{"id":12500,"date":"2018-03-07T18:32:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12500"},"modified":"2018-03-07T18:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:31:42","slug":"women-dems-and-progressives-win-as-2018-mid-terms-kick-off-in-texas-bradcast-372018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12500","title":{"rendered":"Women, Dems and Progressives ‘Win’ as 2018 Mid-Terms Kick Off in Texas: ‘BradCast’ 3\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: You may not have noticed with everything else going on, but, on Tuesday, Texas held the first primaries of the crucial 2018 mid-terms elections. We have the reported results, including the largest<\/a> Democratic primary turnout in the Lone Star state in decades (though the GOP turnout was still larger.) [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]<\/p>\n

Women<\/a> and progressives<\/a> appear to have performed very well on the Democratic side. Though, given the huge number of candidates in many of the Democratic U.S. House primaries, many of those contests will now go to run-offs on May 22nd. Wealthy self-funders, Trump supporters and more conservative Democrats didn’t do quite as well. And a number of voters across the state were disenfranchised, as usual, and forced deal with failing electronic voting systems and polling places that were recently moved. (Even as the corporate media downplayed problems<\/a>, as usual.) We dive into all the details.<\/p>\n

Also today, the chaos continues<\/a> at Donald Trump’s White House and we do our best to keep up with the latest developments, including a finding<\/a> by the Office of Special Counsel that senior White House counselor and former Campaign chair Kellyanne Conway violated the federal Hatch Act (and why that matters<\/a>); Donald Trump may be backing off<\/a> his hard-line and ill-considered, pledge to issue broad tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, following critiques from friends and foes alike and his top economic advisor Gary Cohn stepping down<\/a> in response; Porn-star Stormy Daniels is suing<\/a> Donald Trump over hush money paid to her before the 2016 election; And the Trump Administration is suing<\/a> the state of California over immigration issues.<\/p>\n

Finally, as we head off air today, breaking news out of the the Florida legislature, which has now adopted<\/a> a number of gun safety reforms opposed by the NRA, including raising the minimum age for the purchase of semi-automatic rifles and a three-day waiting period for all gun purchases. The measure — passed in no small part due to the persistent advocacy of the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School following the massacre there last month — now heads to the desk of the NRA’s A+ rated Governor Rick Scott…<\/p>\n

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