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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

The Jackpod: Low information voters

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Daily, Talk Show, Npr

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the potential influence of low information voters on this year’s presidential election, and the future of U.S. democracy.

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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.

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0:00.0

I'm Magna Chakrabardi and this is the jackpot where on point news analyst Jackbeady

0:09.4

helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world

0:15.4

we live in now. Hello there, Jack.

0:18.0

Hello, Magna.

0:19.0

Okay, so now we're at episode 23 of the jackpot.

0:22.0

What's the headline for this week?

0:24.0

Low information voters.

0:27.0

Ah, okay, so this is a familiar phrase from multiple elections past.

0:32.0

Why do you bring it up once again now?

0:35.0

Because it's clear after the recent Supreme Court decision,

0:40.0

effectively putting off hearing the Trump presidential immunity case

0:46.5

until late April and experts say that means that voters will go to the polls

0:51.7

in the fall without that case having been decided.

0:56.1

That case, the most serious against the president from his 91 felony counts because it goes

1:01.7

right to the issue of insurrection and it carries with it the largest

1:06.9

sentence.

1:08.0

But it seems almost certain now that voters won't know when they go to the polls whether Trump is guilty or not.

1:16.2

And so people are saying the cavalry is not coming.

1:21.6

The court isn't going to save us. It's up to the voters and we're going to talk about three kinds of voters.

1:29.0

Low information voters generally,

1:33.4

Republican voters, and what you could call

1:38.9

wrong information voters, Republicans who believe in the big lie. But before we do that, may I just say this?

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