October 31, 2024: Democrats in Wisconsin are 'nauseously optimistic'

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

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Wisconsin is the red-headed stepchild of swing states. More focus typically falls on Pennsylvania or Michigan, but Republicans and Democrats are flocking to the badger state in the final days before the 2024 election in hopes of winning its 10 electoral votes. National politics reporter Lisa Kashinsky tells Playbook Deputy Editor Zack Stanton that both campaigns are feeling optimistic, but largely agree on one thing: the race is going to be close. Plus, new polls show a slight Harris lead in two key swing states, and the Elon Musk-funded canvassing scheme is in very hot water. All that, and the rest of the news you need to know today.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:05.2	Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton.
0:09.0	It is Thursday, October 31st. Happy Halloween.
0:12.9	Here's what's driving the day.
0:14.5	Yesterday was all trick and no treat for the Harris campaign, which quickly moved to
0:17.9	clean up from Biden's garbage gaff as Kamala Harris distanced herself from Biden's remark while sidestepping a direct rebuke of the president.
0:25.5	Today, look for Harris will to attempt to fully move past the imbroglio and try to generate coverage for the things they'd much rather be talking about, like House Speaker Mike Johnson's statement that an overhaul of the Affordable Care Act is, quote,
0:42.6	going to be a big part of the agenda, unquote, if Republicans get control of all three branches of government. Trump world, meanwhile, delighted in the Harris camp's misfortune and was all
0:47.8	gased no brakes on the topic yesterday, with the former president even dressing up in a high-vis vest
0:52.8	and driving around in a garbage truck,
0:55.3	with the name Trump emblazoned on the side. They will do everything they can to keep the garbage story
1:00.7	in the news. But honestly, the Garbage Day furrer is all something of a side show to the real action
1:06.4	today, which is happening in the so-called blue wallwall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin,
1:11.6	where this race is tighter than a fiddle string.
1:14.0	This morning we have a first look at some new polls from Mass Lowell and U-Gov
1:17.9	that have Harris up in Pennsylvania 48 to 47, and up in Michigan, 49 to 45.
1:24.2	That comes on the heels of a battery of CNN polls yesterday that had Harris up by five in Michigan,
1:29.7	up by six in Wisconsin, and Trump and Harris tied at 48 in Pennsylvania.
1:34.9	Yesterday in the Keystone state, no fewer than five prominent election-related lawsuits were
1:39.5	either filed or decided. A handful of undated or incorrectly dated mail ballots should still be counted,
1:45.4	the state's Commonwealth court ruled, and that decision injected new uncertainty about whether it would
1:50.2	apply to thousands of other such ballots and prompted predictions of chaos in the words of the
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