hello, everybody. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us of the president heads to iowa, 20 days from the november choice. the president right in desperate need of a campaign reset. a plea to suburban voters last night captures the state of the campaign. the president is losing and women are running away from his rhetoric. >> suburban women, will you please like me? please, please. i saved your damn neighborhood, okay? >> that tells you the president understands the current campaign math. listen to more of that rally, though, and you are reminded he still denies facts and denies science. the president insisted last night and again last hour, the united states, he says, is rounding the final coronavirus turn but the pandemic is nowhere near done. it is making the late campaign statement of its own. this map lays out nationwide trouble, the very opposite of what you hear from the president of the united states.

36 of the 50 states, that's orange and red on the map, report more coronavirus nrvegs s infections this week than last week. no green. no states trending down, the right direction. rounding the final turn means the finish line is ahead, the end. seven-day average of new infections, 5 ,000 a day, a dramatic inning from last month. sad by simple math. heading up the hill again, not rounding the final turn. plus more cause for concern in the race to develop a vaccine, another trial from therapeutic drugmaker eli lilly pressing pause over safety issues. let's take a look at the numbers i told you about and pause on this map again. 36 states red and orange. red means r50% or higher this week than last week. deep red alert. orange is bad, more new infections right now when you compared to a week ago. more new coronavirus infections in 36 of the 50 states right

now. 14 states holding steady, that's the beige. look all you want, there is no green. no state reporting fewer infections today compared to data from last week. heading in the wrong direction. look where we were just a month ago. a month ago a lot of green, 22 states heading down, 1 states heading up a month ago. look at this map. green is progress, orange and red is not. this is where we are today. a closer look how the cases go. again, we've all lived through this. about 20,000 around memorial day and then up into the summer surge close to 70,000 many days, %-p, beginning of september, below 40,000 new infections a day. now we're on the way back up and suddenly that arc going higher, 52,000 yesterday back above 50,000 new infections a day. at the moment -- at the moment, the rate of death plateaus 802 yesterday. that's a sad number but many projections tell you this will go back up. let's hope it does not.

that's a projection. you see a line right here. you look at the positivity rate. this is why public health experts are depressed, higher positivity, more cases today, more to come tomorrow, 23 out in idaho, 17 wyoming, 24% south dakota, 21% wisconsin. you see a lot of double digits in the northern half of the country where it is getting colder. more positivity today, more cases tomorrow. public health experts are worried. they say there's no new plan from the white house, no new effort to try to stem higher positivity. instead they are hearing more and more from the white house, let it rip. more people will be exposed, we'll develop herd immunity. listen to one of the nation's disease experts saying that would be a disaster. >> herd immunity is another word for mass murder. that is exactly what it is. if you allow this virus to spread, as they are advocating, we are looking at 2 to 6 million americans dead. not just this year but every year. >> the senior scholar at johns

hopkins. good to see you. you listened to dr. hazeltine there. you go through the numbers now, above 50,000 new infections a day. again, reluctantly putting doctors in the middle of politics again. the president says we are rounding the final turn. not true, correct? >> absolutely not true. it is another lie. we're not rounding any corner. we're just getting worse. intensification of spread like we predicted. when it got colder, less sunny, people unable to do things outdoors. we have to fix these problems or we'll tip to have unacceptable number of deaths, cases. we're already hearing about field hospitals set up in wisconsin. we can't move forward without a plan or we're going to be trapped in this kind of pandemic hell forever. >> you say pandemic hell forever. that's a seasoner way to put it. i want you to listen again, trump versus biden on the ballot, some ways trump versus science, including dr. fauci. listen to dr. fauci's concerns about uptick in positivity.

>> we're seeing an uptick in what's called test positivity, which is often and, in fact, invariably highly predictive of resurgence of cases which historically leads to an increase in hospitalizations. ultimately an increase in deaths. >> so let's walk through that. we were at 18,000 new infections a day back in late may. we saw increased positivity, dr. fauci is right. you see the spread, the cases, the hospitalizations from 18,000 baseline back at the end of may we got up well above 60,000 new infections a day. if the baseline we started at was around 40,000, now we're going back up the hill. how high might we go? >> i think we could get to a place where we're having 100,000 cases a day. you have to remember when we see 50,000 in a day, we know we're missing many cases. i have friends and colleagues who don't want to get tested because the lines are too long or turnaround time too long so

