US presidential election: Focus on Florida

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In this edition we look at the issues affecting voters in the key state of Florida - in the second of our US election specials. Mary Ellen Klas, Tallahassee bureau chief for the Miami Herald, gives us an overview of the main issues. Fergus Nicoll will be joined by live guests including Dr Sharon Austin, professor of political science at the University of Florida, and Laura Geselbracht, senior climate scientist at the Nature Conservancy in Fort Lauderdale. Also in the programme we consider how agricultural tariffs, imposed by President Trump in his trade battle with China, may have impacted the vote amongst American farmers in Florida in a report from journalist Heather van Blokland. And we hear from Betty Riddle, whose right to vote was taken away last year after Amendment 4 was changed. It was passed in 2018 and gave back voting rights to those convicted of felony. Desmond Meade of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition tells us why Amendment 4 was passed. (Picture: A "Welcome to Florida" sign; Credit: Getty Images)