**Welcome to Inside Washington. Election day is 5 days (and a few hours) away.**
With less than a week to go, campaigns have inundated any state or district with a competitive election with television ads to make their closing argument.
This can be especially aggravating, especially after a long day of work where the average voter might just want to watch some mindless reality television or some football.
But in truth, campaigns need to run ads there to meet voters where they are. This might be why we are seeing more ostentatious ads this election cycle than ever before.
While in her speeches, Vice President Kamala Harris has focused on the danger of Donald Trump's rhetoric — even going so far as to call him a "petty tyrant" — most of her ads have gone all-in on the economy.
Meanwhile, Republicans, led by Trump, have done a slew of anti-transgender ads, focusing largely on the issue of transgender women in men's sports.
Elsewhere, Republicans downballot have focused heavily on the US-Mexico border, while Democrats hope the Dobbs effect hasn't faded and that they can focus heavily on abortion rights.
Here's The Independent's breakdown of the best, worst, the most absurd and the downright weirdest ads of 2024 in the final week of the campaign.
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