Trump lost! What now?

Episodes

1. 36

   36. Trump's big speech, Dolly sings to anti-vaxxers plus Harry and Meghan

   “Who knows? I may even decide to beat them for a third time.” Fresh from flying down to Florida, US Correspondent Emma Murphy reflects from LA with Robert Moore in Washington and host Daniel Hewitt in London on the key extracts from Donald Trump's big speech in Orlando. Robert explains why the...

   Mar 4, 2021

   32m
2. 35

   35. Ivanka or Don Jr: who's best placed to replace Trump?

   “Could she run in 2024? Could they go for that absolute catnip … one of them back in the White House and the first woman to boot.” Emma Murphy lays out a compelling case for Ivanka Trump winning the family battle to follow in her father’s footsteps are run for the presidency - but is one of her...

   Feb 18, 2021

   35m
3. 34

   34. Will Trump win in 2024 after his second Senate acquittal?

   “Donald Trump now is a contender.” Robert Moore says the former president is a challenger for power once more as Daniel Hewitt dials America to get the expert reaction to the historic second Senate acquittal. Emma Murphy runs the team through the standout final trial moments worthy of a TV...

   Feb 14, 2021

   27m
4. 33

   33. Fresh shocks at the Senate trial but what's sparked Trump's private anger?

   "Most lawyers have deserted him and I think that explains the desperately poor calibre of his current legal team." With Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial well underway, Robert Moore gives insight from Florida on why the former president will have been so enraged while watching on TV....

   Feb 12, 2021

   37m
5. 32

   32. How will Trump's new clumsy-spelling lawyers defend him in the Senate trial?

   "Nobody could quite understand how he had this lavish lifestyle, two lavish wives, was throwing these big parties... it was high rolling in a high society world." US Correspondent Emma Murphy explains to Daniel Hewitt why a disgraced playboy politician from more than a century ago may prove...

   Feb 4, 2021

   36m
6. 31

   31. Will impeachment delay play into Trump’s hands?

   “We suddenly found the city surrounded by 25,000 National Guardsmen, razor wire, military checkpoints everyone barking orders at us. And I texted Emma to say: welcome to Washington, you must have arrived!” There’s a new president in the White House and a new member of our podcast team as the...

   Jan 27, 2021

   35m
7. 30

   30. The Inauguration Special - did Biden unite a deeply divided America?

   "Some of the rioters I watched two weeks ago were using the scaffolding on which he was standing to get over the top of the police and storm the Capitol...." After witnessing a calmer yet still historic day in Washington, Robert Moore analyses whether Joe Biden struck the right tone to unite the...

   Jan 21, 2021

   54m
8. 29

   29. Biden's inauguration: what makes a memorable speech? (with Tom Bradby)

   "This city is like the Green Zone in Baghdad. It's ominous here, it's eerie, it's disturbing, unsettling... It feels different from any other Inauguration." Robert Moore previews the challenge facing Joe Biden as the president-elect prepares to be sworn into office in a heavily-guarded…

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   Jan 17, 2021

   40m
9. 28

   28. What now after Donald Trump's repeat impeachment?

   "I thought it was a hostage video. I mean the guy was sitting there reading word for word what was on the teleprompter..." Having guided Bill Clinton through an impeachment, Laura Schwartz offers an expert voice on why Donald Trump struck a different tone in a televised statement a week on from…

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   Jan 15, 2021

   46m
10. 27

    27. Inside the Washington siege - Robert Moore on his report that shocked the world

    "They are not anarchists. They're not - in their view - trying to tear down the Republic. They're trying to save it... It was the logical conclusion of where the Trump movement has been going for several years." Having been the only reporter on the frontline of the most shocking political unrest…

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    Jan 7, 2021

    39m
11. 26

    26. XMAS BONUS! Festive reflections from Daniel, Robert, Laura and Fred

    "If you think back just a few months ago... we wondered if his presidency would end in a presidential death." In this special festive bonus edition, Robert Moore, Laura Schwartz and Fred Dimbleby share their reflections on a US election year like no other with host Daniel Hewitt. The Trump Lost!...

    Dec 24, 2020

    23m
12. 25

    25. Trump's key ally ditches him and could Twitter be next?

    “The Republican Party in other words - however reluctantly - has just now emerged into the daylight.” Robert Moore reacts to a decisive moment in the 2020 US election as one of Donald Trump's key allies wrecks his hopes of overturning the result - within 24 hours of electors officially upholding...

    Dec 15, 2020

    37m
13. 24

    24. Trump’s late legal push and the day Biden almost died

    "He found himself lying on the floor of a hotel room unable to move his legs and he had no idea how he got there." Joe Biden biographer Evan Osnos of The New Yorker shares his subject's remarkable near-death experience as he gives Daniel Hewitt his expert analysis on the next president of the...

