Biden-Trump & the Senate w/ Larry Sabato
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🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Is Biden’s lead big enough? Who will control the Senate? Bill talks with one of the most astute political scientists and commentators in the business, Larry Sabato, the founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. He’s the author of the Crystal Ball newsletter which is free and you can sign up here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 0:08.0 | So good to have you with us for this episode of the Built Press Pod. |
| 0:11.9 | I know we say this every week, but it's true. |
| 0:14.6 | Again, we've never seen a week in American politics like the one we just got through. |
| 0:22.6 | It started with the New York Times reporting that Donald Trump had paid zero federal taxes in 10 of the last 15 years and only |
| 0:28.4 | $750 total in 2016 and 2017. Next came Tuesday's train wreck of a debate where Donald Trump, after interrupting Joe Biden and Chris Wallace, 145 times in 90 minutes, refused to condemn white supremacy and refused to accept the outcome of the election, unless, of course, he won. |
| 0:52.6 | Then came word that who picks the president's closest top aide, had tested positive for the coronavirus, |
| 0:59.9 | followed a few hours later by news that the president himself and the First Lady had tested positive, |
| 1:07.8 | after which the next afternoon he was airlifted to Walter Reed Hospital. |
| 1:12.3 | With that, the Trump campaign was put on hold. No more campaign rallies until who knows if |
| 1:19.3 | and when. Taxes, white supremacist, the president struck with a disease he deliberately |
| 1:26.2 | downplayed and defied. |
| 1:28.6 | How does all of this impact the 2020 campaign going forward for president and for Senate? |
| 1:35.3 | Well, our friend Larry Sabato follows it all as founder and head of the great Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. |
| 1:43.7 | Larry Savito, good to talk to you again, |
| 1:45.5 | my friend. It's great to see you, Bill. So, Larry, you and I've been around politics a long time. |
| 1:51.8 | Would you agree that, for several reasons, we've never seen a campaign like this one? |
| 1:57.7 | Oh, it's totally unprecedented. I mean, in some ways, the last one was, too. We're at a very |
| 2:03.5 | strange era. Well, actually, I hope it isn't an era, but we're at a very strange moment, |
| 2:09.8 | which has lasted four or five years. Right. So let's look first at the presidential level. |
| 2:30.4 | What do you see overall, the state of the race today, and I guess we have to add, have the events of the last week, which are pretty significant, change the direction of the race in any way that you can see? |
| 2:38.9 | All right. As to the first question, you'd much rather be Joe Biden than Donald Trump right now. Of course, we all remember 2016 at every point in the campaign until Jim Comey did his thing |
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