You can't outrun voters' feelings about the economy

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November 07, 2024

We just spent so many months listening to pundit after pundit speculating about which way this was going to go. We watched the candidates make their pitches in Wisconsin and Arizona and Pennsylvania and North Carolina, fighting for those last few swing voters.

So what happens now? There is so much to unpack. And that’s what we’re going to be doing over the coming weeks and months – looking at how the results of this election are going to affect the lives of people all over the country, and really all over the world.

So stay tuned to the show. We’ll be interviewing experts. Asking some hard questions. And traveling around the country trying to identify the people and places that will be most affected by the policies of this new – but in some ways, not-so-new – administration.

But as we take in the news of another Donald Trump administration, we thought who better to turn the mic over to than the hosts of NPR’s Politics Podcast.

Deirdre Walsh is a congressional correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk.

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