The Wilderness Chapter 2: Party Switchers in Virginia
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🗓️ 26 September 2022
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Summary
Why would Biden voters support Republicans? We hear from party switchers in Loudoun County who turned Virginia red in 2021 by voting for Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin. Communications expert Anat Shenker Osorio, organizer Tram Nguyen, and Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark join Jon to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's John Favreau. |
| 0:02.4 | Dropping into share another episode of the wilderness season 3. |
| 0:06.1 | In this episode, I'm taking you to the Battleground State of Virginia to find out why so many |
| 0:09.8 | Biden voters supported a Republican for Governor in 2021 and how Democrats can win them back |
| 0:15.2 | in 2022. |
| 0:16.9 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
| 0:18.5 | And to hear more of the series, you can subscribe to the wilderness feed where you can listen |
| 0:21.9 | to episode 3 right now. |
| 0:23.6 | We'll also be dropping the series here each week, but subscribing to the wilderness |
| 0:27.3 | feed is the only way to get early access. |
| 0:30.2 | New episodes every Monday. |
| 0:32.8 | You have a kind of blue America that is about 42% of the country and you have red America |
| 0:40.4 | that's like 38% pro Trump and you have the sevenish states that are in the middle. |
| 0:46.9 | And that's where America looks like Civil War. |
| 0:51.7 | When Jill Biden won Virginia by 10 points in 2020, I thought there was a chance it would |
| 0:55.9 | stop being one of those civil war states Michael Podhors were talks about. |
| 1:00.4 | Biden beat Trump there by nearly twice as much as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. |
| 1:04.7 | In 2017, Democrats won the governor's race by the largest margin in decades. |
| 1:10.3 | 2018's Blue Wave gave Virginia Democrats a record number of seats in Congress and the |
| 1:15.0 | state legislature. |
| 1:16.0 | A reflection of an electorate that had become more diverse in a state where a lot of highly |
| 1:20.6 | educated suburbanites had drifted away from a Republican party they viewed as too extreme. |
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