Trial and Error
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden’s lead has only grown since major networks projected him to win the presidential election last weekend, and despite that, Trump has continued to baselessly claim that he is the true winner and delay Biden’s transition process. To better understand the nuances of Trump’s lawsuits and whether we have anything at all to worry about, we spoke to Risk Hasen, a law professor at UC Irvine who specializes in election law and campaign finance.
And in headlines: over 700,000 people file for unemployment, wolves as a first line of defense against chronic wasting disease, and YouTube Rewind is cancelled for this year.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, November 13th. I'm Akila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Ressneck and this is what the day where we are developing the first ever news game for PS5. |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah, it's a lot like Spider-Man, but he just works at the Daily Bugle. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, it's JK Simmons screaming at you a lot, like in a motivational way. |
| 0:24.5 | It's supposed to inspire something. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, a conversation about the current legal strategy or lack thereof from the Trump campaign, then some headlines. |
| 0:41.6 | All right, so it's been nearly a week since major networks and media outlets projected Joe Biden to win the presidential election. |
| 0:47.9 | Since then, his lead in Pennsylvania, the state which put him over the top, has only grown, and at this moment, |
| 0:53.3 | he leads in enough states to give him 306 electoral college votes. |
| 0:57.6 | Even as ballots continue to be counted in Arizona and Georgia is heading to a recount. |
| 1:01.7 | Despite all of that, Trump has continued to baselessly tweet in all caps that he is the true winner of the election. |
| 1:07.4 | Claimed fraud, refused to concede, dragged Republican party leadership with him, |
| 1:11.6 | and delayed Biden's official transition process. |
| 1:14.1 | But yesterday, we started to see some cracks among Republicans who said that Biden should at least get access to the president's daily brief for national security reasons. |
| 1:22.3 | How generous of them. And as the days have stretched on, Trump's evidence for lies about fraud and corruption |
| 1:27.2 | in the election have continued to run face first into brick walls. |
| 1:30.9 | Just yesterday, Trump's own Department of Homeland Security called the recent election, |
| 1:34.3 | quote, the most secure in American history in Arizona, audits have found no evidence of anything untoward. |
| 1:40.5 | And the Republican Attorney General of that state said that Trump would not win it. |
| 1:44.4 | In Michigan, Trump's claims of, quote, shocking evidence of misconduct have amounted to affidavits. |
| 1:49.3 | Like one poll watcher saying, it was weird that some military ballots went for Biden. |
| 1:54.0 | And then yesterday, there was an instance where Trump lawyers appeared to file a lawsuit in the actual wrong court. |
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