Red, White and Who? A Swing-State Debate

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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After a tense debate, Ryan Knutson and Molly Ball unpack a busy election week and examine what’s next for both campaigns in crucial swing states like Pennsylvania. Plus, could a state like Nebraska decide the election? Further Listening: - Red, White, and Who? How Abortion Plays for Trump and Harris - For Kamala Harris, a Big Interview and a Narrow Lead - Is the Trump Campaign Going Off Track? Further Reading: - We Asked Undecided Voters Who Won the Trump-Harris Debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I thought you were going to bring your cat.
0:07.0	Bring my cat to the recording studio?
0:12.0	Yes.
0:13.0	Ah, he's a little shy.
0:16.0	He preferred to stay home today.
0:18.0	My cat is 20 years old.
0:20.0	Oh, wow.
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	Yeah. What's your cat's name? His name is Heavy. I like the name Heavy. That's fun. So the reason that I'm asking you about your cat is because it feels like we've constantly been talking about cats in this election.
0:32.8	First with J.D. Vance's comments that resurfaced about childless cat ladies.
0:36.8	And then Donald Trump talking about cats and dogs in the debate this week.
0:41.8	And then Taylor Swift said that she was voting for
0:44.8	Kamala Harris by posting a photo of herself with her cat. Yeah you might say it was
0:49.3	the through feline of the debate.
0:53.0	Oh, got more where that came from, Ryan, get used to it.
0:57.0	It's mostly just a coincidence, but the reason they were really in the news this week
1:04.9	is because Donald Trump brought them up at the debate. It seems to have originated in
1:09.2	like a Facebook post, basically an urban legend that Trump seized on and brought up in the debate
1:15.1	and insisted was true, even though the moderators correctly pointed out it is not true as
1:20.1	far as we know, this idea that there's a small town in Ohio that has been overrun with migrants
1:27.3	and they are eating people's pets.
1:30.1	In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.
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