with just four days until the us election, donald trump and joe biden are both campaigning in the midwest — a decisive battle ground which has a lower rate of early voting than the us national average, meaning more votes are still upforgrabs. scientific experts are warning that coronavirus is spreading "significantly" faster through england, than even the government's own "worst case" scenario. will all close their polls at various british newspapers seven o'clock. that's one of are reporting england could be the early ones. doesn't mean entering a national lockdown will get a result in the us. as early as wednesday, but as yet, it hasn't been confirmed. having an exit poll or counting every single one. they do a call. when there is enough of an event the can't when they at least 20 people have been killed by a major earthquake will start calling those that has hit turkey and greece. states. in florida is counting rescue teams are searching for survivors in the turkish as we go along. it's counting city of izmir, where at least 20 buildings collapsed. all the mail in ballots all the early ballots as we go. we will the magnitude seven earthquake also caused damage on the nearby greek start to look at the results island of samos. there. critically just start to look at the results there. criticallyjust because you see lots of boats coming in early for the republicans are lots, and then early for the democrats doesn't of course mean that's where the result is. itjust

now on bbc news, emily maitlis mean that's where the result is. it just means mean that's where the result is. itjust means they are counting different counties that might lean one—way or the and jon sopel dissect other early. the other thing the latest news and analysis i'd say is that the midwestern from the campaign trail states which we will really be of the 2020 us focusing on pence leave at presidential election race. there are four days to go, places like pennsylvania, it's the final push, wisconsin have a different straining every sinew. system altogether. they will allow ballots up to three days and the big breaking afterwards. don't expect anything rapid from some of news coming out of those critical states. what you remember at this point is that america today is that maitlis has arrived. it's not one country, its 50 yay! i have to say, i find states. they all have their own the natives very friendly here. rules. sometimes different one of them picked me up counties have their own rules from the airport — thank you. was that this is when he gets another helped me get really, really complicated. i an unwieldy shopping trolley up a flight of steps guess we can eat some patients. when i was looking like a dalek — thank you, morgan. i thinkjust take a month. just people have been so amazing. november, i'm gonna work. but i just pick up on that? just to and, zurch, for my part, i have brought you the revels. say that the bbc us election i will get them to you somehow. 2020 programme is gonna be on excellent. bbc one, on the news channel, and i have some m&ms from air force one to you. what do i get?! bbc one, on the news channel, bbc new net world news, bbc welcome to americast. you can have some too, jon! iplayer from 1130 gmt tuesday americast from bbc news. november the 3rd was up there also be a programme on bbc

radio and the world service. you will be able to hear and watch the confusion unfold it'sjon in washington, dc. through the course of the and it's emily, and i can say also in washington, dc. night. also the other thing to and it's anthony, at home in arlington, virginia after following the president around the country for three days. and, zurch, ithink when we last left you, you were just down add is that there are different in arizona, texas? tell us what your states count in different ways. week's been like. some states have been opening it has been a crazy week. up some states have been opening up the post of boats and counting them as they go along. i'm still hearing donald others are knocking to open trump's voice in my head, them until the day of polling i still feel like i need to run itself was up that's going to to the next campaign event. lead to a huge mismatch in the it was six days, six rallies. numbers of people, when we are going to note the results. anyway, that is it from us. i was in nevada, we went down to arizona for two amerigas will be back next week rallies, then on to florida and north carolina, on tv and on radio for. who and now i'm back home. it has been a mad dash. knows, we might know the name donald trump is trying to win ofa this presidential race just knows, we might know the name of a new president. or it might by dint of his energy not. thanks for being with us. and endurance down the stretch. it's a remarkable last amerigas from bbc news. week for the president. and also, formidable energy from him. he was tweeting at 2:57am this morning. it's notjust donald trump,

