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biden campaign unleashing its mostweapon, barack obama. hitting him on covid, covid, covid. cases surging, hospitalizationis and deaths up, and president trump is blaming the media for covid. moments ago in a state with record hospitalizations and deaths tonight, he chanted his new mantra. >> no, it's covid. you turn on the news, it's covid, covid. you know when they gee're going stop talking about it so much? november 4th, you're right. november 4th. all they want to talk about is covid. but the good news on the 4th, they'll stop talking about it. >> trump's words in wisconsin, repeating his tweets of earlier today. here's one of them, you can see all the fake news media wants to talk about is covid, covid, covid. november 4th you won't hear much

about it anymore. we are rounding the turn. 11 states with record high hospitalizations, peak in the average of new case of 20% in a week. people are sick and dying and that is why we are talking ant it. team biden is making its closing case that this is because of trump's leadership. here's former president obama in florida today. >> what is 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. >> and here's biden. >> he said, it is what it is. well, it is what it is because

he is who he is. in the spring, the president declared in his voice as commander in chief, as commander in chief he was going to wage war on the virus. instead, he shrugged, he swaggered, and he surrendered. >> now, the president tweeted that this is about november 4th, election day. but this isn't about a date on the political calendar, although if president trump wants to talk about dates, he should worry about november 14th, when the cdc projects up to 247,000 american also be dead from this virus, which is another 20,000 dead in the next 2 1/2 weeks. this won't be over november 4th, because death and dying aren't fake news. one person who knows this isn't fake tonight, the governor of wisconsin, who had a dire warning for people in his state this evening. >> there's no way to sugarcoat

it, we are facing a crisis, and there is an imminent risk to you, your family members, your friends, neighbors, and the people you care about. >> president trump is in wisconsin now. you see him right there, and it's the usual, no social distancing, very few, if any masks. but we have both campaigns covered tonight. ryan nobles is in west salem, wisconsin. jessica dean is in georgia, where joe biden rallied supporters. ryan, it is pretty stunning to see the juxtaposition between the governor of that state with a mask on, pleading with residents and the president at a largely maskless rally trying to say covid is a product of fake media. >> reporter: it's really

stunning in many ways. the president of the united states really mocking the governor of wisconsin's response to the coronavirus, acting as if it's not that big of a deal, where you don't have to travel too far from where we are to find hospitals that are bursting at the seams because of the crush of coronavirus patients. the president telling the crowd to ebb visinvision coronavirus racetrack where they're turning the last corner, but the numbers are skyrocketing, particularly in a state like wisconsin. the other thing we should point out, erin, the president is trying to make the case that in many ways the coronavirus is just a creation of the media and his political opponents saying after the election on november 4th, all of these precautions that have been put in place are just going to go away, schools will open back up, all the restriction also be lifted, restaurants, masks, all those things we've been doing to stop

the spread will go away. that just defies reality at this point. this is a pandemic that is just really starting to rage, particularly in a state like wisconsin. and yet, here at this rally here tonight, for more than five hours, thousands of people have been packed into this location, shoulder to shoulder, very few masks, and they came to listen to a president mock the response of the governor here. a governor who told, pleaded with his people that this is an imminent threat. one more point i'll make about that, erin, the president saying here tonight, almost complaining that he wanted to hold this rally at a nearby airport and that the governor prevented him from doing that and he was annoyed by that. this just goes to show the greater response that the president has to the pandemic just a week away from election day. erin? >> thank you very much, ryan. i want to go to jessica dean, in warm springs, georgia. so biden sending a completely different message. i meet, the polar opposite on

coronavirus. >> reporter: right, yeah, absolutely. very, very different from the way everybody was spaced out here, social distancing in place, masks on. but also, and this is most important in terms of reaching all the voters out there watching, the message that we heard from joe biden today. this is really a closing argument from him as we close in on the final days of this election, and he went back to themes we had heard him talk about, about the soul of the nation, about coming together. and he wove within that the coronavirus pandemic and how together he will lead the nation to overcome the pandemic. you heard him there just a little bit ago on your show talking about how the trump administration has waved the white flag, that this is spiraling out of control because of the president's lack of response. joe biden with a sharply contrasting message, looking into the camera and saying i'm ready to lead on day one, i know

