Kamala Harris, Project 2025, Houston After Beryl

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

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President Biden is facing more calls to step down, putting Vice President Kamala Harris under fresh scrutiny from Republicans and others. Donald Trump is attempting to distance himself from Project 2025, a controversial plan for the conservative overhaul of government. And Houston residents are recovering after Hurricane Beryl knocked out power to more than two million homes and businesses.

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0:00.0	calls for President Biden to step aside and put Vice President Kamala Harris in the
0:07.1	spotlight.
0:08.1	She says she's firmly in support of the President, but can the Biden campaign refocus the race on Trump?
0:14.0	I mean Martinez, that's Sasha Fyfer and this is up first from NPR News.
0:18.7	Project 2025 is hundreds of pages of plans for a new conservative government
0:26.7	written by the Heritage Foundation. How much does it overlap with the
0:30.0	official GOP Party platform? And Hurricane Barrel swept through Houston
0:34.6	and left down power lines and damaged buildings.
0:37.4	During a crisis, it exposes the city's lack of maintenance and infrastructure and city services.
0:46.0	Nearly a million people are still without power.
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