Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Graham has little political experience, and with little to offer voters other than loyalty to Trump, she is simply echoing Republican culture war talking points that worked for him in twenty sixteen.
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But it appears voters don't like living in the world Trump is creating.
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As Cleve R.
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Woodson Junior noted yesterday in the Washington Post, Trump went to South Carolina last night to help Graham's campaign.
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He told those attending the rally that the election was really about him.
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Although Graham's opponent in the runoff, Representative Ralph Norman, has made much of Graham's inexperience.
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Trump told rally attendees, they're only fighting Darlene because they want me to lose.
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Woodson notes that Trump is hoping for a Graham win to restore some of the power that is slipping away as his popularity continues to slide to new lows.
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Primary candidates he backed for governor in Iowa, Georgia, Wyoming, and Minnesota all lost, as did those he backed in congressional primaries in Michigan and Tennessee.
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Indeed, as Graham was fumbling the debate last Tuesday, two former teachers, endorsed by Democrats, flipped the Sarasota Florida School Board.
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That board had been dominated by right wing candidates since twenty twenty two, led by Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, who has said public schools are indoctrination centers for the radical left, and that she wanted to bring religious values to them.
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Formed in 2021, Moms for Liberty was behind the book banning of the past several years.
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Ziegler is married to the former chair of the Florida Republican Party, who was forced out of his position after a woman alleged he had raped her in relation to the three-way sexual relationship she had with the Zigglers.
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Bridget Ziegler refused to step down from the school board after the scandal broke.
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As Carrie Sheridan of WSF reported, Beth Mayberry and Megan Teneman ran on issues of school funding, academic achievement, and helping students in underserved areas.
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Both won their races by more than 10 percentage points.
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As political historian Joanne Freeman put it Saturday morning in our chat on what the heck just happened, when Republican leaders in twenty twenty decided not to write a political platform at all, but simply to reassert the party's strong support for President Donald Trump and his administration, and to say it would continue to enthusiastically support the president's America first agenda.
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They gave him every reason to think that all of the things that he's doing to promote himself, the races and the gold and everything else, that's all campaigning.
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It's all about him.
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Then, when party leaders in 2024 essentially turned Trump's social media posts into a platform, they embraced the idea that the party could stay in power through slogans.
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