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The Intelligence from The Economist

America's next top-job model: our election forecast

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

News, Daily News, Global News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 24 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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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants,

0:06.2

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

0:13.0

While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our

0:16.8

global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

0:19.8

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

0:26.4

VP.com slash and not all.

0:29.6

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0:56.3

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1:01.3

Coda 2K.

1:07.0

The Economist.

1:15.0

Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

1:24.0

More than 200 million people are infected with malaria in Africa each year,

1:32.0

but progress in fighting the disease had stalled.

1:36.2

Now two new vaccines and other clever innovations are creating a buzz. And there's a growing passion for a long retired vision of 1950's domesticity, in which a woman's

1:48.6

job really is no more than making her home beautiful, her meals from scratch and her husband happy.

1:55.0

We meet the Tradwives of Tik-Tock. But first. The presidential campaigns of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are being run in the shadow of America's justice system.

2:20.0

Yesterday, Mr Biden was the one to chalk up an American first. His son Hunter was

2:26.0

convicted on three felony charges, all related to the younger Biden's drug use,

2:30.6

lying on a federal background check and possessing a gun, while as the prosecutor put it

2:36.0

in the throes of addiction.

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