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An inside look at the Harris-Walz campaign's strategy in battleground states

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In the month since the Democratic ticket changed, the Harris campaign says the Democratic map is expanding while Donald Trump's is not. Geoff Bennett speaks with Michael Tyler, communications director for the Harris-Walz campaign, for more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Well now let's hear directly from the Harris Wall's camp Michael Tyler is the

0:04.6

communications director for the campaign and I spoke with him moments ago.

0:08.4

Michael Tyler welcome to the news hour.

0:10.9

Pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me.

0:13.0

Well in the month since the Democratic ticket change, the Harris campaign says the Democratic

0:17.2

map is expanding and Donald Trump's is not.

0:20.1

The campaign says it's competitive in places like Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia.

0:24.4

What do you all see that gives you such confidence?

0:27.0

Well, again, thank you for having me.

0:28.2

I think, number one, what you see is an incredible amount of energy and enthusiasm.

0:31.3

That's on full display here in Chicago, but it's been on

0:33.2

full display since the Vice President took over at the top of the ticket, named

0:36.7

Governor Walls as her running mate. They've been criss-crossing the country.

0:40.1

But as a campaign, frankly, what we're more excited about is the fact that when people are showing up to those rallies, they're also signing up to volunteer.

0:46.5

Right? We're continuing to build our grassroots army because yes, the map is wide open.

0:50.9

We have a path that is inclusive of the blue wall states,

0:53.8

obviously Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, the southwest of Nevada and

0:57.9

Arizona, the southeast where I'm from, Georgia, North Carolina. But what we

1:01.8

understand is that this is going to be a very

1:03.7

close and competitive presidential election as all presidential elections are, right?

1:07.1

It's going to come down to tens of thousands of votes in a handful of those states that I just

1:10.7

referenced and so what we are laser focused on is making sure

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