Dispatches from the final days of the campaigns
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In the final days of a presidential election that polls show as extremely close, we wanted to know how supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are feeling.
Our host Martine Powers and producer Emma Talkoff went to Harris’s rally on the Ellipse in D.C. while producer Elana Gordon went to a Trump rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Today, we bring you dispatches from these two rallies that happened on the same day a week before the election.
Also, we’re highlighting a Halloween story. The Post has reported on eco-friendly ways to get rid of a pumpkin. Tips include composting it or even smashing it.
Today’s show was reported and produced by Martine Powers, Emma Talkoff, Elana Gordon and Ted Muldoon, who also mixed the show. It was edited by Renita Jablonski and Maggie Penman. Thank you to Monica Campbell, Bishop Sand, Sabrina Rodriguez and Ariel Plotnick.
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| 0:00.0 | What would you do if Harris doesn't win? She loses. Well I would do the same thing I did when |
| 0:08.5 | Hillary didn't win. I cried for two weeks. I was sick for two weeks that she didn't win. |
| 0:16.0 | What how would you react if Trump loses? |
| 0:20.0 | I'll be so sad I'll be disappointed I'll be disappointed but what can you do you know what I mean we're not the ones that are going to go |
| 0:26.7 | Burn the city down trust me that's not gonna happen. We're all just gonna go back to work and complain |
| 0:33.8 | This week in these final days of the presidential race, we went out to two different rallies |
| 0:39.7 | on the same day. |
| 0:41.2 | What is your level of confidence right now in terms of what's going to happen a week from now? |
| 0:45.9 | I think she's going to sweep and she's going to win. |
| 0:48.8 | So you said that you're a Trump supporter as well. |
| 0:51.0 | What are you feeling and how are you feeling it's a tight election? I feel very |
| 0:55.2 | confident like I've seen the crowds that show up and the only time and they say people |
| 1:02.2 | leave early well that's because they can't get in. |
| 1:05.0 | The Washington Post polling average shows a race that remains incredibly tight. And we wanted to know how are Trump |
| 1:16.2 | and Harris's supporters, the ones who are motivated to go out and see their |
| 1:20.3 | candidate in person, how are they feeling right now? |
| 1:23.4 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, |
| 1:29.4 | this is Post reports. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 1:32.9 | It's Thursday, October 31st. |
| 1:35.5 | Today, our visits to these two parallel universes, |
| 1:39.8 | Trump world and Harris world. |
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