Voice Note from Sopes’ Apartment
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Things are moving so quickly, but it looks like the presidency is slipping away from Donald Trump. We'll be recording a proper episode with the whole gang later. Until then, here's a quick update from Sopes. It's a bit like Letter from America, but recorded on an iPhone in his flat, after very little sleep.
Producer: Natalie Ktena Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.3 | Good morning. It's just before 9 o'clock and I'm trying to get going to start the day |
| 0:11.8 | and go to the office. It soaps here, by the way. |
| 0:16.0 | Maidless is busy filming and doing brilliant things. The search is probably got his head |
| 0:20.8 | buried in a spreadsheet looking at Alleghenny County or some other county somewhere in the |
| 0:25.4 | United States to figure out the numbers. So you've just got me and we just thought we'd |
| 0:30.2 | give you a bit of an update on where we are. And if I sound a little bit breathless, |
| 0:36.7 | it's just because for the first time in Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral college votes, Pennsylvania |
| 0:43.6 | is enough to secure Joe Biden, the presidency, and the latest dump of votes shows that Joe Biden |
| 0:49.8 | is now ahead by about 5,500 votes for the first time. Remember, on election night and |
| 0:56.5 | election the next morning, it looked like Donald Trump was absolutely cruising. He had |
| 1:02.3 | a 500,000 vote lead. And over the past 36 hours, we've seen that whittled down to nothing |
| 1:10.0 | and that now Joe Biden has a lead and with the remaining votes to be counted, it looks |
| 1:14.6 | like that lead is going to be extended. So the current state of polling is that Biden |
| 1:19.4 | has 49.4% of the vote and Donald Trump has 49.3% of the vote. And just to put you in the picture |
| 1:28.4 | in some other places, overnight Joe Biden went into the lead in Georgia, in the south, and seems |
| 1:36.6 | to be holding on to the slimmest of a sliver of a lead there. He is also still ahead in Arizona |
| 1:45.8 | and is ahead in Nevada. So every which way you look at it, it is trending badly for Donald Trump. |
| 1:55.2 | And I tried to have an evening last night where I wasn't going to watch any of this. And it has just |
| 2:00.6 | been mesmerizing to watch these numbers change. And to that sense that the grip that Donald |
| 2:10.4 | Trump has on the presidency is starting to slip away. And once we get a declaration from either |
| 2:17.6 | Pennsylvania or Georgia, and then we've still waiting for Arizona and Nevada, well then Joe Biden |
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