what to do, i want to lead with science and with facts. and, again, such a different message between president trump and vice president biden in these closing days of the campaign as it relates to this pandemic. >> jessica, thank you very much. and i want to go now to david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama. dana bash, and dr. jonathan reiner, who advised the white house medical team under president george bush. so dr. reiner, president trump in wisconsin. we can see those images right now. it is quite jarring. record hospitalizations, record deaths in that state. yet a rally, largely maskless, no social distancing. as the governor of the state is pleading for people to heed these warnings. the president's strategy, though, is covid, covid, covid, fake news. >> right. the president is gaslighting the country, and he's putting his supporters and the rest of the

country at greater peril when he does that. imagine winston churchill or fdr saying war, war, war, why do they always ask me about the war? because it's the predominant, preeminent challenge we're facing right now is covid. we had 73,000 new cases today. we've averaged 71,000 new cases every day. we have had 500,000 new cases in the last week. you can close your eyes to it, but this is not going away. hospitalizations are at the highest level since the middle of august. if you have a rapidly growing cancer, you can say it's not there, but it will get to a point where it will kill you. this president is ignoring a rapidly growing problem in the united states, it is not going away. governors, like the governor of wisconsin, is pleading with the public to listen. >> david, i want to play something else that president obama said today. you know, he was talking about

the outbreak at the white house, which we know was the outbreak around the president and now there is the vice president's office. here is part of what obama said in florida. >> i lived in the white house for a while. you know, it's a controlled environment. you can take some preventative 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. >> so david, president trump tested positive. there was that amy coney barrett event, the first lady was positive and many others, including chris christie, who spent seven days in the icu. you worked inside that white house. how difficult was it for president trump to have these outbreaks, to turn it into, as obama said, a hot zone? >> if you disregard your own administration's guidance, if you disregard public health guidance, it's not hard at all to create a mini pandemic in the

white house, because it's a very small area, it's closely contained, you're working up against each other all the time. you're passi ining in narrow hallways. but if the president of the united states said everyone is to wear a mask, everyone is to be tested on a regular basis. if he said we're not going to have any super spreader events here, then those things wouldn't have happened and likely you wouldn't have what we have seen. that is a microcosm of what he's done in a nation. look at what he's doing right now with these rallies. he has decided he can impose his will, his needs, over the reality of the virus, and the virus has given him and the nation the back of his hand. >> this is the thing, the president knows that what he's doing in wisconsin is that jarring and stack contrast to the governor, right? >> uh-huh. >> and he embraces that. he tweeted covid, covid, covid, fake news twice.

he's ex-claiming it at that rally. he has made his bet, right, that that message will work. >> absolutely. i mean, he -- he clearly believes it, or at least most importantly for his purposes, believes that it is the most winning message that he can send right now politically speaking. never mind the message that should be sent from any president of the united states during a pandemic, which is one that is to mitigate the virus as much as possible. but he won't do it. he won't do it because of some of the protests that we have seen across the country in places like -- in some of the midwest places or even northwest places that -- where the cities and states have put mask ordinances in, and there have been protests. those are the people that the

president thinks he needs to reach. maybe some of them didn't vote in 2016, can't go out and vote in 2020. he is trying to find every single last person in the trump base to vote. that is his strategy, and it's really unclear whether or not that is going to be enough to overcome all the other people who are saying covid, covid, covid, who say that doesn't match what is going on in my life, because i don't want my parents to get it and i don't want my friends to get it. >> 62% of americans say the federal government is making recovery from the coronavirus worse. that's a big number, but it's basically the same as it was in august, before the surge, before the president tested positive. it was 60% that said the sail thing. so essentially unchanged. of course, it's a number that is driven by democrats.

so is the coronavirus surge right now, using data, when you look at wisconsin, a must-win state that the president is doing everything he can to win, is it moving votes right now? >> well, first of all, it's not just democrats if it's 62%. there are independents in there and some republicans, as well. this is not just a democratic opinion. he is about where he is, though, you're quite right. 40% of america approves of the way he's handled it. on an issue that is consuming the country, those aren't good numbers. he's betting that his base will come out in disproportionate numbers in defiance of all these guidances and restrictions related to the virus. and that somehow he can ride that to victory.

