Live Podcast Special: How Biden Banished Trump
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🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It’s over! After a nail-biting count that dragged for days in key swing states, Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States, with a record-breaking vote count of at least 75 million votes, so far. The Mother Jones Podcast team has a bonus live podcast to tell you our instant analysis about how Biden clinched the deal. We discuss the historic moment of having Vice President–elect Kamala Harris become the first Black woman, the first woman of South Asian descent, and the first daughter of immigrants to hold that position, and the threat that Trump will not allow a peaceful transition of power at the White House.
Our host Jamilah King (and in-house expert on all-things Kamala) speaks with Mother Jones DC Bureau Chief David Corn—who called in from the Biden Welcome Center on the Delaware Turnpike—about what’s next for a deeply divided country in the middle of multiple national crises, and what happens next.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Juliea King and welcome to this special live edition of the Mother Jones podcast on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. |
| 0:14.4 | It's over. |
| 0:15.8 | The streets outside my apartment |
| 0:17.3 | have erupted in celebration. |
| 0:19.1 | All sorts of music and yelling and car horns, former vice president Joe Biden is projected to become |
| 0:26.8 | the 46th president of the United States of America, a nail-biting count that dragged out for days. |
| 0:33.8 | But now Biden has clenched the deal. |
| 0:37.1 | And huge news, Vice President-elect Kamla Harris, |
| 0:40.6 | so many first here. |
| 0:42.0 | She will be the first black woman, the first woman of South Asian descent, |
| 0:45.8 | and the first daughter of immigrants |
| 0:48.2 | to hold that position. |
| 0:49.8 | She's now second in the line of presidential succession, a remarkable moment in American history. |
| 0:56.2 | But there's no minimizing this part. |
| 0:59.0 | Biden will take office amid multiple national crises and deep partisan divides. |
| 1:05.0 | And the very transition of power is under threat. |
| 1:08.0 | David Corn joins us not from his car, but where are you David? |
| 1:12.0 | I am at the Biden Welcome Center in Delaware, |
| 1:16.3 | the Constitution State, the state that gave us |
| 1:19.3 | the next President of the United States. |
| 1:21.7 | I was on my way to New York City when the news broke. I thought |
| 1:25.5 | this was a good place to stop and contemplate what's happened. You can see there |
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