WILL REPUBLICANS ACHIEVE MINORITY RULE?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As Texas gerrymandering and other election-rigging in red states go into effect, will racist Republicans be able to hang on to power even as white people become a minority? Or is the Republican party going down in flames? Veteran Progressive congressman Mark Pocan joins Thom- will Democrats finally pass some form Build Back Better agenda or face the consequences in the upcoming midterms?
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| 0:47.6 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:48.7 | Okay, my rant today from HartmanReport.com is titled, is the final stage, probably I should have |
| 0:55.3 | used the word scene there, but is the final stage for the GOP in democracy, the 2022 election. |
| 1:00.5 | And I started out by talking about Congressman Steve Scalise. |
| 1:03.2 | Steve Scalise is the Congressman from Louisiana. |
| 1:07.5 | He's the number two Republican in the House of Representatives. |
| 1:10.0 | He's the, he's the whip under Kevin McCarthy. |
| 1:12.6 | He's the guy who ran for office saying that he was David Duke without the baggage. |
| 1:17.1 | Even David Duke, by the way, pushed back on my hot link to that quote, |
| 1:21.5 | that the quotes all over the internet, my hot link to that quote is to an article about David |
| 1:26.1 | Duke saying, wait a minute, you're no David Duke, but he's close enough, right? He got elected. |
| 1:31.1 | So Steve Scalise is now talking to Republican members of the House of Representatives. |
| 1:35.8 | Keep in mind, he's the number two Republican in the House behind Kevin McCarthy. |
| 1:39.9 | He's talking to these people and saying, please do not vote to refer Steve Bannon to the |
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