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🗓️ 2 November 2024
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0:00.0 | This is our final show before voters head to the polls on Tuesday just four days from now. |
0:06.0 | No one knows what is going to happen. All indicators show this race to be neck and neck that there is no real favorite. |
0:13.0 | Election Day could be a coin toss. Maybe. And then again, maybe not. But maybe so. |
0:20.0 | Whatever happens, it is worth putting into perspective what we have been living through in this extraordinary political moment. |
0:28.8 | In just three months, the Harris campaign has managed to pull off what most campaigns could not do in three years. |
0:36.0 | Even before the first debate, Donald Trump had a narrow but consistent polling lead over President Biden, |
0:42.3 | and that lead nearly tripled in a month after their first debate. |
0:46.3 | Since Joe Biden left the race, his successor has used what little time she had |
0:51.3 | to run an incredibly nimble and responsive campaign nearly devoid of controversy. |
0:58.3 | She generated considerable new enthusiasm among voters of all ages and races, turning a significant |
1:04.8 | gap with Donald Trump into a vanishing margin of difference. When critics said her campaign was |
1:10.4 | too late on specifics, |
1:11.9 | she released a raft of policy and offered a specific outline of the Harris agenda. When they said |
1:17.5 | she wasn't taking enough questions from the press, she sat down for national television interviews |
1:21.6 | and podcasts and even what I guess you could call an interview on Fox News. |
1:32.9 | In their one and only debate, Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump Handley and then offered him shot after shot after shot at another one. |
1:39.6 | And as she moved this race back into the margins under extraordinary pressure |
1:43.9 | and scrutiny all around. |
1:46.3 | The Harris campaign avoided infighting and anonymous backstapping, the kind of stuff that |
1:52.1 | has plagued nearly every presidential campaign this century. |
1:57.8 | And yet, despite everything we know about her opponent, Donald Trump, despite everything |
2:04.8 | Trump did in his first term, despite his efforts to overturn the last election, despite |
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