Inside Georgia's Trump rally
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Our pop-up podcast studio is on the move!
Sarah has gone to Georgia, and the weather isn’t the only thing that’s heating up. Kamala Harris has openly described Donald Trump as a “fascist” at a town hall, and Sarah is outside one of his rallies to find out why his supporters are sticking by him.
She’s joined by Anthony to talk about what life is like for a BBC correspondent reporting from political rallies when tensions are this high.
And we return to our own 'Electoral College', in which Anthony explains the importance of town hall events to presidential elections.
HOSTS: * Sarah Smith, North America Editor * Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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This episode was made by Purvee Pattni and Claire Betzer in Georgia, with George Dabby and Rufus Gray in London. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey AmeriCasters, it's getting very close to the big US election and before we get going with |
| 0:05.1 | the podcast properly, I just want to let you know that we're going to be making daily episodes at the moment, |
| 0:10.3 | taking the AmeriCast pop-up podcast studio on the road every single day all the way to election night and maybe even beyond new episodes drop in our podcast feed please make sure you're subscribed to |
| 0:23.9 | AmeriCast on BBC Sounds and have push notifications turned on in your phone |
| 0:29.0 | settings that way me Justin Sarah and Anthony will land direct onto your phone as soon as it's ready. |
| 0:36.2 | Just what you've always wanted. |
| 0:37.6 | Anyway, here's today's episode. |
| 0:39.4 | Enjoy. |
| 0:40.4 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, America, it's 10 o'clock at night here in America, |
| 0:48.0 | 3 o'clock in the morning in the UK, |
| 0:50.0 | and it's been a busy evening. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, as you might expect, less than two weeks to go |
| 0:53.8 | till the election, the candidates are working as hard as they can. |
| 0:57.8 | Kamala Harris has been taking part |
| 0:59.3 | in a televised town hall on CNN, |
| 1:02.1 | and she says she does think Donald Trump's a fascist. |
| 1:05.6 | You've quoted General Millie calling Donald Trump a fascist. You yourself have not |
| 1:09.7 | used that word to describe him. Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? |
| 1:14.4 | Yes, I do. |
| 1:16.0 | Yes, I do. |
| 1:17.6 | And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted. |
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