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Newshour

Trump and Harris campaign in Wisconsin in US election's final days

Newshour

BBC

Daily News, News

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Newshour goes to the US state of Wisconsin which could be crucial in deciding the election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The two are tied in the polls. Also on the programme, more than 200 people are dead and almost 2,000 missing after devastating floods in Spain; and, Hello Kitty, the beloved small white cat character, turns 50-years old.

(Photo: Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris waves at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S., October 30, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein REFILE)

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is News Hour on the BBC World Service.

0:07.0

Coming to you live from London, I'm Regini by Diannardin.

0:11.1

As we head into the final weekend of campaigning before the US election,

0:16.4

it's all going to come down to the contest in a handful of states,

0:20.6

which are still too close to call.

0:23.1

Well, one of them is Wisconsin and news hours James Kamara Sami is there.

0:28.5

Thanks, Regina. I'm in Milwaukee, the biggest, most populous city in this swingiest of Midwestern swing states.

0:35.4

And sporting fans will know it's home to the Bucks and the Brewers.

0:38.4

Well, later today, it will host both Donald Trump and Carmala Harris.

0:42.4

The Republican and Democratic nominees have been criss-crossing this huge country,

0:46.6

but this evening they are holding events in Milwaukee, just 15 minutes dry from each other.

0:51.7

It's a stop on what's being called a blue wall blitz with both

0:55.1

camps, focusing on the trio of previously true blue democratic states that flipped to Donald

1:00.8

Trump in 2016 and back to Joe Biden in 2020. Victory in all three would almost certainly

1:07.0

secure a Harris presidency, lose one, and her path becomes far more precarious.

1:12.6

Well, Donald Trump's currently in another blue wall state, Michigan. He's been to the city of

1:16.5

Dearborn, home to the largest Arab-American population, trying to prize more of those voters

1:21.5

away from the Democrats because of their dissatisfaction with the Biden administration's approach

1:26.5

to the war in the Middle East. You're going to have peace. You's approach to the war in the Middle East.

1:28.2

You're going to have peace in the Middle East, and they should have peace in the Middle East,

1:33.5

but not with the clowns you have in the Middle East.

1:36.4

Let me tell you, what you have, you have people in the Middle East that aren't doing their job,

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