offer caregivers the dignity, the respect, and the pay they deserve. we have a chance to choose a better future for our country. this is "gps." i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from new york. we will focus much of today's show on the presidential election. it is just nine days away and it will have great impact across the globe. how does the world think about what's going on here? >> we were treated very unfairly. >> how will the people who swayed the 2016 election vote this time? >> repeat after me. >> and how much foreign interference is there really? >> voter registration

information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia. >> i'll talk about all of this with the former british finance minister george osborn, charlotte alter and ian brown. also, it's unprecedented. more than 50 million americans have already voted. but how many citizens who want to vote will be turned away, threatened, or dropped from the rolls? i'll talk about voter suppression with pro public a. and finally, what is biden's path to victory? which states does he have to win? and what about donald trump? i will get the latest from nate cohn of "the new york times." first, here's my take. in 2016, i was one of those people who didn't think donald trump could win the presidency. like many, i studied the polls

and believed they showed a comfortable margin voting against him. i thought people would see through him. he was just too weird, too vulgar, utterly ignorant about policy issues and pathologically incapable of telling the truth, even about trivial things. during the 2016 campaign he claimed he met vladimir putin. something that was easy to disprove. but i think what convinced me most that trump would lose is that i believed in a different america. trump had catapulted himself on to the political stage with a shameless effort to exploit white prejudice against the first black president barack obama. he announced his campaign for the white house by making slurs against next since. he proposed a complete shutdown of the nation's borders to all muslims from anywhere in the world. throughout the campaign his rhetoric towards foreigners and minorities was insulting. i didn't believe americans would

go for this. you see, i arrived in america in 1982 in the midst of a deep recession as a brown-skinned student on a scholarship with a strange name, no money, and no contacts. i found a country that welcomed me with open arms. i still remember being stunned at how friendly and genuinely warm people were to me. i had been more aware of being muslim in india than in america. perhaps i lived a sheltered life in new england college towns in new york city, but i saw very little of trump's brand of naked racism. i knew it existed, of course, read about it in books and newspapers, seen it on television and movies, but i didn't truly understand the magnitude of the phenomenon. so i guess i placed less weight on the evidence for trump's victory than i should have. i simply couldn't believe somebody with his racially-charged world view could win over the nation. here is the thing.

i still don't. first, many americans voted for donald trump despite his race baiting, not because of it. more important, a majority of americans disapprove of trump and have for almost his entire term. his average approval rating throughout his presidency is the lowest of any president since we started counting. as "the new york times's" nate cohn has said, donald trump's luck was that he ran against the second most unpopular presidential candidate in modern american history. second only to himself. the cause because of the electoral college and small margins in three mid-western states, he was able to capture the white house. there are parts of trump's coalition who are anxious about the country's future, and their own place in it, and are susceptible to the snake oil being pedaled by a clever salesman. but america is changing. consider a recent "new york

times" analysis. you will see that the core of trump support whites without a college degree is shrinking as a share of voters. the core of joe biden's support, whites with a college degree and minorities, is growing in even greater measure. for example, in florida the core trump voting block of non-college educated whites has fallen by 359,000 people since 2016. the biden coalition has grown by more than 1.5 million during the same period. in pennsylvania, trump's base shrunk by 431,000 since 2016 while biden's grew by 449,000 people. now, if he wins, joe biden's challenge will be to make all americans understand that the country has always been a grand experiment, an attempt to create the first universal nation. today living up to that ideal means embracing all kinds of people, black and white, native

born and immigrant, gay and straight, and many more. it's a messy process, and it can seem disruptive and disorderly. it siems gets bogged down in squaubls over terminology and political correctness, but it is all part of a noble effort to ensure that everyone in this country finally feels that they are included in the american dream. really included. ever since the nation's birth, it has gradually expanded the idea of liberty and democracy, making america great by surging forward into the future rather than lapsing back into nostalgia for the past. meanwhile, i will take my chances and, once again, predict that donald trump will lose this election. humble as i am after these four years, i would still rather bet on and believe in the best in america. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my "washington post" column this week.

