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Kamala. Kamala. They were explaining to me, you can say Kamala, you can say Kamala. I said,

don't worry about it. It doesn't matter what I say.

I couldn't care less. If I mispronounce it or not, I couldn't care less. Kamala. Sometimes

referred to as Kamala. You get about nine different ways of pronouncing the name.

Donald Trump is struggling to pronounce the name of his opponent. And I think it's indicative of a wider struggle he's facing,

which is not just her name, but what she stands for and what she's done to the fight.

He simply doesn't know how to take her on.

And that is manifesting itself in various different ways, in anger, in frustration,

and the polling evidence so far suggests that where three and a half weeks ago,

Donald Trump was cruising to victory, he is now falling behind in the key battleground states. Can he define her?

Can he turn it round? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. The Newsagents USA.

It's John. It's Emily. And what is fascinating is to look at some of the polling data.

Now that sufficient time has passed between Joe Biden announcing that he's pulling out of the race and to today, just ahead of the Democrat convention next week in Chicago.

And you suddenly look at the three Democrat states that are the critical states in

this election of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, the sort of blue wall, if you like, the blue

Democrat wall. And there, Kamala Harris is now handily four points ahead, according to the latest

New York Times-Chienne poll, whereas Joe Biden

was behind. And if you look at three of the Sunbelt states, the so-called Sunbelt state,

of Nevada, of Arizona, and Georgia on the East Coast, which Biden just about squeaked in 2020. Biden was well behind. They are now in play.

And the Democrats are suddenly looking at a map, which is a lot, lot better for them than it was a few

weeks ago. And it's a catastrophe for Donald Trump.

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