Why is Kamala Harris struggling with minority voters?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The old wisdom held that Democrats could rely on the votes of those in the Black and Latino communities - often immigrant families that felt that party were on their side. But in recent elections that has started to shift. Kamala Harris is struggling to win the Black vote at the same levels Joe Biden won it in 2020, which pushed him over the line. And her latest pitch is an economic plan specifically tailored to Black men. Is this smart or reductive? And can Trump capitalise on that gap? We’re joined by Luis Sanchez, who’s on the ground in Wisconsin.
Later, what are the polls telling us now and how much should we trust them? We're with Kyle Kondik of Sabato's Crystal Ball - the electoral gurus who break down the numbers.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | The following ad is made by Latinos for Trump. |
| 0:15.7 | We are sharing for entertainment purposes only. |
| 0:18.0 | The song is catchy though. |
| 0:19.0 | Ay, aye, aye, aye. Perman Purposes only. The song is catchy though. Black men are not going to vote for Donald Trump in any significant numbers. |
| 0:32.6 | I did more for the black community than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln. |
| 0:40.3 | His limited narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard |
| 0:46.4 | work and highly educated successful people who happen to be black. |
| 0:51.3 | They're taking black people's jobs, African American jobs. |
| 0:57.0 | They're taking those jobs. |
| 0:58.0 | And a lot of those jobs are Hispanic jobs too. |
| 1:01.0 | The criminal justice system certainly doesn't handle them the way it handles him. |
| 1:05.0 | They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. |
| 1:08.0 | They're eating the cats. |
| 1:09.0 | Look at it in the context of how he actually thinks and talks about black folks in America. |
| 1:14.4 | I didn't know she was black until the number of years ago, which he happened to turn |
| 1:18.5 | black, and now she once been known as black. |
| 1:21.3 | He took out a full-page ad in the New York Times against those five teenagers, black and |
| 1:27.1 | Latinos. |
| 1:27.8 | Would you rather have the black president or the white president who got 1.7 billion off the |
| 1:34.5 | price? |
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