though, that is out and about. joe biden has been out and about more, but nothing like as much as donald trump. hello. he's also been able to produce a bit of a sort of superstar by midweek next week, to come and help him, our weather will finally have barack 0bama, the former turned drier and calmer, president and brilliant orator. but for the weekend, it is far from it. and joe biden and barack 0bama will be on stage and for saturday, storm aiden — together in michigan. as named by the irish weather it's all coming down service for impacts there, to a few states now. but even across the uk — will be very windy and, and over the course of this podcast, we'll talk about some at times, very wet. of the places where they're going to be concentrating here's that area of low their energies. pressure passing to and so barack 0bama has been the north west of scotland. out and about, but also another will come along on sunday, as it stays windy he's got the support and there will be more rain. of bruce springsteen, now, saturday begins already with some outbreaks of heavy and he's happy to have a bit of that as well. rain towards the west the boss has been weighing in particular and, for a time, in as well about why people clearing north across scotland, should be voting democrat but then further heavy, in this election. even torrential bursts of rain sweep east across the uk with very gusty, squally winds, we have lost our mojo, ourfun, our happiness, although for many of us, that will clear to some sunshine. our cheering on of others. it is in the west where we'll the shared experience see the strongest gusts of wind of humanity that makes it — 50,60 miles an hour — but closer to 70 on exposed all worth it, the challenges coasts and hills.

and the triumphs that we've but even elsewhere, as this torrential rain moves shared and celebrated, on through, could well see some the unique can—do spirit gusts of 50—60 mph. that america has always it's going to be a mild been known for. start to the weekend. many of us see the rain clear to sunshine, but there we are lost. will be further rain or northern ireland into western scotland we've lost so much in the afternoon. and still very strong winds. parts of western scotland in so short a time. could for a time gust on november 3, vote them out. in excess of 70 mph. the winds ease a touch overnight and into sunday morning, as more rain comes so, this week is technically known as celebrity on through from the west. endorsement week. now, sunday will be a very windy day. it is when you see all these this area of low pressure contains the remnants characters come out, of what was once hurricane or they are asked to come out, zeta. and pledge their support. so, yes, closer to that, doesn't always work. we'll see the strongest winds, but all parts will have another windy day. and after some early you might remember a lot rain clears through, of the a—listers and hollywood some will brighten up in scotland came out for hillary clinton and northern ireland. asked him around in 2016, further outbreaks of rain and it actually allowed in england and wales. to donald trump, then, to say, "i don't some of that mayjust push further north as we go on through the day. need hollywood, those winds still very gusty, particularly in northwest scotland. the chance of seeing i don't need the a—list, some gusts above 70 mph i've got the little people," for a time, and sunday you know, in his terminology. is still looking mild.

"i've got the people who are on the street now, it does turn colder next who are supporting me," not week, but that's part and parcel of a significant the glossy people at the top. change in the weather. and yet this time, he has still some rain or showers kind of had a little change around to start the week, still quite windy. of mind on that one. zurch, who has been coming out? we found out yesterday but from midweek, it's drier, that the rapper lil wayne has it's calmer, yes, it's colder, and there could be frost come out in support of and fog overnight. donald trump. we found out about it but for the weekend, a focus in the press pool when we were on very wet and windy weather. sitting on the tarmac if there are some problems in north carolina while because of the weather, donald trump was supposedly bbc local radio will keep meeting with troops. you updated, and do check out he was meeting with troops, so we were scrambling the latest met office to figure out if lil wayne was there also. it turns out that this meeting happened in doral, in miami, florida, on thursday morning. weather warnings online. we had been called in the press pool to sit in donald trump's resort in doral for hours, waiting. nothing happened. it turns out that that was the meeting between lil wayne and trump. we were wondering if it was a fake photo. we were trying to confirm from the white house if this was really something that happened. and then on the flight back, on air force one, press secretary kayleigh mcenany came back and said, yes, they had a very productive meeting. she called the meeting "epic". i think the interesting thing about lil wayne is that anything that helps

