2024-09-14
50 分钟Will Harris grant the press more access, and should we trust the polls (again)?
Reporters understandably and incorrectly believe that the most important thing a candidate can do is answer their questions.
The political press are complaining about a lack of access to Kamala Harris, but of course, from WNYC in New York, this is ON THE media.
I'm Brooke Gladstone.
On this week's show, with the election weeks away, we explain why pollsters failed in 2016 and 2020 and how to read the polls in 2024.
If the race is within about 5 percentage points, the takeaway should be that that poll is telling you it's more or less tied.
Plus, at the presidential debate, Harris came after Trump's tariff plan, calling it a sales tax on the American people.
Economists agree tariffs led for a 1 to 1 increase in prices as those goods were entering the United States.
That meant that a 25% tariff would mean that prices were 25% higher.
It's all coming up after this ON.
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