Kamala Harris Calls Donald Trump ?A Fascist?
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Today, we discuss Kamala Harris? change in tone: from asking voters to choose joy, to calling her opponent Donald Trump a ?fascist?.
Adam is joined by BBC News chief presenters, Sumi Somaskanda and Caitr?ona Perry from Washington to talk about how both campaigns are approaching the final fortnight of the campaign, the latest polling in the crucial swing states and the news Beyonce might make an appearance with Harris in Houston, Texas.
And, diplomatic correspondent James Landale chats about Keir Starmer at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Samoa, and why other leaders at the summit want Britain - and especially the Labour government - to look at reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's really hotting up in America, not the presidential election, but contributions |
| 0:09.5 | to Remotor Voter USA Edition, where we get you to explain why you will not be able to vote in person. |
| 0:17.4 | Cue the music. |
| 0:27.2 | Now this person. Cue the music. Now this person is our remote voter because they're not too far away, |
| 0:32.4 | but they're not there. And they haven't left their name, but here's their story. I've worked the polls in San Francisco for over a decade now. And for the last five years, I take the day off my usual work in tech to go to City Hall at 5am and help coordinate all of the roaming poll supervisors and ensure that any issues are resolved quickly so that voters can always keep voting in all of our 500 citywide polling locations. This anonymous person says, I'll leave there once the final poll worker |
| 0:56.7 | leaves the last polling place, which is usually around 11 p.m. or midnight, and so I can't vote at my usual |
| 1:02.5 | spot. We can vote by mail, but I have a love of voting in person, so we'll be voting at our |
| 1:07.8 | City Hall Election Center, either on election day or the Saturday before. |
| 1:12.8 | Thank you very much for your service to the democratic process as well, anonymous person. |
| 1:17.7 | Our remoter voters, who's somebody who's a little bit further away than that, is John from Lunenberg. |
| 1:24.0 | He says, hello, long-time listener here in rural Massachusetts, about 40 miles northwest of Boston. |
| 1:30.6 | Voting options vary from state to state, John says. We in Massachusetts choose between mail-in voting, |
| 1:37.5 | early in-person voting, and in-person voting on Election Day itself. This election, I'm recovering from total hip replacement surgery. |
| 1:46.7 | Wow. |
| 1:47.3 | So my wife and I have already cast our votes by mail. |
| 1:50.5 | Thanks for all your hard work and creativity over the years. |
| 1:53.6 | You're very welcome, John. |
| 1:54.7 | Thank you very much for entering remoter voter USA edition. |
| 1:58.3 | And thank you to our remotest voter, DePesh, who sent us this voicemail. |
| 2:04.1 | Hello, newscast. This is DePesh from Wisconsin in the United States. |
| 2:08.4 | I will be a remoter voter because on the day of the election, I will be getting on an airplane |
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