Biden and Trump: What to expect from US politics in 2022
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The Times
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🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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A year on from the storming of the US Capitol, 2022 looks to be anything but a quiet year in American politics. We take stock of the year gone by, and look ahead at what to expect from the next 12 months.
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| 0:30.0 | 2020 was a crazy year in the US. |
| 0:41.0 | There was the advent of COVID, the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter mass protests, |
| 0:46.5 | and a bitter presidential election. So 2021 was karma, right? |
| 0:52.4 | Not even from day one. Exactly one year ago today, supporters of the defeated |
| 0:57.6 | President Donald Trump rampaged through the US capital in Washington DC |
| 1:02.3 | in an effort to stop Joe Biden taking office and plunging America into a pressure crisis. |
| 1:14.4 | So could a new administration and an apparently safer pair of hands belonging to President Joe Biden |
| 1:21.6 | calm things down and bring some normality back to the national discourse. |
| 1:27.0 | Together we shall write an American story of hope, not fear, of unity, not division of light, |
| 1:35.2 | not darkness, a story of decency and dignity. |
| 1:42.0 | Or one year on from the attack on the capital has American public life been altered forever. |
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| 1:51.9 | I'm David Aronovich, today out 2021 changed America and what comes next. |
| 2:09.0 | Everyone was expecting 2021 to be the year that the US calmed down. We've had four years of |
| 2:15.1 | Donald Trump which have been off anyone's chart in terms of oddness and |
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