This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. What an incredible week it has been.

Tuesday's election and the ensuing days of counting. Then came waiting for results, from Michigan, Wisconsin, then Nevada and Arizona, and

finally Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.

It has been a world of tension.

But also in some sense, predictable.

Donald Trump's election night edge in some of those states

slowly eroded as officials tallied up mail-in ballots

that tended to favor Joe Biden.

And that was the red mirage scenario

that many reporters and analysts had been predicting all along.

And nearly from the start of things,

Joe Biden led in the popular vote.

Susan Glasser is a Washington correspondent for the New Yorker. Susan, I'm reaching you on a

Friday morning, and a few states still have not been called definitively. But now with Biden

ahead in Pennsylvania and Georgia, we've got to assume that Joe Biden is going to hit that 270 mark.

Now, your column is called Letter from Trump's Washington. You've been writing it throughout.

What is the mood inside Trump's inner circle?

You know, Donald Trump is someone who avoids reckonings. He's done so his entire life. He has managed to

escape from so many previous situations where it looked like disaster loss with imminent bankruptcies.

And, you know, it appears that he's finally hit a moment of true decision about whether to follow

through on his threats. And I think you're starting to see already the cracks, the seams,

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