2024, Trump vs. Harris Part 1: Incompetent Abilities

American Elections: Wicked Game

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In the wake of the infamous events of January 6th, former President Donald Trump fights through a sea of legal troubles to secure his party’s nomination. Trump’s improbable rise is jeopardized when President Biden announces his intention to step aside and endorse his Vice President, Kamala Harris. To listen to the entire series—all 60 episodes—right now and ad-free, become a subscriber at IntoHistory.com, a channel of history podcasts made just for history lovers like you. Enjoy ad-free listening, early releases, bonus content and more, only available at IntoHistory.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the free, ad-sponsored re-release of American Elections Wicked Game,
0:05.0	a weekly march through every presidential election from 1789 to 2024.
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0:35.2	It's January 6, 2021, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
0:40.6	On this cold gray Wednesday morning, Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanon
0:45.0	sits with his elderly mother in her kitchen.
0:47.7	Normally at these regular breakfast dates, Mike and his mother sip coffee and make small talk.
0:52.9	But today, they sit in amaze silence, their eyes glued to the TV as they watch the news.
0:58.5	We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede with his death,
1:04.5	Bigel.
1:06.6	After losing at the ballot box this past November, Donald Trump has been on the offensive.
1:11.9	In the media, he's called the results of the 2020 election rigged.
1:15.8	In the courts, he and his allies have filed more than 60 lawsuits in key battleground states.
1:21.5	Most have been thrown out or ruled against due to lack of evidence.
1:25.4	None changed the outcome of the election.
1:30.1	Today, Trump and his supporters have gathered near the Capitol to pressure Congress and Trump's own Vice President Mike Pence
1:33.6	to stop the official certification of electoral college votes.
1:37.4	We're going to walk down to the Capitol
1:40.4	and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
1:50.0	And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
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