Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm a smokkawaii, I cover the presidential campaign.

I'm Scott Detro, I do as well.

I'm Danielle Kurtz, I've been my cover politics.

And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.

And we are taping this episode early on Friday, but you're probably listening to it on Monday,

September 7th, which is Labor Day.

And Labor Day is generally considered a day off for a lot of people, but in campaign world

every four years, Labor Day is a particularly important day, because it's essentially the

beginning of that final push before Election Day.

It's the final push for normal elections, but this is not normal.

But I still think you're going to see a lot of things now that you see all the time after

Labor Day, which is more attention being given to the candidates, candidates moving around

the country, being more public, and getting ready for the debates, which this year are going

to loom larger than they ever have.

And reporters on the road.

And speaking of, I should point out that the campaigns did some travel, quite a bit of

travel, I should say, by 2020 standards this last week.

And so did some members of our team.

I was in Wisconsin, Scott, you were in Pennsylvania.

And Danielle, you were also recently in both Iowa and Wisconsin.

So I want to talk about what we've been hearing from voters in some of these key states.

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