Americans cast their vote in US presidential elections
Newshour
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Millions of people in America cast their vote for the US presidential election in what experts are predicting will be a neck-to-neck race. Tens of millions of early ballots have already been cast. We hear from Wisconsin a key swing-state and talk about the role played by disinformation. Also in the programme: Israel's Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, has sacked the country's Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, citing a breakdown of trust; and can a European songbook foster unity across the continent?
(Photo: Voters fill out their ballots for the presidential election during early voting ahead of the polls closing November 5 in Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Rebecca Cook / Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | The programme is coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:10.8 | Voting is well underway in most of the United States in a presidential election considered too close to call. |
| 0:17.9 | Tens of millions of early ballots had already been cast before the very first polls opened in |
| 0:22.7 | Vermont at 5 a.m. local time today. The campaign has seen assassination attempts on the Republican |
| 0:29.3 | candidate Donald Trump and the withdrawal mid-race of President Biden in favor of Kamala Harris. The |
| 0:36.2 | winner is expected to be decided by the results |
| 0:39.3 | in seven so-called swing states. This is what Donald Trump said to journalists after he voted in |
| 0:45.5 | Florida. I feel very confident. I have felt, you know, we went in with a very big lead today, |
| 0:52.0 | and it looks like Republicans have shown up in force. |
| 0:57.1 | So we'll see how it turns out. |
| 0:59.2 | But it seems that they have really shown up in force. |
| 1:02.5 | Kamala Harris appeared at the Democratic headquarters in Washington. |
| 1:16.9 | She was given a warm welcome as she helped AIDS phone people to encourage them to get out and vote. |
| 1:21.7 | Earlier, Kamala Harris dialed into radio shows in Battleground States. |
| 1:26.1 | Speaking to the radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, |
| 1:29.7 | the vice president responded to Donald Trump's campaign claim that she had broken the U.S. immigration system. |
| 1:33.3 | She said there'd been a way to fix the border issue, but that Donald Trump had decided against it. |
| 1:38.9 | Congress through the United States Senate, some of the most conservative members, came up with a bill, |
| 1:43.5 | which I supported |
| 1:44.7 | to put more resources into putting more agents at the border, more resources into combating |
| 1:51.4 | human trafficking. And sadly, my opponent told them to kill it, to not do it, because he wants |
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