'BradCast' 11/16/2022 (Guest: Heather Digby Parton on Election 2022 fallout, Trump 2024)

Published: Nov. 17, 2022, 2:58 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 With multiple criminal investigations against him now underway at both the state and federal level, disgraced former President Donald Trump announced his third run for President in a long, soporific speech on Tuesday. Congressional Republicans are embroiled in a circular firing squad over the GOP's dismal performance in the midterm elections. Opinion columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hulaballoo analyzes the no-red-wave 2022 midterm elections, the splintered Republican Party's internal civil war over Republican House and Senate leadership, and what may transpire over the next two years with a far-right dominated GOP House majority that is already a three-ring circus. Parton also discusses Trump's bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination against other GOP hopefuls like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Also today:\\xa0 Trump demanded new voter suppression measures in his big announcement speech and deceptively called for 'paper ballots' to fight fraud in elections. But the states he lost already use paper ballots, and election integrity experts emphasize that election security requires HAND-MARKED paper ballots. Voters and election officials in two Mississippi counties found their new, hand-marked paper ballot system easier, faster, and cheaper to use than their ancient unverifiable touchscreeen system. Plus some fun listener mail."