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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

All Things with Kim Strassel: Election Day is Finally Here

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The final hours of the 2024 campaign have arrived and it’s now time to count those millions of early and Election Day votes. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump come into Election Day at a statistical polling tie, both nationally and among most of the key battleground states. Will there be a winner by the end of the night, or could this drag on for days or weeks? Kim Strassel is joined on All Things by political analyst and journalist Matthew Continetti to discuss the polls, the meaning of all that early voting data, what Donald Trump and Kamala Harris did right (and wrong), as well as what a victory for each candidate might mean for the direction of the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast.

0:22.4

Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast with the Wall Street

0:27.5

Journal Opinion Pages. It is Election Day, finally, and here with analysis of what to expect.

0:35.3

During the day, I am here with Matthew Contonetti, journalist, author,

0:39.7

and a fellow at the esteemed American Enterprise Institute. Matthew, thank you so much for being here.

0:45.5

It's the big day, election day, the day everyone has been slogging toward for more than a year

0:52.1

now. And I'd love to spend some time you are a keen observer

0:55.8

of politics, go through with you where this race has ended in terms of the candidates and what

1:02.5

we might expect as the results start to roll in. You wrote a really compelling piece a few days ago,

1:08.6

and first of all, I want to congratulate you. The title of it was

1:11.6

the Trump Flex. And my teenage daughters gave me a long lecture not long ago about how I never

1:17.0

used that word correctly. And I think you did. So congratulations on that. But you went through the

1:23.3

reasons either side would win if they do. And on Trump's side, you noted that he's run a very

1:29.3

bold campaign, one that is witnessed in these iconic images, whether it be from assassination

1:36.4

attempt, all the way down to the reflective vest garbage truck moment that we had just last

1:42.5

week, which by the way, I think is something that gets

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