Former President Barack Obama hits the campaign trail for Kamala Harris as the race for the White House enters its final weeks,

and Donald Trump unleashes a torrent of false statements and distortions about the federal response to Hurricanes Milton and Haleen.

Let's turn now to the analysis of Brooks and K. Part, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K. Part,

associate editor for the Washington Post.

It's great to see you both.

So the polls show a race that is as tight as ever 25 days out from Election Day, and Democrats are doing what Democrats do best.

They are worrying, they are fretting, that Kamala Harris's early momentum might have stalled.

I want to start with your assessments of the race.

David, you first.

Has there been a vibe shift?

Yeah.

I mean, her momentum has stalled.

She was going up.

Then she seemed to plateau.

And I would say, if you look at the polling movement in the last week,

Trump is doing slightly better, and I should emphasize slightly. And so he's doing a lot better in the Sunbelt swing states, in the industrial Midwest. He's doing slightly better, but again, very slight. And so you'd have to think, you know,

when I look at the results right now, where we are, and of course it could all change. I do think the decision

not to pick Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, we could look back on that as a major mistake. And second,

I think she made a mistake this week by not breaking with Joe Biden on a bunch of major issues.

She was asked twice on two different shows. Is anything really different? And she basically said no.

And this is a country where, what,

28% think the country's on the wrong track. Joe Biden has like a 41% approval. It seems to me

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