Hi, I'm Shreyes. I'm from Mountain View, California. I'm seven and during this pandemic I've created my own government.

I was elected president after a Zoom televised debate against my mom. It was now my VP.

And I'm Senator Vishal, aka Shreyes's dad.

And I'm Robbica, Shreyes's aunt, but you can call me Speaker of the House.

This podcast was recorded at...

...209 PM on Monday, August 3rd.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

Okay, here's the show!

That is amazing.

I loved that.

I have a seven-year-old daughter and she's great, but she's not running for president today. Maybe someday.

Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I must mahala that I cover the presidential campaign.

I'm Tamra Keith, I cover the White House.

And I'm Dominic Omonton, our senior political editor and correspondent.

So I am really excited about today's show, because just this morning we published a new NPR electoral map analysis, which by the way, if you all haven't seen it, it's up on our website, NPR.org.

And you can kind of geek out there and see what seems to be the electoral sway at this particular moment.

You know, Dominic O'You, this is your baby.

You have designed these electoral maps.

And we've talked about the first iteration you had out before, about a month and a half ago, but there's been a shift with this new map, right?

Yeah, last time we had this map out, you know, it looked similar to the 2016 battleground map.

And this time around things have really shifted. And what we have, what we've seen is Colorado, we've moved from lean Democrat to likely Democrat, because of how the polls have gone there and because of Biden's strength in the suburbs.

Pennsylvania has gone from toss up to lean Democrat, New Hampshire, also toss up to lean Democrat, Nevada, same thing to lean Democrat.

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