Running for Congress in a gerrymandered district
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What Michael B. Moore’s congressional race tells us about gerrymandering, and how a Supreme Court decision affects the future of American democracy.
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Businessman Michael B. Moore is running a surprising congressional campaign: He’s trying to win as a Democrat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, a seat that is considered solidly Republican in this election cycle. While he won his primary race, it’s unlikely he’ll win the general election because of a recent Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering.
Host Martine Powers speaks with voting issues reporter Patrick Marley about Moore’s race, and what it can tell us about the impact of a conservative Supreme Court on American democracy.
Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter.
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| 0:00.0 | And you're here participating in our system and coming out here to buy the work for Congress |
| 0:10.0 | who's all great. |
| 0:11.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:12.0 | In a South Carolina district that stretches along the coast, goes through Charleston, and continues south past Hilton Head. |
| 0:19.0 | There is a candidate running for Congress who is pouring his heart into what many people consider a doomed campaign. |
| 0:25.8 | My name is Michael B. |
| 0:28.2 | And you know I think I'll start at the rear detail. |
| 0:34.0 | Michael B. Moore is a candidate for Congress in South Carolina's first congressional |
| 0:41.6 | district. |
| 0:42.9 | He's a businessman who's running in a pretty Republican seat |
| 0:47.2 | as a Democrat. |
| 0:49.0 | That is Patrick Marley. |
| 0:50.5 | He writes about voting issues for the post and he followed Michael B. Moore in the days leading up to South Carolina's Democratic primary. |
| 0:58.0 | One of the campaign events I attended was at Gullah Grub. |
| 1:01.0 | It's a Sea Island restaurant known for its gumbo. |
| 1:04.1 | There, he made a pitch to voters about 50 of them. |
| 1:07.9 | We all have origin swords. |
| 1:10.3 | Right, you know, these stories sort of ground best to the past but they're so powerful and |
| 1:14.8 | profound for us to be a way of propelling us into the future and he started that |
| 1:20.4 | pitch by talking about the incredible story of his great-great-grandfather, |
| 1:26.0 | Robert Smalls. |
| 1:27.0 | Robert Smalls, my great-great-grandfather gets a lot of the air time around here. |
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