And new developments in two key states could affect the presidential candidates' potential paths to victory as each tries to clinch the electoral votes needed to win.

To dive into it all on this politics Monday, we have Tamara Keith of NPR and

Jasmine Wright of Notice. That's a new publication from the nonprofit nonpartisan

Alberton Journalism Institute. Amy Walter is away.

It's great to have you both here.

Good to be here.

Thank you so much.

So we are heading into the final six week sprint to election day.

Tam, you've been keeping tabs on Donald Trump's travel schedule. What does that tell you about the

campaign strategy six weeks out? Well what I can tell you is that he is in

Pennsylvania. He was just in North Carolina. He's going back to North Carolina again, and he's also going to Georgia. So his strategy is this East Coast strategy.

If he can win in Pennsylvania and Georgia and North Carolina, but especially if he can win in Pennsylvania, then Harris has a very difficult path to the 270 electoral votes she needs.

And so Trump is focusing on these states.

The fact that he is spending a lot of time in North Carolina

says that he's worried about it.

Because if he wasn't worried about it, he wouldn't be spending time there.

But he is. In fact, I think he's spending more time there than Harris has spent since she became the nominee.

I want to talk a bit more about North Carolina in a second, but Jasmine over the weekend,

Vice President Harris said she accepted a debate proposal from CNN for a debate late in October.

Donald Trump has ruled it out. He can always change his mind. We know that.

But what's the strategy? Why does the vice president Trump has ruled it out, he can always change his mind, we know that.

But what's the strategy?

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