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Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The day after the contested Presidential election, Feds Matt Miller, Melissa Murray, and Norm Ornstein convene to explain just where the country is and where we’re headed. They canvass some improbable scenarios before zeroing in on the pivotal states (PA, AZ, NEV, and GA and a sophisticated analysis of each one. They then analyze why Trump out-performed the polls, what it says about the country, and what it augurs for the next two years, with a President Biden and a Majority Leader McConnell. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special edition of Talking Feds Now, the day after the 2020 presidential election.
0:15.5	I'm Harry Lintman.
0:17.8	Some things are pretty clear.
0:20.5	The country remains polarized.
0:23.9	The polls overestimated the possibility of a national rejection of President Trump, whose
0:30.9	power and popularity remain substantial.
0:34.8	Biden will win Michigan and Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin margin will be too large for
0:40.6	Trump to overcome in a recount.
0:43.9	Some things are murky but emergent, and clearly more likely than not.
0:50.6	Biden will overtake Trump in Pennsylvania.
0:54.2	Mitch McConnell will continue as majority leader with huge implications for what the government
1:01.5	accomplishes in at least the next two years.
1:05.6	And Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.
1:10.6	And some things are hopelessly opaque.
1:14.4	What will the courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, do?
1:19.2	Will Trump supporters accept the results?
1:22.7	How and when will Donald Trump be forced to seed power as president?
1:29.9	We remain in the pages of history, but the narrative is not what we expected, and it still
1:36.3	has some important twists and turns to play out.
1:41.2	Talking Feds is hugely fortunate to have three of the best people in the country to provide
1:47.2	a clear-eyed, sophisticated view of what has happened and what lies ahead.
1:53.7	They are.
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