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Nov 2024
23m 35s

It’s Election Week. Grab the whiskey.

THE WASHINGTON POST
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None of us can know the outcome of the election, but our columnists talk through the campaigns' final spasms. Ruth Marcus, Dana Milbank and James Hohmann discuss the shifting mood in Pennsylvania, whether abortion will be as motivating this time around and if Donald Trump can get “crypto bros and the guy who vapes” to actually vote. 
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