This Memorial Day marks the beginning of a new phase of the 2024 presidential campaign.

We take stock of where the race stands with our Politics Monday team.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Great to see you both as always.

Thanks for being here.

So Memorial Day kind of kicks off this summer campaign season.

More folks paying attention attention especially with the first

debate just a month away there's new data from the swing state project

for think you know something about Amy it's a cook political report with a Democratic

and a Republican polling group as well it's worth looking at some battleground state polls here really quickly

because they do show Mr. Trump leading into six out of those seven swing states,

Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, it's only in Wisconsin.

That Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump are currently tied in Amy, which we know polls are a moment in time.

They are not predictive.

All of these things are true, but what else stood out to you from

that survey well the reason we did these surveys one we wanted to go look at

swing states specifically because obviously the race for 270 electoral

votes goes through these states.

The next president is the one who is successful there.

So we wanted to get a sense, not just of what's going on in the big picture,

but how people specifically in these states.

And we wanted to kind of ask some questions

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