US Elections: How will Biden approach the economy?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
US President-elect Joe Biden is to make tackling the coronavirus pandemic his top priority following his win over Donald Trump, his team says. Larry Summers, former director of the National Economic Council under President Obama says the country can’t have a healthy economy without a healthy population. But before the President-elect can get to work, he and his team have a slew of legal challenges from President Trump to fend off. Barry Richard, veteran Florida lawyer who represented then candidate George W. Bush in the 2000 election Supreme Court battle, runs down the merits of those challenges, as well as their flaws.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler. |
| 0:02.9 | Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.8 | Today, we're calling him President-elect Joe Biden, |
| 0:09.2 | but Donald Trump is still claiming he won the election. |
| 0:12.9 | We're examining the legal claims. |
| 0:14.8 | Just imagine how widespread a fraud you would have to have |
| 0:20.0 | in order to be able to change an election |
| 0:23.4 | where one candidate has won by 20,000, 30,000, 35,000 votes. |
| 0:29.1 | Yes, all those legal arguments on the election unpicked. |
| 0:32.1 | Also today, Barack Obama's most senior economic advisor describes the daunting challenges ahead, |
| 0:38.4 | whoever assumes the White House. |
| 0:40.6 | COVID will be remembered, and this period and what came with it will be remembered longer |
| 0:47.6 | than either 9-11 or the 2008 financial crisis. |
| 0:53.5 | That's all to come in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:59.8 | So former Vice President Joe Biden has been declared President-elect |
| 1:05.2 | by pretty much everyone. |
| 1:07.4 | At least all sections of the media, including the conservative media, |
| 1:10.9 | but Republicans, including Donald Trump himself, the president, continue to fight on. |
| 1:16.6 | They present a range of legal claims. |
| 1:19.6 | Sydney Powell is one of President Trump's legal team, |
| 1:23.0 | and she's outlined some of the case to Fox business on Sunday. |
| 1:27.9 | There has been a massive and coordinated effort to steal this election from we, |
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