**Welcome to Inside Washington. Election day is 4 days (and a few hours) away.**
The last full week of the 2024 campaign is finally, mercifully, almost over.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck in national polling, as they've been for months. In more than a half-dozen swing states, the margins separating the candidates are very close — and either candidate could clearly pull ahead by Monday.
There are signs, however, of which way this thing may be going. Kamala Harris is closing, by any honest account, with a show of strength. Her thousands-strong crowd on Ellipse on Wednesday, not to mention the thousands more turned away for lack of space, was a shot directly across the bow of Donald Trump, whose own crowd began abandoning him once again last week in Michigan. The former president kept his supporters waiting for hours while he talked to Joe Rogan.
But that rally was nothing — nothing — like the spectacle that played out in Manhattan, at the iconic Madison Square Garden.
In New York, his former home, the ex-president hosted an acerbic comedian whose choice of jokes included an ugly swing at Puerto Rico — which he likened to an "island of garbage" in the ocean.
So much for New York being in play!
And then there's JD Vance, who was on Rogan's podcast The Joe Rogan Experience in an interview that was published on Thursday. The vice presidential contender sought to normalize himself once again but found himself unable to come up with good answers for a surprisingly peppy Rogan, who questioned him about his hardline stance on abortion rights.
Harris, disappointing some armchair campaign managers, won't be making an appearance on the massively-popular podcast after Rogan indicated that he had wanted the vice president to come to his studio in Austin, Texas for the interview.
At one particularly cringeworthy moment, the would-be vice president and senator from Ohio claimed that he raced home and stood in front of the door of his family's home with his firearms after the first assassination attempt against his running mate — Vance, of course, has had Secret Service protection for months, and the agency is not generally fond of their protectees embracing the "fight" part of "fight or flight" in a dangerous situation.
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