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Conversations with Coleman

Voter Suppression: Fact Or Fiction? with Sam Koppelman (S3 Ep.19)

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5631 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Sam Koppelman. Sam is a best-selling author and top speechwriter for many prominent politicians. Sam just co-wrote a book with former Attorney General Eric Holder called "Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan" In this episode, we talked about voter fraud, voter ID laws, voter suppression, and gerrymandering. We discuss the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the so-called "gutting of that act" in 2013. We also talk about the great replacement theory and much more. As you'll hear in the episode, I'm skeptical of the narrative that voter suppression is a huge problem, that voter ID laws are racist, and so forth. While Sam doesn't quite go that far, I think there is some distance between his position on these topics and my own. As we near the midterms, I'm gonna have a few more guests like this that deal with electoral politics. I hope you enjoy this conversation. -Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code [20COLEMAN] at Manscaped.com. That’s 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com and use code [20COLEMAN]. -Sign up through wren.co/coleman to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! -Sign up today at butcherbox.com/COLEMAN to get two, 10 oz New York strip steaks and 8 oz of lobster claw and knuckle meat FREE in your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.6

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. So my guest today is Sam Copleman.

1:09.5

Sam is a best-selling author and top speechwriter for many prominent politicians.

1:14.8

Sam just co-wrote a book with former Attorney General Eric Holder called Our Unfinished March,

1:20.0

The Violent Past and Imperaled Future of the Vote.

1:23.0

In this episode, we talk about voter fraud, voter ID laws, voter suppression, gerrymandering.

1:29.3

We talk about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the so-called gutting of that act in 2013.

1:34.7

We discuss great replacement theory and much more.

1:38.0

As you'll see, I'm skeptical of the narrative that voter suppression is a huge problem, that voter ID laws are racist and so forth.

1:45.9

While Sam doesn't quite go that far, I think there is some distance between his position

1:50.0

on these topics and my own. And as we near the midterms, I'm going to have a few more guests like

1:55.2

this that deal with electoral politics. So without further ado, Sam Copleman. All right, Sam Copleman. Thanks so much for

2:07.2

coming on my show. Thanks for having me. Yeah, so I just had our mutual friend Yasha Monk on and the three

2:12.4

of us have hung out several times and talked about the topics in Yasha's book, the topics in your new book,

2:19.8

and a lot of other stuff. So it's great to finally get you on. Yeah, no, this is exciting. I'm a

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