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This week with George Stephanopoulos

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starts right now. Final

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sprint. Just

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22 days to the election, our

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brand new poll shows the race

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tighter than ever, as

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Kamala Harris goes on a media blitz.

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Let's push toward the future of our

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country. Let's not go backwards. Donald

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Trump turns to darker campaign

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rhetoric. I will

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rescue Aurora and every town

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that has been invaded and

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conquered. And former President Obama

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blasts black men hesitating on

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Harris. You're coming up

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with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I've

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got a problem with that. This morning, all

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the latest from a busy week on the

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campaign trail, Republican Vice

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Presidential candidate J.D. Vance and

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Democratic Governor Andy Beshear join

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us, plus analysis from

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our powerhouse roundtable. Painstaking

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recovery. After

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Hurricane Milton slams Florida, the

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southeast reels from a second disaster in

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two weeks. We're fighting now

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to make sure people have the emergency

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relief they need. Sarasota, Florida Mayor Liz

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Alpert joins us. And?

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We're going to continue the fight. Continue

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to make sure that us minorities are not

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going to be suppressed. Maria

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Villarreal reports on unfounded claims

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of non-citizens voting, the latest

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in our series Protecting Your

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Vote. From

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ABC News, it's this week.

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Here now, Martha Raddatz. Good

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morning and welcome to this week. We

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are now just over three weeks to Election Day,

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and the race for the White House is a

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dead heat. Our brand new

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ABC News Ipsos poll shows Kamala Harris

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with a narrow two-point lead over

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Donald Trump nationally, among

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likely voters. That's within the margin

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of error and a closer gap

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than the... believe

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that we have a fair and

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equitable administration of justice. If not, the

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entire sort of system falls apart. You

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need people to believe that if the

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attorney general prosecutes somebody, it's motivated by

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justice and law and not by politics.

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And unfortunately, what we've seen under

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Donald Harris' leadership is the... Would

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Donald Trump go after his political opponent? He

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suggested that in the past. Martha,

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he was president for four years and he

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didn't go after his political opponents. You know

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who did go after her political opponents? Kamala

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Harris, who has tried to arrest everything

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from pro-life activists to her political opponents.

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He said those people who cheated will

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be prosecuted. And who's Department of Justice

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as a weapon against people. Well,

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he said that people who violated our election

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laws will be prosecuted. I think that's the

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administration of law. He didn't

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say people are going to go to

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jail because they disagree with me. That

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has in fact been the administration and

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the policy of Kamala Harris. Martha, look,

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under the last three and a half

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years, we have seen politically motivated after

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politically motivated prosecution. I'd like

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us to just get back to a system of

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law and order where we try to arrest people

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when they break the law, not because they disagree

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with the prevailing opinion of the day. And

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there's a fundamental difference here between Donald Trump

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and Kamala Harris. Donald Trump may agree or

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disagree on a particular issue, but he

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will fight for your right to speak

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your mind without the government trying to

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silence you. Kamala Harris is explicitly... I

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want to go back to Donald Trump

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again. We've got

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to get a Department of Justice that believes

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in the First Amendment, Martha. The First Amendment

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is the bedrock of our Constitution. Senator,

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we're just about out of time here. And

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I want to end with this. In

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interview after interview, question after question, and

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in the debate, you refuse to say

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that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.

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So I'm just going to assume that if I ask you

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50 times whether he

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lost the election, you

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would not... I

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want to just let Rachel jump in here. Go

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ahead. Yeah, I was going to say, we have

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a colleague, Brechtin Booker, who actually went to Detroit

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to talk to a lot of these black men

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that we're seeing in the polls who are sort

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of turning from Harris and considering, at least, voting

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for Trump. And they said a couple of things.

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Number one, they want to hear from Harris herself.

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They want to be asked for their vote, and

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they didn't want to be lectured. And that's something

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he heard sort of universally around

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town in Detroit. And so the

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fact that Obama came out there, and as you mentioned,

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this tough love, maybe it works for some, but it

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certainly seemed even before he hit the campaign trail, a

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lot of these folks who were on the fence were

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saying, we don't want to be

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sort of looked down upon for thinking, maybe

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we'll want to vote for Trump. Tell us

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why we're wrong, but don't lecture us about

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being on the fence on this. First of

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all, people who are 30 years old today

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were about 14 during Barack Obama's heyday. It

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just doesn't move the needle. The reality is

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I'm going to go back to what Donna

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started with, which is going to be a

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unified time for Donna and

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I, which is this

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is going to come down to 75,000 votes in

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six states, nothing. So

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the kinds of folks that we're talking

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about are not paying attention to what

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Barack Obama is saying in some swing

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states somewhere. This is on the ground,

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person to person, thousands of

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people getting paid to target people knowing

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everything about a person, what beer they

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drink, what car they drive, how many

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kids they have, and what's going to

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move them. That's what's happening right now

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across America. I want to just

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wrap up here with each of you. Hopefully we

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can get to each of you on

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what you really think this race will boil

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down to. You touched on it, Susan, but

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I want to start with you, Donna. What

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is this race really about? Why are

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voters going to the polls? It's about

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hope. It's about believing that this is

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a country that we have all put

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in the work. And now we're hiring

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a leader that will represent all

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of us, our values, and our

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sense of optimism.