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How many ways can you tell someone to vote?

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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There are plenty of ways to encourage people to vote, as the presidential candidates and their supporters are demonstrating in this final stretch of the campaign.

We dig into each campaign's voter turnout operation.

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0:00.0

How many ways can you tell someone to get to the polls and vote?

0:04.8

The answer is lots as the presidential candidates and their supporters are demonstrating

0:09.3

in this final stretch of the campaign. There's the direct approach.

0:12.8

Just vote. Whichever way you want to do...

0:15.8

Former President Donald Trump at a rally in Georgia, borrowing a page from Nike.

0:19.8

At another Georgia event Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Wall's encouraged voters to imagine their future selves.

0:27.0

Even some of your younger people, you're going to be on that porch in your rocking chair someday, and there's going to be a little one at your knee and say what did you do in

0:34.0

2024 to save democracy and you're going to say every damn thing I could do every

0:39.4

damn thing I could do.

0:40.4

By this point in the campaign the focus has shifted from persuasion to motivation.

0:45.3

The candidates want to make sure everyone who already leans their way actually casts a ballot.

0:50.8

That's why you hear former First Lady Michelle Obama reminding potential support as a vice- a You are a woman who lives in a household of men that don't listen to you or value your opinion.

1:07.0

Just remember that your vote is a private matter.

1:11.0

Regardless... private matter. Regardless of the political views of your partner, you get to choose.

1:19.6

And it's why you hear Trump laying out an alternate vision of politics within marriage.

1:24.0

Make sure you vote and bring all our friends that want to vote for us.

1:28.2

Tell him, Jill, get your fat husband off the couch.

1:33.9

Get that, get that fat pig off the couch.

1:39.0

Tell him to go and vote for Trump,

1:40.7

he's gonna save our country.

1:42.8

Republican Vice Presidential nominee,

1:44.7

J.D. Vance bet on fear as a motivator.

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