#1416 What Just Happened?
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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On November 4, 2020, the day after the election, The Thomas Jefferson Hour held a Zoom "Town Hall" to hear our listeners share their thoughts on the Presidential election. For two hours we heard from supporters of both candidates, along with insight and analysis from Clay Jenkinson, the creator of the Jefferson Hour. This week's show presents an edited version of that conversation, including comments from 17 participants.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day Thomas Jefferson our podcast listeners were so pleased that you're listening and oh my goodness |
| 0:07.4 | What a conversation we have for you this week. Do you please tell them Clay what we're doing |
| 0:12.6 | Well, we had a zoom |
| 0:14.0 | Conversation with people from around the country and as it turns out around the world about what just happened in the |
| 0:20.4 | 2020 election as we record this podcast introduction on the fifth day, which by the way is Guy Fox stay over in Britain |
| 0:28.8 | We still don't know who the next president of the United States will be |
| 0:33.3 | It looks today as if Joe Biden will eke out a very narrow victory |
| 0:38.8 | But that's not at all certain and there will be recounts |
| 0:42.3 | I'm the president of the United States Donald Trump has already |
| 0:46.1 | insisted that he will |
| 0:48.3 | file lawsuits in the most hotly contested states |
| 0:53.2 | To see if there was any shenanigans |
| 0:55.9 | As he puts it in the way the votes were counted. So we don't |
| 0:59.6 | Know at this point. That's not at all historically unusual |
| 1:03.0 | Although it has been unusual in the late 20th century in the early part of the 21st |
| 1:08.3 | We heard from people as you said from all over the country and and around the world |
| 1:13.0 | And I was just struck by what a civil conversation it was |
| 1:18.2 | Every call was was important everyone had unique perspectives |
| 1:23.4 | It was just it for me personally it was |
| 1:26.4 | It was really great to sort of settle a bit after this contentious election period |
| 1:31.7 | Well after this the raucous second debate |
| 1:35.3 | by President Trump and Joe Biden |
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