The day Trump won...again

Code Switch

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Code Switch team spent Election Day talking to folks about how the outcome might impact them. From green card holding Trump supporters in Queens, to first-time voters at Harris' watch party in DC, we bring you this time capsule of the day before we knew.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Aisha Harris from Pop Culture Happy Hour.
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0:21.8	Just the heads-up, y'all. This episode contains some salty language, which means it's going to be some cussing.
0:28.4	Hey, everyone. You're listening to Code Switch, the show about race and identity from NPR and B.A. Parker.
0:34.3	And I'm Gene Demby.
0:37.3	So, Gene, I want to take you back to November 5th, 2024.
0:43.2	Do we have to go back?
0:44.1	A.k.a. one week ago.
0:45.9	Oh, boy.
0:47.2	AKA Election Day. I remember.
0:49.5	I had already mailed in my absentee ballot to Maryland, so I decided to spend my morning with
0:55.8	a bunch of teachers at a professional development day. Oh, that sounds so fun. Yeah.
1:01.9	No, no, no, no. Hear me out. Hear me out. It was great. It was a room full of teachers
1:06.1	learning how to teach about government through the life of Shirley Chisholm. Now, for context,
1:12.1	Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress and the first black woman
1:17.4	to run for president on a major party ticket. Right. Her campaign slogan was famously that she
1:22.2	was unbought and unbossed. My significance is not that I am the first black woman elected to the United States Congress,
1:29.7	but that I won public office without selling out to anyone.
1:33.3	Obviously, Shirley Chisholm did not become president.
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