What if...George Bush had lost to Al Gore in 2000?

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the third episode of our Christmas "What if" series, Emily, Jon and Lewis bring you a US politics special.

First up, they ask how the world would have been different if George W. Bush lost to Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election. Would there still have been an invasion of Iraq? And would Donald Trump have ever risen to office?

Later, they ask what would have happened if Bernie Sanders had beaten Hilary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary. Would Sanders have had a better chance of defeating Donald Trump?

And finally, what if Joe Biden had a quick nap before going head to head with Donald Trump in their Presidential debate earlier this year?

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.1	This is a global player original podcast. Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and
0:14.5	congratulated him on becoming the 43rd President of the United States. And I promised him that I
0:20.7	wouldn't call him back this time.
0:22.6	I offered to meet with him as soon as possible.
0:25.6	That was our goal, conceding the 2000 election to George Bush.
0:31.6	It was the election that divided the country when the voting in Florida was so confused it did not yield a clear
0:40.6	winner on the night eventually it was the Supreme Court that stopped the counting and
0:46.2	declared Bush the winner what would have happened if Al Gore had claimed the presidency
0:53.1	that's the first in our special US version of what ifs.
0:58.2	Welcome to the newsagents.
1:02.5	The Newsagents.
1:04.4	It's John.
1:05.0	It's Emily.
1:05.7	It's Lewis.
1:06.6	And the 2000 election really was a nail bitbiter. It was all down to Florida. And the English language
1:17.0	suddenly had to grapple with something called a hanging Chad. And essentially, there was a dispute over
1:26.4	votes cast.
1:35.6	Imagine a punch hole that you've got file paper and you want to punch it so it can fit into your file, the ring folder file.
1:43.6	Well, when the polls weren't punched completely and there was a bit of paper still left, that became known as a hanging chad, and whether it should be admitted or not
1:46.2	as a vote for one or other candidate. And the free world, the most powerful person on the planet,
1:54.9	was going to be decided on a basis of whether the punch hole had gone through properly on the ballot paper.
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