October 25, 2020 | On GPS: The presidential election - 9 days out, over 50 million votes cast, who will be in the oval office come January?

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Airdate October 25, 2020: 9 days away from the presidential election, who will sway this election? What will the outcome be and what impacts will it have around the world? Time Magazine's Charlotte Alter, former U.K. finance minister George Osborne, and Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer join Fareed to discuss. Biden holds a strong lead in the polls, but who will pave his path to victory? Nate Cohn from the New York Times' is back with the latest. And, just how much foreign interference is there and who's responsible for defending the U.S. against it? That and more on voter suppression with ProPublica's Jessica Huseman. GUESTS: Charlotte Alter, Ian Bremmer, George Osborne, Nate Cohn, Jessica Huseman To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:06.0	I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.
0:12.0	We'll focus much of today's show on the presidential election.
0:16.0	It is just nine days away and it will have great impact across the globe.
0:22.0	How does the world think about what's going on here?
0:26.0	We're treated very unfairly.
0:28.0	How will the people who swayed the 2016 election vote this time in the heat after the lead?
0:36.0	And how much foreign interference is there real?
0:40.0	Voter registration information has been obtained by Iran and separately by Russia.
0:46.0	I'll talk about all this with the former British Finance Minister George Osborne, time correspondent Charlotte Ulter, and Eurasia Group's Ian Brepp.
0:55.0	Also, it's unprecedented. More than 50 million Americans have already voted.
1:03.0	But how many citizens who want to vote will be turned away, threatened, or dropped from the roles?
1:11.0	I'll talk about voter suppression with pro-publica's Jessica Hussman.
1:17.0	And finally, what is Joe Biden's path to victory?
1:21.0	Which states does he have to win?
1:25.0	And what about Donald Trump?
1:27.0	I'll get the latest from Nate Cohen of the New York Times.
1:33.0	But first, here's my take.
1:35.0	In 2016, I was one of those people who didn't think Donald Trump could win the presidency.
1:41.0	Like many, I studied the polls and believed they showed a comfortable margin voting against him.
1:47.0	I thought people would see through him. He was just too weird, too vulgar, utterly ignorant about most policy issues, and pathologically incapable of telling the truth.
1:57.0	Even about trivial things.
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