The Candidates’ Policy Differences
Immigration takes center stage in the election.
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Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET on September 30, 2024
Kamala Harris visited the southern border in Arizona this week as immigration takes center stage in the election. Though some recent polls show Harris neck and neck with Donald Trump in key swing states, she trails him on the issue of immigration among certain voters.
Meanwhile, the candidates’ foreign-policy differences were also on display this week as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with both Harris and Trump. If Trump is reelected, “there’s no reason to believe that … he would do anything that isn’t pretty much in the pro-Russian category when it comes to Ukraine,” Heidi Przybyla said last night on Washington Week With The Atlantic. That’s also why, for Harris, foreign policy is another area in which she is working to appeal to voters by drawing a contrast with Trump. She’s “projecting this idea of unity, this idea that isolation isn’t insolation,” and that the “protection of democracy elsewhere means protection of democracy at home,” Adam Harris said.
Joining Laura Barrón-López, the guest moderator and White House correspondent at PBS NewsHour, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Wendy Benjaminson, a senior Washington editor at Bloomberg News; Adam Harris, a former staff writer at The Atlantic; and Heidi Przybyla, a national investigative correspondent at Politico.
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This article previously misstated Adam Harris’s title.