Harris warns health care on the line as Johnson eyes 'massive reform' if Trump wins
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. Both presidential candidates brought their campaigns to the Southwest today. Former President Donald Trump stopped in New Mexico a detour from battleground territory while Vice President Kamala Harris jetted off to Arizona. But before she left, Harris spoke with reporters about what's on the line on Election Day just five days out. |
| 0:21.6 | Laura Barone Lopez begins our coverage with this report. |
| 0:24.6 | Be very clear that among the stakes in this election are whether we continue with the Affordable |
| 0:30.2 | Care Act or not. |
| 0:32.6 | In between campaign stops today, Kamala Harris warned that health care is on the ballot, following a vow |
| 0:39.0 | from House Speaker Mike Johnson for, quote, massive reform if Donald Trump is elected. |
| 0:45.0 | And now we have further validation of that agenda from his supporter, the Speaker of the House. |
| 0:51.3 | The American people, regardless of who they're voting for, |
| 1:01.4 | know the importance of the Affordable Care Act, as is also called Obamacare, in terms of expanding people's coverage to health care. In leaked video obtained by multiple outlets, Johnson echoed |
| 1:07.1 | an audience member, saying, quote, no Obamacare, and that changes needed to be made. |
| 1:13.1 | Later, he walked it back, rejecting that he wants to gut the popular law, even though Trump himself |
| 1:18.4 | has repeatedly said he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It comes as both campaigns |
| 1:24.1 | battle for votes in the southwest, Harris in Phoenix, Arizona. |
| 1:28.6 | We have an opportunity to turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump trying to keep us divided |
| 1:36.9 | and afraid of each other. We're done with that. We're exhausted with that. |
| 1:42.6 | I said, look, your votes are rigged. |
| 1:45.0 | We can win New Mexico. |
| 1:47.0 | And Trump in not so far away, Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| 1:51.0 | If we could bring God down from heaven, he could be the vote counter. |
| 1:56.0 | We would win this. We'd win California. |
| 1:59.0 | We'd win a lot of states. You just got to keep the votes honest. |
| 2:05.3 | Last night, Trump touched down in Green Bay, Wisconsin. |
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