One Last Absurd Attempt to Overturn the Election
It’s not going to work, but it’s going to chip away at our democracy anyway.

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Episode Notes
Today, Congress will meet in a joint session to confirm Joe Biden’s election as the 46th president of the United States. Even though the process is ceremonial, some Republicans are using it as a last-ditch effort to vindicate President Donald Trump and burnish their own Trumpist bona fides.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics reporter.
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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, and Elena Schwartz, with help from Frannie Kelly.