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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is an election year. Will Donald Trump be re-elected?

What is going on with the Democrats? And has America gone even more crazy? We'll be discussing all of these things and more.

More than once a week because we don't feel you have enough

Americano in your life. I'm joined today by Kate Andrews, who is our economics correspondent,

and she has written a shocking piece in this week's magazine that's causing a lot of aggravation

on the internet about why she's going to vote for Joe Biden despite being she claims a lifelong Republican.

Kate, I suppose you were expecting this piece to get a fair bit of anger online, on Twitter, a particular.

I've been quite struck how angry it's made people that you've said you're going to vote for Biden

despite the fact you sort of think he's a bit crap.

Yeah, I don't think that saying you're going to vote for Joe Biden should be a controversial

statement in this election cycle, especially when you look at the polls and the fact that he's

doing extremely well nationally and also in the swing states. But it turns out that in certain circles

it is. I suppose this isn't surprising because this election is

ugly, it's vicious. American politics is becoming more and more polarized. And I think the idea

that you can take a bit of a more nuanced perspective has, you know, gone off the window for a lot of

people. Let's not forget that in America our party system doesn't work the same as it does in the UK.

Here you sign up to party membership and you can have that revoked.

In America, you go down to town hall, you choose how you want to register.

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