You're listening to a special U.S.
election edition of the Briefing, first broadcast on the 29th of October, 2024 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to a special U.S.
election edition of the Briefing, broadcasting from 815 Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C.
i'm Chris Chermack.
Coming up on today's program, make the.
Margin of victory so big that you.
Know what can happen.
One week from Election Day, we look at the efforts to sow distrust in the electoral process and ask how American democracy is holding up.
We'll also get a review of the week in Washington with the reporter Simon Marks.
We'll check in on ballot boxes being set on fire in Portland, Oregon.
And we'll talk about the view of American democracy from around the world.
They saw in the US A flawed model, but one that was still to be emulated, respected, looked up to.
Now there's much more uncertainty about the durability of the US Model, the strength of the US Model, all that right.
Here on the Briefing with me, Chris Tchermak.
This is the Briefing, and it is one week until an election that has been years in the making.
And for a final week in Washington Review, I am joined right here in the US Capitol by the reporter Simon Marks.
We are speaking at your studios offices a few blocks from the White House.
This is where we are going to be also Monocle Radio broadcasting live next week.
Can we believe it's this close?