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Interview: Alexa D'Amato and Michael Dent on The Afternoon Ramble 11:55

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Hofstra journalism students Alexa D'Amato and Michael join WLIW-FM's Brian Cosgrove to talk about their experience reporting live from the presidential debate in Philadelphia.

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Elected officials give varied perspectives on presidential debate 1:55

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This is Alexa D'Amato reports for WLIW-FM from Philadelphia. It's traditional for both campaigns to send surrogates to speak to the media after the debate to offer commentary, reporters surrounded Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance, Former Trump official Olivia Troye, and former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, among others. Florida Representative Byron Donald was also in attendance to support Trump. He listed his reasons for supporting the former president. We need leadership and smart policies and common sense. I've seen a lot of politicians come and so when he says he's gonna do something, he does it. On the democratic side, D'Amato spoke to Gold Star Father Keyser Khan, whose son was killed during the Iraq war. Here's what he had to say last night. Kamala Harris is the president is most suitable for the president. I will stand with Kamala Harris. I will campaign for Kamala Harris because there is no comparison. Leaders on both sides claimed victory after the debate. *** Michael Dunn reports for WLIW-FM from the Pennsylvania Convention Center last night. Reporters had a lot of questions for Republican leaders immediately following the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Dent asked the Republican Senator, Marco Rubio, about both of the candidates performance. I think voters know everything they need to know about Donald Trump and everything he said tonight or did tonight is pretty much consistent with everything they heard from him in the past. I don't think they saw anything from Trump that they hadn't seen before Kamala Harris for a lot of people, is still an unknown. Later on, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told Dent he's optimistic about a Trump Pence administration. President Trump and I've had some longstanding discussions over the course of this year about some high impact positions in the cabinet and the administration. Ramaswamy also said he's been recruited heavily for the governorship of Ohio.…

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51% of voters say abortion is an important issue; Harris leads Trump by 4 points 2:00

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Alexa D'Amato reports for WLIW-FM from the presidential debate in Philadelphia. According to the Pew Research Center, 51% of registered voters said that abortion was an important issue when picking a president. For South Philly resident Genevieve Mitchell, her vote for president came down to her views on the topic. I don't support Trump's. My understanding is that he tends to further limit the rights that women have for abortion, so my understanding is that Kamala is hoping to either reverse those, or at least keep the status quo. The latest data from Pew show crime is a critical issue. Chris Mullah from North Philly agrees. The crime rate in the city has been going up even more. I've been seeing less cops out, but I can say since this election thing started, I've seen more cops around. But before then there wasn't that much cops around. Mullah and other locals, some at watch parties in downtown Philadelphia, will be watching tonight's debate, hosted by ABC News. *** Michael Dent reports from the presidential debate in Philadelphia at Radio Row. According to new ABC News and Ipsos Poll, Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump by 4 percentage points among all adult and registered voters, with the margins changing by the day. Students at nearby Temple University explain why voting matters to them. I think that there's a lot of issues, especially at hand right now. If we rally together, then, we can make good change. Given that it's a swing state, it's really important. Those are the views of junior Olivia Brown and sophomores Nico Carter and Randy Keller. Over at Drexel University, politics professor Richardson Dilworth says voter turnout is key in Pennsylvania. Who the electoral votes go to is going to be determined by probably a pretty slim margin. So that margin is going to be determined to a great extent by turn out. To watch the Trump and Harris debate hosted by ABC News, viewers can watch on Hulu, Disney plus and other platforms at 9:00 PM Eastern Time, or stream NPR's simulcast on WLIW-FM.…

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Young voters are split about watching presidential debate 1:59

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Alexa D'Amato reports for WLIW-FM from the presidential debate in Philadelphia. Young voters are split about watching the Trump-Harris debate and new polling by the New York Times and Siena College supports this. Freshman Hope Galloway gave her predictions for the candidates face off. I believe there's going to be a lot of personal attacks involved, which I'm not super excited to hear. But I believe that some majority will come out of it and hopefully we'll get some material that's at least a little bit televised. While freshman Willow Arnold says the debate falls on her birthday. I didn't really think about it that hard because it's my birthday, so I kind of don't want that to be ruined. He can ruin any vibe, anything. Like when people bring up, like politics and stuff like that. But other students D'Amato spoke to say they will be closely watching the Trump Harris debate to learn more about the candidates positions on the economy and border security. *** Michael Dent reports for WLIW-FM from the presidential debate in Philadelphia. It's not clear how many college students plan to watch the Trump-Harris debate. Take a listen to some Hofstra students' on following politics. I just like, don't think about politics, that. I mean, I know what I was taught in, like, history and stuff, but aside from that. Not much. Politics is not something I've been taught. That was junior Laylane Foster, freshman Aiden Morrow, and junior Nea Roman. For some perspective on why, here's an educators view: There's been a lot of failure in the Board of Ed. with high school students who can't read. Marianne Callanberg is a professor at Touro College, and she taught in high school for 34 years. Callenberg's husband, George Fleischer, is retired. He taught high school for 30 years. Children who are going to school will not understand unless they get a fundamental understanding of reading. Fleischer and Callenberg say they'll be watching tomorrow night's debate, along with what they hope will be much of Gen Z.…

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Interview: Reflecting on the 2024 DNC on Heart of the East End 16:39

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Camryn Bowden and Kenny Forman spent the past week at the 2024 Deomcratic National Convention in Chicago, filing stories from the field with WLIW-FM each day. They joined Gianna Volpe on the air to talk about their experience and share clips of the eventful last day.

