Voting Rights, Young Voters, and Growing Fear Around the Hantavirus!

The Don Lemon Show

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This morning, we’ve got a lot to unpack. First, we head to Tennessee to break down the escalating redistricting fight and growing concerns about efforts critics say could dilute Black voting power. Justin J. Pearson joins us to discuss what’s happening, what’s at stake, and why this battle could have major implications beyond Tennessee. Then we pivot to the midterms and the fight for young voters with political pollster and strategist Joshua Doss and activist Cameron Kasky. Are Democrats doing enough to energize younger voters, and could turnout determine the future of the election? And finally, we tackle growing concerns around hantavirus with friend of the show Dr. Frita. What is it, how does it spread, and how worried should people actually be? Politics, public health, democracy, it’s all coming up this morning. This episode is sponsored by FFRF. Visit https://ffrf.us/don or text DON 511511 to join or learn more. Because freedom belongs to all of us. Text Fees May Apply This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon This episode is brought to you by Aura Frames. Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/DONLEMON. Promo Code DONLEMON Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:04.4	Mom!
0:05.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:07.8	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:13.6	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.1	Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.4	So its phones down, forks up.
0:25.5	Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
0:51.2	Hello. All right. Good morning, everybody. Hello, Lemon Nation. Welcome to Hot Topics, 10 a.m. Eastern Time here on the Down Lemon Show on the Don Lemon channel. Hit the like and the thumbs up, please. I tell you that every day. I know I sound like a broken record, but you know what? Broken records are still good. I like to break records. Usually breaking records is a good thing, and especially now, since people don't really use records like they used to, It doesn't kind of doesn't mean the same thing.
1:11.2	Anyways, I know that's two different meanings. Hello everybody. Thank you for joining this morning. And I'm really happy that you're here. We have a lot to discuss. First, I'm just gonna get straight to it. And I wanna get your responses. I don't know if we're gonna take phone calls, maybe. But I wanna get your responses and we'll see what's happening in the chat and answer some of your
1:28.5	questions and put, obviously, put some of your statements up,
1:30.6	because that's what we promise our subscribers and our members,
1:34.1	and thank you for that.
1:36.0	So Donald Trump is out here again doing some crazy shit.
1:40.4	I hate to start off with that, but he is insulting reporters
1:43.4	and also basically lying about the war.
1:47.0	And again, obliterating Iran. This is what he had to say about is going to be a giant glow.
1:56.0	Basically he's talking about a ceasefire that's not a ceasefire. Every day he says the same thing.
2:00.0	It's a ceasefire, there's a deal, and he's saying that the ceasefire that was supposedly intact is still intact, even though they are firing on each other. And I think there are three deaths. US strikes inside Iran for first time since ceasefire. That means there's no ceasefire. Roll him talking about a so-called ceasefire that's not a ceasefire.
2:19.1	President, after these strikes, is the ceasefire with Iran still on?
2:24.5	Yeah, it is. It's said they trifled with us today. We blew them away. They trifled.
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