Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the tight race leading into the US Election, a potential crack in the Blue Wall

The polls are concerningly tight as the US Election draws nearer.  

With Donald Trump and Kamala Harris neck and neck, the focus is on the battleground states. 

Harris’ Campaign concerned about a potential crack in the ‘Blue Wall’, made up of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that if Harris loses one of those states, she wouldn’t have the 270 electoral votes needed to take the White House without getting at least one of the other battlegrounds. 

He said the call is out for every voter, including long-term Republican voters who may be closeted supporters of Harris. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Richard Arnold, Greetings, how are you.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm well, Good morning, Mike.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
How tired is today? How about those poles? Well?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, with the poles so very close to the Harris campaign
is concerned there might be a crack in what's called
the Blue Wall Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, those three states.
If Kamala Harris loses even one of these, she would
not win the two hundred and seventy electoral votes needed
to take the White House without getting another one or
two of the battleground states. So the call is out
for every vote, even long term Republicans who might be

(00:29):
closet Kamala supporters. Harris has done a sweep of these
blue Walls states with none ofther than Liz Cheney in
the last day or so. Change of course, formerly in
the Republican leadership, she now says.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
If you're at all concerned, you can vote your conscience
and not ever have to say a word to anybody.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, don't tell you ifamily or your day, but this
is how it's going, says Gamala Harris.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Of this, there are moments in the history of our
country which challenge us, each of us, to who really decide?
Do we stand for those things that we talk about,
including a particular country over a party.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
And while Harris is pressing for Republican voters, Trump is
worried there might be cracks in his campaign wall as well.
So he's been in North Carolina calling on evangelic called
Christians aback him Trump being such a devout individual.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
We tell Christians to get out and vote. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
His message to the faithful, in part, was this, we
will end the louting, ransack in, raping, and pellaging of
North Carolina and frankly every other state in the what
do way back at the eighth cent free folks pillaging.
Trump also is repeating lies that the federal government as
ignoring victims of Hurricane Helene, which saw devastation in parts

(01:47):
of North Carolina. Hasn't gone for the dem since two
thousand and eight, when Obama Big McCain. Trump's call to
Christians comes one day, of course, after his elude comments
about the genitalia of golfer Arnold Palmer, whose daughter now
is lashing Trump for those comments. Here's what she is saying.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, it seems just respectful and inappropriate to me.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
The people in western Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Deserve substance not stories that intimate a closer relationship and
actually existed. So late Arnold Palmer, it seems not a
Trump star right Middle East?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Where are we at, Blincoln? Still on the road, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Still blinking. Give piece of chances his message. This is
his eleventh visit to the region. He met with the
Israel's PM at this morning, criticizing him for curtailing aid
to Gaza. In recent weeks. There's been a fifty percent
counting aid supplies to Gaza. US laws require withdrawal of
military assistance to countries that block the flow of American
humanitarian aids. So that's the stick. Whether there's anything behind

(02:47):
it is the other question. Donald Trump, meantime, in an
interview with the Saudi news agency Al Arabia, says he
thinks the hostages at Washington, and many in Israel and
elsewhere are seeking to rescue those hostages can buy hamash.
During their initial raid, ah dead, but many of them
have been killed, and I'm sure many of them are dead.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I think even early on, I think a lot of
those houssages were dead.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think they were dead. Type one of the families,
including American families, think of that, all right? Mate?

Speaker 1 (03:17):
See in front.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
I appreciate it very much if you can be bothered
looking it up. John kingdon of very nice piece. He
went to John King of CNN. He went to Detroit
and interviewed a whole lot of auto workers about where
they're at, why they're at, Very articulate people. It was
a good insight and just sort of by the by
that woman Nutzi at Libyan Nutzi, who was working at
New York Magazine allegedly in some strange non physical way,

(03:38):
became involved in a personal relationship with RFK and then
they stood it down, and then they investigated her work
and they found there was no change to the work.
And she said, see, I told you there's no change.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
To the work. They let her go anyway, so they're
all unfolded Yesterday.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
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