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The Byron York Show

Trump obsession clouds midterm analysis

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Remember when the conventional wisdom was that abortion would be a huge issue in the midterm elections? Then the election came, and a lot of data pointed to the fact that yes, abortion did indeed play a big role. But now, the subject most people are talking about is...former President Donald Trump.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Todd Herman, host of the Todd Herman Show.

0:03.4

They call me the Emerald City Exile, and so where do we look?

0:06.6

Well, a lot of people are looking to Ron DeSantis, and there's good reason for that.

0:10.1

He coined a great phrase, Florida is where woke goes to die, but he also governed that

0:15.3

way.

0:16.3

Check out the Todd Herman Show every day on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.5

Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, to no chit chat podcast.

0:27.8

We'd like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today is the issue of

0:33.1

Trump obsession and how that is playing a role in analysis of the midterm results.

0:42.7

I want to go into especially the issue of abortion, what we know about it, and how that plays

0:52.3

into this Trump obsession.

0:55.6

Now you got to remember that when the conventional wisdom was that abortion would be a huge issue

1:02.7

in the midterm elections, then the election came and a lot of data confirmed that it pointed

1:10.4

to the fact that yes, abortion did indeed play a big role.

1:16.6

But now the subject most people are talking about is Donald Trump.

1:22.8

Now you think that's an exaggeration, it is not.

1:26.7

Look at Meet the Press, NBC's Sunday political talk program, the first Sunday after the midterms.

1:35.8

Look at the transcript.

1:37.6

The transcript shows the word abortion was uttered, mentioned three times.

1:45.5

While the name Trump was mentioned 63 times, okay, three mentions of the word abortion.

1:54.2

And this is all a discussion of the midterms, three mentions of the word abortion, 63 mentions

2:00.4

of the name Trump.

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