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With two weeks to go until Election Day, the presidential race couldn't be closer.

But if Kamala Harris is to win, how exactly would that happen? What's the path to defeating Donald Trump? Veteran political journalist Ron Brownstein has a new piece in the Atlantic laying out

what Harris's path to victory does look like.

The short version is that she has to run up truly massive margins in cities and affluent suburbs, while limiting Trump's gains among non-white and working-class white voters.

That may sound unsurprising, but the details on how this might actually unfold are complicated,

interesting, fraught with bizarre

uncertainties, and actually plausible, if difficult. So we invited Brownstein on the show to explain

all of it. Great to have you back on, Ron. Greg, thanks for having me again. Okay, Ron, so the

basic geography of this race is that the most plausible path for Harris is to win the blue wall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as always.

This requires piling up huge margins in places like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Madison, and Detroit.

But critically, you report that the Harris campaign actually believes they have room to grow in the suburbs around these places because suburbanites, women in particular, are really recoiling from Trump right now.

Can you walk us through all these details?

Trump won the three states by what, a little less than 80,000 votes, and then Biden won them by about 260,000 votes.

And each time

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