We are doing a US election special event at the Emanuel Centre in central London on October the 24th.

And I almost don't need to do this announcement because tickets are selling so fast.

But I want Americano listeners to take advantage of this opportunity and to get themselves a ticket.

The special guest, who I wasn't allowed to announce before,

is Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform Party, a friend, I think we can say, of Donald Trump.

And so I will be asking him about Trump and about the 2024 election and about the transatlantic relationship that reform have with the Republican Party.

Do come. We'd like to see you.

Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year.

And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because we want to,

and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life. I am delighted to be joined by

Luke Thompson, friend of the show, and a political consultant for various campaigns. And I think

Luke, probably, to get it out the way at the beginning,

we should just declare who you are working for, who you are publicly working for, so that viewers

might know where you're coming from on certain things. Sure. Well, the two competitive Senate races

I'm working on are in Ohio and Pennsylvania on behalf of Bernie Moreno and Dave McCormick,

the Republican candidates there.

And then Senator Vance, the VP nominee is a longtime client of mine as well.

Yeah. Okay. Well, that's that out the way. I wanted to talk to you about ground games today.

But my first question is not going to be about ground games. It's going to be about postal voting.

And the ground game of postal voting, if you like,

because we've had this story this week about how the Trump campaign are making a bigger push

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