From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is The Daily. As Kamala Harris successfully reenergizes the Democratic Party, her campaign is now trying to figure out how to translate that excitement into a winning coalition of voters in November. Today, my colleagues travel to the swing state of Wisconsin where a group of skeptical voters may represent Harris's single biggest challenge. It's Thursday, August 8th. Reid Epstein, welcome back.
As the presumptive Democratic nominee, the promise was that she would do better than Biden never could against Donald Trump, but the specifics of how she would do better felt vague. And that's what we want to talk to you about today. We've had a few weeks to better understand that proposition. So what does a winning Harris coalition in November look like? And how does it compare with the support that Biden had been getting?
So Michael, I think the place to start is not two and a half weeks ago when Biden got out of the race, but four years ago when he defeated Donald Trump and won the White House. In that race, he won a bunch of states that Trump had won in 2016. He won Michigan in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in the Midwestern blue wall states. And he won in the sun belts in Georgia and Arizona and he held on to Nevada.
In that election, Biden assembled a coalition with three essential elements for any Democrat to an national election. He drove up turnout in big cities, particularly among people of color and young voters. He did better than Hillary Clinton had with college educated voters in the suburbs. And he did something that has been trickier in the Trump era. He limited his losses among white working class and rural voters.
Biden had an image as Scranjo and somebody who had been in every union hall in the country and was familiar to some of these rural white voters as a type of Democrat that they used to vote for when they were voting for Democrats. So now place Kamala Harris into that same dynamic. So Michael, what all the polling and models tell us at this point is that Harris has to replicate much of that 2020 Biden coalition to win. But she's not the same person, right?
She's not an older white guy from Pennsylvania. She is a black and South Asian woman from San Francisco. And so the question for her in the last couple of weeks has been what elements of the Biden coalition can she put back together or even exceed and who from his voters would be turned off by her as the candidate.
And what we've seen in the last couple of weeks from Harris is that she has engendered an enormous amount of enthusiasm and excitement from precisely the part of the coalition that Biden was weakest with, young people and people of color. But one of the risks for her is that among the white working class and rural voters were Biden held down the Republican margins that she may come across differently and be less popular than he was with some of these voters in white rural areas.
Okay, well given that, what would Harris need to do to replicate Biden's performance with these white working class and rural communities in the swing states we're talking about? Well, let's look at Wisconsin, which I know we talk about a lot. It's a state with a lot of rural counties that fit into this dynamic that Harris will have to figure out on this campaign. One good example is done county in the western part of the state.
It is a place that twice voted for Obama and then twice voted for Trump in 2020. Trump won there by 14 percentage points, which was about 3,300 votes more than Biden received. And Harris needs to at the very least match Biden's performance there or maybe have the margin be a little bit less. If she loses the Trump by 12 points and not 14, that's a small amount. But if you repeat that pattern across the 65 rural counties in Wisconsin, this is a phenomenon that really matters.
It's sort of a counterintuitive way to think about how you win and that it's about minimizing your losses. You're basically saying that how little Harris loses in these white working class rural districts really matters because it really adds up. That's right. And that's really the story of these upper Midwest states that she needs to win. The picture is pretty similar in Michigan and Pennsylvania. She has to do well in the cities and the suburbs.
But she also has to make enough inroads in these rural communities like Biden did to prevent Trump from running up margins so large that it discounts whatever she takes from the cities. And that's sort of what we're all trying to figure out right now. What does it look like for the Harris campaign to try to win over these white working class in rural voters and stitch back together the coalition that elected Joe Biden four years ago?
How is her campaign trying to reach those voters and is what they're doing working? And it's really only one way to begin to answer that, which is to be in one of these rural counties and watch it up close. Why don't I set up my computer? Shortly after Biden dropped out of the race, my colleagues, daily producers Jessica Chung and Stella Tan traveled to Dunn County in Wisconsin, the largely white working class community that we have mentioned. Hi, Morning. Good, how are you?
And they arrived just as the Harris campaign was kicking off an intense door to door outweigh jack-o-air. You're Pete. Hi, nice to meet you. How was your travels in? Very pleasant. We had a cheese curds last night. I haven't once been recommending them. So it was the first thing we did, basically. Very good. Jessica Chung begins the story. Well, welcome, welcome. Thank you. Glad you're here. We arrived at the Dunn County Democratic Party office just six days after Biden dropped out.
