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The Documentary Podcast

The Response USA: The return

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As an election approaches in America, we return to a unique experiment which took the temperature of the USA after the surprise election of Donald Trump. In 2016 the BBC World Service, in association with American Public Media, focused on areas which the media had neglected – but made all the difference. We asked for smartphone voice recordings from key areas in the middle of America about their lives now, about why they voted the way they did, and their hopes for the future. Now, in 2020, we return to those contributors to see how their lives changed in the last four years. What do they want to happen now?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The election of Donald Trump was a shock to the US political system and America is about to decide if it wants four more years.

0:08.0

I'm Angela Davis and you're listening to The Response USA, the Return on the BBC World Service.

0:15.0

While the political websites and TV networks race to tell the fast moving story,

0:20.0

we can do something different.

0:22.0

Because in 2016, we gathered smartphone testimonies from voters reacting to Donald Trump's win,

0:28.0

and we've tracked down those contributors to find out how they feel now.

0:32.0

After all, it's been a busy four years.

0:35.6

I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans.

0:46.0

We're going to build the wall. We have no choice. We have no choice.

0:50.0

Over the next four years we will make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world.

0:57.0

This lawless partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democrat party.

1:04.0

Have you seen my polls in the last four weeks?

1:09.0

After 49 years, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic

1:15.3

relations. Everybody said this would be impossible.

1:20.3

I want to express our nation's deepest condolences and most heartfelt

1:26.4

sympathies to the family of George Floyd.

1:30.9

It follows another racially charged tweet from the President Friday.

1:35.6

When the looting starts, the shooting starts.

1:38.2

The phrase was originally coined in 1967 by a Miami police chief known for aggressive policing tactics in black communities.

1:47.0

Stand back and stand by somebody's got to do something about Antifa and the left.

1:53.0

The U.S. economy has suffered the sharpest drop since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.

2:00.0

It ends the longest expansion in U.S. history as coronavirus virtually shot down the country.

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