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11.4.25 Trump lowers refugee cap, government stalemate, Virginia candidate scandals, and raising self-reliant kids
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Good morning. The Trump administration plans to cut back dramatically on refugees allowed into the U.S.
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We have a report also today, the shutdown standoff is about to break records. Is either side close to blinking? And it's election day. We have a report from Virginia on one of the most contentious later how one mom is preparing her daughters for life beyond the classroom.
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We provide food, water and shelter for our children. The rest is up to them to.
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Purchase and keeping the soul of conservatism. World Opinions contributor Andrew Walker on that.
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It's Tuesday, November 4th. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Mary Raggert.
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And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
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Now News. Here's Kent Covington.
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Today is election day for many local and statewide elections across the country. In the Big Apple, New Yorkers are set to choose their next mayor. Self described socialist Democrat Zoran Mandani enjoys a double digit lead in an average of recent polls.
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We have not only come so far.
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We stand on the verge of ushering.
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In a new day for our city.
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But here's where it gets interesting. The most recent and by far the largest poll conducted there suggests that race may have tightened considerably. An Atlas intel survey of 2,400 likely voters in the city shows Mamdani up by only about five points now over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo, also a Democrat now running as an independent, predicts New Yorkers will choose him.
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They want a mayor who can actually make change and get something done. They don't need a mayor whose first job is mayor of the city of New York.
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Among the other big races to be decided today, voters in Virginia and New Jersey will decide their next governors. In a final average of polls. The Democratic candidate leads by nine points in Virginia and by three points in New Jersey. Meantime, in Washington, the government shutdown drags on. Without a breakthrough in the hours ahead, it could become the longest shutdown ever at midnight, a record it has already tied at 35 days. Some Republicans are predicting that after today's elections, Democrats might agree to reopen the government. SENATOR JAMES lankford They're holding all those.
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Things so they can try to get more leverage in the New York City mayoral election. So why they're doing that, I have no idea.
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But our frustration is these folks need basically their government to be open.
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But other Republicans say they doubt anything will change after the elections. The Senate will vote once again today on the same spending bill democrats have blocked 13 times already. If it were to pass, it would temporarily restore the funding that was already in place to reopen the government. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said again on Monday that his party is holding out until Republicans agree to extend Obamacare tax credits.
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The only plan Republicans have for health care seems to be to eliminate it and then to tell working people to go figure it out on their own.
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Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture says it will dip into contingency funds to send out partial snap food benefits after getting legal clarification from a federal court. The exact amount or when payments will go out is unclear.
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In Israel, for 758 days, we lived.
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Between hope and heartbreak.
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Today, that long night ends with the knowledge that Omer is finally home.
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That is the mother of captain Omer Neutra, a US Israeli citizen and an Israeli Defense Forces soldier who died after he was taken hostage during the October 7 attacks. Omer was one of three IDF soldiers whose remains were returned by Hamas Sunday night. He was originally from the state of New York aboard Air Force One. President Trump told reporters, I spoke to.
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His parents and they're thrilled in one.
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Sense, but in another sense, obviously it's not too great.
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Meanwhile, the Red Cross says Israel handed over the bodies of death dozens of Palestinians killed in past clashes with Israeli forces. President Trump says the United States could deploy troops or launch airstrikes in Nigeria to stop the massacre of Christians by Islamic terrorists. The Christian rights group Inter Society estimates that more than 7,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed this year alone and more than 50,000 since 2009.
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They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not going to allow that to happen.
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Trump has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to prepare for possible rapid action. He has also threatened to cut off US Aid if the government there fails to take strong action. Nigeria's government denies religiously targeted killings, but said it would welcome US Help so long as its sovereignty is respected. Trump also said he'll designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern. That's a step that triggers special US scrutiny for severe religious persecution. At least 20 people are dead in Afghanistan after a powerful earthquake shook a northern region of the country. World's Benjamin Eicher reports at least 640.
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People were also injured after the 6.3.
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Magnitude quake struck before dawn on Monday. In the town of Culm. Near the epicenter, residents have been digging through the rubble of collapsed homes, hoping to find loved ones still alive. The impoverished country often struggles to respond to natural disasters, especially in remote regions. The Taliban government says rescue and emergency teams have been deployed, and the United nations says its teams are on the ground delivering urgent aid for World. I'm Benjamin Eicher.
