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Speaker 1: A lot of developments in the US in the last

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Speaker 1: twenty four or so hours, with Joe Biden standing down

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Speaker 1: well announcing that he won't be rerunning for president. David

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Speaker 1: Woyward from Channel seven, the US correspondent, is joining us.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, David, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Go So David in a nutshell, how does the process

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Speaker 1: work now?

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Speaker 3: I mean there's not long to go.

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Speaker 2: No, there's not long to go. That party convention, the

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Speaker 2: Democratic Party convention is next month. But it's pretty certainly

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Speaker 2: now Kamala Harris's nomination to lose. She is locked up

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Speaker 2: pretty much all of that support right now. She has

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Speaker 2: every major senior Democrat now in her corner. They have

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Speaker 2: endorsed her. Of course, the president Joe Biden, we saw

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Speaker 2: that yesterday. He has now endorsed her, and she is

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Speaker 2: now locking in those delegates as well, more than four

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Speaker 2: thousand of them from the party. So it's pretty much

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Speaker 2: now Kamala Harris's She'll have to now go through that

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Speaker 2: process of filling out her ticket, picking her vice presidential pick.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's looking pretty certain now that it will

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Speaker 2: be a Donald Trump and Kamala Harris matchup. And of

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Speaker 2: course the Democrats are trying to faint that frame. This

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Speaker 2: is a match up between convictor crook and a star prosecutor.

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Speaker 3: How bizarre. Wow, I reckon Trump would be somewhat upset

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Speaker 3: because he had a free run, didn't he, especially, you

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Speaker 3: know the way Joe was going. Did he be a

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Speaker 3: little bit upset behind the scenes he watched the show

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Speaker 3: it to these people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Well, certainly the Republicans right now they are

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Speaker 2: scrambling to sort of pivot and you know, refocus their attacks.

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Speaker 2: And we've said a little bit of that already today.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, just from that debate performance three weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: now we saw how pretty much Donald Trump got that

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Speaker 2: free run against Joe Biden. He was really unable to

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Speaker 2: land any of those punchers. But certainly you wouldn't think

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Speaker 2: that will be the case now with Kamala Harris, she's

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Speaker 2: a bit more of a brawler, She's a bit more

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Speaker 2: of a fighter. She's certainly a formidable debater.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the Democratic endorsement Democratic Party's endorsement is

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Speaker 1: one thing. What is the feeling for her among American people?

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Speaker 2: Well, that remains for me. Scene just yet, of course,

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Speaker 2: those pulses are furiously behind the scenes now trying to

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Speaker 2: crunch all of those numbers, but she's actually just hit

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Speaker 2: a pretty incredible milestone in the past few hours. She

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Speaker 2: has raised more than one hundred and twenty million dollars

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Speaker 2: for her party in just twenty four hours. So that

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Speaker 2: makes it the highest earning candidate in a twenty four

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Speaker 2: hour period in American history, right, so she's right up there.

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Speaker 2: That's the equivalent. So it's actually around eighty million US dollars,

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Speaker 2: but it's still absolutely astronomical. So if that is anything

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Speaker 2: to go by, she certainly re energized this campaign, and

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Speaker 2: I mean, it has to be done it and it

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Speaker 2: was really flagging under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Biden going means that Trump can't use the word

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Speaker 3: old at all now because he's now the elder candidate

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Speaker 3: in the running.

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Speaker 2: But as far as he's the old blocking yeah yeah, right.

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Speaker 3: I changed the language completely. But the process, if it

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Speaker 3: wasn't Harris, then it would have been very complicated. So

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Speaker 3: close to the event, are you surprised with the immediate

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Speaker 3: support of the people at Nancy placing mcclinton's jumping on

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Speaker 3: board on Not at all.

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Speaker 2: I think they didn't have much of a choice in

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Speaker 2: the end. And that's not to say that they wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have supported Kamala Harris, but certainly it was the easiest

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Speaker 2: and it was the cleaner. She was already on that ticket.

