{"id":12509,"date":"2018-03-14T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2018-03-14T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T01:39:08","slug":"spinning-v-winning-bradcast-3142018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12509","title":{"rendered":"Spinning v. Winning: BradCast 3\/14\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: It was a nail-biter on Tuesday night in the U.S. House Special Election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone. And there is much spinning on Wednesday morning. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

Lamb has declared victory, (as has the NY Times<\/i><\/a>, while AP still has it<\/a> as “too close to call”) in the district that went to Donald Trump by nearly 20 points in 2016. But Republicans are still holding out hope for a miracle, a “recount” and\/or a lawsuit for their candidate who received a full court press from Donald Trump over the past week. That press included a weekend rally with Saccone and new steel tariffs announced by the President just last week, with an eye towards this bellwether race in “Steel Country”, just outside of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

We have full details on where the razor-thin results<\/a> currently stand (just over 600 votes separate the two candidates, as of air time, in a race with more than 228,000 votes cast) and how such a “recount” would work in the state which still, shamefully, forces the vast majority of its voters to vote on 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems.<\/p>\n

No matter the final results, Democrats are ebullient about what this huge “red to blue” swing may bode for their chances of taking back the House in November’s crucial 2018 mid-term elections, even as GOPers from PA to Capitol Hill to the White House are offering some pretty remarkable spin<\/a> in response.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile on Wednesday, tens of thousands of students took to the streets<\/a> from coast-to-coast with a massive school walkout<\/a> to rally for gun safety legislation one month after the massacre which took the lives of 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The students stood up, even as a cowardly President Trump continues to retreat<\/a> from earlier promises on reforms, while trying to spin<\/a> his own personal fears of the powerful gun lobbyists at the NRA.<\/p>\n

Then, speaking of failed spin, a spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency resigns<\/a> in the wake of being asked to lie about claims recently made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump regarding an ICE raid in Northern California<\/p>\n

Finally today, as the Administration continues to misrepresent the threat to the U.S. posed by immigrants, three American<\/i> rightwingers are arrested<\/a> for the bombing of a Muslim mosque in Minnesota last year, and for an attempted bombing of an abortion clinic in Illinois…<\/p>\n

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