Americanswers... on 5 Live! Could a joke about Puerto Rico give Kamala Harris the Latino vote?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Trump team has distanced itself from Hinchcliffe’s remarks which he made at the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. That hasn’t stopped one of the world’s top Latin celebrities, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, from endorsing Kamala Harris as president. Is this an opportunity for Kamala Harris to gain momentum with the 36 million Hispanic voters eligible to vote this year?
We hear from a caller who wants to know why there’s been less discussion lately of Donald Trump’s various criminal cases…
…and after Beyoncé turned up at a Kamala Harris rally over the weekend, Matt wants to know the best person our presenters have seen at a campaign rally!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey AmeriCasters, it's getting very close to the big US election and before we get going with |
| 0:05.1 | the podcast properly, I just want to let you know that we're going to be making daily episodes at the moment, |
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| 0:29.0 | settings that way me Justin Sarah and Anthony will land direct onto your phone as soon as it's ready. |
| 0:36.0 | Just what you've always wanted. |
| 0:37.5 | Anyway, here's today's episode. |
| 0:39.5 | Enjoy. |
| 0:40.5 | BBC Sounds, Music Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, it's Justin here. |
| 0:46.0 | We've just been recording our American answers edition and we've been dealing with a very, very wide range of questions. Some really interesting ones too. We talk |
| 0:54.8 | a lot about the Muslim vote. We had a question about the Jewish vote. How important is it? How |
| 1:00.0 | set is it in its ways in the modern United States and specifically with regard to |
| 1:05.4 | this election. We also covered the business of whether or not it is wise to have |
| 1:09.8 | a comedian insult a small but potentially very important group of voters. |
| 1:16.1 | This is because of a rally that Donald Trump held at Madison Square Garden in which a comedian |
| 1:21.4 | was very insulting about the territory of Puerto Rico, so insulting |
| 1:25.8 | that a lot of Puerto Ricans and indeed the Trump campaign itself dissociated themselves |
| 1:32.1 | from his comments. That and plenty more in this |
| 1:35.7 | addition of American answers. |
| 1:39.4 | America. |
| 1:40.4 | America. AmerCast from BBC News. |
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