Election Recap: Count Every Vote

The Josh Marshall Podcast

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🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Kate, David and Tierney break down the still-unresolved election, and look ahead to the legal wrangling that will follow in the coming days as votes are tabulated.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to the Josh Marshall podcast. This is David Tainter.
0:08.0	I'm joined once again by my colleagues Tierney Sneed and Kate Riga.
0:12.0	How's it going?
0:13.0	Oh, we're surviving.
0:15.0	It's going just about as I expected to go, so that's where we are.
0:20.0	Nerves fully on the outside of my body, I would say.
0:25.0	Yeah, we're recording this at about 1.15 in the morning on Wednesday.
0:29.0	We still don't know who the next president of the United States is. We've had a bunch of
0:35.8	states go in Trump's favor among them like Ohio, Texas, Florida, so far. We are waiting on a few of the key swing states including
0:46.1	North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and not to mention the upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
0:57.0	Tierney, let's start with you.
0:59.0	Just give us kind of your global view of the night so far, how it's played out compared to your
1:04.7	expectations or things that have surprised you just kind of your your quick takeaway
1:09.2	so far. Yeah I think this night is not the night that Joe Biden wanted.
1:14.1	I do think there was, you know, a lot of optimism when there was, you know, when we're seeing
1:19.1	the days before the election that Georgia and Texas were toss-ups and that you know he could squeak out wins in Florida and North Carolina
1:28.6	And what's worth noting about that optimism is you know
1:36.3	Him winning those states would have ended things tonight, which I think have a lot of, you know, perks beyond just having things done tonight instead of Friday night,
1:43.2	you know, it sort of takes off the table some of the litigative questions
1:46.2	that are out, outstanding.
1:49.3	It takes away some of the ability Trump would be able to have to sort of delegitimize, you know,
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