September 20, 2024: Could Mark Robinson hurt Trump’s chances in North Carolina?
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by BP. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It's Friday, September 20th, |
| 0:11.7 | and here's what's driving the day. Last night in Michigan, Kamala Harris sat down for a campaign |
| 0:17.0 | event slash town hall slash interview with Oprah Winfrey, which is notable coming as Harris |
| 0:22.2 | continues to be dogged by suggestions that she doesn't sit for meaningful interviews with news outlets |
| 0:27.4 | and the related suggestion that there is still quite a lot that some voters would like to know about |
| 0:32.2 | her. This was a chance to fill in some of those blanks. Also notable is that the sit-down came in Oakland County, |
| 0:39.1 | the suburban Detroit powerhouse that was once a GOP stronghold, it's where Mitt Romney grew up, |
| 0:45.2 | but has become a huge source of Democratic votes in statewide elections, and Democrats there |
| 0:49.4 | are looking to really drive up the margins so that they can combat any Trump turnout elsewhere in the state. |
| 0:56.7 | Meanwhile, Republicans have been centering their attention as of late on Nebraska, |
| 1:01.7 | where there's a national coordinated effort to get the state to change the way it allocates |
| 1:06.0 | electoral votes just weeks ahead of Election Day. |
| 1:09.1 | They're betting that they can change the state to |
| 1:10.9 | win or take all, potentially depriving Harris of an electoral vote in Omaha, and effectively |
| 1:15.8 | killing a few of her paths to 270 electoral votes. Now, Maine has threatened to do the same |
| 1:22.3 | thing if Nebraska does, a sort of red state, blue state, tit for tat. But there's a problem of timing. In Maine, |
| 1:29.8 | a bill only becomes law 90 days after it's passed, unless the bill receives a two-thirds vote |
| 1:36.2 | in each chamber. Now, Democrats in Maine currently have majorities in each state legislative chamber, |
| 1:43.2 | which means that they can't bypass that |
| 1:45.1 | 90-day rule. |
| 1:47.1 | And just as a reminder, we're now 45 days away from November 5th and 86 days from December 16th, |
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