What We Know So Far
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
There’s still a lot that’s unclear about one of the most contentious elections in recent history. Here’s what we do know: that many pollsters overestimated the depth of Biden support. That Trump held onto the white working class more than many pundits predicted. And that if Biden does become our next president, he’ll likely have to make good on his promise to be the great compromiser.
Guest: Will Saletan, Slate’s national correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | There is this video that, to me, sums up the absurdity of the moment we're in right now as we wait around for election results to be finalized. |
| 0:14.1 | Good afternoon. I'm Joe Gloria Registrar voters in Clark County, Nevada. Thank you for being here this afternoon. |
| 0:20.6 | This video was shot in front of a Las Vegas Nevada government building. The local registrar is |
| 0:26.2 | updating reporters on the county vote tally. He's in a purple shirt with the Clark County |
| 0:31.5 | seal on it. His voice has this soporific quality, even when he's conveying urgency. |
| 0:39.5 | We are working feverishly to get all of that counted so that we can make an accurate |
| 0:44.6 | report. |
| 0:45.9 | The registrar gives a short update, and then just as he starts taking questions, he gets |
| 0:51.9 | cut off by a guy in a barbecue, barbecue beer and freedom t-shirt, warning that |
| 0:57.1 | Joe Biden is trying to steal the election. |
| 1:00.4 | The Biden cried family steal the election. The media is covering up. The Biden cried family |
| 1:05.6 | steal this election. The media is covering it up. the Biden crime family steal this election. |
| 1:11.5 | As all this is happening, the registrar barely reacts. |
| 1:15.5 | He just waits. |
| 1:16.9 | And after the protester seems to lose interest and wander away, the registrar calmly continues, as if nothing's happened. |
| 1:28.4 | Where were we? |
| 1:29.2 | What was the last question? |
| 1:34.1 | I don't have an accurate number to give you, and I don't want to give you. |
| 1:37.5 | As of the time I'm recording this, it's about midnight on the East Coast. |
| 1:41.7 | Nevada still hasn't been called for President Trump or Joe Biden, |
| 1:45.4 | neither had Pennsylvania or Georgia or North Carolina, which means the drama of election night |
| 1:52.2 | has started playing out all over the country in municipal office parks, like this one, |
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