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Hello and welcome to The Americano Show.

I'm Kate Andrews and I'm guest hosting for Freddie Gray while he's over in the States.

We'll be getting reports from him this week on the U.S. election and be speaking to many other guests.

Now on with the show.

I'm delighted to be joined by Megan McGArdle, columnist for The Washington Post.

Megan, thanks for joining me.

Thanks for having me.

So in the past week, we've had Donald Trump in Madison Square Garden in the center of New York City, giving a massive rally speech.

We've had Kamala Harris in the center of Washington, D.C., giving her massive rally in speech.

Megan, these are not swing states, nothing even close to a swing state. Why are they there and

what's going on? This is a good question, one that I have been mulling for a while.

You know, Harris also went to Texas where there was, it wasn't clear what the plan was,

maybe to help the Democrat, maybe win the Senate race, although I'm skeptical, that's going to work.

But also, I think the idea or the idea that people said was what was going on was they were

going to raise the salience of abortion by campaigning in a state that has a pretty restrictive law.

And similarly, you know, she chose Washington because she can stand in the place where Donald Trump,

you know, was talking during January 6th. Trump, I think, is just trying to generate publicity,

right? He's a New York guy. He is, this is his home turf. I think this is a mistake on both parts. And I think it speaks to a broader issue in

American elections right now, which is that everything has been nationalized, even though our

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