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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the Trump campaign's response to the DNC

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including this critical week in the presidential race and the Republican ticket's efforts to counterprogram the Democratic National Convention. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Let's bring in our politics Monday team here to tick through all that we've talked

0:08.4

about so far.

0:09.4

Good to see you both.

0:10.4

Thank you.

0:11.4

Good to be here.

0:12.4

So this convention will provide

0:13.9

Kamala Harris with such an introduction to the biggest audience of her

0:17.9

campaign. And Amy just looking at the latest polling there's a CBS News

0:22.1

you-Gov poll out yesterday that has her up 51

0:24.9

percent nationally 51 to 48 and then she's tied 50 50 50 in the battlegrounds.

0:31.6

What more to Democrats need to do? What can they do to sustain this

0:34.4

momentum moving ahead to November? Yeah, I mean this that's why tonight is going to be

0:38.7

very interesting and watching of course the president who was supposed to be accepting the nomination

0:44.5

actually coming here and endorsing his vice president he wants to of course talk

0:50.6

about his legacy he wants to as the reports are coming out move

0:54.4

forward not just talk about the past but basically passing the baton passing the

0:59.8

mantle to Harris at the same time part of the reason Harris is doing as well as she is,

1:05.2

is that she's not seen as part of the Biden legacy. In other words, she's not as

1:11.6

closely tied to decisions that the Biden administration

1:14.8

made.

1:15.8

To me, one of the most interesting data points I've seen so far from recent polling, this is the

1:19.6

Washington Post poll.

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