2024-10-30
14 分钟On today’s show: taking stock of Kamala Harris’s campaign with the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos. What election issues matter most to young voters? Caroline Bauman from Chalkbeat explains. Plus, the San Francisco Chronicle has details on the sentence given to Paul Pelosi’s attacker, the Taliban strips more rights away from women in Afghanistan, and why you might need to rethink your Halloween costume. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
Good morning.
It's Wednesday, October 30th.
I'm Sumita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, the issues that matter to first time voters.
The Taliban strips more rights away from women in Afghanistan and why you might need to rethink your Halloween costume.
But first, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech last night that her campaign billed as her closing arguments to a crowd of tens of thousands of voters.
She spoke at the ellipse in Washington, D.C.
where nearly four years ago, former President Trump urged a crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol where they started a deadly riot.
With the White House visible behind her, Harris described Trump as unstable and obsessed with revenge.
He is the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election.
And she said that she understands the gravity of the role of president and Trump does not.
This election is more than just a choice between two parties and two different candidates.
It is a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division.
Harris also hit on a range of policy issues, from price gouging at grocery stores to the cost of childcare and abortion rights.
Now, the polls currently have Harris and Donald Trump neck and neck.
If she wins, it would be historic, not just because she would become our first woman president, but because of how short her campaign has been.
Remember, she only entered the race 101 days ago and has in a matter of weeks organized a massive coalition of supporters, outraged Trump three to one, and signed up hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
And she has the support of several high profile Republicans, from Liz Cheney to most recently, Barbara Bush, daughter of George W.
Bush.