Thursday Morning GOP Politics
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Longwell, political strategist, founder of Republican Voters Against Trump and publisher of the "The Bulwark," talks about 2024 politics, including voter opinion heading into early GOP primaries, polarization across and within parties, and the effect of 3rd party candidates on the presidential contest.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larra Show on WNC. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning everyone. The biggest... It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. |
| 0:12.8 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.4 | The biggest political spectacle in Washington |
| 0:16.6 | so far today was George Santos' 8 a.m. speech |
| 0:21.0 | reaffirming that he will not resign, despite all the fraud he's been charged |
| 0:25.5 | with criminally, much made up about his biography that he's admitted to, and the related findings |
| 0:31.6 | of the House Ethics Committee. |
| 0:33.4 | Enough said about the Republican Congressman from Queens and Long Island |
| 0:37.0 | that a new book about him is called The Fabulous. |
| 0:40.0 | The House will vote today or tomorrow, as I understand it, on whether to expel Santos from office |
| 0:46.2 | and force a special election in his district that maybe dozens of Democrats and Republicans |
| 0:52.0 | might enter. |
| 0:53.0 | That's high stakes with the slim Republican majority in the House. |
| 0:57.0 | At last report, Speaker Mike Johnson has not decided how he'll vote on Santos |
| 1:02.1 | saying he has, real reservations about expulsion. |
| 1:06.2 | And of course Santos isn't the only or the biggest Republican fabulous the country has to worry about. |
| 1:14.2 | That distinction, I think, would still go to Donald Trump, who still claims he won the |
| 1:18.7 | 2020 election by a lot, and is still successfully pranking most of Republican America to go along |
| 1:25.2 | with him on that on a ride toward a possible end to American democracy as we |
| 1:30.0 | know it. Much higher stakes than say Santos' claim that he was a volleyball star at |
| 1:35.8 | Peru College which he did not attend. Recent reports have Trump's former UN |
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