34.1 | On today's show, we got a big election day for Democrats to talk about and a somewhat |
| 0:38.7 | meaningless debate for Republicans who are vying for second place in the GOP primary. |
| 0:44.4 | The 2023 elections were excellent for Democrats and those of us who want to keep abortion |
| 0:48.9 | legal. |
| 0:49.9 | In Ohio, two ballot measures, one to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, and the other |
| 0:54.9 | to legalize marijuana, both passed by a margin of 57 to 43 percent. |
| 1:00.4 | In Virginia, Democrats held the state senate and flipped the State House, which means |
| 1:04.4 | Glenn Youngkin will not be able to pass the 15-week abortion ban that he and Republican candidates |
| 1:08.9 | campaigned on. |
| 1:10.3 | And in deep-red Kentucky, pro-choice Democratic governor Andy Bashir, |
| 1:13.6 | defeated anti-abortion extremist Daniel Cameron |
| 1:16.5 | by 53 to 48 percent. Democrats came up short in the Mississippi governor's |
| 1:21.4 | race but only by about five points. We also |
| 1:24.2 | picked up a state Supreme Court seat in Pennsylvania and a few more seats in |
| 1:27.5 | the Democratic-controlled New Jersey legislature. As you can imagine, most of these |
| 1:32.1 | results gave the pundits on Fox and Newsmax a case of the Sads. |
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