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ElectionLine’s View From Abroad: Emily Maitlis & Jon Sopel On Why The Big Question Facing America Is What Happens If Trump Loses: “You Cannot Unknow What He Was Prepared To Do Last Time”
'The News Agents - USA' hosts Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel look ahead to the U.S. election and reflect on encounters with Donald Trump.
Sopel sees this as the antithesis of the U.S. network news he was surrounded by during his seven years stationed in Washington D.C. “The problem with some American television, at the anti-Trump end of the scale, is the [temptation to say], ‘You’ll never guess what he’s done now.’ That sense of outrage the whole time is rather wearying for an audience. Sopel says he’s glad to be free of “clever sods in London, sitting around the table and thinking that they know the story better than you do.” Maitlis argues that Global understands the value of deploying her on shoe leather reporting trips, such as her tour of southern swing states late last year. Britain’s fascination with what Sopel describes as its “big, handsome, smarter older brother” shows no sign of slowing — and Maitlis is optimistic that the media is doing a better job of covering America’s “irrational or unexpected” political tumult.
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