still undercounting cases. i do think there will come a point where we're reaching 100,000 cases confirmed per day. simple math on the transmission in certain states where there's 25, 20% positivity, which really just shows you how far this virus has slipped out of control in some parts of the country. >> as we talk about the national situation, i'm going to read you something in just a second that tells us about the president's personal concerns. he's back out on the campaign, very busy aggressive campaign schedule. that's easy to understand. losing in a presidential race, now under 20 days away from us. he had his own case of coronavirus. there have been questions is it safe for the president to travel at this time. this is a statement released by nih on tuesday evening at the request of the white house dr. fauci and clifford lane reviewed test results of the president. they went on to say they affirmed all current evidence indicates the president is not

infectious for anyone else. i guess that's quote, unquote, good news if they are at a trump rally or staffer getting in close proximity on a helicopter or plane but the fact government scientists were asked to say the president is safe, what does that tell you? >> just tells you there was so much opacity with the way the president's physician team related information about his health and they were kind of using tlibtly misleading language whether he needed oxygen or didn't need oxygen or what chest imaging was that people don't have confidence. the president is not contagious, finished 10 days of self-isolation. not surprising people don't understand that because of the slew of information. this could have been avoided with transparency. the distraction what this is with rallies, not the president infecting you but the lack of social distancing, screaming, shouting, cheering and not wearing face coverings. it's not from the president

himself but other people giving it to each other at the rallies. >> thank you for your expertise. >> thank you. >> a big scandal, unmasking investigation reportedly over without the charges the president predicted would happen. when i was in high school, this was the theater i came to quite often. the support we've had over the last few months has been amazing. it's not just a work environment. everyone here is family. if you are ready to open your heart and your home, check us out. we thought for sure that we were done. and this town said: not today. ♪

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we're learning today of a quiet end to a scandal republicans have been shipping for years. "the washington post" reporting there will be no charges in the federal investigation into unmasking. that investigation was announced back in may and ordered by the attorney general bill barr. unmasking is the term used when a government official asks for the name of someone listed anonymously in an intelligence all right. back in 2015 some obama administration officials did ask for specifics after seeing reports raising concerns americans were having unusual campaign year contacts with russians. the trump national security adviser was unmasked in the process. obama administration said they were following the rules and just doing their jobs. president trump repeatedly

screamed scandal. >> the unmasking and the spying. to me that's the big story. >> the unmasking is a massive -- it's a massive thing. >> we're talking unmasking, yes, that was a big deal. horrible deal. >> joining me now served as deputy attorney general under president bush. he knows bill barr well. this came in with a big bang. the president said ba it was a huge scandal, some republicans compared it to watergate. bill barr wanted it. >> i think this is an unfolding story. i think people who understand unmasking and what it is in the process of documents that are part of the intelligence investigation process understood from the start that this was a complete nothing burger. so it was trotted out as something that could be sinister

and could be made peculiar and strange. then we had a big occkerfuffle a long time as they had an investigation. a couple weeks ago i think john bash left his position in the department. we don't know the circumstances behind that. maybe it was just routine, maybe it wasn't. now we've learned the investigation is basically a failure at having gone nowhere, something that was obvious from the beginning. it's tempting to hear this news and feel, okay, they have packed up. same thing is true with this durham investigation where bill bar has said in the last week and a half or so that, well, we're not going to have a report, not going to have indictments. he said many, many times over the last six months that he hoped we would have some reports, possibly indictments,

charges. he talked a lot about the substance of it. that's another one going nowhere before the election. i think we can all be glad those things aren't true. the question that lurks out there, though, is what does bill barr have up his sleeve yet? you know, one can speculate a lot about where his head is at and what he's up to, but the one thing we know without any question, based on his conduct over the last, you know, year and a half or so, is that he has in listed full time in getting donald trump re-elected. so there are plenty of ways he can miss behave, you know, not least of which involves possibly trying to involve the justice department in efforts to interfere with the election. so we've all got to be vigilant and we've all got to watch and nobody can take for granted he's not going to pull some new stunt in order to try to get his mentor donald trump re-elected.

>> be interesting to keep an eye on because you mentioned the president. the president has been in bill barr's face in a couple of recent interviews saying he demands and wants somebody something to be done. if not he'll be watching. thank you for your time and insights and keep our eye on the important question you raised there. president trump and joe biden making a public for a very critical constituency, older voters. tonight... i'll be eating roasted cauliflower tacos with spicy chipotle sauce. [doorbell chimes] thank you. [puck scores] oooow yeah!! i wasn't ready!

