the shame is on all of us. i'm working to right the wrongs of injustice. ending cash bail. ending the war on drugs. decriminalizing sex work, and passing major sentencing reform legislation. but until we reimagine community safety and end police brutality, we must keep working to reform our racist criminal justice system that's shameful to us all. hello to viewers in the united states and around the world. john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy day with us. joe biden makes his closing argument in a brand new campaign ad that has character on the ballot, a choice between science and fiction. the president pedaling his own coronavirus reality, insists the country is rounding the turn. that even as the united states breaks pandemic records for the

daily average of new coronavirus infections. the coronavirus map is beyond discouraging and republicans may find the campaign map reason to worry, too. an active day on the trail. joe biden stopping in georgia, a state his campaign sees as potential red to blue flip this year. kamala harris in nevada, former president barack obama campaigning in orlando, florida this hour. jill biden heads to maine. the president hits michigan, wisconsin, and nebraska second congressional district went trump red but now lean biden blue. vice president pence is in the carolinas, the first lady in pennsylvania, another 2016 prize now at high risk slipping away. let's start the hour looking at where we are with one week to go. advantage, joe biden, 290 in our outlook, takes 270 to win. dark blue, solid biden. light blue, lean biden. solid red, solid trump, texas,

leans trump headed to election day. where is the president going today? he is going here and here and here. 27 electoral votes part of the trump surprise upset four years ago, all lean joe biden now. the president on defense headed into the final days. the democrats, joe biden going here. georgia, one of the toss up states hasn't voted democrat for president since bill clinton days. joe biden thinks high turnout, young people, african americans in the suburbs. two senate races. maybe we can flip georgia. later in the week he is going here. kamala harris is going here this week. the democrats trying to expand the map in the final week of the campaign, the president feverishly trying to recreate his map of four years ago. that would look like this. right now, you see how this is. that was the trump win. at the moment, joe biden advantage going into the campaign. the candidates are busy on the trail and spending. joe biden has more money.

trump kmcampaign still raising money. watch how different the closing message. >> while america's cities burned, joe biden and kamala harris fanned the flames, refusing to strongly condemn violence. >> in joe biden's america, we'll all be in danger. >> president trump will keep america safe. >> if you support the police, support donald trump. >> who we are, what we stand for, maybe most importantly who we are going to be is all at stake. character is on the ballot. the character of the country. this is our opportunity to leave dark, angry politics of the past four years behind us. >> joining me to discuss the final week, democratic polster, and republican polster neil newhouse. look at the ads there. one is joe biden being more optimistic, the trump campaign raising law and order one week

out. you have to say advantage biden when you look at the map and when you look at the national poll of polls, the point of the race i'm almost always saying forget the polls. joe biden 52, donald trump, 42. if it stays like that, they are worth watching. >> yes. absolutely. certainly gives you a sense of what the national picture is and we're a country that's voting together for president, even if the electoral college means some battleground states have a little more importance. now, i think when you look at those closing arguments you really see an incumbent in trouble looking to motivate what he thinks his base wants to hear. even on the measure of law and order, we've seen in our polling from navigator and other public polling that shows the same, that biden has the advantage on law and order, that people are less worried about crime than the coronavirus, than they are about the economy, than they are

about how divided we have come. feeling like this isn't really a good time for the country now. we need to really come together. that's the message that biden is offering in his closing message. it is not what trump has been offering. >> neil, we all lived through 2016. you have to say let's watch. the president did roar back in 2016. but he is the in couple becumbee outsider running against hillary clinton, he is incumbent president of the united states. joe biden is well established. look at the polling came out from three industrial states, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. in michigan, 51-42. wisconsin, 51-44. pennsylvania, 51-44. not only is biden leading by a healthy margin, he is above 50. third party candidates are not performing as well this cycle as last cycle. when you look at that, can trump recreate that map or is it out of reach? >> well, the statewide polls in the last few days or so show the

