CSB - Amy S Thaler - US corespondent

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the cricket field to the cowsheerd. It's the Country
Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on gold Sport, Stay away
from Me.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's been a couple of weeks since we've caught up
with our US correspondent Amy Daylers. She's been on holiday
in Bonnie, Scotland. Welcome home to DC, Amy, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Good morning. Nice to be back. I was supposed to
be back last week in apologies to Craig, because I
got hit with COVID on my way back. It was
just a little party git from Scotland.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I think, Oh, did you and your daughter enjoy your
trip around Scotland?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
We did. We had a brilliant time. Although I have
to tell you, BK, I didn't think there is any
country that had more narrow roads or more roundabouts than
New Zealand. I think I went through in nine days.
I went around more roundabouts in nine days than I
collectively did in six years and z So that was

(00:59):
pretty shocked.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well there you go, alrighty, so you come back to
really quite a political storm at the moment. Now, I
guess we haven't spoken for a while. Kamala Harris is
now the well is now the Democrat, Well, what do
you call it? Democrats?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, she's our candidate. And I have to tell you
today is Labor Day here in the US, So it's
a significant day in many respects, but one of them
in the political realm is that it's often seen as
a key mile marker because usually where the polls are
today is pretty much close to where it ends up

(01:39):
when all of a sudden done and all the votes
are counted and things are tight right now. You know,
we talked before we came on that I was kind
of embarrassed to tell people in Scotland where I was from,
just because the landscape is in such chaos, and to
say it was from America is kind of embarrassing, just
because things are so crazy here and it never used

(02:01):
to be that way. But Harris is leading in the
polls two to four points across various polls, and that's
kind of the margin of error. There are seven states
that both sides have identified as critical. Harris leads in three,
which are known as the Blue Wall. That's Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin. Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada are too close to call.

(02:24):
In North Carolina, where Trump won in both twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty does seem to be leading by a
hair his hair, I don't know anyway. Then in Nebraska's
second district, she's already had by five points, So it's
all about the electoral college, right, so she wins all

(02:45):
those traditional blue states and Democratic states, plus that blue
wall in Nebraska's second electoral votes, she could actually win,
which is pretty exciting. And but Trump is putting on
the pressure with a lot of nowes and JD Vance,
his VP candidate. He's really turned into Trump's bullhorn. So

(03:07):
Trump is almost not even quite as prominent right now
as JD Vance. Anything that he doesn't like, he just
secks JD on it. And you know, JD's making all
the social media post He's really been his mouthpiece in
a lot of ways. Harris, on the other hand, you
know what I love about Harris right now is she's

(03:27):
after her big national convention speech. She just isn't acknowledging
or even focusing on the fact that she's a woman.
She just won't give any airtime to that or that
she's a candidate of color. She just simply says, I'm
the best person for the job right now, she's taking
a really different campaign strategy than previous Democratic candidates and

(03:52):
going to different areas, kind of high risk areas and
stumping in areas not previously canvassed by as campaigns. And
she's got a really tough job, right because she's got
to set herself apart from Joe Biden. But she can't
really do it without disrespecting Biden, because she still serves

(04:12):
at the pleasure of the President, as they say. But
she's got to define her own agenda and policies without
speaking against his. So it's it. She's got a tough job.
But I don't know, I kind of love what she's
trying to do. And it's going to be very interesting
about the debate on September tenth, yeacause her prosecutorial skills

(04:35):
I think are going to come out, and I think
she'll wipe the floor with Trump and our true debate.
But you know, it's hard to argue against someone who
just you know, lies through his teeth and isn't supported
by facts. So I don't know, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's getting down to really the business end of the eleak,
you know. I mean, it isn't that far away when
you think about November, is it.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, it's very close. I don't know the day count.
It was seventy days, but we're well under that. Yeah,
it's very close. Everyone's looking at the polls. It's within
the margin of error.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
I know.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
It's stressful everyone, it's very stressful.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Alrighty, well, Amy, you've come back to that. We'll see
what develops over the coming weeks. Nice to catch up.
Nice to have you back on the show, and we'll
talk next week.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Thanks, BK, have a good one.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Amy Taylor joining us out of Washington, d C. A
US correspondent here