Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politics

Ep: 4- 118 - America enters its election endgame


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Today we are joined by TV pundit Laura Babcock in Hamilton, journalist Emma Burnell London and by hell raiser Doug Levy in San Francisco, America


In a week that has seen The Cleveland Browns get embarrassed at Pittsburgh we look at America as it enters its election endgame


Joe Biden has a comfortable lead in every poll Americans are voting in record numbers. Coronavirus cases are surging, Donald Trump is downplaying the pandemic and criticizing his own public health experts. The president only pays $750 in tax and there's a Supreme Court vacancy! The president has been hospitalised, there have been protests for racial justice and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are scrambling to strike a stimulus deal 7.9 percent of Americans are out of work, so why have the opinion polls hardly moved since July? According to RealClearPolitics, Biden currently boasts an average polling lead of 8.9%, while three three months ago, on July 20, he led by 8.6%

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