Americanswers! Do Harris/Trump actually need ANY policies?
Americast
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Following her first interview since entering the presidential race, where does Vice-President Kamala Harris stand on the issues that matter to Americans?
And, is campaigning a family affair? We take a look at whether a single person could run for the White House, or whether a candidate could lose the race because of a media-shy partner.
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* Sarah Smith, BBC North America Editor * Marianna Spring, BBC Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's Sarah Smith here. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm in our studio in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:09.2 | And hello, it is Mariana, aka Misinformation in London. Well welcome back everyone to |
| 0:15.1 | American answers. This week we have got some great questions on the politics of |
| 0:18.7 | obesity, politicians, families as well but we should start with Kamala Harris and Tim |
| 0:24.1 | Waltz's interview on CNN last week. And we've had a question that came in via |
| 0:27.8 | discord from Chris. Hi America asked. I have a question about Camler Harris and Tim Walt's interview with CNN. |
| 0:36.5 | Some people have criticized her for a lack of detailed policy, but how much detailed policy does she really have to share? I know Clinton was |
| 0:46.0 | criticized for giving too much information and Starmer got away without going into as much depth as people were demanding. |
| 0:55.0 | Great question, Chris, because there wasn't a huge amount of detail in that CNN interview, |
| 1:01.0 | although in fairness to the Harris-Waltz campaign, they have had some other events |
| 1:06.0 | where they've laid out a little bit more economic detail, but it's not what you would call a |
| 1:10.0 | detailed prospectus or manifesto at all. And frankly at the moment they are getting away with it and I think that's for two reasons. We've fascinated Marianna to hear from you if you're undercover voters agree with me on this but there's two |
| 1:24.4 | points which is Trump really doesn't have any kind of detailed policy at all so it's |
| 1:28.2 | very difficult for the opposing campaign to say you know how exactly are you going to |
| 1:32.4 | pay for any of these promises or what precisely |
| 1:34.8 | would your tax regime look like when he doesn't have a detailed practice himself. |
| 1:39.3 | And also I think this election, even more than many others I've ever covered, even more than the last |
| 1:44.4 | couple of presidential elections in the United States. |
| 1:47.1 | It's about character and personality and vibes, as we keep saying. |
| 1:52.0 | It's about who these people are, Donald Trump and |
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