#Markets: Harris-Walz and the working class. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John |
| 0:04.3 | I'm John Batcher with my colleague Elizabeth Peek of the columnist at the Hill, |
| 0:08.8 | comments at Fox News, much on Fox Business, |
| 0:11.7 | and with weeks to go till the presidential election Liz has a |
| 0:14.6 | column up observing the working class in America who are well-to-do and tradesmen and |
| 0:22.0 | are quite self-contained. |
| 0:24.7 | No longer looking for work, they're fully occupied all the time in the trades. |
| 0:29.9 | However, the question is about the vote. |
| 0:33.4 | Once reliably New Deal Democrats, I recently profiled one county in the state of Pennsylvania, |
| 0:40.2 | which is the election, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:42.9 | Luzerne County, all Democrats, New Deal Democrats as of 1940, |
| 0:48.8 | mining shoe factories, clothing factories, 100 miles southwest of Philadelphia. |
| 0:55.0 | Now completely switched to the other side. |
| 0:59.0 | GOP for years and now clearly in the Trump camp. So what has happened is surprising and |
| 1:06.4 | Liz you have some statistics here that demonstrate the movement is clear-cut and I |
| 1:12.4 | don't know the Democrats have an answer nor do I know |
| 1:15.0 | whether the Republicans are aware of the bounty that's coming their way. |
| 1:19.6 | How do you measure the Democrats? |
| 1:21.1 | Are they reacting to these numbers? |
| 1:23.0 | Well I think they are and you've seen the Harris-Walls campaign pick up on a lot of sort of themes that might appeal to working class Americans like, you know, |
| 1:36.8 | advertisements, political ads, Governor Wals tinkering with his truck. |
| 1:41.3 | I mean, you know, obviously critics are kind of making fun of it |
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