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riverside edit episode 30 kevin's studio: August twenty first, two thousand eight. A dentist office, where Jill Biden is having a root canal and her husband is waiting for her. Joe Biden is sixty five and has been a senator from Delaware for thirty five years. In June, he went on NBC's Meet the Press and said he wasn't interested in the vice presidency. Barack Obama is forty seven, and the Democratic convention that will nominate him for president opens in Denver in four days. His campaign has promised To announce the running mate by text message. He spent two months on the search, and today he makes the call. For most of that time, the list included the woman he beat in the primaries, Hillary Clinton. On the day he clinched the nomination, she told New York's members of Congress on a conference call that she was open to the job. His campaign manager, David Plough, wants her off the list. His chief strategist, David Axelrod, agrees with him. But Obama keeps bringing her up. She has a lot of what he's looking for, he says. smarts, discipline, and steadfastness. The complication is her husband, Bill, the most recent Democratic president. If I picked her, he tells them, there would be more than two of us in the relationship. He calls Biden, who says yes. At three in the morning that Saturday, the campaign sends out its text message. That afternoon, Obama and Biden stand together on the steps of the old state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. In November, They win the election with 365 electoral votes, and a month later, Obama nominates Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. But what if the Thursday call goes to Hillary Clinton? What if Obama offers her the ticket and sends his text message out with her name in it? Let's hit Control-Z. Welcome to Control Z Rewritten, the podcast where I take the biggest decisions in history, real 50-50 calls, and ask what happens if they go the other way. One decision, we try it the other way, and we see what changes. On the night of Thursday, June 5th, 2008, Diane Feinstein, the senior senator from California, has two guests at her home in northwest Washington, D.C. Hillary Clinton called her that afternoon to ask for use of the House, and at 9 o'clock, she and Barack Obama arrive separately. Feinstein puts them in two comfortable chairs in the living room and leaves them alone for about an hour. One aide from each campaign waits in her study. The reporters covering Clinton are camped about a mile away, right outside the house she lives in. When the meeting ends, Feinstein says the two of them are laughing. Clinton ends her campaign two days later at the National Building Museum in Washington. She tells her supporters that they weren't able to shatter the highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, but thanks to them, it has about 18 million cracks in it. On June 16th, Obama's campaign hires a chief of staff for a running mate it hasn't picked yet. The job goes to Patty Solis Doyle, the campaign manager Clinton fired in February. Clinton's supporters read that hire as a sign that she's not going to be asked, because the two women haven't spoken since. Plough writes in his memoir the next year that Clinton makes the cut when Obama narrows the list to six names. If the test is who would make the best vice president, Obama tells his advisors, she has to be on it. She's competent, he says. And she can help with Congress. By early August, the list is down to three names. Biden is on it with the senator from Indiana, Evan Bai, and the governor of Virginia, Tim Kane. Before he leaves for a vacation in Hawaii, Obama sends Pluff and Axelrod out of Chicago at 5 30 one morning to interview the finalists. Biden opens his interview with a monologue of nearly 20 minutes, and part of it explains why the vice presidency is the last job he should ever take. After the two advisors report back, Obama tells Pluff it's a coin toss between Bay and Biden. In his twenty twenty memoir, A Promised Land, Obama writes that he was much closer to Kane at the time. But he and his advisors wonder whether voters will take a ticket of two relatively young, inexperienced, and liberal civil rights attorneys. Biden is 18 years older, and the age difference Obama decides will reassure voters who think the nominee is too young to be president. On August 17th, He tells Axelrod that he's decided on Biden. The call to the dentist's office comes four days later. On Tuesday, August 26th, Clinton walks onto the stage of the Pepsi Center Arena in Denver in an orange panth suit. She thanks her sisterhood of the traveling panth suits and tells the convention that Barack Obama is her candidate. The next afternoon, the convention calls the role of the states to nominate a president. When the count reaches New York, Clinton makes a motion from the floor to suspend the rules. And nominate Obama by acclamation, a voice vote of the entire hall. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is presiding, and she declares the motion passed without a pause. That night, Biden accepts the nomination for vice president. On November 13th, nine days after the election, Clinton meets Obama in his transition office in downtown Chicago to talk about the State Department. Before Obama names her, Bill Clinton agrees to nine conditions on his foundation. He will publish the names of more than two hundred thousand donors. The Foundation's annual conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, will become a separate corporation and stop taking new money from foreign governments. Obama announces her nomination on December 1st. He's standing beside the defense secretary he's keeping on from the Bush administration, Robert Gates. On December 12th, Obama transition co-chair Valerie Jarrett and the Foundation's chief executive, Bruce Lindsay, sign the agreement. Her confirmation hearing in the Senate is on January 13, 2009. And the internet domain Clintonemail.com is registered that same day. On January 21st, the Senate votes 94 to 2 to
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confirm her. She uses an account on that domain for all of her email as Secretary of State. The State Department is a federal agency, and under the Freedom of Information Act, anyone can ask to see its records. On the night of September 11, 2012, an attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya kills four Americans. In May of 2014, the House creates a special committee to investigate the attack, and a Republican congressman from South Carolina named Trey Gowdy chairs it. That summer, the committee finds eight emails from Clinton's private address buried in a pile of State Department documents. Gowdy asks the department for her official emails about Benghazi, and in February of 2015, he learns that she used the private address for all four years. The New York Times breaks the story on Monday, March 2nd, 2015. On March 4th, the Associated Press traces the account to a server in her house in Chappaqua, New York, and Gowdy subpoenas her email. The internal investigators at state and the intelligence agencies ask the Justice Department to look at how she handled classified information. And based on this, the FBI opens a case. On May 30th, 2015, brain cancer kills Biden's forty six year old son Bo. Former Attorney General of Delaware. Obama gives the eulogy at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Delaware, with Bill and Hillary Clinton among the mourners. Over a few weeks that year, Obama presses Biden gently to stay out of the 2016 race because he thinks Clinton has the better chance. On October 21st, standing in the Rose Garden with Obama and Jill beside him, Biden says he believes he's out of time to mount a winning campaign. The director of the FBI, James Comey, sends a letter to Congress on Friday, October 28, 2016. The Bureau has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation, he writes. At 1201 that morning, 11 days before the election, the forecasting site 538 has her winning the popular vote by 5.9 points. Within a few days, the lead shrinks by half, and on the Sunday before the election, Comey tells Congress that the review hasn't turned up anything new. Her campaign picks the Javits Center in Manhattan for its election night party because the convention hall has a glass ceiling. Clinton watches the returns from a hotel suite in the city. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, tells the crowd under the glass that the race is too close to call and that they'll have no more to say that night. Clinton calls the Republican nominee Donald Trump to concede early Wednesday, and she speaks to her supporters that morning at the New Yorker Hotel. She loses Michigan by ten thousand votes, Wisconsin by twenty two thousand, and Pennsylvania by forty four thousand, less than a point in each state. Across the country, she gets almost two point nine million more votes than Trump, but he wins the Electoral College. The editor in chief of five thirty eight, Nate Silver, writes the following May that the Comey letter was probably enough to change the result. In February of twenty twenty, Biden needs a win in South Carolina. The House Majority Whip, Jim Clyburn, endorses him in North Charleston on February 26th and tells the audience, Joe knows us. Biden takes South Carolina by a landslide on February 29th, and on Super Tuesday, three days later, he wins most of the states that vote. In November, he beats Trump with 81 million votes, more than any presidential candidate before him. On January 20th, 2021, at 78 years of age, Biden takes the oath as President of the United States. In July of 2024, at 81, he ends his campaign for a second term, and that November, Trump wins the White House back. And here is where we press Control Z. It's Thursday afternoon, August 21st, 2008, and Obama's first call goes to the Clinton's house in Chappaqua, New York. He offers Hillary Clinton the vice presidency, on one condition. Her husband's foundation has to agree in writing to new rules on its money before the text message goes out on Saturday. She asks for the evening to talk it over with Bill. The lawyer running Obama's vetting, Jim Hamilton, and the foundation's chief executive, Bruce Lindsay, write the terms that night. The foundation will publish the names of more than two hundred thousand donors by the end of the year. Its annual conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, will split off as a separate corporation and stop taking