president running maybe three to four points behind his '16 vote. doesn't bode well with joe biden running at or near 50%. he can recreate it, but it is a tight rope. he's got to win florida, arizona, north carolina, pennsylvania, and they're all going to be extraordinarily tight. it will depend on those election day voters and voters that are voting in person late in the campaign. there's got to be a red shift now in how people are voting and has to be a red tide at the end f the campaign in order for him to win this thing, but it will be by the skin of his nose if he does. >> neil talks of a red tide, margie. you look at early voting, it is off the charts. they all count. just because you vote early, depends how many vote late. but the gaps in states, the dramatically higher turnout in younger voters, do you think it

is different this time? democrats invested early voting last time and said we got this. as neil noted, i remember getting phone calls on election day in 2016 from democrats saying uh-oh, they were seeing poem coming out of wood work in places that surprised them. are you confident or still nervous? >> i don't think anybody anywhere on the democratic side is taking anything for granted or being complacent in any way. the early vote, the partisanship between early vote and election day voting didn't have to be this way, it wasn't always this way. the president has made it this way by talking about voting by mail, voting early, somehow not as good as voting election day, which obviously is not true. so you see a lot of democrats vote early in part because of concerns about coronavirus, in part because people are motivated to vote on the democratic side. there was a report of somebody asking online how long have you been in line, trying to get a sense how the line was moving for early votes, someone shouted

in four years. you have a lot of democrats really excited for this moment. that doesn't mean that can't all flip on a dime when election day comes and you have more republicans turning out. >> march gneed to end the conve early. barack obama campaigning for joe biden in florida. >> what an outstanding young man. now it is good to be back here in florida. i don't know if we've got any tampa bay rays fans here in orlando, big game tonight. it is do or die time. the last time the rays were in the world series in 2008, florida sent me to the white house. the rays fell a bit short then, but here in florida democrats

fell short in 2016 also. over the next couple of weeks, florida, you've got the chance to fix two mistakes. you've got the chance to set two things right. you can bring a world series championship to the sunshine state and you can send joe biden and kamala harris to the white house. we got one week, orlando. one week. one week until the most important election of our lifetimes. you don't have to wait until next tuesday to cast your ballot, you've got two ways to vote right now. number one, you can vote early in person now. number two, you can vote from home with a mail in ballot. don't wait. put it in the mail or drop it off at a drop box location

today. don't take any chances. just get it done! just go to iwillvote.com to find out where you can early vote in person or drop off your ballot. if you've already voted, how many of you already voted? if you already voted, your job is to go help your friends and family make a plan to vote because this election requires every single one of us. and what we do this week will matter for decades to come. now, i've sat in the oval office with both of the men running for president and just in case you couldn't tell, they're very different people. i didn't think that donald trump would embrace my vision or my policies, but i did hope for the country's sake that he might

show some interest in taking the job seriously. but he didn't. he hasn't shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends or treating the presidency as anything more than a reality show that can give him the attention he craves, and he does crave attention. this week with everything that's happening, you know what he brought up? he was fussing about the crowd size at the inauguration again, saying his was bigger. who is thinking about that right now? nobody except him. but the rest of us have had to live with the consequences, more than 225,000 people in this country are dead. more than 100,000 small businesses have closed.

half a million jobs are gone in florida alone. think about that. and what's his closing argument? that people are too focused on covid. he said this at one of his rallies, covid covid covid, he's complaining, he's jealous of covid's media coverage. if he had been focused on covid from the beginning, cases wouldn't be reaching new record highs across the country this week. if we were focused on covid now, the white house wouldn't be having its second outbreak in a month. the white house. let me say this. i lived in the white house for awhile. you know, it's a controlled environment. you can take some preventive measures in the white house to avoid getting sick, except this guy can't seem to do it.

