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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Panic on the political right after a good election night for Democrats

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with the panic on the political right after another good election night for Democrats. Joy and her panel discuss this and how Republicans are finally realizing that their party’s toxic and regressive policies have sparked a voter backlash. Also in this episode, new reporting that Donald Trump knew he couldn’t declassify documents by putting them in a box, as he has claimed. Additionally, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America Mini Timmaraju joins Joy to discuss the fate of the abortion pill Mifepristone, which is once again in the hands of a couple of conservative judges. Plus, Elon Musk raises alarms with comments about George Soros and the Texas mall shooter. All this and more on this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on The Readout.

0:06.5

And when a Republican candidate in a swing state like Pennsylvania makes banning abortion

0:12.0

a central focus of their campaign without any exceptions, for example, for rape and

0:17.2

theft or the life of the mother, will that Republican politically speaking is probably

0:22.7

going to lose badly and drag the entire party down with them.

0:27.1

So the question tonight with our country slipping away, will Republicans learn from their

0:32.4

election mistakes or are they doomed to repeat them?

0:36.5

The sheer panic on the right after another really good election night for Democrats,

0:41.6

with Republicans like Hannity finally realizing that the party's toxic, regressive, authoritarian

0:47.5

policies have sparked a voter backlash.

0:50.7

Also tonight, new reporting that Donald Trump almost certainly knew that a president cannot

0:55.5

declassify documents just by stuffing them in a box and hauling them to the old golf

0:59.7

resort as he repeatedly has claimed.

1:02.6

Plus, Elon Musk's Off the Rails interview, the man who runs one of the biggest social

1:07.4

media sites, raises alarms with toxic comments about George Soros and the Texas mall shooter

1:14.1

among other things.

1:15.4

But we begin tonight with the Republicans' toxic brand.

1:20.9

Remember the 2022 midterms?

1:22.6

The red wave that fell more like an orange trickle?

1:24.9

Well, that keeps happening.

1:27.1

Last night was another really bad night for the Republican party with several key races

1:30.6

in Florida, Pennsylvania and Colorado, underscoring how the right-wing grip on our politics is

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