306: Freddy Gray: It’s Donald Trump’s world

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Freddy Gray – deputy editor of the Spectator and host of the Americano podcast – returns to the The Brendan O’Neill Show to dissect the US election. Freddy and Brendan discuss the political comeback of the century, why the Harris-Walz campaign crashed and burned, and the popular revolt against the elites.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest this week, Freddie Gray.
0:05.8	Freddie, welcome to the show.
0:07.1	Lovely to be with you again, Brendan.
0:08.4	It's great to have you on, The Spectators, Mr. America.
0:11.4	This is the person we want to speak to following the historic events of the past couple of days.
0:17.9	And so the whole world now knows what's happened, which is that Donald Trump
0:21.8	has staged the most remarkable comeback in American political history. Camilla Harris has fallen
0:28.4	flat on her face. As the Babylon B put it, America has unburdened itself of what has been
0:34.5	next to a picture of Camilla looking really depressed.
0:42.3	I just want to get your initial response when all this happened.
0:46.7	When it became clear in the middle of the morning sometime that Trump was actually going to do it, were you shocked? Were you surprised? Did you see this coming? What was your
0:51.1	feeling? Well, I was in the, I didn't make it into the inner sanctum
0:56.1	of Mara Lago, but I was in the election watch party at the sort of near the Hilton Hotel,
1:03.3	at a convention centre, quite near Mara Lago. And there was a sort of crowd of, you know,
1:10.1	the keenest Trump supporters.
1:13.5	It was absolutely, it was an absolutely extraordinary evening.
1:17.9	It was like being a kind of, when Pennsylvania came in around midnight, I think it was,
1:24.2	it came up on the screen and the crowd just went berserk.
1:29.4	It was absolutely extraordinary.
1:31.7	And it was a really quite moving moment of just an eruption of joy.
1:38.9	And I was next to this very nice woman from Oklahoma.
1:42.4	I love Trump fans.
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