donald trump get more young black men to maybe not vote republican but maybe not vote democrat either, he will see as a win, this is bbc news — because after george floyd, i'm lewis vaughanjones — there was a feeling that there with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk was going to be a and around the world. huge motivation, that the final weekend — millions of young black trump and biden campaign people would be coming out in the midwest — where polls to vote who did not vote suggest several us states in 2016, and that could be could still go either way. very costly for donald trump. and lil wayne is very helpful in that respect, in donald trump's bid i'm yalda hakim, live in wisconsin — one of the key swing states to get the black vote. in this election — where i've been finding out what's driving people to vote there was someone else in town forjoe biden or donald trump. as well, on these rallies, with more than nine million that, anthony, has charted coronavirus infections in the us — we report around the country. on the native american community devastated and that was one nigel farage, ex of ukip, perhaps a little better known in the uk for his involvement in brexit. by the pandemic. they have spent four years trying to delegitimize him, four years of the russia hoax, four years of a false impeachment. most human beings under that barrage would have given up. this is the single most resilient and bravest person i have ever met in my life.

you might say if lil wayne is there to get the black vote out, then nigel farage is most definitely there to get the white vote out. and we have seen, going back four years, popping up in the gold lift in trump towers, popping up in mississippi of all places for the campaign rallies, popping upjust again last week. i am not sure what the connection is necessarily now to what trump is talking about going forward, but, yeah, he is seen as the donald trump celebrity endorsement. when he came onto the stage, donald trump, in his early remarks, hinted at farage's presence, saying that the king of europe was in the audience. we didn't know it was farage at the time, but apparently that's the way donald trump thinks of him. and the king of europe, we have, right here. the king of europe? king of england, he'd take. king of britain, he'd take.

i don't think he wants to be king of europe! it's actually the least appetizing title for nigel farage anyone has ever thought up ever! it's sort of delicious, actually. so, yeah, we have boris johnson, world king, nigel farage, king of europe. we're good on monarchies, aren't we? right, let us move now to talk to some of the players who are involved in getting out the votes for next tuesday's election. and who have been working furiously behind the scenes. guy cecil is the chair of priorities usa, which is a super pac, which is one of these organisations that is not part of the democratic party, it is not part ofjoe biden but is offering support and is hoping to get joe biden elected. i just want to introduce a clip ofjoe biden speaking about covid and let's talk on the other end of it. first, i will go

to every governor and urge them to mandate mask wearing in their states. and if they refuse, i will go to the mayors and county executives and get local mask requirements in place nationwide. as president, i will mandate mask wearing at all federal buildings and all interstate transportation, because masks save lives, period. guy cecil, welcome to americast. thank you very much for being with us. four days to go. i don't know whether you heard anthony saying in his introduction that donald trump is being far more energetic, doing far more rallies. "sleepyjoe" doing a lot less — is that deliberate, is that part of his covid strategy to show, "look at me, i'm much more careful, i don't do big rallies"? well, i think part of the strategy is to make sure that we don't have a major party candidate for president who is responsible for the illness and deaths of thousands of americans. priorities released a poll just this week that said, in the closest battle ground states, anywhere from two

thirds to three quarters of voters in those states disapproved of the rallies that donald trump was doing around the country, and so the reality is that cases in the united states are rising, deaths in the united states are rising, and it is irresponsible for donald trump to be holding super spreader events — whether they are on the white house grounds or they are in airport hangers in battle ground states across the country — and sojoe biden is behaving responsibly. and he understands that in this case, good public health policy is also good politics. guy, let me ask you, where are you worried about right now? there is a lot of people that would probably like to see joe biden just sort of take up residence in florida for the next few days. but he won't. he's all over the place. he's in the midwestern states. i wonder if you think he is overstretching by heading to texas and georgia, when there is plenty of work perhaps still to be done closer to democrat home.