he's turned the white house into a hot zone. some of the places he holds rallies have seen new spikes right after he leaves town. over the weekend, his chief of staff said, and i'm quoting here, i'm not making this up, his chief of staff on a news program says we're not going to control the pandemic. he just said this. yes, he did. and yes, we noticed you're not going to control the pandemic. listen, winter is coming. they're waving the white flag of surrender. florida, we can't afford four more years of this. that's why we've got to send joe biden to the white house. because we cannot afford this kind of incompetence and disinterest. 12 years ago when i chose a vice president, i didn't know joe all

that well. we served in the senate together. i notice by the way, one of migrate friends, bill nelson. see, i haven't seen bill in a while, that's why. plus he's wearing a mask. one of the great senators from florida. and joe and i served together with him. and i had a lot of friends in the senate, but joe and i wasn't the closest person. but he and i came from different places, we came from different generations, but i quickly came to admire joe as a man who learned early to treat everybody he meets with dignity and respect. and bill will testify that joe is somebody that lives by the words his parents taught him. no one is better than you, joe, but you're better than nobody. he believes everybody counts. he believes everybody is important. and that empathy, that decency, that belief in other people,

that's who joe is. that's who he'll be. i can tell you, the presidency doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are. and joe time and time again has shown himself to be a man of principle and character and he is going to be a great president. for eight years joe was the last one in the room whenever i faced a big decision. he made me a better president and he's got the character and the experience to make us a better country. and he and kamala are going to be in the fight not for themselves but for every single one of us. listen, you got a president now that wants full credit for an economy he inherited, wants zero blame for the pandemic he ignored. you know what, the job doesn't work that way. you've got to be responsible

24/7. you have to pay attention 24/7. tweeting at the tv doesn't fix things. watching tv all day doesn't fix things. making stuff up doesn't fix things. you've got to have a plan if you want to make people's lives better. you've got to put in the work if you want to make people's lives better. and along with the experience to get things done, joe biden has concrete plans and he has concrete policies that will turn our vision of a better, fairer, stronger country into a reality. look, here's the truth. the pandemic would have been challenging for any president. but this idea that somehow this white house has done anything but completely screw this thing up is nonsense.

south korea had its first case of covid at the same time, the same week as the united states. do you know that their per capita death rate is just 1.3% of what ours is. think about that statistic. i have given this statistic a couple of times and people haven't focused on it. the number of people in korea who have died of covid per capita is less than 1.5% what our death rate is. that's thousands and thousands of people if we had been as effective and responsible whose lives would have been saved in this country. just across the border in canada the death rate per capita is 39% what ours is here in the united states. we are the wealthiest, most powerful country on earth and we

cannot somehow get a grip on this because our government hasn't been doing its job. last week when trump was asked if he would do anything differently, you know what he said? he said not much. not much. really? not much? you can't think of anything that you might be doing differently, like maybe you shouldn't have gotten on tv and suggested we might inject bleach to cure covid? that's not something you said maybe i shouldn't have said that? not much. think about how hard the tourism industry has been hit right here in orlando, right here in florida. you lost one spring training season already, and he can't think of doing anything differently? joe takes this seriously. he knows the emotional toll on grandparents when they can't see and hug their grandkids.

he is not going to screw up testing. he is not going to call scientists idiots. he is not going to host super spreader events at the white house and take it on a tour across the country. joe will get the pandemic under control with a plan to make testing free and widely available. he is going to make sure front line heroes never have to ask other countries for the equipment that they need to keep themselves safe. his plan will guarantee paid sick leave for workers and parents effected by the pandemic. he is going to make sure small businesses that hold our communities together and employ millions of americans can reopen safely. and he understands that we're not going to rebuild the economy

and put people back to work until we get the pandemic under control. it's not that complicated. donald trump likes to claim he built this economy but i just want to remind you that america created 1.5 million more jobs in the last three years of the obama-biden administration than the first three years of the trump-pence administration. that's a fact. look it up. and that was before trump could blame the pandemic. he, in fact, inherited the longest streak of job growth in american history. but just like everything else he inherited, he screwed it up. and the economic damage that he inflicted by botching the pandemic response means he will be the first president since

