Meet the Press NOW — April 1
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If it's Tuesday, polls are open and voters are voting in two states where President Trump's |
| 0:07.8 | political standing and his administration's sweeping agenda are effectively on the ballot for the |
| 0:13.4 | first time since November. Plus, 21 hours and counting. Senator Cory Booker has been speaking |
| 0:19.6 | on the Senate floor since yesterday, |
| 0:21.8 | blasting the Trump administration's policies, saying he'll speak for as long as he's physically |
| 0:26.6 | able as Democrats look for the ways to fight the Trump agenda. And the White House admits it made a, |
| 0:33.4 | quote, administrative error in deporting a Maryland father to El Salvador as a judge strikes a blow to the |
| 0:39.6 | administration's efforts to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants. |
| 1:12.7 | Hi there and welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Nobles in Washington. And if it's Tuesday, voters are voting. Polls are open right now in Florida and Wisconsin in races that could have major implications nationally as the first real political stress test of the new Trump administration. The size of the Republican House majority is at stake, along with the ideological |
| 1:18.1 | balance of the top court in a battleground state. Let's start in Florida, where Republicans |
| 1:23.2 | should be expected to cruise to victory in today's special elections to fill seats left vacant |
| 1:28.7 | by Trump appointees Matt Gates and Mike Wals. |
| 1:32.0 | President Trump carried both these districts by more than 30 points. |
| 1:35.7 | But in these unprecedented times, Republicans are sweating the margins, and Democrats are hoping |
| 1:40.8 | to ride a wave of anger to overperform expectations and claim momentum against President Trump's agenda. |
| 1:48.6 | Even President Trump couched his expectations in the Oval Office on Friday. |
| 1:54.8 | When it comes to Florida, you have two races, and they seem to be good. |
| 2:00.7 | It's a Trump plus 32 area. |
| 2:04.1 | The one thing is they're spending like $12 million, |
| 2:06.6 | and our candidate doesn't have that kind of money, |
| 2:08.6 | spending much less than that, like maybe $1.12, about a million dollars, |
| 2:14.0 | a little bit more than a million dollars. |
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