stages of another coronavirus surge. scientists warning this version will be deadlier as more and more head to gatherings inside during the cold and holidays. the president travels to pennsylvania today, a battleground key to his 2016 win. a state he currently is trailing and consistently so. it is impossible to separate the campaign from the coronavirus. look at the numbers. they show usury sur resurge in . across the country, orange and red are bad, and you see there a lot of orange and red. 31 states now recording more cases this week compared to last week. 18 states treading water, holding steady. only hawaii making measurable progress. monday, 58,000 plus new infections. that's the worst monday since july 20th. being at the peak of the summer surge. the country added 400,000 infections to the case count in the last week. the daily average of cases is

north of 58,000. and monday, 16 states, highlighted there, 16 states recording the highest daily average of new cases across the pandemic. public health message crystal clear. the united states never got over the first wave, according to director of national institutes of health. it is just not safe to have thanksgiving as normal, public health experts say. and we won't know until end of november at the earliest if a coronavirus vaccine will work or not. yet, despite the rising case count and rising positivity, the president's message, stay the course. >> what is the plan to live with it while staying safe from it? >> well, we are living with it and having the vaccines coming out very soon. with or without the vaccines, we are rounding the turn. we will never shut down. >> joining the conversation to start the hour, margaret.

i want you to hear the director of national institute of health. he wants the supreme court confirmed. he is elected four full years. he is. an argument he can make. there's a pandemic. if the president was elected four full years, listen to dr. collins, why isn't he doing his job? >> we have not met with the president in quite some time. i think the president primarily is getting his information from the vice president, from dr. atlas. there's not a direct connection between task force members and the president as there was a few months ago. but this seems to be a different time with different priorities. >> there's a pandemic in the country. you see the numbers on the screen. 8.2 million cases in the united states. 220,000 deaths and counting, and the president doesn't want to meet with the experts. >> yeah. john, you're hearing the president in these closing arguments that he's making in crucial battleground states, into the idea that the scientists are wrong, he's right, that somehow if we listen

to scientists, there would be more casualties or the economy would be a mess. in particular, we have seen him focusing on dr. fauci who ironically is like the most trusted public health official in the country, so you might think why is the president doing that. but if you look at it more closely, you can see in polling over the last month or so that among republicans in particular, there's declining trust in fauci, even though the rest of the country thinks he's still the person to listen to, the voice to be trusted. so the president is as we know driving into his base. ess he is attempting to maximum turnout of base. >> it is such an interesting moment, dana, in that tony fauci does a "60 minutes" interview, since then he took the bait and

answered questions about him. it might as well be trump versus science. >> the only thing i say is he's a little bit sometimes not a team player but he is a democrat and i think that he's just fine. it's a view. we have other, scott atlas is fantastic, but they go after him so much, he has a different view. by the way, everyone has a different view. different views are everything. doesn't mean they're wrong or bad people, people have different views. >> but to be clear. >> we saved millions of lives by the decisions i made. >> tony fauci is a democrat, scott atlas is fantastic. tony fauci is an infectious disease expert, scott atlas is a radiologist that says don't wear a mask. >> up is down, right is left. we can continue this for the rest of the hour. look, i have been talking to a lot of republicans about this because i frankly as a reporter have been trying to figure out

is he being crazy like a fox, he the president. is he trying to do something he thinks will work. and a lot of times things that he does that seem completely far fetched at the time do have some grain, maybe one little grain of benefit for him politically, that's all we're talking about here, right, the benefit for him politically. i haven't found anybody that says the answer is yes. i talked to people close to him, who know him, members of congress, and i have not found anybody that said you know what, this is actually, here's the secret sauce and what you're not seeing here. no. one of the people that knows him well said remember the following about donald trump. he has no impulse control and it is all about him. when you saw the interview with "60 minutes" with fauci saying he thought that the white house event was a super spreader and covered his eyes, couldn't believe what he was seeing, that set the president off. having said that, john, there is a segment of the population that

