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The Daily Signal Podcast

Election Night in Review: A Legal Expert Explains What We Know

The Daily Signal Podcast

The Daily Signal

News, Government, Politics, Daily News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Results are still rolling in amid what many anticipate to be a contested presidential election. 


Hans von Spakovsky, manager of The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in Heritage's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to break down what we know about Tuesday's election and the likelihood of results being contested in court. 


Von Spakovsky also shares his concerns over nefarious activity at polling sites in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, and what Americans can learn from contested elections throughout history. 


Enjoy the show!



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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, November 4th. I'm Virginia Allen.

0:10.0

Today's show is a special election edition.

0:13.0

We will be talking with Hans Vons-Bikovsky,

0:15.7

The Heritage Foundation's manager for election law reform initiative,

0:20.3

and a senior legal fellow in the Me Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

0:24.4

Hans will discuss what we know so far about election results,

0:29.5

the battleground state of Pennsylvania,

0:31.7

and what may be to come.

0:33.7

And please don't forget if you are enjoying this podcast,

0:37.2

be sure to leave a review and a five star rating on Apple

0:40.5

podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.

0:44.0

I am joined by

0:47.0

I am joined by Hans Vons-Bakowski, the Heritage Foundation's manager for election law reform initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Mee Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

1:04.4

Hans, thank you so much for staying up late to discuss what we're seeing as election results roll in.

1:10.0

Well, sure, happy to do it.

1:11.6

I was suspecting we may be up most of the night tonight.

1:15.0

I know, we have that coffee flowing already. We know that things are literally changing by the minute, but the Associated Press, they've already called a number of states.

1:26.8

Any surprises for you so far among the states called?

1:30.3

Well, I think what's most interesting is, well obviously the president won Florida, and what's interesting to me is that his margin of victory is even larger apparently this year than it was four years ago

1:46.9

against Hillary Clinton and he seems to be getting the largest share of the Hispanic vote, frankly, of any prior Republican president,

1:58.3

which goes against the mainstream media and everything they've been saying about the president. the that it is in some ways I feel like a miracle that it's already been called

2:16.6

one of the other states that we've really been paying close attention to is

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