US election countdown: After the vote
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 27 October 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:24.8 | zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello and welcome to the FT's U.S. election countdown podcast. I'm Courtney Weaver, |
| 0:42.4 | the F.T.'s U.S. politics correspondent |
| 0:44.4 | and here with me in Washington is Sean Donnan. Hi. Hi, good to see you son. Great to be |
| 0:48.9 | here. We have less than two weeks ago until election election day Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump |
| 0:54.1 | have been crisscrossing each other in Florida Ohio, North Carolina and other |
| 0:58.3 | pivotal swing states as polls show Clinton in the lead. This week we're going to talk about both |
| 1:03.9 | candidates final push and also what's in store beyond election day something we're just |
| 1:08.4 | starting to get early glimpses of. And that's one of the fascinating things here in |
| 1:11.8 | Washington really it's that there is this kind of assumption that's setting in that Hillary Clinton is is going to win this thing and that means that people are already starting to talk beyond the election beyond November 8th and what that might mean |
| 1:24.6 | for both parties but I think we should really start talking about these final |
| 1:28.8 | two weeks we're not past the election yet exactly it would be a shame after all this time just to jump ahead and miss the actual vote. |
| 1:36.0 | Absolutely, but it's clear that the conversation has shifted here. |
| 1:39.0 | So let's start talking about Clinton. I mean, she's obviously has a clear lead right now but we haven't |
| 1:44.1 | actually seen that much to her compared to Donald Trump. You know Trump is |
| 1:47.8 | having three four or five campaign events today where Clinton I think has a much |
| 1:52.0 | more moderated schedule. Do you |
| 1:54.4 | think this is a deliberate move on her campaign's part? I think it's clear |
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