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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. or filled in mail in ballots. that is one in three registered voters. in that respect, 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 normally reliable red state of georgia. >> you know, there are not a lot of pundants, who would have guessed four years ago that the democratic candidate for president in
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2020 would be campaigning in georgia in the final week of election. such competitive senate races in georgia but we do. something's happening here in georgia and across america. >> i want to talk about the significance of what he says when it comes to the senate races there. and also in south carolina. and the obama effect. where he took the stage in florida. and crucial to both sides. >> 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. what's his closing argument? that people are too focused on covid.
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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 would not be reaching new record highs across the country this week. >> president trump meantime taking stops in michigan, wisconsin and later in omaha, nebraska whose single vote went to president obama in 2008. that too speaks to his campaign in the final week of the race. their expect it to be close. beyond the map, everything else, there are factors that make this the only election of its kind in the history, the pandemic and early voting. in response to it that is enough to set it apart. there is also this, never before had any candidate from any party
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in any conceivable way, shape or form matched this campaign record for telling lies. the risk of sounding trumpian, we are witnessing dishonesty, the likes of which no one has seen before in this country at this level. lies about his opponent, lies about covid and the public and dangerous lies. tonight, for example, a press release from the white house, office of science and technology policy touting what they called the administration's first term accomplishment. it reads again, citing as an accomplishment, ending covid 19 pandemic. apparently, they're ending the covid 19 pandemic. no sign of that. not true. so far today according to johns hopkins university, more than 850 americans died today due to covid. the self proclaimed wartime president says it's done but people are still dying.
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more than 850 so far today. final numbers won't be in until later this evening. more than 66,000 new cases again so far. they're telling you it is over. they think you will believe it if you say it enough that we are rounding the turn or magically disappear as the president said. diamond and silk hanging by his side. one week from the election, their motivations are beyond transparent. it is just so obvious. with new infections at the highest level at any point of hospitalization numbers rising and more members of the west wing infected this week. the lies don't come much bigger and more egregious than that. the president getting as many people together in as many different states to lie in front of them and possibly have them exposed to covid as well. if the motivation is behind the covid lies are obvious, or some of the others are just weird. here he is in michigan, the president today, trying out
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his golden oldie. >> when i got the man of the year, i got man of the year in michigan, a long time ago, like 12 years ago, nothing to do with politics. "man of the year." i came here and gave a big lecture. >> the president is not a michigan man of the year award. he lied about it in the last campaign. there is no such award. it doesn't exist. no michigan man of the year. the point is not pathological lies, it is the big ones. the ones that could make the pandemic worse. we'll talk about all that tonight along with where the campaigns are spending their dollars and what post-election illegal challenges looming to be like. take a look at that tonight. first, the campaign map, phil mattingly is joining us. one fwreek tonight, take us through right now. the path to 270. >> yes, the map is gray, no data
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in it. we'll start to fill in east to west and getting results in crucial battleground states. where do things stand? this is a snapshot for the moment. the biden campaign feeling good looking at least on the public polling. this is an average of state by state polling. cnn has conducted. michigan, nine-point lead for biden. pennsylvania, seven-point lead. across the battle ground states, joe biden is ahead. and the racetracker as it stands. if you take a look at the screen, you see joe biden, and the democratic states and lean democratic starts, above the 270 electoral map. that is a snapshot for today. not from a week from now. how do you know what campaigns are trying to do in this moment. keep that or if you are the biden campaign or break through it. there is nothing more valuable than a candidate's time. that's why campaign events, especially today.