herbert hoover to actually lose jobs. first president since herbert hoover back in the '30s. that's a long time, people. that's almost 100 years ago. he loves to talk about black unemployment. look how low black unemployment -- well, you know what? unemployment was really high when i came in and we brought the unemployment low and kept on going low and he wants to take credit for it, says he is the best president for black folks since abe lincoln. man. now his advisers are out there saying, including his son-in-law, his son-in-law says white folks have to want to be successful. that's the problem. who are these folks? what history books do they read? who do they talk to? don't read? is that what's going on?

black unemployment hit almost 17% during the great recession ten years ago, through a lot of hearted work joe biden and i helped get it down. and it kept on going down. not because trump did anything. and then this year because they screwed up the pandemic response, it soared back up to above 17% here in florida, but it doesn't have to be that way, florida, if you go out and vote. listen, the only people truly better off than they were four years ago are the billionaires that got trump's tax cuts. in the meantime, he has not been able to manage extending relief to millions of families who can't pay the rent right now, can't put food on the table

right now. got no plan to reopen schools that need reopened or protecting teachers in the process. you know, i don't understand how it is that he cannot organize republicans in congress to do the right thing, and it is not like it is his money we're asking to pay because he doesn't pay taxes. barely pays income taxes. we know he's got a secret chinese bank account, so he may be paying taxes to the chinese, but he is not paying taxes here. first year in the white house. only paid $750 in taxes. in federal income taxes. $750. can you imagine that? teachers pay more than that.

social workers pay more than that in taxes. huh? soldiers. folks in uniform pay more in taxes than that. so how are you living large and not willing to do the right thing to make sure that we're able to pay for quality schools for our kids, to provide veterans benefits for those that ernld them. joe biden has a plan to create 10 million good, clean energy jobs here in america. it is part of his plan to protect florida from climate change and secure environmental justice and he's going to pay for it by rolling back tax cuts to billionaires. and the thing is, joe doesn't want to just get back to where we were, he finally wants to make some long overdue changes

so the economy makes life a little easier for everybody. the waitress trying to raise a kid on her own, the student trying to figure out how to pay for next semester's classes, the ship worker worried about being laid off, the cancer survivor whose worried her pre-existing conditions might prevent her from getting coverage. and speaking of health care, by the way, you may have noticed, republicans love saying before an election how they're going to protect people who have pre-existing conditions. have you noticed that? you know what, joe and i actually protected them ten years ago with the affordable care act. and you know, those same republicans are saying they're going to protect them, somehow they tried to repeal or undermine the affordable care act more than 60 times. and each time they try to repeal

it, they say we've got a great replacement, it's coming. everybody is a little young here, but you guys remember popeye? remember that guy who always needed to borrow money for a hamburger, said don't worry, i'm going to be paying you back sometime soon? that's like republicans with health care. they always say it's coming soon. we're going to be paying you back with a great replacement plan but that two weeks has been ten years coming now, for the last ten years, every two weeks, they say we're going to have a great health care plan. do you know where it is? because i don't. the reason they don't have a plan is because a plan doesn't exist. they've never had one. instead of tax, the the affordable care act at every turn, driving up costs, driving up the uninsured.

now they're trying to get the supreme court to take away your health care. right now as quickly as they can in the middle of a pandemic with nothing but empty promises to take its place. think about what that would do to families here in florida. florida has the highest enrollment under the affordable care act of any state in america. last week trump flat out said he hopes the supreme court takes your health insurance away. said it out loud. don't boo. vote. and last night he installed the supreme court justice he hopes will help him do it. don't boo. vote. florida, this is serious. and joe and kamala will protect your health care, they'll expand medicare, they'll make insurance affordable for everybody.