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Actress Diane Ladd has died at the age of 89. The three time Academy Award nominee was best known for roles in Wild at Heart and as the brash waitress Floating and Alice doesn't live here anymore.
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You know, I can tell that you're.
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New to this kind of work, but.
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You catch on real quick.
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She earned an Oscar nomination for her role as Flo and appeared in dozens of movies over decades. She also enjoyed a long career in television and on stage. I'm Kent Covington. And straight ahead, the Trump administration is planning to cut down the number of refugees G's allowed into the country, plus Election Day coverage. This is the WORLD and everything in it.
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It's Tuesday, the 4th of November. This is World Radio and we're happy you've joined us today. Good morning. I'm Mary Reichert.
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And I'm Nick Icker. First up on the WORLD and everything in it. Capping refugee admissions. The Trump administration last week confirmed it's cutting the number of refugees the US will accept to 7,500 for the new fiscal year. That is down from the 125,000 ceiling under President Biden. The program that brought in people from war torn regions across Africa and the Middle east, including many from Muslim majority countries like Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan. Supporters say the new limit restores some order to a US System overwhelmed by illegal immigration.
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But opponents say it leaves persecuted Christians and U.S. allies out in the cold. World's Josh Schumacher reports.
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When Donald Trump returned to the presidency promising to protect Christians, advocates for persecuted refugees were hopeful. Nine months in, not so much.
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Well, it's profoundly disappointing.
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Matthew Sorens is vice president of policy and advocacy at World Relief.
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You know, the president has talked a lot about standing with persecuted Christians, and this basically makes that impossible, at least in terms of offering refuge to those who fled persecution on account of their faith.
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The United states established the U.S. refugee Admissions Program, or USRAP, in 1980. The goal of the program was to provide a way for refugees to enter the United States in the wake of the Vietnam War. Federal law defines refugees as people fleeing persecution based on their religion, race or political opinion. Sorens and others say the program runs one of the most rigorous immigrant vetting processes in the world. It's since been used to bring in refugees from countries like Afghanistan, Venezuela and Syria. But the Trump administration last week decided to wind the program down significantly, saying it would only let a historic low of 7,500 refugees into the country. The administration also said it was reserving those slots primarily for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others fleeing illegal or unjust discrimination. But Matthew Soren says that Afrikaners and people facing discrimination fit into a very different group of people from what the USRAP program was originally designed to help.
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The administration is using the language of discrimination in this order instead of the language of the law, which is a well founded fear of persecution. Not that I want anyone to be discriminated against, but persecution is a fairly high standard under the law.
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That's not the only part of the law that refugee advocates say the White House is skirting around.
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There are huge flaws in terms of.
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What has just happened.
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That's Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland speaking in a virtual press conference last week. He says the administration ignored federal law in setting the refugee ceiling.
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The administration never consulted the majority or.
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Minority leaders of the Senate and House.
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Judiciary Committees, never came and spoke to Congress, despite the fact that that is required by law and has never been violated before to my knowledge, by any administration.
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When World asked the White House if those congressional conversations took place before the administration confirmed its refugee cap, the White House sidestepped. In an email response, it said it had long made cleaning up former President Joe Biden's broken immigration system a priority. It added that it would consult with Congress after the current government shutdown was over. White House allies have said scaling back on refugees is a necessary step. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina spoke with World's Carolina Lumeta near the Senate subway.
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I think we got plenty of people here in the country illegally we've got to deal with. And one of the consequences, having the country overrun by illegal immigrants, it hurts legal immigration.
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Others agree. Here's Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
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Given that number of people who are here illegally who need to be sorted through, a significant percentage of whom in theory are going to claim asylum, I would say a zero cap for a couple of years would make a lot of sense. So 7500 is kind of an arbitrary number, but I would not be surprised to see the numbers go way, way down.
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But winding down, the program still remains discouraging to those working to offer persecuted Christians and others a safe haven. Here's Sorence with World Relief.
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He doesn't go very far towards standing with those who are persecuted for various reasons, including on kind of their faith.
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Reporting for World, I'm Josh Schumacher.
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Up next, the government shutdown tipping point. If Washington's funding lapse lasts beyond today, it will be the longest one in US History. Even though essential programs are continuing to operate. Cracks began to appear over the weekend.
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For the first time since 1992, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program stopped paying for food stamps, leading to long lines at food banks. World's Carolina Lumeta reports from Washington.
