How Georgia and Pennsylvania Could Decide the Election

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Sep. 3. Locked in a tight race, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump pour time and money into Pennsylvania and Georgia. The WSJ’s Ken Thomas says the two battleground states are crucial to their chances of winning the election in November. Plus, Israel’s political divisions deepen after the killing of six Gaza hostages sets off protests. And, Cathay Pacific cancels flights after discovering engine issues in some of its Airbus planes. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	Protests and mourning in Israel after six killed hostages are found in Gaza.
0:24.7	Plus Germany's far right scores a historic win in regional elections.
0:29.7	And White House reporter Ken Thomas joins us to explain why the Harris and Trump campaigns
0:34.8	are spending so much time, energy and money in Georgia and Pennsylvania.
0:39.4	You're going to see a very big push from Trump and his running mate JD Vance in Pennsylvania.
0:45.4	The Trump campaign views that state as the quickest way to deny Harris a victory and her ability to reach 270 electoral votes.
0:55.7	It's Tuesday, September 3rd.
0:57.4	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:07.0	Israel is set for more protests today after tens of thousands of Israelis first took to the streets on Sunday
1:18.0	to voice frustration with the government's failure to reach a deal to free hostages held by Hamas.
1:25.0	Tensions spiked after authorities said over the weekend that the Palestinian
1:29.2	militant group had killed six hostages in captivity.
1:33.2	Israel's Western allies are also displaying signs of frustration.
1:37.8	Asked yesterday if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was doing enough to get a hostage deal,
1:42.4	President Biden said no, while the UK government
1:46.0	unveiled a partial arms embargo on Israel.
1:49.4	Netanyahu isn't backing down, however, and has said he won't stop insisting that Israeli troops remain
1:55.4	along the Gaza-Egypt border to prevent future wars with Hamas, a term that negotiators
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