    Dec 9, 2020

    46m
14. 23

    23. Could Trump's latest election denial cost American lives?

    "Where do you start to analyse a statement like that?" Robert Moore reacts to an extraordinary statement from the White House as Donald Trump doubles down on his discredited claims of election fraud - hours after being warned he'll have blood on his hands if his supporters' death threats to...

    Dec 2, 2020

    42m
15. 22

    22. What triggered Trump's transition U-turn?

    "I don't think we need to give the guy a trophy for doing his job." After a defining couple of tweets, Laura Schwartz and Robert Moore analyse what finally convinced Donald Trump to give the green light for a White House transition of power to Joe Biden to begin three weeks after the election....

    Nov 25, 2020

    35m
16. 21

    21. How disruptive can paranoid but defiant Trump get?

    "If Donald Trump isn't relevant, Donald Trump believes he has no purpose." Laura Schwartz explains why the paranoid president reminds her of a classic Humphrey Bogart character as she and Robert Moore analyse how far down the rabbit hole the defeated but still defiant US commander in chief has...

    Nov 19, 2020

    45m
17. 20

    20. How long can Trump challenge the result and will Biden work with Boris?

    “Even though we’re kind of ridiculing these legal challenges, we shouldn’t rule out the possibility - certainly Democrats aren't - that Donald Trump is yet to play his final card.” Robert Moore tells Daniel Hewitt why Team Trump's legal challenge is all politics as the outgoing president…

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    Nov 12, 2020

    43m
18. 19

    19. Trump lost! So what will he do now?

    "The train has left the station." Donald Trump may be desperate to deny it, but the world has accepted Joe Biden as the winner in the US presidential election. So what now? That's the key question that Daniel Hewitt puts to Robert Moore and Laura Schwartz as we turn focus to the last days of the...

    Nov 8, 2020

    46m
19. 18

    18. Will Trump concede? And what happens if he doesn't?

    "It did cross a red line that has taken American politics into a new space." Robert Moore and Laura Schwartz react to Donald Trump's remarkable public statements as Daniel Hewitt chairs a Friday night summary of a crazy few days in an America still waiting on an election result. With Joe Biden...

    Nov 6, 2020

    40m
20. 17

    17. Trump's won! Or so he claims... so what now?

    "This is a fraud on the American public ... frankly, we did win this election." After an election night of relatively low drama, Donald Trump lit off a firework at the heart of the political establishment, declaring victory and claiming only fraud has denied him so far. In this election night...

    Nov 4, 2020

    26m
21. 16

    16. Will Trump shock America on election night? (with Tom Bradby)

    So, will Trump win? After months of exploring every avenue prompted by the question of the series, Daniel Hewitt, Robert Moore and Laura Schwartz debate one final time whether Donald Trump can pull off the second greatest shock in US politics, four years after the first one. In this bumper…

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    Oct 31, 2020

    49m
22. 15

    15. Can the audacity of Trump save his presidency? (with Paul Begala and Olivia Troye)

    “It is potentially the greatest marketing trick in the history of politics.” Robert Moore is left marvelling at Donald Trump's "breath-taking audacity" in the final week of campaigning as the president continues an exhausting schedule to save his presidency. He and Laura Schwartz join Daniel…

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    Oct 28, 2020

    51m
23. 14

    14. Has Trump gained momentum after final TV debate?

    Daniel Hewitt is joined stateside by Robert Moore - giving instant reaction from the debate’s host city of Nashville - and former White House insider Laura Schwartz from Chicago to review the final presidential televised clash of the 2020 race. And what a difference a debate makes. While the…

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    Oct 23, 2020

    38m
24. 13

    13. How will Trump handle being muted on TV? (with debate moderating supremo Julie Etchingham)

    "It's going to be a metaphor for Trump's America ... the rest of the world is going to be asking: can you mute America?" Robert Moore and Laura Schwartz join Daniel Hewitt in Episode 13 in looking ahead ahead to the second but also last presidential TV showdown of this race, which has been…

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    Oct 20, 2020

    43m
25. 12

    12: Can Trump's powerhouse rallies save his presidency? (with Mississippi traveller John Irvine)

    "Extravagant, outrageous, ebullient... this was the president as we've always known him." Robert Moore reflects on the power of Donald Trump's public appearances after witnessing the president's bombastic return to his rally base in Florida and questions whether Joe Biden could ever command the...

    Oct 15, 2020

    52m
26. 11

    11: Is Trump doomed to defeat after fly-by VP debate?

    "I just don't know if to laugh or to cry to be honest with you. Sure it's funny, but hang on a second..." Robert Moore is left exasperated as the arrival of an insect overshadows the key exchanges in a debate between two co-leaders within a heartbeat of the presidency. Digital detective Fred...

