No Clear Outcome. No Clear Rejection of Trump. Now We Wait.

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🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Exhausted from staying up much too late, we are all trying to figure out what happened now that the final day of voting is over in one of the most important elections of our lives. The presidential results are still too close to call. There was no landslide victory. There was no clear repudiation of Trump and the GOP, either. Now we may have to wait for days, possibly weeks—depending on how vote counting and court battles play out—to find out if Trump or Biden won. Election results from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia are still trickling in.The Mother Jones Podcast is here to help you make sense of a crazy election night with a live “day after” election special. What exactly happened not just last night but with this whole election? Where do Trump and Biden stand in the drag-out fight to 270 electoral votes? In this episode, some of your favorite Mother Jones Podcast regulars join Jamilah King to analyze the initial results and talk about the big picture. You'll hear from Washington DC Bureau Chief David Corn, who joined us to discuss the big trends from the night, and where to look for results next. You'll get to the bottom of the Miami-Dade count that cost Biden Florida, with reporter Noah Lanard; and you'll hear about the likely flipping of Arizona—yes, another confusing story—with our reporter Fernanda Echavarri. As the president fumes and threatens to steal the vote, all there really is to do is wait. And remember, the team here at Mother Jones is staying focused on the facts, the context, and the story behind the headlines. This race is not over yet.

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0:00.0	I'm Jamila King and welcome to this special live taping of the Mother Jones
0:06.1	podcast. We are beaming this out on Wednesday morning the day after on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
0:20.0	And of course, welcome to our beloved podcast listeners.
0:24.0	So now we wait.
0:26.0	If there was any certainty going into election day,
0:30.0	it was this.
0:31.0	There would be massive uncertainty. This is the scenario folks warned you about.
0:36.7	No clear outcome on the last day of voting. It's a pandemic and so in this confusing thicket of mail-in early absentee and day of voting
0:46.2	you'll have to wait for days possibly weeks depending on how vote counting and court battles play out
0:51.9	so let's try to make sense of this together. how vote counting in court battles play out.
0:52.5	So let's try to make sense of this together.
0:55.6	In a moment, what happened in Florida
0:57.6	where voters trampled Biden's chances of a quick win,
1:01.5	and what happened in Miami? Arizona where if some early calls hold true
1:07.3	votes are heading to a Biden victory we told you here on this podcast it could happen. We'll take you there too. But first let's get straight to David Korn our Washington DC Bureau Chief and a reminder that this is a really fast moving story so some of the details in this podcast may change by the time it gets to you.
1:31.2	David, what happened? Well, what happened?
1:33.0	Well, what happened is, let's start with what didn't happen, okay?
1:38.0	Because that's easier to describe.
1:40.0	What didn't happen was there was not a landslide repudiation of Trump and his GOP enablers.
1:45.9	That's what Democrats were looking for, clear victories, if not in a state like Florida,
1:51.3	certainly in Wisconsin and Michigan maybe one of
1:56.1	two surprising pickups in a place like Georgia and North Carolina and flipping
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