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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on how candidates are appealing to working-class voters

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join John Yang to discuss the latest political news, including how both presidential campaigns are trying to appeal to working-class voters and former President Trump's shifting strategy on reproductive rights. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

And for more on both presidential campaigns efforts to appeal to working class

0:05.1

voters, we're joined by our politics Monday duo. That's Amy Walter of the

0:10.0

Cook political report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

0:14.7

It was we just heard the endorsements from a union don't necessarily mean that the

0:19.2

union members are going to go that way.

0:21.4

But Tam how is the Harris campaign trying to turn all those

0:25.3

endorsements into votes? It's pretty simple. Those endorsements come with what we

0:30.2

would call a ground game. That is union members out knocking on doors,

0:35.4

campaigning with their family members,

0:37.7

campaigning with their neighbors.

0:40.0

And for instance, the FLCOs,

0:42.4

endorsed, well,

0:43.7

Biden back then, extremely early, very, very early.

0:47.3

And when I talked to them about why they did that,

0:50.0

they said because that then opens the floodgates

0:52.3

to be able to begin doing that door

0:54.0

knocking and other on-the-ground campaign work.

0:56.8

It really just, for Democrats, magnifies their already existing infrastructure to try to reach voters where they are because

1:05.6

the feeling about this election is it will be very close it will be decided in

1:09.3

key states where there are a lot of union members and yes the union members the

1:15.2

rank and file are split but in terms of who is knocking on doors they're

1:20.2

knocking on doors for Democrats.

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