How we win the final days

Majority 54

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0	Before we get started, we want to tell you about a podcast we think you might like.
0:03.6	Axios Today helps you start your morning every day with the news that matters in just 10 minutes.
0:08.4	Axios Today hosts Naila Boudou, and a team of award-winning journalists, including Axios
0:12.9	Experts Jonathan Swan and Mike Allen, bring you the latest analysis and insight into the trend
0:17.6	shaping our world. These include the latest scoops from Washington and the election to reporting
0:22.0	on systemic racism in America or China's growing influence. It's the perfect daily briefing to
0:27.1	get the biggest stories of the day, especially when you're feeling overwhelmed by the news.
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0:35.6	their newsletters, podcasts, HBO show, and now a daily news podcast. Now onto the show.
0:46.0	I'm Jason Kander, and this is Majority 54. The podcast that helps the 54% who did not vote for Donald
0:52.9	Trump, talked to those who did about the most divisive issues in our country.
0:57.0	Ravi, let's start with news of the week. Well, Jason, just occurred to me that this is going to be
1:01.0	the last time our listeners hear from us in all likelihood before we find out who the next
1:07.6	president of the United States is. Or at least before the election. Before the election.
1:12.2	We hopefully will know who the president is by the time we get back on. And we're six days out
1:18.6	as we're recording this. And this race is closing on the issue that we knew it would COVID.
1:26.8	And as of yesterday, we have 75,000 new cases, 983 deaths, which is an increase of 39% of cases
1:36.1	from two weeks prior. The president is closing as is his administration. Mark Meadows went on TV
1:43.7	and the president has been speaking at rallies, basically trying to downplay the virus. And even as
1:50.3	cases are ticking up and and ticking up in a lot of swing states like Wisconsin,
1:54.4	president is doing things like going to Wisconsin where he was in the Milwaukee suburbs this weekend
2:00.0	saying that the pandemic is quote, lining down. And so this race is going to be about the pandemic.
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