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Feature: Social media playing unique role in 2024 presidential election 6:39

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Transcript: Since its Advent, social media has played a number of different roles in presidential election years, especially for younger voters in the political process. What you're currently hearing is a remix of the now viral Coconut Tree meme from a TikTok user known simply as MX Welch 03. My mother used to she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, I don't know what's wrong with you, young. People. You think you just fell? Out of a coconut tree. You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you. Micah Loewinger, co-host of the popular WNYC radio show On the Media , says this now very famous speech was originally meant to hurt the Harris campaign. The coconut tree meme came from this clip that actually the RNC dug up in an attempt to make Kamala Harris seem meandering and scatterbrained and not as serious politician. But this clip actually had the opposite effect. That backfiring stemmed from the co-opting of this speech by younger voters, mainly those in Gen. Z. Clips from that now-viral video have been used in remixes of Charli XCX songs and Chappell Roan songs on TikTok and beyond, and it's really became a rallying cry for her campaign, when she announced her candidacy. And since the use of singer Charlie XDX's Brat summer with Harris's speech, the singer-songwriter herself endorsed Harris. One of the big celebrity endorsements that we saw right after she announced her candidacy was Charli XCX, tweeting that Kamala Harris is brat. The reference to Charlie XCX's hugely popular summer blockbuster album, Brat. Kamala Harris had started adopting the iconography of the album, her social media channels now read Kamala HQ, using the same faded arial black font against a chartreuse lime green background. The same style of Charlie XCX's album cover. Loewinger is unsure if it will have any longstanding impact. Does this virality translate into actual voters in November? And that's just a really hard question to answer. There are still months ahead before November. Some Hofstra students who have a podcast that features politics weighed in on this trend. Emma Rizzo, a Long Island freshman forensic science major, shared their thoughts on the impact of this popular. Social media trend. It's very good for reach because she's able to connect to the this generation that- They're newer to politics, with some of them being their first election, and it's kind of just like grabbing us and gravitating us towards voting because we feel comfortable with social media. Another first year Hofstra student, Megan Mancuso, studying speech pathology, says she was going to vote Democratic in this election, but the trend further cemented her choice as Harris. I think it was definitely reassuring, especially after, like Biden dropped out and stuff. It was kind of very confusing cause no one really knew what was happening. But now, because of the rise of these like memes, kind of reassuring in a way cause it's like, OK, the Democratic Party, they have this under control. There's nothing we need to worry about. On the other side of this election, former president and Republican presidential nominee. Donald Trump has used social media in a similar way, but with differing results. Recently he was interviewed by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter. Biden actually did something that was impossible. Both sides hate him. You know, both sides. Yeah. That was a hard thing to do. Unification. That clip was from the Daily Mail. Trump has joined content creators with massive followings, and what some see as an effort to shore up support among what one New York Times reporter described as "a testosterone heavy demographic that the former president sees as critical to his bid for office." Some of these media appearances have been with Youtubers Logan and Jake Paul. Podcasters and elk boys and a Kick live streamer by the name of Adin Ross. Again, WNYC's Michael Loewinger on that live stream: Somebody like Adin Ross, whether you're familiar with his work as a viewer or you've seen just clips of him online, it's not clear that he really has a super coherent political worldview. And here's what he thinks of Trump's connection with those influencers. I look to those endorsements as a sign that Donald Trump and his campaign are attempting to make inroads with this kind of broyer segment of influencer culture, and they very well may succeed. But he says he doesn't believe that the live stream appearances will create any long standing effects within those communities. The most successful political voices on these platforms are those who for hours a day, days a week, are instilling in their viewers a very specific and coherent political ideology. Loewinger does think, however, that Trump's connections with those communities align with the typical image seen by many MAGA Trump supporters. I think many of Donald Trump's supporters enjoy casting him as a a strongman, an ultra-rich guy who kind of fits a Hollywood definition of masculinity. That's the image that he is cultivating by courting some of these frattier influencers, Tik Tokers and Youtubers. Officer students also shared their input on Trump's use of social media freshman engineering major. Lucas Huang says that Trump's involvement with that community will largely be inconsequential. Definitely it's like. Targeting, you know those, the young generation that's like mainly males that are they're planning on voting Republican anyways. And his podcast co-host Emma Rizzo expresses a similar sentiment, saying that Trump is missing the mark when it comes to the communities he should appeal to. It definitely feels like he's trying to compete with Kamala and trying to get the younger generations, but he's focusing more on those who probably will be voting Republican. Gen. Z, some of who are voting for the first time, use these social media platforms as their lifeblood and their own independent media sources, and that definitely shows through the approach both Trump and Harris have taken to social media. For morning wake up call, I'm Cameron Bowden, 88.7 FM WRHU.…

