Ruben Gallego Is Ready to Take On “Queen MAGA” Kari Lake for Kyrsten Sinema’s Seat

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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After Kara and Nayeema debrief the latest Elon drama (the Congressional hearings in which conservatives failed to prove they’d been “censored” on Twitter), we dive into our interview with Representative Ruben Gallego. The Arizona congressman is the only contender so far in the 2024 race for Kyrsten Sinema’s coveted U.S. Senate seat … though he tells Kara he’d welcome the opportunity to face “Queen MAGA” Kari Lake in the race. And he explains why he’s not worried even if Senator Sinema, who left the Democratic Party in December, runs in a three-way race. Also, Gallego discusses some of the issues of identity politics and wedge issues that we also heard with last week’s guest Brooke Jenkins. You can listen to that episode here, if you missed it. Thoughts? Email us on@voxmedia.com or find us Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone from New York magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network. This is the Superbowl
0:16.8	halftime show with 99% less Rihanna. Just kidding, it's 100% less sports. This is on with
0:23.2	Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher. And I'm Neymaraza and it's actually 100% less Rihanna. It's 99%
0:30.6	I have 1% man. But speaking of musical icons Madonna showed up at the Grammys with a lot of
0:35.5	plastic surgery and this kind of new face. Sexy baby face. The article you shared yesterday. The
0:40.5	Washington Post piece. Yeah there was one in the New York Times too that was also very good. That
0:44.4	was Jennifer Wiener. Yeah it was great. They were both great. I thought they were really smart
0:48.7	ideas of she's obviously doing it for a reason and that we have to stop judging what people do.
0:54.0	The Times essay was saying that it was basically performance art by the queen of performance art.
0:59.1	Yeah you buy it. I could be. There's been 100 Madonna's. She's changed herself in her image.
1:04.4	You know there's British Madonna. There was sexy Madonna. There was punk Madonna. You know she's
1:09.6	been a lot of Madonna's. So yeah whatever Madonna she feels like being. I don't you know I don't
1:14.4	love it but I don't like all of them. I didn't like British Madonna either so. And she gives no
1:18.5	fox. I mean it might be that she's critiquing society by demonstrating the kind of surrealism of
1:23.1	our beauty expectations. But I liked on Instagram that she was like I haven't cared for 40 years
1:27.1	what you all think. And I don't care what you all think now. So thank you very much. That's
1:30.7	pretty much on brand for her. I thought that was interesting. But today and Lou of Rihanna and
1:35.2	Lou of Madonna. Lou of Rihanna. Yeah all the honors. But we do have a great guest today. Representative
1:42.1	Ruben Gallagher, the Arizona Democrat who is bidding for Kirsten cinema seat. But before we get
1:46.7	to him Cara, the people have asked for your reaction to the latest Elon news. Which one? Which
1:51.6	is she on news? Exactly. The hearings on the Hill that was nonsense. Total nonsense and the
1:56.4	Republicans look idiotic. I thought the executives did a great job and they were just pushing back
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