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Today, Explained

No concession!

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The 45th president of the United States has thus far refused to acknowledge the 46th. Political scientist Zeynep Tufekci explains this latest test of America’s democracy. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:18.8

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0:30.0

Multiple things can be true at once.

0:36.7

Joe Biden can be the president-elect while the outgoing guy refuses to acknowledge it.

0:42.2

Americans can celebrate the results in the streets while others protest in cry-fowl.

0:45.7

Canada and the United Kingdom can call Biden to congratulate him while China and Russia

0:50.9

hold off.

0:51.9

None of this changes the fact that Joe Biden will likely be inaugurated as the 46th president

0:56.5

of the United States this January.

0:59.2

American democracy is being tested right now.

1:02.6

Some people are totally oblivious to the fact others are writing op-eds about an attempted coup.

1:08.8

Zaynep Tufekshi finds herself somewhere in the middle.

1:11.5

I think we should worry about what's happening for sure.

1:15.0

She's a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1:19.0

I'm really not expecting some coup to happen, maybe because my standards for coup are a little

1:25.9

higher.

1:26.9

I'm in the middle east, though.

1:28.0

I don't really expect that as part of the American experience, but that said, it really is

1:34.9

troublesome to have this charade go on for longer.

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