because joe knows that a president's first job is to keep us safe from all threats, foreign, domestic, and microscopic. when the daily intelligence briefings flash warning lights about a virus, the president can't ignore it, can't be too lazy to read the briefing. when russia puts bounties on the heads of our soldiers in afghanistan, the commander in chief can't be mia, missing in action. joe biden would never call the men and women of our military suckers or losers because they're willing to sacrifice their lives on behalf of the american people. joe biden understands those troops are somebody's kids, somebody's dad, somebody's mom, somebody's husband, somebody's wife, somebody's father or mother.

and joe biden understands that there is glory and goodness in being willing to sacrifice on behalf of others, something that apparently this administration just doesn't comprehend. our current president whines that "60 minutes" is too tough. do you think he will stand up to dictators? he thinks lesley stahl is a bully. just yesterday he said that putin of russia, xi of china, and kim jong-un want him to win. we know! we know because you have been giving them whatever they want for the last four years. of course they want you to win. that's not a good thing. you shouldn't brag about the fact that some of our greatest

adversaries think they'd be better off with you in office. of course they do. what does that say about you? i mean, think about that. why are you bragging about that. come on. and that doesn't make any sense. joe biden wouldn't coddle dictators. he will promote human rights around the world, including in cuba. joe will restore our battered standing around the world because he knows our true strength comes from setting an example that the world wants to follow, a nation that stands with democracy, not dictators. a nation that can inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats like climate change, terrorism, poverty, disease. and here's one other thing. joe and kamala when they're in office, they're not going to have -- you're not going to have to think about them every single

day. you're not going to have to worry about what crazy things they're going to say, what they're going to tweet. they're just going to be too busy doing the work. just won't be so exhausting. you'll be able to go about your lives knowing that the president is not going to retweet conspiracy theories about secret cabals running the world or suggest, i mean, listen, our president of the united states retweeted a post that claimed that the navy s.e.a.l.s county actually di actually kill bin laden. think about that. we act like okay. it is not okay. we're not going to have a president when joe biden is in office that goes out of his way to insult people just because

they don't support him. he'll be a president for all people, including people who didn't vote for him because he knows that's the job of being president. i mean, we've gotten so numb to what is bizarre behavior. we have a president right now who will lies multiple times a day. and this is not my claim. even fox news sometimes says what he says isn't true, he didn't mean it. it is not normal behavior. we wouldn't tolerate it from a co-worker, we wouldn't tolerate it from a football coach, we wouldn't tolerate it from a high school principal. i mean, we might have to put up with it if it was a family member, but we talk about him

afterwards. even florida wouldn't be doing this stuff. why would we accept it from the president of the united states? you know what, i mean sometimes it's almost too easy to make fun of it, but it is serious. there are consequences to his actions. if he was just on jerry spring err er or something, you would say well. but this is the most powerful office. when people see the president doing things like that, it emboldens other people to be mean and cruel and divisive and racist. and it frays the fabric of our lives. it effects the way our children see things. when we tell our children to tell the truth and then we have the person in the highest office

of the land doesn't seem capable of doing so, that undermines our society. it effects the way our families get along. it effects the way the world looks at america. and it distracts from the truly destructive actions that his cronies are doing across the government as we speak, actions that effect your lives. you got the environmental protection agency that's supposed to protect our air and our water. it is run by an energy lobbyist that gives polluters free reign to dump unlimited poison in our air and water. it is not right. it ain't right. the labor department, that's supposed to protect workers. it's run by a corporate lobbyist who declared war on workers, trying to gut protections to keep essential folks safe during a pandemic, making it easier for

big corporations to steal their wages. the interior department that's supposed to protect our public lands, our wilderness, the everglades, it is run by an oil lobbyist who is fine with selling them to the highest bidder. you've got an education department run by a billionaire who has gutted rules designed to protect students from getting ripped off by a for profit college. and stiff arming students looking for loan relief in the middle of an economic clash. you have the person that runs medicaid trying not to get more people on medicaid so they have better health care but to kick move people off medicaid. come on. it ain't right. so what are you going to do about it? you got to vote. you've got to vote.

