Replacing The Con In Congress
What A Day
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Tuesday is Election Day for the race to replace George Santos in New York’s third congressional district. The candidates running for the seat include former Democratic congressman Tom Suozzi and Nassau County legislator Mazi Pilip who’s been selected as the nominee for Republican and conservative parties. With Republicans holding a narrow 219-212 majority in the House, the stakes are high. We’re joined by Gabby Seay, the campaign director of Battleground New York, to learn more about what it would take to flip this seat and others in the state blue.
And in headlines: the Senate advanced a bill that would provide $95 billion in aid for Ukraine and Israel, a series of Israeli strikes hit Rafah, and Vox’s Ellen Ioanes tells us about the significance of last week's parliamentary election in Pakistan.
Show Notes:
- Vox: Everything is chaotic about Pakistan’s election — except the outcome - https://www.vox.com/2024/2/8/24066427/pakistan-imran-khan-nawaz-sharif
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 12th. I'm Trayvon |
| 0:03.4 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day. |
| 0:06.7 | The podcast that is not afraid to confess that Usher's halftime performance |
| 0:10.6 | last night was incredible. |
| 0:12.3 | Yes, we will walk you through that amazing performance later in the show, but let's just say there was definitely some love up in this club, Josie. |
| 0:22.0 | I felt like Atlanta was in the Super Bowl. Absolutely. It was |
| 0:26.4 | giving that. It was giving that. On today's show the Senate advanced a bill that would provide $95 billion in aid for Ukraine and Israel. |
| 0:38.0 | Plus, we discuss the significance of Pakistan's parliamentary election. |
| 0:42.0 | But first, tomorrow is election day for the parliamentary election. |
| 0:42.6 | But first, tomorrow is election day for the race to replace Joanna Scammer, I mean George Santos, |
| 0:48.0 | in New York's third congressional district, early voting for the special election started earlier this month on February 3rd, and polls are set to close at 9 PM Eastern tomorrow night. |
| 0:57.7 | Yes, and we will be watching that very closely, but remind the peoples Jos Josie how exactly did we get here. |
| 1:05.7 | So as I'm sure you remember last December George Santos was expelled from the house by his |
| 1:10.1 | colleagues after a scathing house ethics report found, quote, |
| 1:13.4 | substantial evidence of law-breaking by Santos |
| 1:16.5 | and concluded that he, plain and simple, quote, |
| 1:18.7 | cannot be trusted. |
| 1:19.9 | That's putting it lightly. |
| 1:22.0 | The vote to kick him out of Congress |
| 1:23.2 | made him the six House member |
| 1:24.4 | to ever be expelled by colleagues |
| 1:25.8 | in the chamber's history. |
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