Welcome to the world next week's special U.S. Election 2024 episode. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carl Ann Robbins. Next week, Eak, Tuesday, November 5th, the United States will choose a new president, and the world is certainly watching.

Today, our episode is dedicated to laying out how newsrooms from around the globe have been covering the election and how that reflects on public interest. It's October 31st, 2004, Halloween, and time for the world next week.

Bob, the election is dominating every U.S. news outlet from the constant horse race predictions,

and I vow I'm not going to read those stories, but they are an addiction, to the more substantive analyses of how a Harris or Trump presidency will shape the U.S. and

the world for the next four years.

This is a hugely high-stake election for the country and hugely high-stake for the world.

But this is also a year of elections around the world and also a year of enormous global

turmoil from Ukraine to Gaza to Sudan to the South China Sea.

So given all that's going on out there, how much has

the foreign press been paying attention to our own upcoming vote? Well, what we've done is we've

done a survey, not scientific, but pretty comprehensive nonetheless. And certainly by all

appearances, you and I are kind of news junkies anyway, Carla, global news junkies.

But I think it's safe to assume that this is a widespread phenomenon.

And it's because in this year of elections, the biggest enchilada of them all is the U.S. election.

This is the big standard bearer for all the flaws and hypocrisy and things that we've noted on this podcast and

elsewhere, the United States matters and how it votes matters to the rest of the world. And as we'll

discuss in this podcast, I think, Carla, you know, with certain places with there's a higher

intensity interest than others, but it's getting a great deal of interest. I'll just mention

anecdotally, obviously Europe, huge front and center interest. I'll just mention anecdotally. Obviously, Europe, huge

front and center interest. This is the transatlantic alliance that Trump has steered it in a different

direction, certainly rhetorically in his first term, and he talks transactionally, as has been

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