Trump wins - and so does Trumpism

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down president-elect Donald Trump's sweeping victory, and what's next for the Democratic Party after a decisive loss. Then, senior video journalist JM Rieger joins to discuss what will happen when Trump takes office in January – and who he intends to appoint in his administration.

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0:00.0	We got to do this.
0:03.3	Make America great again.
0:06.4	How can you be against?
0:07.6	We are not going back.
0:13.2	Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post.
0:19.4	I'm Libby Casey, and I'm joined today by Rhonda Colvin and James Homan.
0:23.2	We're recording just hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election,
0:29.4	capping a remarkable political comeback that dramatically shakes up American politics.
0:35.0	Now, we know you spent the last day listening to breakdowns of state-by-state
0:38.5	results and who turned out to vote for which side. And the Washington Post will continue to update
0:43.9	the election results. Do keep an eye on Washington Post.com and our podcasts and our YouTube
0:50.0	channel. But on this episode of Sidebar, we're going to look forward to what Trump's victory
0:56.0	means for Democrats, what it means for Donald Trump and the Republican Party, and for America
1:01.6	over the next four years and beyond. Ron Dan James, let's start with Democrats, who for this second
1:08.3	time in three elections have lost to Donald Trump. How badly did Democrats
1:14.5	lose to Trump, James? Some stats to just illustrate how significant this was. This is the biggest shift
1:21.5	right word from one election to the next since Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980. Donald Trump's
1:27.2	on track right now to get
1:28.2	312 electoral votes. That's the most of any Republican since 1988. Donald Trump is on
1:33.1	track right now to win the popular vote, the first Republican to do so since George W. Bush
1:37.3	And something he's never done before, which he did not do either time. And he's going to become
1:42.7	the first ex-president since Grover Cleveland won in 1892
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