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The Senate is scheduled to vote a 15th time on a continuing resolution that carries over existing spending until November 21st to allow more time to pass already overdue appropriations bills. House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a news conference yesterday morning, said Democrats are gaslighting the nation.
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Senate Democrats, they have voted no. They voted to close the government and then they have gone out to the hall to the nearest camera they can find and they have looked into the lens and said Republicans are shutting down the government.
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It makes no sense.
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But Democrats say they are holding out for one reason, saving Covid era enhanced subsidies for Obamacare from expiring at the end of the year. Here's House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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Republicans have been delusional from the very beginning of this government shutdown situation that they visited on the American people. But we were never going to vote for a partisan Republican spending bill that.
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Guts the health care of the American people.
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If the enhanced subsidies expire, tens of millions of Americans could lose their premium benefits entirely or see them reduced. But if the subsidies are extended, the Congressional Budget Office estimates it would increase the federal deficit by $350 billion in the next 10 years. It's not great math. According to Heritage foundation tax policy fellow Preston Brashears, they have a clean CR.
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It passed out of the House.
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The Democrats are demanding one and a.
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Half trillion dollars of additional spending. So to hold the government hostage in.
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Order to expand our debt even further.
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Is, I think, a rather ridiculous proposition.
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To be frank, the White House has said it will not even begin Obamacare discussions until Democrats reopen the government. Democrats like Michigan Senator Gary Peters say they're waiting on Trump to move first.
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None of the Republican senators are going to do anything unless Donald Trump tells them what to do.
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So if he doesn't tell him what.
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To do, they're not going to do anything.
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President Trump has something else in mind. He's long complained that the 60 vote requirement in the Senate is burdensome to getting his agenda passed. Over the weekend, he posted on Truth Social that senators should simply get rid of the rule of called the filibuster. He explained further during a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday.
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The Republicans have to get tougher. If we end the filibuster, we can.
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Do exactly what we want.
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We're not going to lose power.
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But Senate Majority Leader John Thune, along with most Republicans in the Senate, say that's a non starter. It might make legislation easier to pass now, but it will also give Democrats equal free rein whenever they regain the majority. Trump disagrees and I also know there.
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Are other Republicans that feel the other.
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Way and I understand that too.
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But they're wrong.
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The Democrats will do it in the.
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First week in office.
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The government has shut down 14 times since 1981, when procedures were put into place to stop many day to day operations and furlough employees. In 2013, Republicans refused to vote for appropriations because they opposed the Democrat planned Obamacare. In 2018, Republicans again rejected appropriations that did not include $5.7 billion that Trump wanted for a border wall with Mexico. In both cases, they eventually caved. Obamacare passed and a border wall was never fully built.
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Historically, minority parties shutting down the government almost get nothing for this.
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They usually fold and they turn to.
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Messaging to say that this is why.
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They won despite not getting anything tangible here.
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Casey Birgitt is a politics professor at George Washington University. For the past month, roughly equal ratios of Americans have blamed both parties, which meant that neither one felt the pressure to cave. But now that food benefits have stalled, more Americans are frustrated with the Republicans. An NBC poll conducted in late October found 42% of Americans blame congressional Democrats for the shutdown 52% hold Trump and congressional Republicans responsible. 3% said they blame both.
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Winning can take on many different facets, and this is why I get why people hate Washington.
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But Birgitt says the win for Democrats could be in public opinion. Voters might know that Democrats caused the shutdown, but they expect the party in the majority to fix it.
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So Democrats have been looking for something.
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To plant their flag in the ground.
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To use whatever little leverage they have.
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In a DC Controlled by Republicans right.
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Now, knowing full well that a lot.
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Of voters only all they know about.
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DC is that number one, it's broken and number two, the Republicans control it.
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The CR passed by the House would only fund the government until November 21. Yesterday, Thune said he's now open to considering a new CR to fund the government through January. Reporting for World I'm Carolina Lumeta in Washington.
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Next up, Election Day. Virginia is one of only two states choosing a new governor this year, and it's often seen as a bellwether for where the country's headed politically. Both parties have faced campaign controversy, but voters and analysts say those headlines may not change much. Virginia has a long tradition of choosing governors from the party opposite the White House, and polls show tight races all the way down the ballot. Here's World reporter Juliana Chan Erickson.
