Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the early signals to watch on Election Night
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[0:00] Well, if it's the day before election day, that means it's Politics
[0:03] Monday, and here with us is our usual duo, Amy Walter of the Cook
[0:07] Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. It's great
[0:11] to see you both. So on the eve of these midterms, President Trump
[0:14] is relitigating the damage done to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting
[0:18] pool, even though his own Justice Department, we should say, concluded
[0:22] that the botched construction, not vandalism, was responsible for
[0:26] the damage there, but Amy, what does it tell us about the president's
[0:29] priorities?
[0:30] that he's still focused on this when voters are focused on the economy
[0:33] and the direction of the country. Yes, I mean, you really, the split
[0:37] screen between voters' concerns and what the president wants to talk
[0:40] about is not just apparent today in this press conference, but it
[0:43] has been apparent to voters for quite some time and you can see that
[0:47] opinions about how the president is handling the economy driven,
[0:51] of course, by inflation and the cost of gas,