Weekly Roundup: Checking In On Harris, Trump Campaigns
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and White House correspondents Deepa Shivaram & Franco Ordoñez.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Emma in Franklin County North Carolina, where I just voted in my first ever presidential election on the first day of early voting in North Carolina. |
| 0:08.0 | This podcast was recorded at 12.07 PM on Friday, October 18th. |
| 0:14.3 | Things may have changed since then, |
| 0:15.6 | but I will still be proudly wearing my I voted sticker. |
| 0:18.6 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:20.1 | It's happening. |
| 0:24.0 | Go Emma. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey there is the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Tamara Keith. |
| 0:30.0 | I cover the White House. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Deepa Shivram, I also cover the White House. And I'm Franco |
| 0:33.5 | Adonius, I cover the campaign. And today on the show our campaign round up in a week |
| 0:38.6 | where both presidential campaigns got a lot more frenetic. You can feel the mid-October energy out there. |
| 0:45.5 | So Franco, let's start with Donald Trump. He participated in two big town hall |
| 0:50.6 | events this week targeting voters he wants to do better with. |
| 0:54.8 | One with Latino voters on Univision and one with women voters on Fox News. |
| 1:00.2 | So tell us about that Univision town hall first and what stood out. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, I mean, I think the Univision one was really some of the toughest questions that he has |
| 1:10.4 | gotten in recent weeks. It was a town hall of Latino assembled |
| 1:16.3 | undecided voters just outside of Miami. You know he was asked about his plans for |
| 1:22.1 | immigration, you know he was asked about his plans for immigration, you know he was asked about so many of his top officials from his first term in office not supporting him now and why should the voters then support him? |
| 1:34.1 | I mean he ducked a lot of these questions really and kind of stuck largely to his campaign |
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