me as i was coming out to cover this story, is the idea of a safe space, like lbgtqplus community, colorado, looking after the 2022 midterm, seemed kind of blue, but this is a more conservative area, this is a more rural area, it borders lauren boebert s district, as was brought up, so when you hear lawmakers, people who are speaking like that, that is why people in this community don t feel safe, because it does affect them, and so the conversation between the governor here, the first openly-gay man elected as governor, talking with president biden and people here are looking for that action, for change to happen, so i anticipate that would be good news for them to hear as well. thank you very much, appreciate all of your reporting and perspective. we ll talk more about this later in the show. coming up here, just before we came on the air, the prosecution has now rested the case in the trump organization s criminal tax fraud trial. we ll tell you what to expect from the defense w
kansas, when these guardrails of democracy are hit and fundamental rights are ripped away from people, folks stand up, and a fight and rally to the cause. that is powerful. if you listen to the critics, they will say, this does not affect that many people. it s not a priority for people. but you say that on the campaign trail, you some people crying or crying when the dobbs document was leaked. what were you hearing for the people on the campaign trail? dozens of just personal moments of when people heard that i was running one story sticks out. i walked into his ball business, and gentlemen here s me running for congress, immediately starts crying and telling me that he and his has been this has been his back, he is white, growing up in a very rural, conservative area. their whole lives, they have struggled and live in fear. now,
charging $1500 a semester. people need to wake up to start realizing freedom is under assault in this country. if i and i other students do not stand up for our freedom, freedom may soon come to a grinding halt. ashley: that is interesting to note, you say you re in a very red, conservative area as well. a lot of people think this is only happening in those blue states but it is not. do you think that because you are an athlete, you said you thought that you were more pressured to get vaccinated. why is that? absolutely. well it goes against all medical ethics. the nuremberg code established in 1947 clearly states there should not never be any force or coercion with regard to an individual s health. a 500-dollar penalty a 500-dollar tax just because a student is unvaccinated is direct force and a direct coercion against a patient s will. for me in my case i have a very
at the moment, it s staying. you keep thinking, every time you look, are these states going to change? we re up to 76% in virginia. 60,000 votes. 61,000 votes ahead in virginia for donald trump right now. so the question is, you start going, where are the republican votes? you check these smaller rural counties and so you re going through these and you see all the 100%. if so if you re in the trump campaign, you know in this rock-solid conservative area, you ve pretty much this is the state of senator tim kaine, the vice presidential running mate. she was one the governor of virginia. this would be beyond embarrassing to the democrats. if donald trump wins virginia, donald trump is probably going to win north carolina, because this is a more democratic state than north carolina. it s one of the things to watch. we re not there yet. we re only at 76% of the vote. one of the things you always watch in the state of virginia, number one, i want to come down here and look at the v
think congress is probably the last place i would go. reporter: his campaign is getting a lot of buzz. people will engage on this race and clay aiken will have scrutiny, probably compares to what you get from the judges on american idol. reporter: but reaction from voters was mixed. i don t know him that well. i just don t think he would qualify. i think he had better continue to sing. reporter: clay aiken s running in a reliably republican district. democrats are certainly energized about his campaign, but john and marci, this is still going to be a very tough race for him to win. all right, karen travers, thank you. very interesting. tea party candidate he is going against. conservative area. back in 2008 he came out as being gay, this was after he had a child. so, yeah, it will be an interesting fight in that district. right. we haven t really seen anything from him politically over the years. after american idol he was in spamalot. the broadway show. the mon