Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Slate Political Gabfest for November 7th, 2020, the Biden wins edition.

I am David Plots of Citycast. My windows are open, so in the background you may hear the celebratory horn honking along Connecticut

Avenue here in Washington, D.C. That's part of the texture of this show, I think, for today.

I'm joined from New Haven from her home by

Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine in Yale University Law School.

Hello Emily. Hello David. And from Manhattan New York City of 60 Minutes on CBS, John Dickerson.

Hello, David.

Hello, Emily.

It is a mark of how unusual this episode is that John is in a t-shirt.

Never has that happened before.

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slate plus member although this whole episode is for everybody. So as we are taping on Saturday afternoon,

yes, it's Saturday afternoon,

Joe Biden has won the presidential election.

The television networks, newspapers, and global leaders have concluded that he is going to win by dint of having won the states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, and possibly Arizona and Georgia, but it was Pennsylvania that cemented

it for most of these folks who made a call.

John, you've been deep in one of these newsrooms for days and days and

days. Was it what took so long and was that was that good that it took so long?

Yeah I think it was good.

I mean, in the, if you believe what I, what my reporting tells me, which is sometimes, you know, sometimes

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