Hello, good friends.

Happy Friday, November 1st, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pot and welcome to this week's

Reporter's roundtable.

Well, we're almost to the finish line and what's been a wild 100-day presidential campaign,

and this last week was no

exception, marked by two competing rallies where both candidates gave what they billed as the

closing arguments of their campaign. On Sunday night, Donald Trump gathered the Maga

Faithful in Madison Square Garden. Two days later, Kamala Harris rallied her supporters at the ellipse in back of the White House.

The two rallies could not have been more different.

And since then, both Harris and Trump have been carrying that message back to the battleground states,

where thanks to the electoral college, this election,

which still looks like a dead heat, will finally be decided.

So having covered the campaign from the outset, this is the time to wrap it up.

What are the deciding factors?

What are the most important issues?

What could make the difference?

And what can we expect when all the

votes are counted? Here with their final take on the 2024 campaign, let's say hello to today's

panel. Philip Bump, columnist for the Washington Post and author of How to Read This Chart

Newsletter. Hello, Philip. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Lynn Sweet, columnist, and Washington

Bureau's Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times joining us today from Chicago. Hi, Lynn. Hi, good to be back.

And David Jackson, national political correspondent for USA today, about to hit the road again. Hello, David.

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