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Podcast: The Daily Beast Podcast
Episode: Damn Right Republicans Are Scared of the Voting Rights Bills
Description: Republicans are terrifiedâwith good reason. Utah Sen. Mike Lee went viral this week when he sputtered earlier that one of the new voting rights bills making its way through the House was âwritten in hell by the devil himself.â And Leeâs GOP colleagues didnât exactly knock the notion down. âThey should be scared of it,â Rep. Eric Swawell, the California Democrat, tells Molly Jong-Fast on the latest edition of The New Abnormal. âWhat we saw this past election in Georgia and Arizona âstates that have historically made it harder for African-Americans an...