Exploring Kamala Harris' Identity While Campaigning
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:24.0 | Hi, this is Emily from Tacoma, Washington, |
| 0:27.0 | and I'm sitting in my car decompressing |
| 0:29.0 | after teaching three hours of preschool ballet classes. |
| 0:32.0 | This podcast was recorded at three hours of preschool ballet classes. |
| 0:33.0 | This podcast was recorded at 12.44 p.m. |
| 0:36.2 | on Wednesday, August 7th. |
| 0:37.8 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:40.3 | Here's the show. |
| 0:48.0 | I too sometimes decompress in my car after time with my kids. I do it after work. |
| 0:50.0 | I just sit in the garage. |
| 0:52.0 | Car decompression is important. |
| 0:54.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm deepest Shivaram, I cover the White House. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm Claudia Grisades, I cover Congress. |
| 1:02.0 | And today on the show, Kamala Harris is a historic presidential candidate |
| 1:06.0 | as the first woman of color to be a major political party's nominee. |
| 1:09.6 | It's also injecting race and gender back into the political debate in 2024. |
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