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There's a slogan here Virginia is for lovers, and it certainly holds true for lovers of political drama. For Most of the 2025 campaign, Democrats have enjoyed comfortable polling leads in races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. But that all changed last month.
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Stunning new developments in the race for attorney general of Virginia. Democrats and Republicans are condemning old text messages that emerged from Democratic candidate Jay.
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Jones back in 2022. Jones texted a colleague in the Virginia House of Delegates, saying he wanted to deliver two bullets to the head of Todd Gilbert, then the speaker of the State House. That shook the confidence of some voters, like this retiree outside a cafe in Vienna, Virginia. Is it okay if I ask how.
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You intend to vote Democratic? Demonstrate.
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I don't know about the guy with the scandal.
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I'm not sure.
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And this independent voter told me he decided to vote Republican partly because of the text messages.
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Having been a victim of threats before.
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I don't really think that's appropriate for somebody to be making those threats and.
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Hold high public office.
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But it has not changed the mind of this woman.
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I support all three, including Jay Jones.
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Who I know there's a lot of controversy over.
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But I think people are not looking at the context with which he wrote those, those posts. And considering who he's up against, I.
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Support all three wholeheartedly.
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But Jones isn't the only one dealing with scandal in Virginia. So is John Reed, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. Last month, the website American Journal News said it found gay pornographic images glorifying Nazis on a now deleted Tumblr blog allegedly connected to Reid. In an interview with ABC affiliate 13 News now in Norfolk, Reid denied any connection with the images.
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They're lies, and they were discredited back in April.
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You know, I embarrassed everybody in Virginia.
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Because we proved that they were lying about me.
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None of the voters I spoke with knew about the controversy involving Reid at a parade in Annandale, Virginia. Most spectators couldn't even identify him or his Democratic opponent, Ghazala Hashmid. Do you know, the lieutenant governor.
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Lieutenant Governor.
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Some expressed disappointment about Jones, but said they would still vote for him. Like this dad watching kids play flag football in Vienna, Virginia. So what do you think about Jay Jones?
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I think he's not a great candidate. So Jason Miyara supports Trump and we.
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Need to stop Trump.
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Polls show the scandals have affected both candidates. Jones was leading by as much as nine points before the October Surprise, but as of last week, he was losing to his Republican rival, incumbent Jason Miyares. Polls also show Reid losing to Hajme. Has any of this affected the race for Virginia governor? Experts say not really.
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For 50 years, Virginia always votes for a governor of the opposite party to whoever is in the White House.
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David Ramadan is a former Virginia state delegate and a professor at George Mason University. He thinks Virginians will follow tradition and select Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger to be the next governor. But Lieutenant governor and attorney General could be a different story. Unlike some states, Virginians vote on the top executive offices individually.
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But in the mind of the voter, it's not a ticket. You don't cast one vote for all three. You cast three actual votes. And because of that, we're not seeing.
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That the controversy on the AG is.
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Dragging down the governor's race or the lieutenant governor's race.
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Ramadan predicts Virginians will vote straight down Democratic Party lines and give Spanberger, Hashmi and even the scandal plagued Jones a victory. Others think the Tech scandal will at least cost Jones his race.
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I think Attorney General Millaris has it in the bag, quite frankly.
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Karen Holt is a political science professor at Virginia Tech. She believes that enough Virginians will skip voting on Jones to give Miharres the win. If that happens, that would give the commonwealth a split ticket, something Virginia hasn't had in 20 years. Regardless, Holt encourages Virginians to do some homework before they head to the polls.
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How important is it to you that one of the candidates rather than the other fills that position? And then to what extent, if any, do those text messages make in your estimation of who to vote for? It's a tough choice.
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Reporting for World, I'm Juliana Chand Erickson. In Northern Virginia.
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A mother in china discovered her 11 year old had spent about $70 on trading cards without her permission. So she sought to send them back, only to find out the seller had a refund policy that can only be characterized as a slap in the face. So to get her money back, mom was told she had to send along proof of discipline, a specific requirement she provide a five minute video of herself slapping her daughter. Not kidding. Complete with clearly all audible sound. And not only that, but also a handwritten apology letter signed and fingerprinted by the child. This whole thing concerning 70 bucks. Now, mom did not go along with this ridiculous request. But the seller didn't budge either. So it seems in this case, sparing the rod spoiled the refund. It's the world and everything in it.
