Americanswers! Kristi Noem’s dog, ‘Momala’, and presidential immunity
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Americanswers is back and we take a deep dive into Joe Biden’s TikTok account and the type of content his campaign is prioritising to win over young voters.
A vice presidential hopeful has revealed she killed her dog due to behavioural issues. Will the admission end her chances of being Donald Trump’s running mate?
And, Kamala Harris has been given a new nickname by a daytime television host. Who is the White House hoping she can win over on the campaign trail?
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo and Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomeryl. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | One, two, three, go. |
| 0:05.7 | We may turn over our exam papers, and that is because they're the questions from you. |
| 0:10.1 | We haven't, Mariana and I, either of us, us watched them though I have got to confess |
| 0:14.9 | Ryan has just steamed in late and she has good excuses because she works very hard |
| 0:20.0 | but I cheated actually I look I didn't get where I am without cheating and I did have a little look but only a little |
| 0:26.4 | look so anyway the little post it note that lovely production team put on so basically we've come to this |
| 0:31.5 | without any preparation because it makes it more exciting. We've got a load of questions. Let's get to them. So should we start with Nicola in Melbourne? |
| 0:40.0 | Hi Americast. I'm really curious about Kamala Harris. I rarely hear about her and wonder what her impact is with voters and how much you'll figure in campaigning and election outcomes. |
| 0:50.0 | So it's funny that you say that Nicola because people that use social media may or may not have come across a |
| 0:56.4 | quite viral clip |
| 0:58.0 | viral perhaps for slightly the wrong reasons that shows Kamala Harris with the Hollywood actor Drew Barrymore on her daytime talk show |
| 1:06.7 | where she was given a new nickname. |
| 1:09.7 | I've been thinking that we really all need a tremendous hug in the world right now. |
| 1:15.0 | But in our country, we need you to be mamala of the country. |
| 1:20.0 | I think you should be the next guest of I'm honest. |
| 1:27.0 | Marmala of the country. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh gosh, so she had said, hadn't she, that her stepchildren call her Marmala, as in Marm and Kamala, and expected |
| 1:38.0 | it to go no further than that, I think it would just be a kind of slightly sweet thing. |
| 1:42.1 | Drew then really built on it in a way that yeah made |
| 1:45.8 | loads of people cringe and something I'm in this is maybe we're just not American |
| 1:49.2 | and well no but here we go here we go because what some on the progressive left have said and I was reading |
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