How campaigns are spending the last weekend before Election Day

NPR | By Steve Inskeep

Published October 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM EDT

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Jim Messina, campaign manager for the 2012 Obama re-election campaign, how campaigns will spend the final weekend before Election Day.

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