S14 EP178: Hour 2 - The Shadow of a Lame Duck
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As we head into the midterms Trump is looking at being a lame duck going forward plus with the government shutdown, if there is a recession on the horizon who will the voters blame?
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| 1:09.4 | There's a story about Marjorie, Taylor Green, and in the BC News about her standing up to the Republican Party. |
| 1:14.1 | I mean, she's transitioning to a Democrat, but there's actually something larger here. Let me just read you part of this. And I realize it's NBC, |
| 1:18.5 | but there's a point here. And remember, she stirred the anti-Semitism pot yesterday on October |
| 1:23.7 | 7th. When the White House discouraged Representative Marjorie Taylor Green from launching a Senate |
| 1:29.7 | bid in Georgia this year, Green agreed to back off her statewide ambitions. |
| 1:34.7 | I actually wish she would have run. |
| 1:37.5 | Nonetheless, that doesn't mean the firebrand Republican was going to back down from other |
| 1:41.7 | fights she felt were worth waging, including within her |
| 1:44.9 | own party. Over the past six months, Green has made waves in Washington for publicly breaking |
| 1:50.7 | with Trump and the GOP on a number of high profile issues and lobbying some pointed attacks |
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