2024-11-05
58 分钟As a historic US election day unfolds, Monocle’s Christopher Lord reports from a tense Washington, Georgina Godwin explores political branding in the American South and Andrew Mueller reviews bizarre election ads. Plus: Asia-Pacific security stakes and a Brazilian take on newspaper political endorsements. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
You're listening to the Globalist, first broadcast on the 5th of November, 2024 on Monocle Radio.
The Globalist, in association with UBS, live from London, this is the Globalist with Emma Nelson.
A very warm welcome to today's program.
Coming up, U.S.
presidential Election Day arrives a nation and indeed the world braces itself to find out which direction America will take.
Also coming up, we find out who governments from Beijing to Bangkok want to win the elections.
Plus, American leaders have gotten very comfortable in speaking very robustly, rhetorically, but then when they are challenged, those red lines aren't red lines.
The former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs will explain why the result of today's vote matters so much to the rest of us.
We'll ask what does Silicon Valley think of the presidential race?
And the United States is not alone in permitting political advertising, but it is distinctive in fostering such a lurid and rambunctious culture of radio and TV campaign ads.
Andrew Muller will tell us about the overwhelming experience of living through a pre election America chock full of campaigns, campaign ads, all that, plus the papers and the tech news too.
That's coming up on the Globalist live from London.
First, a look at what else is happening in today's news.
Workers at Boeing have voted to accept an offer of a 38% pay rise and have ended their strike.
The US has urged Israel to increase the amount of humanitarian aid allowed to reach people living in Gaza.
And extremely heavy rain has caused yet further flooding in Spain.
Stay tuned to Monocle Radio throughout the day for more on these stories.
But first, the COVID of this week's New Yorker has it summed up the Statue of Liberty, balanced by a stick, tries her best to walk a tightrope over America.
It feels like the US future is walking a high wire as today's presidential election determines which direction America will adopt for the next four years and whether it will stay on its feet and make it or plummet.
This is an election like no other, with Republican candidate Donald Trump becoming the first president to be convicted of felony crimes and Kamala Harris, who would be the first woman of color to be in the White House, but also to have run the shortest election campaign in U.S.