king in washington. thank you so much for sharing another busy news day with us. six days to go and a few massive election milestones. this is a simply wow number. the vote turnout is still half of the 2016 turnout. there are still several days to return ballots but they're urging those holding ballots, find an election drop box. the president misleads on the pandemic every day now. right now an official white house document takes credit for, quote, ending the pandemic. that is both ludicrous and it is cruel. look at the map. very little is going right, right now. this coronavirus is not ending. cases going up in 40 states. only one moving the covid-19 in the right direction right now. 73,000 new cases on tuesday. nearly 72,000 cases per day now is the climbing average.

the president tells his campaign rallies all is well, the case numbers a mirage, born of simply more testing. listen here, his own testing czar said, plainly, the president is wrong. >> we do believe in the data showed that the cases are going up. it's not just a function of testing. yes, we're getting more cases identified but the cases are actually going up. we know that too because hospitalizations are going up. i just want everybody to know nobody's wearing -- waving the white flag. >> the 50-state pain of this pandemic is reshaping the campaign mask, and the campaign map. the president is trailing and the virus spike is complicating his goal of mounting a repeat of his late days 2016 surge to the finish. the president wakes up in nevada before heading to arizona. he travels in both states. vice president pence stopping in wisconsin and michigan, both leaning blue right now. joe biden spends the day in delaware, holding a krn briefing with the experts before

outlining how he would do things differently. senator kamala harris is in arizona, where the democrats hope to make a map-changing statement. our cnn correspondents are deployed across the country in the critical battleground states for these critical final days. let's begin with one of our most important suburbs this year, scottsdale, arizona. cheung? >> and it is maricopa county, the most populous county as far as growth. how rapidly it is growing here compared to every other county in america. that's the emphasis of the harris and biden campaign, kamala harris focusing on the cities in this populous county, stopping in phoenix. she will also hit tucson. president trump when he's here later today will focus on the rule turnout, hitting rule cities. but the fact they're even here in arizona underscores the battleground nature and how close arizona is. all of this happening as the early vote is under way and tabulation of the early vote is

under way and that is only going to grow. here in maricopa county, the number of early voting sites is expected to grow today to 90, 90 early voting sites. as far as the number of ballots that are currently being counted, maricopa county, again, the most populous counties here, 2.1 million bail-in ballots requested. more than half of them, according to the election departments, have been signature verified and counted. now to look at the situation in another battleground state, our miguel marques is in detroit, michigan. miguel? >> hey there, kueng, unlike you guys in arizona where they are doing early balloting in polling places, here in michigan, most of those ballots are being dropped off in drop boxes like this. it's a massive, massive mail-in process here. the secretary of state expects some 5 million michiganders to

cast votes in this election. they expect by election day about two-thirds of those votes will be in. keep in mind the president won michigan in 2016 by 10,704 votes. both sides working very hard for the state. the president will be here twice this week. the vice president, vice president biden will be here, vice president pence will be here. joe biden will also be here. all in just this week. one other issue here in michigan, guns. guns at the polls. the secretary of state tried to limit that. a judge undid that yesterday saying that in places like churches and schools where guns are already not allowed, they cannot come in, but any other place, open carry here in michigan, they can come in. now over to florida, where our colleague drew griffin is keeping track of things there. drew? >> hey, miguel, election officials cautiously optimistic. all of their planning is going just perfectly right now. 6.9 million floridians have already voted.

that's nearly half of all registered voters. the voting continues. there are 2 million of those requested mail-in ballots that need to be brought in over the next coming days. the secretary of state is urging those people who have them out there to drop them off right here in drop boxes like they have in leon county instead of putting them in the mail to make sure they get registered. but like in other states, those ballots will only count if they are in election supervisor's hands by the close of business on election day. that's why it's so important to drop them off. but, john, right now florida voting really is going very smoothly. we know from experience that this state is going to be very, very narrow in the vote count, but at least they will have a pretty strong vote count when it's time to do that voting. john? >> drew griffin on the ground for us. we thank all of our correspondents and will be checking in. as all of them noted and numbers

