To The Left, To The Left

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

New York, Virginia, and Kentucky have primaries on Tuesday. We speak with two progressive candidates for congress: Jamaal Bowman, who’s running against incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel for New York’s 16th congressional district, and Charles Booker, who’s running against Amy McGrath, for senate in Kentucky.

COVID-19 is still happening in the US, whether government officials recognize it or not. New daily cases have hit record highs in 12 states, with about 30,000 new daily cases countrywide.

And in headlines: an 18-year-old security guard is killed by police in Los Angeles, Bill Barr tries to fire someone quietly and fails, and a new name for Columbus, Ohio.

Head to crooked.com/podcast/to-the-left-to-the-left/ to read a transcript of our full interview with Jamaal Bowman.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, June 22nd. I'm Achila Hughes.
0:07.8	And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day where we're calling on Mike Pence to prove that he can drink water.
0:13.0	Yeah, I mean it was good to see the president do it, but we do need to know that the VP can also drink water in case there's some sort of emergency.
0:20.6	Yeah, we need all the information we can get.
0:30.0	On today's show, a preview of this week's primary elections in New York, Kentucky and Virginia, then some headlines.
0:38.6	But first, the latest. So COVID-19 is still happening and we're going to keep telling you about it because it's deadly.
0:44.6	There's no vaccine and we should all continue being vigilant here in America. New daily cases have hit record highs in 12 states with Texas, Florida and Arizona leading the charge.
0:54.2	More on that in a second.
0:55.7	And nationwide, we're back to nearly 30,000 new reported cases daily.
1:00.0	So we haven't seen numbers like that since early May, but when there's a complete lack of leadership and a Senate that refuses to subsidize workers in the middle of a pandemic,
1:08.8	it looks like people are just being told to go back out and risk it.
1:11.6	Yeah, it's awful. Let's talk about Florida for a second though.
1:14.8	There's a great deal of concern there with some saying that it could be the next epicenter in America. What do we know about that?
1:21.0	Yeah, so the numbers are still spiking in Florida, but because it's mostly young people getting ill, the death toll isn't climbing as fast there.
1:28.0	According to the Florida Department of Health, the median age of those catching COVID went from 65 at the beginning of March to 36 just this week.
1:35.6	Still, hospital beds are a hot commodity and scientists don't know the long-term effects of the disease on our bodies.
1:41.6	And because of all this, the Yankees and Mets are moving their preseason training out of Florida.
1:45.8	No word yet if the NBA will continue their push to resume in Orlando at the end of July.
1:50.5	Yeah, in a New York City, Phase 2 of reopening is on the horizon.
1:54.0	Just weeks ago, it seemed like the city was fully incapacitated and now there are some bars and restaurants opening for outdoor service.
2:01.4	Yeah, so the city has seen new case numbers dramatically decrease following all of those lockdowns and mask wearing.
2:07.9	That's right, all the other places that were too proud to wear masks are now eating into their own summers with spiking cases.
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