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candidates and surrogates spread out across the country underscoring the importance of campaign strategy right now. i want to focus on the trump strategy. you had melania trump and in pab pab. nebraska bleeds over to western iowa. why the focus in the midwest? it's pretty simple. we broke through the blue walls back in 2016 and that led to his victory. it's also a math issue. take a look at the gold states. these are all toss-up states at this moment. say you give president trump arizona where joe biden is leading. say you give him nevada which democrats held in 2016 and joe biden is leading right now. he's still above 270 electoral vote mark. what it means for the trump's campaign why you see them in the pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, iowa and ohio as well. there is no path to 270 on this map for president trump and his
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re-election that doesn't include at least pennsylvania, wisconsin or michigan. there are a couple different pathways for the trump campaign, all of them include one of those states. >> why was joe biden in georgia today? >> joe biden laid it out perfectly, would you expect that a democratic candidate would be in a state that is they have not won since 1992. this race is very close in the state of georgia. as joe biden mentions, there are two senate races in the state of georgia that are important as well. but when you talk about how limiting donald trump's pathways are to 270, joe biden going to georgia shows the biden campaign shows they can expand the map and very real opportunity. let's go back to this again but go ahead and give joe biden the state of georgia and donald trump the state of north carolina, the state of ohio,
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iowa. give him the second congressional district. you see that joe biden has a pretty large advantage. give him florida and pennsylvania. the two most crucial states. joe biden still above 270 electoral votes. where georgia is, it's a map expansion. it's a safety valve, another pathway. what they believe is very real. >> phil mattingly. fascinating. with an eye towards all of that but the white house claiming ending the pandemic. house majority -- congressman clyburn, thank you for being with us. first of all, what's your reaction the white house claiming victory over the pandemic. because it's far from over if anything. if we are rounding a turn, it may be falling off a cliff? >> well, thank you very much for having me, anderson. we have been hearing a bunch
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of -- as joe biden would say, mallarky coming there for a long time. this is a big pile of malarky. i can tell you this pandemic is getting worse. it is spiking in about 40 of our 50 states. there is nothing to give anybody any indication that this is at an end. i don't know why they would say this and i don't know why anybody in this country would leave that. this is fairy tales coming from this president. we are in this for a long hall. i studied the spanish flu, how long it took us to get out of that? it took us two years. i believe we are in the same
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situation now. i wish this president will spend some time getting reality but what he's doing is just a lot of fairy tales. >> biden going up to georgia today, does he have a chance to flip georgia? you >> yes, he does. he has a chance to flip north carolina and georgia. he still got a fighting chance in florida. i do believe that joe biden can finish the work in georgia. i don't know if anybody who believes that stacey abrams did not win georgia.
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it was stolen from her just like they stole these seats on the supreme court from president obama. so joe biden is in georgia to finish the work and put an exclamation point behind democratic victory in georgia. >> what do you think about texas? >> i think we got a chance in texas. >> blookberg is pouring in a lot of money. >> and that's what we need. joe biden gotten a bad rep when it comes to hispanic voters. i think if you really hone in on the interests of the hispanic voters, joe biden is the much better deal for them. if i can get them to focus on the issues and not the headlines and maybe coming from various places, i think he'll do very well with hispanic voters. all you have to do is look at
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the hispanic representatives in congress. which party has the most representation in congress? it's the democrats, and the whole nation is that the republican party got something better for hispanics or for blacks than the democratic party is just that. a notion. >> i want to play what jared kushner told fox news yesterday about the black community of what they have to be successful. let's play that. >> one thing we have seen in the black community which is mostly democrats, president trump's policies are the policies that can help people breaking out the problems they complain about. he can't want them to be successful more than they want to be successful. >> what's your response to that? >> well, the pandemic. the virus have been floating
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around the white house and i think there is something else floating around the white house as well and whatever it is, jared kushner has caught it. he ought to be ashamed of himself. i spent all of my life with various white people telling me what's best for me. well, i want jared kushner to know. i think i got a pretty good idea what's best for me and my children. i can tell you this. it ain't in the policies of donald trump. i am hearing all these numbers they're coming out with, telling they're expecting to get 20% of black votes. i want to see a black man who can tell me they can reconcile president trump looking into
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the camera, and speaking in the mic and the president calling the first african-american a dog. and he called her a monster and you are going to vote for him? i would like to talk to the person who can get behind that. i am the father of three african-american women. i'm the son of an african-american woman. i can't abide those kinds of insults coming from donald trump and i cannot abide to the insults coming from jared kushner telling me he knows what's best for me. >> seems like the president and a bunch of other republicans are now going after senator harris, not only her gender but just her name. and mispronouncing it intentionally over and over again. i want to play it to viewers. this is a pattern here.
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>> by the way, you know who's further left and crazier than bernie? kamala. kamala, kamala. biden even chose as his running mate, the most liberal senator in america. kamala. senator kamala harris is a sponsor of the socialist green new deal, bind's running mate, kamala harris. you pronounce her name wrong, she goes crazy, like a comma. the bind biden harris -- >> it is like a fourth grade kid making fun at each other, mispronouncing their names. it is so juvenile and it is something he's targeting a woman
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of african-american decent. he's targeting a black woman in america. >> well, you're being very kind to elevate him to the fourth grade. that is kindergarten stuff. that's his mindset. he has a low regard for african-american women. he disrespects women. he disdains african-american women. i really feel that the goodness of this country is what's on the ballot. this country you know i often talk about is what reputed to be the words -- a poster that said, this country is great because its people are good. if the people of america cease to be good, this country will cease to be great.
