Trump and Harris in frenetic zig-zag through swing states
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are headlining several rallies on Saturday, with both presidential candidates ending the day with competing events in the key swing state of North Carolina. More than 70 million people have already cast their vote - a landmark number.
Also on the programme: Spain has announced its biggest deployment of troops in peacetime to deal with this week's flash floods in Valencia; countries at the world's biggest nature conservation conference have approved the creation of a permanent body for Indigenous peoples that will consult the United Nations about biodiversity; and the British Conservative party has elected Kemi Badenoch to be its new leader.
(Picture: Duke University students wait in line with residents of Durham County, North Carolina for early voting on November 1, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Drake)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:10.4 | It's the last weekend before the US election and at this late stage it seems nothing separates the two candidates in the polls. |
| 0:18.8 | In fact, last night both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris ended up campaigning not just in the |
| 0:23.5 | same swing state of Wisconsin, worth 10 electoral college votes, but in the same city of Milwaukee. |
| 0:30.1 | They were less than 10 kilometers apart, physically, but politically, of course, remaining |
| 0:35.4 | far apart. |
| 0:36.7 | Our correspondent, Gary O'Donohue, has the details. |
| 0:40.0 | Ah, what a crowd this one is, huh? |
| 0:43.0 | It's been a rough week for the former president, |
| 0:45.9 | on the back foot over comments about women, Hispanics, |
| 0:49.6 | and a suggestion that one opponent should face something akin to a firing squad. |
| 0:55.6 | The crowd got some unusual treatment, a large gun-like object firing T-shirts into the audience, but it was the usual |
| 1:02.5 | message from the candidate. We're leading just about, I think all seven swing states were leading, |
| 1:07.1 | but don't listen to me now. Don't listen. Just pretend we're one down, right? We're one point down, please. |
| 1:13.1 | We don't want to say, oh, we don't have to vote today, Alice, because he's leading. No, don't do that. |
| 1:18.2 | We've seen that stuff happen. We don't want to do that. |
| 1:20.7 | His bad week continued when repeated sound problems ended up with the crowd shouting, fix the mic. |
| 1:29.8 | Oh, the mic. Yeah, I think the mic stinks. That drew some expletives from the former president and him saying he'd fire the contractors. |
| 1:36.7 | Make no mistake, we will win. Here in Wisconsin and across the other six key swing states, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck and neck. |
| 1:48.0 | That's why they're ending up in the same places all the time. |
| 1:51.5 | This time, the vice president, just six miles away. |
| 1:54.9 | She was backed by some big celebrities, including the rapper Cardi B. |
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