This week, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team talks about the big post-election forum hosted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics, which brought the top brass from the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigns together, along with the media (including Nate and Harry), for a debriefing. (It’s clear that emotions are still raw and that there are lots of competing theories about what led to Trump’s win.) You can watch an excerpt of that discussion in the video below:
Plus, FiveThirtyEight economics editor Ben Casselman joins the podcast to discuss Trump’s Cabinet appointments, his deal with Carrier and what those tell us about Trump’s potential economic policies. Finally, the group debates whether they agree with colleague David Wasserman’s description of the role that third parties played in 2016:
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