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Amy Walter and Francesca Chambers on expectations for the Biden-Trump debate

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Francesca Chambers of USA Today join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including a look ahead to this week's presidential debate between President Biden and Donald Trump, a preview of Democratic primaries races in New York and the political stakes of what has happened in the two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

For a closer look at tomorrow's primaries, as well as a look ahead to this week's presidential debate in Georgia,

0:05.0

we turn to the politics Monday analysis of Amy Walter, of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, and Francesca Chambers of USA Today. Tamra Keith is away this evening.

0:14.6

It's great to see you both.

0:15.8

Thank you.

0:16.8

So let's start with this New York primary race because New York Democrats are no strangers

0:20.0

to hard-nosed and sometimes super-expensive campaigns, but this Bowman-Latimer race

0:25.6

has really opened a rift in the party, on the liberal wing of the party over the

0:30.4

war in Gaza. Amy, help us understand what's happening here,

0:33.5

because incumbents typically have an advantage in elections

0:36.1

that would appear, except for Jamal Bowman.

0:39.5

Well, and this is also unique,

0:41.3

and that is now officially the most expensive House primary in history

0:46.5

and this coming really from outside groups more than the candidates themselves

0:51.4

interestingly enough while the rift is about Israel, there is also a lot of talk in

0:57.6

advertising about other things, namely Bowman, who is pretty new to the to Congress accusing him of not being

1:06.7

supportive enough of Joe Biden on some of Biden's key issues and I think fundamentally what this really what this race really is about it was an

1:17.2

opportunity I think for folks who were supportive of Israel to have an opportunity to find a person within the

1:28.2

Democratic Party who wasn't as supportive and it works in this case the reason

1:32.4

that he is more vulnerable. One he's pretty new

1:34.9

he was just elected in 2020 and two these lines were redrawn and after he was

1:40.9

elected and remember 22 redistricting.

1:43.0

This district used to have a bigger portion of the Bronx,

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