new money from foreign governments. Bill Clinton agrees to all of it, and Lindsay signs the agreement on Friday morning. Obama's second call that afternoon reaches Biden at the dentist's office. Biden tells Obama what he told Fox News during his own campaign for the nomination. that he'd rather stay chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee than be vice president. Then he offers to campaign for the ticket in Ohio and in Pennsylvania, where he was born. At three in the morning on Saturday, the text message goes out, and it says Barack has chosen Senator Hillary Clinton to be our VP nominee. That afternoon, Obama and Clinton stand together on the steps of the old state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Bill Clinton watches from a seat in the first row, where the campaign keeps him For the rest of the fall. Patty Solis Doyle flies to Springfield on Saturday morning to meet the running mate she was hired to work for. Clinton keeps her in the job. And for the next 10 weeks, Solis Doyle runs the vice presidential campaign from the candidate's plane. The convention in Denver nominates Clinton for vice president by acclamation on Wednesday night, the same way she moved that afternoon to nominate Obama. Her husband speaks to the hall earlier in the evening. And she closes the night with her acceptance speech from the stage of the Pepsi Center. On Friday, August 29th, the Republican nominee John McCain holds a rally in Dayton, Ohio. He introduces the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his running mate. On Thursday, October 2nd, Clinton and Palin take
their podiums in the field house at Washington University in St. Louis with the PBS journalist Gwen Eiffel moderating. It's the first vice presidential debate between two women, and it draws the biggest audience of the four debates that fall. In the February primary, Clinton won 109 of Missouri's 115 counties. And on November 4th, the state goes to the Democratic ticket by a few thousand votes. Obama and Clinton finish with 376 electoral votes to 162 for McCain and Payla. Later that month in the transition office in Chicago, Obama offers Biden the State Department, but Biden turns it down because he wants to keep riding the Amtrak train home to Wilmington every night the Senate is in session. On December 1st, with Gates beside him in Chicago, Obama names the senator from Massachusetts who ran for president in 2004, John Kerry, as Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton takes the oath of office as vice president on January 20, 2009, from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993, and on the west front of the Capitol, he holds the Bible for his wife. That week, the Clintons move into number one observatory circle, the Vice President's official house in Northwest Washington, D.C. Bill Clinton becomes the first man to live there as a vice president's spouse. Her email runs through the White House system. The Justice Department's lawyers have ruled that the vice president's office is outside the Freedom of Information Act. Under the Presidential Records Act, her papers stay closed to public requests until five years after she leaves office. On Tuesday, August 4, 2009, Bill Clinton lands in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, after an overnight flight from Anchorage. He goes as the administration's special envoy to bring home two American journalists from Current TV, Laura Ling and Yuna Li. They were arrested on the Chinese border in March. And sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. The North Korean leader Kim Jong-il poses with the Vice President's husband for a photograph, which runs in newspapers around the world. On Wednesday morning, the two women land at the airport in Burbank, California. That fall, the commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, asks for 40,000 more troops. In the situation room, the vice president backs in, and so does the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen. Gates offers thirty thousand instead, with a promise to start bringing them home in eighteen months. On December first, Obama announces the plan at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. Carey, Gates, and Mullen testify before Biden's committee two days later. From the chairman's seat, though, Biden tells them that 20,000 troops and a narrower mission would do the job. The Senate holds its first Christmas Eve vote since eighteen ninety five on the On the morning of December 24, 2009, and the Vice President presides from the chair. The health care bill passes with 60 votes, and Senator Ted Kennedy's widow, Vicky, watches from the gallery. In March of 2011, the dictator of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, is fighting a rebellion against his rule. Kerry calls Obama from a meeting of foreign ministers in Paris on March fifteenth to push for a no-fly zone over Libya. Which would ground the Libyan Air Force. The vice president makes the same case in the White House with the ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, and a National Security Council aide, Samantha Power. But Gates and the national security advisor, Tom Donalin, argue against it, and so does Biden from the Capitol. Obama orders airstrikes, and on March