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DNC speakers mock Project 2025; Tim Walz gives impassioned speech 2:00

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Camryn Bowden reports for WLIW-FM from the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Former President Donald Trump has tried to disassociate himself from Project 2025, a conservative government restructuring plan that aims to drastically change the political landscape of the US. But DNC speakers last night weren't buying this. Saturday Night Live comedian Kenan Thompson walked out on the stage with a prop: an extra large fake book titled Project 2025. You ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time? The crowd could not stop laughing. The keynote speaker, Tim Walz, Kamala Harris's running mate, also made reference to Donald Trump's connection to Project 2025 in his closing speech. They spent a lot of time pretending they know nothing about this. But look, I coached high school football long enough to know, and trust me on this, when somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they're going to use it. On the last night of this convention, more speakers are likely going to continue to push this narrative that Trump or his close associates are leading Project 2025. *** Kenny Forman reports for WLIW-FM from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It's the last day of the convention, and possibly the most important night, as delegates here and many more tune in online to hear from Kamala Harris. For those who missed last night's big moments, here's a recap the theme of day three was a fight for our freedoms and celebrity: Speeches included Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Keenan Thompson, as well as Stevie Wonder and John Legend. When Kamala Harris's running mate Governor Tim Walz finally took the stage, he was a force to hear. Kamala Harris is top. Kamala Harris is experienced and Kamala Harris is ready. Before Harris speaks tonight, more speakers will take the stage, including Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and his wife, Gabby Giffords.…

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DNC attendees buzz over speeches and protests; Activists work to let citizens abroad know they can vote 2:00

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Kenny Foreman reports for WLIW-FM at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It's the third day of the DNC convention, and people here can't stop talking about the electrifying speeches by former First Lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama. But some are also talking about different protests that took place last night outside of the Convention Center. That's Marnie Chambliss. She works with people for the ethical Treatment of Animals known as PETA. Other demonstrations included those supporting a movement to end the conflict in Gaza, as well as those against the Heritage Foundation's proposed project, 2025. Tonight's featured speakers include former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Harris's running mate, Governor Tim Waltz. *** Camryn Bowden reports for WLIW-FM from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. There are 57 delegations in total, 50 state delegations, the District of Columbia, 5 territory delegations and the Democrats abroad. One of the lesser known voting populations in this country is the over 9 million Americans who live abroad. But are U.S. citizens? Katie Solin is one of 21 delegates from Democrats abroad and shared how important this voting bloc is. U.S. citizens that live outside the US have the right to vote. Most of them don't know that they can, and then they don't know how to do it when they turn out, we win elections, we win elections for Democrats. Solon expressed how vital it is for U.S. citizens living abroad to look into their last state of residence's policies regarding voting abroad.…

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Delegates energized by Biden keynote speech; March on the DNC brings together thousands of activists 1:55

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Kenny Foreman reports for WLIW-FM at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It's day two of the convention and delegates are on the move, energized by last night's many speakers with keynote speaker President Joe Biden. During his speech, Biden spoke about his time as President and the honor it is for him to serve as the nation's commander in chief. On multiple occasions, the United Center crowd erupted into standing ovations, chanting "We love Biden! We love Biden!" Because of you, we've been one of the most extraordinary 4 years of progress ever. Period. Biden spoke firmly about his trust and support for his Vice President, Kamala Harris. The theme for tonight is a bold vision for America's future. Speakers include Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and perhaps the biggest names, Former First lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama. *** Camryn Bowden reports for WLIW-FM from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Coalition to March on the DNC again brought thousands of activists to Chicago yesterday. The protests, organized by a group of over 200 organizations, remained relatively peaceful. But according to police, did break down some security fencing surrounding the United Center, resulting in the arrests of at least four people. Here's one protester, Khadija meter, from Washington, DC: I think it's really important for us to be very aware of that and to recognize that we have a special responsibility here and that responsibility is to disrupt in any way possible to bring an end to this genocide and to bring an end to US imperialism. But the March was not the only act of civil disobedience, as a group of Jewish organizers inside the United Center unfurled a banner with the phrase "stop arming Israel". They were quickly blocked by others holding "we heart Joe Biden" signs.…

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March on the DNC protests continue in Chicago; Long Island delegates share their experiences 2:00

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