Good morning. Welcome to Axios Today. It's Friday, October 28th. I'm Emily Peck in

for Nila Boudou. Here's what we're covering today. States gear up to spend billions on broadband

access. Plus, Afro Latinos are playing a bigger role in baseball. But first, can any minds be changed

before Election Day? Our Friday politics state of play is today's one big thing.

President Biden was in Syracuse New York yesterday to tout his party's economic accomplishments

and to send a warning about what he says Republican control of Congress would mean by comparison.

It's part of Democrats' final dash before Election Day. Meanwhile, over 15 million ballots

have already been cast in early voting around the country. Here with our Friday politics state

of play is Axios co-founder Mike Allen and reporter for Axios Atlanta, Emma Hurt. Welcome to both.

Hey, Emily. Thanks for having us. Hi, Emily. Mike, we saw a few high-profile debates this week.

Did we learn anything? Yes, and of course, all the conversation is about that Pennsylvania debate.

John Fetterman, the Lieutenant Governor, Democrat running against Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania,

who had such a rough debate. We knew he was recovering from a stroke back in May,

and they had the accommodation of host captioning that both the candidates could see.

But there was no indication that was particularly helpful, and we had Democrats that night

saying to our political reporters, how did they possibly let him go out? How did the campaign

think that having stumbling answers this uncertainty? How could that be better

than the hit that you would take from saying, no, I won't debate. And the way it matters,

of that, arguably the closest Senate race in the country, a flip-a-coin Senate race,

like so many races, moving maybe a little bit in Republican directions, but as close as a true

toss-up as you're going to get. And there's another really close Senate race to down here in

Georgia, and it's been a bit wild this week, because we had another allegation by another woman

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