margaret was talking about who tend to think that everybody in washington, including anthony fauci, they don't get what they're going through, and the president is clearly trying to appeal to them much like he did in 2016 and get out that vote as much as possible. >> the question is, is it enough votes, margaret. one piece of evidence suggests that the campaign knows this, maybe the president doesn't know this, but the campaign has for months. the president tried to shove coronavirus to the side, make it about the democrats, joe biden, the economy. they don't have the economy to run on, haven't been able to make it about joe biden yet. look at the trump campaign with coronavirus front and center. >> joe biden has no real plan to defeat coronavirus, just criticize, complain, and surrender. president trump is leading, attacking the virus head on, developing a vaccine in record time. >> a couple of important things. number one, the president wearing a mask repeatedly in the ad. the president doesn't wear a mask repeatedly in life, only in

tv ads does he do it. he says joe biden doesn't have a plan. you can disagree if you want, go to biden website, he has a plan. a plan to make testing for free widely available. to use the production act for ppe. create an ethnic disparities task force. you don't have to like those things, but what the president's campaign is saying in the ad is simply a lie. this is what he did in 2016. they don't like me, drag down the other guy so it is the same mess. >> the campaign is trying something here that trump himself won't try in the rallies and axios and our partners have been tracking coronavirus behavior and reactions for several months and the latest findings out "today" shtoday sh republicans are rejecting some of the president's theories on

hydroxychloroquine. and this is a problem with women, independents and senior citizens. what it adds up to is since the president himself became sick, became coronavirus, covid-19 positive, since then these americans and voters are saying they are less able to trust him to give them good information. that doesn't mean they won't vote for him, but it means it is harder for him to steer around the pandemic issue or to change the way the pandemic is viewed. >> and so dana, look, the president is good at this. whether you support him or not, he is good at creating a different ad. you see him in the ad wearing a mask, trying to get the american people to forget this. >> i think wearing a fake mask as a great president, prime minister, dictators, kings, queens, i don't know, i don't see it for myself. i don't agree with the

statement, if everybody wears a mask, everything disappears. lot of people don't want to wear a mask. a lot of people think masks are not good. >> four of five states in terms of highest positivity rate testing today, four of five states that do not have a mask mandate. >> right. i mean, you can believe what he says or you can believe what's in front of your eyes. and the answer is you should believe what's in front of your eyes and just basic common sense that we have developed over the past six months thanks to the researchers and scientists and vi those that figured out mask wearing does help. it allows for remote normalcy, the kind the president says the people who are really hurting economically and otherwise, never mind with their health, are not understanding and they're not understood. well, they could be understood if the president was consistent in the mask wearing message, not

just in the paid advertising targeted to people who maybe aren't seeing the clips that you just played, but it's about the most inconsistent and frankly flagrant example of a leader not doing a basic thing than we've ever seen. again, we talked about this last week. look at chris christie, the guy that helped him get ready for his debate. he did not wear a mask in the rose garden, didn't wear a mask inside debate prep. he got covid, in the icu a week, he said i was wrong, wear a mask. >> i think that there are many republicans and some independents who are saying they don't agree with what the president is doing on coronavirus, they don't like it, they think it is the wrong advice, but they may still vote for him because they like his approach on taxes or they're concerned that biden would usher

in a more liberal era. i don't think there's any argument you can make that says the president's general coronavirus messaging is helping him. but it doesn't necessarily mean it will cost him the election. and that's where we are two weeks out. >> that is where we are two weeks out. appreciate the insights. most polls show biden comfortably ahead, anything to show the trump come back is about to begin? we break it down next. 133 million americans have pre-existing conditions

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national polls. joe biden at 53, trump at 42. 11 point lead for biden. how does it compare? let me bring it up. couple important things to note. hillary clinton was 47 back then, president trump 41. six point clinton lead, clinton under 50, joe biden above 50. joe biden is above 50, donald trump at 41 at this point four years ago. he is at 42. essentially at the same place now. let's start the conversation there with the two pollsters, neil newhouse, and margie omera. if you're a democrat looking at this, that's a distinction in national polls. we'll look at historical dynamics. if joe biden is above 50 at this point, how significant is that? >> for an incumbent to be below 50, that's a sign of

