Americanswers! VP picks, Nikki Haley's back, and could Trump do three terms?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Americanswers is back and this week we take a look at presidential term limits. Joe Biden once said he wanted to be viewed as a “bridge” to the next generation in 2020. But did he ever commit to one term in office?
Meanwhile, Donald Trump once praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for getting rid of their two-term limits. The team assesses whether Trump would have the ability to follow suit.
And, social media algorithms are powerful. How do you leave your own echo chamber in an election year?
HOSTS: • Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUEST: • Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. 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 | Okay, Miles Anthony, you've not done this before, |
| 0:07.8 | but it is the new way that we're doing AmeriCansers. |
| 0:10.9 | And what it means is that we haven't seen the questions before we start. |
| 0:14.8 | I've got my questions face down. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm going to turn them over now. |
| 0:18.8 | Maybe you can hear that. |
| 0:19.7 | Maybe you can't. |
| 0:21.2 | And now I can see what some of the brilliant questions we've been asked |
| 0:25.9 | so let's get going. The most recent episode of America that we did the last one |
| 0:30.8 | was all about RFK Jr and that has got a lot of you talking |
| 0:34.3 | loads of questions being sent into us and as ever one of your favorite things to ask us |
| 0:39.0 | about is potential picks for VP so we've got this question from Sarah. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi America, it's Sarah from London. I know RFK Jr. already has a running mate slash |
| 0:49.8 | banker, but what are the chances that is endgame is to be invited to be Biden's VP to |
| 0:55.3 | avoid splitting the vote? |
| 0:57.0 | Is there a buzzer I can ring to come in on this? |
| 0:59.0 | You need to gavel. |
| 1:01.0 | I know that would be a good thing. Okay, I can answer this one. The chances are absolutely zero. There is no way. |
| 1:07.0 | One that Joe Biden is going to be dropping Kamala Harris from the Vice presidential ticket. It's just not going to happen. |
| 1:14.2 | It would anger too many people. |
| 1:15.6 | The first black woman on a presidential ticket |
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