Is the Kamala honeymoon over?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The (brat) summer was Kamala's. The Democratic nominee had two months of rave press reviews and sell out crowds. And a convention that left many remarking that the energy and momentum of the race was with her. But two months out from the election - and two weeks before the first ACTUAL postal votes are cast - Harris and Trump are now neck and neck in key swing polls. What's going on there?
Later, winter fuel for pensioners. Was the cut to universal allowance a mistake? A sign of strength? Or of battles to come? - MPs vote tomorrow.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | We're run by stupid people. Stupid, stupid people. |
| 0:19.2 | And we found that out at the debate with Joe. |
| 0:22.1 | How did that work out? |
| 0:23.1 | And we're going to find it out again on Tuesday night. |
| 0:25.6 | Is anybody going to be watching? |
| 0:27.3 | Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are now neck and neck. |
| 0:31.3 | After a summer that was all about Harris, it was her brat summer. |
| 0:36.5 | She had the momentum. |
| 0:40.4 | She had the energy. She had the airwaves. |
| 0:46.2 | But has that run out? Kamala Harris has put the Democrats back in the game. She had an opportunity after the convention to go further. The latest polling does not make pretty reading for her |
| 0:53.0 | campaign. She hasn't managed to take it to the next level. |
| 0:57.0 | Trump is inching forward again. |
| 0:59.6 | On the eve of their potentially only presidential debate, |
| 1:04.5 | where does the American presidential race now stand? |
| 1:07.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:16.8 | The Newsagents. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And I think we should pull back the curtain, but only an inch, because it is so cold in here, it is like the metaphors |
| 1:22.8 | are writing themselves, that the summer has ended, that the fun and games and the sunshine has gone. |
| 1:29.3 | And we are now sitting, I will admit, I'm sitting here with a dog blanket on my knee. |
| 1:34.6 | Very fetching. |
| 1:35.6 | Emily May this has got a blanket on a sign. |
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