    Oct 8, 2020

    32m
27. 10

    10: Trump’s big mistake and lessons from Monica Lewinsky (with MAGA rally reporter Carl Hoffman)

    "I'm a journalist, but if I ever was a campaign strategist I like to think I could actually win the president this election..." Robert Moore explains to Daniel Hewitt the key advice he would give Donald Trump to turn the race around, less than four weeks before election day, after seeing him miss...

    Oct 7, 2020

    43m
28. 12

    Emergency episode: What now after Trump's Covid bombshell?

    Regular Will Trump Win? listeners will have been bracing for an October surprise, but this campaign twist on the first day of the month still stunned the world. The US President and First Lady's positive Coronavirus tests have rocked the race to the White House and placed the power couple in...

    Oct 2, 2020

    31m
29. 9

    9: Will 'disgraceful' first Trump v Biden debate be the last?

    Will the first debate also be the last? A bleary eyed Daniel Hewitt gets instant analysis from Robert Moore in Cleveland, Ohio and former White House director of television Laura Schwartz in Chicago to a feisty and ill-tempered first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The pair pick out…

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    Sep 30, 2020

    33m
30. 8

    8: How do you debate Donald Trump? (with Boris Johnson and George W Bush’s coach Brett O’Donnell)

    “The question mark really is how do you handle Donald Trump? I’m not sure that I even have the perfect answer.” If Brett O’Donnell is struggling for debate strategy, then you really have to feel for Team Biden as they prepare their man to take on the president on live TV. One of the world’s…

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    Sep 24, 2020

    43m
31. 7

    7: Wildfires, fake news and watermelon GIFs (with Trump adviser Mica Mosbacher and Jevin West)

    "It's not just Facebook any more. It comes now in your text messages, it comes in old fashioned email..." Tracking fake news across this election is a daily endeavour for Jevin West, co-author of Calling Bullsh*t, who is waging a war on misinformation online. He outlines to Daniel Hewitt the new...

    Sep 16, 2020

    37m
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    6: Will we regret not trusting the polls? (with Harvard's Michael Sandel)

    "Speak to them directly, pay less attention to the looming man for all his bluster, standing across the stage." Harvard professor Michael Sandel's TED Talk "the lost art of democratic debate" has been watched by many millions, so who better to offer his advice to Joe Biden as his three-pronged...

    Sep 10, 2020

    37m
33. 7

    Special episode: So Sir Kim Darroch, will Trump win?

    For this special bonus edition of Will Trump Win? Robert and Daniel are joined by one of Robert's former tennis opponents in Washington, Sir Kim Darroch. Sir Kim was of course a bigger hitter in the world of diplomacy as the UK ambassador to the United States and saw his glittering career ended…

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    Sep 9, 2020

    35m
34. 5

    5: Does racial turmoil play into the Trump playbook? (with election whisperer Rachel Bitecofer)

    "Here there is a gun shop in this town without any guns. Why? Because everything has sold out." From a boarded-up hotel, Robert Moore reports from the epicentre of the US racial unrest, Kenosha, and explains in episode five why the perception of wider violence plays into the Donald Trump…

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    Sep 3, 2020

    36m
35. 4

    4: Could coronavirus make rather than break Trump? (with pollster Jon McHenry and disaster expert Max Brooks)

    “At one point I had to get up and look out my front window and check that homes next door to me weren’t being torched.” Washington Correspondent Robert Moore and returning friend of the show Laura Schwartz react to a Republican National Convention like no other in episode four of Will Trump Win?...

    Aug 26, 2020

    31m
36. 3

    3: Why can't Biden persuade Trump voters? (with ex-Trump adviser Barry Bennett)

    Episode three of Will Trump Win? examines the evidence of continuing grassroots support for Donald Trump despite him still trailing heavily in national polls. Barry Bennett, a senior advisor to Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign, tells Daniel and Robert why he believes Joe Biden's...

    Aug 19, 2020

    33m
37. 2

    2: Are 'secret' Trump voters on the rise? (with Biden's right hand man Moe Vela)

    The second episode in the Will Trump Win? series timed rather perfectly, recorded barely hours after Joe Biden confirmed Kamala Harris as his running mate against Trump-Pence. So who better than former Clinton director of events Laura Schwartz to join presenter Daniel Hewitt and Washington...

    Aug 13, 2020

    32m
38. 1

    1: Is it wrong to write Trump off? (with Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum)

    It's one of the questions of 2020 and now the name of our brand new ITV News podcast. Daniel Hewitt is your host alongside Washington Correspondent Robert Moore for the rollercoaster next three months as we look to cover every angle to answer the question: Will Trump Win? In this first episode,...

    Aug 6, 2020

    36m
39. 1

    The promo! Join us as we look to find out Will Trump Win? in 2020

    With election day three months away, ITV News Correspondents Daniel Hewitt and Robert Moore will bring you a new weekly podcast on the race for the White House, with on-the-ground reporting from the Trump and Biden campaigns, plus experts and guests. Here's a taste of what you can expect from the...

    Jul 31, 2020

    2m