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Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and you have been watching Vice President

Kamla Harris speaking at a campaign event in Washington

Crossing, Pennsylvania, in Battleground, Pennsylvania.

Specifically, Washington Crossing is in Bucks County, the most Republican of the suburban

collar counties outside Philadelphia where Harris needs to run up the vote in order to compensate for how well Trump

will do in the more rural parts of Pennsylvania. She especially needs to run up

the vote among many moderate Republicans.

Harris was joined today.

You see her talking to them right now.

There's Bill Crystal, Olivia Troy,

Adam Kinzinger, Jeff Duncan, others.

You see them standing there. We also know Jeff Duncan of course the

former lieutenant governor of Georgia. Adam Kinzinger on the right there from

Illinois and others Olivia Troy who worked for Mike Pence in the White

House.

These are decidedly Republicans in a part of the state where she needs to do well with Republicans.

Let's bring in CNN political commentators, Kate Bettingfield, who is a former Biden

White House Communications Director, and former Obama Senior Advisor David Apserad.

David, what do you make of the case Harris just laid out

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