It's closing time and with just over two weeks to go until November 5th, Kamil Harris and

Donald Trump are ratcheting up their rhetoric in key battleground states.

Any African American or Hispanic that votes for Kamala?

You gotta have your head examples.

He wants to send the military after American citizens.

And what the death of the mastermind of October 7th means for tensions in the Middle East,

next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

I'm Frank 4. Jeffrey Goldberg is away.

The race for the White House is deadlocked and with two and a half

weeks to go before election day Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are running out of

time to win over undecided voters and dramatically alter the trajectory of what's becoming a more intense, aggressive,

and sometimes bizarre contest.

Joining me tonight to discuss this and more, Peter Baker, the chief White House

correspondent at the New York Times. Francesca Chambers is a White House

correspondent for USA Today. Susan Glasser is a staff writer at the New Yorker.

And Vivian Salama is a staff writer at the New Yorker,

and Vivian Salama is a political reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Susan, I want to ask a question about what the kids call the vibes.

It feels like there's not a tsunami of excitement

overwhelming us right now.

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