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a distinct battle within the battle forming in these final weeks before election day, the fight for the vote of senior citizens. listen to this, president trump and joe biden on the campaign trail. >> you're expendible, you're forgettable. you're virtually nobody. that's how he sees seniors. how many of you have been able to hug your grandkids in the last seven months. the only senior trump cares about, the only senior is the senior donald trump. >> now biden pledging mass amnesty health care for illegal americans and destroying social security. biden cares more about illegal aliens than he cares about your senior citizens. >> joining me now dana bash and cnn's jeff zeleny. let me start by saying what the president said would flung a fact check, break a fact check

machine. dana, there is this intense competition for senior citizens. it's advantage to joe biden in key battleground states. why is this constituency so important, because they vote. 20% of the voting electorate in florida in 2015, he won 57% in battleground pennsylvania, 21%, donald trump won 54% of the vote. if joked splits or wins the senior vote, it's game over for donald trump. >> that's exactly right. it's always so fascinating, particularly with donald trump, recently with joe biden, you always know where donald trump is very worried because he says it out loud. the fact that one of the first videos he produced of himself on the white house lawn, which kind of looked a little like an '80s infomercial, he was describing himself as a senior, begging seniors to take another look at him. that is clearly because he

understands he is in big trouble with seniors. you talked about the numbers, how well he did before, that is the usual kind of balance, if you will, that we see between democrats and republicans. in the past few decades, seniors have been going for republicans more than the democrat. the fact that joe biden is even in the hunt and in some polls doing better among seniors in some of these key states, that could be, as you said, game over for donald trump. >> one of the interesting issues with the president, jeff, we know he's losing right now. we know he's going to campaign aggressively. we know he's going to throw the kitchen sink or obnoxious tweet, everything he can at the joe biden. these men are both in their 70s, both sr. citizens trump suggesting for resident, photo shopped suggesting he belongs in a nursing home not for president. some find it funny, some find it

offensive but it is a trumpian tactic. >> no question. you wonder who might find that offensive, senior citizens. i've been in florida as well as other states talking to senior citizens. it's a fascinating this. they to a person talk about the coronavirus and to the president's conduct, how he kubernetes himself in office. i'm not sure how many seniors on instagram that saw him making fun, mocking joe biden. it has not played very well in places like florida. it is one of the reasons coronavirus, and his handling of it, is something that this white house has struggled to get around. we've seen the president try and change the subject to law and order message, try and change the subject to he will protect the suburbs. that has not overtaken the fact coronavirus is something they feel acutely. they have not been able to see their grandchildren. they have not been able to live

their lives like younger people are doing. here in florida particularly, donald trump won seniors according to exit polls 17 points four years ago. joe biden is now leading early, even if donald trump would happen to win by a few points, that is still a net deficit for him. it is of critical concern to the trump campaign. democrats see it as a big opportunity for joe biden. john, interesting both candidates are senior citizens. only one is really trying to appeal to emthis in that respect, and that's joe biden. >> again, gets to how joe biden campaigns and sometimes the president opens the door for him. the president says we made the final turn in coronavirus, that it's going away, it's going to disappear. the numbers tell you otherwise. suggests senior citizens are more vulnerable, b, they can't see their family and friends and other people because it's a safety precaution. listen how joe biden says this president simply doesn't get you. >> we see an awful lot of people at the very top doing better than they have ever done and

left to wonder an awful lot of us, who is looking out for me? who is looking out for me? that's been the entire story of my view of donald trump's presidency, the fact he's never been focused on what matters. he's never been focused on you. while you're losing precious time with your loved ones, he's been stuck in a sand trap at one of his golf courses. >> call it the empathy card, call it what you will, it's a direct appeal at an important moment. >> yeah. that is joe biden's calling card, and he did it in a very specific, very targeted way, which as jeff was saying he's out in florida talking to voters. it seems to be penetrating. you know, look, for joe biden, all he has to do because seniors vote, as you said, all he has to do is increase his share of the senior vote in florida in pennsylvania. frankly in places we don't think of there's a big senior vote

