Donald Trump and Kamala Harris came to Texas last week, eleven days before the presidential election, with the same goal: to mine personal narratives of women here that could drive their closing arguments home. Our state does not serve as a natural ending location for a campaign. It is not a battleground—Harris has virtually no chance of winning here—but the national stage of CNN and Fox News means it can still serve as a potent plot device. If you want to see just how badly you could suffer under the other candidate’s presidency, each nominee said, look to Texas. Inside an austere airport hangar at Million Air’s private jet terminal, near Austin, Trump took the stage on Friday an hour behind schedule, as “Eye of the…
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