7/20 Bernie & AOC Rally For El-Sayed; The Roots Of Vaccine Hesitancy w/ Kira Ganga Kieffer (M)
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The episode discusses a political rally featuring Bernie Sanders and AOC, vaccine hesitancy with guest Kira Ganga Kieffer, and various current events.
FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/1yAWlAC_8Nw Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez travel to Michigan to rally for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and House candidate Will Lawrence . Bernie and AOC both emphasized the $50M in dark money being spent on H aley Stevens ' campaign. AOC asks if anyone believes that this money does not come with expectations from the donors. Bernie says this Senate race is not between Stevens and El-Sayed but El-Sayed and the billionaire class. Kira Ganga Kieffer , visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University, joins the program for a conversation about her book, " Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America ". In the Fun Half: Bhaskar Sunkara says on Interesting Times with Ross Douthat that he wants to recover the optimism the left once had about America and reclaim narratives about racism. The Tate brothers are arrested in Miami and extradited to the United Kingdom where they are wanted for rape and human trafficking charges. Donald Trump tries to shoehorn himself into Spain's world cup celebration…
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Host: Sam Seder
Guest: Kira Ganga Kieffer
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Organizations: Fairfield University, The Wall Street Journal
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