Why Trump is struggling against Harris
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The Times
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🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As the Democratic National Convention begins today, the Harris campaign is riding a wave of momentum. Why has Trump struggled to find a foothold?
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| 0:30.3 | Hi, I'm Adam Vaughan, Environment Editor for the Times. |
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| 1:09.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manveen Rana. So I went back the other day a couple of days ago and listened to one of my favorite |
| 1:16.8 | conservative podcasts called the editors it's done by National Review. |
| 1:20.3 | Donald Trump speaks and speaks and speaks some more Joe Biden teaters and |
| 1:26.2 | Jady Vance arrives we'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors |
| 1:30.4 | and I went back and listen to the pod they put out just the I've been here in Milwaukee all week. I will say it's the most unified and upbeat |
| 1:46.1 | convention I've ever experienced. The discussion then was is this race over? And they felt that Biden, who was then still |
| 1:58.0 | the Democratic nominee, was dead in the water, that Trump could sweep a landslide. |
| 2:03.8 | I was at an event yesterday where a really well-placed Trump person who's going to have a high-level |
| 2:10.4 | position in the White House, there's no doubt about it, was just saying, there's a spirit, |
| 2:15.3 | you know, God is looking over Donald Trump and looking over what we're doing here and |
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