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this campaign is about restoring america's goodness so we can maintain america's greatness. donald trump is not a good person. >> congressman clyburn, i appreciate your time. >> thank you. coming up next, more breaking news. where the trump campaign is spending money and what it means. another presidential untruth. the plot on the michigan governor. the one where his justice department charged six people with. we're all finding ways to keep moving.
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he's taken down his ad spending by $2 million net loss in florida and new hampshire and iowa. look at where they increase? they're going up in pennsylvania, arizona and michigan. those are all on the rise. what i think you see is happening here is donald trump is leaning into some of those blue leaning states he knows he needs to win back. he's relying on florida's natural republican dna hoping it repeats itself. he is so outspend there. i will show you now, campaign, take a look. take a look at this. joe biden, anderson, and democrats are spending 6.8 million. in the final week in florida. this come players to 2.9 million from the republicans in florida. they're being swamped.
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that does not include the $6 million michael bloomberg put in florida on behalf of biden. donald trump is realizing that his path to reelection has to be in winning some of those blue states leaning towards biden. and he's hoping some of the other states that had been more reliably sort of repeat that performance. >> how much money did they have left? clearly money is more of an issue for the trump's campaign. they're in a real cash crunch. it's one of the great stories of the campaign. the incumbent president, that's a huge advantage for him. he's been raising money since his inauguration day. in the last two or three months, joe biden has been walloping. the fubd fund-raising, biden and the democrats are just
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crushing him. >> david chalian. thank you. our gloria and david gergen. is it just a sign of confidence that the trump campaign has in florida, they don't need to spend the money there? >> no, i think they are not flushed with money so they have to go to the rnc. and they said to them, can you help with the bill for us for these ads? so they're splitting it with the republican national community because they don't have the money themselves. look, where they spend their money as well as their travel as david was talking about is like the rosetta stones of the rest of this campaign. you look at where donald trump is traveling and where he's spending his money. michigan, wisconsin, arizona. pennsylvania. they would like to spend more money in florida but they don't have the money to spend. it is stunning given the fact
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that the president spent the last four years raising money for himself, not for senate republicans or house republicans as other presidents have but for his own reelection. now they're stuck and they have a map that seems to be growing narrower and narrower. they got to put their money where they think their best shot is. >> david gergen, how do you see their money trouble? >> donald trump pledged he would put in up to $100 million. it goes to the rnc. he owes a dangle. and it disappears magically. >> he certainly has a track record of that, with the charitable giving and other ways. the president certainly has been raising money since he started,
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as gloria said, does it make sense that his campaign should be trailing the bind campaign? they raised a lot of money. is it just squandered? ? >> unclear where a lot of that money went. i think there will be a lot of reporting after this campaign is over. we are with those millions of dollars where he started out with a mid lead but now he's behind. in 2016 he was behind clinton. who had raised hundreds of millions of dollars more. we know how that ended up. trump did ended up kicking $6 million into his own campaign. he promised to do the same. he hasn't done that yet. he's not as rich as he says he is. he does not have a lot of liquid cash to infuse into his campaign. one of the things he's doing is traveling because he can't blast the air way with ads. so you see him doing multiple
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stops in pennsylvania, other swing states. so yeah, in some ways it is desperation and a result of - an in coming president should be able to raise hundreds and millions of dollars. clearly there is mismanagement along the way. >> given the pandemic, do you think these large rallies trump is having which is super spreader event, do they work? because unlike with 2016, you can look at these rallies in different ways, oh, there is a lot of enthusiasm and the president is energized. or you can look at it this is reckless or emblematic how he handled the entire pandemic. >> obvious lir, we don't have the answer to that but i think what he's trying to do is
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motivating his base. he wants his voters out there on the poll and at the poll on november 3rd. what he's trying to do is say to his base, look, i am the same guy you loved. i still have big crowds. you got to love me for that. he started his inauguration by bragging about his crowd size. he's still doing it now. so for his base, he believes this works. i do not believe this is anything that people and his campaign would have suggested at the out set. they were concerned of covid but this is what the president want to do. and make no mistake about it. this campaign is being run by donald trump. >> i want to play something that president obama said today. >> what is his closing argument?
