From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.

This is the Daily.

Today, as we enter the home stretch of the presidential race

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are putting economic policy at the center of their pitch to voters.

So we asked our colleague, Jim Tankersley,

to evaluate both of their plans. It's Monday, August 26th.

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Um, G. Jim.

Good morning.

Hello.

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Let's try it again.

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Let's try saying hello again. We are like people who have said to hello to each other

literally thousands of times before. Go ahead. Hi Jim. Hi Michael.

So Jim both conventions are now over and the candidates have begun their mad final months

sprint to election day.

And what's become clear is that both of the nominees are putting their greatest policy focus on the economy,

which makes sense, it's a number one issue for voters, and we wanted to get a sense from you of how they are

approaching the question of what economic plans would meet this moment in the minds of the American voter and how those plans

stack up against each other. Yeah, I think that both candidates now are free to

focus on what Americans are telling poll posters is the thing that bothers the most

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