when joe and kamala are in charge, they're not going to surround themselves with hacks and lobbyists, they're going to surround themselves with qualified public servants who actually are serious about doing their job, who are looking out for you, for your job, your family, your health, your communities, your planet. and that more than anything is what separates them from their opponents. they actually care about you, they actually care about every american. they'll be fighting on your behalf every day. they're not getting everything right every time. they're not going to solve every problem right away, but they're going to be working on it every single day to see how can i make sure this little brand new baby here is inheriting a better world.

that's what they care about. i will say that i miss kissing babies during the pandemic. i can't do it. but i look at that little bundle right there. brand new. got the new baby smell. congratulations. but joe and kamala, they care deeply about people and they care about our democracy. they believe in a democracy the right to vote is sacred. we shouldn't be making people wait in line for hours. we shouldn't be making it easier for everybody to vote, not harder. they believe no one, especially the president, is above the law. they understand the protests isn't unamerican, this country was founded on protesting against injustice.

and we don't threaten to throw our political opponents in jail just because we disagree with them. that's what happens in dictator ships, doesn't happen in the united states of america. joe and kamala understand that our ability to work together, solve big problems like the pandemic depends on more than photo ops, it depends on applying facts and logic and science and not making things up, not flooding the internet with misinformation. these should not be republican or democratic values. they're what we grew up learning from our parents and grandparents. they're not white or black or hispanic or asian orna native american, they're supposed to be american values.

we have to reclaim them now. how are we going to do that? by voting. we have to turn out like never before, orlando. we have to leave no doubt. we can't be complacent. we were complacent last time. folks got a little lazy, folks took things for granted. and look what happened. not this time. not in this election. i understand there are some americans who get frustrated by government, they feel like it doesn't make a difference, my vote won't make a difference. listen, the government is not perfect. it is not going to solve every problem. but a good government can make things better. things were better when i left office than when i started, they weren't perfect but they were better. a president shouldn't make things worse.

a president by himself can't solve every challenge facing our economy, but if we elect a president who cares and elect a house, a senate, statehouse, state senate focused on working people and getting you the help you need, it can make a difference. a president by himself can't eliminate all racial bias in the criminal justice system, but if we elect district attorneys and state's attorneys and sheriffs, police chiefs focused on equality and justice, it can make things better. and that's what voting is about. it is about putting us on track. a generation from now we can say hey, things started getting better. it is about yusing the power we

have, putting it together. making sure the government is more concerned, focused on you. and when i hear people say i don't know, i voted last time, things didn't change as much as i thought, listen, we've never come close to seeing what it would be like if everybody voted. in 2008, that was the highest voting rate in modern presidential history. only got to 61%. that means 39% of the folks didn't vote who were eligible to vote. what would have happened if suddenly we started getting 70% voting rates? what would happen if we got 60, 70% of the people voting instead of 55% of people voting. the country would be transformed. imagine. imagine january 20th and we swear in a president and a vice president who have a plan to deal with the pandemic

effectively, who believe in science, who have a plan to protect this planet for our children, who care about working americans, who have a plan to help you start getting ahead, who believe in racial equality, who are willing to do the work to bring us closer to the ideal that no matter what you look like, where you come from, who you love, how much money you got, you can make it here in america. you'll be treated with respect and dignity and justice here in america. it may have been a president when puerto rico gets hit by a hurricane, doesn't respond by throwing paper towels. but says those are americans, we have to make sure we get them the help they need as quickly as possible. that's what you should expect from a president and if you're not getting that, then you have to go out there and vote to make

it happen. all of that is possible. all of that is within our reach. for all the times the past four years when we have seen our worst impulses revealed, good news is we've also seen our best impulses revealed. we have seen folks of every age and background pack city centers, town squares so families wouldn't be separated. i have a friend, jose andres, restaurant your. went to puerto rico after the hurricane, organized thousands of meals on his own because he was seeing that the response wasn't quick enough. just did it on his own. that is america. we saw people out on the streets saying we're not going to have

