Taking on Trump
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
James Naughtie examines Joe Biden's chances in the forthcoming US election as he tries to beat president Donald Trump at the polls this November.
Donald Trump was elected on the promise to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, and in response the Democrats have chosen a candidate who is from the heart of the political establishment.
As a state senator for 36 years and then president Obama's VP for eight more, Joe Biden now carries the standard in the strangest American presidential election of modern times, its character completely changed by the coronavirus pandemic.
While Mr Biden is 'Washington Man' epitomised, he has always presented himself as the common man and in this programme we chart Joe Biden's blue-collar roots, his political career, and ask what can he and the Democratic Party offer America?
Can a party with its own internal divisions unify to beat the Republicans? And is 77-year-old Joe Biden ready to battle with an incumbent president who is a proven political street fighter?
Presenter: James Naughtie Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dylan and this is seriously. |
| 0:44.0 | Today we're bringing you another seriously interesting story told a little sideways. |
| 0:51.0 | All those you've been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. |
| 1:01.0 | Joe Biden seemed only a few months ago to be about to fail for the third time to be |
| 1:06.5 | the Democratic candidate for president. |
| 1:08.6 | Now, thanks to all of you, the heart of the Democratic Party, we just wanted, we've won big because of you. |
| 1:17.0 | In the South Carolina primary, he surged back. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's go, go, let's go. He made a spectacular recovery, eclipsing Bernie Sanders and his effort to pull |
| 1:28.5 | the Democrats further to the left to take on Donald Trump. |
| 1:31.7 | Biden now carries their standard |
| 1:35.0 | in the strangest American presidential election of modern times |
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