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that people are too close to covid, covid, covid, he's jealous of covid's media coverage. if he had been focused on covid from the beginning, cases would not be reaching new record highs this week. >> it's so interesting. it's hard to gauge a campaign that does not have a campaign. you don't see biden in front of crowds. it's obvious reasons. it's not the traditional campaign. how effective -- president obama gives a speech here, in philadelphia a couple weeks ago. does it have an impact? >> well, i think they're trump rallies are more of a holding. i don't think it change the campaign. i see no evidence that impacts on the campaign. we have seen much of trump and
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for so long, a lot of americans are relieved having a politician not in your face and not yelling or lying to you. there's something i think and what he is doing that may turn out to be smarter. >> and you know, the contrast is so clear and so stark. you have trump at a rally like he's always been and you have biden giving speeches. and today, his speech in georgia was about bipartisanship and unifieing america, and you listen to a speech that way when you don't have a crowd and you can compare them. >> the president is going to nebraska.
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>> they are dif divided up in that way, and he needs one or two votes. he sees the same polls. he says john king at the map. and i think his internal polls reflect that joe biden is a much stronger candidate at this point than hillary clinton was four years ago. >> thank you very much. just ahead. the judge's decision to open fire arms on election day. also, what president trump says against the state governor when we continue. easy to wear with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. trusted soothing vapors, from vicks with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... ...you feel like a big deal. ♪
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eye president trump's first campaign stop in michigan, and after the blot to kidnap the governor. >> your governor, i don't think she likes me too much. hey, hey, i am the one. it was our people that helped her out with her problem. people are entitled to say -- >> the president's own justice department, our people, says this happened. his comment came from the same day as a michigan judge struck down a directive to carry a firearm on election day. i appreciate you being here. when you hear the president yet again down playing and casting
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doubt on the plot against governor whitmer, how do you respond? >> i don't know what we can possibly say about a president claims to be pro law and order seems to be making excuses and justifications for those in terrorism and who the allegations are that they hash a plot to kidnap and execute her. i don't know what to say to that. the commander in chief that runs the country. it is a disturbing set of circumstances for sure. >> he seems to down play it but which is maybe an excuse because he -- you know, we talked about liberating michigan. he praised the wannabe warriors that stormed the state house,
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threatening legislators and police officers and screaming in their faces, they were fine people. he's also on the other side handing crete for federal authority is roaring it thousand he has talked about antifa as if they were a well organized d domestic terror threat, and i don't know. the evidence is against these guys in michigan and elsewhere, and he's down playing it? >> yes. i mean it is really very concerning when you have groups out there. the wolverine watchmen, the proud boys. and it seems as if though the president is their biggest fans. it's not no wonder we have seen the rise in mbship of the organizations when you have a
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president of the united states that seems to support that. >> at the same rally, the president says saving suburbia. and then seems to try to reach out in mismind to female voters. i want to listen to how he did that. >> you know what else? i'm also getting your husbands, they want to get back to work. we're getting your husbands back to work. >> i mean, i'm not sure -- you know, i don't know if i'm nit-picking but he is obviously struggling with suburban women, and he has made the allegation that subsidized housing will be forced in suburban neighborhoods and cory booker will be in charge of it and it will destroy your neighborhood. which is clearly a dog whistle, racial under tones. buff telling women their husbands are going to be able to get back to work, it's an
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antiquated vision. >> yeah, i think that is under stam statement to say it's an antiquated vision. the president is polling incredibly policies. it is going to be that same women that came out and in very large numbers to support joe biden for the president. >> and judge out come out and struck down the guns on election day. what do you think? >> first of all, i fully support our secretaries of state ben sen and providing that guidance. even the united states supreme
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court have said in previous decisions that you know the polls should be an island of calm where voters can peacefully contemplate the candidates they vote for, and the biggest decision should be who to vote for and how to fill out the oval next their name. they should not be worried about the guy who's watching on them or standing next to them. with an ar-15 slung over his shoulder. sop we actually will repeal the decision. we have very strong voter intimidation laws in the state. it's a felony. we think that to defer voters, is a threat and intimidation. >> i appreciate your time, thank you.
