USA 2024: Who's to blame for political violence?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week they focus on the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Mark Stone travels to Florida where the foiled attack took place, James Matthews has been finding out more on the would-be assassin in his home town of Greensboro, North Carolina.
Plus, Martha Kelner attended a Trump townhall in Flint Michigan to hear him speak for the first time after the attempt on his life, and asks voters if it will impact the way they vote in November.
Keep up with all the latest in our US election liveblog and check out the Sky News poll tracker.
Producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mark, we are sitting in our bureau's green room, seven floors up. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a rare day. We're actually, touchwood, has been quite quiet today. |
| 0:13.4 | Best one in a while. |
| 0:14.7 | Yeah, we're looking out at a busy US Capitol Union station far beneath us. |
| 0:19.4 | Martha, you're in L.A. where you're based. You're on the beach, |
| 0:23.3 | I presume you. Sitting on my deck chair, mehito in hand, surrounded by various celebrities. |
| 0:29.2 | It's how we picture you. I'm actually at home in my cardigan, just excited to get this |
| 0:35.4 | podcast underway. And I do have an assay protein smoothie in my hand, so there is a little sprinkling of LA here. |
| 0:42.7 | How very Los Angeles indeed. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, welcome to USA 2024 on the road. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Martha Kelmer in Los Angeles. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm Mark Stone in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm James Matthews. I'm also in the US Capitol. |
| 0:56.9 | All three of Sky's U.S. correspondents together for this week's podcast. |
| 1:01.6 | On the road as we cover America's election now less than 50 days away. |
| 1:10.5 | 1.30 this afternoon. Call came out, shots fired. |
| 1:13.6 | Questions will now be asked as to whether Donald Trump was targeted. |
| 1:17.6 | I think this is a different kind of a race. All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody that's going to |
| 1:24.6 | What is the greatest national security threat to the United States? It's Donald Trump. |
| 1:28.3 | But some crazy person is going to take matters into their own hands and actually listen to the crazy rhetoric that you're putting out there. |
| 1:34.3 | We've had a busy week. |
| 1:36.3 | It saw a second apparent assassination attempt, of course, on Donald Trump. |
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