BradCast 10/23/2018: (GA Sec. of State Worried 'Everybody May Exercise Their Right to Vote')

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 12:25 a.m.

b"On today's show: The Trump Administration announces very mild sanctions, taking away visas from some Saudis alleged to have been involved in the assassination of WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Good thing they didn't try to cross our border and legally claim asylum, or they'd be thrown in jail without their children for months.\\xa0 We finally found Republicans' "angry left wing mob": one of them put a bomb in the mailbox of Democratic funder George Soros, which seems an odd thing for "the left" to do, doesn't it?\\xa0 Florida's Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis doesn't want to answer questions -- dodging during his debate with Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum on CNN, and cancelling an interview with the editorial board of the USA Network in Florida. Georgia's Republican Sec. of State and gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is caught on audio at a private campaign fundraiser lamenting that efforts by his opponent, Democrat Stacey Abrams, to get out the vote, "continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote." Kemp has spent years trying to keep Georgians from voting, has promoted the state's easily-hacked, 100 percent unverifiable touchscreen voting systems, and is being sued by at least five different voting rights organizations for the myriad ways GA is working hard to prevent voters from voting. In Texas, early voting turnout is breaking records over previous midterm elections. But Democrats would be wise not to make too much of those numbers for a host of reasons that we discuss in detail today. Finally, Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report', with more hurricanes, more new heat records, and some reasonably encouraging news about candidates finally being asked about their positions on climate change..."