'BradCast' 11/16/2018: (Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton)

Published: Nov. 17, 2018, 2:01 a.m.

b"On today's show: Horrifying new numbers out of the ongoing, climate change-fueled wildfires in California. A federal judge orders the White House to restore press credentials to CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta. More House seats flip to Democrats in solidly Republican Orange County in CA. In Florida, statewide 'hand counts' -- or what suffices for them in the Sunshine State -- continued on a ridiculously abbreviated schedule through Sunday in the state's U.S. Senate race, between incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and GOP Gov. Rick Scott, who is said to lead by just over 12,000 votes out more than 8 million cast. The partial "hand count" in the Senate race moves forward after full "machine recounts" in three of the state's largest and most Democratic-leaning counties were rejected by Scott's Sec. of State. In Georgia, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams announced that her Republican opponent Brian Kemp would be the winner of their very close and contested election, thanks in no small part to the extraordinary voter suppression he implemented over the past eight years as Secretary of State.\\xa0 At the same time, she also announced that she is forming a new organization that will sue Kemp and the state for "gross mismanagement" of the election, as "the law currently allows no further viable remedy" to overcome what many now see as a stolen election in Georgia. The great HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo analyzes the last two tumultuous weeks since the extraordinary midterm election "Blue Wave,\\u201d and how some conservative Democrats appear to be taking rightwing Fox "News" bait in attempting to block Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker and leader of the Democratic caucus in Congress in January..."