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PBS News Hour - Segments

Undecided voters explain how the election shakeups have shifted their views

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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For voters who have not firmly decided which presidential candidate to support, the events of the last month, including an assassination attempt and a new Democratic candidate, have dramatically changed the race. Lisa Desjardins connected with the type of voters likely to decide the election before and after these shakeups. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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And for those voters who have not firmly decided which presidential candidate to support the events of the last month, including an assassination attempt, and a new Democratic candidate, have dramatically reshaped the race.

0:12.0

Lisa Desjardan connected with the type of vote it have dramatically reshaped the race.

0:12.7

Lisa Desjardan connected with the type of voters

0:15.3

likely to decide the election before and after those shakeups.

0:19.5

We heard from thousands of voters across the country,

0:22.8

different ages, politics, and walks of life,

0:25.7

all dreading this election.

0:28.0

I'm wishing for something like normal.

0:31.5

I feel despondent. I feel that there is no good choice. I just feel overall

0:38.1

really disappointed and really hopeless. We'll highlight a few now. In June, they were unhappy.

0:46.0

Frustrated.

0:48.0

Um, disappointed.

0:57.0

Let down. let down a little dejected. But just weeks later,

1:02.9

extraordinary events changed the race. An assassination attempt raised a new image of Trump,

1:06.3

followed shortly by a new partner in the race,

1:08.7

with Trump choosing Ohio Senator JD Vance

1:11.0

as his running mate.

1:12.4

And just days later,

1:13.6

I've decided the best way forward

1:16.0

is the past the torch for a new generation.

1:18.3

Biden was out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris was in. But what did all this mean for voters? From our deciders

1:26.4

we have a snapshot of the change. It was large for Anna Fernandez, a 22 year in Miami, about to go to law school.

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