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Speaker 2: All of that money that had already been committed to

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Speaker 2: the campaign had her name on it. So all they

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Speaker 2: had to do was really flip her to the primary

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Speaker 2: candidate on that ticket, file that relevant paperworker with the

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Speaker 2: Electoral Commission, and it was kind of a nice and

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Speaker 2: easy path. Anything else would have been very bruising. It

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Speaker 2: could have been very, very messy if we had to

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Speaker 2: go on to that open convention of course, sent very

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Speaker 2: close to the election deadline as well. So this has

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Speaker 2: been the most painless. This is probably the best way

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Speaker 2: that the Democrats could have played it.

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Speaker 1: Joe was defiant right until the end. Though what or

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Speaker 1: who do you think finally did push him to drop out?

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Speaker 2: Well, certainly something has got to him. I mean, those

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Speaker 2: calls have been growing and they had reached that crescendo

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Speaker 2: for weeks and weeks after that debate, we've had all

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Speaker 2: of those major party figures. You're right and point out

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Speaker 2: that he had struck that tone of defiance. We know

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Speaker 2: that his in a circle had got smaller and smaller,

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Speaker 2: and he was relying just sort of on the advice

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Speaker 2: of a few family members and very close advisors towards

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Speaker 2: the end there. But something has led into that we

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Speaker 2: know the donations have been drying up as well, and

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Speaker 2: once the money starts throwing up, you kind of you're

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Speaker 2: up against it. So now campaign, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, David, what a time for history with the Trump

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Speaker 3: assassination of tempt and then the record history making donations

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Speaker 3: in such a short period of time. But there's so

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Speaker 3: much more too, isn't there. I've never seen this before,

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Speaker 3: someone pulling out so close to the US election.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, I mean this election campaign just keeps on

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Speaker 2: throwing up those curveballs. I mean, it was only a

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Speaker 2: week ago that we had an assassination attempt on a

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Speaker 2: former US president in life. I don't know if we

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Speaker 2: really let that sink in. It is a huge moment.

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Speaker 2: And then you've got all this other carnage and chaos

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Speaker 2: surrounding the Democrat impact Up on Capitol Hill today they're

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Speaker 2: actually grilling the Secret Service and the head of the

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Speaker 2: Secret Service there regarding those failings surrounding the protection of

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. So really interesting, in a very ensline of

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Speaker 2: questioning for those congressional leaders today and they have found

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Speaker 2: major failings in that process.

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Speaker 1: Well, David, do you think they can win with such

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Speaker 1: big changes this close to the election?

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Speaker 2: Oh, don't make me do predictions. I mean I couldn't

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Speaker 2: have predicted half the stuff happened in this election campaign.

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Speaker 1: Those donations speak a lot, I guess, so you can

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Speaker 1: really take from it.

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Speaker 2: They really do. Yeah, they really do. They will speak

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Speaker 2: a lot, and it will be interesting to see if

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Speaker 2: they are maintained as well. Was this just a flash

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Speaker 2: in the pan? Was this just an early bit of

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Speaker 2: support for her? But whether or not it's that local level,

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Speaker 2: grass roots support maintains for her. Look, she's already whipping

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Speaker 2: up support amongst the younger generations. She's getting the support

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Speaker 2: of Charlie XCX and a few others like that. So

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Speaker 2: she's really tapping into a well culture as well in

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Speaker 2: way that Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and there is there's a lot to be said

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Speaker 1: for that. It is still an election where not everybody votes,

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Speaker 1: so they need they need to get them all down

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Speaker 1: there well for a comprehensive coverage, But please no predictions.

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Speaker 1: David will have all the latest on seven Heaven News

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Speaker 1: tonight at six. Thank you, David Boys.

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Speaker 2: No problems, guys, stay tuned. I'm sure there's a few

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Speaker 2: more curveballs to count.

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Speaker 1: Doubt nothing surprises me anymore