Next, a look at the 2020 Election Results with atlantic Senior Editor Ron Brownstein and editor andcal report etiquett publisher charlie cook. They talked about how the election outcome impact future policymaking. This is just under an hour. Leah good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all so much for joining us today. I am with charlie cook and Ron Brownstein. Leah askarinam, the editor of the hotline. Excuse for me to ask some questions, and hopefully we will all leave this discussion with a better of what may be a chaotic four years. Before we get started, if you would like to submit a question during the session, please do so in the q and a section on the righthand side of your screen. We will try to get to as many of your questions as possible during the hour. Lets start off with what everybody has been thinking of for the past two weeks. There has been a lot of handwringing among democrats about the direction of their party and a lot of republicans taking a victory lap. Republicans m
Thank you for joining us today for our conversation with and charlie cook. Today, im going to ask my two favorite political leah askarinam, the editor of the hotline. Excuse for me to ask some questions, and hopefully we will all leave this discussion with a better of what may be a chaotic four years. Before we get started, if you would like to submit a question during the session, please do so in the q and a section on the righthand side of your screen. We will try to get to as many of your questions as possible during the hour. Lets start off with what everybody has been thinking of for the past two weeks. There has been a lot of handwringing among democrats about the direction of their party and a lot of republicans taking a victory lap. Republicans may pick up close to 10 seats in the house, but they will not flip it. They will likely lose one senate seat and are still at risk of losing the majority, and they lost the white house. On the other hand, democrats lost the expectations
Say about how gop leaders are reacting to the election outco outcome. The president does not like to lose and never admits loss. I more troubled by the fact that other republican officials, who clearly know better, are going along with this and humoring them in this fashion. It is one more step into delegitimizing, not just the incoming biden administration, but democracy in general. That is a dangerous path we. We would never accept that out of our own kids behaving that way if they lost. Right . I mean, if my daughters in any kind of competition pouted and then accused the other side of cheating when they lost when there was no evidence of it, we would scold them. I think that there has been this sense over the last several years that literally anything goes and is justified in order to get power and that is not unique to the united states. There are strong men and dictators on the world to think that i can do anything to stay in power. I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I
A new round of tweets he says hes the real election winner and is vowing legal action against the election process. Plus. There was no shortage of goals. With well see who came out. Welcome to the program u. S. President elect joe biden has picked 2 prominent physicians to lead his Coronavirus Task force he has made tackling the pandemic his top priority when he takes office on january 20th and hes already putting together a team to come up with a strategy biden started the day fresh from his election victory speech by going to mass at the Catholic Church in his hometown wilmington delaware thats where his son beau is buried biden also says tackling Climate Change and bridging the u. S. Political divide are key goals of his administration. President donald trump meanwhile returned to the gold schools where he was playing when u. S. Networks declared by the me election winner on sunset day beforehand he sends out a new series of tweets and edging Election Fraud so far he has produced no
A new round of tweaks he says hes the real election winner and is vowing legal action against the election process. That will see who came out on top. Welcome to the program u. S. President ial president elect joe biden has picked 2 prominent physicians to lead his Coronavirus Task force he has made tackling the pandemic his top priority when he takes office on january 20th and hes already putting together a team to work on his covert strategy. Biden started the day fresh from his election victory speech by going to mass at the Catholic Church in his hometown wellington delaware biden also says tackling Climate Change and bridging the u. S. Political divide are key goals of his administration. President on ultra meanwhile has refused to concede defeat insisting instead sending out a new series of tweets alleging Election Fraud so far he has produced no substantial evidence to support the allegations. Greeted by chance of losing. The us president ial motorcade weaves its way to Trump Na