Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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What will get the swing states swinging? That’s the question we ask on this edition of Business Weekly as we take an in-depth look at Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas and Ohio. We find out what business leaders, activists and environmentalists in these places want from their new leader and ask whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden can deliver. We hear from Puerto Ricans and Cubans in Florida, young people in Texas and a farmer in Ohio. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend programme which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed |
| 0:21.7 | from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. |
| 0:31.7 | Last week on the show, we took an in-depth look at some of the big issues facing Americans |
| 0:36.9 | as they head to the polls in |
| 0:38.3 | November, the economy, health and immigration. As COVID-19 claimed its 200,000th victim this week, |
| 0:47.5 | parts of the country battle extreme weather and the Black Lives Matter protests rage on, |
| 0:52.6 | the scene is set for one of the most divisive elections in a generation, |
| 0:57.5 | the result of which President Trump says he thinks will end up in front of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:03.2 | The latest polls have Joe Biden in the lead. He is, of course, no stranger to politics or indeed the White House, |
| 1:09.4 | as he served in the Obama administration as |
| 1:11.9 | vice president. But we all know that you can't fully trust the polls. Hillary Clinton led Donald |
| 1:18.3 | Trump four years ago, but as she found out, it's not about how many votes you have, but where |
| 1:23.6 | you have them. So today, we'll be getting up close and personal with some of the most |
| 1:28.8 | important swing states, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas and Ohio. My colleague Fergus Nicol is an ardent |
| 1:37.0 | follower of US politics and has covered many elections during his years as a BBC reporter |
| 1:42.6 | and presenter. I asked him whether this was a quote-unquote ordinary election. |
| 1:48.3 | Lucy, I think this is the most extraordinary election that I've worked on since the early 1990s. |
| 1:56.6 | It's extraordinary above all because of the coronavirus. |
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