Teesside politics expert: 'Lots of interesting issues in US election'
It's one month until Americans vote for their President
A politics expert in Teesside says there is a lot of interesting issues in this year's US elections that we have not had to think about before.
It is one month until people in America vote for who will be President out of Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.
Ellie Lucas, lecturer in history and politics at Middlesbrough College, said: "Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer obviously must be looking at this election quite nervously because you look at Kamala Harris, they've actually got fairly similar backgrounds. Keir Starmer being former Director of Public Prosecutions, Kamala Harris being Attorney General in California and then you turn to the other side and you look at Donald Trump, there must be some worries on that side in how can he work with him?
"There's a lot of talk in America about project 2025, which is a series of policies not set out by the Trump campaign but people who are donors or have worked with the Trump campaign, which are saying some quite worrying things about various rights for women or teaching certain subjects in schools.
"There's also the idea that Donald Trump is really just running for President in order to avoid all of these prosecutions that he's got swirling around him. As we've seen with Kamala and Joe Biden, in some ways your Vice-President candidate matters so much when you've got old men behind you, so there's a lot of thinking about JD Vance as his Vice-Presidential candidate."