{"id":13396,"date":"2020-04-29T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T01:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2020-04-29T19:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:06:40","slug":"amash-getting-in-economy-tapping-out-much-more-election-news-of-note-bradcast-4292020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13396","title":{"rendered":"Amash Getting In? Economy Tapping Out. Much More Election News of Note: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/29\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_JustinAmash_House_042920.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We&#8217;ve got a boatload of news today (for a change) on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>. And yes, we still need a much bigger boat. [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Democrat Kweisi Mfume surprises nobody by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/election-results-2020-maryland-congressional-district-7-special-general-election-results\/32290971#\">winning back his old seat<\/a> in the U.S. House in <b>Maryland<\/b>&#8216;s special election to replace the late Rep. Elijah Cummings in Baltimore (according to incomplete, unverified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/04\/28\/us\/elections\/results-maryland-house-district-7-special-election.html\">results<\/a>.);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Joe Biden surprises nobody by winning the first <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/c445d746c535f49bce396d8a3afc624a\">quickly conceived and rescheduled<\/a> statewide almost-all absentee ballot primary election during the COVID era in <b>Ohio<\/b> (according to incomplete, unverified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/04\/28\/us\/elections\/results-ohio-president-democrat-primary-election.html\">results<\/a>.);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Trump&#8217;s approval rating for his handling of the COVID crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/emersonpolling.reportablenews.com\/pr\/april-national-poll-trump-down-but-not-out-as-enthusiasm-and-expectation-favor-the-president\">plummets in new poll<\/a>, though his national head-to-head numbers against Biden remain the same;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/28\/andrew-yang-lawsuit-new-york-primary-217349\">Andrew Yang sues<\/a> <b>New York<\/b> state over this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/494815-sanders-petitions-new-york-to-remain-on-primary-ballot\">cancellation<\/a> of the Democratic Presidential Primary by two Democrats on the State Board of Elections;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In what could be game-changing news for the Presidential race (though <i>how<\/i> it will change the game precisely is still  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/29\/opinion\/justin-amash-president.html\">unclear<\/a>), <b>Michigan<\/b>&#8216;s Republican-turned-independent U.S. House Rep. Justin Amash <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/495173-amash-launches-exploratory-committee-for-presidential-run\">announces likely plans<\/a> to run for President on the Libertarian Party ticket;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kansas<\/b>&#8216; former Secretary of State, long time GOP &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; fraudster and current Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/kansas-proof-of-citizenship-appeals-court-kobach\">loses again<\/a>, this time at a U.S. court of appeals which upheld a lower court ruling finding Kobach&#8217;s &#8220;papers please&#8221; proof-of-citizenship voter registration law to be in violation of the Constitution&#8217;s Equal Protection clause and the National Voter Registration Act, after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/aclu-comment-federal-appeals-court-victory-kansas-voting-lawsuit\">prevented 30,000 legal Kansas voters<\/a> from voting;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>New numbers from the Commerce Department confirm that the U.S. economy is in <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/us-economy-shrank-4-8-in-first-quarter-sharpest-drop-since-great-recession\">big BIG trouble<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Steven Colbert explains why Trump can&#8217;t lie his way out of the coronavirus disaster;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And New York comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/VicDiBitetto.net\">Vic DiBitetto<\/a> offers a rant FOR THE AGES (the <i>un<\/i>censored version we couldn&#8217;t play on air is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GLcNStHTDjM\">here<\/a>) in response to the federal government&#8217;s pathetic response to the economic damage caused by the coronavirus&#8230;in a way that only a real New Yorker can&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m short on time tonight. 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And yes, we still need a much bigger boat. [Audio link to full show is posted below.] Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; Democrat Kweisi Mfume surprises nobody by winning back his old seat in the U.S. House in Maryland&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1343,1337,494,89,675,1456,299,479,390,969,28,801,320,641,171,477,654,1469,579,102,111,625,15,300,205,198,233,348,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-andrew-yang","category-baltimore","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-coronavirus","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-election-2020","category-election-reform","category-elijah-cummings","category-joe-biden","category-justin-amash","category-kansas","category-kpfk","category-kris-kobach","category-kweisi-mfume","category-libertarian-party","category-maryland","category-new-york","category-nvra","category-ohio","category-republicans","category-stephen-colbert","category-us-house","category-us-senate","category-vote-by-mail","category-voter-registration","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}