I was going to give you fake Michael Barbaro voice to get you in the mood for podcast

talking, but I couldn't pull it off.

It's Tuesday.

Hey, y'all.

This is Sam's Aunt Betty.

This week, the Never Ending election.

All right, let's start the show.

Hey, y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute.

Happy weekend after Election Day.

Even though this election season is not quite over yet, a lot of you are maybe still refreshing

those electoral college maps online, still glued to cable news, still crunching numbers

at home.

So this episode, we have to dig deep on politics.

In this week's still changing election results, we're going to talk with someone who knows

a lot about politics, a stead herndon.

He has a political reporter at The New York Times, and he has covered this entire campaign

and election season with the focus on Democrats and the left.

Now, we should point out, we talked to a stead Friday morning.

And at that point, the presidential race was not called, but it was trending in Joe

Biden's favor.

All right, with that caveat, here's a stead breaking down the election and what it means

for the left that there was no big blowout for them, at least not yet.

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