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What A Day

The Stakes Of Election Day 2021

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It’s election day, again! We are following major gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, mayoral contests in Cleveland, Buffalo, Atlanta and Boston, as well as ballot measures, city council, and more. Amanda Litman, co-founder and co-executive director of Run for Something, joins us to break everything down. And in headlines: the COP26 UN Climate Conference began in Glasgow, Scotland, the Supreme Court heard challenges to the Texas abortion law, and COVID-19 has now killed more than five million people around the world. Show Notes: Run For Something – https://runforsomething.net/run/candidate-support-system/ Vote Save America – https://votesaveamerica.com/be-a-voter/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday November 2nd, I'm Gideon Resinc.

0:08.6

And I'm Jaseeta Fures and this is What a Day, where we would never tell you it's too early

0:13.3

to start playing Christmas music.

0:15.3

Yeah, we might think it privately but we are not going to say it to your face.

0:19.3

You know everyone's on their own timeline and to some people that means December starts

0:23.3

in November and that's fine.

0:26.3

On Today's Show, the latest from the Climate Conference in Scotland plus New Zealand voted

0:35.2

for its bird of the year except the winner, spoiler alert, wasn't a bird.

0:40.2

Huh, okay.

0:41.6

But first, it is election day once again in the US.

0:45.9

Virginia, we are so much better than the politics of hatred and in the next three days,

0:52.1

we are going to prove it.

0:54.1

Let's get out, let's vote and let's keep Virginia blue.

0:57.7

Thank you very much.

0:58.7

I feel a big sigh of relief finally after all of these months of hard work, the moment

1:06.1

is here and I look forward to the results on Tuesday nights.

1:10.0

Tomorrow, we will push until the polls close to make sure the energy that we see out

1:14.8

in community matches the turnout and matches the excitement for where we're headed in Boston,

1:20.1

New York.

1:21.1

Those are just some of the candidates on the trail, some of whom we've heard right here

1:24.0

on one day.

1:25.0

Yeah, and one big race that we're watching is the contest to be Virginia's next governor.

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