America's next top-job model: our election forecast
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The Economist
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We have dusted off and tuned up our forecast model for America’s presidential race. So far it gives Donald Trump a marginally higher chance of a second term. There is at last progress on not one but two vaccines to beat malaria (9:02). And a look at the “tradwives” of TikTok: passionate homemakers who prefer the gender roles of the past (15:10).
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| 1:01.7 | The Economist. |
| 1:08.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:13.7 | And I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:23.7 | More than 200 million people are infected with malaria in Africa each year, but progress in fighting the disease had stalled. |
| 1:31.3 | Now two new vaccines and other clever innovations are creating a buzz. |
| 1:37.3 | And there's a growing passion for a long-retired vision of 1950s domesticity, in which a woman's job really is no more than making her home beautiful, |
| 1:48.0 | her meals from scratch, and her husband happy. |
| 1:51.0 | We meet the tradwives of TikTok. |
| 1:58.0 | But first... |
| 2:01.6 | The presidential campaigns of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are being run in the shadow of America's justice system. |
| 2:17.1 | Yesterday, Mr. Biden was the one to chalk up an American first. |
| 2:21.2 | His son, Hunter, was convicted on three felony charges, |
| 2:24.6 | all related to the younger Biden's drug use, |
| 2:27.4 | lying on a federal background check and possessing a gun, |
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