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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump's ground game and Harris' outreach to Republicans

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 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 the Trump campaign's outsourcing of the ground game in key battleground states, Harris' efforts to win over "Nikki Haley Republicans" and what else to watch for with just two weeks remaining before Election Day. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Elon Musk's political efforts are just one high-profile effort by Trump allies to win over

0:05.7

voters in key battleground states on that.

0:08.4

And what else to watch for with just two weeks remaining before election day?

0:11.9

I'm joined now by our politics Monday

0:14.1

duo. That's Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter and

0:17.5

Tam Rakeeth of NPR. Hello to you both. Hello. So the Trump campaign

0:21.4

Tam has outsourced some of its get out the vote effort to these third party super PACs including Elon Musk.

0:28.0

The hitch there seems to be this reporting by Reuters that the PAC, the Elon Musk PAC is having trouble hitting door knocking

0:34.9

goals and that some canvassers, according to this reporting, have lied about the numbers

0:39.6

of voters that they actually contacted.

0:42.2

On a race that hinges on turnout,

0:44.0

that seems like this could be problematic for the Trump campaign

0:47.0

to have these outside groups doing this crucial work.

0:49.0

Right, another outside group that's involved

0:51.0

is Turning Point USA, run by Charlie Kirk. A lot of these

0:54.0

people are very good at getting attention. What we don't know is whether they're

0:58.3

very good at a ground game and the one case study that we have of a campaign saying, all right, I'm

1:07.1

going to farm it out, we're going to have this super PAC do it, we're going to focus on

1:10.6

the things that we can focus on like ads and putting the

1:13.1

candidate where the candidate should be. That was Ron DeSantis and it was a disaster.

1:18.1

It was not a good case study in what you want to do.

1:22.8

And so there is a very open question

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