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The Don Lemon Show

Senator Padilla on MAGA, Democracy, and What Comes Next

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with Senator Alex Padilla for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of the country and the challenges ahead. From the real-world impact of MAGA-driven policies to growing concerns about the integrity of the upcoming election, Padilla lays the stakes in this moment. What does this all mean for voters and for the future of American democracy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good to see you.

0:01.0

Likewise.

0:02.0

How you doing?

0:03.0

You're a little sleepy?

0:04.0

Just a little bit, but hey, it comes to the territory.

0:06.0

Yeah.

0:07.0

So reconciliation last night, right?

0:09.0

One of the big things was a save act that everybody's concerned about.

0:13.0

Republicans want it because they think that obviously that they can gain the system,

0:17.0

and that's, I'm generalizing here.

0:19.0

And Democrats don't want it because they believe it's restrictive on people's access to the voting

0:23.4

Exactly what happened so for a couple months we've been pushing back on the legislative the bill called the Save America Act

0:30.6

Which is anything but they couldn't get get it through and to now they try to insert it into this budget resolution

0:38.3

Right huge changes to how people should register to vote, how people can cast their ballots.

0:43.3

They want to eliminate vote by mail. They want to restrict early voting.

0:46.3

They want to demand that all the ballots be counted within 36 hours.

0:51.3

Yeah, it has no place in this bill. so we're able to defeat that and actually not

0:57.2

just all the Democrats voting though but people like Senator Murkowski from Alaska because

1:01.7

what it would mean for her constituents right Senator Tom Tillis who also knows better

1:05.8

Senator Mitch McConnell voted with Democrats to defeat this amendment. Really? Interesting.

1:11.6

But I thought...

1:12.6

For different reasons, but he was with it.

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