'BradCast' 7/20/2022: (Clear and Present Dangers)

Published: July 21, 2022, 1:35 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 In the Maryland Republican primary race for governor, Democrats are reportedly delighted that Trump-endorsed 2020 election denier Dan Cox won the nomination... but should they be?\\xa0 A bipartisan team of U.S. Senators have struck a deal to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to close loopholes exploited by Donald Trump in his attempt to steal the 2020 election. Brazil's far-right autocratic President Jair Bolsonaro is deploying the Trump playbook, claiming in advance that his upcoming re-election contest, which he is predicted to lose by a landslide, will be fraudulent if he doesn't win, and may require military intervention. New legal developments are a bad sign for Trump cronies Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani. New trouble for 16 GOP fake electors, who are now designated as 'targets' by the Fulton County, GA District Attorney in a criminal probe of 2020 election interference. Congressional Republicans are outraged that House Democrats forced them to go on record publicly voting against federal legislation to codify rights to same-sex and interracial marriage into law, after the rightwing US Supreme Court majority made clear that those previously-established constitutional rights are now on their chopping block. Following the corrupt SCOTUS majority gutting the ability of the EPA to regulate carbon, and the corrupt Joe Manchin gutting President Biden's and the Democrats' critical climate change agenda in Congress, Biden announced plans for executive actions to tackle the crisis, which he describes (correctly) as a clear and present danger..."