when you look around wisconsin and what they're dealing with tonight, i don't see how this gets him to where he wants to go. >> he says rounding the turn. i find it so frustrating, you know, we are seven months in. maybe a vaccine is going to come in a few months and that will help. but there's rounding the turn in terms of deaths which are continuing to go up at record levels. a lot of this could still be e preventable. dr. fauci supports a mask mandate. that is what would be rounding the turn, stopping the deaths. but today, president trump had two rallies with no masks basically. the vice president with a virus outbreak in his own office, which according to the cdc means he should be quarantined because of. attended two rallies. no social distancing, few masks. this is what we see. there is no effort being put into the basic things we know from this white house to stop

the surge in deaths we're seeing. >> that's right. look, let me say something optimistic tonight, which is we will have a vaccine. and hopefully sooner than later. but it's going to be many months before large portions of this country are vaccinated and we need to get there. and the way to get there is to socially distance, avoid social gatherings. they're unsafe. they're up safe at any size. and to wear masks. you know, if we continue our current behavior, you know, by the time we start to go down the other side of the curve, 500,000 people will be dead. that's what is at stake. >> very sobering. we'll leave it there. thank you all. next, john king is going to look at which candidate has been gaining ground in these must-win states. wisconsin one of them. so we'll go to the magic wall. will we know who the next president is a week from tonight? melania trump's first solo

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tonight, joe biden striking a confident tone in a state that democrats have not won since 1992. >> there aren't a lot of pundits who would have guessed four years ago a democratic candidate for president would be campaigning in georgia, or we would have such competitive senate races in georgia, but we do. because something's happening here in georgia and across america. >> polls show biden with an edge. so let's go to the magic wall and john king. john, these polls show biden with leads in crucial states, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, nevada. so what does that mean when you look at the paths to 270? >> it means it is possible when we fill this in starting one week from tonight, fill this in

beginning, it's possible we get a new map. it's not definite. but in 2016, let's do that map. right now, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, that was the trump victory, cracking the blue wall. we lean them all blue. joe biden is in georgia today. georgia? i was with governor bill clinton in 1992 in this campaign. he won georgia, thanks largely to ross perot, with 43% of the vote. 28 years ago since that happened. is joe biden on the verge of remaking the map? let's switch and take a look. it is possible. you have to finish. that's the big challenge for the democrats. right now, we have him at 290. pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, red for trump four years ago, leaning blue now. so look at nevada, came out today. what are you looking for in the final campaign? we talked about this before. we're looking for evidence. that's what happened in 2016. the national polls closed. we didn't see it in some of the

state polls. trump surged in the end. in nevada, joe biden's lead was four in september, eight in october -- six in october and sick now. stability in the race. if you look at the map right now, you have to say still advantage biden. we keep looking for it. if you go back to 2016, we have not seen it in the national polls yet. in the national polls we did see the tightening. hillary clinton came in up four, it went up to five, then started going down. trump had the momentum going into election day. this wasn't wrong. hillary clinton won the popular vote by two points in 2016. so the national polls caught the surge at the end. the question is, is there any evidence of it there? you just can't find it. >> now the big question is where it's going to be tight, where a lot of these mail-in, you know, these kind of wait and see battles are going to matter. the supreme court ruled against

extending the deadline for voting in wisconsin. so if you mail it in, it will only count if you receive it by election day. so this is just one data point which leads to the question everyone wants to know the answer to, will we know a week from today or tomorrow morning who the president is? >> we may not know definitively. let's go through the deadlines. the states where it has to be received, 28 states require the ballots by mail to be received on or before election day. the supreme court keeps wisconsin in that column. michigan, as well. florida is a battleground, georgia is a battleground, arizona is a battleground. several other states. colorado potentially. so you see in a lot of these states that matter, you better follow the rules. so will we know on election night? let's bring up this other one, these other states here, these are 22 states and d.c. just has to be postmarked on or before.

they include pennsylvania, ohio, texas. so we might be at this a while. will we know election night? i don't know. if you have this red mirage, wisconsin, pennsylvania, haven't counted all the ballots yet and the president leads, we might have to wait. let's say joe biden wins florida, even if we don't know who won wisconsin, we don't know who won michigan or pennsylvania, if joe biden wins florida, we'll have a clear sense of the trend. so the key word is, we don't know. and if you're in a state and uncertain, check now, make a plan, vote. >> right, because then you may have to do it in person. now, we are seeing, though, campaigning in these couple of states that split their electoral college votes. president trump in omaha, nebraska, joe biden campaigning in maine and both states split their electoral votes.

