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Oct 2024
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19 Days to Go: Early Voting, Dance Parti...

The New York Times
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This week on the campaign trail, Donald Trump displayed bizarre town hall behavior, Kamala Harris pursued a strategy aimed at Black men, and the first wave of early voting offered a look at the energy of the electorate. Michael Barbaro sits down with the political reporters Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher and Rebecca Davis O’Brien to make sense of it all. Gues ... Show More
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