{"id":14473,"date":"2022-11-16T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14473"},"modified":"2022-11-16T18:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T02:47:52","slug":"election-20222024-gop-political-fallout-blame-circus-begins-bradcast-11162022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14473","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION 2022\/2024: GOP Political Fallout, Blame, Circus Begins: ‘BradCast’ 11\/16\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be a somewhat disconcerting deja vu on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> for longtime listeners. Apologies in advance. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n

Seven and a half years ago, on the day Donald Trump came down his golden escalator at Trump Tower to declare that Mexicans were rapists and he was running for President, our guest was HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Hullabaloo<\/a>. Since then, she’s joined us to try and make sense of virtually every landmark event during his disastrous candidacy, Presidency and post-Presidency.<\/p>\n

Back in June of 2015, when posting that day’s show at The BRAD BLOG, I headlined it “The GOP’s New ‘Frankenstein’s Monster'”.<\/a> Most in the media considered Trump’s candidacy a joke at the time. We felt otherwise. I believe history has proven us right on that one.<\/p>\n

After multiple failed attempts at trying to steal the 2020 election, including inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in hopes of stealing it by force, and with multiple criminal investigations against him now underway at both the state and federal level, Trump announced (to the nation’s chagrin<\/a>) his third run for President on Tuesday night. He did so at a really long and boring super-spreader event at Mar-a-Lago, the scene of at least one of the many crimes for which he’s being investigated. Parton joins us once again today to discuss whether we should be as worried this time about Trump’s candidacy (she describes it at Salon today<\/a> as “the America First Vengeance Tour 2024”) and whether he or Ron DeSantis would be more difficult for Democrats to defeat in 2024.<\/p>\n

We spend more time, however, discussing the three-ring circus, circular firing squad<\/a>, or whatever metaphor you wish to use, for the Republican House and Senate leadership battles<\/a> now under way following last week’s midterm elections in which the GOP appears to have won the narrowest of majorities in the U.S. House — but not much more than that anywhere else. Will the splintered, increasingly loony GOP caucus in the House even be able to get 218 votes for anybody<\/i> as House Speaker come January? (“They have created an absolutely insane caucus filled with lunatics, and now they’re having to pay the piper on this,” says Parton. “This is what happens when you embolden people like Marjorie Taylor-Greene. She’ll be operating as a shadow Speaker.”)<\/p>\n

Also today…<\/em>A note of caution at the top of the show: Do not be fooled by Trump’s deceptive call at his announcement speech on Tuesday night for “paper ballots” to help fight fraud in elections. He has no clue what he’s talking about. Else he would have called for “hand-marked<\/i> paper ballots,” since all of the states he lost (but pretends to have won) already<\/i> use paper ballots! He’s also demanding new voter suppression measures. We explain all of the above today.<\/p>\n

In related news, two counties in the state of Mississippi<\/b> used hand-marked paper ballots in the 2022 midterms for the first time. After some 20 years of forcing voters to vote on 100% unverifiable touchscreen systems — while we’ve been begging them to move to hand-counted paper ballots for all of those years — the clerks of both counties report that voters and pollworkers loved the new system<\/a> and it worked great! In fact, the clerks also found that it was both faster and more cost-efficient than their 20-year old unverifiable touchscreens. Who could have predicted it?<\/p>\n

Following a new state law adopted in April, all counties in MS must upgrade their systems before the 2024 Presidential elections. As noted on today’s show, I’ve long argued that it would likely take a high-profile Republican getting screwed by touchscreen voting systems before GOPers finally demanded a move to verifiable voting systems. I was close. What I should have said was that it would take a high-profile Republican pretending<\/i> to be screwed by touchscreen voting systems before they’d finally demand such changes. <\/p>\n

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