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The GOP Loves Voter Suppression

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks voter suppression in the 2018 midterm elections with Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones covering voting rights and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. Also, the significance of Kris Kobach’s defeat and Florida returning voting rights to ex-felons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Under Secretary Kemp, more people have lost the right to vote in the state of Georgia.

0:04.0

They've been purged, they've been suppressed, and they've been scared.

0:07.2

This is a man who had someone arrested for helping her blind father cast a ballot.

0:11.9

He raided the offices of organizations to stop them from registering voters.

0:16.4

That type of voter suppression feeds the narrative because voter suppression isn't only about blocking the vote.

0:21.8

It's also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making people worried that their votes won't count.

0:26.8

And because Georgia is currently run by Republicans, I'll give you one guess,

0:34.1

as to which type of people had their voter registrations put on hold.

0:38.1

Georgia's population is approximately 32% black, but the list of voter registrations on hold is

0:43.7

nearly 70% black.

0:45.5

Well, well, well.

0:48.8

To stay in power, the GOP is using techniques like gerrymandering, blocking judicial appointments,

0:56.8

and voter suppression. Otherwise known as Mitch McConnell's version of the devil's triangle.

1:02.0

And this week, they have outdone themselves.

1:07.0

Chris Colbach just went down to defeat in Kansas.

1:09.7

Wow. Kansas. He really has pioneered,

1:14.1

forgive me, a lot of the modern Republican politics of voter suppression.

1:23.2

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan.

1:25.7

Trumpcast is the show about the man who just fired his attorney general, Jeff Sessions.

1:31.9

Now, a year or a year and a half ago when things were simpler, Lindsey Graham, then an opponent

1:37.9

of the president said that if the president fired Jeff Sessions, that would be, quote,

1:42.6

the beginning of the end of Trump's presidency. But since then, Lindsey Graham got on the golf course

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