our classroom shut off any more. we have seen people activated to make sure our kids don't grow up on an uninhabitable planet. we have seen health care workers, so many of them across the country, risk their lives every single day just to save somebody else's loved ones. we have seen people contribute and volunteer to neighbors hit hard. we have seen americans of all races joining together to declare in the face of injustice and brutality at the hands of the state that black lives matter no more but no less. to the no child in this country should feel the continuing sting of racism. that's true in orlando, it's true in florida, it's true all

across this country. america is a good and decent place but we've seen so much noise and nonsense and distortion and sometimes it's hard for us to remember but orlando, i'm asking you to remember what this country can be, what it should be, what it must be. i am asking you to believe in joe's ability to lead this country out of these dark times, to help us build it back better. don't abandon those who are hurting right now. we can't abandon the kids that aren't getting the education they need right now. we can't abandon all of the young people who are out on the streets, we have to channel activism into action. we can't just dream for a better future, we have to fight for a better future. we have to outhustle the other side. we've got to vote like never before and leave no doubt. so make a plan.

vote as early as you can, grab your friends and your family, get them to vote all the way up and down the ticket. and if we pour all our efforts into the final week, if we vote like never before, then we will elect joe biden president of the united states. we'll elect kamala harris, vice president of the united states. we will establish once again what this country stands for, what our values are, who we are as a people. let's get to work, florida. let's bring it on. i love you, orlando, i love you, florida. honk if you're fired up! honk if you're ready to go! are you fired up? are you ready to go? i am fired up. let's go do this thing. let's bring it home.

thank you. >> former president of the united states, barack obama, campaigning in orlando for one time vice president joe biden, democratic nominee for president. one week to election day. millions already voting. president obama beginning a 45 minute speech urging people that haven't voted early to make a plan. if you can vote before election day to do it. scathing indictment from the former president of his successor. that's what's unusual, see a former president on the campaign trail, especially with the man who replaced him in the oval office. chief political correspondent dana bash is with us to dissect this. listening to this, he called donald trump lazy, called him a liar, he said he doesn't take his job seriously, doesn't read the brief, he doesn't do the work. started with i thought it was interesting to watch, the democrats know turnout is everything, especially in tight states that slipped away in final days of 2016. he started with a long rip on

voting, then moved to the pandemic, then moved to the economy, essentially mocking the president of the united states, saying donald trump likes to pretend he invented the economy but inherited a pretty good one. americans believe obama can help them, philadelphia, now orlando. we used to think of orlando as independent voters in florida, but it is increasingly latino and suburban, voters joe biden needs. >> that's exactly right. it was blistering. very similar in tone and tenor and content to what the former president said at his other rallies in philly and miami as you mentioned. but he's getting even more pointed, if that is possible. he was pretty stark to begin with about just how incompetent, laughably incompetent, the way the former president is describing donald trump, and the fact is that the current

president is obviously watching. john, the president, donald trump, tweeted during that speech while he was apparently waiting to go out to his own rallies that fox news is playing to obama's crowd, big speech for biden, on and on, and hit back on what obama said about not releasing his taxes. that's part of what president obama is trying to do is to get under donald trump's skin. but obviously the big reason he's out there is to get voters and the i-4 corridor is incredibly important. all you have to do is look back to the first campaign rally donald trump had in the 2020 cycle. it was in orlando. the i-4 corridor will make or break florida, you know that better than anybody. that's why obama chose to do what he did and it is incredibly unprecedented, but not for these times. if you see and listen and watch

