Democrats are sweating but nothing is certain in the race for the White House

Keith Duggan reports from Wisconsin, one of the swing states where polls are tightening

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Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, on stage with attendees during a campaign rally at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times.

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Trump or Harris? We’ll know America’s answer in just two weeks, but until then the race is too close to call. With the margins so tight, Democrats and Republicans are desperately seeking advantage in the key swing states, spending millions of dollars on TV ads.

But it is the Republicans feeling happiest, with polls tightening in Donald Trump’s favour in places like Wisconsin. That’s where Washington correspondent Keith Duggan talks to Hugh Linehan from on today’s Inside Politics podcast. They discuss the last-minute attacks each candidate is directing at their opponent, Donald Trump’s declining rhetoric and the shifting landscape of class- and race-based political loyalties that makes American politics so unpredictable.

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