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Election day is tuesday. IT has been one .

of the most surprising and chaotic White house campaign s in recent memory. Both candidates are Chris crossing swing states in the final. What other final messages?

I'm Steve en scape with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from N. P. R. news. Vice president Harris is finishing while .

sounding upbeat. We have moments. Tum IT is on our side. Can you feel IT former .

president trumps final message includes a warning against voter fraud.

Every polling both has hundreds of lawyers and boeing .

workers vote today, a new company proposal that could end there, eight week strike. What is that all mean for the trouble playmakers? Stay with us. What give you the news? You need to start your day.

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Tomorrow, finally.

is election day. Americans are electing every member of the house, s and enough of the U. S.

Senate to decide who will control the next year. Also governors, state legislators and much else there. A lot of ballot measures in many states. The peak attention goes to the presidential campaign, and the candidates hold multiple rallies today. After racing across the country all weekend.

we are joined now by two very tired N P, R. White house corresponds franco ordas, who has been following former a president demo trump, and asked what how that who has been following vice president Harris.

Good morning to you both good morning.

good or maybe it's good evening that you probably never went sleep. Alright, so let's start with the highlights from this busy weekend as well. What you lead us off yeah I mean.

yesterday here was focused all day on the ground in michigan, and that is important because democrats have relied on that state to win presidential elections for years. But the big headline was, in fact, to stop that Harris made on her way to michigan, I was on the plane with her on air force two, and we were coming from north CarOlina, and we were supposed to be going to detroit. Instead, the plane went to new york city, and herr's ended up on saturday night live, where he came face to face with mayor rudolf, who has played Harris.

Really laugh like that.

do I?

Course question I had just going on that show really speak to anyone who is currently on the fence, who knows, but the Harris campaign is trying to project that they are ending this campaign on a positive note. And so this was a bit of a light hearted fun.

I'll just add that trumps allies are saying it's unfair and his campaign is actually charging Harris with stealing trumps skid ideas from when he was on the show in two and fifteen while seeking the republican ominous. Now trumpton didn't mention IT yesterday, but he's since sweet on the show complaining that it's become a, quote, campaign contribution to the democrats. Collin jose, the co anchor of snl weekend update, joked about trumps .

unhappiness. Well, next week, the american people will decide if the next president will be commonly Harris, or if everyone A S N L will get ordered.

Interesting sce, he's been on match show twice when we spoke last week about Harris. Is closing argument. Has that shifted in these final days?

IT has shifted a bit. You know, her central message for weeks has been about the dangers that democrats seat trump posed to democracy. SHE has described him as being unstable and out for unchecked power. And that was indeed the message that you heard from her. SHE delivered these big concert like rallies and atlantic and short lit over the weekend, but on sunday, at a rally on the campus of michigan states to university.

SHE sounded more upbeat. We have momentum. IT is on our side. Can you feel IT.

you know, at that rally, Michelle le herri did not mention trump by name. This was the first time that he did that, and he became the nominee. You know, SHE still tried to create a contrast and talk about turning the page at.

For week's. Democrats have been saying that they are the underdog, but now haris and her team are projecting more optimism, more confidence. You're hearing the heroes campaign tell its ambitious ground game, and their mood seems to have changed in these final days.

Okay, Franka, what about trump? What was his weekend like?

Yeah, Michelle, he is definitely turned IT up and ouch. I mean, three rale yesterday, three rallies on saturday. You can tell though, it's wearing on him a bad. I mean, as voices growing horse, he's making some mistakes, but IT didn't stop him from going off script like he does and attacking his political enemies. In pensylvania yesterday, he called democrats demonic and double down on false claims of voter fraud, actually saying he should have stayed in the White house after losing the election.

We had to save this border in the history of our country. The day that I left, I shouldn't left. I've been, honestly, because we did so.

We did so well. We had such a great. So now, I mean, every, every polling both has hundreds of lawyers standing there.

You can hear I quickly switched gears, and he also joked about IT being OK with reporters as being shot up.

So Franko half of the realize trump into this week wear in north CarOlina. A he's returning there again today. Why is that?

I mean, IT is very significant that he is doing that. I mean, he was not supposed to north CarOlina a that is to even be a swing state. Trump won there twice.

He shouldn't be needing to even go to north CarOlina at all. But now it's very competitive. Here is a spending time there.

And trump has spent more time in north CarOlina than pennsylvania, ia in the last few days, which is really kind of crazy if you think about IT. But north CarOlina is a must win state for trump. And clearly, he feels some volnay ability. No.

I wanted jump in here really quick because I was out with heroes this weekend. And to your point, frink about how competitive north CarOlina a is. There is this moment when air force to land, ed and Shirley t and Harris was descended.

Ding the stairs, and they are just, you know, of some yards away in the background was trump s plain IT was the visual image of how they are fighting over the state. And you know, for decades, republicans have Carried north CarOlina in presidential elections, with the one exception of barack obama in two thousand eight. But the hairs campaign believe that is gaining a lot of support from college educated voters, from suburban ets and from women, all of whom are key groups, key demography groups.

in north airliner. Okay, what about today, this final day of campaigning, election? Franco, what is trump doing and what will you be watching for?

