Exit Poll: New York; A Year Since the Election of Donald Trump; Exit Poll: New Jersey; The Ongoing American Revolution

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 7, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Brigid Bergin, City Hall and politics reporter at WNYC, offers Election Day analysis of people and issues on the ballot in New York, then voters call in to share their choices.
  • Van Jones, CNN political commentator, former ‘green jobs’ advisor to President Barack Obama and the author of Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together (Ballantine Books, 2017), talks about his search for a way to bridge the partisan divide.
  • Nancy Solomon, managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, offers Election Day analysis of the New Jersey races, then voters call in to share their choice for New Jersey governor.
  • On Election Day, Russell Shorto, historian, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017) looks at the U.S. founding through the lives of six Americans and finds the same quest for individual freedoms that we struggle to achieve today.
  • Special Election Day podcast special: Interview with Brigid Bergin as she talks about her series on the Queens political machine. 

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