This office is on the side of a state highway in the small city of Monominium, Wisconsin. It's wedged between a property management company and a laundromat. I would love to like maybe start with a tour of the offices. Like, I know it's not that big, but Pete Huff is the county chair here, helping Democrats get elected up and down the ticket. We have everything from our county clerk's race to Congress. One of the first things that catches my eye are all the lawn signs leaning against the wall.
I see one sign on the far end there that might be a little outdated now. Yeah, we have the Biden-Hara signs. Yeah, everyone's an asshole. This place is a small office in the middle of a huge transition. After switching presidential candidates less than a week ago, there hasn't even been time to print new Kamala Harris' whack. What question do I get at least three times a day? It's like when can I get my new Harris sign?
And then I've seen people that are just making their own signs that say Kamala, like arts and craft style. But while the Harris swag hasn't shown up yet, we had started to show up for volunteers. The only one Martha here is our volunteer coordinator. She's obviously signing people up. I'm Aunt Martha, everybody. Over 50 calls me, so that can be... Aunt Martha. Well, you know, it's easier to remember my name. Everybody's got an Aunt Martha or a nose one, you know?
Aunt Martha is in charge of coordinating the volunteers here. Monday Wednesday, Friday, two to six, and then... She shows me her schedule that's laid out on this big calendar sitting on our desk. And it looks pretty packed. Full of people raising their hands to do phone banking and door knocking. In the week that this campaign office is transformed from one for both Biden and one for Kamala Harris. It's amazing. Have you seen... Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. The money is flowing in.
And the money and the people... I can't keep the store closed. What motivated you to volunteer and not just be a voter? Is it Kamala? Oh, for sure. For sure. And did you do any kind of canvassing for Joe Biden? Absolutely not. People are coming out of the woodwork to volunteer to donate money. And welcome Monday. So happy. And I think you do myself. Why are you so happy? I'm like, oh my god, it's because of Kamala. I think there's that spark that's there now, that newfound energy.
There's just an energy and a fun to it. It is encouraging. They come in, they want t-shirts. They brought in her book yesterday. The Kamala Harris book. You know, we have a little library there. Basically, it was like you have 12 men, you don't like either one of them. Now we don't have that. It's been fun to see some of her talking about cooking turkeys. So you've seen the memes about her? This gal came in yesterday, the gal in the purple shirt. She said, I'm a former Republican.
I want to give money to Kamala, I want to get involved. I haven't seen anything like. You know, even watching her first commercial, gaming goes on. It would be so exciting to have a female president. So exciting. Yeah, I just think she comes across as one of us. With Kamala, it's been amazing. Hey, how are you? I was just saying how proud of you I was. I was a reformed Republican.
Yeah. The challenge for the Harris campaign, of course, is to figure out how to take all that energy and turn it into votes. For Democrats in Duncownie, that means trying to convince people to support her in a place that's become largely, very friendly, to Donald Trump. And that's just a reality of we're in a conservative stronghold. And I asked Pete about that. I would say it's pretty working class. I mean, we have 3M, we have Khan Agra, we have Anderson Windows.
You'll see signs on people's doors and say, please don't ring the bell or knock. I'm a shift worker and I'm a night shift worker. Pete's pretty realistic about the challenges facing the campaign here. We don't expect that we're going to be the place where Harris is going to win by an overwhelming majority. But our job here is that we keep it as close as we possibly can to make sure that we keep it competitive. Remember, Harris will almost certainly lose Duncownie.
The goal is for her to lose it by less than Biden did, which is about 3,300 votes. And when you boil that down, it's about 50 votes per precinct. We can do that. If we have the money, we can absolutely turn 50 votes per precinct for common life. No problem. So Pete says that there are a couple of key voting groups that the campaign things can help them do that. One is young voters, but there's another big one. Female voters in particular.
So those are the ones that are going to switch and really make the difference. And that's women. So would you say that if there was a white whale in this election, the kind of voter would be a female voter? I think that absolutely. I think that they're the most persuadable. I think so. And if you look at that, I think that women are persuadable. In part because of how well women candidates have been doing statewide. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin has done really well in recent elections.
Also, in a big Supreme Court race just last year, voters in Duncownie helped elect a liberal judge, Judge Janet Prudosewich. Pete saw both of those races up close. We know that the folks that were really backing her from our doors and from our conversations were women voters. We can follow that template from last April in this presidential election and get Kamala elected. Do you lose a white whale with Kamala now? Like you mentioned that college students and women are going to be crucial.
