00:00Tens of millions of Americans are set to vote for the next president of the United States
00:05in a tight race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
00:10With the two candidates neck and neck, the outcome of the election is likely decided
00:14by just a handful of swing states where Republican and Democratic candidates have similar levels
00:19of support.
00:20Whoever I vote for, I want them to respect me.
00:22Us little people are the people.
00:24You shove us out and what have we got?
00:27Since we've seen our bodily autonomy go, what comes next?
00:32America can do better.
00:33Here's what the battleground voters have to say about their hopes and fears for this election.
00:39Everywhere you look, everything's upside down.
00:42Everything's backwards.
00:43Everything's how it shouldn't be.
00:45Everyday average Americans can't put food on the table anymore and there's families
00:50that are struggling.
00:51The socioeconomic conditions of our world, along with what will happen with my daughter
00:57in the future.
00:59Socioeconomic meaning that she will have the opportunities to be a part of society.
01:04She will have the opportunity to see a woman candidate being, hopefully, the president
01:10of the United States.
01:12Those are the things that matter most to me.
01:15Most of us, like the little people with the little mom and pop shops, they're gone and
01:20they won't be back because they can't afford it.
01:25Inflation and taxes, the price hike, just rules, regulations.
01:30Us little people are the people.
01:32You shove us out and what have we got?
01:35I think my biggest fear is where the economy's going.
01:37Interest rates are at an all-time high.
01:39So whoever has the biggest plan to make the most impact, make homes more affordable.
01:43The policy where the border is open is absolutely obscene and these people aren't being vetted
01:49and women are being raped and there's tons of crime and there's a lot of destruction
01:55of neighborhoods and these people not respecting our country.
01:59We are literally founded on the concept that this is a great place to be, to become whoever
02:05you want to be.
02:06To be kind, to be welcomed for whatever reason.
02:09To escape places that they can't be.
02:12Making sure that whoever I'm voting for is going to create a future where the people
02:17I love and the people who are most marginalized are safe.
02:20Geopolitics and the prospect that America might be at war, a hot war, in the next four years.
02:28What matters most to me when I go to cast my vote in November is human rights, but not
02:33just the human rights of those within our country, the human rights of those all over
02:38the world, including Palestine, including Congo, and including the Sudan.
02:43Women's rights and bodily autonomy.
02:46Women's rights to find proper health care, treatment, finding birth control, and eventually
02:56our rights because once we've seen our bodily autonomy go, what comes next?
03:01I have a 12 year old.
03:04He's a boy and I worry that he's going to grow up in a world where he thinks that he's
03:14bad.
03:16You know, because he's like a white dude.
03:20The climate crisis.
03:21I think that the climate crisis is the single biggest crisis that we really as a country
03:25and also as the world really face.
03:28It's hard to prioritize too much higher than climate change and fighting climate change
03:37is an issue.
03:39We could solve all the other problems if we don't address climate change, if we just all
03:43die.
03:44But that seems like not the solution we want.
03:47I'm afraid that this country is just going into a wrong direction and maybe to a dead
03:53end.
03:55And we need to stop it.
03:56We need to change leadership.
03:58America can do better.
04:01That Trump gets to win.
04:03This world's gone to crap.
04:05You know what I mean?
04:06We need somebody better in the seat.
04:08What matters the most to me is having my voice heard.
04:13People that look like me, whether that be a person of color, a woman, a millennial.
04:19We really want our issues addressed and not just thrown by the wayside.
04:23We want to be heard and action taking place for our issues.
04:28I would go for Trump.
04:29I think we need somebody in there that has, I can't say what I want to say, has the gumption,
04:35has the strength.
04:36I'm so concerned that Donald Trump will become president and we don't know what will happen
04:42because he's such a loose cannon.
04:44I do not like Trump and I just feel he's an ignorant person.
04:50The economy.
04:51That's the number one issue.
04:53The economy, getting things back on track, getting inflation under control.
04:58Only President Trump can do that.
05:01Whoever I vote for, I want them to respect me.
05:04And that means I expect them to be kind.
05:05I expect them to be empathetic.
05:06I expect them to be competent and I expect them to be strong in matters of taking care
05:10of people.
