Harris and Trump visit key states as election nears
Newshour
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
With 2 days to go before the US presidential elections, Donald Trump has travelled to Pennsylvania and held a rally in North Carolina, whilst Kamala Harris has been campaigning in Michigan.
Also on the programme: Moldova's pro-EU president appears on course for a second term after a presidential election run-off seen as a choice between Europe and Russia; and we head to the nation of Bhutan to hear about its unique musical tradition called Zhungdra.
(Photo: A "Vote Here" sign is seen during early voting for the U.S. presidential election at the Detroit Elections Office in Detroit, Michigan on October 28, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.1 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. And we're beginning the program with something that |
| 0:11.7 | hasn't actually happened yet. It is perhaps an unusual approach to news, but when the US elections |
| 0:18.9 | are going to be held in two days, this is something that's not just |
| 0:23.1 | going to shape the future of the world's most powerful country, but quite possibly the future |
| 0:28.1 | of the world. And this election is gripping, not just because of that importance, but because |
| 0:33.3 | of how close it seems to be between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. |
| 0:38.7 | In a moment, we'll hear from the person who's just overseen the last survey for one of the major pollsters. |
| 0:44.0 | We're going to try and check in first with our correspondents who are following the candidates, |
| 0:49.0 | heading first to Michigan, where Kamala Harris has been urging Detroit churchgoers to cast their vote. |
| 0:55.8 | I see a nation determined to turn the page on hatred and division and chart a new way forward. |
| 1:06.0 | As I travel, I see Americans from so-called red states to so-called blue states who are ready to |
| 1:13.4 | bend the arc of history toward justice. I see an incredible number of our young people, our |
| 1:22.3 | young leaders. Oh, it would inspire you to see how they are organizing for change. |
| 1:28.9 | What I love about that generation, Bishop, they are quite impatient in a most wonderful way. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, Michigan had long been seen as a solidly democratic state, at least for the presidential elections, |
| 1:42.7 | but Donald Trump won it by a |
| 1:44.7 | whisker back in 2016, and it looks very close this time around. And there is, of course, this time |
| 1:51.7 | around a twist in Michigan. Ione Wells is our correspondent there. And Ione, what is that twist? |
| 2:02.1 | Well, twist in Michigan, I'm not sure exactly which twist you're referring to, actually. |
| 2:06.8 | In terms of the presence of the Arab American vote there, |
| 2:10.5 | and I know that you've been speaking to many people who have very strong opinions about that. |
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