and let's get started. ♪ >> let's get to today's panel. charlotte alter is a correspondent for "time" magazine which had a terrific cover this week. the first ever instance where they replaced their own logo with vote. and vote you should if you are an american. george osborn was britain's chancellor of the exchequer, a grand name for finance minister. now the editor-in-chief of the evening standard. and ian bremler the president and founder of the eurasia group of global risk consultancy. ian, big picture, most presidential incumbents win their second term. donald trump was presiding over an economy that seemed in pretty good shape at the most fundamental level, what has happened? >> in very good shape, fareed. thu

trump has been ahead of biden in the polls on who better handles the economy. he also had some significant foreign policies with allies around china tech, trade deals in the middle east. let's be clear. coronavirus is by far the biggest crisis of our lifetime and it's happening right now, right before the election on president trump's watch. i mean, heck, you just wrote a book about the ten lessons on it. he handled it badly. the second wave is happening right now. we have record case numbers literally right now a week before the elections. hospitalizations are way up. even deaths are coming up again. so the timing just couldn't be worse for the president. so i agree with you, fareed. usually incumbents win. trump has never had great numbers in the polls through his four years as president. this was always going to be a challenge, but this is way, way different than in 2016. >> miss charlotte, if covid is

the big kind of gbackground condition that trump -- trump has been trying to talk about other things. when you look at the race, what seems stable about the biden/trump matchup and what are you looking at as possibly an unpredictable aspect? >> there are a couple of things that seem stable. biden has a very solid lead that stayed steady for months now. he is leading with women and he is leading with suburban voters, he is leading with seniors. he is narrowing some of trump's lead with white non-college voters and rural voters. so the numbers seem pretty good for the biden camp. i think a couple of things that are unpredictable are things that may not be showing up in the numbers right now. i think that for some nervous democrats, this data is cold comfort compared to the sort of misinformation and conspiracy

theories that are swirling in the electorate that create this unpredictable strain because people don't necessarily always behave the way the polls say they should. i also think that, you know, the way people are voting this year creates some uncertainty because there are real voter fraud is not a thing, but there are real questions about with whether every vote will be counted, whether the mail-in ballots will arrive in time and be counted in time. also, there are questions about whether donald trump is going to accept the results of this election. because he has suggested and hinted that he might not. so, i think that, you know, the numbers look very good for biden, but there are a lot of elements of this race that don't show up in the numbers. >> george, when you look at this from across the ocean, what do you think this tells us about populism? you have in great britain a

quasi populist at the helm as well. >> the first thing i'd say, fareed, is a global health crisis and an act of nature could be a moment where people rally around an incumbent. it wouldn't necessarily mean someone is ejected from office. some governments have become more popular because of their handling of coronavirus. but not so much the populous starting with donald trump. he is very much part of a global movement. it includes the brexit referendum and the people who led brexit and now lead the british government here in the u.k. includes people like the president of brazil. although they are nationalist movements, which sort of by definition are national, they drew links with each other and drew inspiration from each other and donald trump himself called, said i'm mr. brexit when he was just a candidate. and i think by contrast, joe biden is mr. mainstream. he is extremely well known to the rest of the world. normally, a democrat presidents, if they win, are unknown

governors or junior senators. joe biden has been around for decades. he knows the difficult governments of the world. and i think this could be a very big moment not just for what happens on the economy or foreign relations, which we could talk about, or indeed even climate, but a big global sense that we are turning back to the mainstream, the divisive politics is not popular anymore, rejection of ziens and expertise is not what people want me more. ultimately, i made this point, populists are only populists while they stay popular. but if you cannot address the concerns, some of which were legitimate about neglected communities or middle income people who haven't seen their earnings rise, if you actually end up making their situations worse off, you are no longer a populist because you are no longer popular and you are probably out of office. >> tell me what you think about your populist. what happens to boris johnson with brexit? and with the new administration,

