Q&A - USA Election Special

The News Agents

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Daily News, News, Government, Politics

4.2 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Will this be the most gendered election ever? How late should you stay up to watch the results? And who do Jon and Lewis think will win?

With less than three weeks to go to the US election, we answer your most pressing questions.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.5	This is a global player original podcast.
0:13.1	Welcome to a special US edition of Q&A.
0:18.4	And here is a voice note from Paul.
0:21.2	Hello, newsagents. I have two questions, if I may. First is, how does the US system work
0:28.5	with regards a leader? If Trump loses, you won't hear of a leadership contest for the
0:34.4	Republicans, can't even say it, Republicans,
0:39.6	does this mean that in all effect the losing party doesn't have a leader
0:41.8	when they're in opposition?
0:44.0	Does the US even have an opposition?
0:46.3	It's, I'm fucking hell.
0:51.1	Oh, Paul.
0:52.1	Welcome to the newsagents,
0:53.5	your honorary newsagent for the gratuitous use of the F word.
0:57.1	Well done.
0:59.8	Was that it?
1:00.7	I mean, are we just embarrassing, Paul?
1:02.3	He probably sent like a perfectly crisp version and we're just choosing to use the take one.
1:06.4	Yeah, it's the news agents.
1:07.0	Yeah, all right.
1:07.5	Well, anyway, thank you, Paul.
1:09.8	The simple answer is it's a completely different system. So there is no such thing as opposition really in American politics. There's in Congress is what they'd say the minority party, you have the majority party, either controls the House or the Senate, you have the minority party. That's probably the closest thing. But given that the presidential cycle only occurs once every four years, they have primaries to determine who is going to be that presidential candidate.
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