president trump announces his supreme court nominee, a choice that if confirmed by the senate could solidify the court's conservative majority for decades. also on display at the white house, distinct lack of masks or social distancing, including from one of the top public health officials in the country. more details on that. and this church in louisville, kentucky, has offered sanctuary to protesters for the past few nights. so i'll speak to the pastor for her views on the unrest rocking the city. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to you, our viewers here in the

united states and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom." u.s. president donald trump's pick for the supreme court is expected to speed through the u.s. senate and be confirmed before the presidential election. confirmation hearings for amy coney barrett will begin october 12th. it is a lifetime appointment, and the republican majority and the senate appears to have the votes to get her on the bench quickly. cnn's jeremy diamond has more on this high stakes pick. >> president donald trump on saturday officially nominating judge amy coney barrett to the u.s. supreme court. this is his third nomination and the first woman that the president has nominated to put on the bench.

the president certainly relishing this moment, after all the president has really talked about how appointing justices to the u.s. supreme court is one of the most important things that he does as president. certainly he views this as a critical part of his legacy and it is one of those reasons why so many conservatives, including those social conservatives who were perhaps turned off by the president's brash political style ultimately flocked to his campaign and have supported him during his four years in the white house. you know, the president really is remaking the balance of the supreme court. there was already a republican -- a conservative majority on the supreme court and now if judge amy coney barrett is confirmed and becomes the next supreme court justice, you will have a 6-3 conservative majority on that court and that could have an impact for decades. particularly given the fact that judge amy coney barrett is 48 years old. she could serve on this bench for a long time to come. but, of course, there are political implications in the short-term as well. the president and his campaign

certainly hoping that this will rev up his conservative base, encourage them to turn out to the polls on november 3rd in droves. there is a question about the impact this will have on the left. democrats who have been criticizing president trump for moving ahead with this nomination before election day, they are driving home the point that this could really not only fundamentally alter the balance of power on the supreme court, but put into question things like obamacare and those pre-existing conditions, the protections for those pre-existing conditions. a case on obamacare is coming before the court in a matter of weeks and the white house certainly hopes that judge amy coney barrett will be on the court by that point. we should note, of course, a majority of americans, nearly 6 in 10 americans, believe it is the president who is elected in this november 3rd, 2020 election, who should pick the next justice of the u.s. supreme court. the president not at all abiding by that timeline. really pushing to have judge amy coney barrett confirmed before

that november 3rd election on saturday. the white house chief of staff mark meadows saying he believes if everything goes smoothly, that they could have amy coney barrett confirmed by november 1st. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. democrats are bluntly warning that putting a sixth conservative justice on the high court will spell the end of obamacare and abortion rights. phil mattingly explains there is not much they can do. >> reporter: in the words of one republican official, i spoke to after the nomination of amy coney barrett to the supreme court, this is mitch mcconnell's ball game now. the senate majority leader who made very clear judicial appointments have been the focal point of president trump's term for him, he's moved more than 200 through the process up to this point, including two supreme court justices. now he's moving towards a third and he's going to move fast. in fact, republican sources say the calendar has already been circulated for hearings for amy coney barrett, starting on

october 12th. a tentative calendar, nothing locked in yet, but just underscores how fast republicans plan to move. they want to confirm amy coney barrett to the supreme court before the november 3rd election and they're laying out a process to do just that. here's how things will work over the course of the next couple of weeks. next week, the nominee will start her visits with senators, starting with mitch mcconnell on tuesday, senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham will follow shortly there after. members of the judiciary committee and other rank and file senators who would like to speak with the nominee will have the opportunity to do so. that will lead up to the october 12th hearings. it will be four days of hearings, opening statements, two days of questioning and outside witnesses as well. that will tee up a senate floor vote after the committee approves the nomination. now, i say after the committee approves the nomination, the expectation is every republican on the committee will vote for amy coney barrett. and the expectation is 51 of the 53 republicans in the united

