meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
PBS News Hour - Segments

How presidential campaign messages are resonating with fewer than 100 days until election

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's only been a week since the 2024 race for the White House was upended, but it's already entering the final countdown with fewer than 100 days until Election Day. In the last couple of days, the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and JD Vance hit the campaign trail together while Kamala Harris spent her first full weekend as the likely Democratic nominee. Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

It's only been a week since the 2024 race for the White House was upended, but it's already entering the final countdown.

0:08.0

Now fewer than 100 days until election day.

0:11.0

In the last couple of days,

0:12.9

the Republican ticket, that's Donald Trump and JD Vance,

0:16.0

hit the campaign trail together

0:17.5

while Vice President Kamala Harris

0:19.2

spent her first full weekend

0:21.1

as the likely Democratic nominee.

0:23.2

Here's Lisa Desjardin.

0:25.1

Because we have a lot to talk about.

0:27.1

Tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign

0:29.7

is basking in the glow of a colossal fundraising hall and a new surge in the polls.

0:35.9

Her campaign announced yesterday that it had raised over $200 million in the first week of

0:41.8

her candidacy. That's more than the Trump campaign

0:44.4

raised in the entire month of June. And Team Harris got a boost in manpower, saying

0:50.0

more than 170,000 volunteers signed up. But even with that at a Massachusetts

0:56.7

fundraiser this weekend, Harris warned against overconfidence.

1:00.3

We're the underdogs in this race, but this is a people power campaign and we have

1:07.5

momentum. Those signs of energy are also showing up in the polls. A new ABC News ipso's poll shows voters warming up to

1:15.4

Harris fast with 43% favorability. That number was 35% just a week ago. The

1:22.2

jump was especially pronounced among independence now with 44% viewing

1:27.0

Harris favorably. That's up by 16 points.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from PBS NewsHour, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of PBS NewsHour and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.