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Hello, this week newscast is coming to you from the USA for the presidential election.

And if you never want to miss an episode this week of all weeks, which is when you never want to miss one,

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sounds which means you get a ping whenever an episode drops and our episodes this week are going to be

really consequential and also quite unpredictable because even at this late stage the pollsters are

saying it's still too close to call between Donald Trump and

Kamala Harris. She's here in Washington, D.C. He's at home in Florida today, and they're just

waiting for the outcome. An outcome that might be later rather than sooner, by the way, because

all the states count at different times and different ways.

But then even some people are saying, oh, it might actually turn out to be a bit of a blowout

for one candidate or the other.

So maybe we'll know sooner than everyone's saying.

So even when we'll know is kind of up in the air.

I'm standing outside the White House right now.

Last time I was here was in a wait when Obama won.

And then you could get quite close to the building,

actually. And remember that night, quite a few people turning up to celebrate the fact that

America had its first black president. Now you can't get nearly as close. The security

corridor is much wider. Partly that's because they're starting to the preparations for the

inauguration in January. But also I think it's just because people are worried that this becomes a kind of point of conflict

depending on the outcome. And interestingly, walking here, quite a few shops had boarded up their windows.

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