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PBS News Hour - Segments

The final messages the presidential campaigns are giving to voters

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

As the presidential race nears a close, Laura Barrón-López and Lisa Desjardins joined Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett to discuss the final sprint to Election Day. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

With more on the candidate's final sprint to election day, let's bring in Laura Barone Lopez, who's been covering the Harris campaign.

0:08.1

And Lisa Desjardin, who's been reporting on former president Donald Trump. It's great to see you both. So Laura will start with you.

0:14.2

What has been the final message from Vice President Kamala Harris? Have you noticed a shift?

0:18.6

We have noticed the shift. In the final month, Harris was being much

0:21.7

more explicit when she was talking about Donald Trump and what she sees is the threats to democracy

0:26.0

that he poses, calling him unstable, looking for unchecked power. She was repeatedly quoting

0:32.2

former Trump officials, like his longest serving chief of staff, John Kelly, as well as the former

0:38.3

chiefs, uh, chief of the, sorry, joint chiefs of staff. Um, and their words, as they described

0:46.3

him as, as they described Donald Trump as fascist and is dangerous. But in her closing remarks,

0:51.9

uh, starting this weekend, Harris has not been naming Donald Trump

0:56.3

specifically. She's been trying to create more of this unity message. And that is a notable

1:01.5

shift. I asked Jen O'Malley-Dillan, her campaign chair about that today. And the campaign

1:06.1

chair said that she wants to end with optimism, this theme of unifying the country, that she will be a next

1:12.0

generation.

1:13.1

Lisa, what about the Trump campaign's final messages here?

1:15.6

Any big shifts now?

1:16.5

As you know, Donald Trump has very many messages most often, but one that they like as their

1:20.6

final message is this idea that Harris broke it, Trump will fix it.

1:24.8

That does a couple of things when you talk to senior campaign advisors

1:27.6

for Trump. They say, first of all, it tries to tag Harris to the Biden administration,

1:32.1

but it also leaves a much more vague opening so that any remorse, any grievance that voters

1:37.2

have, they will blame on her, whatever it is that's broken. And it also helps with his brand,

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