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Explain It to Me

Lessons learned from Trump’s first term

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ezra and Matt look back on what’s surprised them.  Resources: "Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?" by Ezra Klein, Vox "Republicans are sowing the seeds of the next financial crisis" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Trump Is Losing Ground With White Voters But Gaining Among Black And Hispanic Americans" by Geoffrey Skelley and Anna Wiederkehr, FiveThirtyEight "Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016" Ezra Klein Show Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weets on the Fox Media Podcast Network.

0:17.3

I'm Matthew Eglaceus here with Ezra Klein.

0:20.6

The election is just days away and obviously I think you would probably like us to tell

0:26.5

you who is going to win.

0:29.4

We don't know.

0:30.4

Should listen to my, my, my,

0:31.7

EK show with Nate Silver.

0:33.2

Yeah.

0:33.6

So just you tell you who's, can, what's, what's the TLDI?

0:37.2

Absolutely.

0:37.7

The thing, the thing that Nate believes is that you can predict things in the future with

0:40.8

certainty and you don't need to worry about messy probabilities.

0:43.4

Thank God.

0:44.3

I have had enough of probability distributions.

0:47.8

I would say, and I don't want to, I don't, I should not speak for Nate, but I would say

0:52.0

that as a, as a long time reader and listener of his, I feel like I can tell when he is trying

0:58.2

to tell you that the conventional wisdom about who will win is wrong.

1:02.4

And like you really need to like pivot in the other direction.

1:05.5

And when he's trying to tell you that if you believe the numbers, like one candidate looks

1:10.5

likely over the other and I feel like 2016 he was like really raising the alarm of Donald

1:14.8

Trump can win.

1:16.3

And this year does not, he does not have that same edge to his voice, which is not to say

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