BONUS: "We, The Voters," an NPR Live Elections Event

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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NPR's Morning Edition radio news show hosted a live event about the election on October 22, 2024 at WHYY in Pennsylvania. This bonus episode features interviews from that event with experts and campaign surrogates for presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Democratic Congress member Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania spoke on behalf of the Harris campaign and Republican Congress member Byron Donalds of Florida spoke on behalf of the Trump campaign.

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This bonus episode of Up First was produced and edited by Taylor Haney, HJ Mai, Alice Woelfle, Iman Maani, Adam Bearne, Mohamad ElBardicy. The live event was produced by Kelley Dickens, Luke Garrett and Barry Gordemer, with engineering support from Neil Tevault and Hannah Gluvna. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott and Zachary Coleman.

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0:00.0	Morning Edition is in Pennsylvania where polls show Trump and Harris nearly dead even.
0:07.0	This is about character. This is about integrity.
0:11.0	Who did it better? On immigration? On the the economy we heard from these campaign
0:15.2	surrogates at a live event in Philadelphia I'm i'm i mardinez with ladle
0:18.4	foddle and this is a special election episode of up first from NPR News.
0:30.0	This episode is brought to you by the UK Government.
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0:55.0	Hey it's Susan Davis. Yes, there is more than one election happening this year.
1:01.0	There are 34 Senate seats up for grabs and in the House
1:04.1	Republicans are clinging to a single-digit majority. Those races will determine what
1:08.7	the next president can do with his or her power. We're covering it all this year,
1:13.3	but we can't do it without your support.
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1:18.0	Go to Plus.
1:18.9	NPR.org.
1:20.3	On the Co-Twitch podcast, we think about race and identity all the time.
1:24.0	On a recent episode we try to make sense of the devastating violence in Gaza
1:28.0	by turning to James Baldwin, the writer and intellectual who thought a lot about what was happening in Israel during his lifetime.
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