states senate will do the same when it gets to the senate floor. democrats made clear they're unified in their opposition, not just to the nominee, but to the process itself. however, they have very little in the form of things they can do to slow things up or stop it altogether. there are procedural tactics they can deploy and plan to deploy in the committee and on the senate floor, the reality is, as long as republicans have their votes, there is nothing democrats can do to stop them. that's why republicans are targeting shortly before the election to confirm president trump's third supreme court justice to the court. right now, all signs point to that almost assuredly happening. phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. for the an international perspective on all of this, let's go to leslie benjamuri. thank you for joining us. with all of this happening so close to the election, is there any clearer sense now which side

will capitalize more politically on this fight, not just in the presidential election, but also the battle for senate? conventional wisdom says conservatives are more energized by supreme court issues, but in this case, democrats are making it all about the affordable care act, which could galvanize progressives, possibly. >> i think what it really does is it galvanizes contention and mobilizes probably more voters on both sides. because, of course, progressives, especially, the democratic party as a whole, doesn't want to see this kind of appointment, doesn't want to see it before the election, thinks the next u.s. president should make the choice. republicans as we all know care passionately and deeply about the court. they look to president trump to do what he's set to do. i think a lot of what happens has -- will play out depending on how the hearings develop,

what line of argument the democrats make right now. they're focused on risks this presents to healthcare, which i think absolutely critical and will certainly draw attention from americans in the middle of the pandemic, more than 200,000 americans have been killed, the numbers continue to rise, healthcare is so critical. remember that the supreme court will be hearing the case on the affordable care act, obama care, a week after the election, and 23 million americans depend on this, so i think, you know, if the democrats really play this as something where the future of america's healthcare is at stake, where there is hypocrisy in terms of on the republican side, pushi ining forward a candidate so quickly in the context of an ongoing election, that will sustain a lot of attention and mobilize voters, but at the end of the day, i think it -- the vote, the difference it is going to make will have a lot more to do with the pandemic, with the economic crisis. people are pretty fixed in their

views of the supreme court. but it does polarize the american electorate and it polarizes congress in the senate. >> what is the whole process, the rush to confirm a new justice, say about the centrality of the courts to the republican cause. i heard one republican commentator explain it this way, the republicans seem to have given up legislating and are outsourcing their business to the courts. what -- is that what is at stake here? >> i think that, you know, the courts have been the locus of battle for any number of decisions over the last several years. the democrats have very effectively pushed back, not only through street protests, public protests, but litigated the american civil liberties union. if you go back to the very beginning, they pushed to stop the president trump's ban on muslim majority countries and individuals entering the country, they litigated that through the courts. i think there is a sense that if

you can really shift the courts and stack them with conservative judges, that you can -- that you can really hold the line. on any number of conservative positions. and it is also because, of course, president trump hasn't been very effective in legislating, it has been very difficult to get legislation through now, especially now, with a house that is dominated by the democrats. difficult to know where congress is going to go, difficult to know where the senate is going to go after the election. but there is a sense and if you can hold the court, you can influence the direction of travel in the united states. >> barrett, herself, has stated judges are not policymakers, they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold. but when it comes to nominees their statements before they join the bench are often no guide to their actions when they're on it. but how -- do you have a sense of how much ideology will play

in the supreme court, now, given the balance of power with conservatives having twice the number of votes, if she's confirmed? will that erase the veneer of neutrality? >> i think that a lot of americans increasingly are concerned that the court is not above partisan politics, but it is not as independent as they might like to see. i think to be fair, you know, all of the supreme court justices are extraordinary in their training and their professionalism. and they take the issue of precedent very seriously. amy coney barrett has been very serious about that. but they have different philosophies of the law, she's originalist, she looks back to the original text and meaning of the constitution. that's a very specific position, very different from somebody who thinks about the constitution as something that is very living and should be interpreted through the modern era. and, of course, one's positions are reflected through that legal

analysis. so there is a lot at stake. i think if we look at amy coney barrett's positions on any number of issues, they are deeply embedded in legal analysis. but, of course, they reflect a certain -- a certain view of the law and of precedent. so there is a lot at stake. we have seen how this plays out. but i think really when you talk about moving a court from 5-4 to 6-3 leading conservative, that ability to kind of, you know, for chief justice roberts to be a deciding vote is really changing. so there is a lot at stake. >> all right, so many more questions, but we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. with coronavirus deaths in the u.s. surpassing 204,000, there wasn't much evidence of face masks and social distancing at the supreme court announcement. have a look at this.

