Hi everyone it's four o'clock in New York nine weeks to go until election day folks, nine weeks from today and one week from

today to what may be the only presidential debate to transpire between

Donald Trump and Vice President Kamla Harris.

And then of course, the start of the so-called final sprint

to election day, which finds two presidential campaigns

in diametrically opposed polar opposite positions right now.

Behind door number one, a candidate who says she wants to turn the page on a dark and dysfunctional last decade.

In American politics, her candidacy has been met with Obama levels of enthusiasm among

voters, her rallies drawing massive record-breaking crowds, her campaign enlisting a

veritable army of volunteers racking up endorsements from all across the

political spectrum, Democrats, Republicans, independents.

As Politico reports today, Republicans, independents.

As Politico reports today, quote,

the vice president has flipped the enthusiasm gap,

the money gap, and the polling gap in her favor

in the six weeks since she replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.

Now, the other thing on the menu, the other person on the menu behind door number two,

a candidate who was unable to land on an effective line of

attack, who has resorted to personal smears and misogynistic and racist insults that

reflect badly on him more than anything else. The guy who's convinced insults that on the campaign trail are as he sees it bursts of rhetorical brilliant

something he's actually named he calls it the weave and that they are not

the deranged tirades of a man who friend of this show Charlie Sykes puts it is in the

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