Trump vs. Harris: The battle of the sexes
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off tonight in their first TV debate, it’s more than just a political showdown - it's a battle of the sexes. The polls are too close to call with women heavily favouring Harris, while men lean towards Trump. Could the hot-button topic of abortion prove the issue that shifts the electoral balance?
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| 0:00.0 | Getting money from clients can feel like trying to wrestle honey from a grisly bear |
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| 0:20.8 | Aww. |
| 0:21.8 | On a really soft sofa, while watching your favorite soap. |
| 0:25.0 | I can't believe she was his mother. |
| 0:27.5 | The Healthy Business, Serge Zero with an X. |
| 0:30.1 | B.P. is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. I know it may not look like it but I've been around a while. |
| 1:17.0 | As Joe Biden stood in Congress, delivering what we now know was his last State of the Union address earlier this year, |
| 1:29.0 | he imparted a bit of electoral wisdom from his years of fighting campaigns. |
| 1:36.0 | Those bragging about overturning road we would have no clue about the power of women but they found out when reproductive |
| 1:45.4 | freedom was on the ballot we won in 2022 and 2020 and we will again in |
| 1:49.6 | 2024. Was Joe Biden right? |
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