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Today is Tuesday, November 4th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning, I'm Mary Reichert.
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And I'm Nick Eicher. Next up on the world and everything in it, the blessing of work. For some, it's a paradigm shift to think of work as a gift. But, but Christians understand we are created also to be creators, to build and produce things with our hands and our minds.
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World's Myrna Brown met a homeschool mom living out that perspective, teaching her children to do the same.
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Good morning.
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Come on in, girl. My grandma always called this a one butt kitchen. That's what she like.
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It may be small, but it's just right for 39 year old Lucy Matier. This is Claire and her daughter Claire. They're brewing and blending inside this drive thru coffee shop.
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Good morning guys. How are you today?
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But Lucy isn't just serving coffee at the corner of a busy intersection. The wife and mother is also cultivating a mindset. Lucy grew up thinking her kids needed to be in the best schools.
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You know, I don't look look at my kids as children necessarily. I look at them as human beings that I need to be able to turn out into the world someday that are going to be people who contribute in a positive way to society.
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That big shift started in 2019. That's when Lucy and her husband decided to pull their three daughters out of school and teach them at home.
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I wanted to figure out what God given motivations were inside of my children. And I said listen, we're going to do a very hands on approach to learning.
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Two to four hours of structured book learning with the rest of the day devoted to exploring other learning opportunities. She had an idea and we came.
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Up with a business called Mattir Mistletoe.
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Her girls found, cut and tied the.
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Mistletoe and our slogan was bring back the tradition of holiday kissing.
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Covid turned that tagline into an unhealthy proposition and that put an end to the mistletoe business. Then in 2021, another idea. So what is this made of?
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It is a shipping container.
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They took this green steel shed and turned it Into a drive through coffee shop built from the ground up.
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These blocks that are under here because we had to raise it 8 inches off the ground, they had a hard time getting it up here. And so my girls had to bring these cinder blocks. Do you remember that? Put the cinder blocks out?
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I remember how hard it was to like put the second one to shove it under there.
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But Lucy and Claire say that was actually easy compared to the grinder pop hole they had to dig for their sewer system.
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I thought it was a great opportunity for my girls to learn how hard it is to dig holes.
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How hard was it? I gave up halfway through. From manual labor to part time barista Claire works every Thursday morning.
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Can I get an iced white chocolate latte with almond milk?
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Of course.
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Would you like that to be 16 or 20 ounce? She's been taking orders, stamping coffee cups and washing dishes since she was 10 years old. Everything in the tips jar goes to Claire. Legally, she's not old enough to get a paycheck yet.
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It's actually a rite of passage in our house. When you turn 14, one of the gifts you get is a wood.
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Working alongside her daughters in the coffee shop has challenged Lucy to reconsider some of her long held beliefs. For instance, she grew up with parents who did their best to pay for everything their kids needed and wanted. Well, that's not the way she's raising Claire and her sisters. Is it hard to just to say no?
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I do not find it hard to say no because I personally provided them with the opportunities to earn their own money. You know, I told them from a very young age, I'm not going to pay for you to go to college. I'm not going to. But I'll set you up with every opportunity that you need. I am not going to buy a car for you, but I will set you up with every opportunity to earn that vehicle for yourself. We provide food, water and shelter for our children. The rest is up to them to purchase.
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If there's too much, much responsibility too soon. How would you respond to that?
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Oh goodness. I tell them you come back and see me in 10 years. I don't know, honestly. And that's, that's my true answer. You can love them too much, you can love them not enough. You can expect too much. You can expect not enough. I look at them as human beings that I'm responsible for incorporating into society and them having these experiences. Experiences. This is life.
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And what does Claire think of their uncommon way of life? I see it less of they're trying.
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To, like, neglect me and everything I.
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See it more of.
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They're my safety net.
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And the better I get at the.
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Tightrope, the less I'm going to need a safety net.
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So when I'm out in the real.
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World, I'm going to feel comfortable on that tightrope by myself. Claire has also gotten to experience the sacrificial aspect of work. I absolutely hate the smell of coffee. Like, sometimes I, like, hold my breath when I'm pouring the coffee.
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So even though she doesn't like the smell of coffee, she very easily could go and get a job at a coffee shop because she has that experience.
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Experience that is going to prepare Claire for her next big work adventure. The Matieres are relocating to the North. They're leaving the coffee shop behind. Lucy admits the news of their departure has given her a new platform to talk about their philosophy on teaching children about the value of work.
