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Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Media Bias, Election Reform, and the Future of the GOP | Kim Strassel

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

Politics, Energy, Healthcare, News, World, Society & Culture, Regulations, Finance, America, Freedom

4.616K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

WSJ Editorial Board Member Kim Strassel joins us to look at our mainstream media and electoral systems, why Americans have lost trust in both, and what these institutions must do to earn it back.

We cover ranked-choice voting, other elections reforms such as term limits, and the question of whether our electoral systems should be fundamentally altered—or if the remedy is better leadership.

We discuss the blurred lines between news and opinion journalism and look at how the traditionally liberal media went totally off the rails with the election of President Trump.

And, assuming Republicans win back the majority on Tuesday, we discuss how we should conduct ourselves in the new Congress.

Kim Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal, co-host of Potomac Watch, and author of "Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America." Follow her on Twitter at @KimStrassel.

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0:00.0

We hold these truths to be self-evident.

0:02.0

That all men are created.

0:04.0

There's a number of Congress I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.

0:07.2

Experts on what they're talking about.

0:08.8

This is the podcast for insights into the issues.

0:11.6

China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.

0:16.0

Breaking it down into simple terms.

0:18.0

We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.

0:24.2

Welcome back folks. Look, it's no secret that Americans are divided today,

0:27.6

not just politically and who they vote for, but even on what's happened in news they consume

0:31.5

or how they consume it. The latter affects the former, as we've seen increasingly over the last

0:36.3

several years. It seems to have reached a pivotal point where Americans simply won't believe

0:40.9

actual facts if it's being reported by media outlet they don't like.

0:44.5

It's become so divided that journalists don't want to accurately portray both sides of the story

0:48.3

and they will conservative threats to democracy or spreaders of misinformation.

0:52.7

We're just asking questions of our liberal counterparts.

0:55.5

This is not normal nor is it healthy. We're going to ask can the mainstream media dig itself out

1:00.4

of this grave? Can it regain the trust it once held many decades ago or will we continue to spiral?

1:06.7

And on a similar note, will America's electoral system regain the trust of voters through

1:10.9

maybe something like ranked choice voting? Or will it's complex nature and unintentional outcomes

1:16.2

harm our election process? Instead, are we looking for the right solutions in the right places?

1:22.1

And to help us with that conversation today, we're honored to have Wall Street Journal

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