Trump defies the odds
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
POLITICO
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🗓️ 9 November 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and It's Wednesday, November the 9th, and Donald Trump is the President-elect. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to our special post-result show. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Kristen Roberts National Editor and with me politics editor Charlie Matessian. |
| 0:27.6 | Hi Kristen, I never thought I'd be talking to you at 3.55 a.m. |
| 0:32.0 | And campaign pro editor Scott Bland. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi Kristen, great to be here. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh yes, we are Chipper, aren't we? |
| 0:39.0 | Well, this was a stunner of an election. |
| 0:43.3 | We talked only a day and a half or two days ago |
| 0:47.0 | about the three paths that Donald Trump had, |
| 0:49.4 | and he chose the third one, which |
| 0:51.9 | was surprising everyone with an enormous sweep I want to jump |
| 0:55.5 | right into some of the data because it's astounding Charlie tell us about what |
| 1:00.8 | happened in places like the Philly suburbs. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, where do you start with an election like this? |
| 1:07.5 | It is one for the ages. |
| 1:09.0 | I think it's bigger than Dewey Truman, |
| 1:12.6 | or the Truman upset. |
| 1:14.0 | I mean, I can't even think of a comparable upset |
| 1:16.8 | like this, where we were all so wrong in so many ways. |
| 1:22.1 | And you know, the interesting thing thing is we talked a lot about |
| 1:24.6 | this and Kristen and I have been you know talking about Trump's prospects for a long time |
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