i think the strategy of the biden campaign is the right one, which is, "we need to create as many paths to 270 electoral votes as possible. " we saw what happened last time when we don't focus on a range of states that can get biden over the top, and so today, he is in the upper midwest, he is in michigan, wisconsin and minnesota. yesterday, he was in florida. kamala harris is in texas. 50 we can make sure that we are covering the six to ten closest battle ground states. the thing about florida — i am a native floridian, i was born and raised in south florida — donald trump must win florida in order to win this election. ifjoe biden is able to win florida, tuesday night or wednesday morning, then the election is effectively over. there is no path to 270 electoral votes for donald trump without florida. forjoe biden, we have a lot of paths to 270,

and we are within a point or two in many of the states that they are expanding the map to, like texas and iowa. so let us just talk about the economy, because that is the one area in polling where people say that donald trump has the clear lead overjoe biden — better trusted, better able to bring backjobs, to bring back growth to the us economy. i just want to play another clip of your candidate talking about taxation and who will and who won't be hit. nobody making less than $400,000 will pay a penny more in tax under my proposal. that's a promise? that's a guarantee, a promise. i give you my word as a biden. that's an absolute guarantee. and you think it's a good idea to raise taxes when the economy's in dire straits? depending on who you're raising them on. look, if you're raising it on somebody who's making $1 billion a year, it's not a problem if they pay 39.6% — which everybody should pay —

and raise another $90 billion. i have to say, guy, to british viewers, $400,000 sounds like a huge amount to set your bar at. basically, he is saying, what, 1.8% of the population only will pay higher taxes? and he is the guy on the left. so i'm guessing he has been quite spooked by donald trump's tax policies and by the fact that he always leads on the economy. first of all, when you look at arizona, michigan, wisconsin, florida, pennsylvania and you ask voters today, who do they think will do a betterjob of getting us out of our economic mess post—covid, in all six of those states, joe biden actually leads donald trump. and so a lot of this new territory around the economy is changing because americans understand we will not get the economy back on track if we don't get covid under control. the other reality is that we have been dealing with a tax system in america, under this administration,

where the very wealthy and the biggest corporations have been rewarded over and over and over and over again, while we have a president who wants to cut social security and medicare. and so the biden campaign, which has set the mark at $400,000, can make enough revenue to make sure we are moving enough money into state and local governments — who have to balance their budget and are really struggling because of covid. we can move money into college affordability, into infrastructure bills. the reality is that that's a marker that we think the american people will accept, that we can get passed through the senate and the house, so that we can begin bringing more revenue to fix the structural problems that we have in the country. you're breathing, eating, sleeping this. you're looking at the polls — it all looks quite good at the moment, joe biden is ahead where he needs to be ahead. what's keeping you awake at night? congenitally, democrats in america, we like to worry about everything. that is, it seems to be, in our dna, but the number

one thing that i worry about is the extreme efforts that conservatives and republicans have gone to to make it more difficult to vote. the republican party has committed $30 million to litigation to make it more difficult to vote by mail, and early and in person, the president has said he wants to recruit 50,000 poll watchers, which is code for poll intimidators, to make it more difficult to vote. we are still dealing with litigation around our country in terms of how people can vote, how late their ballot can arrive if it is sent by mail, which is particularly important given that we are in the middle of a pandemic, and so we just want to make sure that every vote that gets cast count. and this is what happens. when a political party can no longer win with the votes that are out there, they try to change the dynamic of the voting, they try to change the number of people that are eligible to vote, how they vote, when they can vote,

and we want to make sure that we are addressing the systemic problems that we expect over the next four days. this will continue to be a challenge, i think, even after the election, and it's the number one thing i think right now that democrats are concerned about, including me. guy cecil. guy, thanks so much indeed for being with us on americast. i want to turn now tojenna ellis. she's counsel to donald trump, to the trump campaign. i just want to pick up on what guy was saying there because he was talking about being kept awake at night by the thought that there was going to be intimidation of voters, that people who were eligible to vote would not be able to. what do you say to that? is that true? that's just simply not true. and if you look at the factors of election integrity, america has always been built on the foundation, in our constitutional republic, protecting the right of the american people to vote for the people that we put in office, and so election integrity matters, which means that there should be requirements, such as voter

