Trump: The Sequel? An Americast x Panorama Special
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This afternoon the Supreme Court overturned a Colorado ruling that declared Donald Trump ineligible to run for President in the state.
Justin and Marianna have been in the US to look at how despite legal, financial and polling challenges, he's on course for an epic election rematch with Joe Biden in November. Marianna’s also uncovered evidence of Trump supporters using AI to attract votes from African Americans.
You can watch Panorama, Trump: The Sequel? here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x0yl
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent
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This episode was made by Chris Flynn with Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Okay, it's 10 past 3 in the afternoon in London in the worldwide headquarters of |
| 0:09.2 | Americast and we look like teenagers actually actually we're both on the phone |
| 0:13.7 | Mary and me I always I've always well that just we're doing it for a purpose the thing is we're both reading |
| 0:20.7 | really interesting legal documents because in the last few minutes the Supreme Court has |
| 0:25.4 | announced that Donald Trump can stay on the ballot for the election in 2024 and if |
| 0:31.2 | you haven't been following this very closely you'll say hang on |
| 0:34.5 | second is that really news well it's news because the state of Colorado and a couple of |
| 0:38.8 | other states as well actually wanted to see him chucked off because actions were brought in those states by electors who said |
| 0:47.0 | he was an insurrectionist and if you're an insurrectionist they said under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which was brought forward |
| 0:56.4 | after the Civil War, you are banned from holding our office. So they said Donald Trump because he was involved in the January the 6th |
| 1:06.2 | melee should be banned from being in office and what the court has decided to no one's great surprise is no actually if you're going to beat |
| 1:17.5 | Donald Trump you got to do it at the ballot box. |
| 1:19.4 | Does this mean that Trump has overcome an obstacle or was it ever an obstacle? |
| 1:23.4 | Well, what does it, what's that happened? |
| 1:25.4 | I mean, number one, he has overcome an obstacle, but frankly, it was quite an easy hurdle to |
| 1:30.0 | jump. |
| 1:31.0 | So that nobody seriously thought the Supreme Court was going to decide |
| 1:34.3 | anything different although the courts in Colorado is worth saying all the way up to the |
| 1:38.8 | Colorado Supreme Court did decide that he shouldn't be on the ballot in Colorado |
| 1:42.4 | so it's not it's not a complete slam dunk but he has did decide that he shouldn't be on the ballot in Colorado. |
| 1:42.6 | So it's not a complete sland dunk, but he has won, |
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