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questioning. vause on whether the president can pardon himself, whether the president could unilaterally delay the election and repeatedly asked questions about obamacare and whether the entire law can stand even if individual mandate in a pending case was ruled unconstitutional. >> you have a statute and the affordable care act is obviously a very long statute. if there's one provision within the statute that's unconstitutional, the question is whether that one section can simply be rendered null and excised from the statute, severed so the rest of the law stands or whether that provision is so central to the statute that it's unconstitutionality the hold house of cards collapses. the function is in favor of receiverability. >> the doctrine of

receiverabilireceiveseverabilit. >> save the statute. >> correct. >> what jumps out as the biggest news on the day. >> her unwillingness to weigh in on whether the president could pardon himself. i appreciate the professor explaining severability so i don't have to son television. who asked the question? lindsey graham. he did over the last 48 hours what several republicans do, which is a little bizarre if you think about the last 10 years saying, look, there's no way obamacare is going to get struck down. there's no way this court case that will arrive in the supreme court just a few days after the election will actually strike the law down in its entirety. what they have been pinning it on is the issue of severability. you see several lawmakers at the top of his presentation today to open the hearing is tee that up for the nominees. look, you don't need to tell us how you would rule or feel about a case but why severability is

winning out. they are teeing it up. it started tuesday night when mitch mcconnell had a debate and said nobody believes obamacare will be repealed, struck down. the senate republican research team september out a document about all the reasons obamacare wouldn't get struck down, even though, again, obamacare could be truck down with the case that starts after the election. fascinating to see republicans have laid on a barrage why it's endangered, telling stories, using poster board with pictures of constituents. republicans have repeatedly come to the idea or come to the defense not of the law itself but of the fact they believe it's going to stand. it's a back and forth. it's been interesting throughout. i think it's certainly strange to anybody as you have watch the election cycles over the last four, five, six cycles when obamacare was essentially a curse word for republicans now saying, look, we think it's going to stand. we think there's no way it gets

struck down. now, i would note many legal scholars on both sides of the ideological spectrum don't believe the case heading to the supreme court is one that has a great chance of actually succeeding and being struck down. i would also note it's at the supreme court so clearly it's done okay so far. >> yes, well put. i'm not a doctor or lawyer but i think obamacare without individual mandate is kind of like a car without gas. you've still got a car but you're not going anywhere. phil mattingly thank you on capitol hill. let's move to another nancy pelosi getting new pressure from democrats to try to get a deal done on the stimulus edge pa. the issue, of course, upcoming, the difference between 67$2.2 a $8.8. she says it falls short not only in money but policy. pressure from the speaker is misguided. >> i spoke to andrew yang who says the same i think this, it's

not everything you want but there's a lot there. >> honest to god, he really can't get over it. andrew yang, he's luckily. ro khanna, he's lovely. they are not negotiating this situation. they have no idea of the particulars. they have no idea of what the language is here. >> madam speaker, i certainly respect you but i also respect ro khanna, andrew yang, members of the democrats, members of the problem solvers, they want a deal because so many people right now are suffering. >> the problem solvers don't have any earned income tax credit either. let's not go into that. >> a member of the house democratic leadership, senior whip and member of the bipartisan problem fl soers caucus. good to see you. forgive me but seems like democrats are celebrating thanksgiving early here, getting together at the family table and

throwing things at each other. what is the pressure on the speaker at this moment? she says leave me alone, i will figure this out, let me negotiate. as you know, yourself included, a lot of members think 20 days to the election, let's get something done. let's not wait to see if joe biden wins. let's not wait to see if we can get a bigger deal in january. what's going to happen? >> first of all, it's not just democrats at the thanksgiving table, it kind of sounds like america, john. we've all had an early thanksgiving dinner. i don't think she's saying leave me alone, i'm the one at the table. i just finished a leadership meeting with her. she is very determined to try to get a package, yet she knows, i've been one of the people that has been adamant we need a package. i hear from people every single day. by the way, i hear from one of my restaurant owners and one of the leaders of the leading health at restaurants across the country and wouldn't be helped by what's been put forward right now. so we need to get to the table. we all need to stay at the