That Kamala is helping buoy that kind of demographic of voter. But the ones that Joe Biden carried among white voters, do you think that she might have a harder time winning over those voters than Joe Biden did? Yeah, I wish I had the magic crystal ball. But like I don't know any Democrats that were like pro Joe. And now they're like, oh, I'm thinking about Trump because of Kamala. It's like, that's just not a thing for us.
If anything, it's that we had folks that were like on the Trump bandwagon that don't really want to be on it. But they didn't really feel like they could get off of it. And there's something that's... And the strategy even includes some Republicans who are looking to break away from the party and now might be willing to with Harris at the top of the ticket. But the final piece of the puzzle, Pete says, is making sure that Democrats actually turn out to vote.
He told me a story about a door he knocked on at a house not too far away. They had all the yard signs that would make you feel like it was a good door to knock on. We believe in science and all their welcome and they had all that stuff. I knocked on the door and it was like a fairly young couple. And they were really friendly. And I said, what do you think about Joe Biden? This is before he made the decision to wrap out. And they said, like, I guess, like not really interested.
I don't know, maybe. And it was like not the answer you want to get from a household that's like, got all the right signs. It's like you're not going to vote what? Why? Like, really? And it's because they just didn't feel that connection. And I guarantee, like, those are the folks that were, if I were to go back and say, like, hey, like, how do you feel about Kamala Harris? I have a feeling based on that conversation that would probably be much more motivated.
And there's something now that feels like it's the future of our country that is Kamala Harris. And I think there's a lot of folks that just feel that freshness. And they think this is something that's actually going to motivate more people rather than disaffect voters. Come on in. If you haven't signed in, we would love it if you signed in. So with all that in mind, hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome. I know most of your faces. Some of you I don't know.
Pete starts to gather the volunteers in a circle. I think that we're all feeling pretty excited about our presidential candidate. Yeah. So it's a mix of season pros and newbies. Some of you are new folks and you might feel a little nervous about it, but don't feel nervous about it. It's just conversations with your neighbors. Pete tries to put them at ease and reminds them of their ultimate mission.
Like, if we can shift just a handful of votes in each voting ward in Duncownie, that's the difference between Kamala winning or not. And so it really is that close for us. So please just know that this is actually going to make a difference and trains them on political pamphlet protocol. So these go on doors. They do not go in mailboxes, right? Bad mailboxes are bad for this stuff. Who forced sending them out into the field? You all feeling good? Yeah. Okay. Kathleen's feeling good.
All right. Okay. Cool. So we're going to do a little break here. Those that are ready to just like go hit some doors and you feel good about the script, all those things. We're going to get your numbers. We're going to get your packs. We're going to get you out. Cool. And with that, the volunteers adorned with brochures and rubber bands in their hands and a list of addresses for the first time were door knocking for Kamala Harris.
The first time they'd see how voters in this place reacted to their new candidate and they were nervous. Oh, this is the first time I've been out since this happened. So are you optimistic? No. I'm scared. Is not going to be an easy election by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, she's got an uphill battle. And then, is there a way we can come with you? Oh, I mean, potentially. I mean, we leave this little campaign office to go door knocking too with our trusty guide Pete. Okay. Great.
Well, let's go. Cool. Yeah, sounds good. You all know where it is. Um, yeah. Okay. So, after our visit to the Dunn County Democratic Office, we head out to go door knocking with Pete. We're in this neighborhood with tree line streets and neat front lawns. Yeah. So this is North Side Monomony. It's a little bit more kind of working class neighborhood, I would say. There's definitely some very conservative homes here. There's some very democratic houses here. And so, yeah, it's a mixed bag here.
And as we're walking through the neighborhood, you can actually see that mix. You know, I would say there are lawn signs that say Trump 2024, not far from signs that say vote for Democrats. That's been a really popular sign this year. On one house, there's this black flag. It has AR weapons on there. And I would just... And then down the block, passing my rainbow flag, a rainbow pride flag.
It is pretty striking to have a pride flag on one corner and a few houses down to have a second amendment flag. Welcome to Monomony. But it's not these households that Pete is focused on today. Like, are we going to persuade them? Probably not. At this point, it's only 99 days before the election. So Pete wants to get to the houses whose political views aren't quite so clear cut.
