Who will win? How is it likely to happen? What matters in the last two weeks? What would a contested election and a transition look like? And how would that affect the management of the pandemic? Andy calls the one political expert who can help answer these questions: Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago and President Obama's first chief of staff. Hear the inside baseball and see who needs a hug after this. 

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• Read Rahm’s opinion piece about the election in The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-change-beats-trumps-disruption-11602521888
• Watch the clip of Joe Biden interacting with protesters in Duluth, Minnesota that Rahm mentions in today’s episode: https://twitter.com/OliviaRaisner/status/1307076721389326336 
• Check out Rahm’s article on “Biden Republicans” from back in August: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-republicans-dont-turn-back-11597507246 
• Learn more about key 2020 battleground states in this article from Politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/14/swing-states-2020-presidential-election-429160 
• Are you hoping to vote in the 2020 election? Are you confused about how to request an absentee ballot in your state? This website can help you with that: https://www.betterknowaballot.com/  
• Pre-order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 

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