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The Playbook Podcast

November 6, 2024: Donald Trump's America

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It seemed unthinkable on Jan. 7, 2021. Now it’s reality. Donald Trump will retake the presidency after making sweeping gains in state after state, slashing away at the margins that kept him from a second term four years ago. He declared victory in a raucous speech in West Palm Beach last night, where he hailed “the greatest political movement of all time” — a boast that suddenly did not sound like unhinged hyperbole. Playbook editor Mike DeBonis breaks down what we know with Playbook co-authors Eugene Daniels and Rachael Bade.

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presented by BP.

0:10.4

Well, I want to thank you all very much.

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This is great.

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These are our friends.

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We have thousands of friends on this.

0:17.6

Good morning, everyone.

0:18.9

I'm playbook editor Mike DeBonis.

0:20.5

It's Wednesday, November 6th, and Donald Trump has won the presidency, completing a stunning political comeback that is going to have immense reverberations here in Washington, across America, and around the world.

0:31.4

Here's where things stand as we speak early this morning. Politico and other media organizations have projected Trump has won enough electoral

0:39.2

votes to secure the presidency, winning Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, with leads in the

0:44.9

crucial blue wall states of Michigan and Wisconsin, which were must wins for Democratic nominee Kamala

0:50.8

Harris. The Senate, meanwhile, has gone solidly Republican behind him. Republicans Jim

0:56.6

Justice in West Virginia and Bernie Moreno in Ohio flip Democratic seats red, and Republicans

1:02.0

hold leads in several other Democratic-held states. The House, meanwhile, remains in question,

1:07.6

and we might not know for days yet how it will shake out.

1:16.7

Joining me now to talk about all of this are playbook co-authors Eugene Daniels and Rachel Bade,

1:22.5

who spent yesterday evening, excuse me, early this morning at Harris's and Trump's respective watch parties.

1:23.4

Hey, Rachel, hey Eugene.

1:24.8

So we say, good morning.

1:26.9

If we haven't slept, I don't know.

1:29.3

It's the morning. If you haven't slept, it's just still good night.

1:31.6

Oh, shit.

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