What Roger Ailes Can Teach Us About Election Night
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Last night had a significant tell you can't gleam from polling or minute-by-minute vote counts. We don't know who's going to win, but I can tell you who both candidates think will. Plus: what the next few days of legal trench warfare are gonna look like.
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| 0:00.0 | You know the sad thing about all this is I don't know if Joe Biden and Donald Trump were going to be able to save their friendship. |
| 0:16.0 | This whole electoral wack-a-mole is bound to put a lot of strain on it. |
| 0:20.0 | Who knows? |
| 0:22.0 | At the rate we're going, maybe we'll make them both co-presidents and let |
| 0:25.7 | them work things out, like if Walter Mathow and Jack Lemon set a comedy romp in the Oval Office, |
| 0:31.4 | we'll see. So if you forgot that Tuesday was the |
| 0:35.4 | 2020 election and this is your first burst of news, I should tell you that |
| 0:41.9 | Oregon State Prop 109 legalizing hallucinogenic mushrooms passed, which we all might need by the end of this week. |
| 0:51.0 | Because last night we did not select our incoming president or |
| 0:56.1 | even our new vice president America has electoral constipation. |
| 1:02.8 | At the time of recording, Joe Biden has 238 electoral votes and Donald Trump has 213. |
| 1:09.2 | So it sounds like Biden is in the lead, but that lead is blurry. He's in the lead of counted |
| 1:16.8 | electoral votes. When I went to sleep last night, Trump was ahead in the |
| 1:20.9 | uncounted swing states. When I woke up, the numbers had flickered back to blue. |
| 1:25.6 | The number here, the magic number. |
| 1:28.0 | The number they're shooting for is 270. |
| 1:30.1 | 270 electoral votes is what you need for an outright presidential victory, |
| 1:35.6 | meaning that the election is still a nail-bitter until we know what Wisconsin, |
| 1:40.8 | Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia do. |
| 1:44.4 | It could go either way. |
| 1:45.6 | At this point, the election is very much up in the air. |
| 1:51.6 | Or is it? Roger Ailes, the infamous longtime ruler of Fox News, watched televisions in his office |
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