obama the way he absolutely goes after his successor. >> fascinating watching the final week, democrats putting the chief surrogate, barack obama on the trail. the state by state map gets interesting. the president late hitting the road, going to michigan and wisconsin and nebraska, trying to recreate his map. dana bash, grateful for recording. supreme court rules on a mail in ballot case for the swing state i just mentioned, wisconsin. 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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frustrated with your online search results? call reputation defender today to join tens of thousands who've improved their online reputation. get your free reputation report card at reputationdefender.com or call 1-877-866-8555. a new supreme court ruling from wisconsin could be a marker for post election ballot counting. the high court ruling mail in ballots in wisconsin must be received by election day to be counted. the ruling rejected a democratic effort to allow the count to stretch up to six days past election day, as long as they were postmarked by november 3rd. the vote was 5-3. three liberal justices dissenting. in a concurring opinion, bret cavanaugh says keeping the election day deadline makes

sense. states want to avoid chaos and suspicion of impropriety if thousands of ballots flow in after election day and flip the results of an election day. just one ruling or a clue for how the post election fights at the high court might be resolved? let's discuss with a veteran election lawyer, ben ginsburg. is this just wisconsin, want to hold this up, a battleground state in the pandemic, democrats thought give us a few extra days to count vote, maybe mail will be late. high court says no. is this just about one important state, could it be a marker, internal precedent if you have three, four, five states fighting it out, reaching the high court after the election. >> it is certainly indication of justice cavanaugh, probably joined by two other justices on the court. the reality is that a case post

election is unlikely to come up in this frame. the larger question he is raising is what role a state supreme court can play. and the answer to that is really going to depend on the case that comes to the course after an election. >> some of the interesting parts, you read footnotes in the rulings, the high court, supreme court, usually defers to states. states administer the elections. trying to make a distinction between what a state court can say and what is on paper, meaning past regulations or laws passed by state legislature. explain to somebody this can be an arcane legal argument, explain how that could be critical if the right case makes its way to the court. >> well, the wisconsin case came out of a federal appeals court. and what the u.s. supreme court said is that it is up to a legislature before it is up to appointed federal judges. the answer is remember in florida, florida's supreme court

changed the deadline for completing the process. u.s. supreme court said that was improper. that was overstepping the bounds. so what i think this issa hi is hint to the decision already made in florida. >> you have a team of lawyers, both parties and campaigns do, watching all these things play out. what happens in this environment where you get this ruling, a, it effects wisconsin, but if working in pennsylvania or tasked with keeping an eye on north carolina, pick your state out there, what happens with the campaign lawyers today after something like this happens? >> well, campaign lawyers are going to say we have to go by the process that's now in place in that particular state. all this does is effect a set of balance that would come in after election day. if you're the biden forces, you're probably asking those ballots to come in after

election day with election day postmark be set aside, you would then bring up through contest procedures and maybe ultimately the supreme court the question of those ballots received after election day, but had the proper postmark under the general rubric of you have to count all of the votes. >> is there a general way to describe where we are in the sense it was 4-4 split, roberts siding with liberals on a somewhat similar case out of pennsylvania. now roberts siding with fellow conservatives in a 5-3. as of today, you have a 6-3 conservative majority. amy coney barrett is on the bench. any way to read into it yet or wait and see what she does? >> i am going to take a stab at that. justice roberts in the 4-4 pennsylvania decision recognized it was a state supreme court which is in a sense part of the state process, different from wisconsin where it was a federal court ruling. also true that in pennsylvania

the justices of the supreme court are elected officials, which is not true. >> ben, i need to end it there for today. we'll continue this as challenges perk up. thanks for spending time with us. brianna keilar picks up coverage right now. have a great day. hello, i am brianna keilar. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we are seven days out from a presidential election for a nation in crisis. where president trump and nominee joe biden spend the last few days says a lot about the state of the race. this is an all out run on the battleground states for both campaigns. there are some surprising pit stops. biden is speaking this hour in georgia, a state that hasn't gone blue since the '90s. that race is in a dead heat. president trump is putting all his focus on the midwest with three stops today in michigan, wisconsin, and nebraska. and it is