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🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Ahead of the US presidential election on 3 November, two socially distanced views of the pre-election political landscape of America, explore different perspectives on key issues and themes from the last four years of the Trump presidency and a campaign curtailed by Covid-19 restrictions. Susan Glasser writes a Letter from Trump’s Washington column for the New Yorker magazine. She has been critical of the way Donald Trump has governed. Joe Borelli is a New York City Council member, a Republican who represents Staten Island. He is a regular contributor to talk radio and TV and is an outspoken critic of the Covid-19 policies of the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio and New York’s Governor Cuomo.
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0:00.0 | Some podcasts are about the news, |
0:04.0 | some podcasts are about politics and science and history, |
0:09.0 | but my new podcast for the BBC World Service is about losing man I loved. |
0:17.0 | It's called Goodbye to All This and you can find it by searching for goodbye to all this wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:28.0 | Welcome to assignment on the BBC World Service. |
0:32.0 | Hi I'm Joe Burrelli, I'm a city councilman, I'm Joe Barelli. |
0:32.7 | I'm a city councilman. |
0:33.8 | I am also a co-chairman of the Donald Trump |
0:36.2 | for President campaign in New York State. |
0:38.0 | Hi, I'm Susan Glasser. |
0:39.3 | I'm a staff writer and Washington columnist |
0:42.4 | for the New Yorker magazine. |
0:44.0 | Back in February 2017, Susan and Joe took part in the World Service programs at the start of Donald Trump's presidency. |
0:50.0 | The ways in which Donald Trump has used Twitter during his presidential campaign go far beyond the unorthodox to the outrate problematic. |
0:59.0 | Here he is as President-elect and there's no sign of his Twitter feed drying up. |
1:03.7 | Now as Donald Trump runs for re-election against the Democratic candidate Joe Biden, |
1:08.4 | Susan, who writes a column called A Letter from Trump's Washington, and Joe Joe a Republican city councilman representing Staten Island |
1:16.0 | are socially distant to discuss the way the country has changed since 2017 and what that means in November's election. |
1:23.8 | If you go back to your 2017 self, |
1:25.8 | one of the things about being in Trump's Washington |
1:29.4 | is trying to hold on to a sense of what actually is news. |
1:34.6 | It's an unprecedented election campaign |
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