The BradCast w/ Brad Friedman

'BradCast' 4/29/2020 (Amash Getting In? Economy Tapping Out. And Election News)

04.30.2020 - By Brad FriedmanPlay

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On today's 'BradCast':  Official election results from Ohio's presidential primary and Maryland's special Congressional election will take more time than usual due to coronavirus precautions, but preliminary reported results indicate that Democrat Kweisi Mfume has surprised nobody in winning back his old seat in the U.S. House in Maryland's special election to replace the late Rep. Elijah Cummings in Baltimore. Joe Biden surprises nobody by winning the first quickly-designed and rescheduled statewide absentee ballot primary election of the COVID era in Ohio. Trump's approval rating for his handling of the COVID crisis plummets in new poll, but his national head-to-head numbers with Biden remain unchanged. Andrew Yang sues New York State Board of Elections over its decision to cancel the Democratic Presidential Primary. Michigan's Republican-turned-independent U.S. House Rep. Justin Amash announces likely run for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. Kansas' former Secretary of State, long time GOP "voter fraud" fraudster and current Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach loses again, this time at a U.S. appeals court, finding his "papers please" proof-of-citizenship voter registration law that prevented 30,000 Kansans from legally voting is unconstitutional. New numbers from the Commerce Department confirm that the U.S. economy is in big trouble. Steven Colbert explains why Trump can't lie his way out of this crisis. Plus New York comedian Vic DiBitetto offers a rant FOR THE AGES in response to the federal government's pathetic response to the coronavirus, in a way that only a New Yorker can...

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