New president, same pandemic

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

President-elect Joe Biden prepares a transition to the White House — and readies a team to combat a surging pandemic. And for future leaders, the hope and promise of Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden is projected to be the next president of the United States. But, as politics writer Matt Viser reports, the president-elect faces some Trump-sized roadblocks in his transition to the White House.

Days after winning the election, Biden put forth a plan to slow the coronavirus. Health policy reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb walks us through who is on the president-elect’s coronavirus task force and what we know about his strategy to tackle the pandemic.

Senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan talks about Kamala Harris making history with quiet, exquisite power.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post,
0:05.0	I've thought they would talk about it
0:07.0	and they said it was Washington Post.
0:09.0	This is Cleveland, so what the Washington Post?
0:11.0	It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm routine powers.
0:18.0	It's Monday, November 9.
0:22.0	Today, the challenges that await President-elect Joe Biden
0:27.0	as he prepares to take office
0:29.0	and a historic moment for the Vice-President-C.
0:35.0	In the two days since Joe Biden was projected
0:38.0	to become the next president of the United States,
0:41.0	there has been this split screen in America.
0:47.0	Some people celebrating, cheering, honking,
0:51.0	literally dancing in the streets,
0:53.0	others who were disappointed, angry,
0:56.0	and anxious about the future.
1:02.0	And now that split screen is Biden's biggest challenge.
1:06.0	How to bring together a country that is so profoundly divided.
1:10.0	My fellow Americans,
1:13.0	you heard that on Saturday night,
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