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Amanpour

What's Next in US Presidential Race?

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Democratic National Convention concluded on Thursday night with Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepting the Democratic Presidential nomination, making her the second woman in American history, and the first Black and South Asian woman to accept the nomination. Hers is one of the shortest US Presidential campaigns – President Joe Biden dropped out of the race just over one month ago – and one of the most exciting. Evan Osnos, author of "Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now," joins the show to unpack Harris’ speech and preview what’s coming up in the race.  Also on today's show: Jaime Harrison, Chair, Democratic National Committee; "Job" playwright Max Wolf Friedlich and actors and Sydney Lemmon; musician, songwriter and producer Jack Antonoff  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Almont Four. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Together let us write the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story.

0:17.0

Kamala Harris's big moment.

0:19.0

The VP takes center stage in her quest to become America's first female president.

0:25.0

Then, DNC Chair Jamie Harrison talks to Walter Isickson about the historic week in Chicago

0:32.0

and the challenges Democrats face ahead of November.

0:35.0

Plus, where Broadway meets the internet.

0:38.0

I speak to the talents behind the hit play job,

0:41.0

a tense thriller about the digital world wreakinga in New York sitting in for Christian

1:06.0

Ammonpour. Well in the end history may have been made in record time just over one month since President Biden reluctantly dropped out of the

1:14.9

race, Kamla Harris has become the first woman of color to become a major party's presidential

1:20.8

nominee.

1:21.8

On behalf of my mother. presidential nominee.

1:23.0

On behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own unlikely journey on behalf of Americans like the people I grew up with, people

1:39.2

who work hard, chase their dreams, and look out for one another.

1:45.0

On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written

1:52.0

in the greatest nation on earth.

1:56.0

I accept your nomination to be President been a tangible strain of caution

2:14.8

threaded throughout the DNC. Speaker after Speaker reminded viewers that the

2:19.0

race will be close with polls showing that it's still a toss-up.

2:23.0

So what did last night's speech teach us

2:25.0

about how the rest of this story,

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