Jack Kingston: What is next for Trump?
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🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Donald Trump can't and won't bring himself to concede that he lost the Presidential election. Amid the talk of legal challenges in a slew of states the Republican party is under strain - most senior figures sticking with the President, some very publicly backing away. Stephen Sackur speaks to the former Congressman and loyal Trump backer Jack Kingston. What longer term lessons should his party be taking from the imminent loss of the White House?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker. My guest today is one of those |
| 0:06.5 | staples of the political scene in Washington, D.C. A former congressman who's turned himself into a |
| 0:12.5 | well-connected lobbyist and political surrogate. In Jack Kingston's case, his political loyalty |
| 0:18.9 | and activism has been invested wholeheartedly in Donald Trump. Kingston's case, his political loyalty and activism has been invested wholeheartedly in Donald Trump. |
| 0:24.3 | Kingston stumped for the president during the election campaign, and now that it's over, he's backing Mr. Trump's refusal to accept defeat. |
| 0:32.0 | As things stand, Joe Biden is to be the 46th president of the United States. He won the biggest popular vote of any |
| 0:40.1 | candidate in history, and after a series of close races in key swing states, he has a handy majority |
| 0:47.0 | in the Electoral College. But Donald Trump claims victory has been stolen from him by fraud, cheating and corruption. Rather than presenting |
| 0:56.9 | evidence, he favours tweeting with the caps lock on. Most Republicans have stayed loyal. Some have |
| 1:03.4 | publicly chastised him, though, with a slew of lawsuits in the offing, what will the American |
| 1:08.9 | public make of Mr. Trump's defiance of a democratic outcome? |
| 1:14.3 | And what lessons does the party need to learn from its imminent loss of the White House? |
| 1:19.5 | Well, Jack Kingston joins me now from Washington, D.C. Welcome to Hard Talk. |
| 1:25.1 | President Trump had a choice to make, didn't he? He could either accept the |
| 1:29.8 | verdict of the American people or he could defy the democratic outcome. Do you think he's made |
| 1:36.5 | the wise choice? I think he has. I think in accordance to our Constitution, he has the right to make |
| 1:42.8 | sure that the election was done in a fair and legal |
| 1:45.8 | way. And that's what we need to do, is just make sure that the votes that were counted were |
| 1:49.7 | legally cast. Same thing Al Gore did in 2000, where the state of Florida came down to about a 500 |
| 1:56.0 | vote difference. It took, I think, 36 days to sort out those votes. And that's all the president is asking for. |
| 2:03.3 | And that's what he is entitled to according to our Constitution. Right. So you think President |
| 2:08.3 | Trump's being wise, and that, I suppose, would include the words he has used since the voting |
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