Mapping how Harris or Trump might win
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
After an unprecedented campaign season, Election Day in America is finally here. Today, host Martine Powers talks with senior political reporter and host of “The Campaign Moment” podcast Aaron Blake about what to pay attention to as results start to come in this evening, including downballot races and potential scenarios for each candidate's path to victory.
Plus: Election anxiety is real! Here’s how to manage stress throughout the day.
Today’s show was produced by Ariel Plotnick and Emma Talkoff. It was mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy and Sam Bair. It was edited by Reena Flores, with fact checking help from Lucy Perkins. Thanks to Mary Jo Murphy, Jenna Johnson, Cathy Decker, Susan Levine, and the whole slew of Post reporters around the country covering this election on the ground, including Laura Benshoff, Holly Bailey, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, and Josh Dawsey.
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| 0:00.0 | You're here, one of the first people here to vote. |
| 0:04.8 | Oh, well, I woke up this morning and I was just like I got to make sure I get out and vote today. |
| 0:09.7 | Really just use that right before I wasn't going to vote. |
| 0:12.8 | But a lot of my friends are just like, you know, get out and vote, man. |
| 0:14.9 | Like, this is important. |
| 0:16.4 | This was big. |
| 0:17.3 | So I'm excited. |
| 0:18.4 | I know I was going to feel this good walking out after I voted. |
| 0:20.9 | That was Taiy rhythm. big. So I'm excited. I know I was going to feel this good walking out after I voted, so. |
| 0:28.7 | That was Taiyi Ridley. He's a 25-year-old voter in the crucial swing state of Georgia. |
| 0:34.4 | And this morning, on Election Day, he was talking to my colleague Holly Bailey about his decision to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. |
| 0:41.7 | Some 80 million people have already voted early, |
| 0:44.3 | but lots more are casting ballots today. |
| 0:47.3 | Post reporters and producers are out all over the country, |
| 0:48.7 | capturing the moment, |
| 0:52.7 | trying to understand how people are feeling in this historic election. |
| 0:54.3 | I'm really anxious. |
| 0:57.9 | I've been nauseous for the last two days over all of this stuff. |
| 1:02.3 | My main concern is actually people getting to the polls and not feeling intimidated. |
| 1:07.8 | Among my friends, I told them, hey, if you're going to go vote, double it up, go together, |
| 1:09.1 | just to be safe. |
| 1:13.9 | Between you and me, I think the country's on the edge of something. |
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