vulnerability. you have people now voting on the record that president trump has. last time it was an open seat. you had two nonincumbents. people were trying to assess which candidate would do a better job. now you have a president who has been underwater since the day he took office, so this is very much a referendum on him and his performance which relative to biden is not going very well because if you look at the "new york times" poll, all of the different traits, who would you trust on this issue and that, biden is strong beneath the surface and that's why you see him over 50 and not the incumbent over 50. >> neil, to that point, we're right now in early stages of another up the hill in terms of coronavirus, heading up towards a third peak in the country. if you look at the coronavirus now, front and center on every american's life. it is front and center of the campaign. the president's handling of this over time. nbc, "the wall street journal"

numbers. disapprove, 50% now. 6 in 10 now disapprove how the incumbent handled the biggest issue in the country. how with two weeks do you change that or can you? >> john, i don't think you try to change it. you focus on the economy. the coronavirus numbers aren't going to change overnight. if you can, you pass that stimulus which is the current "new york times" poll showing is so popular and you move on. you're not going to prep the other numbers, you focus on the economy. the key here is all the comparative numbers between biden and trump, they're not that different from numbers four years ago between trump and hillary clinton, yet trump still came out ahead. john, one thing you want to know is the polling we've gotten in the last couple days, individual senate and congressional campaigns we're involved in have all shown a bump up for the president. this race is beginning to tighten. whether there's enough time left, i don't know, but it feels

like it is tightening. >> let's switch maps as we have that conversation. part of it is that just republican dna, people are waiting on the fence to come back in or is it a significant shift. that's what makes the debate thursday so important. this is where we are in terms of the race to 270. we have joe biden over the finish line with 290 electoral votes. the president 163. but the toss up states on the ballot, if the president wins those and he won them in 2016, that puts him back in play. here is one thing that's different. neil thinks there's a tightening out there. one thing is favorable, unfavorable. hillary clinton, 46 favorable view of her if you go back at this point in 2016. 52% unfavorable. it is a flip. joe biden is above water. 53% favorable, 43 unfavorable. heading to the last debate, expect the president to be aggressive trying to change the numbers. what does joe biden need to do? >> what he has been doing, he

has been boosting his fav favorability. usually anyone running for competitive office, unfavorables go up and become less popular as the back and forth happens in any race. but if you look at favorable versus unfavorable, biden is improving and trump stayed where he is. to go back to the original question, what should democrats do when looking at the polls, democrats shouldn't look at the polls. they should be volunteering, texting, voting, calling, all those things. >> should be listening to you two. any voter should. neil, going to go through a scenario. look, yellow states are the toss ups. perfectly conceivable he wins iowa, won it last time. has republican dna. conceivable he gets ohio. north carolina is competitive, president could win it, won it last time. mitt romney won it four years

before that. georgia, not since bill clinton, we give that to the president, battleground florida. even if i give those to the president and maine, bring that out a bit, turn that red, turn this blue, i messed it up a little bit. if you look at this, even if that happens, the president is still shy. that tells me pennsylvania, pennsylvania, and what else? >> and wisconsin. listen, this race, wisconsin has significant republican dna. i think pennsylvania, wisconsin are states you have to play in. >> pennsylvania and wisconsin. >> but john, this comes out to a trial by now. the question democrats will ask is have they banked enough votes to overcome the election day turnout among republicans, have they built the wall high enough. we're not going to know really until election day. >> or maybe a day or two after as we count votes and get

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dr. anthony fauci called the president's attacks on him a

distraction, emphasizes he just wants to do his job. that job includes consistently speaking out since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. dr. fauci telling us where we stand, how we got here, what he thinks we need to do to get out of it. still much to learn several months in, but a pandemic like this has been dr. fauci's fear for years. >> in an interview, i don't even know when, something that you interviewed me 20 years ago, whenever it was, you asked me what keeps you up at night. what worries you. and if you go back, i told you, i said it's a respiratory borne illness. it may be influenza, but maybe it isn't influenza, that has a multiple characteristics. one, readily transmissible human to human, and two, it has a high degree of morbidity and mortality. that's the nightmare that everybody that's infectious disease always worries about. here we are in 2020, it's

happened. >> that from one of many conversations dr. fauci had with our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay joins us now. that's back at the beginning. a little haunting. >> yeah. no, april 1st that was. we are still learning things. those were two of the ingredients that dr. fauci had been worried about for some time. it was one of my first interviews ever at cnn, almost 20 years ago, when i interviewed him about that. he said look, if something is both contagious and lethal, high degree of mortality, that's the nightmare scenario. h1n1 was very contagious but not very lethal. sars, very lethal, but not very contagious. this was sort of both. and then there was another ingredient, john, which we really are learning about that point, that has to do with the fact that people that didn't even have symptoms could spread this. that was a new ingredient in all this. typically you're sick, coughing, sneezing, you stay home, less

