Checks and Balance: Year all about it
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
If the election were held tomorrow, Donald Trump would probably be the favourite to win. How should we be thinking about the race with a year to go? And how can the world outside of America prepare itself for the possibility of a second Trump term?
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon. They’re joined by Vanderbilt University’s John Sides and The Economist’s Ed Carr.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a free episode of Checks and Balance. To listen every week, you'll need to be a subscriber. |
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| 0:22.6 | How will we capture the imagination of tomorrow's consumers? |
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| 0:57.0 | Every 5th of November the UK celebrates Guy Fawkes Night, marking a failed plot by Catholic rebels to blow up the Houses of Parliament and the Protestant King with it in 1605. It used to be celebrated in parts of America too, a custom brought over by British settlers in the early 17th century. |
| 1:18.6 | At that time it was very much an anti-Catholic celebration and became known in New England as Pope's Day, with an effigy of the pontiff burned on the bonfire. |
| 1:29.1 | But in 1775, George Washington, in a bid to encourage religious tolerance, expressed his disapproval. |
| 1:37.0 | Pope's Day fell out of fashion. |
| 1:40.3 | On November 5th next year, while Brits are letting off fireworks and lighting their bonfires, |
| 1:45.2 | Americans will be going to the polls. |
| 1:48.8 | With 354 days until the 2024 election, I'm John Priddo, and this is Checks and Balance from The Economist. |
| 1:59.2 | Each week, we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth. |
| 2:03.6 | Today, less than a year before the presidential election. How do things stand? |
| 2:26.3 | If the election were held tomorrow, Donald Trump would probably be the favourite to win. |
| 2:31.3 | But, spoiler alert, the election will not be held tomorrow. |
| 2:36.8 | Beyond the headlines and overreactions to polls, what's most useful to think about now, |
| 2:42.1 | 12 months before election day? And given the very real chance for him winning, how should |
| 2:48.4 | the world outside America prepare itself for the possibility of a second |
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