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God created us to work. It is from the beginning of human creation. Adam was tasked with working, and I think it's a gift that God gives us.
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She says it's also an opportunity to reflect on how much her girls have grown.
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And when I explained to people that it was actually their idea, that they were the ones that came to us when we sat down and had that family meeting at the beginning of the year and said, we're ready for a change. We want something different.
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Claire, however, has one request.
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I totally think that when we move.
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Up to Pennsylvania and we do another.
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Like small business, it has nothing to do.
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It involves no coffee at all. Reporting for World. I'm Myrna Brown in Fairhope, Alabama.
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Today is Tuesday, November 4th. Good morning. This is the World and everything in it. From listener support. Welcome to Supported World Radio. I'm Nick Iker.
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And I'm Mary Reichard. The recent texting scandal among young Republicans and their embrace of anti Semites is a warning that conservatism is at risk. World Opinion's managing editor, Andrew Walker, says it's time to ask who is actually a conservative and what moral boundaries remain.
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Some on the right insist conservatives always lose because we're not united like the left. We impose purity tests while progressives form a single power bloc. Hence the rallying cry, no enemies to the right. The slogan traces to the political theology of Carl Schmitt, who reduced politics to a friend, enemy, distinction. Schmidt saw politics as the act of identifying those who threaten one's way of life and rallying with those who share a common foe. Today, no enemies to the right captures a mood. It says, if we really want to win. Stop clearing our throats and stop policing our side. It's a war, after all, and in wartime, niceties must yield to victory. That mindset is a mistake. It's incompatible with the Bible's moral realism and corrosive to the conservative soul. I also don't think it's a sound political strategy. The no enemies to the right principle will only serve to sully the conservative conscience and divide the coalition by perpetually renegotiating the boundaries of who is in and who is out. Imitating the left's willingness to invite radicals into its coalition partly explains why progressivism is suffering historic levels of unpopularity. Conservatives must care about the moral and intellectual character of our coalition. We do not care because we crave the left's approval or chase liberal plaudits. We also shouldn't care because we enjoy tone policing. We care because the health of our movement depends on the moral quality of those who represent it. Conservatism at its best rests on two truth and virtue. Truth gives order its compass. Virtue gives self government its guardians. A people fit for liberty must also be a people of character. A movement that embraces by any means necessary may win a battle, but will lose its soul. Such tactics define progressivism. They must never define conservatism. The trouble with no enemies to the right is that it lacks a limiting principle. Once adopted, nothing is off the table, neither in who we include nor in what we justify. This is the opposite of Christian ethics, which rejects unprincipled pragmatism in favor of principled outcomes, even when those outcomes are difficult. Thank God that Scripture is our North Star, not the shifting winds of fallen man. Let me be clear about what I'm not saying. We don't always need to publicly denounce every misstep or person. Private relational correction is proper. But we must be vigilant about who's on the team. There must be a moral line somewhere. We cannot police the behavior of every member of our coalition, but we must uphold moral expectations and ensure that certain ideas are unacceptable. Anything less and we've become the moral revolutionaries we believed ourselves incapable of becoming. This is where the Christian and Christian conservative takes priority. Before we are Christian conservatives, we must be conservative Christians. We take Scripture seriously. So seriously that we see it as the inerrant, authoritative, all sufficient guide for everything, including the morality that governs our political life. It doesn't bow to worldly categories of gender, race, class or party. It speaks over them all. Sola scriptura means precisely. Scripture alone is supreme, not our identities, not our experiences, not our political loyalties. God's Word judges all human words and never the other way around. When we let cultural identity or political tribe dictate our theology, when we decide what to affirm or avoid based on allegiance, we've already abandoned sola scriptura. We have enthroned culture and politics where Christ should reign. The left remains an existential threat, but so does a rite that abandons its moral guardrails. Together they'll burn civilization down in a blaze of mutually assured destruction. I'm Andrew Walker.
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Tomorrow, Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker and world tour with Onize Odua and how the faith of a Father shaped a beloved voice in Christian music. That and more tomorrow. I'm Mary Reichert.
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And I'm Nick Eicher. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. The apostle Paul wrote, do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air, but I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others, I myself should be disqualified. Verses 24 through 27 of First Corinthians, chapter 9. Go now in grace and peace.