table. we need consistency on this side. i'm telling everybody not to negotiate, let's go big within a few hours. it's very disconcerting. american people are tired of our fighting and bickering at the thanksgiving table. they are scared. they need something and they want to get it done. i think the speaker is trying to deliver something that's actually going to deliver to the working men and women that are counting on all of us. >> you heard her. wolf was trying to ask her yesterday about ro khanna trying to say, madam speaker, cut a deal. he comes from an affluent district in the country, silicon valley. he said even there he sees people in lines at food banks, small businesses are shut down. listen to him with my colleague poppy harlow. he says, it's it, madam speaker, i support you if it takes a couple of days but we need a deal. listen. >> i believe our house plans are better than what the white house is propping. the point is i'm one of 145

members of congress, two chambers of congress, republicans control the senate, trump is in the white house. the point is i could say let's have the plan or nothing or constituents of mine are hurting, we have to compromise, we have to get monaco done. >> you know the speaker very well, congresswoman. at what point would she maybe give in. i get it. she's going to hold out. she thinks she's got leverage over the white house but senate republicans have also mocked the president's plan. she needs to get the president to say deal and pressure senate republicans. at what point does she need to maybe give a little. >> you know, john, i've been saying from the beginning the person who can bring us all to the table and get a deal is the president. he has to does he he wants it and tell republicans they need it. i know what ro was saying. we're all seeing people in our district suffering. they are really desperate, but we have to make sure we're delivering something for them and not just for corporations.

i think -- first of all, everybody is short, everybody is tired. everybody is 20 or we may even be down to 19 days before the election. it seems like forever. people are tired. people are short. people are in our district desperate but they aren't desperate for nothing. so the speaker is our leader. we've got to support her right now at the table, and she's not a stupid woman. she's one of the smartest women i know. she knows that people need something to help them. so she knows what her members want. she's listening to her members. the members want help for the people in their district but we've got to deliver for the people. last night everybody -- the one thing i'm going to tell you, everybody is short, everybody is tired. we've got to be very, very careful to not let people pit us against each other. that's what people have been doing to this country for four

years and we cannot let people to pit us against each other. we owe it to the american people not to pit ourselves against each other. >> find yourself in the middle of family discussions, sometimes family disputes, not limiting it to democrats by any means. thank you for your insight. we'll see, 20 days from election day, a lot of people counting on help. it would be nice if they can figure it out. it's complicated. up next for us, new data tells us as coronavirus cases are on the rise, contact tracing is falling short. when i was in high school, this was the theater i came to quite often. the support we've had over the last few months has been amazing. it's not just a work environment. everyone here is family. if you are ready to open your heart and your home, check us out. we thought for sure that we were done. and this town said: not today. ♪

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a big part of rising coronavirus case count according to cdc director robert redfield. this as many states find contact tracing is nowhere near where it needs to be. 44 states do not have enough tracers, that's according to new johns hopkins npr survey. a senior associate at johns hopkins center for security. thank you for your time. i saw reading about this report you call contact tracing stagnant. you think it's stagnant. we have a map we can show our viewers. 44 states do not have enough of what they need estimated contact tracing. 44 states short of the need at a time 36 states are reporting

more new infections right now as opposed to a week ago. that's a dangerous collision course, is it not? if we don't have tracers and more virus and you can't find out where it's coming from, you can't slow the spread? >> yeah. i think this is an essential component to the response. it's not the only component. once we have large cases, big epidemics, it's hard to rely on contact tracing because it can be overwhelmed quickly. it's a combination of hiring that workforce we need and bringing case numbers down to a manageable level where contact tracing can be effective. >> so i was looking at the report, it says we're about halfway there in terms of hiring the personnel. what's happening? are states and cities, groups not giving this the urgency it needs? not the money involved, the people showing up asking for these jobs? what's the problem? >> i think for the vast majority of public health departments hiring contact tracers, they are working as hard as they can.

i don't think there have been sufficient resources from a federal level to support this and definitely mixed messaging from the white house about the importance of contact tracing. i think those have all been problems in really scaling up this capacity for the country. it's a difficult job, though. this is a really difficult thing to do, contact trace. >> forgive the disruption. we've talked about this before in the past and talked with technology people and some mayors and public health people around the country. this was an area where people thought technology, apps would be incredibly helpful in getting this into people's hands, getting it into the community. whether an activist, an individual. but i'm looking at the report. that hasn't grown or been supported as aggressively as many had hoped. is that true? >> yeah. the digital contact tracing approaches, exposure notification, which has been put forward by apple and google is really kind of a workforce multiplier. it won't replace the capacity we need to build with human beings

doing contact tracing. but i still think it's possible that it could be helpful, it's just adoption has been slow. it's hard to know how effective it is because there hasn't been enough time and research on this aspect of the response. >> crystal watson, thank you for your help. important insights. disappointing to see 44 states aren't up to what they need. we'll keep an eye on it and your insights. back to the campaign trail and record early voting shattering records across the country. we'll show you. what are you doing? art class. it's abstract expressionism. when you start with a better hot dog from oscar mayer, you can do no wrong. it's all for the love of hot dogs.

