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CNN 5 Things

One Thing: Inside the Final Days of the 2024 Campaign

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As polls remain tight heading into Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been blitzing the battlegrounds trying to turn out every vote. A group of CNN reporters tell us what it’s been like tagging along for the ride since the beginning.  Guests: Ebony Davis, Katherine Sullivan, Kit Maher, Aaron Pellish – CNN Embeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's worth remembering what a crazy presidential campaign this has been.

0:05.1

What started as a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump that many voters were dreading turned into an election no one saw coming.

0:15.3

July alone featured the first of two assassination attempts against the Republican frontrunner and an unprecedented switch at the top of the Democratic ticket.

0:25.2

Like so many of you, I've been following all these twists and turns closely.

0:29.5

I've spoken to voters and officials along the way, covered both conventions and the two presidential debates.

0:35.5

And yet, as I record this, I have absolutely no idea how this is going to play out on Tuesday. No one does. The polls have more or less shown a dead heat across most of the major battlegrounds for months now. But that doesn't mean it'll end up that way. Anything from a Trump blowout to a Harris landslide is possible,

0:57.0

with all kinds of closer permutations in between being just as likely.

1:03.3

But it's in those battlegrounds where Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump

1:08.7

have spent their final week on the trail with CNN following

1:12.9

every step of the way.

1:14.5

We're getting in our plane.

1:15.9

It's about 100 yards away from Trump's plane.

1:19.0

And we're heading to our third stop of the day.

1:21.7

This next flight is going to be a very short one.

1:24.1

It's actually only 12 minutes we've been told.

1:25.8

How are you going to continue to draw the contest with former President Donald Trump, specifically with the event. At the event, my laptop

1:32.6

broke out of nowhere unexpectedly. We're waiting for Senator J.D. Manns to take the stage

1:39.8

in Racine with Cronson. Whenever you're waiting for a candidate, you have to listen to the playlist,

1:43.7

sometimes listen to YMCA multiple times.

1:47.0

But that's just part of being on the trail.

1:53.0

Today, our campaign reporters, the embeds who have followed these candidates since the very start,

2:00.0

take us behind the scenes

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