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The NPR Politics Podcast

Here's How Associated Press Determines Who Won The Election

The NPR Politics Podcast

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News, Politics, Daily News

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

David Scott of the Associated Press shares how his organization discerns the winner of the country's elections, including the presidency. NPR relies on the Associated Press for race calls.

This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

The podcast is produced by Jeongyoon Han, Casey Morell and Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:24.0

Hey it's Miles, real quick before the show.

0:26.5

It has been a wild exciting, oftentimes exhausting election season.

0:31.2

And here in the home stretch,

0:32.2

we want you to know about a few other ways you can keep

0:34.0

up with everything happening each day. First, there's NPR's Morning News Podcasts up first. That show is recorded

0:40.1

before dawn and out by 7 a.m. Eastern time each weekday. Often you'll hear one of us

0:45.1

from this show on that show. It's the Morning News Podcast that catches all of the news

0:49.7

that happened overnight. Up first. Second, later in the day you can find a new

0:54.2

episode of Consider This. That's the podcast where NPR covers one big story, in

0:59.1

depth, each weekday evening. They'll be all over this election and its aftermath as well. And of

1:04.7

course we will be here with you pretty much anytime there's big news with the

1:08.7

context and analysis you need to understand it. So up first in the morning, consider this in the evening,

1:14.8

and the NPR Politics Podcast every weekday and anytime there's something big happening.

1:19.8

This is your election news survival Kit from NPR Podcasts.

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