were there to be one? >> well, boris johnson, first of all, is not a donald trump. he has also been around a lot of british politics. some would argue plays up the populist side of his character. but there is no doubt that the brexit government will face a challenge with a biden administration. of course the u.s./u.k. alliance exists on many levels. but joe biden who i dealt with when i was in office, he knows the brexiteers associate themselves with trump. he knows they are not his fellow travelers and they will find it hard to pivot, i think, towards a biden administration and there will be very specific things like whether the u.k. does a trade deal with the u.s. where joe biden has already indicated and people like nancy pelosi have indicated it's going to be hard work for a british government. so there is a lot of frantic repositioning going on at the moment here in london by this

administration in britain. but i don't think joe biden will find a bill particularly warm towards in british government. >> stay a with us, everyone. when we come back we will discuss what happens to the republican party if donald trump loses and what happens to the country if he wins. and now your co-pilot. still a father. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying. still a night out. but everything fits in. still hard work. just a little easier. still a legend. just more legendary. chevrolet. making life's journey, just better.

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magazine's charlotte alter, george osborn and ian bremmer. charlotte, you spent a lot of time reporting on, talking to and listening to trump voters, and what is the thing that most surprised you when talking to them when you would ask them about, you know, what was happening with covid or what was happening with the way trump was handling the economy? what is the thing that surprised you? >> so, yeah, i spent about three weeks going through wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania, which as you mentioned before, are the states that tip the election to trump in 2016. and when i would talk to voters who said that they had voted for trump last time and plan to vote for them again, i would often bring up questions about covid. do you think the president could have done a better job? you know, do you think that fewer people would be dead if he responded faster? and one of the things that i kept noticing was that people kept repeating things that were

false, like, for example, qanon conspiracy theories or the idea that covid is a hoax and kept dismissing things that are true. i began to think of this mentality as a sort of unlogic. it was a world view that was rooted in conspiracy and misinformation and falsehood and in drawing conclusions and assumptions based on ideas that were not true. and that was one of the things that was most alarming, is that whenever i would bring up, for example, you know, more than 200,000 dead americans or, you know, the president being caught on tape intentionally downplaying the virus, the voters that i spoke to either didn't believe me or didn't care. >> ian, this sort of raises a larger issue that a number of people have written about, and you talk about it in your newsletter that i get, which is

the power of a kind of minority rule in america right now, which is that the republican party has found a way to win power without winning majorities. so, i mean, the republicans, the presidential candidate over the last 20 years has only one time gotten a plurality of the popular vote, 2004 with george bush. more people vote for democrats in the senate, yet republicans hold a comfortable majority and so on. what does this mean for american political culture? >> it makes it more divisive. it delegitimizes it. it makes both sides feel like the system is rigged when the other is in charge. it's one of the things that has been good that biden has tried to continually say that he wants to be president of the red and the blue states. he is not disparaging trump

voters. but much of the left is, and i think that's a real worry. i mean, if biden wins and wins big, they need to learn the lesson that for so many decades the working class in the united states and the white working class in the united states has felt like they have been treated like cannon fodder. that was true for 40 years of biden in the senate. it was true for eight years of biden as vice president. i mean, i am still stunned that there are so many people on the left that would never disparage blacks or hispanics or muslims and they are completely comfortable mocking rural working whites. in 2020, and i think that especially because coronavirus is going to hit that group so much harder in 2021, that it hits you and me and those on the panel, they are going to be so much angrier that if we don't find a way to actually make america work for them, then the populism that you and george

were talking about in the last segment is going to get sharper in the united states. >> charlotte, let me go back to you for a second on that point because i agree with ian. i have written about this in my book. the inequality is going to get much, much worse. and when you talk to trump voters and you would talk about inequality, you talk about how maybe tax cuts have helped the rich more than the poor or the billionaires are doing well, would that resonate with these much, much poorer, working, lower middle class or working class people? >> so the truth is that i think people have made up their mind. the cake is baked. you know, i did talk to people who felt like their taxes went down a little bit under trump. i talked to a lot of people who are voting for him again because they feel like he's done well by the economy, they feel like the economy has been much stronger under him even for them. and i'm not talking to people