So yeah, we really are trying to use the voter data to focus on the households that are going to be the most influential that are going to make better. Because he hopes it's these homes that will be the most open to Harris. So we'll go across this road and then we'll cut down. And Pete's goal for today is figuring out how to win them over. All right, let's see if anybody's home. So I'm going to say probably not home. Yeah, if you're anything. No movement. It's a warm Sunday afternoon.
No signs of life. It's right after lunchtime. And for many people in this area, it's right after church service. So we'll just leave this literature packet and come back and talk to them another time. And a lot of people aren't answering their doors. In the fall, like for the November election, I'll have the Packer schedule on my office look forward. And we don't ever knock doors during Packer games.
Even the strongest of Democrats might sway their vote if we bug them when the Packers are playing. And then finally, after striking out a few times, we find someone who is home. Hi. Hi. How you doing? Are you Emily? I am. I'm Pete. I'm with the Dunkin' Democrats. Her name is Emily. She says she's in her 40s. And she's an office worker in the area. I'm just curious about how you feel about Biden dropping out, how you feeling about Harris being the nominee potentially to run for president.
Honestly, at this point, I really don't know. Yeah. I voted since I was 18 since I've been able to vote. This is, honestly, the first election where I just don't know who I'm going to vote for. I need to. I need to vote. It makes me sick. Yeah. So. Do you typically vote one way or the other? I do. I do. I do. I don't even vote Republican, but I'm not been happy with them right now either. So I really don't know right now.
This is exactly the kind of voter that Pete has been looking for, a Republican who hasn't made up her mind. And immediately, he pounces. Is it an issue that really, you're focused on more than anything? He starts bringing up all of these different issues to see if anything sticks, starting with abortion. One thing that she's taking stands on is reproductive choice. Is that important for you? Is it here on one side of the other? I'd rather not really discuss that.
Yeah. Sure. Totally. Yeah. I understand. And Emily kind of shuts that door. Are there other issues that might be more motivating? I mean, so he pivots. Some folks, it's the economy, some folks. To the economy, positions on public education, schools, Kamala Harris has a pretty long track record on prosecuting and taking on big banks that were foreclosing on people's mortgages. He tries. Wall Street. He's focused on crime and has a prosecutor. He mentions crime.
Does that feel like a motivator for you and her resume? Not particularly. It definitely would have to read more about it. Yeah, absolutely. But none of it really seems to land. And Emily keeps coming back to one thing. It's just the extremism on both sides. On both sides? Yep. Tiger to the. Yeah. Too many people hijacking what either party, especially with the Republican Party, is and has been in the past.
Yeah. And just my biggest thing, honesty right now, either way is I want to see people who are going to be willing to work with each other. And back to, let's take care of the middle class. Let's stop fighting. Let's start actually working towards something. Yeah. And do you see Kamala Harris as part of that? Or does she bring something that maybe is a little more exciting for you? Honestly, don't know enough right now about her. Yeah. And where she actually stands outside of Biden.
Yeah. So by the end of Pete's pitch. Well, thank you for your time. I appreciate that. The results of his efforts seem inconclusive. And do you mind if I just ask you a couple of questions? And so I hang back with Emily to try to understand more about what had turned her away from the Republican Party and whether there was anything about Harris that could win her over.
Honestly, I, a couple years ago, if you would have asked me where I stand on certain issues, I could have told you, flat out without any hesitation, part of my views on certain issues like reproductive rights and other things like that has changed because I'm a mom. I have kids. I have kids in the school system. I see what they're dealing with every day.
Some of my court values though are still aligned with the Republicans, but as far as the candidates they're putting forth, I'm really not happy with those candidates. So I, you know, I really don't know where I am right now. What are the things you see your kids dealing with that have sort of made you question your traditional thinking? Other kids in the area, the LGBTQ stuff is very big in the schools.
There's a lot of that going on and a lot of friends and a lot of relationships and hearing what they have to say. So you're sort of wanting slightly more openness to those conversations.
Yep. I think just more toward the moderate, more toward, you know, I'd like to see the Republicans which some of them are coming back and taking more of a moderate stance on some of these things that they've been firmly, you know, reproductive rights, those types of things coming to more of a moderate, just like what I would like to see, but I don't feel good about Donald Trump and the White House again. And why not?
Because rhetoric is definitely had a huge part in the division in this country that's for sure. Some of his policies I don't necessarily disagree with, but the way you conducts himself and the way he presents himself is just not, not something I want. Because the head of the United States. So Emily is pretty firmly set on not voting for Donald Trump, but back when Biden was on the ticket, she didn't think he was a viable candidate either.
