Everything we know about the midterms (part two)
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Americast team are together in the studio in Washington DC for the first time as results in the midterms continue to come in.
In their second episode of the night the team look at where the wins are for both the Republicans and the Democrats. They also explore where it leaves Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump as they look ahead to the elections in 2024.
Americast is hosted by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher and the BBC's Social Media and Disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Justin, here we go. It is our second episode of America's in one night. |
| 0:08.7 | If you're telling me that, then I suppose it's true. |
| 0:10.8 | I've slightly lost track of everything. |
| 0:13.8 | I tell you what, though, it's very nice to be all of us in the studio, |
| 0:16.6 | genuinely nice, because we've taught such a lot. |
| 0:18.8 | We don't really know each other well, |
| 0:20.2 | although we're getting to know each other much better, |
| 0:22.2 | which is part of podcasting, isn't it? |
| 0:23.8 | Because America's are getting to know us, |
| 0:25.9 | and we really, crucially, are getting to know them. |
| 0:28.8 | Indeed, it's been quite a night, hasn't it? |
| 0:31.2 | Most of us have been up all night, |
| 0:34.0 | at what's now four o'clock in the morning here in Washington, |
| 0:37.5 | nine o'clock in the UK. |
| 0:39.3 | We've got to get to bed sometime soon. |
| 0:41.0 | This is my last broadcasting job. |
| 0:43.1 | I can cross off before I can go to bed for a couple of hours |
| 0:45.9 | before getting up to do some more reporting tomorrow. |
| 0:48.9 | What should I be putting in tomorrow's TV pieces, Justin? |
| 0:51.6 | What were your big takeaways of the night? |
| 0:53.7 | Look, I mean, the central one, surely, is that... |
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