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Who Has The Better Final Pitch?

It's Closing Time In America

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Ian Leslie
Nov 05, 2024
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Harris, Trump making final pitches for president before Election Day
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I can hardly believe it’s here. Americans are actually standing in lines and voting. By tomorrow (fingers crossed) the United States will have a new president, or president-elect. I’ll leave the prognostications to others (though I do link to some of my most trusted analysts later on). For the moment I just want to compare the final ads of the campaign and ask, who has the better closing pitch? To me the answer is pretty clear.

Here is Harris:

Here is Trump:

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