Trump flailed on Abortion. Harris Powerful. With Amanda Becker
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Reporters’ Roundtable regular and Political Correspondent for19th news, Amanda Becker is back with a quick reaction to last night’s debate. Her book "You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post Dobbs America" makes her one of the foremost experts on the battle for abortion rights ands its impact on politics. As expected, Abortion was a major topic. Amanda gives her informed reaction to both Harris and Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. It's early Wednesday morning, the morning after the big debate. |
| 0:11.7 | Well, if there was ever any doubt about the differences between this year's two candidates for president, |
| 0:16.7 | if there was any doubt that one candidate is fit to be president and the other wasn't eight years |
| 0:22.2 | ago and is even more unfit to be president today, again, all doubts were erased last night |
| 0:28.7 | when Kamala Harris delivered a powerful, hopeful message about moving America forward together. |
| 0:35.1 | And Donald Trump again wallowed in lies about the past, lies about today, |
| 0:40.3 | and complaints about how badly he's been treated. That is when he was intelligible at all. |
| 0:47.2 | We'll talk about the entire debate and it's aftermath with our panel of political |
| 0:51.3 | reporters on Friday's reporters' roundtable. But this morning, we wanted to focus on just one part of the debate, |
| 0:58.2 | the issue of abortion, reproductive rights, which came up very early in the debate |
| 1:03.4 | and again showed a huge difference between Harris and Trump. |
| 1:08.0 | And joining us again today is Amanda Becker,, political reporter for 19 News, who just yesterday |
| 1:14.9 | published You Must Stand Up, her new book on the hardships that American women face today following |
| 1:22.2 | the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. Amanda, hello, and welcome back. Thank you for having me again. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, so Amanda, there was no doubt when this issue came up. Who owns the death or the killing of |
| 1:39.6 | Roe v. Wade? Donald Trump says, I do. He took ownership of it last night, no doubt, right? |
| 1:45.6 | He did. That's really the only clear answer we got from him last night on abortion. It came up |
| 1:51.7 | really early in the debate, less than 15 minutes in. It was the second question. And the moderator, |
| 1:59.7 | Lindsay Davis, with ABC, you know, went through the flip-flopping that Donald Trump has done specifically on a piece or not a piece of legislation, but a ballot measure in Florida. |
| 2:13.7 | And that would add abortion protections to the state's constitution. And also there's a six-week abortion |
| 2:20.6 | ban in place there. And so Trump had been asked a series of questions about this because he kept |
| 2:25.6 | saying, you know, six weeks seems too soon. And then, you know, people would ask, well, does that |
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