'BradCast' 10/31/2022 (If Brazil Can Depose Autocrats at the Polls, So Can the U.S.)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 We're just over one week from the most critical midterm elections in these United States since the Civil War. The 2022 midterm elections in all 50 states are an inflection point for the future of American democracy itself. We explain why this could be the last democratic election in this country, and why you, and everyone you know, needs to vote in whatever state you live in no later Tuesday, November 8.\\xa0 In Brazil, voters rejected far-right autocrat Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election on Sunday, electing Brazil's former President, Luiz In\\xe1cio Lula da Silva, popularly known as 'Lula'.\\xa0 New pre-election polls show four key U.S. Senate races remain extremely close, countering recent breathless corporate media reports warning that Democrats were losing ground, and underscoring why every single vote counts on November 8. An assassination attempt on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed, but Pelosi's husband was seriously injured by the attacker, who appears to be a rightwing QAnon cult conspiracy follower who believed Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election. Republican politicians and rightwing commentators joked about the Pelosi attack and omitted the attacker's far-right beliefs - - a stark contrast to the GOP's recent, weeks-long 'outrage' over peaceful protesters outside the homes of corrupt Supreme Court justices. Callers weigh in on all of the above."