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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Breaking down conspiracy theories over election fraud. The Republicans who won, even when Trump didn’t. And, a new leader in the box office.

Tech reporter Drew Harwell reports on the conspiracy theories taking hold among Trump supporters and being bolstered by Republican lawmakers.

The battle for control of the Senate is still up in the air. But, as Fix reporter Amber Phillips explains, Republican politicians who embrace Trump won big this election.

As the U.S. struggles to revive its economy during a pandemic, China takes the lead in movie box office sales. Foreign correspondent Eva Dou reports that it is the latest indication of China’s swift recovery.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is called the
0:08.5	Hi, Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:14.4	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.7	It's Tuesday, November 10.
0:24.8	Today the spread of election conspiracy theories.
0:28.1	The Republicans who won on Trumpism and how China is upending the film industry.
0:37.1	So what are the kinds of conspiracy theories that we have seen start to spread in the day
0:41.9	since the election?
0:42.9	Oh my gosh, there's so many.
0:47.9	So there are the ballots being magically found in Michigan.
0:53.0	More people voting than registered voters in Wisconsin.
0:55.7	Sharpie, felt tip pens invalidating votes in Arizona.
1:00.2	Trump ballots being burned in the forest.
1:02.0	Valets being found in the dumpster.
1:03.6	Vote counters ripping up ballots, filling out new ballots or copying ballots.
1:07.4	People getting ballots in the mail that are already filled out.
1:09.8	Trump saying they're not allowing canvas watchers into watch the ballots being counted.
1:15.4	Mysterious shadowy people wheeling ballots into the election center when it was really
1:20.4	just a TV news crew.
1:24.2	Drew Harwell is a tech reporter for the post.
1:27.0	All of these things have been misproven.
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