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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power, and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year.

And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because we want to,

and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.

I am delighted to be joined in the spectators' offices by the spectators,

Kate Andrews, who is our economics editor and who wrote a very cover piece about Kamala Harris.

Do you know some pronounce it correctly there? Kate? Great job, Fred.

Kamala. Thank you. Nailed it.

Kamala Harris, who is the subject of Kamala mania at the moment.

There's been a hell of a lot of it in the last few days.

Democrats seem to be very, very enthused.

There is some tightening in the polls.

Tens of thousands of young people have signed up to her campaign.

But she still has this ability to talk complete nonsense, which she showed last night.

There was a sort of good occasion for the Biden administration.

Evan Gershiewicz.

The journalist was released and greeted on the tarmac by Joe Biden, who looked very, very absent.

But he was there.

And Kamala Harris and Kamala Harris said this.

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