Will abortion decide the election? It might in Arizona...
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Many voters will be picking the candidate that aligns with their views on abortion access this year, and in some states, the issue is literally on the ballot.
One of them is Arizona, where people are voting on the law around access, and Sarah's been speaking to voters about the debate.
We discuss why it’s the debate that Democrats hope this election comes down to, and what Trump's changing view on it is.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Americans have this great expression, drill down, |
| 0:07.3 | kind of get under the hood slash bonnet of something, |
| 0:10.3 | get into the weeds of what it actually means. |
| 0:12.4 | We're gonna do that today with two things, |
| 0:14.6 | abortion, which is drilling down on an issue, but also the swing states and we're going to |
| 0:19.6 | drill down into one of them, Arizona, because Sarah you are there. I am I'm here in Phoenix so |
| 0:25.2 | it's burritos for breakfast tacos for tea when you're in Arizona and the sun is |
| 0:29.4 | shining of course which is great and you have in Arizona two of the drill down things at hand |
| 0:36.4 | because you've got the fact that it's a swing state and it really is but you've |
| 0:39.7 | also got the fact that abortion is what literally on the ballot. |
| 0:43.5 | Yes it is and that's why I'm here doing a story about exactly that and whether the fact that |
| 0:47.8 | there's a ballot initiative in which people are asked to vote whether they want to |
| 0:51.4 | enshrine abortion rights into the state's |
| 0:53.3 | constitution whether or not that's going to drive up democratic support whether it's |
| 0:57.9 | going to drive up support for Kamala Harris and one of the things we need to |
| 1:00.5 | talk about is how can it be that there's like 60-odd percent in |
| 1:04.7 | the polls for this abortion measure and she's below 50 percent. Bit of a |
| 1:08.2 | disconnect there. Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 1:12.4 | AmeriCast from America. |
| 1:13.0 | Americaast from BBC News. |
| 1:16.0 | There was blood pouring everywhere and yet I had God on my side. |
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