A deep dive into Kamala Harris' foreign policy
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
With Election Day quickly approaching, many voters are still wondering what a potential Kamala Harris presidency would look like -- and how it would differ from the Biden administration.
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| 0:45.0 | Earlier this month we spoke with international observers about the US presidential election |
| 0:49.0 | and they all agreed that the next president of the United States will have a profound impact on |
| 0:54.5 | their countries in fact on every country around the world. One European |
| 0:59.6 | analyst said that the US election matters so much for Europe that he jokingly told us |
| 1:04.8 | that he wished he had a vote here. Well, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clearly |
| 1:11.4 | have very different views of the US's role in the world. |
| 1:15.0 | Trump maintains his so-called America First Worldview, isolationist, protectionist against Forever Wars, hostile to some allies, welcoming to some adversaries. |
| 1:27.0 | Harris is more in the mainstream foreign policy mold, but also still somewhat enigmatic. She says she believes in the importance of |
| 1:35.2 | US global leadership and the importance of a functioning US democracy as an |
| 1:39.4 | example to the world, as does current President Joe Biden, but beyond that and on critical issues, |
| 1:45.8 | Harris's approach is less clear. |
| 1:48.1 | Exactly how would she handle the conflict between Israel, Gaza, and now Lebanon. |
| 1:53.5 | What would her approach to Iran be? |
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