No Winner, No Cry
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday was Election Day, and it ended as we expected it to: without an official call on the presidential race. There wasn’t a Biden landslide like we hoped, but as we went to record last night, he still had a path to victory. We discuss that path, some surprising and less surprising calls, and how the two presidential candidates treated the results.
Looking at Congress, Democrats retained control of the House, adding some cool new progressives including Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and Marie Newman. The jury’s still out on who will control the Senate.
And in headlines: the US is no longer part of the Paris Climate Agreement, record-setting COVID numbers in the US, and Trump destroys Lil Wayne’s relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, November 4th. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm getting a rest of the time. This is what the day where we have aged 10 years |
| 0:12.2 | since yesterday and a thousand since 2016. |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah, thank God Blackdonk Crack because I would look as dead as I feel. |
| 0:18.8 | Mm-hmm. I do look as dead as I feel. |
| 0:21.6 | So... |
| 0:30.4 | On today's show, election results, then some headlines. |
| 0:34.4 | Okay, welcome to our recap of last night's results. |
| 0:37.6 | Top line, we still don't have an official call on the presidential race. |
| 0:41.3 | This is something we expected going into the night, given that many states said |
| 0:44.8 | they would need more time this year to process a huge surge in mail-in votes due to the pandemic. |
| 0:50.0 | So take a deep breath. This could take a while and we're going to help you through what we know |
| 0:54.4 | and what we don't know at this point. |
| 0:56.2 | We were recording at 2am Pacific 5am Eastern. |
| 0:59.7 | We only have calls in a couple battleground states and the rest are still counting. |
| 1:03.7 | With that in mind, let's go through some of the biggies starting with Arizona and Florida. |
| 1:07.2 | 5am Eastern is what I'm feeling. |
| 1:10.2 | Okay. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, so we had talked about some different scenarios going into the night and one that we can rule out |
| 1:17.1 | is a quick and easy landslide. Instead, you know, we're in this still counting scenario |
| 1:22.2 | that you talked about and the one in which Trump is acting like an authoritarian |
| 1:25.8 | more on that soon. |
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