Is Trumpism here to stay?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
He wasn’t on the ballot paper, but Donald Trump still called the mid-term elections a “tremendous success”. Both his Republican Party and the opposing Democrats can find reasons to claim victory as they look ahead to the next big challenge: the fight for the presidency in 2020. Today programme presenter and former Washington correspondent Justin Webb considers Trump, his rivals, and what comes next for America - and the rest of us.
Producers: Harriet Noble and Jaja Muhammad
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. |
| 0:06.6 | Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey. |
| 0:11.4 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:17.0 | Every day we're asking one big question about one big story. |
| 0:21.0 | Today's question, is Trumpism here to stay? |
| 0:25.0 | Now let me introduce Harriet who is obsessed with American politics and producing this |
| 0:37.5 | episode Harriet why are you so interested in this huge complicated democracy. There are so many layers and |
| 0:53.7 | characters and stories and part of that comes from the fact that different |
| 0:59.1 | parties can hold different bits of power. So you take last night, before the vote, the Republicans |
| 1:05.1 | held the presidency, Donald Trump, and both houses of Congress. So it was relatively |
| 1:11.5 | easy for them to get stuff done. Today, Trump is still around, obviously. |
| 1:17.2 | The Republicans kept the Senate, but Democrats now have more seats and so power in the House. |
| 1:25.2 | And what does that mean? |
| 1:26.0 | Well, one thing it means is that for the next two years at least, |
| 1:29.7 | you're going to see the parties having to figure out |
| 1:32.0 | how to share power with each other and that adds a whole new level of intrigue. |
| 1:37.0 | Now the person who I most wanted to listen to for 20 minutes talking about American politics and luckily who replied to my email |
| 1:45.0 | asking him to straight away is Justin Webb. He's one of the presenters of the |
| 1:50.4 | today program and he used to be the BBC's North America editor. |
| 1:54.4 | He's maybe even more obsessed with all of this than I am and I thought we should |
| 2:00.5 | hear from him about last night and Trump and what's going to happen next. |
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