Pelosi's Spouse Attacked, Pennsylvania Senate, Train Labor Dispute
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In Pennsylvania, a debate challenged Democrat John Fetterman as he continues to recover from a stroke. Though he is still ahead of his opponent, Republican Mehmet Oz, the race has tightened in the past month.
And a major train strike appears possible after the midterm elections as a labor dispute the White House weighed into resolve has begun to unravel after two major unions voted against a proposed deal.
This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, voting correspondent Miles Parks, national political correspondent Don Gonyea, and politics reporter Ximena Bustillo.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David and Heidi's Bergman's Mississippi and I am currently driving to my last shift in my nurse anesthesia residency. |
| 0:09.7 | This podcast was recorded at 12.14 pm Eastern time on Friday, October 28th, 2022. |
| 0:17.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I will be one step closer to sitting from my boards in December. |
| 0:24.4 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:25.7 | That's exciting. Congratulations. Yeah, very impressive. Good luck on the boards. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm a Smakhale. I cover the White House. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting and I'm Don Gagne National Political Correspondent. |
| 0:42.8 | And before we start today's show, I just want to catch you all up with a bit of news. |
| 0:47.3 | We got word that Paul Pelosi, who's the husband of Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, |
| 0:52.0 | has been hospitalized after he was assaulted by someone who broke into the couple's residence in San Francisco. |
| 0:57.9 | Nancy Pelosi was not home at the time, but we got all of this via statement from the Speaker Spokesman. |
| 1:03.6 | And it seems that Paul Pelosi is expected to make a full recovery. |
| 1:08.1 | Don, although we don't know all of the specifics around this attack, we've gotten word from our colleague, Deirdre Walsh, |
| 1:15.9 | that the assailant was apparently looking for Nancy Pelosi, shouting in their home, where is Nancy? Where is Nancy? |
| 1:25.6 | And I do think it's worth just taking a moment to note that threats against lawmakers are up. |
| 1:32.8 | Lawmakers are spending more on security now. And it does seem like we have entered this very strange, |
| 1:38.1 | I don't want to say new normal, but it kind of feels that way in terms of how lawmakers are operating. |
| 1:42.1 | I can tell you as one who covers politics and is out in the world a lot looking for candidates, talking to voters, |
| 1:51.2 | you are always aware of security. We have the case in Michigan with Governor Whitmer, |
| 1:59.7 | just this past week, more convictions in that kidnapped plot against terror. |
| 2:04.5 | I find it harder to know where candidates are going to be. If they put out their schedules at all, |
| 2:12.9 | and a lot of them don't, you have to RSVP. And then once they check you out and make sure you're okay in your legit, |
| 2:21.3 | then you get a separate email that tells you where the event is. |
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