Trump or Kamala？ Americans react to presidential election
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In this episode, we talk to a group of Americans about the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris and her campaign for the 2020 election, immigration, abortion and vasectomies, and what they think about the election so far.
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hey guys it's rachel parker here with true north i am in niagara falls new york and we are going
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to go talk to some americans to see what they think about the u.s election so far and what
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they think about the democratic national convention currently ongoing with policies
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like offering free abortions and vasectomies let's go take a look come on
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do you know who you're voting for this election cycle trump trump trump trump why are you voting
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for trump love him love his views on life love his views on america i think he's good for america
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we're from west virginia and all west virginians feel that way kamala harris
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and why is that um i tend to be on the liberal progressive side so she her her what she
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stands for is more in line with i believe so so will you guys be voting for for kamala on election day
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i would say yes i would say i am if you had to sum up in one sentence why you're voting for
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kamala what would you say to keep trump out of office to keep trump out of office that would be
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number one i'm pretty well said who i'm going to vote for it's it's a shoe-in the way i see it i
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don't want to vote for a convicted felon that has an ego and attitude problem so you are supporting
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kamala harris just because you dislike trump or because you'd like some of her policies uh both
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so it's more dislike for trump than a like for her i don't know that much about her really um see
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she's uh had some impressive jobs and apparently is good at them and and uh i'm hopeful well right
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now from what she said at the convention she's done a pretty good job of convincing this voter i hope that
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the uh you know i like to quote what trump said during the 2016 uh uh you know uh process where
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he said he loves the ignorant and uneducated so i hope that kamala harris can get through to the
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ignorant and uneducated that donald trump loves just because you don't like the guy you gotta see what
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how those four years ran with him and now the four years running with biden we were out way way better
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off back then than we are now i like kamala you know i mean uh i'm not even about i just like
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personal you know because uh today these kids is much older and um you know it just should be fair
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and it's because the board i'd bring that's what she'll bring so the democratic national convention's
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happening right now i don't know if you guys are paying attention to that at all but one of the things
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they're doing this year is they're actually offering free abortions and free vasectomies for
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people at the convention what do you guys make of that that's another thing you know
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all right if you if you want to abort a child that's up to you and god when you die you know
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that has nothing to do you know what i mean to run an election on that's what you're worried about is
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abortion well that's pretty silly yeah you know that's the least of worries about what they want
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to give free abortions out i think people should be held a little more accountable for their own actions
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instead of putting that on everybody else to put it on the taxpayers dime don't agree with that
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vasectomies is your choice but abortion is the baby is included you know so vasectomies is a form of
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birth control should have thought of vasectomy before you got pregnant the abortion yeah i feel the
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same way she does you know i'm a christian so i i believe in birth you know bringing the life into
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the world but who it's kind of like what pope francis says when he says who am i to judge
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when it comes to the clergy sex abuse and the homosexual clergy that goes against what it says in the
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teachings of the holy bible why should i judge someone that wants to do what they're going to do
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i care about my individual liberties just like i care about theirs they should be entitled to do
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what they want and not have any judgment from anyone um another thing about the democrat national
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convention right now is they're supporting the u.s citizens act which would grant citizenship to
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illegal immigrants what do you think no no they got they got they got to come here legally man
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you want to come here come here the right way and pay taxes and do what you have to do
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you know you're just running across the border and coming here and now we're gonna have to support
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them and pay for them and no no they they have to get thrown back and then come back the right way
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that's all i think um i i'm not so sure that's exactly correct that they're just offering um i think
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there's a process that people would have to go through but i'm for that so you think that the
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state's immigration numbers need to be higher or about as high as they are i think we could have higher
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immigration numbers in the united states absolutely i mean our unemployment rate's so low i mean
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i think there's there's just not enough jobs to go around now i think we need to deport the illegals
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that's a good thing for this country because you've got a you've got more people that want
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to be productive and be taxpayers and part of the united states so that's a good thing are you i
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concerned at all that some of the you know asylum seekers some of the illegal immigrants are not
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wanting to be taxpayers are instead a burden to taxpayers not necessarily because how many refugees
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go into canada like they do here in the united states people that need help need to be helped
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i don't think we can afford them and they're probably going to vote for somebody we don't want
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them to vote for yes so i think that's probably the reason they're being allowed here you know you
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you know you support kamala do you support um the manner in which she was chosen do you think that
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it was really like a fair choice for people that you know support the democrats or you know some
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people have said it was basically just a coup and she just replaced joe biden people weren't really
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given much it wasn't a co no he he stepped down and uh the the delegates backed come on i think she was
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installed i don't i don't there's nobody in their right mind that would have kept joe biden in i mean
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he was just rambling bumbling about nothing um so she was kind of installed and i think it's kind of
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just a setup you know it's something that was set up that nobody was elected into her position really
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it's just she just kind of was put in the right place i think i'll tell you what when i look at the
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history of the united states of america what's happened all the way back to slavery and you know
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you look at the way the economy of the united states back uh when slavery was around the fact
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that the descendants of slaves from that period at that point in time in history i feel like it's
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a vindication for them and it's a way you know kamala harris being picked it's a way to bring better
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race relations on this side of the border because of the wrongs from the past she's a good pick because
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of the color of her skin and because she's an intelligent woman obviously that you know
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understands she's got the pulse of the people on her side so do you think that all this so-called
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momentum that we're seeing behind kamala do you perceive that that is a real thing or do you think
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that's just the media pushing an agenda media pushing yes it's gonna be close i think because uh
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i'm from pa and she's pretty close to trump and pa and i i don't understand how so you think trump is
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a shoo-in at this point no i think media is very powerful so do you think that the media and the
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states is powerful enough to sway the results of the election in comas i think they are yes last
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election they favors they side there may be a uh fox news that favors trump and and cnn is going to favor
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camera there's not going to be a difference it's not going to stop until somebody step in and say
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look here i want to work on fox news and goddamn cnn and say the middle like in canada you know your
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economy's been struggling a little bit these last few years really high inflation uh really high costs
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at the grocery stores i'd be surprised if you hadn't experienced some of that yourself do you
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attribute any of this to to policies of the biden and harris administration no i'm gonna go all the
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way back to uh voodoo and trickle down economics from when the bushes were president i think it's
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beyond it's it's a hard thing to control like i said economy things i think i think the pandemics
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had a lot to do a lasting effect you know that that's going on you know we're going to be feeling
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it for a long time in one way or another well it seems like when the conservatives want to just
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take care of one specific group of people they exclude everyone else and it seems like
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business people that know what to do with capital are the only ones that'll try to find positive
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solutions from the negative outcomes from their presidencies they just spend spend spend and
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the middle class is getting killed we we can't afford nothing you know i mean two people out there
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i'm 61 i got i got to work now even harder now than i did before just to pay my my mortgage
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it's outrageous do you think america looks great on the world stage right now
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showing the reversal stage of just trying to just get back into the current yeah they look great
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america's always america's the greatest country in the world think of some of the great american
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politicians from way back and you know they led the people the people got behind them you know and
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now it's it's kind of out of control all right everyone so there you have it a little taste of
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what some americans think about their election ongoing right now i do have to say this is my first time
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on the american side of the falls it is much nicer than the canadian side it's true the view of
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horseshoe falls isn't quite as good but the town surrounding it is much nicer if you've ever been to
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the canadian side of the falls you'll know exactly what i mean all right guys that's all we have time
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for today on rachel and the republic i'll see you next week with more coverage of the american election