Elon Musk is at the door
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by senior video journalists JM Rieger and Jorge Ribas to discuss two key states – Michigan and Pennsylvania – and what voters and grassroots organizers are telling them in the final weeks of the election.
Plus, tech billionaire Elon Musk is using his money and influence – as well as his app, X (formerly Twitter) – in support of Trump in the final weeks of the election. But how much do those efforts rely on distorting the truth or promising voters money in a way that might be illegal?
And later, video journalist HyoJung Kim joins the show to share her reporting on how Trump and Harris voters say they will feel if their candidate loses the election – and what they plan to do about it.
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| 0:00.0 | We got this. We got to do this. |
| 0:03.0 | Make America great again. |
| 0:07.0 | How can you be against? |
| 0:08.0 | We are not going back. Welcome to sidebar from the Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey and I'm joined in the studio by |
| 0:22.1 | Rhonda Colvin, senior politics correspondent James |
| 0:25.0 | Homan, columnist and editorial writer, and friend of the pod, J.M. Reiger, |
| 0:30.0 | senior video journalist, J.M. you're with us so much. |
| 0:32.0 | You're in like the gold or |
| 0:33.7 | platinum category. I'm racking up those frequent flyer miles. |
| 0:36.7 | Oh that's perfect. Should have some kind of a point system. Well as we tape this |
| 0:39.6 | on Thursday we are 12 days out from election day and really the election is |
| 0:44.4 | already deeply underway because dozens of states are early voting and will |
| 0:48.9 | continue to start that process. It's time for the candidates to get out and deliver their closing arguments and really |
| 0:55.3 | encourage people to vote. So today, we'll look at how the ground game is going in some key swing |
| 1:00.7 | states and how the candidates are using these final days to talk to |
| 1:04.6 | voters also how they're getting attention. We'll be joined by our colleagues Jorge |
| 1:08.8 | Reebass and Jo-Jun Kim shortly. We'll also talk today about Elon Musk and how he's using his considerable |
| 1:15.8 | wealth and power as the head of X, formerly known as Twitter, to put his thumb or his whole fist or maybe jump up and down on the scale of the election |
| 1:26.5 | and in the process he's sewing misinformation and disinformation. |
| 1:30.3 | But let's start with what's making news 12 days out. |
| 1:33.0 | James, do we have a clear sense of how the closing arguments are coming into focus? |
| 1:37.0 | We do. |
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