While it's likely Biden will take office, the Republicans will try to make governing impossible. Biden must be pushed to force effective climate change policy through executive order and not cave to the GOP Senate, says Larry Wilkerson on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.

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Paul JayHi, I'm Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast, and please don't forget the donate button.A razor-thin majority for Biden, relying on the mail-in vote. This is the election result Trump and peoplelike Steve Bannon expected. They were right and the polling was wrong. Again. Bannon declared a fewweeks ago that the war would begin on November 3rd, and here we are. Trump has already declaredvictory and is saying the Democrats plan to steal the election.

TrumpThis is, without question, the latest news conference I've ever had.

Paul JayWell, that's the opening shot. Get the troops ready for battle. What might this war look like? Will theAmerican financial elites allow the political system to descend into chaos? Can they prevent it? Will theSupreme Court issue another partisan decision, as they did in 2000, handing the election to theRepublicans? After Trump's disastrous role in allowing the pandemic to get out of control, why was thiselection even close? And assuming Biden does take office -- and that's anything but assured at this point-- will he have the guts to confront a Republican-controlled Senate and a fired-up Trumpian mass base orwill he, "try to bring the country together" by giving the super-rich and the far right exactly what they want?Now, joining us to talk about all of this is Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He's a retired United States Armycolonel and is the former chief of staff for the former Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Larry is adistinguished adjunct professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary. Andhe's a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises.Thanks for joining us, Larry.

Larry WilkersonGood to be with you on this most interesting day.

Paul JayWell, you're on a task force for election crises. You got your crisis. So, what are you guys thinking? I thinkyou had a meeting today of some sort.

Larry WilkersonWe did. The webcast today was mostly for major media, national media like The New Yorker, AP and soforth. But we had an opportunity to e-mail-exchange and talk beforehand. And frankly, your

characterization is a bit off. I think, from our analysis, we see things happening pretty much the way wepredicted they would happen. I might add, the way the Transition Integrity Project's war games went, too:that it's going to be extremely close; that there are still as of noon, for example, 30 million votes to becounted; that there is a real, satisfactory, very methodical process going on all across the country rightnow. This process could have been much swifter had the Republicans -- and it was Republicans -- notkept states from changing their laws so they could start counting this new huge volume of early votesearlier. They had to, because of these cases, start on the day of the election. But it's going well. It's goingextremely well. We had a report on violence across the country. There was a little bit here, a little bitthere, but not anything like what some of our scenarios predicted. That could change also.But it's pretty much going the way we assessed it in one of our scenarios. And it's pretty much going theway we would like it to go. That is to say, the laws are being followed,