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What debate? Harris and Trump back to brutal grind of swing state campaigns

a side-by-side image of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have hit the ground running after their debate to win over swing voters. Composite: AP, Getty Images

Even as gleeful Democrats spent days circulating video clips and memes of Kamala Harris ridiculing and riling Donald Trump in Tuesday’s presidential debate, the candidates themselves got back to the brutal grind of winning over the tiny proportion of voters who will decide November’s election in a clutch of swing states.

Harris is on a “New Way Forward” tour of pivotal areas this weekend to exploit the momentum from her humiliation of Trump. On Friday, she was in Pennsylvania, perhaps the most crucial of crunch states, to push the themes she hit hard in the debate in painting the former president as a threat to democracy, women’s rights and the US’s international standing.

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