Roundup: Activists Pitch Women — Secretly Vote For Harris
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
And there is an effort to convert Republicans in swing states into quiet Harris supporters, by educating them about the secret ballot and assuring them that their families and communities don't need to know who they voted for.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I know this is hard to believe, but one day, the election will be over. |
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| 0:24.0 | Hi, this is Margaret calling from outside the United States |
| 0:27.0 | embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, where I just dropped off my ballot |
| 0:30.0 | for the 2024 election. |
| 0:32.0 | This podcast was recorded at 12.26 PM Eastern Time on |
| 0:36.3 | Friday, October 11th of 2024. Things may have changed before you hear this but I'll |
| 0:41.9 | still be observing election season from abroad with West Wing reruns and constantly tracking my ballot online to make sure my vote is counted. |
| 0:49.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, I'm Asma Khalid, I cover the White House. I'm Franco-Adonius, I cover the campaign. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. |
| 1:04.0 | And today on the show, we are going to begin our weekly roundup from the campaign trail. |
| 1:09.0 | And Franco, you are joining us from Colorado because the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is out there. |
| 1:15.2 | Sounds like quite a scene where you are but I think I can safely say that Colorado is not a real competitive |
| 1:22.0 | state that Trump is realistically going to win. |
| 1:25.0 | So that being said, why is he spending precious time during these final weeks of the campaign out there? |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, I mean, it's very an unorthodox kind of move. It's not the thing that many presidential candidates would do, but as we know President Trump is not a typical presidential candidate. |
| 1:40.5 | I mean the reason is is because Colorado or specifically Aurora, which is |
| 1:46.0 | where he is, fits into a broader theme of his campaign and that is immigration. |
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