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Speaker 1: the news from the Australian. From the Australian, here's what's

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Speaker 1: on the Front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Wednesday, August twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Aged care providers who neglect elderly residents won't be slapped

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Speaker 1: with criminal penalties. That's the promise made by Labor to

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Speaker 1: the opposition. It's a major concession by the government to

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Speaker 1: get its giant aged care reform bill through Parliament. The

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Speaker 1: government is dumping one of its big ideas to control

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Speaker 1: migration numbers. Caps on international student numbers will be caned.

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Speaker 1: Education Minister Jason Claire says it was a mistake and

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Speaker 1: the restrictions were throttling universities. Those stories alive right now

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Speaker 1: at the Australian dot com, dot gun reform, abortion and

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Speaker 1: turning Donald Trump's catchphrases against him. That's the Democratic battle

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Speaker 1: plan to win over America's women, revealed at the Democratic

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Speaker 1: National Convention in Chicago today. How Hillary Clinton and Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden teamed up to present Kamala Harris as presidential in

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Speaker 1: three chants, the rapturous crowd at the Democratic National Convention

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Speaker 1: summed up where American politics is at right now. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Joe, keep going and lock him up. That's a

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Speaker 1: play on a slogan that did great business for Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump in the twenty sixteen election campaign. Back then, the

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Speaker 1: target was the Democrats candidate Hillary Clinton. It worked for Trump,

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Speaker 1: who narrowly defeated Clinton, a woman regarded by many Americans

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Speaker 1: as the embodiment of what they didn't like about the

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Speaker 1: progressive establishment. And in Chicago on Tuesday, Clinton, although she

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Speaker 1: is no longer the candidate, sought to portray Trump as

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Speaker 1: the one who's been corrupted by power.

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Speaker 2: Pamela locked up murderers and drug traffickers. She will never

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Speaker 2: rest in defense of our freedom and safety. Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: fell asleep bet his own trial, and when he.

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Speaker 3: Woke up, he made his own.

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Speaker 2: Kind of history, the first person to run for president

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Speaker 2: with thirty four felony convictions. Public cares, cares about kids

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Speaker 2: and families, cares about America. Donald only cares about himself.

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Speaker 2: On her first day in court, Kamala said five words

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Speaker 2: that still guide her. Kamala Harris for the people. That

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Speaker 2: is something that Donald Trump will never understand. So it

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Speaker 2: is no surprise, is it that he is lying about

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Speaker 2: Kamala's record. He's mocking her name and her laugh sounds familiar.

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Speaker 2: But we have him on the run now.

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Speaker 1: But the main act on day one of the DNC

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Speaker 1: was not Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 4: I stand before you now on this August night to

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Speaker 4: report that democracy has prevailed.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden started strong, but then he seemed to flag

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Speaker 1: as the night went on.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have a thousand trilli, we have a

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Speaker 4: thousand billionaires in America. The United States Supreme Court majority

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Speaker 4: wrote the following quote. Women are not without electrical were

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Speaker 4: not allowed, not without electoral, electoral.

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Speaker 5: Or political power, no kidding.

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Speaker 1: Did he talk for too long?

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Speaker 6: I think Joe Biden he wanted to really defend his presidency,

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Speaker 6: a strident defense of his presidency.

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Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is the Australian's chief international correspondent, and I think.

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Speaker 6: The reason why Claire is because this was really, in

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Speaker 6: a way his farewell to America, even though he still

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Speaker 6: got five months ago in his presidency. It's the last

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Speaker 6: big prime time speech in the spotlight, and I think

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Speaker 6: in front of the Democrat faithful, all the delegates who

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Speaker 6: would have voted for him just a month ago. I

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Speaker 6: think that Biden wanted to put his stamp on the

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Speaker 6: speech and effectively have it as a marker for history

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Speaker 6: for his own legacy.

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Speaker 1: Biden's speech, instead of attempting to win over the working

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Speaker 1: men who are intrigued by Trump, zeroed in on women.

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Speaker 4: Marga Republic has found out the power women in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty two, and Donald Trump is going to find out

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Speaker 4: the power women in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: From gun laws, more children of America are killed by

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Speaker 1: a gunshot than any other cause in the United States.

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Speaker 4: My God, that's why Karma, I are proud we beat

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Speaker 4: the Anna rat when we passed the first major biproducts

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Speaker 4: of gun set you on thirty years.

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Speaker 5: And now it's time to ban the soul upers again.

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Speaker 5: And the man universal background.

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Speaker 1: Checks to reproductive rights.

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Speaker 4: And here's what else I believe in protecting your freedom,

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Speaker 4: You're freedom to vote, you're freedom of love who you love,

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Speaker 4: and your freedom to choose.

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Speaker 1: And his record on appointing women to positions of power.

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Speaker 4: I'm proud I've kept my commitment to appoint the first

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Speaker 4: black woman in the United States Supreme.

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Speaker 5: Court, the Tanji Brown Jackson.

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Speaker 4: The symbol for every young woman in America that you

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Speaker 4: can do anything.

