7 days until the election... Who's winning?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
With just one week to go until the U.S. presidential election, Americast roleplays as campaign managers for the Trump and Harris teams. Justin, Sarah and Marianna look at how they should be handling the last days of their campaigns, who should they be targeting, where should they go, and what their key messages should be in the last stretch before polling day.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Correspondent • Sarah Smith, North America Editor
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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 |
| 0:05.1 | the podcast properly, I just want to let you know that we're going to be making daily episodes at the moment, |
| 0:10.3 | taking the AmeriCast pop-up podcast studio on the road every single day all the way to election night and maybe even beyond new episodes drop in our podcast feed please make sure you're subscribed to |
| 0:23.9 | AmeriCast on BBC Sounds and have push notifications turned on in your phone |
| 0:29.0 | settings that way me Justin Sarah and Anthony will land direct onto your phone as soon as it's ready. |
| 0:36.0 | Just what you've always wanted. |
| 0:37.5 | Anyway, here's today's episode. |
| 0:39.5 | Enjoy. |
| 0:40.5 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. We got a week to a week to go and that means that we can reveal to you not |
| 0:50.6 | who's going to win but who should be doing what behind the scenes because for |
| 0:55.8 | this edition we're going to turn ourselves into campaign managers and in a race |
| 0:59.8 | that is still obviously too close to call we are going to try to imagine what those |
| 1:04.8 | managers are saying to the candidates now about what they need to do to bring it all |
| 1:10.8 | home. Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 1:13.0 | Americaast. |
| 1:16.0 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 1:18.0 | There was blood pouring everywhere and yet I had God on my side. |
| 1:23.7 | So I decided the best way forward |
| 1:25.6 | is the past the torch for a new generation. |
| 1:27.5 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 1:30.4 | We're effectively run in this country |
| 1:32.4 | by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
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