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Judy Woodruff discusses takeaways from the Crossroads town hall in Wisconsin

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PBS News senior correspondent Judy Woodruff was in Milwaukee this past week for her ongoing series, America at a Crossroads, where she met with more than 50 Wisconsin residents from across the political spectrum for a frank conversation about the challenges the U.S. faces as a country. John Yang speaks with Woodruff about what she heard from participants. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

For the past year and a half, Judy Woodruff has been exploring the ways our country's political divisions have affected our personal lives, creating riffs between family, friends and communities.

0:10.0

As part of that series called America at a crossroads, in Milwaukee this past week, Judy met with more

0:16.2

than 50 Wisconsin residents from across the political spectrum for a frank discussion

0:20.9

about the challenges we face as a country. Here's a bit of that

0:23.9

discussion. I have family members that want to you know throw the racist card

0:31.3

at me and I want to let people know as the black man, the only thing that he tries to identify with is my struggle.

0:46.5

Not me being a parent, not me being a person trying to work and pay bills and buy a home and

0:52.2

things like that.

0:54.0

That's part of a PBS special that airs tomorrow night called Crossroads, a conversation

0:58.4

with America and the leader of that conversation.

1:00.9

Judy Woodruff is here now. Judy, those sentiments, people feeling that. of that

1:05.0

the conversation. Judy, those sentiments, people feeling that political division personally. How common was that?

1:08.0

We heard it from a number of people, John. As you as you just said, it's more than 50 Wisconsin residents. We heard

1:15.2

several people who are Trump supporters saying that they have family members who

1:20.0

won't have anything to do with them. You just heard that woman say she's it's really

1:24.0

hurt her in what's happened in her family. We had another woman tell us that she'd

1:29.0

lost customers once this is a woman who owned both a shooting range interestingly and a beauty

1:34.4

salon and she said when her customers some of them heard that she or learned

1:39.2

that she was supporting Donald Trump it affected them and they stopped doing business.

1:44.4

They stopped patronizing her business.

1:46.3

On the other hand, we heard people who are very much Democrats supporting

1:52.0

Kamala Harris or Joe Biden before her saying that it had caused deep

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