many people simply didn't wear masks as guests appear to be seated closer than six feet or about two meters apart. and covid tests needed for anyone interacting with the president weren't required of others. and then you'll look here, alex azar, head of the health and human services department wore his mask some of the time, but not when he greeted people. spokespersons put it this way, secretary azar wore a mask a majority of the event and consistently communicates and practices the three ws of wearing a mask, watching your distance and washing your hands. in this circumstance, everyone he had contact with including secretary azar tested negative before the event. president trump spent the rest of his saturday in pennsylvania, a battleground state he won in 2016. and he launched into another round of baseless attacks on mail-in voting. cnn's ryan nobles reports. >> reporter: president trump

making a visit to the key swing state of pennsylvania, and at a rally here in middletown, pennsylvania, outside of harrisburg, the president brought up an issue here in pennsylvania, attempting to sow doubt in the electoral district. a group of discarded ballots were found and that the justice department is looking into. the president didn't necessarily tell the whole complete story, he used it as a vehicle to undermine the electoral process. >> they're going to try to steal the election. look at this crowd. the only way they can win pennsylvania, frankly is to cheat on the ballots. >> reporter: and pennsylvania isn't first state where president trump is suggesting that if he doesn't win, something fraudulent would have happened. he said this in a number of swing states around the country, even brought iowa up on saturday night. somehow saying that the problems with counting ballots in the iowa caucuses in february had to do with absentee ballots. the caucuses did allow for a small number of absentee ballots, the counting process had nothing to do with mail-in ballots but the president continuing to sow confusion on all levels. this as absentee ballots are being mailed out around the country and voters are starting

to send them back in. ryan nobles, cnn, middletown, pennsylvania. competing protests in portland, oregon. how police kept far right and far left groups holding rallies there peaceful. plus, the fourth night of protests in louisville, kentucky, over the police shooting death of breonna taylor. why some protesters are taking refuge at a church. we'll hear from the pastor next. stay with us. is now a good time for a flare-up?

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police in portland, oregon, arrested more than a dozen people a few hours ago after a crowd threw rocks and other objects as officers tried to clear the streets. earlier saturday, hundreds of protesters gathered at three opposing rallies. one group was the far right proud boys. they carried firearms, wore body armor and voiced their support of president trump. nearby other groups held their own rallies. dan simon is in portland and filed this report a short time ago. >> reporter: we are in downtown portland. what you're seeing behind me is pretty much the same thing in terms of what we have seen over the last several months, a group of protesters here, downtown, they're in front of the justice

center. and right now we're not seeing much of a police presence, but earlier in the night we did see some protesters clash with police, protesters throwing different things and more than a dozen people were arrested. i have to say, there was a concern that things could have been a lot worse today. we did have members from the crowd boys group hold a mass rally, more than 200 people showed up at a local park. the crowd boys, of course, an extremist group, southern poverty law center said they're a hate group. they're pro-trump people, they showed up with their weapons. they applied for a permit from the city of portland, were denied due to co-rvid-19 concer. they came anyway. you have counterprotesters come to a separate rally, and fortunately there was no clashes between them. police really fanned out across the city. they did their best to try to keep the two groups separate and fortunately we didn't see any violence between those two groups. but now as we approach the midnight hour, here in downtown