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Speaker 1: And Biden turned the crowd's favorite chant back on the

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Speaker 1: woman he's endorsing, Thank you, kaboo. There were two references

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Speaker 1: to Joe Biden's decision to step aside from the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four race from his wife Jill.

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Speaker 7: Those moments when I'm reminded of all he's accomplished in

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Speaker 7: the name of something bigger than himself. And weeks ago

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Speaker 7: when I saw him dig deep into his soul and

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Speaker 7: decide to no longer seek reelection and endorse Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 1: And Biden himself.

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Speaker 4: Folks, I've got five months left in my presidency.

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Speaker 5: I've got a lot to do. I intend to.

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Speaker 4: Get it done, spend the honor of my lifetime the

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Speaker 4: servi as or president.

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Speaker 5: I love the job, but I love my country more.

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Speaker 5: Your role is.

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Speaker 4: Talk about how I amn your role of people. So

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Speaker 4: as you stepped down, it's.

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Speaker 5: Not true, Cam.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden really left it until the eleventh hour to

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Speaker 1: withdraw from the race, and that meant Kamala Harris was

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Speaker 1: really the only option for the Democrats. There were tears

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Speaker 1: in love from the faithful at the DNC. But how

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Speaker 1: do you think Democrats are actually going to regard Biden

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Speaker 1: if Kamala Harris can't win this election, Well.

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Speaker 6: His legacy is very much tied to her success as

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Speaker 6: a result, I think, because if she does get beaten

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Speaker 6: by Donald Trump, a lot of people will blame Biden

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Speaker 6: for effectively dealing her a very bad hand of cards

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Speaker 6: by leaving it so late to withdraw from the race,

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Speaker 6: giving her just literally one hundred days to beat an

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Speaker 6: established contender in Donald Trump. So really, in a way,

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Speaker 6: Joe Biden's legacy is not just what he's done as president.

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Speaker 6: It's definitely tied to the result because of the unusual

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Speaker 6: and bizarre circumstances in which Kamala Harris has taken over.

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Speaker 1: Coming up what Kamala Harris herself said at the Democratic

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Speaker 1: National Convention, we'll be back after this break. Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: made a surprise appearance on day one of the Democratic

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Speaker 1: National Convention, and she exuded her own particular brand of

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Speaker 1: a brilliance.

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Speaker 5: We are moving forward.

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Speaker 3: We're optimism, pope and faith so guided by our love

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Speaker 3: of country, knowing we all have so much more in

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Speaker 3: common than what separates us. Let us fight for the

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Speaker 3: ideals we hold dear and let us always remember when

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Speaker 3: we fight were.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has enjoyed making fun of Harris. The Democrats

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Speaker 1: are leaning in to the memes and jokes about her

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Speaker 1: particular style of twinkly emotion. Trump would say she's embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats would pitch her as social media does, as

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Speaker 1: that auntie who gets giddy after a couple of wines.

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Speaker 3: My mother used to She would give us a hard

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Speaker 3: time sometimes, and she would say to us, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know what's wrong with you, young people.

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Speaker 3: You think you just fell out of a coconut tree.

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Speaker 1: The Internet pounced on that speech made by Harris in

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Speaker 1: early twenty twenty three, remixing and referencing it within an

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Speaker 1: inch of its life. Then came Brat's Summer, when British

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Speaker 1: singer Charlie XCX declared Karmela embodied the spirit of her

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Speaker 1: album Brat basically a hot mess. On TikTok and Instagram,

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Speaker 1: it turned into do a giant mash up.

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Speaker 3: I'm just letting that everything is in conter, as.

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Speaker 1: My mother used to Kamala Harris seems to be leaning

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Speaker 1: into all the things that Donald Trump mocks about her.

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Speaker 1: The laugh you know, her turns of phrase, her big,

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Speaker 1: kind of warm personality. She seemed to me ultra confident.

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Speaker 1: What did you think watching her from the convention floor.

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Speaker 6: Look, I think she's very confident at the moment because,

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Speaker 6: possibly to her surprise, the polls are really going her way.

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Speaker 6: She certainly started out only a month ago. I remember

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Speaker 6: well behind as far as what people thought her chances were.

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Speaker 6: She then drew level. Now she's inching ahead, and she's

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Speaker 6: inching a head Claire in the key battleground states Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan,

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Speaker 6: the ones that will win the election for either candidate,

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Speaker 6: And so I think she is very confident in the

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Speaker 6: moment because Trump has struggled to actually target her, to

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Speaker 6: characterize her, and he's a bit all over the shop.

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Speaker 6: It's very unusual for Trump because he's usually very good

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Speaker 6: at doing that. I don't think he quite knows how

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Speaker 6: to handle her rise and the attention that she's getting.

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Speaker 6: And look, the great question is how long this will last.

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Speaker 6: But the bottom line is that at the moment, she's

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Speaker 6: on the ascendancy in all the polls, and far more

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Speaker 6: than that. We all know that these conventions are complete

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Speaker 6: love fests, and so four days of a love fest

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Speaker 6: for Kamela, with all the Democrat royalty singing her praises,

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Speaker 6: will not hurt or it will definitely turbo charge her

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Speaker 6: campaign at least for the next couple of weeks.

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