Swamp Notes: Election denialism is still in style
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The 2020 US election was one of the most contested in American history, and it culminated in an unprecedented attack on the US Capitol building by supporters of Donald Trump. FT data journalist Eva Xiao and US legal correspondent Joe Miller join this week’s Swamp Notes podcast to explain how Trump and his allies are preparing to challenge the 2024 vote, and what election officials around the country are doing to prepare.
Mentioned in this podcast:
How Trump allies are sowing election doubts
‘There are bad actors’: Trump’s nemesis fights to protect Georgia’s vote
America’s dead-heat Trump-Harris election
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| 0:00.0 | The F.T. News briefing is supported by Equinor. The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinor.co. UK. |
| 0:09.8 | The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol was unprecedented. |
| 0:16.7 | It was also the culmination of Donald Trump's months-long refusal to accept the 2020 election results. |
| 0:24.1 | And with just a few weeks until voting day this year, |
| 0:27.4 | Trump and his allies are using the same playbook |
| 0:30.5 | to cast doubts on the election. |
| 0:37.0 | This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News briefing, |
| 0:40.6 | where we talk about all of the things happening in the 2024 U.S. presidential |
| 0:45.1 | election. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Sonia Hudson and this week we're asking is the U.S. ready for another contested |
| 0:51.9 | election here with me to discuss is Eva Siau. She's a data |
| 0:55.8 | journalist at the FT. Hi Eva. Hey, glad to be here. Glad to have you. We've also got Joe Miller. He the F.T's U.S. legal correspondent. |
| 1:05.1 | Hi Joe. |
| 1:06.1 | Hi, good to be with you. |
| 1:08.1 | Okay, so before we look ahead to next month's election I want to take a look back really quickly first. You know, we all |
| 1:15.4 | know how Donald Trump's refusal to accept the 2020 election ended, but Joe, how did it start? What sort of legal challenges did Trump and his team bring forward in the weeks after the election? |
| 1:29.0 | Well, it started in many ways before the 2020 election when the Trump administration started to |
| 1:36.2 | so doubt about the integrity of the process and soon after the result Trump and his accolades filed a flurry of lawsuits across the US in various states, over 60 lawsuits, alleging a broad sort of schmorgas board of fraud from you know disqualified voters |
| 1:57.9 | being on voter rolls to counting fraud and we should say that you know the vast majority of these were |
| 2:06.0 | ultimately unsuccessful but they did cause a lot of chaos in those weeks and months |
| 2:11.8 | after the election. |
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