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we count your votes in 20 days. but in this remarkable pandemic election, record numbers of you are voting early in remarkable fashion. this new information shows us the giant scale of the early vote. going to show you some of it comes from a data company that provides analytics to democrats, academics, nonprofit advocacy agents. total ballots cast from 42 states reporting this data so far, more than 12.8 million, almost 13 million ballots cast already the presidential election so far. total ballots requested from 38 states, doesn't include mail-in states. this is just people requesting ballots, 37.5 million ballots requested. that is a remarkably high number. again, much of it in response to the coronavirus pandemic. here is what we know, data comes from catalyst. in pennsylvania 77% cast have

come back from people who are registered democrats, 15% republicans. that doesn't mean all the democrats voted for joe biden or all the republicans voted for donald trump but we do know from polling that party loyalty is pretty strong this year. look at the lopsided advantage in pennsylvania. florida also an advantage, not quite as lopsided as pennsylvania but 51% of ballots cast come back as democrats, 29%, 3 in 10, from republicans of again, not a guarantee all these people voted for biden but democrats see these numbers and an advantage. texas, of 762,000 plus cast in texas. ed lavandera watching in plano, texas. i can see behind you, another day of remarkably long lines and high interest. >> stunning turnout across the state. we're in plano, texas, one of those suburbs in northern dallas, the focus of so much

attention. the line out to the street. poll workers tell us the lines were longer yesterday. this is an area of texas that is a great focal point in the coming election. this is ground zero of where republicans have enjoyed so much support as republicans have dominated state politics here in texas for decades. there is a real question about how suburban voters are going to -- whether or not they are going to turn on president trump. you heard president trump saying last night in pennsylvania saying suburban women, please, like me. they clearly know they have a problem here. we have heard that repeatedly from voters who turned out here in colin county for president biden. many of those voters are still skeptical about whether or not texas is actually going to turn blue this year but they are saying pay close attention. don't sleep on what is happening here in the state. >> i'm looking at this crowd today. i feel the enthusiasm of all the

people. i think this is a crucial, crucial election for the american people, and i'm proud to be participating. >> this is one of the most important elections of our lifetime. i feel the democrat party is leaning a little bit far, you know, to the left, and i just think that the country needs conservatism. >> i'd like to see a change overall. i don't like the demeanor which the president addresses the nation, his colleagues, the people. >> john, a fascinating detail to throw into your magic wall there. consider this, in 2016 there were 15.1 million registered voters here in the state of texas. in just the last four years, that number has jumped by 2 million newly registered voters. so the question here is how are all those voters going to break? because in 2016 president trump om beat hillary clinton by about 800,000 votes here in this state

and many people, both sides, republicans, democrats, telling you they expect this election here in texas to be much closer than it was four years ago. job. >> ed, where you are is critically important. you mentioned 2016. if you look at 2018 when democrats picked up house seats in texas, it was in the dallas suburbs, in the houston suburbs, a suburban revolt against president trump. the question is has that tempered somewhat or does it continue into 2020. that's the challenge right where you are, right? >> absolutely. we're hearing that. you have to take into account, too, these suburbs have changed dramatically in the houston and the dallas areas in just the last 10 years far more diverse than it's ever been. an in flux of new voters, how all of that is going to shake out is dramatically changing on the ground here. every voter you talked to in the suburbs of houston can feel that day to day. we've had one voter say they

have never seen so many biden signs in the yards as they drive around these neighborhoods. but democrats still remain -- even democrats will tell you they are skeptical about whether or not biden can flip texas. >> we'll see how close it is, 20 days we count them. ed lavandera, see you tomorrow. picking up our coverage now. good day. >> hi there, i'm breonna keeler. i want to welcome i. not a single state in the country is heading in the right direction with coronavirus infectionses, 38 million on record and 200,000 american lives lost. we're seeing 36 with surge in infections. hospitalizations on the rise nationwide as well as are the percentages of people who are testing positive. the situation is