Can Celeb Support Sign, Seal, Deliver Election Results?

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Today we look at celebrity political endorsements, and whether they make a difference at the polls.

At the Democratic National Convention last night, Hollywood stars took to the stage to endorse Kamala Harris for President, but will their support actually change the results of the election?

Adam’s joined by Marianna and John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter at the Financial Times.

And, the first drug to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s will not be available on the NHS in England, with health assessment body NICE saying the benefits “are too small to justify the costs”.

Adam discusses the decision with medical editor Fergus Walsh. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Joe Wilkinson and Sam McLaren. The technical producers were Mike Regaard and Ricardo McCarthy. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, it's not often we have an excuse to play a montage on newscast,
0:09.6	but there were so many celebrities making surprise appearances at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last night
0:16.3	that there was a whole montage is worth. Clap your hands like this, everybody clap your hands.
0:22.6	Clap, clap, clap, people,
0:26.2	y'all sing, keep all night.
0:29.2	He's gonna lay the other way. Where he goes down. Let us choose.
0:41.0	choose joy.
0:49.0	You get a vote.
0:50.0	You get a vote, you get a vote, you get a vote, well actually very few of us get a vote unless you're
0:56.8	listening to this in America and you're registered. Yeah that was Oprah Winfrey, John Legend and Stevie Wonder.
1:02.4	And just very interesting that Oprah said the word Winfrey, John Legend and Stevie Wonder.
1:02.5	And just very interesting that Oprah said the word joy there
1:05.6	because having done Newsnight for a couple of nights this week,
1:08.4	another plug, when you speak to people from the Democrat National
1:12.3	Convention, from the Democratic the Democrat National Convention from the Democratic
1:13.5	side campaign they keep using that word joy and you realize that is so
1:19.6	central to their electoral is based on
1:22.6	it's not like the cost of living or stability or democracy or the danger of
1:27.3	Donald Trump their campaign is based on joy making people feel good and it's just very interesting as from a British
1:35.6	political perspective that you can base a campaign entirely on that but then
1:39.8	Kamala Harris became the candidate so late in the process,
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