Six Days Left: Closing Arguments, Racist Jokes and Burning Ballots

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In the final week of the race for president, Donald J. Trump’s big rally in New York appeared to backfire, while Kamala Harris’s closing message cast her as a unifier. Fears about election interference also resurfaced after arsonists burned ballots in three states. The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher and Astead Herndon try to make sense of it all.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.
0:05.0	Fallout spreads from the controversial rhetoric at Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden
0:11.0	rally.
0:12.0	In the final week of the race for president,
0:14.4	Donald Trump's closing argument to voters
0:17.4	appeared to backfire.
0:19.0	So anger, frustration, disgust?
0:22.4	A closing carnival of grievances, misogyny, and racism.
0:27.0	It was so incredibly crude.
0:30.0	Kamala Harris seized on abortion with a message aimed at men.
0:34.8	Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaking to male voters there with the message,
0:39.8	we as women will become collateral damage to your wage.
0:43.4	Does that help get votes for Kamala Harris?
0:46.9	And fears about election interference
0:49.4	were fueled by burning ballots across three states.
0:53.0	Hundreds of ballots stuffed in drop boxes went up in flames on the West Coast.
0:57.5	And now the search is on for whoever set that fire.
1:00.8	Today, I talked to all of that with three of my colleagues, National Political Correspondents
1:07.0	Lisa Lair and Shane Goldmocker, and the host of the Run-Up Podcast, Astead Herndon.
1:14.0	It's Wednesday, October 30th.
1:18.0	Well, friends, it has finally happened. This is our final campaign roundtable before the election.
1:30.0	Sniff, sniff, all good things must come to an end.
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