The Candidates’ Coverage Variations – The Atlantic

Immigration takes middle stage within the election.

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Kamala Harris visited the southern border in Arizona this week as immigration takes middle stage within the election. Although some latest polls present Harris neck and neck with Donald Trump in key swing states, she trails him on the problem of immigration amongst sure voters.

In the meantime, the candidates’ foreign-policy variations had been additionally on show this week as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with each Harris and Trump. If Trump is reelected, “there’s no cause to consider that … he would do something that isn’t just about within the pro-Russian class in terms of Ukraine,” Heidi Przybyla mentioned final evening on Washington Week With The Atlantic. That’s additionally why, for Harris, international coverage is one other space wherein she is working to attraction to voters by drawing a distinction with Trump. She’s “projecting this concept of unity, this concept that isolation isn’t insolation,” and that the “safety of democracy elsewhere means safety of democracy at dwelling,” Adam Harris mentioned.

Becoming a member of Laura Barrón-López, the visitor moderator and White Home correspondent at PBS NewsHour, to debate this and extra: Peter Baker, chief White Home correspondent at The New York Instances; Wendy Benjaminson, a senior Washington editor at Bloomberg Information; Adam Harris, a employees author at The Atlantic; and Heidi Przybyla, a nationwide investigative correspondent at Politico.

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