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The Playbook Podcast

October 30, 2024: Harris’ closing message vs. Biden’s ‘garbage’ gaffe

The Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing message from the Ellipse to a crowd of roughly 75,000 people. In the speech, she highlighted her policy aspirations, commitment to fighting for reproductive rights and pledged an ethos of unity. But shortly after she left the stage, President Joe Biden made headlines for potentially disparaging Trump voters as "garbage" in a video appearance with Latino supporters. He was reacting to comments Tony Hinchcliffe made at Trump's Sunday night Madison Square Garden rally that Puerto Rico was a "floating island of garbage." Playbook co-authors Eugene Daniels and Rachael Bade dive in to how effective Harris and Trump's closing messages were and whether Biden's flub will overshadow Harris’ message.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Presented by BP.

0:05.7

Good morning, everyone.

0:06.9

I am Playbook co-author Rachel Bade.

0:08.6

It's Wednesday, October 30th, which means we are six days out from Election Day, which is why I look like shit this morning.

0:16.9

You look like a camper.

0:17.8

Not like shit.

0:18.4

We do look like someone who wants to be camping.

0:39.1

That's the difference between our turtleneck looks. Camping look and the camping look. Very different. Well, looks aside, last night, Harris delivered the type of discipline to closing message that Republicans would have loved to hear from Donald Trump, frankly. It was, needless to say, quite the contrast from the divisive, racist, bigoted, and even sexist closing message that we heard at Madison

0:44.8

Square Garden Sunday. But then Joe Biden opened his mouth and let's just say, upstage Kamala,

0:51.5

in a not so great way. And joining me now to talk about the latest campaign buzz is my playbook co-author, Eugene Daniels, who was on the scene for Harris's speech. Good morning, Eugene. Hello. I was there. It was very, I thought it was going to be cold, so I was like over prepared and that got hot and it was fine. It was good. Well, you're back now. So, back now. So let's start with Harris's speech. Yeah. What did we hear last night and tell us a little bit about the vibes on the ground. Yeah. So the vibes on the ground was an insane amount of people there. So 75,000 is the number that the campaign says. More than 75,000 people were there. And, you know, when you're on the ground, It's kind of hard to tell. But from where the press was and where I kind of walked to the war at the back, and it was like people were all the way toward the Washington and like near the Washington monument, which is, for those of you that don't have it, haven't been there, it's quite a lot of people. So 75K scenes on track. At one point, they thought 20,

1:45.5

and then they expanded their permit, and then it just ended up in this humongous, like,

1:50.5

group of people. People were excited. I assumed that it was going to be mostly like DCers,

1:57.5

people from Virginia, people from Maryland. Rachel, there are people that flew in from, like, Boston.

2:02.7

One couple told me they drove from Tennessee.

2:05.4

So there was like a mix in the crowd of folks that are from around here and people that

2:11.2

really wanted to travel because the Harris campaign has been very clear that this is their

2:15.6

closing message.

2:16.7

So people see this as like the last

2:18.2

time to like really see her and hear from her and this big swing as we're days and days away

2:23.4

from this thing ending. I mean, what we heard from her was kind of, it sounded a little bit to me

2:30.8

also like a, like partly a speech someone would give jumping into the race, right? Like it sounded a little bit to me also like a, like partly a speech someone would give jumping into the race,

2:36.1

right?

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