The Tent

We're off again this week for the holiday but will return with a new episode in January. To hold you over, we're revisiting an interview we did with Dr. Angela Rasmussen about the new vaccines for Covid-19 and the state of the coronavirus pandemic. Stay safe out there and have a happy New Year!

We're off this week for the holiday break, so we'll be revisiting an interview Daniella and Jesse did with newly elected Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride, who made history this November when she became the first openly transgender state senator in the country. 

In the final episode of 2020, Pod Save America co-host and former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett joins The Tent to reflect on the final days of one of the longest, worst years ever. And with President-elect Joe Biden marching steadily towards Inauguration Day, a Covid vaccine currently in circulation with another on the way, and Donald Trump on the verge of unemployment, 2021 is already showing some promise.

More than a month after Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 election, and despite many states having certified their votes, the Trump campaign continues to undermine confidence in the election results. Chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Ben Hovland joins Daniella this week to reflect on the successes of the general election and debunk the misinformation around the results. They also discuss how future elections can continue using measures designed to encourage voting.

Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president in less than two months, but he is already putting together an administration that will be tasked with fixing multiple crises that Donald Trump created and exacerbated. John Podesta, who co-chaired President Barack Obama's 2008 transition, joins us to discuss those ongoing efforts, and what a Biden White House can do to address the biggest threat of our generation.

The Tent is off this week for the Thanksgiving holiday. In lieu of a new guest interview, we’re revisiting one of our earlier interviews with Stacey Abrams, who spoke with us about the threats to voting rights in the US and how she built a strong electoral coalition built around progressive values. These issues remain central to assessing what to make of the 2020 election, which the General Services Administration finally ascertained that Joe Biden was the winner of.

The coronavirus pandemic remains a tough puzzle for the nation to solve. Dr. Angela Rasmussen, an affiliate researcher with the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security joins the pod this week to talk through new Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna and what we’ve learned about the novel coronavirus since the spring. Daniella and Jesse also talk about the latest post-election hurdles to President-elect Biden’s transition and efforts to undermine American democracy.

After several days of counting, Joseph R. Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 general election over incumbent Donald Trump. Jesse and Daniella discuss President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ record-breaking victory and the hurdles their transition to the White House faces. And later, they connect with former CAPer and newly elected Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride on her own historic election as the first openly transgender person to serve as a state senator.

This week on “The Tent”, Daniella and Jesse break down the drawn-out conclusion to the 2020 General Election and the stakes in the handful of states that are still counting ballots. Later, they’re joined by CAP Action CEO Neera Tanden who shares her thoughts on the election, President Trump’s efforts to undermine the democracy, and how the nation can put itself on path towards healing and recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

With less than a week before Election Day, tens of millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2020 general election, shattering voter turnout expectations. Daniella and Jesse connected with political scientist and editor of The Cycle Dr. Rachel Bitecofer this week to dig into these numbers and what to make of the shifts in electoral coalitions that have taken place over the last few decades. Plus, our hosts talk about Congress’s misplaced priorities ahead of the election.