Yeah, he's actually going to have four rallies today, one in north Caroline and two in pennsylvanian, a final one in grand rapids, which is where I am today. So last time he held five rice a day in those last few days. And his pace this time seems to be an effort to kind of recapture that spirit. He's also gonna in writing pennsylvania, which is part of a latino cord, or of pennsylvania, and where there are many porter weekend who were not happy with the quote, floating island of garbage reMarks for one of trumps opening speakers at as new york I .

you mentioned reading and in Harris actually going to be in that same city as well, which I think is very not worthy because you have now both candidates in this relatively small city of pencil vin has got less than one hundred thousand people, but IT does have the highest percentage of late tinos of any city in pennsylvany. And you mention that joke, franco. Democrats feel like that joke has been a political gift for them.

They feel like the heroes campaign is really making inroads with linos that that IT allows them to draw this contrast with trump. And you know, I will say here is has had some struggles this campaign season with leos. But after that joke, SHE publicly got support from a number of celebrities like bad bunny.

So stay with us on that. What else is here is doing today?

I sh'll be Chris crossing, the state of pennsylvania. IT is, of course, the biggest prize of all the swing states, nineteen elector votes. Really, the big focus here is that stage. He's got to stop and scatter rallies and Allen town in pittsburgh and shall be ending the night in philadelphy with a concert on the famous rocky steps at the philadelphy museum of art. I will say lots of symbolic there for a campaign that has repeatedly built itself as the underdog.

And I know, how is trump going to end his night?

Yeah, it's actually going to be the third time that term is gona wrap up his campaign hearing grap and rapids in twenty twenty. He mentioned, maybe being a little bit superstitious, he actually scheduled to speak at ten thirty tonight. But last time IT was after midnight when he started. I really expect to be reporting in the we hours tonight, if not tomorrow morning.

Oh, there time for more rebel. That is npr Franka ordance ias, who's been following former president donal trump, and ask how IT following vice president hair. Thank you both so much and hang in there a couple more hours.

Thank you. Thank you.

Striking machines and boeing vote today in the company's latest proposal.

The strike is now in its eighth week. Union members rejected to previous tract offers, but their leaders are endorsing ing this latest agreement, and they're warning that members may end up with less if they don't take a epr.

Joel rose has been falling all this and this with us now to tell us more. Joe, good morning. Good morning. So what's different about this latest proposal?

While union leaders say boeing has moved a lot since its first off her back in september, remember, the machines voted overwhelmingly to reject that deal. The two sides then hammered out in agreement last month. The union numbers still voted to reject IT, but the numbers were not quite as overwhelming.

Now they are going to vote for a third time. Boeing is offering a thirty eight percent wage hike that is up from twenty five percent in the first offer, though IT is still not quite the forty percent raise ed the union wanted. This is a modest improvement from the offer that members rejected less than two weeks ago, but union leaders are endorsing ing this effort that something they notably did not do for that previous proposal. And they say, quote, IT is time for our members to lock in these gains and competently declare Victory.

And what's boeing saying about this offer?

Well, publicly, the companies encouraging all members to vote on the proposal, the new CEO Kelly orders g send a message to employees on friday. That said, in part quote, its time we all come back together and focus on rebuilding the business. But in private, author g also delivered an automatic that is according to union district president john holden.

Holden told the seattle times that, or berg said, the company can't keep giving more. The future offers would get worse, not Better. And union leaders seem to be taking alberga as word in a statement, they say, quote, we have extracted everything that we can in bargaining. And they told the members they they risk the company offering less if they don't take the deal. okay.

So you told us that the companies offering more money. Are there other issues though that could be an obstacle here?

Retirement benefits that really could be the wildcard many members of the machines union want to restore the traditional pension plan. Boeing froze in twenty fourteen during after their last contract negotiations, and this is one key demand where boeing has not budged. IT remains a major source of anger among the unions rank and file boeing says IT is not going back to the old pension because it's too expensive, though the company has offered to increase its contributions to employees for row in k retirement plans. I think that's a big reason why the union rejected the company's previous offer, and that could lead to another rejection.

The sun OK, how more about what this could all mean for boeing?

I mean, this strike is the latest chapter in a brutal year. The previous CEO is pushed out in a management shakeup. The company lost six billion dollars in the third quarter, partly as a result of the strike, which is crippled production at the company's airplane factories in the acidic northwest.

But boeing has been having major production problems even before the strike. IT has been struggling to rebuild trust with airlines, with regulators, with the flying public. Even the defense space side of the business is struggling as well.

They took a two billion dollar loss in the third quarter. The strike is having a broader economic impact to on suppliers and other companies that depend on boeing. You know, more than forty thousand people are out of work through the strike. That was enough to make a dense in the national october jobs numbers that the labor department reported on friday.

Okay, very quick. When do we think we'll get results of the voting .

probably late tonight, maybe early tomorrow morning, the CEO. The company has said though, it's more important to do this right than to do IT fast. So IT could be a little while before the factories are started up again.

That is mp of transportation correspondent joel rose.

Still.

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