If You Can Keep It: Kamala Harris' Vice Presidential Pick And Moderate Voters
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🗓️ 5 August 2024
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Two of the three candidates hail from swing states, indicating a desire to appeal to moderate voters. Harris met with Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz yesterday.
Moderates are an important group in this election, especially for Democrats. A 2022 Gallup poll suggests the percentage of Americans who hold either moderate or conservative political positions is tied. But liberals remain the smallest group at 25 percent of the population.
We unpack who these voters are, what we get wrong about them, and how they could shape the presidential election.
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| 0:39.9 | politics series if you can keep it. In this weekly election series we leave the horse race to the side and instead |
| 0:46.3 | we're focused on the stakes of this election, for people, for the country and for our |
| 0:51.1 | democracy. |
| 0:52.1 | And today we're discussing Vice President Kamala Harris's impending Vice Presidential |
| 0:56.1 | pick and what it could mean for moderate voters? |
| 0:58.8 | I am a moderate Republican and I do think that the vice presidential nominee is important. |
| 1:05.0 | In 2016, I never would have voted for Trump if he had not chosen |
| 1:11.0 | pence. I do hope that the Democratic Party will listen to us disaffected |
| 1:15.8 | Republicans who really don't want Trump and his chaos in the office. |
| 1:20.4 | From a moderate and for me it absolutely makes a difference. |
| 1:24.8 | Kamala Harris choice for VP hoping she chooses Shapiro or Markelly for various reasons |
| 1:31.7 | of foreign policy and also for more centric views on moving |
| 1:38.9 | forward as a country. My dream pick for Kamala would be if she chose someone from the Republican Party |
| 1:45.3 | who actually fought against Donald Trump. To me they are the ones who showed their |
| 1:50.5 | true patriotism. I am a moderate voter. |
| 1:53.1 | I'm probably going to vote for Kamala Harris, |
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