What will happen on election night?

Now, of course, we don't actually know yet, but we know a lot about the polling.

We know how the network decision desks will operate.

We know about how the exit polls will work in the midst of a pandemic.

So, let's get all the answers about what to expect in this extraordinary election year.

Let's cue the music.

This is our weekly Reliable Sources Podcast.

I'm Brian Stelter and we use this weekly podcast to go in depth with media leaders and newsmakers

talking about how the news gets made how it gets produced. And in this case, how election projections are made.

There are teams at CNN and the AP, NBC, ABC, CBS Fox News that are already preparing for election night that could

stretch into election week.

So I wanted to speak with Jennifer Agesta,

CNN's Director of Polling and Election Analytics,

to find out how she is preparing for election night,

and to get a sense of what to believe and whether to believe all the polls that are

saturated in the news coverage right now. So Jennifer, let's get to it. Thanks for

joining me. Thanks for having me. I think sometimes the mistake I make in segments and on

podcasts and in interviews is I start in the middle instead of the beginning. So I

want to start at the very very beginning with you. Your title, Director of Polling and Election Analytics, what does it mean? What do you do? That's my first question.

Hit me with the real hard rules to start. I can answer that one pretty easily.

So I manage all of CNN's polling,

which is typically sort of our pre-election work,

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