14 days until the election... Who's winning?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
With election day just two weeks away, Americast looks at the different campaign approaches being taken by both candidates. What are Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s different strategies, and whose is the most effective?
As Harris campaigns with Republican Liz Cheney across three swing states, we also hear from Anthony Zurcher who spent the day travelling with the vice president on Air Force Two.
We also get Justin and Sarah’s take on how much you can trust the polls, and ask the big question: who’s going to win?
HOSTS:
- Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter - Sarah Smith, North America Editor
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey AmeriCasters, it's getting very close to the big US election and before we get going with |
| 0:04.9 | the podcast properly, I just want to let you know that we're going to be making daily episodes |
| 0:09.4 | at the moment, taking the AmeriCast pop-up podcast studio on the road every single day |
| 0:14.8 | all the way to election night and maybe even beyond. |
| 0:18.0 | If you want to be notified as soon as new episodes drop in our podcast feed |
| 0:22.0 | please make sure you're subscribed to |
| 0:23.8 | AmeriCast on BBC Sounds and have push notifications turned on in your phone |
| 0:28.9 | settings that way me Justin Sarah and Anthony will land direct onto your phone as soon as it's ready. |
| 0:36.2 | Just what you've always wanted. |
| 0:37.6 | Anyway, here's today's episode. |
| 0:39.4 | Enjoy. |
| 0:41.7 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | Right, guys, it feels like it has been a long time coming, but we are now just two weeks |
| 0:49.1 | away from the US presidential election. |
| 0:51.3 | Fourteen short days until the big decision. Voting's actually already |
| 0:54.8 | started a lot of states allow early voting and in fact millions of people have |
| 0:58.6 | cast their ballots but it's November the 5th when the big decision will be made. Justin we have our time capsule in |
| 1:06.2 | America we put our predictions in it months ago I'm gonna have to remind you about |
| 1:10.6 | yours I'm afraid. Well I'm half right I thought |
| 1:14.7 | Biden wasn't going to be the candidate and he wasn't but I also thought Trump |
| 1:18.0 | wasn't going to be the candidate as a result of Biden dropping out and |
| 1:20.6 | Biden dropped out too late for that to happen so Trump still is the candidate |
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