Why is Biden falling behind Trump in the polls?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
With both candidates gearing up for the first presidential debate and national party conventions, the Americast team takes a step back to look at where the race stands now.
Justin Webb and Sarah Smith give their analysis on recent polling and ask whether the Biden camp should be worried, and how polls could influence the next six months.
Also, the Trump campaign reposted a video this week which referenced a “unified reich.” Marianna Spring looks into where this video came from and why it matters that staffers are posting videos that they did not make themselves.
HOSTS: * Sarah Smith, North America Editor * Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter * Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent
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This episode was made by Purvee Pattni with Rufus Gray, Catherine Fusillo, and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | One big question for us this week, Sarah. |
| 0:06.6 | Where are we? |
| 0:07.5 | Because we've passed the six month point |
| 0:10.0 | before the election, there is a ton of stuff about to happen the debates the |
| 0:15.7 | conventions loads more polls I think it's quite important to take a step back at |
| 0:20.4 | this stage and say actually as we enter this period where is the campaign |
| 0:26.0 | what's going on? Yeah how is it looking for both of the main candidates and what |
| 0:30.6 | do we expect it's going to happen over the next six months. |
| 0:32.6 | We know now when the debates are going to be, we know when the conventions are going to be, |
| 0:36.4 | and importantly we know when Polling Day is the 5th of November, as you say less than six months away. |
| 0:40.6 | It's a bit different from suddenly discovering one day that you've got a general election happening six weeks from now. |
| 0:47.0 | Americans are gob-smacked, Justin, by this idea that within six weeks you can not only have called and held an election |
| 0:56.0 | but you will have turfed somebody out of number 10 and installed somebody else in |
| 0:59.8 | potentially of course if the governing party, that is mind-blowing to Americans. |
| 1:05.8 | But let's talk about their slightly more predictable, slightly longer, but nonetheless |
| 1:10.1 | interesting campaign. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, I always remember there are two things they like about us. |
| 1:13.5 | Our accents were always number one, but number two, they really like our political system, |
| 1:18.4 | but what the heck? |
| 1:19.4 | They are saddled with theirs. |
| 1:21.2 | So welcome to AmeriCast. Americaest. |
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