Checks and Balance: Joementum

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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"They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing." Those were Joe Biden’s words after his astonishing comeback this week. Votes in 14 states catapulted him into the lead in the delegate count that decides the Democratic Party nomination. The former Vice President’s resurrection poses new questions about a campaign that had been all but written off. Does he have the character and organisation to beat Bernie Sanders, then President Trump? The Economist’s US editor John Prideaux looks into Joe Biden’s past and his plans. New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard and Washington correspondent Jon Fasman join him.

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0:00.0	Joe Biden was ready to quit his senate career before it even started.
0:04.3	It was Christmas 1972, he had just been elected, one of the youngest senators ever, a fairytale.
0:10.8	His wife Nelia and three kids were shopping for the tree when a truck broad-sighted their white
0:16.4	Chevy station wagon at a rural intersection. Campaign paraphernalia littered the crash site.
0:23.2	Nelia and their 13-month-old daughter Amy were dead before they reached hospital.
0:28.1	The two older boys, Bo and Hunter, seriously injured. Biden was reluctantly sworn in as the
0:34.0	senator for Delaware at their hospital bedside. Just a week ago, pundits were once again prepping
0:40.1	Mr. Biden's political obituary, but that was before Super Tuesday. Now the question is,
0:46.4	could Joe Biden complete one of the greatest political comebacks in November?
0:51.1	With 241 days to go, this is Chex and Balance.
1:00.2	Hello, I'm John Prado and this is a podcast from the economist about the 2020 elections
1:05.6	and the road to power in America. I'm the economist's US editor and from now until election day
1:13.3	we'll take one theme each week and explore its own death.
1:22.5	Today is Joe Biden, the man to beat Donald Trump.
1:28.3	They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing, is how Biden put it himself.
1:32.4	Votes in 14 states this week catapulted him into the lead in the delicate count that decides the
1:37.9	Democratic Party nomination. The former vice president's resurrection poses new questions about
1:43.1	a campaign that had been all but written off. Does he have the character and the organization to win?
1:51.2	In this episode, we'll look into the data, into Joe Biden's past and his plans to find out.
2:00.6	With me again to you over all of this, Charlotte Howard, the economist New York
2:04.0	Bureau Chief who's not in New York this week, Charlotte, you're in Chicago. How's that?
2:07.5	It's good to be back. I lived here for four years when I was covering the Midwest. It was my
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