Century on to the point we asked trump all by how divided is the United States. Thanks very much for joining us my guests today here in the studio are Soraya Sarhaddi nelson from k c w radio maine who says the results show how disconnected American Voters are for be jhumpa and from politicians pollsters and journalists. Also with us is mostly secret freelance journalist and currently a fellow at the American Academy here in burlington he argues that a deadly pandemic months of racial upheaval and scandal after scandal have done little to diminish trumps popularity polls and a warm welcome to to Matthew Carney chief europe correspondent for. Politico who believes whoever wins in the end says the result shows that neither candidate its all policy has a clear convincing monday. Thank you all 3 for being here great stuff id like to begin with you sariah america has voted to walk one leading financial broadsheet cold a bitch us election that resolves little but seems like an option fed desc
Bans visitors from denmark after a new strain of code is transmitted from the link to humans copenhagen that will cull millions of animals. Welcome to the program and we begin in the u. S. Where president elect joe bidens team is preparing its transition to the white house but the current occupant donald trump isnt leaving without a fight. President trump has yet to concede the election he claims theres been serious of voter fraud and is about legal action we believe these people are thieves the big city machines are corrupt this was a stolen election the best poster in britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election that its impossible to imagine that biden out ran a bomb in some of these states where it mattered they stole what they had to steal. On saturday Media Outlets called the race for biden after days of counting the president elect has promised to help america become a nation healed like in 2016 its all gotten off to a bad start with more allegations of med
Today we are going to start a week of starting specifically prof. Curry today we are going to start a week of starting specifically about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works, why its important, why most political scholars hate the Electoral College. With the book, hopefully you have read most of that if not all of it, you get an argument against the Electoral College but its a useful book because , he lays out all of the common arguments for it as well, which i think is helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. I do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president , but very few americans understand the process. If you take a course in the american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. But also because its really important in how it structures how elections turnout. Just like how we started our discussions of president ial nominations by
After the opposition called into the republican election when. Europe meanwhile expresses hope of better. Though. Not everyone. Is convinced. Me but. We expect a 3rd wave in spring the usual season. So we hope this wave will be less powerful when it comes to the rate of infection. In the world this is R T International pleasure company and you. Are breaking news story today. Says it has launched an investigation into a Russian Military helicopter over armenian or space to up to 3 crew members on board were killed russia says it has accepted an apology from unsurprising. We assess positively the fact that book who immediately admitted its guilt we also know the assurances given to us by the as are bijani site that a prompt investigation of this incident will be carried out and the perpetrators will be punished well here i get the latest developments on details with our tease here in the studio. It took the observer johnny saw it only a few hours to admit that it was their military behin
We will speak with independent journalist allan nairn and unit organizer Jane Mcalevey got how to stop and electoral coup and what went wrong in the 2000 flood recount. Then georgia flips blue for now, as joe biden pulls ahead of trump for the first time in extraordinarily tight race for the states 16 elecral votes. Ware patitly watchg as demoacy is mos definitely at stake in to see whether or no georgia will fp for thecratic candidate for First Time Since 1992. Amy will in the u. S. , millions of people are mesmerized by the president ial race, ipuerto ric the isld is dealg with its own race that produced very different results, including the election of afro puerto rican human rights feminist and l lgbtq activist ana irma rivera lassen. Is i am anmeans bt and others the black woman. The discrimination some of us may face. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Democric president ial nominee joe biden has