PREPARING TO DEBATE, GETTING READY TO VOTE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
As we look towards the first debate between Trump and Biden- hosted by Chris Wallace of Fox News this week- why are the truly major issues of our times seemingly not on the official agenda?
Plus- How to tell young people and "Never Biden" voters what's really on the line here... How to get into the Electoral College... The prevalence of right-wing terrorism... How can Democrats head off Trump from using the 12th amendment or other means to steal the election? The trust level of Diebold voting machines... And, how can Democrats learn to be more strategic- to "take names and kick ass"?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:07.0 | Some of the issues that I think are really, really, really important to Americans and to |
| 0:13.0 | the fate and future of the United States are apparently not going to show up in the presidential |
| 0:18.7 | debate next week. |
| 0:19.7 | It's going to be next Tuesday, as I recall, Chris Wallace of Fox News is hosting the debate. |
| 0:27.4 | You would think that climate change, as California, Oregon and Washington state are on fire, actually |
| 0:34.0 | as 12 Western states are on fire. |
| 0:36.1 | I mean, we're having it really, really bad. |
| 0:38.9 | And as multiple hurricanes keep hitting the Gulf Coast, and as we're getting directos |
| 0:44.8 | or directos, however you say you're getting these multi-mile long hurricane bands moving |
| 0:50.9 | through the Midwest, you would think that we would be discussing climate change at the |
| 0:54.7 | presidential debate. |
| 0:55.7 | No, Chris Wallace has decided climate change is not so important. |
| 0:58.9 | Police violence, America has been convulsed by protests against police violence, particularly |
| 1:04.4 | against black men. |
| 1:05.4 | But more broadly, police violence in general, as we saw here in Portland. |
| 1:10.1 | And Chris Wallace and Fox News think, well, that's not anything in America's need to talk |
| 1:14.2 | about. |
| 1:15.2 | Healthcare, the Affordable Care Act is before the Supreme Court right now, the Trump administration |
| 1:20.1 | is arguing the entire thing should be struck down, including your protection against |
| 1:23.5 | being ripped off by your insurance companies with regard to preexisting conditions. |
| 1:27.7 | Chris Wallace and Fox News are saying, no, it doesn't matter, we're not going to talk |
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