'Unaligned': The voters who could sway the US election in Arizona
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Navajo people strongly supported US President Joe Biden in Arizona’s 2020 election. But there are questions about whether Native voters will be equally supportive of the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris this time around. Winning Arizona, also home to a large number of independent voters, could be crucial to national election victory or defeat.
In this episode:
- Rob Reynolds (@RobReynoldsAJE), Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, one nation that could decide the U.S. presidential election, the Navajo Nation. |
| 0:18.0 | Data shows that most of the Navajo Nation voted blue in favor of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. |
| 0:25.3 | Arizona is a state with many independent voters and the largest Native American reservation. |
| 0:30.8 | Now, it's also a top presidential battleground. |
| 0:34.5 | So which way will it swing this November? |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Malaga Gabilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:48.7 | There's a lot of uncertainty. |
| 0:50.8 | The election is so narrowly contested right now. |
| 0:55.0 | It's virtually a toss-up. |
| 0:57.0 | The polls are showing that Vice President Harris and former President Trump are neck and neck in places like Arizona and all across the country. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Rob Reynolds, and I'm a senior correspondent at Al Jazeera English television, |
| 1:15.0 | and I've been covering a lot of politics lately, especially concentrating on the state of Arizona, |
| 1:22.5 | which is one of the battleground states in 2024. |
| 1:26.7 | Rob, welcome back to The Take. |
| 1:29.3 | So you recently returned from that battleground state, |
| 1:33.3 | the swing state of Arizona in the southwest of the U.S. |
| 1:37.3 | And things got heated in the capital, Phoenix, |
| 1:40.3 | after the last presidential election, from my memory. |
| 1:43.3 | It was the beginning of the so-called |
| 1:45.3 | Stop the Steel campaign. |
| 1:51.7 | Men and women with pitchforks, guns, teaky torches, closed in on the county election office. |
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