I don't think he's physically or mentally fit to be leading this country. So when I was that matchup, I actually, it was a lot of despair, discouragement. She felt stuck and then Harris emerged. If I had to vote today, I probably wouldn't have voting Democrat, but I'm not going to tell you I feel good about that either because I don't. Otherwise, you know, I have seriously thought about just writing in a candidate at this point too.
The thing is, Emily isn't sure that Harris will offer anything different. I really don't know enough about her as a candidate for president to say one way or the other. It'll be interesting to see how she performs, and debates, and things coming up to see if she can keep her composure. Thank you so much. I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. I'm grateful. Thank you. Take care. You have a good day. When I catch up again with Pete and Jess, we ask Pete how he feels the conversation went.
A persuadable Republican. Yeah. And whether he thinks he seized the opportunity to win over a Republican voter. You know, that's an interesting household where we tried a few different lines of conversation. Pete knows he sort of drinks spaghetti at the wall. Really, the pamphlets that we have is mostly focused on the Biden-Harris administration. He says one of the challenges of pivoting from Biden to Harris is that forget about new lawn signs and swag.
He doesn't even have new campaign materials on hand. And with a new candidate and a short amount of time, it can be tricky to figure out which talking points work for different voters. You know, and we don't quite know if talking about the Biden administration is that something that might have turned her off. It's not always clear to him when to link Harris to Biden and when to distinguish her from him.
I think to replay that conversation, replay that door a little bit more, would maybe you kind of try to pull apart how she felt about Biden versus how she felt about Harris more specifically to really understand. So right now, Pete's still trying to understand what matters to voters like Emily. And he's taking notes about it on his phone. So he can come back to her again with the right message. But even with all these challenges, he says he considers the conversation a success.
Because it wasn't a Republican that said no and slammed the door, it was a Republican that stood there and let her air conditioning flow out into this hot day. So that's an invitation for another conversation. And if we can bring her closer to us, that's great. So we keep making our way through the neighborhood. There's this golden retriever standing sentinel at one of the houses in the window. Yeah, a lot of cute dogs, a lot of cute cats. So we'll try this house here on the right. Oh, hi.
Hi. How you doing? I'm Pete with the Dunkin' and Democrats. Hi. Do you have a minute to chat? Sure. Yeah. And we meet a woman named Kate. She says she's 38. I'm Kate. I'm 38. Yeah. I had to think about that for a second. And she works in mortgages. Just chatting with folks about the upcoming election. Harris is running for president or it's just kind of curious like, what are you thinking about that? It is what it is. I guess. You typically vote Democrat? Yeah. Yeah. Harris, how do you feel?
You think she's... I don't know. I'm glad it's not Biden. He's 12. Hmm. And on paper, Kate would seem to be the kind of voter, the kind of democratic voter that Pete hoped might now be motivated by Harris. You know, with Harris, you kind of feel like you just got to get to know her more. Is it something about her that don't like her issues? I don't think I know enough about her. And she's been vice president and to me that just seems like a placeholder position.
Yeah. You don't do a whole lot as vice president, but I don't want her like winning just because she's a woman of color, a woman. Not just because you check those boxes. That doesn't seem like a fair win either. Yeah. So were you going to vote for Joe no matter what or... And better of the two crap options, honestly. I think even my husband was leaning towards like whoever was independent.
So it seems like Kamala might be a better option, but maybe just has to do a little bit more work to kind of get you fully excited about her candidacy. And if she was the one that knocked on your door today, do you give her any advice? No, no. No. I'd be like, I are you here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But probably like try and meet in the middle as much as you can.
Like make it look like a good faith effort because right now it just seems like you're playing up the side and they're the enemy and like the other side's will play up the side and they're the enemy and like there isn't any compromise, I would say. At the end of the conversation... Well, I really appreciate you taking time with your day to talk. I did leave some literature on your front door. Pete leaves Kate with some of the outdated Biden Harris pamphlets he has. Appreciate your time.
You're with us. And he walks away. I actually catch you for a couple more minutes. I just want to... But I wanted to stay behind and talk more with Kate to try to understand why a Democratic voter sounded so resigned about the choices before her in this election, even with a new candidate at the top of the ticket. And why all of the hope and excitement we heard from Democratic volunteers, why she seemed to feel none of that at all. Do you know who you plan to vote for for president?
