PBS News Weekend did something unusual on Saturday’s show: It presented two “Republicans” to talk politics. (PBS news shows are notoriously averse to hosting conservative guests.) But the two weren’t on to push conservative policies, certainly not to endorse overwhelming GOP primary favorite Donald Trump, but to evaluate the party’s divisions from an anti-Trump, anti-conservative perspective.
Barron-Lopez talked to former Rep. Denver Riggleman and Republican strategist Barrett Marson. You may remember Riggleman as a one-term congressman from Virginia whose later anti-Trump attitude and work for the House January 6 Committee earned him appearances as a CNN-approved “Republican” (though Riggleman no longer calls himself Republican). Barron-Lopez had talked to Riggleman earlier this year, when he accused Trump and his supporters of dog-whistle racist politics (see PBS Smear…
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