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| - With the US election only days away, AFP is mobilizing its global network to provide comprehensive coverage in text, photo, video and graphics. We are producing on-the-ground multimedia content, reporting from the swing states that will decide who wins the election. We are also moving stories analyzing the key topics of the election: foreign and economic policy, the environment and society. And we are focusing on the topics that have stirred the American electorate, from the coronavirus to Black Lives Matter. In addition, we are moving a series of angles from across AFP's global network. AFPTV will broadcast live from the second and final debate, in Nashville on Thursday, between President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden. Our video journalists are producing live reports from Washington, California, Texas, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania up until election day. Our photographers are with the two candidates wherever they go. From November 3, AFP will offer an interactive graphic with live updates of the results state-by-state. Our fact-checking teams are closely tracking misinformation linked to the campaign. ( You can also see a selection of our video stories on AFP's YouTube channel. Today, we will move: US-vote-Iowa,FOCUS NEWTON, Iowa Though she's a Democrat, Michelle Smith understood Donald Trump's popularity in 2016 in her home state of Iowa. She lost her job about 15 years ago at a factory for appliance manufacturer Maytag in the city of Newton. The plant eventually closed altogether in 2007. 700 words 0200 GMT by Eleonore Sens. Picture. Video US-vote-automobile-layoffs-GM,FOCUS LORDSTOWN, Ohio Workers at the General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio listened when President Donald Trump told them the region would soon be booming. But two years after that 2017 speech, the plant closed. 750 words 0200 GMT by John Biers. Picture. Video Also moving: US-vote-automobile-trade,Q&A US-vote-economy-trade-manufacturing-China,ANALYSIS WASHINGTON Donald Trump has often boasted that his aggressive trade policies have helped American companies, but the impact of those tactics on consumers and the economy overall are less clear-cut. 750 words 0200 GMT by Delphine Touitou. File picture US-vote-Biden-Arizona-unions,FOCUS PHOENIX, Arizona After losing her housekeeping job at a California hotel, Iris Acosta grabbed her most comfortable pair of walking shoes and headed to Arizona to drum up support for Joe Biden. She is part of a small army of union workers hoping to tilt the battleground state -- won by Donald Trump in 2016 -- in favor of the veteran Democrat. 600 words 0200 GMT by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video We have also moved: US-vote-diplomacy-Trump,FOCUS US-vote-diplomacy-Trump-leaders,QUOTES US-vote-races,FACTS US-vote-diplomacy-Biden,FOCUS US-vote-France,PROFILE US-vote-media,FOCUS US-vote-protests,INTERVIEW US-vote-diplomacy-world,FOCUS US-vote-campaign-advertising,FOCUS US-vote-racism,FOCUS US-vote-diplomacy-trade-China,FOCUS US-vote-Mideast-Gulf-diplomacy,FOCUS US-vote-poverty-racism,FOCUS US-vote-religion-abortion,FOCUS US-vote-Arizona,FOCUS US-vote-Israel-Palestinians-conflict,FOCUS US-vote-religion-Islam,FOCUS US-vote-climate,FOCUS US-vote-religion-Catholic-Biden,FOCUS US-vote-Alabama,FOCUS US-vote-EU-Germany-NATO,FOCUS US-vote-economy-trade,ANALYSIS US-vote-states,FACTS US-vote-ElectoralCollege,FACTS afp
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