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PBS News Hour - Segments

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on voter sentiment and last-minute poll surprises

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including how close the election will be, the favorable result for Kamala Harris in the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll, the surprise poll result from Iowa and the big issues that will win over voters. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

For more on the tight race for the White House, I'm joined by our Politics Monday team.

0:05.5

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

0:10.7

It's great to see you both.

0:11.7

Good to be here.

0:12.2

I believe it's finally here.

0:13.2

I know it.

0:13.9

Here we go.

0:14.5

Election Eve, my favorite Eve of all time.

0:17.5

Of all the eaves. I want to ask you about that new PBS news poll we've got, Tam, because you saw there, as Lisa reported earlier,

0:24.8

Harris, with her first national lead that's outside the margin of error, just a four-point lead

0:30.0

among likely voters at a 3.5% margin of error on that poll. But you've been in the battleground

0:34.7

states. You were in Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada. That's where the races are won or lost. Are you seeing any shift that tells you which way this race is going? I've spoken to a lot of people who believe it's really, really close. So I don't know that, that, you know, when you're out there in these states, it's like you're looking at the toenail of an elephant,

0:54.4

but you don't know whether it's a rock or an elephant. And so what I will say is that I was covering

1:00.5

Harris. I was going to some of her events. The enthusiasm is quite intense among her

1:06.4

supporters who are showing up at these events, 10,000,000 people showing up. One thing that really

1:13.2

stood out to me was we were in Wisconsin. She did a rally in a town called Little Shoot, which is a

1:20.4

population 12,000 town and a county that went for Trump. And there was a lot of enthusiasm in that gymnasium. Driving up, there are a bunch of

1:29.8

Trump supporters outside, waving flags and banners, but then you get a little bit closer and you see

1:34.2

this long line of people who didn't get into the event because it was oversold. Inside, there was a

1:39.3

lot of enthusiasm. That is part of their effort to lose by less in areas, more rural areas, outside of the urban centers.

1:48.6

Now, is this part of a big trend and we're going to see, oh, well, gosh, she lost by less

1:53.6

in all these counties out there and that's how she won?

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