Weekly Roundup: December 11th

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The electoral college will cast ballots Monday, officially selecting Joe Biden as the president-elect. Trump and Republicans continue to attempt to overturn the will of voters. And, Joe Biden has selected top Obama administration officials to serve in his White House.

This episode: correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Scott Detro. Before we start the show, we are making another appeal for your support.
0:06.0	And in the past, we have been pretty earnest about this.
0:08.0	We have talked about how your support helps us do journalism, how it helps your local station cover the news in your community.
0:16.0	But that ends right here because the other day, I turned on a lesser NPR podcast, Shortwave, and I heard this.
0:24.0	The theme for this year's fundraising campaign is Togetherness,
0:28.0	which we have interpreted as Together, the NPR short waivers will defeat the competition.
0:34.0	I mean, can you really even call the politics podcast competition? You know, they've got Detro on their teamquang, like how tough can they really be?
0:41.0	Shots, fire Detro, okay.
0:44.0	That is Maddie Sophia, who allegedly, I don't know, I don't listen to it that much.
0:49.0	Hosts a podcast called Shortwave, and she makes a point that there is an internal competition at NPR among the different podcasts to see who can bring in the most money.
1:00.0	We had focused on that because we're better than that. We just wanted to tell you the truth about how it supports journalism.
1:05.0	But now that we have been dragged into a vicious attack, I think we're going to focus on the fact that the politics podcast is having some tough competition right now, and we could use your help.
1:15.0	So if you want to support public radio for petty internal rivalries or for broader points about supporting your community and journalism and things like that, you can go to donate.npr.org slash politics.
1:27.0	Thank you so much. Here's the show.
1:29.0	Hi, this is Steven, calling from Brooklyn, New York, where I'm practicing our animal sounds with my 18th month old daughter, Margo.
1:38.0	What sound does it cow make?
1:40.0	What sound does a piggy make? This podcast was recorded at.
1:47.0	It's a 12.54 Eastern on Friday, December 11th.
1:53.0	Things may have changed by the time that you've listened this, but hopefully Margo will have mastered the oink.
2:00.0	Here's the show.
2:03.0	It was a solid move though. It's very solid. Maybe that's a sleeping pig.
2:13.0	Like dreaming. Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the Biden transition.
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