Summary
What a night! Emily, Jon, Anthony and Nick Bryant get together to bring you the story of election night so far. We don’t have a winner, and it could be a long time until we do. We recorded this at midnight EST / 5am GMT.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Harriet Noble, Morgan Gisholt Minard, Caitlin Hanrahan Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We're recording this just on midnight in Washington, so just on five in the morning in the |
| 0:10.4 | UK and the winner is, we don't know, and we're probably not going to know for two or |
| 0:16.7 | three days because it has been a confusing night rather than a clear cutnight. |
| 0:23.5 | I would say the story of the night is this, broadcast as at the beginning of the night. |
| 0:27.1 | Be patient, take your time, these are unprecedented times, be patient, broadcasts halfway through |
| 0:33.1 | the night. |
| 0:34.1 | Look at all these amazing partial polls, look at all these amazing results, look at them |
| 0:37.5 | all, they're amazing. |
| 0:39.0 | So we've been sort of flipping slightly weirdly between those two states of mind, which |
| 0:43.7 | is you can't not react to a result, even if it's tiny, even if it's a tiny proportion, |
| 0:49.4 | but you can't really react to it in any way that makes sense. |
| 0:52.6 | So that's where we are. |
| 0:53.9 | Welcome to America's. |
| 0:58.1 | America's. |
| 0:59.1 | America's from BBC News. |
| 1:01.1 | I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. |
| 1:04.0 | Who are you, shudder, listen? |
| 1:05.8 | The pandemic is reshaping the presidential race, Mr Vice President speaking. |
| 1:10.1 | The country is crying out for leadership. |
| 1:12.6 | Where are you from? |
| 1:13.6 | At BBC. |
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