Race Remains Tight As Battleground Blitz Continues
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Follow every moment of the election with CNN. More stories, more insights, and more |
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| 0:25.0 | The 2024 race enters new territory, new targeted media interviews, |
| 0:29.0 | new voter outreach, and new lines of attack just 22 days before election day. |
| 0:33.9 | Plus, the Justice Department is suing Virginia, |
| 0:37.3 | accusing the Commonwealth of trying to illegally |
| 0:40.7 | clean its voter rolls just weeks before the election. |
| 0:44.2 | Virginia's Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin is here to respond and an arrest in North |
| 0:48.6 | Carolina after reports of an armed malicious threatening FEMA personnel forcing critical hurricane recovery to be put on hold. |
| 1:01.2 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and off the top let's cue the election music. |
| 1:06.0 | Thank you only three weeks since all election day three weeks one day and today |
| 1:10.1 | there are multiple signs that this race that was pretty tight is getting even tighter. |
| 1:14.8 | Vice President Kamala Harris sitting down Wednesday for her first interview ever, ever, |
| 1:20.4 | with Fox delivering her message to a conservative audience that may be skeptical of what she has to say to say the least. |
| 1:26.2 | Recall of course that Fox had to pay Dominion Voting Systems a $787.5 million defamation settlement for Fox's platforming of 2020 election lies, also |
| 1:37.6 | recall, an anchor at that network leaned on the decision desk to put the Arizona call for Biden into the Trump category and to quote |
| 1:45.6 | slow walk Nevada. That's according to the Daily Beast. The Harris interview is set to |
| 1:50.4 | air just hours after Fox televises a town hall with former President Donald Trump in front of an all female audience in Georgia. A new CNN poll poll shows no clear leader in the matchup between Harris and Trump on a national level. |
| 2:06.4 | The race is also deadlocked in Pennsylvania, the critical battleground where both candidates |
| 2:11.1 | are campaigning today. |
| 2:12.6 | Another way to know how close this race is, there is a new outreach initiative from |
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