Episode Details

Your Heard Tell for Friday, 20 May, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting the information we need with not one but two great guests covering elections both here and over yonder. First, Joe Szymanski of Elections-daily.com returns to break down the primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oregon, and Idaho including high profile US Senate and governor races. Joe then helps us look forward to the next primary in Georgia coming up on Tuesday. We talk about the too-close-to-call US Senate race in Pennsylvania where Dr. Oz looks to be heading to a recount, the easy win of Congressman Ted Budd in NC, the controversial winner of the GOP nomination for PA governor, and Rep. Madison Cawthorn becoming a one-and-down member of Congress. Then we head overseas and check in with our UK friends and the local elections they just had. Bill Bowkett, of Reaction an another of our great Young Voices contributors joins us to talk about the UK local elections, what it means for PM Boris Johnson, the issues like cost of living and partygate scandals that affected the vote, and what might be coming next. Bill also talks about the Labour Party, how leader Sir Keir Starmer's own issues with COVID-19 rules could see him into a very tight spot, gains made in traditionally tough areas, and how the post-Corbyn Labour Party is still trying to figure out just what it is, at least in branding to the voters. We finish up talking about the mess in Northern Ireland, and how the latest chapter in this very old problem has once again come to the front of UK politics and policy. All that and more on this special Friday edition of Heard Tell.

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