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9 AM ET: Trump's battleground blitz, drug cuts diabetes risk 94%, gold bar record & more

CNN 5 Things

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News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

As Day 2 of the DNC gets underway, the Trump campaign is blitzing key battleground states. The bodies of six Israeli hostages have been retrieved from Gaza, as negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal continue. Drugmaker Eli Lilly says a popular weight loss drug cuts the risk of diabetes by 94% in certain cases. Some residents of East Palestine, Ohio want more time before a settlement deadline hits this week for last year's train derailment. Plus, a gold bar's record price and what it could mean for the US economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From CNN, I'm Fez Jamil with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, August 20th.

0:23.4

Day two of the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago today.

0:28.0

While yesterday featured some prominent Democrats, like Hillary Clinton, President

0:32.3

Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris,

0:35.0

there'll also be some Republicans coming on to the stage this week.

0:39.0

That includes a former Trump White House national security official and a former congressman, as well as current

0:44.8

and former GOP lawmakers from Arizona and Georgia, both key battleground states.

0:51.1

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump's campaign is doing a

0:54.2

blitz of the key swing states, as CNN's Phil Mattingly tells us.

0:58.3

hitting every single major battleground state, all seven of them. On Monday, it was the economy.

1:03.9

It was energy here in the critical battleground

1:06.3

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

1:08.0

He'll be heading over to Michigan, then North Carolina,

1:10.9

then Arizona, then Nevada.

1:12.3

All states of the Trump campaign wants to win,

1:15.0

some of which it absolutely needs to win.

1:18.0

The Israeli military says the bodies of six Israeli hostages

1:21.0

have been retreat from Gaza during an overnight operation.

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