Undecided voters and abortion rights could sway election

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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With days left in the race, some say the onus is on Vice President Kamala Harris to distinguish herself from Joe Biden’s previous not-Donald Trump strategy. At a CNN town hall on Wednesday, she walked back former progressive policies and hammered in working across the aisle. Is her strategy of playing the middle enough to win?

Polls suggest that nearly half of voters in the U.S. intend to cast their ballots early. Tens of millions have already done so, but in this tight a race, the fate of the election may rest on the undecided. How must Trump and Harris change their strategies to sway voters who haven’t picked yet?

The overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 largely delegated abortion rights to the states. In a place as purple as Nevada, is codifying abortion at the federal level enough to influence voters to go blue? Or will abortion rights voters be content with state-level rights? As part of our 50 states series, the Left, Right, and Center panel examines what a post-Dobbs election means for single-issue voters in Nevada.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone welcome to left right and center. I am David Green. We have our regular
0:06.0	crew here Moelathi and Sarah Isger and we are just under two weeks now from election day.
0:13.7	It has been quite a winding road with the finish line closing in,
0:17.6	although I guess the finish line comes with,
0:20.8	you know, big caveat, which is that a lot of people have already voted so what is the
0:25.0	finish line actually mean when a lot of people are voting I guess it it is the
0:28.8	result although we don't exactly know how long it'll take to get a result. So what is a finish line anyway?
0:34.8	But it feels like the end of a campaign. Donald Trump put an apron on, got behind the
0:39.8	counter at a McDonald's taking another shot at Kamala Harris's record.
0:44.0	He has been also holding a number of rallies
0:46.9	in the very critical state of Pennsylvania
0:49.5	and has of course enlisted the help of the world's most online billionaire Elon Musk.
0:54.0	For her part, Vice President Kamala Harris hit events in Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania,
0:59.7	she's been campaigning with Liz Cheney, and after we heard so many questions about
1:04.4	her media presence a couple months into her short campaign Kamla Harris has
1:09.7	been doing more interviews and some of them pretty tough. Recently on Fox News also 60
1:14.8	minutes and she held a town hall with CNN this week with undecided voters.
1:19.8	You know I think one useful thing we do for our audience on this show is we sort of come at the incremental things happening on the campaign trail and try to draw some conclusions feels like this is a more important
1:35.4	moment than ever to do that as we're getting closer here.
1:38.8	I wonder just sort of as you look at all of this playing out what you both are thinking about.
1:44.6	Sarah, I'll start with you.
1:46.4	Okay, so in some ways this isn't actually a very helpful way, but it is the way I think about it.
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