what does this tell us about each campaign, you know, sort of its feeling right now? >> donald trump is looking everywhere he can. let's just play out a scenario here. nebraska too, we lean at biden. maine we have as a toss up. normally it's just one electoral vote. let's just imagine in our toss-ups, we have joe biden at 290, trump at 263, let's say the president carries iowa. let's give the president ohio, republican leaning state. he won it four years ago. joe biden is competitive in all these states. this is just a hypothetical. say donald trump carries georgia and florida. that gets him in play, but he's still losing. what if there is a trump comeback in pennsylvania? now 270-267. and then maine could come into play. if joe biden can win it, he's at

271. what if donald trump wins this, 268? this little district of here could matt ear lot. donald trump wins that you get 269-269. this is a very unlikely scenario. we play it out every now and then. but in a close race, one electoral vote could matter. donald trump needs to look anywhere to get votes because he's behind right now. joe biden knows if he can keep this one blue, it just makes the president's map harder. >> thank you very much, john. as always. part of president trump's appeal to suburban women was not about them. >> i'm also getting your husbands, they want to get back to work, right? >> were women buying it? and no letup tonight, early voters casting ballots in record numbers. half the turnout in 2016. could this be history in the making? (burke) deep-sea driving, i see...

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year for president trump. she went to the key swing state of pennsylvania, trying to help her husband win over female voiters while slamming joe biden and claiming democrats ignored coronavirus to impeach trump. >> the democrats have chosen to put their own agendas ahead of the american people's well-being. instead, they attempt to create a divide. let's not forget what the democrats chose to focus on when covid-19 first came into our country. while the president was taking decisive action to keep the american people safe, the democrats were wasting american taxpayer dollars in a sham impeachment. joe biden's policy and socialist agenda will only serve to destroy america and all that has been built in the past four years. >> all right. "outfront" now, our political correspondent abby phillip and

republican pollster and strategist ed ghost and kirsten powers. all of you, thank you. so abby, the first lady did talk personally. she's been a patient of coronavirus, her husband had it, her son had it. she attacked joe biden about it. now you look at the context here, her favorability ratings are higher than her husband's. so will her words sway any voters? >> well, if you listen to what she's saying, she's not saying anything a whole lot different than what the president is saying when it comes to the coronavirus and also the central message about the biden campaign sort of trying to paint them as socialists or closet socialists. i think this is a departure from what you typically see first ladies doing on the trail. they are supposed to be in some ways the softer edge, trying to humanize their husbands, connecting with women voters in different ways and particularly with president trump, that would be a really strong contasrast fm melania trump to make. but she's just reading a speech

that seems to have written by the west wing, and not doing what i thought she did effectively, when she was diagnosed with covid, which was being honest about what that experience was like and perhaps what she learned from it, identifying with americans who have had contracted this virus or who have lost loved ones. that probably to me would have been a more powerful use of the first lady on the campaign trail. >> kirsten, she did try to reach out to these crucial women, women voters, suburban voters that the president is trying to focus on. she said as an independent woman, i'm grateful for a president who has championed women and working mothers. now, this was a line that we heard from trump today in michigan while trying to appeal to those same women suburban voters. >> you know what else? i'm also getting your husbands -- they want to get back to work, right? we're getting your husbands back to work. and everybody wants it.

>> so kirsten, i want to start by saying here, working mothers in september dropped out of the workforce at a rate eight times greater than men, 617,000 of them. the coronavirus depression here has been crushing women who work more than anyone else. so there's just the facts. then there's what the president said and how he said it. what do you make of that? >> i mean, it's like he lives in the past. it's something that you might say in the 1950s, right? it's not something that is current that most families out of need have, you know, both people working. and so, you know, and the statistics you just cited. it's offensive, i think, you know, that he would say something like that and act like the main goal is to get the men

back to work when women are carrying just as much of the mu burden if not more often times. >> the president knows he has had a problem with women voters. he asked suburban women, will you please like me? trying to be funny at a rally. when you listen to president trump in his own words, he has basically said that being a suburban woman is the equivalent of being a housewife, his words. here he is. >> if you say suburban housewife, you're in deep trouble. so what you do is you say suburban women. i think that the suburban woman, and i used to say suburban housewife, i used to take heat, but do you care if you say suburban housewife? i used to call them suburban housewives and i got killed all the time. i better go politically correct. >> ed, do you see any evidence that the first lady will help president trump with suburban women? >> no.

