Talkin' Politics 10/23/23 | Josh Hawley Is Unpopular, But Does It Matter?; Missouri AG Announces Refusal To Defend Constitution; Trump Legal Update; GOP Trash Voting System Then Try To Invent Same Sys
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The Missouri Senate race matters for 2024
https://emersoncollegepolling.com/missouri-2024-poll-sen-hawley-leads-democratic-challengers-kunce-and-bell-by-double-digits/
From Cook Political Report: https://www.cookpolitical.com/senate/race/306116
Sean, broader senate race concerns for Dems?
Michigan is open
Montana has Tester but could be tough
Ohio, WV, Ariz all seem like possible DEM losses
Yeah…No
Missouri AG
jumps in on case and 2 months later campaign PAC gets massive $50k donation
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/missouri-ag-s-campaign-gets-50k-check-after-he-sides-with-doe-run-in-lead/article_9cb4922c-6e00-11ee-92e7-2b520cc99210.html
Would refuse to defend state law if elected
https://missouriindependent.com/2023/10/20/ashcroft-says-initiatives-seek-to-nullify-missouri-laws-protecting-the-right-to-life/
Yeah…yeah!
Movement in healthcare workers strike
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kaiser-permanente-workers-union-reach-tentative-agreement-2023-10-13/
Trumpdate
Kenneth Cheesbro is going to trial in Georgia… https://abcnews.go.com/US/kenneth-chesebro-rejected-plea-offer-ahead-georgia-election/story?id=104121621
Psych!!!!! He took a plea deal a couple days later
Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia case tied to Trump - https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1207417000/kenneth-chesebro-guilty-plea-georgia?origin=NOTIFY
Lawyer says he NEVER believed any of it! Imagine committing a crime to help a crook keep the whitehouse and you’re like “None of this is right, but here I am, just doin’ my job”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4268727-chesebro-attorney-client-never-believed-2020-election-fraud/
Good thread on this
https://x.com/rgoodlaw/status/1715403031498400065?s=46&t=mukZUfs5M_R3E9tAHIu-GA
The Kraken - Sidney Powell - takes a plea deal and fails to ever be fully unleashed
Trump can’t keep his yap shut
https://t.co/szxVUOlZFc
Special Counsel Is Not Playing Games
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/donald-trump-special-counsel-election-charges-response
Missouri connect - Will Scharf who is running for the GOP AG nomination has joined Trump’s legal team according to his own announcement, so there’s that
Big One
Red States threw a fit about voting to appease their self tanned master and now it’s blowing up
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1207142433/eric-investigation-follow-up-voter-data-election-integrity
Seems impossible not to see a correlation here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/21/jim-jordan-house-speaker-republicans-dysfunction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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