Is American democracy on the line? A mid-terms preview
The News Agents
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In less than a week America will head to the polls for the midterms - the first national elections of the Biden presidency since the January 6th insurrection.
Biden has told Americans that democracy is on the ballot - with hundreds of Republican candidates refusing to say whether they’ll accept the election outcome next week. Many more within the GOP continue to accept and propagate ‘The Big Lie’- that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.
And yet the Republican Party is rising, not falling in the polls in the final week. Have Democrats misjudged this campaign’s message? And what will it mean for the Biden presidency if he loses one or both chambers of Congress?
Emily and Lewis will also discuss dire warnings about the economy from the Bank of England and the prospect of a recession which lasts until 2024.
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Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States |
| 0:17.5 | refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. |
| 0:21.5 | This year, I hope you'll make the future of our democracy an important part of your decision |
| 0:27.2 | to vote and how you vote. |
| 0:30.2 | I hope you'll ask a simple question of each candidate you might vote for. |
| 0:34.7 | Will that person accept the legitimate will of the American people, the people voting in his district or her district? |
| 0:42.1 | Will that person accept the outcome of the election, win or lose? |
| 0:46.6 | The answer to that question is vital. |
| 0:49.3 | That was Joe Biden, America's president, speaking last night, just five days before Americans will go to the polls to vote in the midterm elections. |
| 0:59.3 | The elections that are really seen as a referendum on how the president is doing, two years on and two years out from the next big presidential campaign. |
| 1:08.7 | And the question is, are people going to be energized by this question of |
| 1:15.4 | democracy? It is almost two years since that assault on the Capitol on January the 6th, |
| 1:22.4 | when marauders and mobs try to take over the place and change the democratic mandate that would have put |
| 1:28.9 | Joe Biden in power. It is two years since we saw violence on the streets of America and conspiracy |
| 1:34.9 | theories insisting that Donald Trump had won. But is that what will get Americans voting |
| 1:40.7 | on Tuesday of next week? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:48.5 | The Newsagents. This is Emily. And this is Lewis. And we're both at Newsagents HQ. |
| 1:54.2 | We are. As Emily said, we're going to be talking about the midterms and what's going on in the US. |
| 1:58.4 | But we couldn't not, before we get there, just talk about some really important domestic news |
| 2:03.0 | that has come out with the Bank of England today. |
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