What does the battleground state of Georgia make of Harris-Trump debate?
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
With less than two months left until the 2024 US presidential election, Newshour’s Tim Franks and the team travel to Atlanta.
We get reaction and insight from Georgia – one of the key swing states in the US – on the first TV debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Also on the programme: Congolese medics say they are struggling to contain the mpox outbreak; and Mexico's senate has given general approval to a sweeping reform that will mean all judges are elected by popular vote.
(Photo: Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff visit a watch party. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you from the BBC World Service with me Tim |
| 0:09.4 | Franks the day after one of the most hotly anticipated US presidential debates in years and by a stroke |
| 0:17.1 | of brilliant fortune or foresight, I'll go with foresight, we're bringing this edition of Newsair live from the studios of W-A-B-E in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:27.2 | The state forecast to be one of the pivotal swing states come the election in November. |
| 0:32.9 | We'll get into that in greater depth later in the program, |
| 0:36.0 | bringing you a sense of the campaign on the ground |
| 0:38.1 | with the Democrats, the Republicans and that sort after creature, |
| 0:41.8 | the swing voter will whisk you from Atlanta to Augusta to Athens. |
| 0:46.2 | Yes, for our global audience, that is Athens. And we'll also get into the tangled controversy |
| 0:52.4 | over how the election is going to be held here in Georgia. And we'll also get into the tangled controversy |
| 0:52.6 | over how the election is going to be held here in Georgia, |
| 0:55.2 | in particular how the votes will be counted. |
| 0:58.6 | But let's start with that 100 minute fireworks show |
| 1:02.4 | that was held on the ABC television network 12 hours ago |
| 1:05.9 | Carmelah Harris versus Donald Trump and the BBC's Tom Bateman watched it all unfold |
| 1:11.1 | in Philadelphia. |
| 1:13.0 | Face to face, historic. |
| 1:16.0 | The ABC News presidential debate. |
| 1:19.0 | In a city that was at the heart of the American Revolution, a debate described by its hosts |
| 1:25.4 | as this election's most consequential moment. |
| 1:28.0 | Good evening, I'm David Bior and thank you for joining us for tonight. |
| 1:30.3 | As it began, it wasn't just the first debate between Carmelah Harris and Donald Trump, but the first time they'd met. |
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