US election: Trump and Harris tour swing states
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are campaigning in swing states, with just two days to go before America decides its next president. Newshour's James Coomarasamy is in Milwaulkee, a swing state and visits a food bank in Wisconsin. We also hear what issues are important to people. Also on the programme, Angry residents are hostile towards King Felipe of Spain as he arrives in Valencia badly hit by recent floods. And we hear about the deal that saw one of the greatest treasures in Persian art brought back to Tehran: The Book of King, Shahnameh, exchanged for a de Kooning painting.
(Photo: Voters participate in early voting at Fulton County's C.T. Martin Natatorium advance voting polling location in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 31 October 2024. Credit: Erik S Lesser/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.4 | Studios in London. I'm Tim Franks. And we're beginning the programme with something that has not |
| 0:12.6 | happened, which is perhaps an unusual approach to news. But when the US elections are held in two |
| 0:20.4 | days, it feels appropriate because it's an election |
| 0:24.5 | that won't just shape the future of the world's most powerful country, but quite possibly |
| 0:29.2 | the future of the world. And it is gripping, not just because of its importance, but because |
| 0:34.0 | of how close it seems to be between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. |
| 0:38.8 | This was the Democratic candidate in North Carolina on Saturday. |
| 0:42.8 | We need everyone to vote North Carolina. |
| 0:47.7 | You all will make the difference in this election. |
| 0:51.3 | You will make the difference. |
| 0:53.9 | So look, it all comes down to this. We are all here |
| 0:58.9 | together because we love our country. We love our country. And here's what we know. When you love |
| 1:08.6 | something, you fight for it. |
| 1:16.9 | And this was Donald Trump. Intriguingly, he was appearing at a rally in a state we don't normally call battleground, but is he seeing a possible upset in Virginia? |
| 1:22.4 | Every problem facing us can be solved, but now the fate of our nation is in your hands. |
| 1:27.4 | It really is. It's in your |
| 1:28.6 | hands. On Tuesday, you have to stand up. You have to tell Kamala. And you can't call her Harris. You know why? |
| 1:41.1 | Because nobody knows. I mean, you say Harris. Who the hell is Harris? |
| 1:46.0 | The whole thing doesn't work. So we'll just call it Kamala. You're going to tell her that |
| 1:51.8 | you've had it, you've had it. Kamala, you're the worst vice president in history. You're terrible |
| 1:57.8 | at what you do. You've destroyed our country. Kamali, you're fired. |
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