Honestly, I kind of thought like I left the gym today and no one like I was like checking my phone

I'm already to be governor of the state of Virginia. Oh

Man

Hello and welcome to the weeds on the Vox Media podcast network. I am Sarah Cliff sitting in today for

Met Elesias who is not here. I don't know where he is here with Jane Kostin Dylan Scott

So we are here to talk about the state of Virginia

Which seems to be in a bit of a state of dumpster fire. I believe it was the technical term for what's going on there

And I am here to announce my run for governor of the state of Virginia

It's I refuse to move to the state of Virginia, but honestly, I think that's probably for the best

I mean given the record we've seen in some Virginians, you know

I think you do a stand-up job. They need an outsider. It's true. I need to come in take charge

So I think we should start because a lot has happened in the course of like

One week two weeks

I read about this story about this like Dylan like run us through like what actually like leads us to this moment of dumpster fire that we are in

so

Virginia governor Ralph, Northam somewhat recently made some comments about an abortion law

That's being considered in the Virginia legislature that got a lot of attention from conservatives

The law I don't know how much we want to go into details basically it rolls back some of the abortion restrictions in the state

particularly for third term abortions which obviously are usually undertaken only in the most dire of circumstances

And I think it's fair to say the governor of Northam made some in elegant comments about the law and some conservatives basically

construed it as an endorsement of killing babies

President Trump actually made an illusion to it during his state of the union address

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