First-Timers: An NBA Player's First Time Voting
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🗓️ 3 November 2020
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Larry Nance Jr. is an NBA player for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He’s also a first-time voter. After the NBA players’ ranks exploded with activism this summer, Nance and his teammates realized that they could change their states, themselves. They were the political activists they had been waiting for.
Guest: Larry Nance Jr., player for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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| 0:00.0 | A couple of times in this election season, I've found myself in this strange situation. |
| 0:10.5 | I'll be meeting someone new, making idle chit-chat. And then, as we talk, I slowly realize |
| 0:17.4 | we completely disagree about politics. I think a lot of people are having this kind |
| 0:22.9 | of experience. It's part of what's amped up the anxiety going into today, at least for me. |
| 0:30.2 | When I called up Larry Nance Jr., he had a story like this. |
| 0:33.9 | For me, it's one of our neighbors growing up. |
| 0:38.1 | You know, my family is, my dad's black, my mom's white, my sister is gay. |
| 0:44.1 | We're very, we're very pro-Biden, right? |
| 0:47.6 | Very Democrat, you know, this election, we kind of learned that our neighbors that we grew up with, you know, |
| 0:53.9 | knowing their kids, knowing them, don't necessarily feel that way. |
| 1:00.6 | Larry lives just a few blocks away from his childhood home in Ohio, |
| 1:05.7 | a state where the polls have shown Joe Biden and President Trump are tied. |
| 1:11.0 | How did you find out they were Trump supporters? |
| 1:13.6 | The four or five Trump signs in their front yard. |
| 1:16.6 | Oof. |
| 1:17.5 | So when you saw that, were you like, okay, I want to go over there and talk to them? |
| 1:22.8 | Or were you like, we just got to hold it until after the election? |
| 1:27.0 | I haven't seen them since they put those signs up. We babysat their kids, you know, and we haven't seen them since they put the signs up. And it's one of those where, like, you know, they haven't called us. We haven't called them. It's one of those is just like, oh, okay, well, that's where your stance is. Let's just let this election pass. |
| 1:45.1 | These neighbors, they probably know where the Nance family stands when it comes to presidential politics. |
| 1:51.0 | In Ohio, the Nance family is kind of a thing. |
| 1:54.5 | A reputation is perhaps the best leaper in the game. |
| 1:59.3 | Larry Nance, Sr., played for the Cleveland Cavaliers for seven seasons. |
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