Power serves: Democrats in New Mexico and the evolution of athletic activism

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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New Mexico's special election signals an environment that favors Democrats ahead of 2022, while Biden fights a cybersecurity war ahead of his summit with Putin. NBC's Shannon Pettypiece and Ben Kamisar join. And later, Washington Post Sports Columnist Jerry Brewer weighs in on Naomi Osaka and the sometimes "toxic environment" between sports players and the press.

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0:00.0	Hello, there I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.
0:09.1	Democrats have won big in New Mexico and a race to replace Deb Hollen, who is Joe Biden's
0:14.3	interior secretary.
0:15.9	The Democrat and Melanie Stanzberry defeated the Republican by a whopping 24 points.
0:19.5	It's actually a point higher than the amount of percentage points that Joe Biden defeated
0:23.9	Donald Trump in that congressional district in 2020.
0:27.3	And when it simply signals this, the political environment hasn't changed.
0:31.0	It's a political environment that's still leaned to the Democrats.
0:34.0	And if the Democrats' avatar is Biden and the Republican's avatar is Trump, is this foreshadowing
0:40.7	what 2022 could look like?
0:43.0	And Biden has moved on to fighting America's cyber war just two weeks before President
0:46.8	Biden meets with Russian President Putin in Geneva.
0:49.0	The White House has blamed a Russian criminal organization for another ransomware hack
0:53.9	that this time targeted America's beef production. It shut down basically about 20% of it.
0:59.4	Without a cyber, clear cyber defense strategy does Biden have a way to reign Putin in.
1:06.2	Joining me for this episode, I've got NBC Digital Senior White House reporter Shannon Petty
1:10.6	Peace and one of my partners in the political unit, politics reporter Ben Kamasar, joining
1:15.0	us for the discussion.
1:16.3	Later in the show, athletes and activism ahead of this week's Meet the Press reports
1:20.0	that focuses on that topic, Washington Sports, Post-Sports columnist Jerry Brewer will join
1:23.9	me to talk about how athletes have fought for the political change.
1:27.1	American hasn't always been ready for and why athletes today are held up to a much more
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