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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, along

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. We are still counting ballots

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Speaker 1: in a handful of key states. The question after that

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Speaker 1: becomes what legal challenges could and maybe raised, if any.

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Speaker 1: To get some color to there, we welcome Justin Levitt.

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Speaker 1: He is professor of constitutional law at Loyal Law School

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Speaker 1: based in Los Angeles. Justin, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us here. Let's assume we get through the next couple

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Speaker 1: of days and this is really a close one, But

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Speaker 1: what are some of the legal challenges if former Vice

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Speaker 1: President Biden were to win that a President Trump could raise.

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Speaker 1: I don't really think there are any, at least none

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Speaker 1: that we've seen so far. In order to braise illegal challenge,

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Speaker 1: in order to go to the courts, you need to

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Speaker 1: have some plausible fact scenario that shows a violation of

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Speaker 1: the statutes or violation of the Constitution, and the good

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Speaker 1: news in a couple of ways. Is it. We got

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Speaker 1: done fighting about most of these things months ago. There

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Speaker 1: were a record number of lawsuits this summer and fall

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Speaker 1: that helped resolve a lot of the issues that would

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Speaker 1: otherwise be contested. And beyond that, yesterday, the election day

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Speaker 1: voting was pretty smooth in most of the country. So

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Speaker 1: there really isn't anything we know of now that any

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Speaker 1: sort of legal grounds two protest or contest whatever the

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Speaker 1: We've got to be patient. Um, But a couple of

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Speaker 1: days from now, as you suggested, we'll know what that

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Speaker 1: final count is, and it doesn't look like there are

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Speaker 1: any legal grounds to challenge it at this point. But

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Speaker 1: that's pretty phenomenal. If you're working for the tomp campaign,

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Speaker 1: would you say the same thing, though, So I was

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Speaker 1: working for the Trump campaign, I would do what they've

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Speaker 1: been doing for really five years before the president went

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Speaker 1: action the courts to destabilize and de legitimize the election results.

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Speaker 1: That's in fact what we found from the president last night,

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Speaker 1: declaring victory completely false. Um. Not something he gets to do.

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Speaker 1: And uh so I might well bluster, I might well

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Speaker 1: file lots of things. Um, I might well make a

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Speaker 1: But I don't know that I would actually see any

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Speaker 1: to take us back to two thousand, Bush Gore Florida,

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Speaker 1: could we have something like that? What was the basis there?

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Speaker 1: Just refresh our memory, and could we have something along

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Speaker 1: the counting is done. If the counting is five thirty

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Speaker 1: seven votes apartists, if Trump and Biden are separated by

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Speaker 1: five seven votes, as Bush and Gore were in Florida

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Speaker 1: in two thousands, then yes, you could well see litigation.

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Speaker 1: And the question is and over what's it's really about? Everything?

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Speaker 1: So in Florida, there were, as we all remember, problems

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Speaker 1: But there were also other problems with ballot design. There

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Speaker 1: their problems with registration, their problems with purges, their problems

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Speaker 1: the election of Florida was a mess, and the margin

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Speaker 1: which is to say, seven votes close everything matters. It's

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Speaker 1: unlikely that any of the states at this time around

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Speaker 1: not likely. Law isn't magic. It's a dispute resolution mechanism.

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Speaker 1: all ballots in those states essentially have to be cast

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Speaker 1: a ballot. Now, Um, there's a small window of potential

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Speaker 1: the difference. So, Professor, we we know Donald Trump's history

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Speaker 1: decades long. That's not just as a political figure, but

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Speaker 1: it's certainly continued since he's been President. UM, a lawsuit

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Speaker 1: be very hard to change the composition of anything. UM. Courts,

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Speaker 1: on the particular issue. It's say, Professor, what would your

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Speaker 1: to if we really did have a you know, a

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Speaker 1: So you're going to hear the volume turned up even

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Speaker 1: measures that can be taken along with the December the

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Speaker 1: eleventh Continuing Resolution that the government has to vote on

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Speaker 1: excuse me to keep the government open. So it would

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Speaker 1: and uh same could be said for rental eviction moratorians. Again.

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Speaker 1: You add those two up and it's it's a rounding

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Speaker 1: But you're preventing a massive fiscal cliff on December thirty one,

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Speaker 1: when the pandemic unemployment assistance, all of the different names

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Speaker 1: a memoranda to to extend via CDC funding. So those

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Speaker 1: are easy things. I think that that the Congress can do,

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Speaker 1: do want a larger stimulus package in order to carry

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Speaker 1: it's it's it really is going to come down to

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Speaker 1: to come down to some interesting comments that Bloomberg reported

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Speaker 1: don't tell that he's going to be centrist, that he's

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Speaker 1: going to unify the country instead of unifying the Party

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Speaker 1: led Senate daniel D. Martino both, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. We appreciate that Danielle's the CEO and

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Speaker 1: director of intelligence at Quill Intelligence. She was a former

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Opinion commist. We always appreciate her thoughts and Vannie

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Speaker 1: getting some headlines coming across the Bloomber terminal. Georgia expects

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Speaker 1: all votes to be counted today and the state of

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Speaker 1: Georgia has two thousand ballots left to be counted. That's

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Speaker 1: according to a state official. So making some headway in

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Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see what President Trump will

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Speaker 1: carry out his threat, you know, to have election counting

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Speaker 1: or ballot counting stopped beyond a certain point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: nobody seems to think that that's a politicibility, including the

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Speaker 1: I think I guess the common theme we're hearing from

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Speaker 1: vote will be counted. You can have confidence in that. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously so over the next several days we

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Speaker 1: should know something more clearly. Thanks for listening to Bloomberg

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