Politicians Are Fighting Weather Conspiracies
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
People in Florida are assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Milton. The storm made landfall late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm just south of Tampa, dropping up to 18 inches of rain overnight. As of late Thursday, around 3 million people in the state were still without power. At least 12 people died, though that number is expected to increase as rescue efforts continue. Hurricane recovery — both from Milton and Helene — is happening right alongside the 2024 election, conspiracy theories and all. Longtime D.C. reporter and friend of the pod Todd Zwillich joins us to talk about how the disinformation from the MAGA-verse is an operating feature of the movement.
Later, Shaniqua McClendon, head of Crooked’s partner organization Vote Save America, talks about important down-ballot and state legislature races.
And in headlines: Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh, Harris committed to a CNN town hall event with undecided Pennsylvania voters, and a federal judge set a date for the sex trafficking trial against rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October 11th. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Jane Kosten, and this is what a day. |
| 0:05.2 | The show that would be fine if its front yard got taken over by raccoons. |
| 0:09.7 | Look, I'm sure the woman in suburban Washington |
| 0:12.3 | who called the police when she couldn't enter her home due to a hundred raccoon standing in her way was having a bad time. |
| 0:18.0 | But I'm built different. If a hundred raccoons want to hang out with me, I am absolutely down. |
| 0:24.0 | On today's show, former President Obama gets on the stump in Pittsburgh. |
| 0:34.7 | Plus we're getting another town hall with Kamala Harris, but Trump says he won't do the |
| 0:38.8 | same. Sad! But first, people in Florida are assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Milton. |
| 0:44.6 | The storm made landfall late Wednesday as a category 3 storm just south of Tampa. |
| 0:48.6 | Officials say up to 18 inches of rain fell overnight. |
| 0:52.0 | As of late Thursday, around 3 million people were still without power. |
| 0:55.5 | At least 12 people died, though that number is expected to increase his rescue efforts continue. |
| 1:00.5 | Five of those reported deaths were caused by a tornado that struck on the state's Atlantic coast, the opposite side of the state from where Milton landed. |
| 1:08.0 | Dozens of tornadoes were confirmed in the state Wednesday spawned by Milton's strong winds. |
| 1:12.0 | Still, during a briefing on Thursday, |
| 1:14.8 | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said it could have been a lot worse. |
| 1:18.1 | What we can say is the storm was significant, but thankfully this was not the worst case scenario. The storm did weaken |
| 1:25.8 | before landfall and the storm surge, as initially reported, has not been as significant overall as what was observed for Hurricane Helene. |
| 1:36.0 | President Biden also gave an update Thursday afternoon. |
| 1:39.0 | He said Congress would likely have to come back to approve more funding for disaster aid. |
| 1:43.7 | I think the Congress should be coming back and moving on the emergency needs immediately |
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