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Wisconsin GOP’s Lame-Duck Powerplay
Lame-duck Wisconsin Republicans are voting to weaken the incoming Democratic governor's power. Charlie Sykes, contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, MSNBC contributor, and author of How the Right Lost Its Mind (St. Martin's Press, October, 2017) talks about why the move, in addition to being grossly undemocratic, would be bad for the Republican party.
"He’s taking time to put things in the public record, the court record, that is going to be very hard to ignore." 2/2 https://t.co/7xQuJ1mBGu
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 7, 2018In Wisconsin, Republicans are exhibiting what @SykesCharlie calls the "sore loser reaction... signaling to the rest of the country that we’re going to react to an electoral defeat by making it harder to vote."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 7, 2018"Republicans, by doing what they’re doing, are very much energizing the Democratic base," says @SykesCharlie on Wisconsin Republicans moving to weaken the Democrats' access to early voting ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 7, 2018"Conservative readers and investors… want the world to be binary, they want it to be tribal and The Weekly Standard has staked out a very unusual and very courageous position," by not "jumping on the Trump train," says @SykesCharlie.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 7, 2018