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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Right now, a historic moment. |
0:04.0 | We can now project the winner of the presidential race CNN projects. |
0:08.0 | Donald Trump wins the presidency. |
0:15.0 | CNN's historic call on election night 2016, Donald Trump, elected president of the United States. |
0:23.1 | Fast forward four years to election night 2020, and it is an election that could be shrouded |
0:29.0 | in uncertainty. With the U.S. in the grips of a pandemic, clearly its impact on the election |
0:36.0 | is unknown at this point, but how about the conducting of the election itself? |
0:40.4 | Could election results be delayed or challenged? |
0:44.2 | Hello, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director. |
0:47.3 | This is the Daily DC. |
0:49.2 | As we saw earlier this month in Wisconsin, in the midst of a pandemic, casting your vote is anything but easy. |
0:56.7 | As of today, at least 52 people who voted or worked the election in Wisconsin have tested |
1:03.7 | positive for the virus. The Wisconsin primary became a symbol of the chaos the virus could |
1:10.2 | wreck on democracy, and November's |
1:12.5 | pivotal election looms large. Again, just last night, presumptive Democratic nominee, |
1:17.9 | Joe Biden alleged that President Trump is looking to, quote, undermine the election, |
1:23.6 | telling a fundraiser crowd, amid this pandemic, we have to figure out how we are going to conduct a fair and full and safe election in November. |
1:31.6 | That he went on to say, we know that's not what the president's looking to do. |
1:37.1 | Of course, the president has suggested that the election will proceed in November as planned. |
1:42.7 | So joining me now to discuss more about what voting could look |
1:45.4 | like in November, potential harm to voting rights in this pandemic is the executive director |
1:51.0 | of the U.S. Program and Human Rights Watch and the former Washington Director and Council for the |
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