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Harris paints Trump as threat to democracy as Election Day draws closer

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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With the presidential election just 12 days away, new polling shows the race neck and neck. It's adding urgency to Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, who is now consistently painting her opponent as an existential threat to democracy. Donald Trump is focusing on the key issue of immigration. Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Welcome to the news hour. With the presidential election just 12 days away, new polling shows the presidential race neck and neck.

0:08.0

It's adding urgency to the Harris campaign. The vice president is now consistently painting her opponent as an

0:14.3

existential threat to democracy that says Donald Trump is in the Sunbelt tonight

0:19.1

focusing again on immigration Lisa Desjardan reports.

0:25.6

Former President Donald Trump campaigning today down in the desert in the pivotal state of Arizona

0:31.0

where election workers in Maricopa County are already

0:33.8

tabulating ballots from early voters like these in Phoenix. So I did vote for

0:38.8

Kamala, a lot of reasons personally that you know I just don't agree with Trump. I like the way the

0:46.7

country ran when he was in charge not liking his personality absolutely I don't

0:51.1

like his personality but I like his policies.

0:54.0

Trump is at Arizona State University to rally the college crowd,

0:58.0

but also to put the spotlight back on one of those policies, immigration.

1:02.0

She has eradicated our sovereign border and she has unleashed an army of migrant gangs

1:08.7

who are waging a campaign of violence and terror against our citizens.

1:13.2

Something his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, was pressed on repeatedly at a CNN

1:18.2

town hall last night.

1:20.1

She was asked whether she supports more border wall.

1:23.0

Let's just fix the problem.

1:25.2

To fix the problem, you're doing this compromise bill.

1:28.1

It does call for $650 million that was earmarked under Trump

1:31.9

to actually still go to build a wall.

1:33.4

I am not afraid of good ideas where they occurred.

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