Biden Won. What Now?
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🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, the US presidential race was called for Joe Biden, making Donald Trump a one-term president. However, the outcome of the down ballot races may spell trouble for an incoming Biden administration.
Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s Senior Business and Economics Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | So you were at brunch when Biden was called? |
| 0:08.3 | I was at brunch. |
| 0:12.0 | Jordan Weissman is a staff writer here at Slate. |
| 0:15.1 | I was literally sitting there with a mimosa in hand as Donald, as the election was called. |
| 0:21.8 | As for me, I was sitting at home when I got the news. |
| 0:27.5 | I could tell Joe Biden had won because of the racket outside my house. |
| 0:31.8 | It pretty much went on all day. |
| 0:33.7 | Car horns were honking. |
| 0:35.3 | There were fireworks. |
| 0:36.9 | In these first few moments, you can literally hear someone yell, Donald Trump's a loser. |
| 0:47.9 | There was a kid who was literally like gleefully taunting President Trump. |
| 0:53.7 | He's doing like Nelson from the Simpsons. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, kind of. |
| 0:57.9 | Kind of. |
| 0:58.5 | And then it was really weird because I went out during the day and went to Prospect Park, the big park in Brooklyn. |
| 1:07.0 | And I haven't quite experienced anything like it. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah. And I haven't quite experienced anything like it. |
| 1:21.4 | Even I, for one day, managed to feel good about the outcome of this election. |
| 1:25.5 | So that's how much uplift there was for that one afternoon. |
| 1:29.7 | The reason Jordan is not embracing this feeling is simple. |
| 1:31.6 | He doesn't think it's going to last. |
| 1:37.5 | Just before the election, you wrote this article where you were grim. |
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