i mean, first of all, the point about her using socialism the way she did does not particularly help. it is a point too far that certainly she has not developed a relationship with the voters that most first ladies have, and she's acting like she does have that relationship. i think in terms of what kirsten said, you know, the way he framed it was almost chauvini chauvinistic. but those suburban women left president trump in 2018 because of his character, because of the way he talks, the way he acts, not because of his policies. there is a point in 2018 that yes, they were upside down on his favorability but still gave him a 60% rating on the economy. they now are upside down even on that measurement. the only thing he had to get at

those women, and he's using it in a way, it sounds like he's not talking about them but their husbands. >> yeah. i mean, we talk about the economy again, just one of the most basic and fundamental things about this coronavirus economic crisis has been the disproportionate impact it's had on working women. abby, on the economy, you know, as ed gave those numbers, joe biden was in jordan expanding the map, win georgia for the first time sense 1992. it was president obama thin florida where he talked about the economy and tried to turn that around in favor of biden. more's obama. >> president 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 in the first three years of the trump/pence

administration. that's a fact. look it up. and that was before president 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. >> abby, i know you have president obama being the one they sent to florida, and he's obviously able to give a speech as if he has a huge audience when he doesn't because of the social distancing and all the things they're observing. what does it say that the biden campaign sends obama to florida? >> he's the most important surrogate that they've got in their roster. and the biden campaign needs to -- they need to improve their standing with a couple of demographics in florida specific chi. they need to make sure they bring out minority voters, black

voters, haitian -- people of haitian descent, who are in south florida, hispanic voters, particularly non-cuban hispanic voters. these are people obama can reach, especially the younger ones. so obama has some cache there. he was the last democrat to win florida. so i do think it is a good use of obama to sort of speak out knowing that the audience is bigger than just the folks in their cars honging the ihopg ho horns but watching on television. i think the economic message is -- i don't know how this is going to work for obama, but it's interesting, the attempt being made here, because obviously the economy is where president trump is strongest, it's where biden has really struggled. and reminding voters of something that obama didn't tout as much when he was president is

an interesting strategy and might be one that can work that hillary clinton didn't really have the luxury of doing four years ago when she ran. >> ed, final word, what do you see in florida right now? >> first of all, i have to say the real test in the pudding was the fact that president trump got on twitter today and attacked fox news for covering the obama speech live. i think that is the real test on how much impact it really had. because it got all the way to the white house. and i think florida is in play. it's iffy both ways. i think they're having a hard time figuring out the very high turnout, early turnout on what the real impact of that is, up against the republican party that has had an advantage in terms of registering new voters. and it's going to be interesting to see how those two dynamics come into play in a race that's very, very close. >> very, very close. amazing with all this early voting that raises questions and it doesn't provide answers.

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tonight, one week until election day, and it is a stunning thing that more than 68 million americans have already voted. so that, if you just look at these first few days, and we're a week out, 50% of the turnout from 2016, already in the can. i mean, it's incredible. pamela brown is "outfront." >> reporter: as of tonight, for many voters it's too late to use the post office to return absentee ballots. the postal service says today was the last day where you could send them and have them guaranteed to arrive on election day. for those states with strict deadlines, it's now better to use a ballot box or bring the ballot to an election office. >> we are keeping an especially close watch on state where is

ballots can not be counted until election day. >> reporter: while many states allow ballots to be counted days after the election, some states have stricter deadlines. in wisconsin, a crucial swing state, mail-in ballots must be received by election day to count. the supreme court rejected a democratic attempt to allow mail-in votes postmarked by election day to be counted up to six days after the election there. but it's an opinion written by justice brett kavanaugh getting attention. it says states want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election. the language mirrors president trump's rhetoric about calling a winner on election night. >> i want to see the results on november 3rd. >> reporter: while administration officials say it's okay for the results to take more time. >> on november 3rd, we might not

know the outcome of our election, and that's okay. >> reporter: the president is taking to twitter to cast doubt on that, saying in a tweet that's been labeled as misleading, must have final total on november 3rd. so far, millions of mail-in votes give democrats significant leads over republicans in key states. but republicans made up ground in-voting in florida, north carolina and nevada. >> i, amy coney barrett -- >> reporter: on the first day on the job, the newly appointed supreme court justice, amy coney barrett, already facing pressure. a pennsylvania county asked barrett to recuse herself from a request from state republicans to block mail-in ballots from being counted up to three days after the election. it's one of self-challenges to voting rules in key states being considered by the high court. and i spoke to one pennsylvania election official who said that

