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Brooks and Capehart on if Liz Cheney's support will help Harris with independent voters

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including a major endorsement from Liz Cheney and the latest in the Trump election interference case. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

A major endorsement is at the Center for the Race for the White House this week.

0:05.0

On that and the latest in the Trump election interference case,

0:09.0

we turn to the analysis of Brooks and Kapart.

0:11.0

That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan

0:14.4

Kapart, associate editor for the Washington Post. It's great to see you both here.

0:18.1

We've missed having you here together. It's a nice reunion. Let's start with the state of the race, shall we?

0:23.6

Let's take a look at our latest PBS news, NPR Maris Poll

0:27.0

that shows in the national head-to-head there.

0:29.2

Harris is up by two points within the margin of error though of course and this week there was

0:34.1

another rollout of Republicans backing her most notably Liz Cheney but also a

0:38.2

number of other women who had previously worked in the Trump White House

0:41.6

including Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews.

0:44.6

Jonathan in these crucial final weeks for her focus now seems to be on pulling in conservatives,

0:50.5

independence, former Nicky Haley voters,

0:53.0

there's some consternation among progressive

0:55.0

democratic circles that she's not doing enough to shore up her base.

0:58.0

What do you make about?

0:59.0

You're just trying to trigger me, aren't you?

1:01.0

I'm the look.

1:02.0

And I say this to my progressive friends you know with

1:07.0

love calm down the vice president has been talking to them, presenting, you know, some things that they like for months now, well, for weeks now, in a race that's going to be decided on the margins where it's going to come down to a few

1:25.1

thousand votes in a few states. She is doing what she needs to do. There are

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