Why Democrats Aren't Afraid of GOP Legal Challenges to VP Harris's Candidacy
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
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Summary
With Vice President Kamala Harris in position to receive the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Republicans like House Speaker Mike Johnson are raising the possibility of legal challenges to keep a new nominee off the ballot. Experts say these challenges will go nowhere. Republicans have also suggested they will try to block Harris from accessing the 96 million dollars Biden’s campaign raised before he dropped out. But it’s unlikely they’ll succeed there, either. We discuss the details with political reporter Abigail Tracy.
And in headlines: lawmakers call for the head of the Secret Service to resign her post, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza kills at least 70 Palestinians, and Delta is still getting back on track after last week’s CrowdStrike outage.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 23rd. I'm Max Fisher in for Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:05.7 | And I'm Travel Anderson and this is what a day, the show where unlike CNN, we refuse to explain the political influence of Charlie Xe X's brat. |
| 0:16.5 | Yeah, if I explained it this one, it would become truly lame, but make no mistake, |
| 0:20.6 | Trevell, I am having a brat summer. |
| 0:22.4 | Shout out to Charlie X Yix, okay? |
| 0:24.7 | On today's show, |
| 0:28.7 | on today's show, the Secret Service Director testifies before Congress about the attempted |
| 0:36.1 | assassination of former President Donald Trump. Plus, the crowd strike outage is still impacting |
| 0:41.4 | travelers on one airline in particular. |
| 0:43.7 | But first, as a growing number of prominent Democrats throw their support behind Vice President |
| 0:49.0 | Kamala Harris to replace President Joe Biden as the party's presidential nominee |
| 0:54.4 | leaders on the right have threatened legal challenges. |
| 0:58.0 | Here's Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson |
| 1:00.1 | with CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning, |
| 1:03.0 | shortly before President Biden announced he was dropping out of the race. |
| 1:06.7 | And in some of these states, it's a real hurdle. |
| 1:08.5 | They have a real problem of replacing the nominee at the top of the ticket. |
| 1:11.6 | Remember, Jake, I mean, Joe Biden was chosen after a long, small-d Democratic process by 14 million people |
| 1:19.2 | emerging through that primary. |
| 1:20.8 | It will be very interesting to see if the so-called party of democracy, the Democrats, |
| 1:25.8 | go into a back room somewhere and switch it out and put someone else at the top of the ticket. |
| 1:29.4 | I mean, I think they've got legal hurdles in some of these states. |
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