Overplaying it. look at ron desantis. he picked this fight with disney where he s about to get trashed in court, i think, and i think it is backfiring on him politically as well. why do people care so much? well, look, i think there is a base of conservative voters who really don t like the move towards wokeness. they don t like the change. they don t like all that it represents, and they want to go back to times where things were simpler. that is fine. but we don t need to declare war. the conservative values are supposed to be get government out of my body. get government out of my life. let me live my life, and that should be it. the culture wars are divisive because they end up subtr subtracting you are subtracting. you are supposed to be adding. it should be about addition. you need to add to your base. if you are nikki haley, you need to be adding more people, not taking away. you are not trying to take trump voters. that s not what nikki haley is going to do.
But there is a couple interesting things happening. there are cases that come up that really test the metal of people who are against the death penalty. think about the parkland shooter. think about the boston marathon shooter, right? the biden administration did not abandon seeking the death penalty for him. as lee says, though, the line keeps moving to where now you are wrapping in cases where there is real doubt. i do wonder maybe with a bit of optimism, i suppose, that will this change broader views on the death penalty because we have been stuck in place. but you have seen a republican swell of support coming out of oklahoma. look, kim kardashian has a lot of attention. and, you know, god bless her for bringing attention to important causes. i wonder if this causes a shift of where we think as a public as a whole. we will stay on it because it s up to the governor now and we ll see what that decision is. thank you all very much.
Introducing the next generation 10g network only from xfinity. the future starts now. oklahoma s pardon board today denied clemency for richard blossom, a death row inmate who maintained his innocence for 26 years. he s scheduled to be executed on may 18th, even after the state s attorney general in an unprecedented moved argued for his clemency to the board. that board deadlocked 2-2, but a majority vote is necessary. blossom s attorney reacting to the decision today. we call on the governor to grant a reprieve of richard blossom s scheduled execution because the execution of an innocent man would be an irreversible justice.
We re not discriminatory. the issue would have gone away. instead, they added fuel to the fire and that to me is the biggest mistake. how bud light handled this and whether they messed up their markets. just tonight, this is what former governor nikki haley said. what are your thoughts? i think what nikki haley said was crazy, okay? if someone identifies as trans, you can t tell them they re not trans. i don t know if she s feeling pressure to lean more heavily into these culture wars because many of her opponents or would be opponents in the case of ron desantis have become known for those things as of late. but i don t know that she s going to look back on that commentary in a couple of months and be proud of what she said tonight. i think that s well said. what i worry about with the republican candidates leaning into the culture wedge issues is they re drawing a circle of voters they keep shrinking.
A lot of the writers that were banned aor are taken out of the course are writers dealing with contemporary issues we ve faced in this country, including black lives matter movement, the effects of george floyd s death. they involve discussing difficult aspects of our racial history, including the fact that we continue to grapple with some of the challenges we face in the past and the civil rights movement didn t end racial injustice in this country. that s one of the challenges that folks like ron desantis have presented for the college board because he seems to appreciate a kind of discussion of race that does not deal with some of these difficult issues. it s basically whitewashing things you don t like. it s not to say that everyone should agree with some of these topics, but the idea that students shouldn t learn them at all i think what people have issue with. i want you to listen to nikole hannah-jones, creigh iter of the