The White House gets the Goldilocks scenario it wished for.

The lead starts right now.

The last economic report card before Election Day is now out, just enough jobs added to

tout and just enough lost that it may start to cool the economy.

But how will voters see today's numbers as they head to the polls?

Plus, Donald Trump very big on the very for 2024.

I will very, very, very probably do it again, okay?

Very, very, very fun.

But will federal investigations catch up with him first?

Very.

An NBA star, Kevin Durant, tries to talk about the anti-submitted comments that got his

teammate, Kyrie Irvings, suspended and now finds himself forced to clarify what he meant.

Welcome to the lead, I'm John Berman, in for Jake Tapper, and it's crunch time.

Only four days left for candidates to make their closing arguments to voters before Tuesday's

election.

More than 34 million people have already cast a ballot, far outpacing 2018 numbers at

this point.

The trend suggests the Republicans are well positioned to take the House, but control

of the Senate rests on a knife's edge, which means every race is critical.

Democrats got a morale boost today with a new jobs report showing the U.S. economy added

261,000 jobs last month, but a separate measurement of the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7%.

This is the last economic mood check before an election day in which voters say the economy

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