portland, there is a concern that once again we could see more violence, more clashes, between protesters and police. we'll have to see what happens. dan simon, cnn, portland, oregon. authorities say they have arrested at least seven people after protests turned violent in seattle saturday night. police tweeted photos showing smashed windows and graffiti they blamed on protesters. they ordered the crowd to disperse after they started setting fires and throwing rocks and bottles at police officers. the curfew is in effect for a louisville, kentucky, the city where breonna taylor was killed. for the fourth night in a row, crowds gathered in the streets on saturday, it demand justice for taylor who was killed by police during a botched drug raid in march. fires were set, buildings were vandalized and 28 people were

arrested in louisville saturday night. shimon prokupecz has an update. >> reporter: after spending hours inside jefferson square park and vowing not to leave as curfew approached 9:00 p.m., the protesters all left after police made several announcements, warning them if they did not leave, they would be arrested. as the 9:00 hour approached, the police started to move in, they brought in some of their tactical vehicles, national guard came in, and all of the protesters, by then, had left, and came to this church behind me, which they have been coming to every night, which has been serving as a sanctuary so that they can stay on the property, the churches allowed them to stay on the property so they could avoid arrest. shimon prokupecz, cnn, louisville, kentucky. joining me now is reverend lori kyle, the pastor of the church in louisville you saw in the report. they have been offering food,

water and refuge to protesters. thank you so much for joining us here. providing sanctuary has long been a mission of many churches, but what you're doing is quite literal, basically, harboring protesters from the police. let's start at the beginning, why did you decide to open your church to protesters? >> well, we thought it was so important for protesters to have an opportunity to have a voice. we were very disappointed in the attorney general's announcement on wednesday, regarding the charges or mostly lack thereof for the officers responsible for the killing of breonna taylor. and protesters were going to be out in the streets, it was important for their voices to be heard, but there was a curfew issued by the mayor's office, so our congregation decided we could do what we could to offer safe space in the way of

sanctuary for protesters to be able to be out in the community and have their voices heard. >> so, the original intentions ai understand it was more to provide support, not necessarily provide a refuge during a standoff with police. the first time this happened earlier this week there were rumors that the police were going to actually storm the church. were you afraid of a confrontation and what might follow? >> no, not really. our intentions were -- were in regards to a standoff with the police necessarily as much as giving the protesters an opportunity to be out and for their voices to be heard. >> now, the church has been involved with the black lives matter movement for a while. why is the issue so important to you? i understand you were even arrested? >> it is important because i as an individual, i as a minister

of the unitarian universalist faith stand behind the black community and the continued fight for racial justice. it has been a long fight, and obviously by the events that have occurred this spring, and this summer, and now we're moving into the fall, in this country, there is a lot to be done and our union values, especially recognizing the inherent worth and dignity of every person is important and the efforts that our congregation is doing just underscores our commitment to the recognition of every person's worth and dignity. and the black community has suffered indignities and injustice for hundreds of years. and we continue to support them in the fight. >> obviously many your community are demanding justice in the

breonna taylor case. from what you said earlier, you feel justice hasn't been done in this case. so what do you think should happen? what does justice look like? >> racial injustice in this country is so deeply embedded in every single system, systemic racism is long-standing and widespread. and so we're going to do the best we can to follow the lead of the black community, with what they want to do and in the meantime, do the best we can to provide support by offering sanctuary. >> widening the lens a little bit, the public is seeing nightly images from louisville, portland, seattle, other cities of smashed windows, things set on fire, police being attacked, violence between different groups, do you feel that these protests are achieving anything

concrete and are you at all afraid that the real message is being lost here? >> no, i don't think the real message is being lost. i think that it is imperative that these voices be heard and that it is also imperative that the community find their voice and join the black community in these efforts, so i think it is important that they be out in the community, despite the curfew, and we're here to support that however we can. and in this way, our congregation happened to be in the right place to be able to offer sanctuary, and we're privileged to be able to do it. >> all right, well, listen, we appreciate you coming on and talking to us about this. thank you so much for this, reverend lori kyle. there is much more to come on cnn, including florida's move to fully reopen bars and

restaurants, despite being third in the nation in covid number cases. and cases are surging in the uk as well, but while these protesters that you're seeing there, they want virus restrictions lift, it is a level i report coming up after the break.

