■ Host: Anchor Park Seok-won
■ Starring: Kim Jin-ah, professor of LD department at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
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◆ Anchor: There may be an unprecedented situation that has not been seen until now. The reason is that even before the election, the polls are close to each other, so why is it so close?
◇ Kim Jin-ah: There are a lot of cross support this time, so it's very close. Because if you look at Trump's side, the white people were originally very solidly managed as voters, but the white people's approval rating decreased compared to four years ago. So where did the white people go? That means she's headed for Harris. Harris's side is solid because the Democratic Party of Korea is solid, but the approval rating of black people has decreased that much.
Where it went is that it went to the Republican side. There are parts that intersect with each other, and there are parts that are very difficult to predict. So, in the case of competing states, Wisconsin and Michigan, the Democratic Party still had a very solid lead, but more importantly, Pennsylvania. But Pennsylvania keeps going back and forth.
And one of the many variables that didn't exist in the past, especially in southern states like Arizona or Georgia, was one of the reasons why President Biden's Democrats won in 2020 was that the influx of population was driven to big cities, and that's where it still goes on. So the Democratic Party is important, but on the other hand, there have been events in the past that will bring together a lot more non-white people like George Floyd, but there are no events like that this year at all.
That's why there's a lot of black voting, and there's a lot of Arab people, people of color, and there's a lot of Democratic supporters, and the Middle East problem broke out once in the middle. So the Arab class was very divided again. In addition, as Latinos have become quite conservative, we need to unite more, especially considering immigration, but 2024 is so unpredictable because there are so many variables that create premaritalism as people of color at the border, these classes, tend to become more conservative.
◆ Anchor: Latin, Arab, Black, and mixed voting changes, and as you said, Pennsylvania had two candidates on the campaign trail until the very end. Why are you focusing on this?
◇ Kim Jin-ah: We all went to Pennsylvania yesterday. So I'm trying to get it here, but in 2016, Trump won by a very small margin of 50,000 votes. But in 2020, President Biden overturned this by gaining an advantage of 1.2%. And although 2020 is important, the midterm elections in the middle, 2022 is also very important. At that time, the Democratic Party was quite dominant.
But as I said earlier, if the Democratic Party catches Pennsylvania, the Republican Party is no longer the game. So why does Pennsylvania matter when you have to keep running here and rock Pennsylvania? What's important here is that there are a lot of Jewish people here. So Philadelphia is one of the areas with the most Jewish voters. But it's actually President Trump who used the pro-Jewish policy. That's why there's at least 3.4 percent of Jewish people in Pennsylvania who continue to send messages about the Middle East that I'm going to end the situation far more in favor of the Jewish people.
There's also a lot of Arab people in Pennsylvania. This is where the Arab population is quite concentrated, but here we leave another message. Since Harris is not properly managing Gaza, she is very weak and has no leadership, so she keeps sending messages here on a two-track basis, so I don't know what will happen at this time.
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