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

For millions of Americans, the housing crisis defines the U.S. economy. In the swing state of Nevada, it could

soon define the election. My colleagues, politics reporter Jenny Medina and

daily producers Carlos Prieto and Politics reporter Jenny Medina and Daily Proito and Claire Tenisketer

traveled there to understand what happens when the promise of the American dream

slips away.

It's Monday, October 21st. So we are at the point in the election where there are so few days left that we're

literally counting them down and as we do that we are closing in here on the show on the issues that really seem to be driving and defining the election in the key swing states that will ultimately determine whether Donald Trump or

Kamal Harris wins the White House. And Jenny you have been reporting out of

Nevada so just to begin with put that state into the broader electoral picture for us.

So we're in a coin flip election nationally and Nevada really is a coin flip state.

At this point either party could win by just the

slimmest of margins. And that's interesting because Democrats have really

counted on Nevada for their wins for the last 20 years. The last Republican to win was George

Bush in 2004 and when Obama won in 2008, Nevada was a major victory for Democrats.

And has remained ever since.

Basically, Democrats have never lost it, since 2004.

Right.

And a lot of Democrats thought that that heralded this future for them, that they were the party of diversity, that they were the party of the working class.

And in a lot of ways, no state epitomized that more than Nevada,

where the overwhelming majority of voters do not have a college degree.

There's a very large Hispanic population,

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