and welcome back to you our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. the u.s. has seen more than 7 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, according to johns hopkins and the outbreak shows no signs of slowing. in fact, health experts say cold weather will make it worse. the death toll is now over

204,000. and new infections are trending up across nearly half the country. still, the top infectious disease expert is sounding an optimistic note. here's polo sandoval. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci says vaccinations could start bit end of the year. >> in reality, by the time you get enough people vaccinated so you can feel you had an impact on the outbreak, so that you can start thinking about maybe getting a little bit more towards normality, that very likely as i and others have said would be maybe the third quarter or so of 2021, maybe even into the fourth quarter. but the availability and starting vaccination could very likely start in november or december. >> reporter: fauci's comments come as the u.s. passed 7 million confirmed cases of covid-19 according to data from johns hopkins university. more than 203,000 people have

been killed by the virus. dr. fauci raising concerns about fighting covid as we head into the fall and winter. >> if you look at some of the super spreading type things that have occurred, almost all of them occurred in indoor situations. you're going to have to do a lot of things indoors out of necessity of temperature. and i'm afraid with that being the case, if we don't carefully follow the guidelines, the other guidelines, the masking, the distance, the crowds, that we may see another surge. >> reporter: casewise california is the first state to surpass 800,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. despite the state's rising infections, florida governor ron desantis says the state was moving into phase three of reopening, allowing restaurants and bars to fully reopen. desantis also said he expects the state to host a full super bowl by this february. >> i also want to be able to show we're going to be able to

host the super bowl in february. we expect to do a full super bowl. and we're going to show that we're going to be able to do that. >> reporter: new york city mayor bill de blasio announced the city's outdoor dining will be permanent, allowing restaurants to keep using sidewalks and streets for seating. new york deputy mayor for operations laura england crediting it with saving jobs and called it a lifeline for the struggling restaurant industry. about 12 states are now seeing mask usage rates above 50%, according to researchers for the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation. the ihme said more than 95,000 lives could be saved by january, if 95% of americans wore masks. >> polo sandoval reporting there. he mentioned florida's reopening and we have more on that. randi kaye is in south florida with more on the governor's move. >> reporter: governor ron desantis here in florida would like everyone to know that the

state is open. 100%. we have now moved into phase three according to the governor. he says all businesses can now be open, 100%, including restaurants. bars and nightclubs can also open to 100% capacity, though there will be some limited social distancing protocols in the bars and the nightclubs. the governor also says that counties and local municipalities can no longer fine people for not wearing masks. a lot of counties around the state put in their own mask order, their own mask mandate and now the governor says they can no longer fine people. this came as a real surprise it a lot of local officials including orange county mayor jerry demings, he says that he found out about all of this from a bar owner. he said he's disappointed. he's going to have his county attorney look at it. and, again, he's not real happy about the governor's decision. the governor, though, says he believes that the threat has eased here in the state. in fact, he would like to have a

full stadium when it comes to the super bowl coming up in february here in the state of florida, in tampa bay. that's what he's hoping to see. meanwhile, the numbers have ticked down here, but the cases do continue. we have about 700,000 cases here in the state of florida, about 14,000 deaths including now, we're getting word of the ninth minor to have died here in the state of florida from coronavirus. i'm randi kaye, reporting in riviera beach. back to you. coronavirus numbers are spiking in the uk, but thousands turned out in london saturday to protest against virus restrictions. and a preliminary study suggests less than 20% of brits self-isolated after showing symptoms. let's go to scott mclean in london for more on all these stories. scott, so many problems there, where do you want to start? >> yeah, there is a lot of ground to cover for sure, kim.

