Jack Tame: Q&A and ZB Saturday Mornings host on Donald Trump's campaign gaining more momentum in Georgia

The heat's being turned up in the US, with just over a week until Election Day. 

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their final pitches to voters on the campaign trail. 

Both have been visiting battleground states, where voters could have a deciding voice.

Newstalk ZB's Jack Tame at Trump's rally in Georgia.

He says there's been a subtle lift in momentum at the Trump camp. 

"It's nothing like the momentum shifts we saw earlier on when Trump survived that attempted assassination and then when Joe Biden pulled out and Kamala Harris got dropped into the campaign spot... nothing like that, but I reckon there's been a noticeable shift." 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it is a week, as I said at the
start of the show, to the US election, and it
is ramping up over there. Trump's just spoken at a
rally in Georgia.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
This election is a choice between whether we will have
four more years of inconfidence and vailue, or whether or
not we will begin the four greatest years in the
history of our country.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
You know. Michelle Jack's aim host of Q and a
host of a Newstalks W'DB Saturday Mornings, is over in
the States and was actually at the rally. Hey Jack, Hey,
you on a scale of one to ten, how much
did you love being there?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh? I'm fifteen. Like, I just absolutely frothed on US politics,
always have. This is my fourth US election that I covered,
so yeah, real joy to be there. I mean, it's funny.
I was interested today to compare Trump's rally today in Atlanta,
where sitting in the bleachers there with the first Trump
rallies that I went to in Texas like nine years ago,

(00:59):
And honestly, not a whole lot has changed. It's quite funny.
Like the crowd who turns up, a lot of them
have been to heaps of Trump rallies before I saw
one guy who said to me it was his ninth
Trump rally, And a lot of the like scripting points
get repeated day after day after day, and the crowd's
actually hanging out to hear them. So, for example, when
Trump's his Kamela, the whole audience yells you're fired. The

(01:22):
whole thing follows a pretty neat script even when even
when you know Trump goes off on his little you know,
on his little off pieced spiels from time to time.
But yeah, you know, I think my sense is that
he is that he has a little bit of momentum
coming off the Medicine Square gardens rarely yesterday, and yeah,

(01:44):
it's obviously going to look to continue that over the
next week. I remember being.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Over there in twenty sixteen and it was like a
few months, it was quite a few months before the
election campaign, and I came back and I said to
the guy's back here, Trump's going to win and nobody
would believe it. But on the ground, it's a different
feeling to what people can see. You know, if you're
sitting in a foreign land, So what's your feeling on
the ground, Is he going to win it?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well? Okay, My thing is that it's always very hard
to get it a nationwide perspective in the US. So
I was in Arizona yesterday and the vibe in Arizona
is very different to where I am in Atlanta today,
and I would suggest it's going to be very different
to where I am in Pennsylvania in two days time.
That being said, I reckon, over the last couple of
weeks there has been a subtle momentum shift, nothing like

(02:27):
the momentum shift we saw earlier on when Trump had
survived that attemptive assassination and then when Joe Biden pulled
out Carmala, Harris Scott dropped into the candidate spot and
had that massive surge. Nothing like that, But I reckon
there has been a noticeable little shift in momentum. And
you know, obviously Harris is going to try and turn
that round to the next couple of days. But if

(02:49):
momentum tells us anything about turnout at the polls, it
would suggest I think that at the very least, the
Trump campaign are feeling quite pleased with where they're at.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, Jack, thanks very much.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Jack.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
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