What Next - Election Deniers Shot at Her
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A newfound commitment to never accepting election results you don’t like is taken to the extreme in New Mexico, where a string of shootings targeting elected officials led to 12 bullet holes in a state senator’s Albuquerque home.
Guest: Linda Lopez, state senator in New Mexico’s Bernalillo County.
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| 0:00.0 | When someone shot up Linda Lopez's house, the truth is she didn't even know it. |
| 0:10.3 | She was there. |
| 0:11.9 | Linda lives in Albuquerque. |
| 0:13.6 | The shooting happened on January 3rd. |
| 0:16.0 | That night she'd stayed up late with her kids. |
| 0:18.5 | The last thing I can remember is that my daughter of course went to sleep in her room. |
| 0:25.0 | She wasn't on her tablet, which is a blessing in so many ways because as you know young people |
| 0:30.4 | nowadays, they're constantly on the internet or playing a game. |
| 0:36.0 | It was about one in the morning when Linda heard the bangs. |
| 0:41.0 | And she assumed she knew what they were. |
| 0:43.2 | Fireworks. |
| 0:45.8 | Linda's 10-year-old daughter, Cherish, came into her room. |
| 0:49.1 | Cherish had her own theories about what had woken her up. |
| 0:52.3 | She thought maybe a spider had popped down on her face, then had spiders before. |
| 0:56.9 | She felt something. |
| 0:58.1 | She knew that much. |
| 1:00.1 | She did tell me that she had felt like some sand or dirt on her face on her nose. |
| 1:07.0 | And I told her sweetheart, you know, it could be that maybe mom needs to clean the fan |
| 1:11.5 | on top of the bed. |
| 1:12.5 | It's not like on the best housekeeper in the world. |
| 1:15.7 | I thought maybe that's something that needs to happen. |
| 1:18.7 | So she goes, okay, then they went back to sleep. |
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