nineteenth, American and European warplanes start hitting Libyan targets. The CIA believes Osama bin Laden is hiding in a compound in Abbadabad, Pakistan. So on April 28, 2011, Obama holds his last meeting on the possibility of a raid. Gates asks him to wait, but Vice President Clinton tells him to go. On the afternoon of Sunday, May 1st, she watches a live feed of the raid from a drone overhead in a small conference room in the West Wing. The White House photographer Pete Sousa takes a picture of the room and in it, The Vice President has her hand over her mouth. In Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 5, 2012, Bill Clinton speaks to the convention, and the delegates nominate Obama for a second term that night. In the fall of 2012, the Vice President of the United States is Hillary Clinton, and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is Joe Biden. On September 14, 2012, Obama and Kerry received the coffins from Benghazi at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. The vice president stands beside them while the Secretary of State speaks. From May of 2014 to the summer of 2016, the House Committee under Gowdy deeply investigates Kerry's department. Delaware elects the 71-year-old Biden to an eighth term in the Senate on November 4th, 2014. But the Republicans take the majority that night. And in January, he hands the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee to Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee. On May 5, 2015, a conservative author, Peter Schweitzer, publishes Clinton Cash, a book about the donors to the Family Foundation. The Republicans running for the White House make the Foundation their main line of attack on the vice president. She launches her campaign on Saturday, June 13th, at 4 Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York. About 5,000 people arrive, and early in her speech, she points out that the park has absolutely no ceilings. Three days later, Donald Trump rides an escalator down into the lobby of his building on Fifth Avenue to announce that he's also running for the Republican nomination. The senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, beats Clinton in New Hampshire in February of 2016, but she clinches the nomination in June. She's the first woman to win one from either major party. The Republicans nominate Trump in Cleveland in July with the governor of Indiana Mike Pence as his running mate.
Clinton names her running mate on Twitter on the night of Friday, July 22nd. Her pick is the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, who was the mayor of San Antonio until Obama brought him into the cabinet. Castro is 41 years old, and in 2012 he gave the keynote speech at the convention in Charlotte. The next day, Clinton walks him onto the stage at Florida International University in Miami, where about two out of three students are Hispanic. He is the first Latino on a major party's ticket. On August 15th, she campaigns with Biden in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where her father, Hugh Rodham, and Senator Biden were both born. The last presidential debate is on October 19th at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News, says asks Trump whether he'll accept the result of the election. Trump answers that he'll look at it at the time. Her lead in the national polls holds through the last three weeks of the race. On election night, her supporters fill the Javit Center in New York under its glass ceiling. A little after midnight, the networks call Pennsylvania and the state's twenty electoral votes gives her the majority she needs. Then she walks out onto the stage to give her victory speech. She carries Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and finishes with 307 electoral votes to 231 for Trump. Across the country, she wins the popular vote by about four points. In Pennsylvania, a former environmental advisor to Bill Clinton, Katie McGuinty, beats Senator Pat Toomey. In Wisconsin, the former Senator Russ Feingold wins back his old seat from Ron Johnson, the Republican who beat him six years ago. With those two wins, The new Senate will be split evenly between the parties. Trump comes down to the lobby of his building the next morning and tells reporters that he'll look at the result. But the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, calls the vice president that afternoon to congratulate her. Trump's lawyers ask for recounts in Wisconsin and Michigan's, and the new counts actually move her margins forward by a few hundred votes. Clinton invites Biden to dinner at number one observatory circle in December and offers him the State Department. He turned the job down eight years ago, but now at seventy four years old, he says yes. The electors meet in their state capitals on december nineteenth and cast their ballots. When the Senate convenes on january third, twenty seventeen, the vice president's tiebreaking vote makes Senator Chuck Schumer of New York the majority leader. For 17 days, that vote belongs to the president elect herself, and at noon on january twentieth, it passes to Castro. The Vice President presides over the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2017, when the House and the Senate count the electoral votes. From