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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 356 - Trump Has Been Defeated! Now We Must Hold Joe Biden Accountable.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When you don't hold some Democrats accountable, they are often only light-versions of Republicans. We've learned this the hard way too many times. We must immediately pivot to making sure that Joe Biden does right by the people who actually not only saved his career in politics, but pushed him over the top in this presidential race.---- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and

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Donald Trump has been defeated

0:07.0

He is now down in Pennsylvania,

0:10.0

Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, and the race has been called, Pennsylvania has been called

0:17.3

pushing Joe Biden over the 270 electoral college vote threshold. He is now the president-elect of the United States.

0:26.5

An extra team of secret service agents have literally been dispatched to his home to protect him in light of this announcement.

0:35.1

And I want to let us know that because of really hard lessons that we've learned in the past

0:42.0

about how we have to push Democrats to do right by us.

0:46.4

Today needs to be the first day that we pivot to making sure that Joe Biden and

0:52.4

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party do right by all of us who elected them.

0:59.0

This is Sean King, and you are listening to the breakdown

1:25.4

the breakdown First off I do just want to celebrate with all of you. I know many of us, particularly my listeners in the audience of the breakdown. I know we're not huge Joe Biden fans. I have been

1:30.8

an opponent of Joe Biden for a very long time and it was it was literally

1:37.2

even difficult for me to get over myself when he became the nominee but I really in a lot of ways followed the lead of

1:45.8

Bernie Sanders who was able to put aside his own feelings, his own policy

1:50.3

differences and Bernie did more campaign events for Joe Biden than any other major figure in the country.

1:56.0

And in a lot of ways I tried to follow Bernie's lead in that regard. And I promised a few people that after Bernie lost, that I would

2:08.9

limit my critiques of Joe Biden to no more than one per week. It was so hard because there are so many

2:17.9

critiques and I didn't want to cause any damage to his candidacy.

2:24.6

And my primary priority was defeating Donald Trump.

2:28.8

And even when I voted this past Sunday,

2:31.8

I voted early here in New York. I really saw my vote as a vote against

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