American elections 2024

American elections 2024
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This lesson contains 15 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

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American elections 2024

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Who are the presidential candidates for the elections?

Slide 2 - Mind map

What happened to Biden during the summer?

Slide 3 - Mind map

What do you know about Trump?

Slide 4 - Mind map

Donald Trump
President from 2017-2021
78 years old
Republican party
Controversial
Policies: rebuild the economy, strong on immigration, war on drugs, no money to tackle climate change or to fund clean energy

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What do you know about Harris?

Slide 6 - Mind map

Kamala Harris
Currently Vice President under Joe Biden
59 years old
Democratic party
Did not become the candidate until mid July
Policies: building more houses, abortion should be made legal everywhere, lower health care costs, more gun control

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Who would you vote for?
A
Donald Trump
B
Kamala Harris

Slide 8 - Quiz

What does a 'running mate' do?

Slide 9 - Mind map

Running mate
A running mate is the candidate for the position of vice-president and the person who is in the second position on the ballot (stemlijst). In general, the running mate does not have much power, but choosing who your running mate will be can lead to voter sympathy. 

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Do you know the names of the running mates this year?

Slide 11 - Mind map

JD Vance
Running mate to Donald Trump
Hardliner, far right
Currently in House of Representatives
Small town guy



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Tim Walz
Running mate to Kamala Harris
Governor of Minnesota (now)
Progressive, introduced free school meals and free education

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Questions while watching
  • What techniques does Harris uses when answering the question on immigration 
  • How does Trump react? Describe/give examples.
  • In what way does Harris uses the camera?

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Slide 15 - Video