who are billionaires on this trip. but more broadly, you know, the trend persisted where when i would bring up facts about who really benefitted the most from the tax bill and actually, you know, in the last year the economy has not been doing so well in terms of job creation and millions of people have lost their job, there was this persistent reluctance to believe anything that contradicted the narrative they had about what they believed the economy was like and what they believed trump was doing as president. and that's, i think, the crucial distinction here. there is what the trump presidency actually has done and then there is what his supporters believe about the trump presidency, and the gulf between those two things is wide and getting wider. >> george, let me ask you if you can put on your prior hat,

because you were not just the finance minister. you were kind of the chief strategist of the conservative party. and you tried to fashion a modern conservativism. you tried to fashion a conservativism about limited government, open markets, but very much also in favor of what we would call social liberalism, gay and pro-gay rights, pro diversity, that kind of thing. what is your conclusion about that experiment since you are now out of office and boris johnson, who was sort of opposed to all that, is prime minister? >> well, we came here in britain at the brexit referendum. we had not established nor had our predecessors the argument for being in the european. but i don't, therefore, abandon that kind of moderate mainstream politics, which i was very proud to be part of, a, because i believe it's the right thing,

and also i think it's the winning formula. i think what ian was saying is really important. let's remember what joe biden isn't. he is not a radical left democrat who hates all republicans and thinks, you know, nothing but ill of them. he was chosen as the sort of safe alternative. of course, some people would say quite elderly, not as exciting as some other democrat candidates. but i think america and the countries like mine are yearning for a return to a more civil politics where you see something in the other side's argument that you are seeking to unite rather than divide. and there is a huge opportunity for a biden presidency if he is elected to be the healer, to be the unifier rather than just the anti-trump. although now the country is divided from the left. and the stage is set there. if he walks on to that stage, and i think having known him a bit myself, that is his natural

inclination to do that, if his party let's him become the unifier in chief, i think he will lead the world towards setting a -- the democrat world, western world, towards a more civilized, less divisive politics. and that's got to be good for our countries and good for the west and got to be good for democracy. >> so from what i can hear, george osborn, angela merkel is the pin-up, the poster child for this new era. thank you all. fascinating set of conversations. really appreciate it. next on "gps," i told you earlier who i thought was going to win. coming up, nate cohen of "the new york times" will tell us what strikes him as the most telling in the latest polls. this is decision tech.

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as became obvious to the whole world in november of 2016, if not earlier, winning more votes nationally does not win you the american presidency. it is all about the electoral college and getting to the magic number 270. 270 votes wins the white house. so who has the best path there? joining me again is nate cohn of "the new york times." welcome, nate. >> thanks for having me back. >> so, first, let's talk about the lead. biden has a lead that is, you know, depending how you look at it, averages and such, somewhere between eight to nine point range. compare that to what it's been like historically in these races. that's a pretty solid lead, right?

>> it's the largest lead that a candidate has had at this stage of the race since bill clinton in 1996. even when barack obama was heading to victory in 1998, he wasn't ahead by this much. it is a little bit -- by basically any other measure over the last 20 years of american politics this is the most significant lead that anyone has had in the national polling. >> and if you translate that into, you know, into electoral college votes, which is obviously more about the state by state, where do you, what kind of range do you come out with? >> if we stipulate for a second that the polls are right, then joe biden would have a pretty comfortable lead. but let's say five points or more in states where around 300 electoral votes. states carried by hillary

clinton plus the three battleground states, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, and nebraska's seventh congressional district. joe biden would have a number of additional options in states where he leads but not necessarily so clearly that could get him to 350 electoral votes, florida, north carolina, georgia, arizona, iowa, and in a really big win where he maybe just did a couple of points better than the state polls currently say, joe biden could win 400 electoral votes or more by winning ohio and texas. that scenario is a lot closer to being reflected in the polls than a donald trump victory. >> and the trump victory would look like what? something very similar to 2016? >> i mean, you have to think so. there aren't too many other ways to do it. he is not contesting a number of states where hillary clinton won last time. there are only so many ways he can get to 270 electoral votes