id — like the president has always said — there should be reasonable checks, there always should be valid integrity to make sure that there is not fraud going on. and so what the trump campaign and the rnc is fighting for, and has been fighting for this entire election cycle — for every race, notjust the presidential race but all the way down ticket — is to make sure that every eligible citizen's vote is counted and counted once. but it's more than that, isn't it, jenna? it's about donald trump saying he wants vigila ntes, people to watch over the polls. we don't know what that means, but a lot of people are going to interpret that as turning up at the stations — in open carry states, maybe that means with weapons — and checking on what other people are doing at the polling station. that is intimidation. first of all, he never said anything about vigilantes. so i'm not sure where you're getting that precise term, but, no, we have armyfortrump.com. you're welcome to go and actually look at

the website for our election day integrity operations and to make sure that people understand that they are responsible for their own vote and to make sure also that any of the poll watchers that has always been a part of our american system, to make sure that it is fair and accurate, is something that the american people, as fellow citizens, are willing to participate in. and so this, again, is all about election integrity. you can also go to protectthevote.com to see the principles of election integrity, where we are fighting and why this matters. it should not be a partisan issue. jenna, just let me pick up on that. you argued with emily over the use of the word vigilante, and fair enough. you just said "join the army for trump"? does that not sound a tiny bit militaristic of what you want the people to do? not at all. no, not at all. we understand our american history and certainly being the bbc, you understand the revolutionary war any

patriotism that was in 1776, for freedoms, and why americans are really truly patriotic in terms of protecting our liberties and freedoms. it does not mean army in the literal sense, it means in army in terms of a coalition, and we have a variety of coalitions, including evangelicals for trump, democrats for trump, including evangelicals for trump, democrats fortrump, so you're taking that phrase quite literally in a way that nobody who hasjoined the army literally in a way that nobody who has joined the army for trump has at all. jenna, i guess we would not be having that debate and what happens at the polling station if we were not in the middle of this pandemic. and it has hit america incredibly badly. donald trump has been talking about health care, he gave an interview with leslie stahl last week, a lot of our viewers will be remembering that as the one he tried to tweet out early, which ended rather abruptly, but he was asked about his health care plan

because we will order member he was talking about repealing and replacing, and clearly there has not been a health care plan, there has been no replacing. let's have a listen. you promised that there was going to be a new health package, a health care plan. you said that it was going to be great, you said it is ready, it is going to be here in two weeks, it is going to be like nothing you've ever seen before, and of course we have not seen it, so why did you not develop a health plan? it is developed, it is fully developed, it is fully developed, it is go to be announced very soon. when we see announced very soon. when we see what happens with 0bamacare. if the supreme court ends this, 0bamacare... we 0bamacare. .. we are going to see 0bamacare. .. we are going to see what happens. i hope they ended. and if they end is come people with pre—existing conditions will be stranded. people with pre—existing conditions will be strandedm is wrong. any plane will happen. will and is. is wrong. any plane will happen. willand is. we is wrong. any plane will

happen. will and is. we will not do anything in no plan on us we not do anything in no plan on us we have pre—existing conditions covered. it makes no sense, does it come —— does it come in to say there isa —— does it come in to say there is a health care plan fully developed when he has been president, empowered for four yea rs president, empowered for four years and we have not seen anything? what did that mean, jenna? i think the president answered that question fully and it absolutely made sense. right now, there is a case pending before the supreme court on the issue of 0bamacare, and that was something that if you watched the confirmation hearings of nowjustice amy coney barrett, that was what the democrats focused on, their own partisan policy initiatives, and wanting to somehow argue for policy during that confirmation hearing, but they focused solely on that issue. that is an issue that has to be resolved any president said very clearly and soon we know what the supreme court is going to do with 0bamacare, which is

the position of the ministration, that it is unconstitutional, that he will unveil that plan. i'm unconstitutional, that he will unveilthat plan. i'm not unconstitutional, that he will unveil that plan. i'm not sure how that was not quite clear. jenna, and i just how that was not quite clear. jenna, and ijust pick up on that? what is the plan? if you're waiting on the result, like and you not tell the american people what the plan is to replace 0bamacare if it is to replace 0bamacare if it is struck down and how you're going to keep people's pre—existing conditions?” think the better question... taking this one step at a time and doing the proper thing in

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