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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business. Dan Thesimson, US correspondence with me. Now,

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Speaker 1: Hey Dan, Hey, Heather. What did you make of Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris's speech? Did she give the voters what they need

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Speaker 1: to vote for her?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I think she basically gave something that looked very presidential,

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Speaker 2: you know in DC, like you just mentioned in the

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Speaker 2: World Wires, where former President Trump wanted to overturn the

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Speaker 2: will of the people, as she said, So, I mean

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Speaker 2: this is I mean, you know, to Paraphrasey Obamas, I

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Speaker 2: think she was trying to take the high road tonight,

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Speaker 2: and you know, she was looking at sounding and acting presidential.

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Speaker 2: And remember, I mean this is fifty percent showbiz, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, the setting, the crowd, the placement, the music.

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Speaker 2: It's a big production. It doesn't matter whether you're Kamala

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Speaker 2: Harris or Donald Trump. It's just I think she's a

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Speaker 2: little bit more on the message, whereas Donald Trump is

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Speaker 2: a little bit sort of you know, here and there

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Speaker 2: and hit and miss.

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Speaker 1: The thing is what she needs to do. It turns

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Speaker 1: out people in the States, voters in the States want

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Speaker 1: economic they want to talk about the economy, right, that's

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Speaker 1: the thing they care about. They care about the cost

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Speaker 1: of living crisis, They care about the economy. They do

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Speaker 1: not care as much about the threat that Trump poses

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Speaker 1: to democracy. So did she get them over the line

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Speaker 1: on that?

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Speaker 2: I think she did, But you know, I think anything

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Speaker 2: between now and the finish line a week from tonight, Heather, Honestly,

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Speaker 2: you're just talking to a wall, you know, these people

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Speaker 2: that they're talking about, these undecided voters. Honestly, with the

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Speaker 2: exception of maybe my eighteen year old son, who is

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Speaker 2: who does want to vote for one candidate or the other,

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Speaker 2: I haven't met an undecided voter. Everybody has made up

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Speaker 2: their mind right now at this point in time. So

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Speaker 2: I think you're preaching of the choir at this point.

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe there's a two or three percentage and

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Speaker 2: that could certainly swing an election in one of the

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Speaker 2: six or seven states at this point in time, but

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Speaker 2: I think everybody's mind is pretty well set.

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Speaker 1: Is I FK staying on some of the ballots?

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Speaker 2: Well, because basically the Supreme Court said he has to

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Speaker 2: in Wisconsin and Michigan, And then again, those are two

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Speaker 2: of the battleground states we keep talking about. So Kennedy

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Speaker 2: doesn't want to draw any votes away from former President

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Speaker 2: Trump A week from today. He endorsed Trump after stepping down,

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Speaker 2: and he argued that these deadlines that that he messed

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Speaker 2: are oun constitutional because they're different than the rules for

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Speaker 2: candidates running safe for Democrat or Republican, and of course

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Speaker 2: he was an independent. Lower courts rejected at say, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know what, you're too late. There's not enough time

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Speaker 2: to change the ballots. Voting is already underway, so he

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Speaker 2: may draw a miniscool, minischool amount of voters, but likely

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Speaker 2: those that do vote for him are those that might

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Speaker 2: vote for Donald Trump MM.

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Speaker 1: Or protest voting, right, I mean, yes, yes, you have

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Speaker 1: to be a little dumb not to realize he's off

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Speaker 1: the ballot.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you, Well you would, but I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: there's always somebody that gets written in or somebody that

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Speaker 2: gets a half a percent of a vote out here.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you'll even get that that much though.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now you we say today has also decided it's

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Speaker 1: going to do the same thing as the Washington Post

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Speaker 1: and kill the endorsements. What's their reasoning for it?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, this is really interesting because when you

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Speaker 2: think about it, these so called nonpartisan medias taking side

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Speaker 2: even on an editorial page. I mean, some people have

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Speaker 2: been questioning that for for some time. But what's interesting

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Speaker 2: is they're not going to publish any presidential endorsements between

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Speaker 2: now and November fifth. But what they're going to do

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Speaker 2: is allow their two hundred newspapers around the country to

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Speaker 2: endorse candidates at the state and local levels at their

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Speaker 2: own discretion. And this seems like a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a gray area, I think, because if you're saying, well,

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Speaker 2: we're not doing this, but this is okay, I mean,

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Speaker 2: why draw the line right there? They're saying, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: we believe that that America's future has decided locally, one

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Speaker 2: race at a time, which to me seems kind of

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Speaker 2: like a strange response or maybe a non response in

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Speaker 2: this case, to do this it is quite Or you

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Speaker 2: could take the cynical road right which says nobody in

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Speaker 2: the media, which nobody in the media takes, and just

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Speaker 2: say they just don't want to get on the back

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Speaker 2: side of whoever wins this election.

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Speaker 1: Ah so, like the local races are not as important,

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Speaker 1: but you want to stay sweet with the president exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is weird because if you're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: principlene to stick with it wholeheartedly. Hey Dan, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, really appreciated. Dan Mitchison, you US correspondent. For

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