VALSHE starts now.

And good morning.

It's Sunday, October the 27th.

It is nine days until election day.

It's the last full week of the 2024 election season.

It's going to be a busy one as the candidates make their final pitches to voters across the country.

The Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, will barnstorm all seven swing states over the next

four days beginning today in Pennsylvania. It's going to start out the morning by attending

service and then delivering remarks at a church in West Philadelphia. You're looking at that

now. Here's a live shot of it. It's part of a Souls to the Polls effort where people go to church and then they go directly to the vote

that mobilizes people to cast their vote early. And as of this morning, more than 40 million

people have already voted in this year's elections. Some places are continuing to see record

turnout, including New York City, where more than

140,000 people cast their ballots on the first day of early in-person voting yesterday and where

I shall cast my ballot today. Harris's schedule this week includes one notable stop that will not be in a

swing state. On Tuesday, she's going to give a speech that her team has characterized

as the closing argument of her campaign during a rally in Washington, D.C., and specifically,

that rally is going to be held at the ellipse. The same location where her Republican opponent,

Donald Trump, spoke on the morning of January 6, 2021, a speech that galvanized his supporters

shortly before they attacked the United States Capitol in an effort to stop the certification

of Joe Biden's victory and to overturn the election results.

Harris's closing argument is expected to focus on the existential threat that Donald Trump poses

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