US election: A test of democracy
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden is the projected winner of the race to be the next president of the United States. Donald Trump, however, refuses to concede the election and many of his supporters continue to believe that he will remain in power after the inauguration in January. Host Ben James shares conversations among Trump supporters in Georgia, Florida and Washington DC, who believe President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of voting fraud. One of them changed from a Democrat because she felt Trump treated immigrants better. Plus women from both political sides come together to consider the impact of Kamala Harris as America’s first female Vice-President elect.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Ben James on BBC World Service and this is BBC OS, US election conversations, |
| 0:06.4 | a test of democracy. |
| 0:11.6 | As the final votes are being counted, a winner has been projected, yet many Republicans |
| 0:16.5 | refuse to accept that President Donald Trump has lost, while others are keen to welcome |
| 0:21.6 | a new democratic government |
| 0:23.3 | with Kamala Harris as America's first female vice president. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm feeling really hopeful and I haven't felt that way in a really long time. |
| 0:32.1 | Not since the Obama presidency honestly. that way in a really long time. |
| 0:32.5 | Not since the Obama presidency, honestly, |
| 0:35.6 | her being a visible black woman on such a large stage |
| 0:39.3 | really excites me. |
| 0:53.4 | After an increasingly fractious campaign. me. voters in over a century made their choice. And that choice, according to all mathematical projections, |
| 0:56.5 | is a new team at the helm. |
| 0:58.9 | As Joe Biden and Carmelah Harris get to work, |
| 1:01.6 | their first priority was to appeal to all Americans to close the political |
| 1:06.0 | divide. But for the worshippers we spoke to at the True Love Missionary Baptist Church in Nevada, |
| 1:12.3 | the Biden Harris ticket was a welcome win. |
| 1:15.0 | I feel relieved that the term role is, you can see some hope in it now. |
| 1:20.0 | This is a very racially charged election for us and there are people that can |
| 1:24.4 | vote on his record but I had to take into account his racism and that's what made a |
| 1:29.8 | difference not that his polis was so bad than the other guys but the racial overton that he |
| 1:34.8 | spewed out at our country you know I always say that we are Americans I'm just |
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