I mean, if I had to pick today, it would probably be Kamala, even though I'm just... It just doesn't seem to be anything that gets done period. It's just more belief in the Democratic Party viewpoint, more like helping out in the community and your neighbors. It doesn't matter if they have 14 million Biden stickers all over their house or 800 Trump flags. It's like you still deserve to get assistance and help available when you need it.
As Kate's telling me this, her daughter walks up to us on the front lawn and peaks out from behind her leg. Are there any issues that are concerning for you that you wish Kamala would speak more about? I honestly don't know what she's speaking about, but I definitely know there's been a lot about reproductive rights and being a mom of two daughters, they need their rights. You're kind of running your hands through your daughter's hair. Hello to she. She turns six in a week and a half.
And what's your name? Emma. Emma. Emma, it's a beautiful name. Are you hearing Kamala speak about these issues? Not really, but I don't watch the news of Great Deal. It's just... It seems like a lot of arguing. And like pointing out what the other person does bad. Like, don't tell me what you're going to do to help me and my family and my children? I don't care what somebody else is screwing up. How are you going to make it better? Just don't tell me how Trump is a schmuck.
Wax turt short like we already know that. Your whole base knows that. Just talk about ways you're going to bring people together. Like how would you work with them? You got to figure out a way to play nice. You tell that to children and you guys are grownups. So, buck up. What I heard from Kate was that she feels like both parties are so busy fighting each other that they're not actually doing much to help her family and her community.
And that she's so repulsed by the political system that she's basically tuning out the messages that Democrats are trying to send. And at this point, there was nothing about Kamala Harris yet that made her feel differently. And it sounds like you're still waiting for Kamala Harris to show you who she is. Show me why she deserves it. So. Thanks you. See you. Take care. Bye. Kate in many ways reminded me of Emily.
Even though Emily leans Republican and Kate's a Democrat, they both talked about feeling frustrated with politics today. And even with this massive shake up in the race, they don't feel like they know enough about Harris yet to know if she's the solution. And that's something we heard from a lot of people we met while door knocking. Like, what is she actually been doing? I don't know much about her. I'll be completely honest. I don't know her yet.
So, yeah, she's got to do some research on my own. I don't know that we've really talked about Kamala specifically. I mean, I really just don't feel like she's a known entity at this point. To them, Harris is kind of a blank canvas. And for voters like Emily, that blank canvas could be an opportunity for Pete to project an image and a message that could bring Emily in.
But for voters like Kate, that blankness could also be a vulnerability, a reason for a skeptical voter or a disaffected voter, even a democratic one, to turn away or stay home. At the end of today, what do you see to be the biggest challenges for Kamala Harris to win over voters in this area? What I heard today is that people need to know her track record, and they need to know what her vision is for the United States, and to speak to those issues specifically.
And I think that there's a lot that people need to learn about her. And so we have 99 days to work really hard to educate voters on who this person is and why she's good for Western Wisconsin. We have great travels and thank you for the work that you do. On Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Harris and her new winning mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, traveled together to O'Clair, Wisconsin for O'Reilly right next to Dunn County. Hello, O'Clair.
Isn't it good to have a candidate who can pronounce the name correctly? There, Walls showcased a life story that the Harris campaign hopes will appeal directly to white working class voters across Wisconsin and the entire Midwest. Being a Midwesterner too, I know a little something about commitment to people. I was born in a small town in Nebraska where community meant everything. My mom and dad taught me to show generosity to my neighbors and work for a common good.
17, I joined the Army National Guard. We'll be right back. Here's what else you need to know today. On Wednesday, thousands of police officers fan out a cross-sprit in an attempt to prevent protests planned by far-right groups from descending into further violence. For the past week, more than a dozen British towns and cities have been rocked by anti-immigrant riots fueled by far-right agitators.
The violence began shortly after a knife attack that killed three children at a dance class when misinformation about the immigration status of the suspect spread on social media. Today's episode was reported by Jessica Chang and Stella Tan. It was produced by Jessica Chang, Stella Tan and Rob Zipco. It was edited by Lindsay Garrison and Rachel Cuesta with help from Ben Calhoun.
It was fact-checked by Susan Lee, contains original music by Pat McCusker, Mary and Luzano, Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Corey Shrepple and Rowan E. Misto, and was engineered by Alissa Moxley. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Lansford of Wonderly. That's it for daily. I'm Michael Bavore. See you tomorrow.