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>> thank you for having me. >> the false reality that trump is trying to create and winning the election. the next guest says under democratic norms. a conversation is next. i use rakuten to get cash back in-store and online. rakuten is free to sign up and it's in over 3,000 stores. i use it to buy makeup... travel... ...clothes, electronics to me, rakuten is a great way to get cash back on anything you buy. sign up today and get cash back with rakuten. trump took a good economy and drove it back into the ditch through his failure to get covid under control, his failure to deliver real relief to working people. does he not understand and see the tens of millions of people who've had to file for unemployment this year, so far? the people who lost wages while the cost of groceries has gone up dramatically. donald trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market, the dow, the nasdaq
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president trump's campaign strategy relies on a false reality, and the ballots counted after election day are phony. or that coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations are fake. doctors are making it up so they can get more money. that really -- the u.s. is just fine. rounding the turn, as the president says. therefore, the administration can cite ending the covid-19 pandemic. they haven't. and also, the vac viecines will
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here in weeks, if not weeks, year's hend. my next guest reality relying on a false and how to belief his version of reality. chairman of the the human rights commission. gary, one of the things i heard you say recently. oi thought it was so interesting and important. one of the things you said, we have learned over the last four years, is how much of our democracy is not enshrined in laws, written laws, it's based on horror no, and tradition, and tom friedman drived as being norms. and i think that is important to think about. the honor and traditions that is what is -- even if the constitution is not being up
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ended. >> absolutely. that's why i don't buy arguments with trump and the enableers, it's notten constitutional about not mentioned there. that's why we're not talking about the letter of the law but also about the spirit of the law and also about norms and conditions. and i warned about trump's gradually removing them from his way back in 2016 because that's what's typically done. it's not, you know, a corporate night. it's a slow motion process of destroys checks and balances. as you can see, trump removed all the people that were loyal to the state, the constitution, to american democracy. and he replaced them with enablers. that's why you look at the
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trump's white house and his supporters in other branches of government, and they are loyal to trump more than they're loyal to american constitution and to the very base of american democracy with presidents, democrats and republicans, over 200-plus years stayed in intact. >> one of the things that's so interesting about what you're saying is it's not over night there are armored personnel carriers surrounding the white house and moving in on television stations as happens in some places when there's a coupe, but that democracy can die in a much longer tiny baby steps that at the time good people who are legislatures go along with small tiny steps thinking, okay, you give a politician this, then they'll stop, and then it's only once
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you've kind of gone down the road and done a bunch of little baby steps that you suddenly turn around and realize, wait a minute, we're in a whole different place. >> absolutely. that's why i believe these selections are so important, one of the most important elections in our history because it's not just about trump or biden. it's not about republicans or democrats. it's about the way the government functions and the way that the power is being transferred from one president to another in losing elections. it seems to me trump is determined to use every trick in the book and even to go beyond that to stay in power at any cost. and it's quite unfortunate that many of his supporters are in gop who probably had reservations about trump's behavior, they turned into his
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enablers. and if in 2016 trump's election confirmed his political style, his re-election will confirm his political practices. >> one other thing you said before we go is i wrote it down. i thought it was a great line. you said i don't know much about chess i understand what you were saying, saving your king from being mated in two doesn't mean you win the game. basically it's a long game. this is not just about voting in this election. >> no -- yes. but let's remember saving your king from the mate in two is a top priority. so, that's why winning elections this time, biden being elected is a number one priority because if this game is lost, then it's the consequences, i don't -- i think it's going to be hard to imagine. even if biden is elected and democrats through the senate, it's just the beginning of the
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long road because could be defeated but trumpism, the idea that you can turn the corners and you can bend the law at your convenience using every loophole that you can find in the books will be very much alive. trump will evoke more trumps whether from the right or from the left to repeat this experiment. we should be aware that new trumps will be coming. and they'll be younger, more dynamic, more intelligent, not obese and younger. and not corrupt. and it's very important that after november 4th, hopefully results will be already announced, so we'll work hard. and that's what i believe rdi, our organization, democracy initiative will be doing. it's to start building the new firewalls against potential trumpism. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. president trump has one more stop to make before he finishes
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president trump holding his third rally of the day today in omaha, nebraska, where only one delegate is up for grabs. nebraska, like maine, splits it's congressional districts by districts. why is this one stop so important to the president? >> reporter: one week before election day, president trump is threading a narrow needle. >> you have nebraska too. you have omaha. and that's something that a lot of republicans don't get. and i'd like to get it. >> reporter: never mind the big battlegrounds, he's talking about nebraska's second congressional district which most republicans actually do get. he won it four years ago but now is facing a tough fight with joe biden. as the president barn storms the country, his path to winning 270 electoral votes is so precarious
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that he's chasing single electoral votes n. maine on under the -- >> you'll been oebay tonight. >> reporter: and tonight in nebraska. these states are the only two in america that split their electoral votes by congressional district rather than awe winner take all model. but his visits to both of them highlight how his political path is complicated by political math with early voting already breaking records. here's why nebraska's single electoral vote matters. if biden gets it, he could get it simply by flipping michigan and wisconsin. barack obama won this omaha area in 2008 but his path to the white house hardly depended on it. in the final stretch of the race, democrats are playing on trump's terrain, hoping to expand the map. joe biden in maine, eyeing an electoral vote that went for trump four years ago. >> tell