Political Gabfest - Biden Biding
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🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Notes and references from this week’s show:
Karl Rove for The Wall Street Journal: “This Election Result Won’t Be Overturned”
Rich Lowry for Politico: “The Completely Insane Electoral College Strategy”
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple
Michael D. Shear and Lisa Friedman for the New York Times: “Biden Could Roll Back Trump Agenda with Blitz of Executive Actions”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
As part of our 15th anniversary celebration we'd love to have your ideas for politically themed cocktails. Please submit an original recipe (or 2) here!
Emily: Reis Thebault for the Washington Post: “Robin Kemp Lost Her News Job in Clayton County, Ga. — But She Kept Reporting the News. It Paid Off on Election Week.
John: The Queen's Gambit; Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany by Dwight Garner
David: Robyn Dixon for the Washington Post: “Azerbaijan’s Drones Owned the Battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and Showed Future of Warfare”
Listener chatter from Joshua Weaver @we4v3r: Grace Perry for Chicago Magazine: “No One Can Agree On What Malört Tastes Like, But the Descriptions Are Always Amazing”
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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss how to redesign the inauguration in order to account for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you wearing a Slovenia hat because you think America is turning into Slovenia? |
| 0:04.5 | They have a better democracy than ours maybe. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 12, 2020, the Biden-Biding edition. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm David Plotz of CityCast. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm joined from New York by John Dickerson |
| 0:25.2 | of CBS's 60 Minutes. Hello, John. Oh, hello. And from New Haven by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 0:31.3 | Magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily. Hey, David. Hey, John. On today's GabFest, |
| 0:37.2 | Nate Persley will join us to discuss the far-fetched legal challenges |
| 0:41.6 | to the presidential election results and the extremely dangerous consequences of the |
| 0:45.9 | Republicans' refusal to accept those results. |
| 0:49.0 | Then Biden's transition, what is he doing? |
| 0:51.3 | What's he planning for day one? |
| 0:53.2 | How much will the Trump obstacles delay him? |
| 0:57.3 | Then the Supreme Court hears a hugely consequential case, another challenge to the Affordable Care Act. |
| 1:04.2 | Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter. It has been a horrible, horrible week for American |
| 1:09.3 | democracy. After President-elect Biden's victory became clear, President Trump has accelerated his preposterous legal challenges to the results, challenges that would be much less unsettling if he hadn't dragooned the federal government into helping him out on it. And more importantly, if he hadn't cowed or enticed or simply just |
| 1:28.7 | persuaded or just pleased, the vast majority of the Republican establishment into supporting him |
| 1:34.4 | or at least going along with what he's doing, 70% of Republicans in a poll that I saw say that |
| 1:40.1 | it was not a free and fair election, which means that even when President Biden is finally |
| 1:44.8 | seated and inaugurated confidence in the democratic system will be weakened. The beams |
| 1:50.4 | rusting in our building near collapse. We are joined again by Nate Persley of Stanford University |
| 1:55.8 | to talk through some of the legal and political issues we face. Nate, it must be just |
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