on the screen tell you, the massive scale of the early vote makes 2020 such a different election. let's look at some of the numbers to see how different and get a sense where the contest stands six days out. these numbers come from nonprofit issue advocacy groups. as you go through, imagine, look at this number, 72 million votes already cast. more votes being cast as i speak with you now. 72 million votes cast. 129 million cast for donald trump and hillary clinton, never mind third party candidates. look at the number before, 72 million votes cast and counting. top states so far, 8 million in texas, 7.6 california, 6.9, 7.3 million in florida, 6.3 million and counting in north carolina. 2.2 when you round up in georgia. all of these except california, key battleground states. texas, maybe, maybe not. we will see. look at the states as we go

through it. one question is, who's voting? do we have a partisan breakdown? we do. 46% of the ballots cast already are by democrats. doesn't mean all of those democrats vote ed for joe biden, but we know from polling, the overwhelming majority did. some polls say 90% would have. you see the democratic advantage, 30% republicans, 46%. safe to say democrats have a pretty big advantage here nationally when you look at the 28 states reporting this data. what about states we know will have a large role in just determining who's president? key battleground states, this is florida, north carolina and georgia. you see it's a bit more narrow there. 41% ballots returned by democrats. 35% returned by republicans. bit more narrow there. the question is if you're a democrat and you think that's an advantage, is it enough, right? if you expect more republicans to come out on election day itself, is that enough? that's one of the challenges going forward. another challenge is so many of these early ballots are coming in by mail. drew griffin just said florida things it can count most on election day.

some states, that's not the case. michigan says it might take a few days. pennsylvania says it might take a few days. there are other states like that. that's how it works. it's fine. it takes a while to sometimes count the votes, that's fine. except the president of the united states thinks it's wrong. >> i think we're doing very well. we're going to have an exciting night. it would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on november 3rd instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and i don't believe that that's by our laws. i don't believe that. so we'll see what happens. >> joining our conversation is propublica reporter and cnn analyst jessica hughesman. jessica, it's good to see you. i just want to start right there. the president is trying to lay the predicate for the idea, okay, it's midnight on tuesday, we're done. we're done. this should be the results, where we are now. that's simply not the way it works, right? >> i think there are election reporters across the country wishing that was the way it

works but it is not true. the first state to certify its election results is delaware and that doesn't happen until two days after the election. so we've actually never known the results of election night on election day and this year won't be any different. >> won't be any different, except some states do think, pennsylvania one of them, might take us a couple of days. we'll be inundated with mail-in ballots. we want to make sure election day itself turns out well, may have high turnout then. so some pennsylvania counties will not even count the ballots until after the polls close. interesting strategic shift by the democrats in the final days of the campaign. remember the democratic convention, make a plan, vote. if you can, request a mail-in ballot. listen to the governor of pennsylvania now, he says six days out, don't put it in a mailbox, put it in a drop box. >> over 3 million pennsylvanians applied for an absentee ballot or mail-in ballot. if you still have your -- to the

folks in pennsylvania, if you still have the mail-in ballot, fill it out now and don't wait and hand in at the at the secure county box drop or county board of elections. that would be my recommendation. >> jess, you can see the strategy across the country. politico is, dems urge voters to avoid mailing in the final week, a week before the election, time is running out to vote by mail. six days would seem, especially if you're mailing a ballot within your state enough, but because of concerns about the postal service, because of concerns about ballots being challenged, dpz are saying listen, if you can, walk to the county office, wherever it is, put it in a drop box. >> yes, and i think the usps has been warning states about slow mail times for quite some time. these are not new warnings, to states who have done mail balloting for quite a while. we're just putting additional strain on a system that's

already extremely strained. so i agree, you need to drop it off in a box or if you can, pay to have a two-day guarantee. i know a lot of people can't do that. but you can drop it off at most municipal offices or find a drop box for your location. >> and perhaps florida does a good job, north carolina seems confident it would do a good job, if joe biden wins one or both of those states, even if we didn't have anybody at 270, we would have a good sense of the race. but if we have a competitive race, it is possible it will take a few days. as i note from the top, about our reporting from the commonwealth of pennsylvania, unlike most states, pennsylvania law does not allow officials to start processing early ballots until 7:00 a.m. election day. philadelphia and others plan to start work on their mail-in ballots 7:00 a.m. but swing-in valleys like erie and cumberland plan to wait until the polls close or next morning to begin. for all of your reporting on this, pennsylvania is one, what

other states would you say, look, it's possible -- i know it's not certified for some time but at least to have enough results to make a projection, it's possible pennsylvania and wisconsin maybe? what else maybe we have to wait wednesday, thursday, possibly friday? >> i think wisconsin is likely to be one of those states. i think another state that we won't know results for, for quite a while is california but that's not new for california. california has always taken a couple of days to announce its official results. their final certification date actually isn't until the second week of december. so certainly we will be waiting for them. >> jessica, grateful for your important insights. i know you spent months studying this issue. we're lucky to have you in the final days of the campaign to walk us through all of this. up next, joe biden said to join barack obama on the final days of the campaign but here's a flashback of the final days. 2000 race. >> i'm running against somebody who is full of confidence, so

