The Garbage Election
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The row over who said who is garbage refuses to go away, and it's starting to stink.
It started as a controversial joke at a Trump rally, but the word has now become a problem for the Democrats too.
Sarah and Anthony go through the story from the start and discuss whether it’s another ‘basket of deplorables’ moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey AmeriCasters, it's getting very close to the big US election and before we get going with the |
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| 0:36.2 | Just what you've always wanted. Anyway, here's today's episode. |
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| 0:40.3 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | This election has turned out to be absolute rubbish or garbage rather because that is what is grabbing everybody's attention just a few days before |
| 0:56.0 | voting. We're having a serious debate about who's garbage. It's like the playground, |
| 1:01.5 | you're garbage, no you are No, you are. But that's where we've gotten to and in many ways this could prove to be quite a serious issue because Anthony somebody's going to come out smelling worse out of this aren't they either the |
| 1:16.1 | Democrats or the Republicans? Yeah obviously you know this all started in Manhattan on Sunday with a comedian referring to Puerto Rico as an island of garbage. |
| 1:29.4 | But then, and it looked like Democrats had an advantage, but then Joe Biden on Tuesday night decided to |
| 1:34.4 | try to condemn that rally and either misspoke or said it directly depending on who you believe |
| 1:41.2 | said that all of Trump supporters were garbage. |
| 1:44.4 | So now we have both sides calling someone on the other side garbage and both sides are |
| 1:49.4 | kind of elbowing to try to gain advantage on this and I think everyone's coming out of it smelling a little worse |
| 1:54.9 | Sarah. Well we'll unpack who it's going to help, who it's going to hurt. Welcome to America's to AmeriCast. AmeriCast. AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 2:06.7 | There was blood pouring everywhere and yet I had God on my side. |
| 2:11.6 | So I decided the best way forward is the past the torch for a new generation. |
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