The A-Z of the US Election
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Sopes, Maitlis and The Zurch explain all that election terminology you've heard but probably don’t quite understand. It’s basically Duolingo for American politics.
Producer: Emma Close and Ione Wells Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | You know how when there's a world cup on, you get all those players and you stick them |
| 0:09.7 | in a book and it's sort of like you're cut out and keep guide for who's in which things, |
| 0:15.3 | exactly, exactly. |
| 0:17.4 | We're going to do that with the US presidential election, but not the players because we're |
| 0:21.8 | going to be talking about the players every week. |
| 0:24.0 | We're going to talk about the phrases that you are going to hear, weak in, weak out, |
| 0:29.1 | and it's our eight-Zed guide of the US presidential election. |
| 0:32.8 | Does that seem like a good idea? |
| 0:34.4 | This is the episode where I go suspiciously but consistently quiet there by revealing. |
| 0:40.4 | I don't actually know. |
| 0:42.2 | But you know the definitions. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah, well we are going to give the broad sweep of these definitions and Anthony Zirca in |
| 0:49.8 | Washington is going to be the person who is going to say, yeah, very good attempt, John, |
| 0:55.9 | very good attempt Emily, but let's explain what this really means. |
| 1:00.0 | My initials are A and Z, so who better to have the eight-Zed? |
| 1:04.2 | The eight-Zed guide. |
| 1:05.4 | You are Arizona for this purpose. |
| 1:08.5 | So welcome to America's. |
| 1:13.3 | America's from BBC News. |
| 1:16.2 | The president's anger was on full display yesterday. |
| 1:19.2 | They're trying to impeach the son of a bitch. |
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