Panic on the political right after a good election night for Democrats
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
NBCNews
4.5 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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 |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBCNews, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NBCNews and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