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a campaign in the middle of a pandemic means a lot is different. but not everything. both candidates are winning, just ask them. >> it florida is looking great. now nebraska we know is looking great, okay. i mean, in theory i didn't really have to be here but it's nice to be with your friends, too. >> there aren't a lot of pundits who would have guessed four years ago the democratic

candidate for president of 2020 would be campaigning in georgia on the final week of the election. >> joining me now to discuss the state of the race, white house reporter for "the washington post" kueng kim, jeff zeleny, who is not in washington, he's in battleground iowa today. jeff, let's start in the campaign where you are. i want to put the battleground map up, route to 270 map. ohio a toss-up, michigan and wisconsin, states that went to trump for years ago are leaning blue, as is pennsylvania. we talk about this being a different campaign. one is the predominantly white states that went for trump now are either leading blue or you're in iowa and it's a toss-up. how much of this is covid? >> john, so much of it is covid. certainly that's the underlying really factor of what is on people's minds.

this has been the soundtrack of this campaign. every place the president goes, part of the story line is how covid is being handled there, the number of cases, et cetera. this is something that's affecting how people are feeling, their mood and view of the president and if he deserves a second four years or not. but here in iowa, they've seen a record number of cases. some 11 times this month of october alone, they've hit new records in terms of numbers of cases. this is happening all over. this is something certainly impacting the bottom line. is it going to change the outcome? we're not sure. we will find out next week. john, it reminds me this is averting to where we left the map before 2016, where we left the map before hillary clinton was the nominee. this is much more like states in play are places with joe biden already won when he was the running mate for barack obama. so, of course, he won iowa, he won ohio and those other states. so everything is very, very close on the margins here. if you talk to republicans and

democratic strategists, neither side will say with all honesty who is going to win. they believe the race is so close on the margins, that's why joe biden is coming here tomorrow and donald trump said he's coming back before next tuesday. >> so kueng kim, you get it, a lot of democrats are nervous and they have 2016 deja vu or are haunted. a lot of political reporters saying can i trust these? let's move away from the horse race numbers and you look deeply into the bones of polling. gallup had a great display. we'll show you a piece of it. demographics is your destiny, people vote and their votes are count. look at the president's numbers at the right of the screen. why is texas in play? the president's approval rating was at 53% earlier this year. down to 44% now. why is arizona in play and colorado probably out of reach, nevada, new mexico out of reach? start 53%, down to 45%.

bu bourbon men, down to 42%. suburban women, lousy earlier this year. horrible now. 36% earlier this year approval rating, 28th now. you look deep into the numbers, and i keep looking every day where is the evidence of the trump comeback? if i missed it four years ago, where is it now? you simply don't see it. >> it's hard to see in those raw numbers where the trump comeback could happen and i think those numbers really reflect how -- when a presidential campaign is usually a very dueling campaign with two visions for america, democratic vision and republican vision. but because of the pandemic this year it's a referendum on the president, president's handling of the coronavirus. within his own white house and throughout the country and jeff touched on it very well, with the coronavirus is really what is driving so many states that should be in the bag for trump and the republicans into that

toss-up column. i also want to point to you reported a reported the new polling from abc this morning, the new polling is he is leading wisconsin and michigan. if you look down from the top lines of that polling, you see biden in wisconsin is leading female voters by 30%, according to our polling and in michigan 24%. if you think about women who have been disproportionately harmed by the pandemic in terms of women in the workplace, having to do extra care for kids at home, you see how -- you see how biden's strength and why biden's strength does appear to be very enduring right now. >> right. so one of the things you watch late in the campaign is how the campaigns try to adjust. late in 2016 the trump took a risk. it pulled money out of states it banked on going republican like north carolina and put the money into michigan and wisconsin and