the name of the game is trying to tamp down the second wave of the virus. the governor is trying to use all the tools it has at its disposal without resorting to the blunt instrument that could be a second national lockdown. so, it is mandated that bars and restaurants close early across england, mask guidelines, mask mandates, legal mandates inside shops and stores and also put limits on social gatherings as well. it is also now focusing, while it waits to figure out whether those measures will actually work, on clamping down on enforcement and education as well. and for good reason here, kim. a study out this week or study yet to be published, but the results were released this week from kings college in london, showed that less than half of people surveyed, 30,000 people they surveyed, could actually identify the main symptoms of covid-19, high temperature, cough and loss of taste or smell. so then perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that less than one in five people as you pointed out

actually quarantined when they had those symptoms, those 7 0% of people said that they intended to. men, young people, parents, key workers and less affluent people were among the most likely not to follow the quarantine guidelines. at university in manchester, students there, some 1700 of them don't have a choice, but to follow quarantine guidelines, the administration is threatening disciplinary action against students who failed to self-isolate for the next 14 days after 127 cases of the virus were reported on campus. this comes the same day that in scotland, students were told they're not allowed to go to bars, restaurants, or cafes for fear of spreading the virus outside of the campus. even the health secretary said earlier this week, kim, that, you know, he refuses to rule out the possibility of asking university students to stay put, to stay on their college campuses, rather than going home for the winter break.

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firefighters in california are battling more than two dozen major wildfires. high temperatures and strong winds are threatening to make things even worse. the power company pacific gas and electric says they will shut off power for about 100,000 homes and businesses today in an effort to stop electrical equipment from sparking a fire. meteorologist derek van dam is here with more. derek, what is the science behind these fires? >> yeah, kim, the science is telling us more heat equals more

fires. human cause is a significant contributor to the size and the intensity of the current wildfire season we're having over the western u.s. and parts of the entire planet as well. we know that the area is burned is increasing and the wildfire season is getting longer. as we continue to see an increase in our global average temperature now, we sit at 1 degree c above preindustrial temperature levels, as that continues to rise, we have more people becoming susceptible to the impacts of more intense and more severe wildfire seasons. take the western u.s., for example, we have burned 7.1 million acres to date. that is well above the ten-year average of about 6 million acres. so that puts it into perspective. came across an interesting statistic. we have over 70% of the western u.s. now under drought conditions, some areas under extreme to exceptional drought

across the great basin and into colorado. we have 72 large active wildfires, many of them occurring across the pacific northwest and into the state of california. california specifically has five of its top ten largest fires ever burning or ever burned across the state burning now. and september 2020, it is a dire situation, we call it a climate crisis, because it is happening now, not for future generations. it is taking place now. going forward, we have critical to elevated fire risks across the mountains, outside of los angeles. and into north central sections of california. just outside of the san francisco bay region. low humidity, strong winds, high temperatures for this time of year. high pressure building into the great basin. this is a classic setup for the end of september and into the early parts of october. that will allow for offshore winds to occur. and when we create offshore winds, known locally as santa ana winds in southern california, what this does is

pushes the winds up and over the mountain ranges. it allows it to dry, speed up, and actually warm up as well. that's what causes this erratic fire behavior across some of the wildfires that are ongoing over the western u.s. check out the forecast, wind gusts across the region, we stop at monday morning. you see how that impacts -- increases across southern california. more the same offshore wind event expected across the greater san francisco bay region as well. lots to talk about, kim. back to you. >> indeed, thank you so much. derek van dam. from the western u.s. to brazil, and even to the arctic circle, record-breaking fires have erupted around the world. many scientists blame human cause climate change for helping to make the fires more frequent and more ferocious. cyril vanier reports. >> reporter: now familiar scenes from the u.s. west coast. an orange haze shrouds the skies above some of california's most

populous cities as dozens of wildfires blaze through millions of hectors of land. >> it is gone. >> reporter: the landscape changing wildfires break records in the region yet again. >> this is a climate emergency. this is real. >> reporter: an emergency in the western u.s., part of a climate crisis worldwide as 2020 sees record fires rage around the globe. fires across latin america tear through the world's largest tropical wetlands at unprecedented rates. brazil's amazon rain forest continues to burn, brought on in part by deforestion. in bolivia, drought and high temperatures are fueling wildfires, while land clearing in argentina led to blazes now out of control. australia began the year emerging from the worst fire season on record, destroying thousands of homes and killing as much as 3 billion animals. the fires may have begun

