Belce starts now.

Good morning. It is Saturday, October the 19th. There are 17 days remaining in this year's

extremely close and important presidential race, a contest that will likely be decided in

seven swing states. And I'm in one of those

swing states this weekend, Arizona, where Joe Biden won the race over Donald Trump by fewer

than 11,000 votes in 2020. It was Biden's narrowest margin of victory that year in terms of

total votes. It was also the closest presidential race in Arizona history. It's a state that has largely been

a Republican stronghold for the past 70 years. This year's election is almost certain to be

just as competitive. NBC News's latest national poll shows that in a two-way race, Kamala Harris

and Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat nationally. Both candidates receive 48% of support among those

surveyed, which includes registered voters from all over the country. Now, a closer look at the

presidential contest right here in Arizona shows a similarly tight race. In the Wall Street Journal's

latest poll of swing states, Harris has a slight two-point lead over Trump among registered voters in Arizona.

But a similar poll conducted by the New York Times and Sienna College shows Trump with a five-point

lead among likely voters in the state. Those polls are all within the margin of error. But the

bottom line is that the presidential race here in Arizona

is still very much a toss-up. With Election Day fast approaching, both campaigns have been focusing

their efforts on the swing states, and the candidates and their surrogates have been spending

a lot of time on the ground in those places. Kamala Harris made multiple stops across Michigan

yesterday. Today, she'll appear at an event in Detroit to help kick off the start of early in-person voting.

A Republican opponent was in the area yesterday as well. Donald Trump had a rally in Detroit last night, a city that is likely to play a deciding role in who wins Michigan this year.

It's also a city that he disparaged during an event in Detroit recently,

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