turned out to be a smart play. jeff, we learned in the last 24 hours, this is a little confusing to watch, we will put a graphic up, the trump is short money. it simply is. biden has more money. so the trump campaign has new ads being paid from a joint committee of the republican national committee and trump campaign. the net result is they're spending $2 million less in florida, nearly $2 million less in new hampshire, nearly $1.4 million less in minnesota, down in ohio, down in nevada. they are increasing places like maine, north carolina, arizona and pennsylvania. but when you see the shifting at the end, you follow the money and follow the candidates in the final week, that tells you how they see their strengths and, in this case, their weaknesses. >> it absolutely does. and there's a mixed bag in there in terms of explaining all of those rationales. in minnesota the trump campaign once thought they could make minnesota one of their own. they narrowly lost it four years ago. their essentially writing it off or it's certainly not a priority. they believe north carolina and pennsylvania are critical to the

president's path for 270. it's hard for them to imagine a scenario without that. so there's a lot of shifting going around from the trump victory fund. some of that money was used for a ground game effort early on. what we are seeing is how we end this campaign is now how the campaign began. the trump campaign promised to work to expand their map, expand into minnesota and into new hampshire and places he narrowly lost four years ago. they are defending their own ground now, john, and that's what is so extraordinary about this. jbs has so many paths here and a financial advantage no one could have imagined. as for the wisconsin poll, think the margin, we're going to see a lot of polls over the next several days. focus not necessarily via the margin between the candidates but where the president is himself. he's still around 43% or 44%. that is extraordinarily low when we don't think there are going to be as much of a strong vote for the third party candidate here. that is what worries republicans in wisconsin, not necessarily the margin but where the president is on the ballot.

>> and one of the fascinating dynamics, jeff zeleny's reporting, barack obama and joe biden will campaign together. role reversal, joe biden top of the ticket and barack obama a surrogate when he goes out. but you have bernie sanders doing things for joe biden. alexandria oscasio-cortez doing things to make sure the democrats vote. democrats made a decision, yes, we have policy differences with joe biden but trump is the larger foe. we will save the policy issues until after the election. we're going to turn people out and not have a family feud. listen to how alexandria oscasio-cortez described it last night. >> let's say the most favorable outcome happens, we win the house, we win the senate, we win the presidency, we're still not going to get what we're fighting for unless we work for it. they're not policies that are going to substantively change a lot of people's lives. now does that mean we throw it

all out the window? p absolute absolutely not. what it means is november 4th is the day that we start bringing the ruckus on the democratic party. >> it is a strategic decision, and it is a fascinating one and she says it plainly, unify now, elect joe biden and then we'll fight, sure, but let's win the election first. >> exactly. and i think we can certainly expect an internal ruckous within the democratic party if they are successful at next week's election. look, you saw a little bit of hint of that from congresswoman alexandria oscasio-cortez earlier this week when she spoke to jake tapper and she was asked about how the biden campaign and former vice president had fumbled the fracking issue. and she kind of deftly stepped around it and said, look, we're working to elect joe biden. now she will lobby a biden administration on that issue if he's elected. so i think you're going to see a lot of these internal policy divisions come out into the open. remember, chuck schumer, in line to be jorlt leader if democrats

win control of the senate. he himself is up for re-election in 2022. democratic sources telling me he's already watching over his shoulder for a potential aoc primary challenge and that could happen next week. >> that looking over the shoulder thing can cause a lot of issue in politics. we will see how that plays out, if it plays out. grateful for the reporting and insights. up next -- back to the coronavirus and administration's position contradicts the boss. w. we will see how that plays out, insights. up next -- back to the coronavirus and administratiof . grateful for the reporting and insights. up next -- back to the coronavirus and administration's position contradicts the boss. ♪ limu emu & doug you know limu, after all these years it's the ones that got away that haunt me the most. [ squawks ] 'cause you're not like everybody else. that's why liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need.