voters in the commonwealth should not bank on having those extra three days in case the supreme court steps in and changes things. if you haven't already put it in the mail, take it to an election office. and in michigan, a judge struck down an open carry of guns in polling places. so we're seeing a changing of the rules with less than a week to go. >> pamela, thank you. i want to go to governor jay insly of washington. you're one of those states that know how to do this. you've been doing mail-in voting since 2011. and your ballots are valid if they're postmarked by election day, right? so you've got time after that for them to be received and counted. so then the president says, you know, if we don't find out who won on november 3rd, what do you say to that? >> i say we're going to call him out on it and not allow that un-american activity to prevail.

look, he's trying to set up an excuse for getting beat fair and square, and he's already looking for an excuse. he knows what he is coming and he's looking for a reason to not take responsibility for his loss just like he fails to take responsibility for the horrendous lack of response against covid. but there is a danger here, which is there is a danger that he could try to convince republican legislators themselves to stop counting the vote. and that's a legitimate concern. we cannot allow that. the way to prevent that is for us to vote in droves, like we are doing. when you see those people lined up, waiting five, six hours to vote. those are the people who understand how donald trump has abused his office. >> when you look at the numbers, just back of the envelope in your mind, is it a big number of

ballots that come in after election day? or is it usually basically dominitus? >> no, it's a significant number. having the results at midnight on election day. what's magic is to count every single vote. we know unfortunately there has been a sorted effort by the republican party to suppress voting to begin with, limit the number of ballot drop boxes so people of color can't vote without standing in line forever. we have seen it in ohio. now to add insults to injuries

and refused to count those votes after voters make sure their vetoes get submitted. we need to speak loudly against donald trump searching or an excuse. >> at least 300 members of the washington national guards are being trained. from where you sit right now, do you see president trump's supporters being angrier about the results of not winning. >> i see disappointment but we should not have any outrages or violent behavior. that's not acceptable for any point of the compass. if we count the vote and we total the votes up and we declare a winner, that's going to be a good results for

america. that's what we should do. we should not allow donald trump and the republicans to shutdown county votes. >> governor inslee, i appreciate your time. >> good luck. >> trump made promise after promise for four years now. it is an election, how is he going on those promises? next on the reality check. and when you get a big deal... ♪ ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. ♪ with this seal, this restaurant is committing to higher levels of cleanliness. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the expertise that helps keep hospitals clean, is helping keep businesses clean too.

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you are looking at live picture at omaha, nebraska, where president trump is going to appear on stage.

tom foreman is out front. >> i didn't back down from my promises and i kept every single one. >> reporter: really? let's look. promise one. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. >> reporter: 331 miles of wall have been constructed on the nearly 2,000 border. almost all of it replacing existing sections. there are only nine miles of new wall and no evidence mexico paid for a foot. promise two. >> i am going to repeal obamacare and replace it with something much better. >> reporter: the trump allies did kill the requirement for people to have the insurance, individual mandate and they hope the supreme court will strike the whole program down this

fall. a replacement plan? still no sign of it. promise of the court. >> here is what's going to happen. i am pro-life. the judges will be pro-life. >> reporter: none of trump's nominees said they'll overturn roe v. wade. same goes for trump's record number conservative judges placed in lower courts. >> reporter: promise four. >> we'll re-negotiate the di disaster known as nafta. >> u.s./mexico/canada agreement called usmca. >> reporter: his promise to go after d.c.'s corruption? >> we'll drain the swamp of

washington. >> reporter: other than calling his political foes to be investigated, there is little evidence that he trained anything. more than half a dozen of trump's associates have been charged with crimes. about his attack on president trump's golfing trips. >> i am not going to have time to play golf. >> reporter: trump teed up more than twice as often than obama. when someone pointed out a promise he has not kept, he became what he pledged to be, another politician. >> tom, thank you very much. it is one week away from tonight. we are going to be following all the key races across this country like you can only see on cnn. we hope that you will be with us everyday. for our special live coverage of all the results right here on

election day, tuesday, nevaovem 3rd. "anderson cooper 360" starts right now. good evening, we begin right now by saying we are a week away from election day. we are now a week away from the end of election season. more than 60 americans already gone to the polls already voted. this is already like no other elections like anyone ever seen. say how about they view their electoral destiny. joe biden made two stops in the red state of georgia. >> you know, there are not a lot of pundants, who