likely to spread. asymptomatic spread became a component here. 50% of transmission likely occurs before symptoms. if you're not testing, you have no symptoms, you don't know. and that's been a real problem with this particular outbreak. >> and these many, many conversations you had with dr. fauci include one yesterday in which you were having a conversation about if there's a vaccine, who should be at the front of the line, how eager should you or i be to get to the front of the line. listen. >> there's going to be different versions of the vaccine. you're going to, like an iphone, 10 or 11, that's the way somebody framed that to me recently. should everyone get the first iphone? if they can, if they qualify, or would people be reasonable to say look, i'm going to wait for version two to come out, likely to be more effective or safer, whatever. >> see a hierarchy of recommendations of who should get the vaccine.

and i think you have to factor into that how effective it is and what risk category you as an individual are in. >> what did you find most significant there? >> well, everyone is talking about the vaccine as a single entity. i think what's becoming increasingly clear, john, there will be at least a few different vaccines that may come out different times. there are clearly people should be at the front of the line, high risk health care workers, people that are vulnerable. what's interesting is that say you're a young person, for an older person, the vaccine should really reduce likelihood that you get very sick obviously. for a younger person should do that as well, but the larger concern to the younger person is that they're going to transmit this virus as we were talking about, even if they don't get sick or have symptoms. the effectiveness of a vaccine for a different population of younger, healthier, to decrease viral load in the nose and mouth even more than reducing illness.

ideally they should do both. the point is, different vaccines may be more appropriate for different people at different times, and that sort of scheduling is something that they need to work on now because that demand is going to happen right away in the next couple of months, john. >> another interesting thing from the conversation you had recently yesterday with dr. fauci was the idea of how did we get here. you mentioned beginning back in april the conversations. if you go back, first it was 14 days to stop the spread, then the white house extended that, then put out detailed guidelines for reopening most public health experts said pretty good. tiered system, wait two weeks, if you pass the test, go through. a lot of states blew through it. >> when things began to open, they skipped over the benchmarks and gateways in different phases and in some areas essentially let it fly, as it were. we wound up getting the surges. when you get a surge, sanjay, you have such a level of

community spread that it makes containment and control very, very difficult. >> that's in the context of the summer surge. you can apply that now, sanjay, looking at the positivity map across the country, case counts of new infections every day, we're in another very dangerous spot. >> yeah, john. i mean, it is interesting to go back and sort of think about that time period initially with the gating criteria which as you know, that was released from the white house, from the task force, and almost immediately thrown out the window. really as we went back, dug into this, there was not a single state that really did abide by the gating criteria. you mentioned, we can show you again, 14 day downward trend of cases. why is that so significant? if you did the modeling, you realize no matter where you started, you went down two weeks in a row, 14 days in a row, it brings viral transmission down to a containable level in your community. you add in testing and enough

hospitalization and flu like or covid illness for 14 days going down, all of a sudden you're in containment as opposed to mitigation situation. we never got there. as a result, we have been playing catch up all along. lowest we got was 20,000 cases per day. as you mention, we're going back up. and it is obviously a bad season in terms of clustering of people and likelihood of exponential growth. gating criteria would have worked. five basic pillars of public health would have made a difference, can still make a difference. wash hands, wear a mask, socially distance, avoid large indoor cluster areas like bars. if we do that, john, within a few weeks, dr. fauci says four or five weeks, do the five things for four or five weeks, we could bend the curve. that's not a vaccine or new therapeutic, not a magical miraculous intervention.

