Let's Joe Crazy
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The presidential race was called this weekend for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, leading to spontaneous celebrations across the country. Biden and Harris gave their first speeches as President-elect and Vice President-elect on Saturday night, reiterating their message of unity and sketching out a mandate that includes rooting out systemic racism, working towards and economic fairness, and tackling climate change.
The country recorded its 10 millionth COVID case over the weekend, which is higher than any other country on earth. Today Biden is set to announce a COVID task force, as part of a weeklong focus on the pandemic and healthcare.
And in headlines: the latest on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Mexico to legalize marijuana, and a closer look at the saga of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 9th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we are keeping that Saturday at 12 |
| 0:12.8 | Eastern 9 am Pacific Energy going all week long. |
| 0:16.3 | That's right. I want to hear all my neighbors yelling for no reason just, you know, because |
| 0:21.3 | they're happy. |
| 0:22.3 | I want people to clap when I'm walking down the sidewalk and not know if it's for me |
| 0:25.9 | or for life events that have occurred in the world. |
| 0:30.4 | It's because you walk so good, you know. |
| 0:40.4 | On today's show, we have a new president, then some headlines. |
| 0:49.8 | Okay, so by now, you know, the presidential race has been called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. |
| 0:54.5 | I am hype. I'm living. This is the best news in just the worst year. |
| 0:59.6 | And this comes after the longest week in history with endless early morning vote dumps, |
| 1:03.5 | state calls, and so many touch screens of math, sick of math, put the math away on Saturday |
| 1:08.7 | morning. All of the networks called the state of Pennsylvania for Joe Biden, putting him |
| 1:12.8 | over 270 electoral votes. And that total is expected to grow. That makes Biden the oldest |
| 1:18.3 | president elect in history, but it also makes Kamala Harris the first black woman, the |
| 1:22.6 | first South Asian woman, the first biretial woman, the first daughter of immigrants and |
| 1:27.2 | the first woman period to be on the winning party's ticket. And it makes Donald Trump the |
| 1:31.8 | first president to lose the popular vote twice. And the only one term president since 1992, |
| 1:37.5 | he is big mad about it. The news led to spontaneous celebrations across the country and truly |
| 1:43.0 | the entire world. So Gideon, where were you when all this stuff went down over the weekend? |
| 1:47.3 | I was in Brooklyn, which exploded. There were the most amount of people I have ever seen |
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