2024-10-22
12 分钟On today’s show: NBC’s Sahil Kapur reports on how the Harris campaign is using Republican supporters to reach undecided voters. Jack Herrera reports for Texas Monthly on why the border crisis won’t be solved at the border. Wall Street Journal reporter Heather Gillers explores how storms are testing Florida’s home-insurance market. The Journal also looks at why Florida continues to allow new properties to be built in high-risk areas. Plus: CNN looks at research that found hundreds more infants died than expected in the U.S. after Roe v. Wade was overturned, an election-law expert told NPR Elon Musk’s cash giveaway to voters is illegal, and ESPN says that WNBA players want their salaries to reflect the league’s successful year. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
Good morning.
It's Tuesday, October 22nd.
I'm Sumita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, the border issue.
Lawmakers don't want to talk about what home insurance is like in flood and hurricane prone Florida and why some election law experts say Elon Musk's million dollar giveaway is illegal.
But first, in the final stretch of the campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to drive home her closing message to voters with some unusual political allies, Republicans.
Yesterday, she made stops in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania with former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney.
They did a series of sit down conversations in suburban counties, the kinds that used to back Republicans but have increasingly turned out for Democrats.
There are a lot of different ways to think of who these voters are, but bottom line is they're historically Republican voters who do not like Donald Trump and are open to alternatives.
That's Sahil Kapoor, a senior national political reporter with NBC.
Cheney's message focused on protecting democracy and trying to convince Republicans like her who are disillusioned with Trump to break from the party vote in November.
In Pennsylvania, she spoke about how the January 6th attack on the Capitol changed her political perspective.
Cheney ended the vice chair of the January 6th Committee in Congress investigating the events of that day.
There was a moment right after January 6th when my husband and I were having dinner and I looked across the table at my young sons and I thought to myself, you know, in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, are they going to grow up in a country where we don't have to worry about the peaceful transfer of power?
Cheney isn't the only Republican to come over to Harris side.
As we mentioned a few weeks back, her dad, one of the most prominent Republicans once upon a time, also endorsed Harris.
So did former Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, who joined Harris on the campaign trail last week.
And conservative radio host Charlie Sykes moderated a discussion between Harris and Cheney last night.
Meanwhile, some of Harris most expensive ad spots feature former Trump administration officials who have since come out against him, including people like former Defense Secretary Secretary Mark Esper, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley, and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.