Americast: Trump v DeSantis

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As the midterm results continue to come in, the Americast team are taking over the Newscast feed for one day only! The team are in Washington DC, taking a closer look at the rivalry between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump. Americast is presented by North America Editor Sarah Smith, Today presenter Justin Webb, the BBC's Social Media and Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher. Find out more about the Americast ‘undercover voters’ here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63530374 This episode is made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Louisa Lewis. The senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.6	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio.
0:06.6	But today you're going to hear from our America's cousins in the America's studio in Washington,
0:11.9	DC.
0:12.9	Because Justin, Sarah, Mariana and Anthony are going to be giving you a full readout of
0:18.4	what the results of the US midterm elections really mean.
0:22.5	I hope you enjoy it.
0:24.8	Justin, Mariana, you're still here in Washington with us.
0:27.4	This is fantastic that we can record another episode with all of us here, Anthony, of course,
0:32.7	in the studio in Washington as well, all four of us together.
0:35.8	Not for long though.
0:36.8	We're going to be going back, Liz, Mariana and I are going to be going back soon.
0:41.2	And well, back to what...
0:43.1	Do we call it the London headquarters of America's, does this the branch office?
0:46.8	Oh, don't even start.
0:49.3	Well, anyway, we're going back.
0:51.2	And we're sad about it.
0:52.2	And it's been very exciting seeing DC for the first time, along with the under-cover
0:56.6	voters.
0:57.6	They're now safely stowed away in my suitcase, including Gabriella.
1:01.1	So that's really good news.
1:02.1	And when you say including Gabriella, we had quite a sightseeing event, actually.
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