S4 Ep30: Arizona: The "Leave Me Alone" State (with Yvonne Wingett Sanchez)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Editor's note: This show was taped before the Arizona House voted to repeal the ban on April 24.
show notes:
The Post's Inside the GOP reckoning over Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah Longwell publisher of |
| 0:11.0 | the bulwark and this week we're taking you to Arizona and |
| 0:15.2 | the political scene there is getting to be hotter than the pavement on Interstate |
| 0:19.8 | 10 in July. I've been worried about Biden's chances in Arizona, in part because of Donald |
| 0:25.6 | Trump making inroads with Hispanic voters, and because of the fact that Biden only won the |
| 0:30.2 | state by 10,000 votes in 2020. Then on April 9th, the Arizona Supreme Court |
| 0:36.3 | dropped a bomb on us. They ruled the state had to adhere to an 1864 law |
| 0:42.3 | enacted before Arizona was even a state and which essentially outlawed |
| 0:47.5 | all abortions there. Now there's been a lot of discourse about how salient the Dobbs |
| 0:52.3 | decision was in 2022 and |
| 0:54.4 | whether Donald Trump is hobbled by the fact that he appointed three of the |
| 0:58.2 | Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. So we're talking to Arizona women who are swing voters and even 20-20 Trump voters |
| 1:09.6 | about how they're thinking about this decision and Arizona politics more broadly. |
| 1:14.0 | My guest today is Yvonne Winjet Sanchez, Democracy Reporter at the Washington Post who is |
| 1:20.0 | based there in Arizona. Yvonne thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:24.2 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm a huge fan of the show. |
| 1:27.6 | Oh, amazing. |
| 1:28.5 | Well, I am a huge fan of your coverage |
| 1:30.5 | and you are the perfect person to talk about this. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm so glad you're there. |
| 1:34.0 | So glad you got to watch these groups because they were doosies and very interesting. |
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