In the latest episode of the World Series of Politics, Brendan Bussmann and Brandt Iden navigate the latest updates from Minnesota, Washington DC, Delaware and Illinois.
The World Series of Politics is back after some technical hitches and we’ve got a lot to catch up on.
We begin in Minnesota. Hopes were high for the state to legalise sports betting before the close of the legislative session, but it inevitably ended without sports betting being considered. Minnesota had been one of four US states that stakeholders thought might pass sports betting legislation, alongside Alabama, Georgia and Missouri. None of them did.
A number of elements factored into Minnesota falling at the final hurdle, Bussmann highlights, one being the arrest of state senator Nicole Mitchell for burglary.
“In the end, one of the downfalls off of this was just, you had, you know, a bunch of people, some are some Ds that just didn’t want to get along at the end,” he says. And although a result was achieved in ..