Hello, media consumers. Brian Curtis, a David Schumaker of The Ringer here with your election

night instant reaction shrug emoji podcast because David it's almost midnight on the East

coast. We don't know who the next president of the United States is going to be yet.

And it doesn't sound like we're going to know until morning morning. That's that's being generous.

Uh, the last notes that I that I copy and pasted into my, uh, my, my working Google doc over

here is that, uh, Wisconsin just is multiple question marks. Michigan says they'll need until

Friday for a final counts and Pennsylvania. So it's not counted like over a million

votes. So, um, yeah, maybe morning, maybe morning.

Yeah, they may have to cancel wheel of fortune to do, uh, election returns over the next

couple of days. I want to do two things tonight. One walk through the events of the evening so far.

But first before we get to that, just talk about the fact that we don't have a result yet.

This David was not a Biden landslide that a lot of Democrats had hoped for.

Mm hmm.

There are 200,000 plus people dead in the United States do the coronavirus. Yeah.

Donald Trump has mismanaged this virus and then some kids in cages. We could let you make

the rest of the list. And yet it's coming down to a handful of states in the Midwest, Arizona,

and maybe a stray electoral vote in Nebraska or Maine. What do you make of that?

Well, I mean, I kind of struggled before we recorded with exactly how to say this and what

point of the show to say it, but you teed it up. I mean, there's the hundreds of thousands of

people dead from coronavirus in the United States. If we're going to agree that that's a

salient political issue, uh, then one has to kind of conclude that Joe Biden didn't make that stick

on President Trump. Didn't make that, I mean, didn't, well, I don't know if I want to say weaponize,

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