Axne in iowa. The latest poll average from real clear politics show missed bidenden show mr. With a slight lead. Good afternoon. Please welcome cindy axne. [applause] very exciting to see everybody here. The does so much to help party. Thank you to all the volunteers today. To the great electives, and the candidates running. Dont we have a great ticket in iowa . We are just a little over two weeks out from the election. Last time when i was running, i thought it was the most important election of our lifetime. And it was. And in many ways, i still feel that same way. Had you not helped me flip the house here right out of iowa, i do not know what we wouldve done if we did not have the Democratic House majority to stand up against this administration. [applause] so thank you for all that you do. We have been out in washington visiting our districts to make sure that we are ringing the voices of ioan to washington iowans to washington. Families that are doing all they possibly can to surv
Good morning, professor anderson. Guest good morning. Host we point out you are also a professor at Emory University in africanamerican studies in the africanamerican studies department. You detailed Voter Suppression efforts in 2016 and 2018. What did you see then and what are you seeing now in 2020 . Guest actually, i am seeing it double down. What i saw then was an effort coming after the Shelby County holders decision in 2013 by the u. S. Supreme court. The clearance provision of the Voting Rights act. And what i saw immediately afterwards, two hours afterwards, texas implement it a law that the court said is racially discriminatory. I saw alabama implement a Voting Rights law one day after the Shelby County decision. In the preclearance state, almost 1200 polling stations have been shut down. Places where people go to vote. Millions had been purged from the voter rolls. For reasons that federal law says you cant be removed. I saw these states really doing whatever they could to re
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Is a result of 14 years of tory misery. But is that the is a result of 14 years of tory misery. But is that the case, or are they being abused by people who dont really need them . Well, thats all coming up in your next hour. And as well your next hour. And as well as all that, weve got two astonishing political stories. The first one is this 50 mps and peers have written to James Cleverly demanding that britain takes in refugees from palestine. What could possibly go wrong . Well, look to denmark, go wrong . Well, look to denmark, where they tried this in the 1990s, and 64 of those taken in went on to get criminal records, and i can dramatically announce that after last night on the Jacob Rees Mogg show , when jacob Jacob Rees Mogg show, when jacob would say that richard tice nigel farage and ben habib of the reform party, of course, should be welcomed into the tory Party Tonight , the dons of the Party Tonight, the dons of the rise, the godfathers of the riots, Jacob Rees Mogg and ni