Trump or Death
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Tim recounts his trip to Iowa to watch GOP presidential candidates make their weak bids for the nomination over Trump, Including Ron DeSantis, who just replaced his campaign manager. And the so-called "pro-women's sports integrity" conservatives are relishing the U.S. women's soccer team getting knock out of the World Cup.
Plus, Ohio shuts down GOP attempts to make constitutional amendments (abortion rights) harder, and Sarah gives updates on what her focus groups think of "on the rise" Tim Scott.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to the next level I'm J. L. here with my best friends |
| 0:09.5 | Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller. This is a little greenroom joke. How are you guys? I couldn't be better. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm so glad to hear that. I'm happy to be here with you too. |
| 0:21.6 | It's nice to be Tim. It's nice to be Tim. Yeah. All right so |
| 0:26.6 | listen we had some big news. We're recording on Wednesday morning and we had an |
| 0:31.6 | election in Ohio yesterday around issue one and I want to, |
| 0:38.8 | Sarah, please take note. |
| 0:41.2 | I want to give voters a lot of credit for understanding the weird Byzantine nature of what this election was actually about. |
| 0:53.0 | Because issue one is about abortion |
| 0:57.0 | and it says nothing anywhere about abortion in it. |
| 1:01.0 | This was a ballot initiative put forward in order to raise the threshold |
| 1:12.1 | of votes required to amend the state constitution. |
| 1:16.0 | Are you reading that? |
| 1:17.0 | Are you reading that description? |
| 1:18.0 | No, no, no, I am speaking from, |
| 1:20.0 | okay. |
| 1:21.0 | From my deep understanding of things. |
| 1:23.0 | And it was put forward as a, hey, by Republicans, |
| 1:29.0 | this is a way to keep deep-pocketed rich people from having the ability to go and push through |
| 1:37.5 | constitutional amendments to the state constitution on just a strict |
| 1:42.0 | majority basis. |
| 1:44.0 | And other people said, |
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