Speech likely targeted at Senate Republicans, poli-sci expert says<\/p>\n
Caroline Heldman, a political scientist at Occidental College, said the speech didn’t contain “anything new” other than more unsubstantiated claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m left a little confused and I want that time back,” Heldman told CBC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She said she thinks the speech was targeted at Senate Republicans in an effort to pressure them to pass the SAVE America Act, something they’re hesitant to do.<\/p>\n
“The reason that they’re not moving on this is it’s not entirely clear it’s going to benefit them. In fact, it might harm them,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That’s because there are more rural voters on the Republican side who would be affected by the bill if it gets rid of mail-in voting, she said. “So if he gets rid of mail-in ballots, that means that he is actually disadvantaging his political party, which is why Senate Republicans won’t pass this.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speech likely targeted at Senate Republicans, poli-sci expert says Caroline Heldman, a political scientist at Occidental College, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-806913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}