Thursday, September 12th, 2024 - 9/11 remembrance, 67M watch debate, Taylor Swift drives voter registrations, Inflation cools, Hurricane hits Louisiana

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

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Today’s Headlines: Following the debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, both attended the 9/11 remembrance ceremony in New York alongside President Biden, JD Vance, and others. Harris and Biden also participated in memorial events in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon. The debate attracted 67 million viewers, while Taylor Swift's endorsement of Harris drove over 300,000 clicks to voter registration. Meanwhile, foreign officials praised Harris’s performance. Inflation data showed a 2.5% rise in August, and Hurricane Francine hit Louisiana, causing widespread power outages. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: AP News: Biden, Harris, Trump and Vance attend 9/11 ceremony in New York Axios: 67 million watch Trump-Harris presidential debate NBC News: More than 337,000 people visit Taylor Swift's link to register to vote Politico: The World Can Now See Kamala Harris in its Most Powerful Job Axios: New CPI report shows another month of cooling inflation AP News: Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana as Category 2 storm Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, September 12th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by Betches Media.
0:06.5	I'm your host Sammy Sage and the morning announcements is your daily five minute breakdown of the headlines that isn't a megaphone for the loudest
0:13.1	voices but a magnifying glass for the most important news and also your most
0:17.6	efficient resource this election season.
0:21.8	About just 12 hours after Tuesday night's debate, the two candidates were again face to face, this time at the 9-11 remembrance ceremony in New York to honor the 23rd anniversary of the attacks.
0:35.0	As is customary, the event was politics free, but attended by President Biden, Jady Vance,
0:40.1	Michael Bloomberg, and New York Senator Schumer and Gillibrand.
0:43.3	Biden and Harris then both traveled together to Shanksville, Pennsylvania for a wreath-laying ceremony
0:48.3	to commemorate the crash of Flight 93, and then later to the Pentagon for another memorial ceremony.
0:54.8	We have a few more notes from the debate.
0:56.8	Viewership on Tuesday night was reportedly 67 million people, according to Nielsen.
1:01.7	For comparison, only 51 million people tuned into the June
1:05.0	debate between Trump and Biden and also none of this includes impressions from
1:08.9	social media just cable. Meanwhile Taylor Swift's link to vote.gov that she shared with
1:14.2	her endorsement drew over 300,000 clicks to voter registrations. And there is
1:18.9	also a new report from Politico about the reactions of foreign officials to the debate, who have widely been
1:24.0	reported as planning for but dreading a potential second Trump term. But it seems
1:28.6	that that has turned around a bit with Harris's debate performance, which they
1:32.1	perceived as, quote,
1:33.3	composed, authoritative, and presidential.
1:36.3	Well, if you can win the respect of the Europeans.
1:38.6	New inflation numbers are out. It comes around so fast. The Consumer Price Index
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