the rostrum of the House, she reads out the result of her own election. The last Vice President to certify his own victory was George H. W. Bush in January of 1989. On Friday, January 20, 2017, Chief Justice John Roberts swears in the 45th President of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol. Bill Clinton holds the Bible for his wife for the second time in eight years, and the Obamas sit behind her on the platform. Trump spends the day at his apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. That afternoon, Hillary Clinton signs her first orders in the Oval Office, and Joe Biden waits for the Senate to confirm him as her Secretary of State. The Senate approves Biden as Secretary of State in February of 2017, and he resigns his seat. Delaware's new governor, John Kearney, fills it with the man who ran Biden's office as chief of staff for 19 years, Ted Kaufman. The president also sends the Senate the name of Merrick Garland for the empty seat on the Supreme Court. Garland is the chief judge of the Federal Appeals Court in Washington, and Obama had chosen him in March of 2016 to replace the deceased Justice Antonine Scalia. But the Senate Majority Leader at the time, Mitch McConnell, held the seat for the next president. Schumer brings the nomination to the floor, and the Senate confirms him in March. In the spring of 2017, Trump starts a television channel from his building on Fifth Avenue. His son-in-law Jared Kushner talked to an investment banker about the idea in 2016. Trump hosts a show on the channel every weeknight, and on December 22nd, he endorses a congressman from Florida named Ron DeSantis for governor. On the air, he calls DeSantis a brilliant young leader, and the Congressman wins the Republican primary the next August. Federal prosecutors in Washington indict Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, in October of 2017. The charges include laundering the money that politicians in Ukraine paid him before the campaign. On Tuesday, august twenty first, twenty eighteen, Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to eight federal crimes in a courtroom in Manhattan. He tells the judge that he arranged payments to two women before the election at the direction of a candidate for federal office. The candidate is a private citizen. So that Friday, prosecutors charged Trump with two campaign finance crimes. In the midterm, Republicans gain four Senate seats and keep the House. In Florida, DeSantis wins the race for governor. In January, a Republican congressman from Ohio, Jim Jordan, takes over the House Oversight Committee and opens hearings on the Clinton Foundation. Trump's channel covers every day of his trial in the spring of 2019. A jury in the same courthouse convicts him and the judge sentences him to a fine and probation. The Centers for Disease Control confirms the first American case of the new coronavirus on January 21, 2020. The patient lives in Snohomish County, north of Seattle. And flew home from Wuhan, China, six days earlier. At the end of the month, the president puts the man who ran Obama's response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, Ron Klein, in charge of this outbreak. The
pandemic office inside the National Security Council at the White House runs the daily meetings. Governors across the country close schools and offices in the middle of March. A relief bill for out of work families and closed businesses passes the Republican held Senate. and the president signs it at the end of the month. At the daily briefing, the director of the CDC speaks first and the president takes questions afterward. On April 15th, Denmark becomes the first country in Europe to reopen its schools, and children up to the fifth grade go back. At the end of May, an epidemiologist at Denmark's public health agency, Peter Andersen, tells Reuters that infections among children have held steady. The CDC writes its June Guidance for American schools From that Danish data. In it, the youngest children go back first and classes move outside wherever the weather allows. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of Children's Doctors, tells schools at the end of June to bring students back in person in the fall. On June 30th, in the Rose Garden, the president tells the governors to open the schools. The head of the Academy, Dr. Sally Goza, stands beside her. Federal relief money pays for the tenths and the heaters. Classes open in September under tenths on high school football fields. The plans for them come from a nonprofit in Berkeley, California called Green Schoolyards America. Its chief executive, a landscape architect named Sharon Danks, started a national outdoor learning initiative with three partner groups in May. By October, schools in all 50 states are working from her group's plans. On September 2nd, The Boston Globe runs a story about 24 Meeting Street in Providence, Rhode Island. In January of 1908, two doctors, Mary Packard and Ellen Stone, opened a school in the brick building there for children who had been exposed to tuberculosis. They replaced a brick wall of the second floor classroom with windows on hinges and kept them raised throughout the winter. The children sat at their desks in sleeping bags with heated stones at their feet. and every one of them stayed well that year. Within two years, the country had sixty five open air schools, with eleven of them in Providence. