Ben Jealous predicts & explains a Trump victory hours before anyone else saw it coming

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🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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At 6pm on November 8th, while the rest of us were trying to figure out how to hold soon to be president-elect Hillary Clinton's feet to the progressive fire, our guest had already figured out how and why we Trump would likely win. The guest was Ben Jealous, former NAACP president & Sanders surrogate, who wound up endorsing Hillary Clinton and forming Our Revolution, the continuation of the movement inspired by Sanders campaign. And his prediction was based on the Sonny and Cher show and cicadas. Ben also talked to us about the fight for marriage equality in Maryland, which was won, the fight to save Troy Davis's life, which was lost, and how to get out of bed the morning after the state murders a man it knows is innocent.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, welcome to the Katie Halper Show. Thanks so much for listening.
0:09.3	On this week we have a great episode. We interviewed Ben Jealous, former head of the N double ACP, former Bernie Sanders
0:16.0	surrogate who wound up then endorsing Hillary Clinton, much like Bernie Sanders did. He's also on the board
0:21.2	of directors of our revolution
0:23.6	the progressive political organization
0:25.8	that is the inheritor of Senator Bernie Sanders
0:29.8	presidential campaign.
0:31.0	Now just to explain, this interview we are now releasing
0:33.8	we interview him 6 p.m. on November 8th that is the night of the elections and
0:38.6	what you're going to see is Ben jealous predict why Donald Trump won and it's interesting because honestly I have
0:47.0	to say that when Gaye Pacheco my co-host and I interviewed Vangelis I really
0:50.8	expected it to be a kind of get out to vote, vote against Trump, and I almost didn't even ask him until the very end any predictions about tonight.
1:00.0	That's where we start the interview, then we go back in in time but you'll see why I moved
1:03.6	that earlier a pretty exciting part of it but it is kind of funny that we
1:07.0	almost have talked about this because I thought that Haler said he was gonna win and
1:10.3	I thought the question that we had to grapple with was that we were going to hold her feet to the fire.
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