Political Gabfest - Special Episode: Biden Wins
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🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz reflect on the election results, the upcoming transition, how senior Republicans are dealing with Donald Trump's loss, and what comes next for Stacey Abrams and Pete Buttigieg.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 7th, 2020, the Biden wins edition. I am David Plotz 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 |
| 0:22.9 | New Haven from her home by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And from Manhattan, New York City of 60 minutes on CBS, John Dickerson. Hello, John. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, David. Hello, Emily. It is a mark of how unusual this episode is that John is in a t-shirt. |
| 0:44.8 | Never has not happened before. Before we get started, I just want to thank our Slate Plus members for |
| 0:49.6 | supporting us through this. It's allowing us to do some of these extra episodes. So thank you, dear Slate Plus members. |
| 0:55.7 | Go to slate.com slash GabFest Plus if you want to become a Slate Plus member, although this whole |
| 1:00.4 | episode is for everybody. So as we are taping on Saturday afternoon, yes, it's Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:07.9 | Joe Biden has won the presidential election. The television networks, newspapers, |
| 1:13.4 | and global leaders have concluded that he is going to win by dint of having won the states |
| 1:19.8 | of Pennsylvania, Nevada, and possibly Arizona and Georgia, but it was Pennsylvania that |
| 1:25.0 | cemented it for most of these folks who made a call. |
| 1:30.3 | John, you've been deep in one of these newsrooms for days and days and days. |
| 1:36.9 | What took so long? |
| 1:38.8 | And was that good that it took so long? |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah, I think it was good. |
| 1:43.0 | I mean, if you believe what I, |
| 1:45.4 | what my reporting tells me, which is sometimes, you know, sometimes that true. Sometimes |
| 1:49.1 | the reporting takes you the wrong way. The elections officials were being incredibly |
| 1:53.1 | methodical. They were dealing with obviously voting in COVID times and then also dealing just |
| 1:56.8 | with the sheer number of ballots coming in. And they were being methodical. They always told us |
| 2:01.1 | that slowness was a good thing because it meant they were measuring twice and cutting once. |
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