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Today in Focus

US election extra: DJ Trump

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump went off script on Monday night and abandoned the usual Q&A format of a townhall event in favour of bopping along to his campaign playlist. Chris Michael has the details. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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The Guardian. From the Guardians today in focus this is US Election Extra with me Lucy Hoff

0:48.6

Right up until election day in the states on November the 5th. we'll be bringing you daily updates from the campaign

0:54.0

trail. Today is the strain of the campaign starting to show for Donald Trump?

1:00.0

Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into it music. His town hall

1:05.9

event in Pennsylvania last night saw him bopping along to a half hour

1:09.9

playlist after abandoning his Q&A session.

1:13.0

So play YMCA, go ahead, let's go nice and loud.

1:16.0

The Harris campaign said he looked lost and confused.

1:20.0

Meanwhile the Vice President went on the attack at her own Pennsylvania event.

1:25.0

Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged. Well, with me is Chris Michael, the Guardian's U.S. editor in London.

1:41.3

Hi Chris.

1:42.3

Hi, Lucy. Can we start by running through what exactly

1:45.4

happened at this Trump town hall last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania? So I have watched the

1:50.3

entire thing. Trump, it seems, took around, what, just over 30 minutes of questions from the audience,

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