Why Is the World Obsessed With the U.S. Election? Ask Germany

Why It Matters

Council on Foreign Relations

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4.2 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The world is watching the U.S. presidential contest between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris with intense interest. Few countries are tracking the race more closely than Germany, Europe's biggest economy and a founding member of the NATO alliance. Its experiences provide insights into how this election is reverberating globally. Featured Guests: Liana Fix (Fellow for Europe, CFR) Stefan Kornelius (Foreign Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung) For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/wim/why-world-obsessed-us-election-ask-germany

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0:00.0	US Vice President Kamla Harris and former President Donald Trump have held their only planned debate of this year's presidential campaign.
0:09.0	Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, we'll repel the Republic of the campaign
0:13.0	President Kamala Harris,
0:15.0	and the President of Donald Trump.
0:18.0	2Kateshitskano America
0:21.0	that he
0:22.0	Minsto no Harris-Kudaitore. Israel's
0:23.4	and the only.
0:24.4	An al-A-Waris, for the other world over
0:27.0	that is a war on Russia
0:28.4	with the Ari-A-Sah and in Tibet
0:30.8	al-Americans. We are getting closer and closer to the US presidential election.
0:45.0	And we're thinking a lot about how the outcome will affect our lives,
0:49.0	the job market, health care, even the future of our democracy.
0:53.0	But US citizens aren't the only ones whose lives will be shaped by the outcome of our upcoming election.
1:00.0	I was recently how much Germans
1:05.0	just how much Germans seemed to know about our political system
1:09.0	and our upcoming election.
1:11.0	I saw it on the news, I read it in the papers. I heard it in
1:14.7	conversations at restaurants. Heck I was asked about it several times. I came home
1:19.7	wanting to understand why and to get a peek at what this high stakes American election
1:25.7	means to the rest of the world.
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