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middle america reporting fewer infections now compared to a week ago. 40 states trending in the wrong direction. with that you get this case count and you see tuesday 73,000, 73,000-plus cases on tuesday. the red line tells you everything we need to know, we're trendings up in quite a steep way. now look to the left. you see the peak of the summer surge. we're now higher than that and climbing just about every day. with this comes hospitalizations as well. the hospital line you see tuesday 44,212 americans hospitalized because of the coronavirus. much significantly each one of those viz, look at the blue line, trend line going up again and again. look to your left, the hospitalization was highest in the beginning, the first peak, and then it got right at the about the same spot again, the second peak. the question is how high do we go in this third peak? normally you see a few stas on the -- states on the map and you

think it's positive, no. only three states had a decrease since october, only three of the 50 states pointing down when it comes to hospitalizations. let's go to the chief clinical officer at providence health center. it's great to see you. i wish we were discussing better numbers and maps and better statistics. but what i just went through there with the direction the country is headed right now, hours before i discussed these numbers with you, the white house released a document designed to high light the achievements for president trump's first term and there, in writing, ending the covid-19 pandemic. right there in writing, official document. have we ended the covid-19 pandemic? >> we've not even come close to ending the covid-19 pandemic, john. this is really when spinning turns into gas lighting. the message we need to hear right now is we need to double

down the message everybody is sick and tired with but we're not done. we have to stick with them. simply having coherent messaging about the critical importance of mask wearing and social distancing would do a huge disservice to the country in getting control of this, rather than telling people it's already done, don't worry, we're going the wrong direction. >> so if we go back in time and you go back to april, middle of march, white house announces the initial guidelines to stop the spread. one month later, the president is getting antsy. he sees the economic shutdown, believes it's hurting his re-election so he wants the reopening guidelines. if you read them, they're reasonable. three steps, if you pass this test, wait three weeks, is if you pass, wait two weeks, go further. but the states didn't follow them and he encouraged them to reopen quickly, essentially saying run yellow and red lights. dr. fauci this morning saying that's why we're still in so much trouble. >> when we were trying to open

up the economy again or open up the country, and i was very much involved with dr. deborah birx in putting together these guidelines, which is a getway of phase one, phase two, to tell you how you can gradually, safely and prudently open up the country. that would have been nice if all of the states did that the same way. if everybody had done that uniformly, i don't think we would be in the position we're in right now. >> they actually had a plan, and on paper, most experts say it was a good plan. states didn't follow it and the states did not encourage them not to. >> they had a plan, a play book, and unfortunately snacked defeat from the jaws of victory. many this week the center of columbia disaster preparedness put out a report if we had effective national leadership, we could have saved between 130,000 to 210,000 lives from

this pandemic. i really do believe the wish, the desire to just make it all go away and pretend that it didn't exist and to just go from where we were to where we wanted to be without doing the hard work in between actually caused, you know, somewhere well north of 100,000 americans to not be with their family today. >> that is a sober, sad way to put it. look, no matter what your politics, no matter who you believe, those numbers, 8.7 million, 8.7 million cases, 226,000 dead americans every one a neighbor, parent, child, no matter what you think, those should make you sober. doctor, thank you for your time and insight. up next, we'll get back to the campaign in the battleground states of wisconsin and michigan. the polls say the president is leading. should we believe them this time? eping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing

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states, with as much as a 17-point spread in wisconsin, well beyond the margin of era. the cnn poll is average but more conservative, and you see it there. vice president pence stumping in michigan and wisconsin as the president rallies both stas. >> seven days from now we're going to win the great state of michigan. now you have a president who is standing up for america and standing up for the great people of wisconsin. >> joining us now chad live engoode, senior editor for crane business in detroit and careen hess, reporter for detroit public radio. i do not believe, no bone in my body can convince me a state as competitive as wisconsin has a 17-point biden edge right now, right now. but polls capture moments in time. this poll was in the field in the time your state is going through a horrific spike in the coronavirus. this is "the milwaukee sental

journal here," worst day yet again. the state journal, now a nightmare scenario. is it possible maybe it comes back some but right now because of the collision if you will of the campaign and coronavirus, is that why the numbers for the president are so bad? >> i think it's very possible, john. yesterday was our worst day. we had 5,000 new coronavirus cases, and we had 64 deaths. and i think these numbers are finally catching up with voters and with the president. the poll that you're referring to earlier, 63% of registered voters said that they're very or somewhat worried that they themselves or someone in their family it catch the coronavirus. >> that is tough. let's move over to michigan. chad, it's largely the same dynamic. here's the headline here, president delivers fiery remarks in lansing. but you're state is dealing with this as well. one more headline, i like all of the papers here, detroit's women