this way. it has to start by the sun belt battlegrounds like florida, texas, north carolina. if he can't do that, it's basically over. then he has to win something out of the midwest like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, minnesota, any one of those states supposing the president held the sund belt battlegrounds. >> the big shift demographically is white women? particular? >> yeah, i think that definitely a group where joe biden is doing better than hillary clinton did four years ago. but joe biden is also doing a little bit better among men as well. given how close the election was four years ago, really any shift in the direction of the democrats would be sufficient to give them the presidency this time around. to me, the shift that really stands out, fareed, is white voters. even in the national polls four years ago, it was very obvious that joe biden -- that hillary clinton, rather, was doing very

poorly among white voters without a college degree. even though the state polls showed hillary clinton ahead in the midwest, you could see this vulnerability there. >> joe biden is competitive among white voters which is extreme for a democratic candidate under any circumstances. he is doing much better than hillary clinton. that's where he has the lead in the mid-western battlegrounds. >> the two big states that, you know, are close and important. pennsylvania. what are your thoughts based on the most recent polling out of pennsylvania? >> the balance of recent polling has joe biden up by about six percentage points in pennsylvania. i would say that's good for joe biden in the most absolute sense. it's a comfortable advantage. it would make him a heavy favorite to win the state. if he wins the state, he is a heavy favorite to be the president. it is a closer race than the national polls would show joe biden up by nine percentage points. >> and florida, the state

that -- >> florida -- >> from 2000 onwards has bedeviled american politics. >> it's close. the polls do show joe biden with a lead in florida, but there are two conflicting forces going on in the state that have the potential to work themselves out into a close election there. a really close election, closer than i think pennsylvania would be if we take the poll seriously. on the one hand we have joe biden doing really well among white voters. that's a national phenomenon. particularly older voters a group that is overrepresented in florida. on the other hand, donald trump is doing well among hispanic voters, and in particular well among the states cuban-american population. concentrated in medica concentrat concentrated miami-dade county. florida can be quite close even if joe biden is doing well among white older voters in the state. and if it turned out that donald trump could just do a little bit

better among those older white voters, bring some of the republican voters and older white voters back in the stretch, he could be set up for a close race there a pleasure to have you on. >> thanks. >> next on "gps," threats against voters and other forms of intimidation. unacceptably long lines at polling places. unauthorized ballot boxes. this is this banana republic or the american republic? we will talk in depth about the specific problems and what they could mean for the result when we come back.

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already tens of millions of people have voted, many by mail. that seems indicative of two things. first, a heightened interest in this election and, second, the fast this is the first modern american election held during a pandemic when standing in line to vote is not something many want to do. those two factors, the interest and the pandemic, could also lead to big problems on election day and well beyond. joining me is jessica huesman, who covers voting rights for propublica. >> thanks for having me. >> so you say that in most countries an election of this sort should be thought about as one election, but in america it's really 10,000 elections. explain what you mean. >> so, the united states really vests all of its election administration authority in local governments. so the constitution is more or less silent about how the vote should be conducted and who should be able to cast it and

when. and afforded all of that power to the states. in turn, a lot of states have afforded much of that power to counties. so really in the united states it's not just one federal election happening by one federal agency that is making everything go, like in other countries. it is, instead, 10,000 different local election officials all having an election on the same day. >> so when we think about this issue of foreign election interference, that we now hear from american intelligence officials is still ongoing, you have powerful governments, very sophisticated ones like russia, and how is that going to be dealt with in this, you know, with these individual counties are going to face these challenges? >> yes, more or less. i mean, the united states has taken a few steps to centralize response to election

interference. so in the very last days of the obama administration they declared elections critical infrastructure, which, much like our power system, our water system, telecommunications, all of these things are run by private companies or smaller municipal organizations but they are critical infrastructure, which means that the federal government has some authority to respond if those systems go down or are under attack. and so now the election system is considered critical infrastructure, and so that affords election administrators more access to the federal government's resources. it does not necessarily allow the federal government to set minimum standards, but does give these folks access. so, in 2016, we had a lot of voter roll registration systems that were not as secure as they could be. we had a lot of sites that were not as secure as they could be.

