Rep. Byron Donalds: Democrat Turned Republican In A Chaotic Political World

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Born in Brooklyn, New York to a single mother — Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) was always taught to research everything for himself instead of following the crowd. The advice would ultimately lead him to leave the Democratic Party shortly after the financial collapse in 2008 and run for Congress as a Republican. With such an interesting political perspective, Rep. Donalds discusses how he feels about all the historic moments that have happened over the last few weeks -- from Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the new presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, to former President Donald Trump choosing Senator JD Vance (R-OH) to be his running mate. He shares how he believes these things change the race and why he remains confident that the Republican ticket will be successful in November. Follow Martha on X: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.6	Welcome, everybody, to this edition of The Untold Story.
0:47.5	I'm Martha McCallum, and it's great to have you with us.
0:54.1	We have been living through an incredibly intense, historic news cycle. And I am very happy to have Byron Donald's, Congressman
0:57.9	from Florida, joining me today. He represents the Southwest Florida District 19. And Congressman,
1:04.7	I know our viewers are very familiar with you, obviously, and your work and your career.
1:10.4	But for anyone who isn't, I always
1:13.4	like to start the untold story by asking you to just give us a minute of sort of your background,
1:20.5	how you grew up, where you came from, and what motivates you in terms of your political
1:25.1	frame of reference?
1:28.7	So it's good to be with you.
1:30.4	I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York, born and raised, Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
1:35.5	My mom was single mother.
1:38.3	My older sister's 10 years older than me.
1:40.6	My younger sister's 10 years younger than me, my young girl sister.
1:43.7	And so, you know, it was tough. We were struggling, grew up poor. My mom put me into sports.
1:50.0	She didn't want me hanging out on the street, so she made sure I was always in sports or always
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