Monday, October 21, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
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Monday briefing: Presidential polls; Trump’s McDonald’s visit; New Mexico floods; WNBA’s New York Liberty; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat. |
| 0:07.0 | That's where we're starting the 7 from the Washington Post. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Monday, October 21st. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:17.0 | With two weeks and one day to go until election day, Trump and Harris are running neck and neck across seven key battleground states. |
| 0:29.0 | This is according to a new post-Shar school poll. |
| 0:33.2 | It surveyed more than 5,000 registered voters |
| 0:35.9 | in the first half of October. |
| 0:38.1 | It found that 47% of respondents |
| 0:40.5 | said they will definitely or probably support Harris and 47% said the same for |
| 0:45.7 | Trump among likely voters 49% support Harris and 48% back Trump these voters form a critical portion of the electorate who will likely decide who becomes the next US President. |
| 0:59.0 | In other campaign news, Trump served fries during a highly stage managed visit to a |
| 1:04.8 | Pennsylvania McDonald's this weekend. Never touches the human hand. Nice and |
| 1:09.9 | full. Thank you. Good. You want to do another one? |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | I'll grab it. |
| 1:16.0 | Trump praised McDonald's workers but dodged a reporter's question about raising the minimum |
| 1:20.8 | wage. |
| 1:21.9 | He also used his visit to promote his unsubstantiated claim |
| 1:25.3 | that Vice President Harris did not work at the fast food chain in college as she says she did. |
| 1:39.1 | Number two, the Biden administration proposed free over-the-counter birth control. This proposal was announced this morning. |
| 1:43.0 | It would require private health insurance plans to cover over-the-counter birth control. |
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