(5 Nov 2024)
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Minneapolis – 5 November 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Audrey Wesley, Kamala Harris supporter:
"I voted a straight Democratic ticket, and I surely hope that Trump don’t get in to be president. If I was a Republican, I wouldn’t vote for him. I mean, I can’t believe a man that has done as much against the law can be even running for president. Our system is broken. I’m hoping we fix it."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dessie Ollie, Kamala Harris supporter:
"I voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. And I believe that they will make a difference moving forward with our economy."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dessie Ollie, Kamala Harris supporter:
"Just jobs and everything that’s going on in the world. I really believe that they will make it better. Because Trump, I feel, is trying to take us back in making America great again — America wasn’t great, and there was slavery and people impoverished and things like that. So I feel that Kamala Harris is not for that, she is the opposite and it would be different."
Reporter: "Got it. And you mentioned sort of Trump, taking the country back. Tell me a little bit more about what concerns you about him?"
Dessie Ollie: "Definitely racism. I feel racism is still at an all-time high and it’s getting worse. And I feel that if Harris-Walz team, it’s not for that. They’re for the people and making a difference and not with racism and holding especially people of color and all people. Everybody wants a change. And I feel it’s time for a change moving forward in a better and uplifting way."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dessie Ollie, Kamala Harris supporter:
(Response to Kamala Harris being the first female president)
"That will definitely be history being the first woman president of the United States of America. That is huge. And that will definitely be history made here. And so I’m looking forward to that and very excited about it. And I hope and pray that she wins and that all will go well, because either way, whoever’s in office, we do need to pray."
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STORYLINE:
Audrey Wesley is a 90-year-old Democrat voter in Minneapolis, Minn., who voted a straight Democratic ticket, supporting Vice President Kamala Harris she says promised to reach across the aisle, which reminds her of a time when politics used to be more bipartisan.
The nonagenarian, Wesley believes our political system needs fixing.
"I voted a straight Democratic ticket, and I surely hope that Trump don’t get in to be president."
"I can’t believe a man that has done as much against the law can be even running for president. Our system is broken. I’m hoping we fix it," Wesley said after casting her vote in the historic presidential race that will also determine which party gets control of the House and Senate.
Another Minnesota voter, Dessie Ollie, who is anti-abortion chose to vote for the vice president because of the economy. 50-year-old Ollie hopes that a Harris-Walz presidency will bring back jobs and lead the country in a better direction – away from racism and bigotry.
"Just jobs and everything that’s going on in the world. I really believe that they (Harris-Walz) will make it better. Because Trump, I feel, is trying to take us back in making ‘America great again’", Ollie said.
"I feel that Kamala Harris is not for that, she is the opposite and it would be different."
"I feel racism is still at an all-time high, and it’s getting worse. And I feel that if Harris Walz team, it’s not for that."
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