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away on September eighteenth, twenty twenty. Mitch McConnell has been majority leader again since twenty nineteen, and he holds her seat open for the winner of the next election. The Republican nominee for president is the Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, and he has Trump's endorsement Formed the anchor desk. On November 3rd, the president wins every state she carried in 2016, plus Arizona and North Carolina. That gives her 333 electoral votes to 205 for Cruz. Democrats gained four seats in the Senate, so Castro once again holds the deciding vote. In December, the Food and Drug Administration authorizes the first vaccine. On January 20th, 2021, Chief Justice John Roberts swears in the president for the second term on the West Front of the Capitol. That afternoon, the 78-year-old Biden leaves the State Department and rides his train home to Wilmington. He spent 44 years in the Senate before his four at the State Department. For Ginsburg's seat, President Clinton nominates a federal judge in Washington named Katanji Brown Jackson, who Obama interviewed for the court in 2016. The Senate confirms Jackson in March, and she becomes the first black woman on the Supreme Court. Mississippi asks the Supreme Court to let it enforce a 2018 law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. In May of 21, the justices turn the state down and the lower court's order against the law stands. The president signs an infrastructure law in November of 2021 that pays for permanent outdoor classrooms. In 2022, The Department of Education adds an outdoor classroom to its standard for every public school built with federal money. Justice Stephen Breyer retires at the end of June in 2022, and the president replaces him with a member of the California Supreme Court, Leandra Kruger. Prices climb through that year, and in November, the Republicans take back the Senate on the issue of affordability. On November fifth, twenty twenty four, Vice President Castro runs against the senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, in the first ever presidential race between two Latino candidates. Rubio wins on affordability and 16 years of Democrats in the White House, and he takes office as the 46th president of the United States. Today, Rubio is in the second year of his term. Hillary Clinton lives in Chappaqua, New York, and the 83-year-old Joe Biden is retired in Wilmington. 80-year-old Trump. Broadcasts every weeknight from his building on Fifth Avenue. In the capital of Mississippi, patients walk into the state's only abortion clinic, nicknamed the Pink House. Democratic presidents appointed five of the nine justices on the Supreme Court. Every public school built with federal money since 2022 has a classroom outside its walls. Obama told his advisors that if he picked Hillary Clinton, there would be more than two of us in the relationship. In the alternate timeline, her husband's foundation signs the agreement on a Friday morning in August, and she holds national office for 16 straight years. The story everybody tells about 2016 is about her emails. But the emails came out of the job Obama gave her instead of a spot on the ticket. foundation signed that same agreement in December of 2008 so she could run the State Department. Its records fall under the Freedom of Information Act. A House Committee found her private address in those records in 2014. The FBI opened a case the next year, and its director sent a letter to Congress eleven days before the election. As a result, she lost Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that November by 77,000 votes between them. Obama picked his running mate. To solve a problem in 2008. Biden was 18 years older, and Obama wrote later that the age difference reassured voters who thought the nominee was too young. But the Justice Department's lawyers had ruled the vice president's office exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. In the alternate timeline, Clinton's email runs through the White House system for eight years, out of reach of a records request. In 2020, Biden ran for president at 77 years old on his record as Obama's vice president. On June 7, 2008, Clinton told her supporters that the highest, hardest ceiling had about 18 million cracks in it. In the alternate timeline, she gives her victory speech under the glass roof of the Javit Center eight years later. In our timeline, Obama's call that Thursday reached Joe Biden in a dentist's office. And in January of 2021, Joe took the oath as the 46th president. Decisions don't get do-overs, but on this show they do. If you like the show, please rate and subscribe wherever you happen to be listening. Also, tell a friend or two. Until next time, I'm Kevin Perez Allen. Thank you for hitting control. Control Z Rewritten is hosted, written, researched, edited, and produced by me, Kevin Perez Allen. If you have a coin flip decision from history you want to see reversed on a future episode, subscribe for free on Patreon. That's patreon.com slash CTRLZ Rewritten, all one word, and leave your idea in the comments.