Friends,

Heather is under the weather today so our Gen Z producer-director-techie and all-around talent Michael Lahanas-Calderón is kindly filling in. Today we try to explain the most perplexing thing about the home stretch of this election — why Trump is running neck-and-neck with Harris despite his awful debate performance, his bonkers comment that Jews will be responsible if he loses, his bizarre accusations that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are eating people’s pets, and his growing incoherence about almost everything.

We also look at Trump’s and Harris’s economic plans. And we assess the ages of Supreme Court justices with an eye toward how much havoc Trump could wreak on the next generation if he’s able to pick three more.

So please pull up a chair, take our poll, and join us for today’s klatch. (And get better soon, Heather!)

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