it is those five things on the screen. can we do that as a country. if we can, we can turn this around. >> we could. back to gateway put up by the white house, green, yellow, red light within days of announcing them. they were praised within days of announcing, and the president said pay no attention, urged states to reopen. this is another conversation in august where he takes a personal experience of yours, relates it to where we were in the pandemic. let's listen. >> you are a real world example of why we've got to do better. to say, and i know, i have been in situations like that, i can get things done medically so fast it will spin your head. there you were in the operating room having to put on ppe because you didn't know. i mean, that's totally unacceptable. for me to say anything different is distorting reality. >> explain the personal story there, especially the end. for me to say anything different

is distorting reality, that's the trademark of dr. fauci through this, even though the president is attacking him for telling the truth. >> yeah. he was very blunt there. i mean, the situation was, and i shared it with him, i had be operating the day before. typically when you're operating, you want to be sure the patient you're operating on doesn't have covid. get a covid test. we were able to get a ct scan, cardiac echo, check coago ladies and gentlemen, about to remove a brain tumor, couldn't get a covid test on the same patient. this was sort of july, maybe august time frame. what had to happen then, all of us in the operating room had to go into full personal protective equipment, n95 mask, shields, always wear gowns, but we were using personal protective equipment that are typically reserved for covid patients because we couldn't get a $5 covid test, despite we were

about to do brain surgery on someone. it was absurd at that point in the pandemic, clearly even in a hospital, a patient about to have surgery couldn't get a covid test. i shared it with dr. fauci, and he agreed. we are still nowhere close to where we need to be on testing. maybe a million tests a day, a lot more than we used to, but some say four or five million, even 20 million a day are what's necessary. it's a long ways away still, john. >> long ways away at a difficult moment. dr. gupta, appreciate your insights. up next, live to wisconsin where early in person voting begins today. when the pandemic shook our city,

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breaking news just into cnn. the first lady, melania trump, will not travel to pennsylvania with the president as planned. melania trump was to attend her first rally in more than a year in erie, pennsylvania. she just recovered from coronavirus. the spokeswoman saying she's recovered but has a lingering cough. out of precaution, she will stay at the white house and not attend the rally. we'll continue to track that story. today, in person voting

begins in hawaii, utah, and wisconsin. a big battleground state. omar jimenez is with us live from milwaukee. important day in a critical state, omar. >> reporter: well, john, for starters, the balance of covid safety and duty of voting as an american is perhaps being balanced no more so than anywhere else in the country than here in wisconsin. you see the line here in downtown milwaukee. it is a line that's shrunk significantly in the early morning hours where some people were waiting up to two hours when the polls first opened. lines again have gone down, but people came prepared, chilling out in their chair, masked up. 2020 move if i've ever seen one. everybody coming to pay their civic duty. two voters we spoke to earlier spoke about significance of making sure they came out and had their voices heard on first day of early voting in wisconsin. >> what happens in this election is just so consequential, i

think we've seen with the pandemic, the crucial issues, with women's issues, supreme court, anything and everything is on the ballot in this election. >> surprised to see early voting, first day pretty much lines around the block. it was more excitement and enthusiasm than i expected. >> reporter: and of course, this is happening in the backdrop of the pandemic. if you remember back on april 7th in the primary in wisconsin, there were concerns over the covid situation then, but then the positivity rate was a little under 10%. now months later, the positivity rate is well over 20%, but people still coming out, masks up, coming to make their voices heard. john? >> grateful. watching it play out. omar, thank you so much. president trump calling crazy, that's the president's word, supreme court ruling that gives pennsylvania more time to accept and count votes.

the high court ruled ballots can be counted if received up to three days after election day, even if the postmark is not legible. >> pennsylvania is pretty even. we got a ruling yesterday that was ridiculous where they can count ballots after the election is over. what does that mean, we're going to wait until after november 3rd and start announcing states? that's crazy. we got a strange ruling from the supreme court yesterday, it was very strange. >> it was a split 4-4 decision. the chief justice john roberts siding with three liberal justices. with me, joan biscupic. >> reporter: that's right, john. the president referred to it as a ridiculous ruling. it was a decision that affirmed, let stand, a pennsylvania supreme court decision that said because of the pandemic, because of more people voting by mail, and because of mail delays, they had to extend the deadline for

up to three days after election day and they did it under the pennsylvania state constitution. that court rounded it pretty securely. here you had a familiar picture, john, of john roberts siding with the liberal side of the court to produce this deadlock that let's the pennsylvania supreme court decision stand. as i've said, we've seen this before. he is still a true conservative in many ways but in some of the highly visible partisan drenched cases with lots of americans watching to see what the supreme court will do, he will shift to the left and produce these kinds of outcomes. it's not going to be a long lasting pattern though, john, because the chief justice has had unprecedented control as both the chief and at the center of the ideological spectrum, but that will all change next week

