How American politics is tearing families apart
The News Agents
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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We’ve been on the road in Indiana, which isn’t far from the DNC in Chicago and yet feels so distant. Has Kamala Harris’ introduction to the nation reached heartland America? We find a state full of friendly people who have just stopped talking to each other, of not just competing politics, but parallel realities.
And back in the United Centre, the previously little known Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has made his keynote speech. Jon has all the reaction from the Democrat bigwig.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | I've lost two brothers over this. |
| 0:15.0 | We can't even talk normal politics. |
| 0:18.4 | Not that we ever did. |
| 0:19.6 | We never talked politics 10 years ago. But now we sit down and |
| 0:25.3 | we're drawing lines in the sand. And it's unfortunate. And it interferes with personal relationships. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah. One lives in Ohio, one lives in Wisconsin, and we literally cannot get together anymore. |
| 0:37.8 | They didn't come to the family reunion because we just cannot get together and have a normal, just a normal family reunion. |
| 0:46.6 | So sad. |
| 0:47.7 | It's very sad because that's the only family members he has now. |
| 0:52.1 | There's been a lot of excitement in the hall of the Democratic National Convention over the last couple of days. |
| 1:00.0 | But those voices, people that we interviewed in a small town in Indiana on Wednesday afternoon, |
| 1:07.0 | remind us that for a lot of America right now, politics isn't really about excitement or about razzle-dazzle |
| 1:14.6 | or even about much hope. |
| 1:16.5 | Politics is actually a source of despair of people losing family and friends |
| 1:23.2 | over divisions which run deep. |
| 1:25.9 | But in the hall last night, a very different vision of family. |
| 1:29.7 | Hope, Gus and Gwen, |
| 1:33.0 | you are my entire world, |
| 1:35.1 | and I love you. |
| 1:37.2 | That was Tim Wool's, |
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