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Political Gabfest

Special Episode: Biden Wins

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 27 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. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest.  The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by June Thomas. Sign up for Slate Plus to support the Political Gabfest and the rest of Slate's journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.

0:07.0

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

0:15.0

So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill.

0:21.0

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

0:25.0

Oh, that's nice.

0:26.0

Search zero with an ace. Because healthy business is beautiful business.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Slate Political Gap Fest for November 7th, 2020, the Biden Wins edition.

0:37.0

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.

0:47.0

That's part of the texture of this show, I think, for today.

0:51.0

I'm joined from New Haven from her home by Emily Bazzlon of the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School. Hello, Emily.

0:58.0

Hello, David.

1:00.0

And from Manhattan, New York City of 60 minutes on CBS, John Dickerson. Hello, John.

1:08.0

Hello, David. Hello, Emily.

1:10.0

It is a mark of how unusual this episode is that John is in a t-shirt. Never happened before.

1:17.0

Before we get started, I just want to thank our Slate Plus members for supporting us through this,

1:22.0

allowing us to do some of these extra episodes. So thank you, dear Slate Plus members. Go to Slate.com slash Gap Fest Plus if you want to become a Slate Plus member.

1:29.0

Although this whole episode is for everybody.

1:32.0

So as we are taping on Saturday afternoon, yes, it's Saturday afternoon.

1:38.0

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.

1:52.0

And possibly Arizona, Georgia, but it was Pennsylvania that cemented it for most of these folks who made a call.

2:00.0

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

2:06.0

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

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