when amy coney barrett presumably will be approved by the senate and come on. she has a record, john, that's far to the right of the chief justice and president trump himself has said he wants her on the supreme court just in case an election dispute goes to the justices. he says there should be nine there. these are very important issues and we could be headed for a very decisive supreme court ruling that could effect whether president trump can fight off a challenge by former vice president joe biden. john? >> without a doubt. more cases in the pipeline. we'll see, a, how many make it to the court, b, how it all turns out. joan, grateful. important insights. the uk wants to pay its citizens to expose themselves to coronavirus.

ireland going into nationwide lockdown tomorrow because of a dramatic spike in coronavirus cases. leaders say the country will move to the highest level of alert for the next six weeks. more global headlines from our correspondents around the world. >> reporter: i am david colbert in china. this is a city four hours outside of zhang high. this is one of the first places

china is releasing the covid-19 vaccine, one of many in phase three trials. folks are gathering around the community hospital, a lot of them are going through one entrance, getting a temperature check, trying to inquire more as to how they can be part of this. we learned over the weekend they had several people receive the vaccine. one hospital worker telling us today they've just run out. folks here standing by for when new supplies come in. >> reporter: i am phil black in london. the government announced they want to pay for people to be exposed. this will host human challenge trials. young healthy people receive potential vaccination, and in a facility deliberately are dosed with the virus. the government believes this could be a more efficient way of assessing, identifying the most promising of many vaccines being developed around the world. critics say challenge trials are limited because of the need to use young, healthy volunteers

who don't represent those that most need protection with a vaccine. there are risks. there is no guaranteed treatment for covid-19. >> reporter: i am fred pleitgen in moscow. russia set another grim record in combatting novel coronavirus. authorities here registering more than 16,000 new infections in the span of 24 hours for the first time. the epicenter in russia remains the capital in moscow with 5,000 new infections in 24 hours, authorities introduced measures to get things under control. keeping certain classes of school at home, making them do long distance learning. they're also counting on older people to stay home as much as possible, and telling companies to keep a certain amount of the work force in home office as well. at the same time, russian authorities don't seem to be counting on a vaccine that russia approved without going through the main trials for safety and efficacy to be

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the world series starts tonight. the tampa bay rays taking on the los angeles dodgers. it will put a cap on a unique season that was delayed for months by the coronavirus pandemic. andy scholes is live in arlington, texas where the series is being played. that's another of the new twists. teams from l.a. and tampa playing in texas. >> reporter: yeah, john, this is the first neutral site world series as they have the dodgers and rays in arlington, texas in a semi bubble. going just between the hotel and the ballpark. there's no traveling, no going out to eat. the league is trying to avoid

any covid outbreak like we saw with marlins and cardinals in the regular season. they have about 11,000 fans for the world series, like they did for the national league championship. fans have to wear masks, they'll be spread out to keep social distanced. this is the first time the rays play in front of fans and players saying they're excited about that when they're speaking with the media leading up to the world series yesterday. the two teams were built in different ways. dodgers have one of the highest payrolls in all of baseball while the rays have one of the lowest. tampa bay have never won a world series while the dodgers have not won one since 1988. whoever wins the world series is going to spoil their fan base. the lakers just won the nba title for city of los angeles a couple of weeks ago, and lightning won the stanley cup for tampa a month ago. very rare for a city to win two

major sports championships in the same year. you're familiar with it, red sox and patriots did it two years ago, but still pretty rare. >> i think i'm supposed to rook for mookie betts. still hard. enjoy the games. thanks for joining us. hope to see you this time tomorrow. brianna keilar picks it up right now. hi there, i am brianna keilar. i want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. today, we're covering the coronavirus crisis in the hardest-hit country in the world which the president made clear last night he wants to ignore. >> they're getting tired of the pandemic, aren't they? getting tired of the pandemic. you turn on cnn, that's all they cover. covid, covid, pandemic, covid, covid. you know why, they're trying to talk everybody out of voting. people aren't buying it, cnn, you dumb