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PBS News Hour - Segments

What voters are saying about Harris' policy proposals ahead of the Democratic convention

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

To win the presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris will need two key constituencies to show up in swing states across the country: Black voters and young voters. Laura Barrón-López joins Geoff Bennett to discuss. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

You know, Democrats have greeted the Harris nomination with a lot of enthusiasm.

0:05.1

What are those voters telling you about how they feel about the policy she's put forward

0:08.8

so far?

0:09.8

Jeff, Harris and her running mate have really leaned into their middle class credentials and Harris has

0:16.2

recently been highlighting the fact that she worked at McDonald's during college in both a campaign

0:20.8

ad and on the trail and Tim Wall's has gone after JD Vance and

0:25.0

President, former President Trump for their Ivy League background and that

0:29.6

Stephanie Hart, that Bakery business owner that I spoke to here in Chicago

0:33.7

specifically mentioned Harris coming from the middle class

0:37.4

as something that really resonates with her.

0:39.7

Other voters said that as well.

0:41.3

Stephanie Hart employs more than 40 people,

0:44.1

many of them women with children.

0:46.7

And she said that she really likes

0:48.6

Kamala Harris's child care proposals.

0:51.4

And just this past week, Harris unveiled more proposals on that

0:54.8

saying that she wants to expand the child tax credit to some $6,000 for parents

0:59.9

with newborn children as well as $3,600 for parents the rest of their children's

1:07.1

upbringing.

1:08.1

Well let's shift our focus to tonight.

1:10.1

You've spent the last few hours here inside this arena speaking to delegates.

1:13.7

Give us a sense to the mood, Laura.

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