naturally, but researchers found that climate change played a major role in how fast and wide they spread. >> australia is 1.4 degrees warmer than it would have been without a human impact on climate. as you get hot, dry conditions, because of global warming. >> reporter: around the world, fires have also raged this year in indonesia, russia, portugal, greece, and in the arctic circle, which scientists say is heating at rates more than twice the global average. >> we always say what happens in the arctic doesn't stay in the arctic. it does affect our weather in different parts of the world, where hundreds of millions of people live. >> reporter: vegetation burning in the arctic released record amounts of carbon dioxide into the air this year. those co2 emissions helping make conditions warmer and dryer on a planet becoming too hot in places to live. >> research that was published in the proceedings of national academy of sciences last year

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and president trump's conduct she often finds troubling. yet as a catholic, she says she cannot back joe biden because he supports abortion rights. so if you can't vote for joe biden, can i assume you'll vote for president trump? >> i don't know. because part of me, i'm afraid to have him in office for four more years. >> reporter: signs of the fall election season are everywhere in battleground, wisconsin. so too are sounds of trump exhaustion. >> i have to say, i get it, i get it why people don't like trump, but at the same time, he has done a few things i thought were important. >> reporter: it is one of the biggest challenges facing biden. capitalizing on voters nagging uncertainty about trump, by persuading those with doubts to go democratic. >> i will vote, yes. for who, i don't know yet. >> reporter: val dingming does not like the president's handling of the coronavirus or how he conducted himself during a summer of racial unrest but

she's far from sold on biden. >> my vote for a third party went to trump, unfortunately. so i guess i learned my lesson. >> reporter: her indecision raises questions about an enthusiasm gap, which worries biden supporters like mary and jerry carthouser. >> i hope there is not too many that are in that camp that can't realize that there is a lot of issues here at play. >> i don't want to see trump for the next four years. >> reporter: the president narrowly won wisconsin in 2016. his path to re-election will be determined to a large degree by a strength in the suburban republican strongholds around milwaukee. >> sometimes he's a little bit, you know, direct, blunt, you could say. but at the same time, you don't have to wonder if he's trying to hide anything. you know you're getting the straight, you know, answer from him. >> reporter: paul and denise

raise their trump flag proudly. >> i'm talking to everybody i can and annoying my neighbors by putting out signs because there is signs all over my neighborhood. >> reporter: the president's threat about not accepting the results about the election -- >> we want to make sure the election is honest, i'm not sure it can be. >> reporter: -- reverberated with controversy here. peter, an independent who plans to vote for biden, said trump supporters should take note. >> looks like a monarchy, dictatorship, like america is a republic, we vote, we don't have dictatorships, we don't have kings or queens. people vote. >> reporter: this man said he disagreed with the president's comments. >> that wording should not be used. na was inappropriate. >> reporter: but said it is just trump being trump, which his supporters love. >> i have to look at the whole body of work. who he is as a whole person. and all that he'sen to and all that he's said. >> reporter: so the biden

campaign is under no illusions they can win republican strongholds, but they do believe they can close the gap. that gap contributed to president trump carrying the state by 23,000 votes four years ago, that's one percentage point of the total in this state. no question both campaigns very much engaged here, spending millions of dollars in television advertising. there is no question president trump needs these 10 electoral votes for his re-election strategy. jeff zeleny, cnn, cedarburg, wisconsin. and cnn will carry tuesday's debate live. our special coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. that's midnight wednesday morning in london and 7:00 a.m. in hong kong for all of you international viewers. well, that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. for our viewers in the u.s. and canada, "new day" is just ahead. for everyone else, it is "africa avant-garde." see you later. tonight, i'll be eating a veggie cheeseburger on ciabatta,

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