Keeping them Honest: “This election is over”

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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President-elect Joe Biden declared “this election is over.” Meanwhile, Attorney General Barr has told federal prosecutors to look into unsupported allegations of voting irregularities. CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, Republican election lawyer Benjamin L. Ginsberg and Senior Adviser to the Biden-Harris Transition team Jen Psaki weigh in. Also, the widow of Republican Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, Cindy McCain, speaks out about the 2020 election results and aftermath. McCain is now a member of the bipartisan Biden-Harris transition advisory team. Plus, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Michael T. Osterholm, who was just named as a member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board, weighs in on the surge in coronavirus cases in the U.S. and Pfizer announcing their Covid-19 vaccine shows that it’s more than 90% effective. Airdate: November 9, 2020 Guests: Jim Acosta Benjamin L. Ginsberg Jen Psaki Cindy McCain Dr. Sanjay Gupta Michael T. Osterholm To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening, a lot happening today.
0:02.6	A lot to bring you tonight and a lot of news from Joe Biden and a lot of noise from Donald Trump.
0:06.6	But none of it changes the bigger bottom line.
0:08.8	The country now has a president elect.
0:11.0	That's what the numbers clearly say.
0:12.8	That a president elect is Joe Biden.
0:14.8	He won the election and President Trump lost.
0:17.4	That is the reality.
0:19.0	And meeting today with his COVID advisory panel, the president elect said so out loud.
0:25.2	The selection is over.
0:27.0	It's time to put aside the partisanship and the rhetoric that designed to demonize one another.
0:35.2	This election is over, he said.
0:37.0	And by any other standard at any other time, it would be Joe Biden won Pennsylvania.
0:42.6	He leads by 45,000 votes there about the same as the president's 2016 margin of victory in that state.
0:48.8	He's up by 148,000 in Michigan or by about 15 times what the president beat Hillary Clinton by in Michigan.
0:55.6	Biden won Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes.
0:58.6	Re-coun efforts rarely moved the count more than a few hundred votes either way.
1:02.6	So historically, this is not even close.
1:05.0	The results were simply delayed because the ballots took longer to count.
1:08.6	Yet today, as president elect Biden got down to work, the way election winners in both parties have always done.
1:14.6	President Trump did what no other modern day president in either party has ever done under such clear cut circumstances.
1:22.4	He refuses to accept reality and tried without evidence to paint his own alternative version of an election stolen from him.
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