Political Gabfest - The "Even Longer National Nightmare" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson are joined by Jacob Weisberg, chairman of The Slate Group, to discuss the election results, how Donald Trump will govern and what Trump skeptics and foes should do now.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 9th, 2016, the even longer national nightmare edition. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm in Brooklyn, just a couple of blocks from Hillary |
| 0:21.8 | Clinton's former campaign headquarters at the Slate Office. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 0:26.4 | magazine, you are where? I'm in New Haven, in my house. I'm glad to be home today. And John Dickerson |
| 0:34.3 | host of Face the Nation. Are you still in New York or have you headed back to Washington? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm in New York City. I'm in the CBS This Morning conference room above the CBS this morning studio where we were all night last night and where I was again this morning. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm still in the throes of election analysis. |
| 0:57.1 | All right. Well, we're going to get to that. On this week's GabFest, a dog named Donald Trump caught a mail truck named the United States. How did he win the presidential election? How will he govern? And what should Trump skeptics and foes do now? Plus, we'll have |
| 1:13.7 | cocktail chatter and in Slate Plus. What, if anything good came from this poisonous election. |
| 1:20.1 | If you're not yet a slate plus member, go to slate.com slash gabfest plus. And also a reminder, |
| 1:24.9 | I know it's probably hard to think about this right now, but maybe you have a good idea. Are we have a conundrum show coming up at the end of November? If you have a |
| 1:32.2 | conundrum, like, should I move to Canada? That might be a conundrum that someone might send us. |
| 1:38.2 | You could send us conundrums at GabFest at slate.com or tweet at SlateGabFest and use hashtag |
| 1:43.3 | conundrum in any case. |
| 1:46.1 | Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. He won last night's |
| 1:51.3 | presidential or yesterday's presidential election pretty handily despite losing the popular vote, |
| 1:55.9 | sweeping the south and most of the Rust Belt winning Pennsylvania and Michigan and |
| 2:00.7 | Wisconsin against all the polling, |
| 2:02.9 | or at least that's what it looks like as we tape this morning. John, give us the first sort of 30,000 |
| 2:09.4 | foot view. What happened? Well, I think the fastest way to say it is that Hillary Clinton didn't |
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