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From Our Own Correspondent

Keep America Great

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Keep America Great’ has replaced ‘Make America Great’ as the favoured slogan among some Donald Trump supporters. Ahead of the US mid-term elections, James Cook meets those who think the President is winning and can’t wait to vote for him again.

Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.

In Mexico, Will Grant has been traveling with the caravan made up of the thousands of Central American migrants hoping to reach the US.

From Damascus, Diana Darke reflects on what her own family’s experience after World War One reveals about what life might be like in Syria when the conflict there finally ends.

John Murphy is in Tunisia, once held up as one of the Arab Springs greatest successes but where people now have little to celebrate.

And Pip Stewart reveals why a flesh-eating parasite from Guyana has made a quiet mark on her.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

Hello. Today we're on the road, the long trudged towards the US border with the

0:11.1

thousands of Central American migrants now in Mexico.

0:15.6

From Damascus, our correspondent reflects on what her grandparents' experiences after the First

0:21.9

World War might teach us about what life will really be like when the

0:25.8

war in Syria finally comes to an end.

0:28.8

In Tunisia they enjoy newly won freedom of speech, but what else has changed since the Arab Spring?

0:35.2

And we have the tale of a nasty and hungry little parasite from Guyana.

0:41.2

Two years after Donald Trump was elected, Americans will be voting again on Tuesday

0:47.5

to choose new members of Congress.

0:50.1

If you believe the polls, the Democrats look set to do well, and they're hoping they might just

0:54.8

be able to take control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

0:59.4

Historically, the President's Party usually loses some seats and the leader's approval rating is a good

1:05.3

indicator of just how many and so the midterms are seen as a referendum on the presidency itself. That's why James Cook was so interested in what a man called

1:15.8

Donald had to say while exploring the president's popularity in Arizona.

1:22.0

Even in a hall packed with Trump supporters bedecked in red and white, the man stood out.

1:27.8

He had a big smile and was wearing a white t-shirt that proclaimed in big red letters fake news CNN sucks. It's the kind of a

1:36.9

tire you can purchase outside any rally for the president but on closer

1:40.8

inspection it turned out that this was homemade.

1:44.8

It had been a genuine CNN souvenir t-shirt said its owner,

1:48.8

but then he explained I had my daughter-in-law put the lettering across the top.

1:53.0

My name is Donald and I'm a junior said the man laughing because a rather more famous Donald

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