Off-kilter With Rebecca Vallas

When Senator-elect Doug Jones addressed his supporters Tuesday night in Alabama, one of his first shout-outs went to his African-American supporters. As well it should have been – with exit polls showing that 30% of the voters in Tuesday’s special election were black, even beating the record-high black turnout in the 2012 presidential election. To unpack what was behind the wave of black turnout – and what Democrats can learn from it – I’m joined by Michele Jawando, Vice President of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress and host of Thinking CAP, Off-Kilter’s sister podcast. Later in the show, while Trump and his colleagues in Congress try to push tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations over the finish line without a single democratic vote, they’re not even trying to hide what comes next: cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Meals on Wheels and more – in the name of “welfare reform.” To discuss the role of language in debates around cutting these and other critical progra