Election Aftermath Edition. Plus, The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel.

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker weigh in on the aftermath of the 2020 election. They discuss major headlines that include Trump running for reelection in 2024 (2:30), review all the media stories that ran after Biden won the election (9:00), and then discuss who covered election week better: CNN or MSNBC? (32:00) Then, Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel joins to discuss covering the 2020 election (49:00). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	David, Donald Trump's campaign team set up a voter fraud hotline, which ABC News reports
0:10.3	has been, quote, bombarded with prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden's
0:15.8	win.
0:17.2	Prank calling the Trump campaign's hotline has already become a trend on TikTok.
0:22.7	What I want to know is, is someone already writing a think piece, calling this the TikTok
0:29.9	election.
0:30.9	Is there a question?
0:33.9	Okay.
0:34.9	How would you know the difference between a real call to the voter fraud hotline and a joke
0:42.7	call to the voter fraud hotline?
0:45.2	Oh, that's a good, that's a great question.
0:48.2	I mean, yes, some of them might bear out to be true, but I kind of find it hard to imagine
0:52.6	that there's a big, there's a substantive difference between, you know, Chris Almeida,
0:57.5	prank calling, not that he actually did it, that's pleased FBI were good here.
1:02.5	Chris Almeida, prank calling the voter fraud hotline and like somebody who lives 100 miles
1:08.8	down the road and like, you know, Pennsylvania making an earnest call to the voter fraud hotline.
1:16.9	Wouldn't it sound basically the same?
1:19.3	Yeah.
1:20.3	And the accusations we've seen so far have basically been pranks.
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:26.2	Not only have they not worn out, they've had an absolutely bizarre quality that sounds
1:30.1	like people just misunderstanding what voter fraud is or desperately trying to come up with
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