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Spoiler alert: This podcast contains spoilers for the second season of The Diplomat, which launched on Netflix on October 31.
In less than a week, America and the world will know whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.
Maybe.
As you can see in the latest edition of the Deadline CovenantLine podcast, it’s showtime in the U.S. Our guests are NewsNation political editor Chris Stirewalt and the creator of the Netflix political drama The DiplomatDeborah Kahn presents some hard truths, both factual and fictional.
Chris Stirewalt, who is also a broadcaster Sunday Hill on NewsNation, gives a snapshot of election night, including the counties he’ll be watching as potential leaders as results come in.
The election portrayed as an inflection point in American history has come down to pockets of undecided voters, often hard-to-reach citizens who don’t pay close attention to politics. Stirewalt says that unlike other cycles he’s covered, where the signs are starting to come out clearly about who will win, that’s not the case in this one.
Chris Stirewalt testified before the Jan. 6 committee in June
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Stirewalt also talks about trust in the media. As he wrote in his 2022 book. Broken News: Why the media outrage machine is dividing America and how to fight backNews consumers have become insulated from choosing which news voices they want to hear, even when it comes to basic information and facts. As he witnessed when he was at Fox News in 2020, the network’s election night predictions are now controversial and backlash-prone moments, as if the media itself has some control over the vote count.
While this election could lead to what happened in 2000, with lengthy recounts and legal challenges, Stirewalt says the difference between now and a generation ago is the potential for political violence.
Deborah Kahn and Keri Russell attend the Netflix movie premiere in New York The Diplomat Season 2
He was talking about the second season of The Diplomatand how it inadvertently took a direction that mirrored the real-life shift on the Democratic ticket this summer. In fact, she was a bit worried that the show would be seen as sending a message about Joe Biden, when in fact he actually finished the episodes months before he dropped out of the race.
Spoiler alert: There will be a special post-election podcast on Election Line on Nov. 7. Stay tuned
Also, with a lot of Allison Janney (like that’s never a good thing), and some Scottish independence in the mix, Kahn offers a little sneak peek at what might be coming in the third season of The Diplomat. for Real Madrid
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