Just 10 days left before election Day.

And the pace has picked up on the campaign trail and in media attention for both presidential tickets.

We've been checking in regularly with national reporters who have Minnesota ties.

And joining us by way of zoom is Angela Greiling Keane, news director at Bloomberg Government, a former White House correspondent and a Minnesota native.

Angela, welcome back.

I wonder if you and other reporters are having challenges with the these deepfakes and disinformation we talked about last segment?

Well, there sure is a lot.

What we heard the experts say in the earlier panel is there are great ways to be a critical consumer of information.

At Bloomberg, we are very careful.

We have policies that we use to verify information.

We don't tweet or send anything to our customers without verifying that the information is, in fact, true.

But of course, we increasingly see attacks from usually nefarious figures.

We just talked about how Russia has been behind the attack on Governor Walz with the fake information.

So we expect to see more of that as the election goes on.

And we just talked today in our newsroom about being very, very careful about information on election night when we see news about races being called and how we can make sure to be accurate and timely, but most importantly, not fall for anything that is not true.

I'm going to wildly simplify what I think are the closing arguments from the two candidates.

And you tell me right or wrong, or what you think, Trump is saying things were better when I was president.

And Kamala, Kamala Harris is saying Trump is a dangerous fascist.

Is that if you were boiling it down, how does that sound?

That’s absolutely a big part of what each of them is saying.

We've certainly heard some observers, especially on the Democratic side, saying that Kamala Harris needs to focus more on what she would bring and not just attacking Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's message is quite different than hers.

He does have a track record from having been president, and it will be interesting to see how much of the last not quite two weeks are attacking each other versus messaging what they would do as president.

Does the polling show us anything except it's close?

Nothing.

The there are two polls I looked at that came out today.

One had each candidate tied at 47-47.

The other one had each candidate tied at 48-48.

Those are assuredly both within the margin of error, so no appreciable difference.

It really will come down to votes in the seven swing states.

We all know that presidents in the US are not elected by the majority vote of the country.

They're elected by the Electoral College.

So those seven states will ultimately determine who is the next president.

What's your sense of get out the vote efforts from both camps?

That's an interesting question.

We are seeing an uptick in early voting this year.

I was looking at some numbers earlier today, and it shows that Republicans have embraced early voting this election much more than previously, when Donald Trump had, criticized the idea and encouraged Republicans not to vote early.

That is a difference in what he had said.

What he's saying now, and certainly in what the Republican Party leadership is telling their voters, they want people to vote early, as Democrats do, as well.

But that's not a change in their policy.

So we've seen that Republicans have actually outpaced Democrats in three swing states in early voting.

That that was a bit of a surprise.

And we've seen that about 30 million people so far as of yesterday had voted early.

And that equates to about 20% of the entire number of people in the US that voted four years ago.

So it's a really interesting trend.

Excuse me.

In in states with party registration, we don't have it in Minnesota.

Is it fair to say that the Republicans are doing so much better, that it may be morfficult for Democrats to make it up on Election Day?

No, it's too early to say that.

And there's still a fair amount of time to vote early.

And there's other people that may have voted early by mail, and their ballots are still on the way.

What really matters is being postmarked by Election Day for people who do vote by by the Postal Service.

And while we know that Republicans have outpaced early voters in three of the swing states, we don't know for sure what anybody voted for.

Just because somebody is registered with a particular party, it doesn't mean necessarily that they voted for that party.

It's a fair indication.

But each of the candidates at the top of the ticket, and certainly Senate candidates as well, and maybe some House candidates are hoping that there are party switchers, people that vote, not just the party line all the way down the ballot.

The abortion issue still packing a punch?

Very much so.

It is the issue that Democrats are using first and foremost to rally their voters.

What we're hearing on the campaign trail from Kamala Harris, from Governor Walz, from the surrogates for that campaign, is that Donald Trump would be dangerous for women and dangerous for people who support, reproductive choice.

And we are seeing ballot initiatives as well in a number of states.

I believe it's ten states that have abortion related ballot initiatives up this year.

And those, the people who are behind those initiatives, certainly hope that they turn out voters and that those voters vote Democratic.

Who's left to be persuaded?

That's a great question.

I would like to meet those people.

But statistically, what we're hearing is that one of the biggest blocks of voters that both campaigns are going after is white, non-college educated women.

That is said to be one of the blocks that votes can still be gotten from people that haven't already voted and people that haven't made up their minds.

So we're definitely seeing both of the candidates trying to appeal to those voters in you know smaller appearances, as well as, larger town halls and rallies.

Do voters have their antenna up in case there's more October surprises?

Are they hard to get persuaded or change their minds or get fired up?

This late?

surprise that's happening right now is, Israel, apparently, lobing missiles at Iran.

So that is something that, could definitely disrupt the race in the, in the final days.

Clearly Israel, Gaza and, the Middle East overall has been a big part of the campaign already.

But this is a big new development, and it will be interesting to see how the candidates react on the campaign trail.

Angela, thanks so much for being here.

Say hi to your mom.

Will ya?

- Will do.

Thank you Eric.

Thank you.