When Anthony Met Kamala
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Anthony joins fresh off a trip with Kamala Harris, spending time on Air Force Two with Kamala Harris and other journalists as two tours three states. Sarah, Justin and Anthony reminisce on times spent with other nominees.
Sarah’s been speaking to voters in Dearborn, Michigan, where the largest population of Arab and Muslim Americans in the US live. Could it be a deciding factor in the state? And why are some Democratic organisers now backing Trump? HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUESTS: • Sam, Democrat who may not vote for president • Samra’a, Democratic organiser endorsing Trump • Chadi, Local business owner likely voting for Green Party • Micho, Democratic organiser
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| 0:00.0 | Hello it's 9 o'clock at night in the US that means it's 2 o'clock on Wednesday |
| 0:03.8 | morning in the UK which also means that Justin's asleep but Anthony is here |
| 0:07.6 | because we've got a little bit of breaking news to talk about the Trump |
| 0:10.8 | campaign has just filed a complaint against what they call the far left |
| 0:15.0 | Labour Party for what they say is blatant election interference. |
| 0:20.0 | So Anthony, why don't you tell us what the Labour Party is accused of doing? |
| 0:23.2 | Sure this was actually a report that was in the news outlet political a few days ago |
| 0:28.1 | about about a hundred members of the Labour Party who were coming over here to the United States to |
| 0:34.6 | campaign for Kamala Harris. Well, as long as they did it on a volunteer basis, that's |
| 0:40.0 | perfectly fine. People do it all the time, but if they were paid or somehow compensated for their |
| 0:46.3 | travels or their expenses by a foreign source, that would be a violation of election law. And what |
| 0:52.0 | Donald Trump is alleging is that this was in fact |
| 0:55.5 | a violation of election law and that the Federal Election Commission the body that is in |
| 1:00.4 | charge of overseeing American election laws should conduct an investigation. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, the controversy has really come up because there was a now deleted post on LinkedIn |
| 1:08.8 | from a Labour Party member encouraging others to come over to America and volunteer in which it said |
| 1:13.7 | their housing would be sorted and some people took that to mean it would be paid for and of |
| 1:18.6 | course that would be possibly an illegal campaign contribution. Well, the explanation from Labour Party officials |
| 1:25.6 | who've been talking to the BBC and the UK say, no, no, no, no, no, it was all being sorted by |
| 1:30.4 | Democrat volunteers. It doesn't mean that anybody was paying over any |
| 1:34.1 | money that any individual who's coming over here is paying their own flight, their own |
| 1:38.2 | car hire, taking leave from their jobs whilst they do it so it's an entirely |
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