What We WILL Know on Election Night
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire for the New York Times: “Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses And Years Of Tax Avoidance”
Adam Davidson’s Twitter thread on signs that Trump might have engaged in money laundering.
Daniel Shaviro for Just Security: “Ten Quick Takeaways from the New York Times’ Bombshell Article on Trump’s Tax Returns”
NYT: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland for The New York Times: “Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump”
Nathaniel Persily and Charles Stewart III for the Wall Street Journal: “Actually, We Will Know a Lot on Election Night”
Edward-Isaac Dovere for The Atlantic, “The Deadline That Could Hand Trump the Election”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
Emily: Jordan Nickerson and David H. Solomon: “Car Seats as Contraception”
John: McDonald and Dodds
David: Raymond Antonio Vargas for the New Orleans Advocate: “In New Orleans, Case of Staged Accidents, Disbarred Lawyer, Stuntwoman Attorney Takes a Dark Turn”
Listener chatter from Megan Murray @mkmurray9: Alec MacGillis for The New Yorker: “The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 1st, 2020, the What We Will |
| 0:13.8 | Know on Election Night Edition. I am David Plotz in Washington, D.C. In the closet, I am joined by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 0:25.5 | magazine and Yale University Law School from her home in New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:29.5 | Hey, David. Hey, John. And by John Dickerson of CBS is 60 Minutes from his home in Manhattan, |
| 0:36.9 | New York City. Hello, John. |
| 0:38.5 | Hello, David. Hello, Emily. On today's Gab Fest, Trump's taxes, the fallout from the debate, |
| 0:46.1 | the state of the polls, what will the debate, what will Trump's taxes, what will the reshaping of the |
| 0:52.8 | debate format mean for the race and for American democracy? |
| 0:57.1 | Then we're going to be joined by Nate Persley, who is a leading authority on voting, on boards of elections, on how people vote, how votes are counted, and the law to tell us what we are going to know on election night and what we |
| 1:11.2 | will not know on election night. Then the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be a Supreme |
| 1:16.4 | Court justice, what kind of justice would she be? Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:22.9 | If you are still feeling battered by Tuesday night, you're still feeling battered by this week. You are not |
| 1:27.9 | alone. This is a week that has been really extraordinary. We've had so many extraordinary weeks |
| 1:32.9 | in the Trump presidency. This has been a real big one. The debate, the shocking refusal of the |
| 1:39.8 | president to denounce white supremacists, the shocking attack by the president on the mechanism of the election, |
| 1:48.8 | his claim that's already a fraudulent election, the attempt by the president to destroy the |
| 1:54.3 | format of the debate and the recognition that the presidential debate, next debates need to be rejiggered. |
| 1:59.9 | All are top of mind, but also top of mind |
| 2:02.9 | is this amazing, amazing feat of reporting by the New York Times, which obtained through some means |
| 2:09.1 | most of the president's personal tax records and some and other kinds of tax records over the past |
| 2:15.6 | what is it, 15, 18 years, 18 years. |
| 2:19.3 | Up to 2018. |
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