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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester on Getting Elected to Congress and Biden's Plan for HBCUs

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Lisa Blunt Rochester, a U.S. representative from Delaware, to talk about her path to getting elected to Congress (5:25), what she learned from being labor commissioner for Delaware (21:15), and Biden's plan for forgiving debt for those who attended historically Black colleges and universities (26:05). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Lisa Blunt Rochester Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. I hope

0:15.7

y'all enjoyed last week's episode. The special episode we had. We actually had two special

0:21.3

episodes, but the live episode we had that was

0:23.9

on the ringers Facebook the ringers Twitter there was on the ringers

0:28.1

YouTube that was on my Facebook on my Twitter with none other than my good friends Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum as we did the debate or whatever the fuck that was recap

0:39.6

You know we're gonna have another recap show. I hope you guys spread the word about it this week We're going to have another recap show. I hope you guys spread the word about it this week.

0:44.3

We're going to have my good friend Charlemagne the God and Ebony Williams on to discuss and give immediate

0:50.8

reaction to Mike Pence versus Kamala Harris.

0:55.0

So thank you so much for joining us.

0:57.0

Please subscribe, share,

0:58.5

DM me about guests that we should have or things we should be talking about.

1:02.0

Today's episode, though, I have Delaware Congress should have

1:03.7

Delaware Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester.

1:06.5

She'll be joining us for this episode.

1:07.9

But before I get to her, I want to tackle subjects in the intro that caught my attention.

1:14.3

First, obviously President Trump's COVID diagnosis,

1:18.0

but also an article I came across on the 19th news. org on October 2nd

1:22.7

noting that among other things 865,000 women left the labor force

1:28.8

in the month of September.

1:30.8

Listen to this again 865,000 women left the labor force in the month of September.

1:39.0

First, to the President's COVID diagnosis, if you've listened to our special episode on the president's diagnosis with Jonathan Martin from the New York Times,

1:48.0

if you haven't definitely check it out. On behalf of the team at the Bacardi Sellers podcast, you know that we want to wish the

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