Special Episode: Joe Biden Wins the Presidency

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After days of uncertainty, Joe Biden has been elected president, becoming the first candidate in more than a quarter of a century to beat an incumbent. His running mate, Kamala Harris, is the first woman and woman of color elected vice president. Mr. Biden’s win is set to be contested — President Trump said in a statement that “the election is far from over.” Today we host a roundtable of three Times political journalists who discuss the election results, Mr. Biden’s victory and Mr. Trump’s next move. Guest: Alexander Burns, a national political correspondent for The New York Times; Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The Times; and Jim Rutenberg, a writer-at-large for The Times and The New York Times Magazine. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Mr. Biden achieved victory offering a message of healing and unity. He will return to Washington facing a daunting set of crises.He has spent his career devoted to institutions and relationships. Those are the tools he will rely on to govern a fractured nation.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Vavaro.
0:03.0	This is a special episode of The Daily.
0:06.0	Today, Joe Biden is elected President of the United States,
0:14.0	becoming the first candidate to beat an incumbent president
0:18.0	in more than a quarter century, and making Kamala Harris
0:22.0	the first woman and woman of color to become Vice President.
0:31.0	I spoke with my colleagues Alex Barnes, Maggie Haberman, and Jim Mudenberg.
0:37.0	It's Saturday afternoon, November 7th.
0:43.0	Alex, Maggie, Jim, thank you for joining us on kind of short notice.
0:49.0	We now have President-elect Joe Biden, and I just want to take a moment
0:55.0	and have you reflect on the significance of that call.
0:59.0	It's been just about an hour to the minute or so since the New York Times called the race.
1:05.0	And I wonder what you were all thinking when that happened?
1:08.0	Well, to quote another reason President Michael, they said this day would never come.
1:14.0	The long, just endless weight, I think sort of gave the conclusion to this election
1:20.0	a bit of a feeling of anticlimax for the last couple of days,
1:23.0	and then when the call actually came, and there was really no suspense
1:27.0	about what it was going to be by the time I got the answer.
1:30.0	But when it finally came, I think it suddenly sort of jolted a lot of people.
1:35.0	I think certainly me back into the sense of this is a major moment in history.
1:40.0	This is not just some sort of slow, inevitable process that will eventually yield some kind of clarity
1:45.0	so that we can get sleep again.
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