What Undecided Voters Are Thinking

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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For the people still on the fence about whom to vote for in the 2024 presidential race, Tuesday night’s debate was an important data point. How would Vice President Kamala Harris differentiate herself from President Biden? How would former President Donald Trump come across when facing a new opponent? Would this matchup, the first time these candidates met, be enough to help these undecided voters make a decision? On today’s “Run-Up,” we look at how they are thinking after the debate. Up first, we watch the debate with Corrie Zech, an undecided voter in Ohio. Then we catch up with other undecided voters whom we first talked to ahead of the debate. Everyone tuned in Tuesday night. They said they’re closer to making a decision but, with less than two months to go, have yet to fully make up their minds.

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0:00.0	When I thought about who to watch this week's debate with, okay, so we should be pulling up on her house in one minute.
0:08.0	The idea of visiting one very specific person came to mind. Hi.
0:15.0	A woman we met at a watch party for the first debate
0:20.0	named Corey Zeck.
0:22.0	It's great to see you again.
0:23.0	Hi, how are you guys?
0:25.0	Thank you so much for breaking this word.
0:28.0	Who part way into watching Joe Biden's performance,
0:31.0	stood up in front of the crowd and announced that she no longer
0:35.0	thought she could vote for him, which he had been planning to do.
0:39.1	Corey had voted for Trump in 2016, for Biden in 2020, and now in 2024, she was an undecided voter.
0:48.9	So for this debate, we decided to throw a watch party of our own at Corey's house in Middletown, Ohio.
0:55.7	I didn't know that this, so I didn't know before today that this is the J.D.
0:59.5	Vans hometown.
1:00.5	Which, by the way, is also the home of J.D. Vance.
1:05.0	And so being here and being undecided is not fun.
1:10.0	My colleague Anna and I met Corey and her husband Alex on their front walkway.
1:16.5	These are the ones I was looking for. We brought snacks.
1:21.5	Corey specifically requested red takis.
1:25.0	I love takis, they're great.
1:27.0	And set in folding chairs while we got the debate queued up.
1:32.0	You meowin. Some of the neighborhood stray cats also drop by.
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