the defen the d.h. s has worked with the states over the past four years to prepare them for this moment. by and large, yes, the counties are doing this on their own. so when we think about foreign interference we shouldn't think about russia versus the united states. we should think about russia versus your local county clerk because, truly, those are the stakes. >> wow. and when you look at the issue of voter suppression, what is the thing that worries you the most? because i think there are so many things that people talk about, you studied the issue. what do you look at as something really concerning about the nature of voter suppression? >> i think this year the thing that concerns me most about voter suppression is the blatant misinformation that's coming out of the white house about vote by mail and the security around vote by mail or drop boxes and the security of drop boxes. i think we have already seen the impact that that sort of language has on the populous,

and i don't know that we're going to know exactly how that played out until after the election. certainly people are voting in very large numbers. people are notably returning their absentee ballots at a rate much, much higher than 2018 or 2016. so certainly his rhetoric has implanted a seed in some of the folks' minds voting by mail to get their ballot in as early as possible. i think we won't know for some time how many people choose not to vote because they don't trust the mail and don't trust a dropoff box and they are in a position where they have a comorbidity and would prefer not to go in public and cast a vote there either. so really i just am concerned about people feeling like they are out of options. >> jessica, a pleasure to have you on. thanks for helping us. >> thank you so much. next on "gps," much of the world is facing a great recession or a depression

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third quarter it merely confirmed the sense of recovery that has been felt for months by china observers. new construction is changing sky lines across the country and malls and restaurants are full of patrons, including in the original covid-19 epicenter of wuhan. and the chinese are starting to enjoy movies again in actual theaters an experience that seems like a dream for many americans. all of this was unthinkable six months ago. in the first quarter of the year, china had the biggest economic slowdown it ever recorded. a 6.8% contraction. now the imf predicts china will be the only major economy to experience positive gdp growth in 2020. to be fair, many experts are skeptical of the figures released by the chinese national bureau of statistics, but all agree that the chinese economy has overcome a covid collapse. how did it recover?

partly, it's a matter of timing. china dealt with the virus first, so china opened first. but there was much more to it. first, beijing prioritized opening up its industrial sector much earlier than the consumer economy. companies were given rebates and loans so they could open factories and make payroll. then there was china's economic stimulus. it was far lower as a percentage of gdp than those of the united states and europe as the world bank points out, but it was strategically directed, prioritizing infrastructure. the plan worked. by midyear, industrial production was up, way up over the year before. by september, it was 6.9% over the 2019 figure. even with all that production consumers were not consuming. chinese retail spending didn't start growing again until august despite billions in coupons distributed by local governments and businesses. but in china, manufacturing remains a much larger part of

the economy than in most western countries, and so factory production translated into overall growth. the broader lesson, however, is that china's economic success was less because of how it handled the covid-19 slowdown and more how it handled the covid-19 virus. beijing implemented extremely rigorous mask testing and contact tracing as well as intrusive quarantines to ensure that the infection did not spread. and so with the virus largely vanquished, life has resumed. people are comfortable leaving the house to shop or even to crowd the great wall of china. today most economists continue to be bullish on beijing. it's third quarter and gdp numbers to remind you, 4.9% growth, are the only bright spot, the only engine of growth in the entire global economy. and it offers a simple lesson. if you get control of the disease, your economy will bounce back.

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this is a special edition of reliable sources focused on the election which will be over in nine days. do the long lines, the early voting lines mean we will have a shorter wait to hear who wins on election night? the ap's top editor is here with answers. plus, a new look at the murdoch smear machine and a divide inside his newspapers about how to cover a key story. and later a road trip. come with me to pennsylvania, a place where the pandemic and the election and the local news crisis are all converging right whenub