UCL Uncovering Politics

Trump's Legacy and the Biden Presidency

Episode Summary

Joe Biden is President, Kamala Harris is Vice-President, and Donald Trump is out of office, but what are the repercussions of the weeks prior to this dramatic power shift?

Episode Notes

Joe Biden is President, Kamala Harris is Vice-President, and Donald Trump is out of office. The Senate and the House are both controlled by Democrats. A dramatic power shift is (more or less) complete. But the process of getting there has been fraught, and potentially damaging for American democracy for years to come.

So what are the repercussions of the last few weeks – and indeed the last four years – likely to be? And what will the presidency of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris bring?

We explored such questions in November when the votes were still being counted. But so much has happened since then that we thought, in this inauguration week, we should reconvene our US politics expert panel and scan the horizon once again.

Host: Professor Jennifer Hudson

Dr Colin Provost

Dr Julie Norman

Dr Thomas Gift