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Belief in the Ballot | Pathogen X | David Sedaris
TV Flash files “Belief in the Ballot | Pathogen X | David Sedaris” as hour 649 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 7, aired 2022-10-30, 60 min.
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This leaf is S55E07: listed hour 649 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 7 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2022-10-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Dominion | American Prairie | Ina Garten” (S55E06). Next is “Angry in America | Buses from the Border | Ready or Not” (S55E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Belief in the Ballot – Politicians who say the 2020 election was stolen are on the ballot this midterm election for key statewide positions, including secretary of state, which would give them power over elections. After two years of investigations and audits, no fraud or error has been confirmed in any state that would change the 2020 outcome. As Election Day nears, Scott Pelley reports from Arizona on a key midterm issue that has split the Republican Party and the country. Pelley interviews Arizona's Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers. He also speaks with State Rep. Mark Finchem, the Republican nominee who is in a neck-and-neck race for Arizona's secretary of state and has claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Pathogen X – In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bill Whitaker travels to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda with a team of American and Ugandan scientists to try and find the next deadly virus before it finds us. 60 MINUTES went along with the virus hunters as they trekked deep inside the primeval forest, testing bats, baboons, and monkeys for Pathogen X, new viruses capable of jumping from wild animals to us. David Sedaris – David Sedaris is one of the most famous and successful writers working today. He is a sharp chronicler of everyday life who collects experiences – his own and other people's – and skillfully deploys them in personal essays and in front of packed crowds around the world. Jon Wertheim spends time with Sedaris in New York and in the U.K., where he surprisingly has become known for picking up trash on the side of the road, to find out where he'll draw inspiration from next.
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Where does Belief in the Ballot | Pathogen X | David Sedaris sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S55E07 is listed hour 649 of 767 — hour 7 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 7.
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Belief in the Ballot | Pathogen X | David Sedaris aired 2022-10-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.
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Also in season 55
- S55E01 President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi
- S55E02 Secretary of State Blinken | Inside the Committee | Rescuing Reefs
- S55E03 Olena Zelenska | What Happened at Grizzly Flats | Captain Kolisi
- S55E04 Taiwan | After Ian | Church and State
- S55E05 The Lost Souls Of Bucha | The Power Of Grimsby | Coach Prime
- S55E06 Dominion | American Prairie | Ina Garten