Episode 1894: Caitlin Thompson On The US Election, Trumpism’s Next Move, And Joe Biden
It’s been an exhausting week to be an American, but we speak to one of our favourites Caitlin Thompson, founder of Racquet Magazine, who, long before she ever talked to us about tennis, was covering politics in the US. How does she feel about the election result?
Shep fact-checks President Trump’s remarks:
-No evidence that pollsters knowingly got polls wrong to create voter suppression
-No red wave in the election
-No evidence of election interference
-Polls may have been wrong, but they weren’t fake#Election2020 https://t.co/2ydxgqlxGJ pic.twitter.com/VqncLjegnS— CNBC (@CNBC) November 6, 2020
What is Trumpism’s next move, and what did the Democrats learn from an election that got them the White House, but which raised questions deeper down the ballot?
The U.S. is the self-anointed administrator of the litmus test of the purity of elections internationally. As @TMcLaughlin3 writes, who would listen to Washington now? https://t.co/IkSFmt2jGR
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 6, 2020
Frances Murphy tells us how she’s going to spend the weekend, CNN cult hero ‘Irish’ John King salutes his roots, and we all pay our respects to a CNN reporter who went through his own personal nightmare live on television in front of the world.
Always. https://t.co/qPq6PqLShr
— John King (@JohnKingCNN) November 5, 2020
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