drive biden's michigan lead. women, without a doubt. and one of the leads in michigan which has a lower positivity rate but still seeing cases go up a little bit, is throughout the pandemic, the president has picked fights with democratic governors. it's true in wisconsin and even more true where you are in michigan. listen. >> i'm also getting your husbands, they want to get back to work, right? they want to get back to work. we're getting your husbands back to work. everybody wants it. your governor -- i don't think she likes me too much. hey, hey, hey, i'm the one -- it was our people that helped her out with her problem. we'll have to see if it's a problem, right? people are entitled to say, maybe it was a problem. maybe it wasn't. it was our people, my people, that helped her out, and then she blamed me for it! >> we could spend a month on this one. maybe it's a problem. maybe it's not. people were arrested for

threatening to kidnap the governor, tried to overthrow the state government, that's a problem. but getting at the dynamic in the state right now, hillary clinton had a narrow lead four years ago. donald trump carried it on election day. joe biden's lead is bigger now. what is the dynamic on the ground when you have this collision between the pandemic and this election? >> that's right, john, the big key is women voters and how they turn out. right now it's not good for donald trump. the detroit news/nbc affiliate polling that came out last night showed a 25-point lead for joe biden among all women and more hurting the president, three-point lead within the margin of error, in women outside of metro detroit. this is the area where donald trump clocked in a lot of votes and flipped places like saginaw, bay county, barack obama territory for many years prior to that. so now this is where the

president is really struggling is with the female voters. and he's in lansing yesterday. he was starting to question the validity of his own fbi's charges against these 14 men, who allegedly plotted to kidnap and possibly kill governor whitmer. so this is all done on the backdrop of we had the highest seven-day average yet in michigan with 2,100 new average cases yesterday. and we're in the middle of what most public health experts say is the sec wave and sursecond w surge showing no sight of subsiding. >> it's critical to get out of washington and get reporting from battleground states. grateful for your time and insights today. we will check back in with both of you. up next for us, we go back to the coronavirus test, interrupting, yes, even the final game of the world series. skip to cold relief fast with

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years. not even major league baseball can escape the reality of the pandemic. the third baseman was pulled mid game after a positive coronavirus test. he tweeted he feels great and has no symptoms at all. cnn sports anchor andy scholes joins me. an exciting series and late ending drama added to it. >> you've got to feel for turner. two innings away of a lifelong dream of world series and someone walks up to you in the dugout and says, hey, you tested positive for coronavirus. you've got to leave. i can't manual what's that's like. they went the entire season without any players testing positive in game six of the series one of dodgers star players testing positive as they were about to church the title. he was pulled from the game after they found he tested

positive. the timing, the first test was inconclusive. then the second one showed up positive. dodgers 3-1 when he left the inning. got the final out and clinched that elusive world series title for l.a. for the champs for the first time since 1988. cory was world series mvp. he said after the game it was really tough not to have turner there to celebrate at the final out. >> to take that away from him is gut wrenching. it hurts me. i can't imagine how he feels. if i could switch places with him i would. >> i i'm sure it's really hard tonight. we all feel for him. i hope he can take solace in the fact we're not here without him.

turner not on the field in the final out, did return to the field with a mask on. sat next to his manager dave roberts for team photo. as you can see, lowered his mask so he could smile for the camera. dodgers president of operations said the entire team was going to get tested when they got back to the hotel last night. we've reached out to the dodgers about those results, haven't heard back yet. also heard back in the fema will travel back to los angeles from texas any time soon. i guess it all depends on the results. >> destruction continues, learn more and more every day. get the emotions there, not sure that was the wisest choice. watch how that plays out. andy scholes, thanks very much. more coronavirus news, big ten canceling football game between wisconsin and nebraska, that after several players and coaches tested positive for coronavirus. the game won't be rescheduled because there's no time to do it. big ten started late after reversing initial decision to scrap the season all together.

there was no time built in for bye weeks or weeks where teams just don't play. up next for us, we get back to the campaign trail. president trump on the road today. he's out west trying to take states that lean blue and flip them back to him. why? because he's trailing in the race to 270 electoral votes.

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hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. the final six days of the 2020 campaign and the president needs to change his map and his math if he hopes to reconstruct his 2016 path to victory. one simply wow number today, the 2020 vote total is nearly half of the entire 2016