Americanswers! Could Obama serve as VP to Kamala Harris?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Barack Obama has already done his two terms as president of the US. Would he be allowed to then serve as vice president to Kamala Harris?
And, Donald Trump made a controversial appearance at the convention for the National Association of Black Journalists last week. Why did he make comments questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity?
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* Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent * Sumi Somaskanda, BBC Chief Presenter
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Madeleine Drury, Ben Morris and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | All right, Americaster Adam is going to kick off this week's episode with this question. |
| 0:10.0 | If Kamala Harris does win the election, what do you think the acronym will be for her husband? |
| 0:15.4 | First Man, Motus, works nicely and sounds a bit like something Neil Armstrong would say. |
| 0:20.3 | I also think first husband photos kind of works. |
| 0:24.0 | Sumi what do you think? |
| 0:25.0 | I'm going to say none of the above and add F Godis because that would be first |
| 0:30.3 | gentleman of the US. We know that Doug Emhoff prefers the title second |
| 0:34.7 | gentleman at the moment as the husband of the vice president. His handle on |
| 0:38.5 | X is second gentleman so I would think he might go for first gentleman at the moment |
| 0:43.7 | it's taken but I'm sure they can work something out. Fagotis it doesn't quite |
| 0:47.9 | roll off the tongue the same way but yeah there is precedent for it so maybe that's |
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