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votes. joe biden rebuild the blue wall tour. 85 million have cast votes. voting closing in seven states. look at the map markers for today on the trail. it is a stunning in battleground math. the president visits michigan, wisconsin, minnesota. vice president pence campaigns in arizona. joe biden is in iowa, minnesota, wisconsin. senator harris in a 2020 question mark, texas. the president in a very familiar place in need of a giant come back. unlike in 2016, scant evidence of any late trump momentum. coronavirus surge now perhaps the biggest head wind. thursday was officially worst dave the pandemic if you view by case count. 88,000 plus added yesterday. u.s. daily average is now

76,000. ef everywhere, red and orange, more new infections. 43 states, more infections this week compared to last week. only two pushing the case curve down. the president blames that dramatic rise in cases on testing. that's simply a lie that defies science. a lie the president repeats often. yes, testing is up, so is test positivity, so are hospitalizations, and increase in number of cases far outpaces the increase in number of tests. in a new closing ad, joe biden appeals to science and to unity. >> i am running as a proud democrat. i will govern as an american president. we will act on the first day of my presidency to get covid under control. if we to so, we'll once more become one nation, under god, indivisible. a nation united, strengthened, a nation healed. >> four nights from now we start

to fill this in. we think of campaigns in red and blue, talked about this quite a bit. we need to think about something else, we have to think about coronavirus which is everywhere in america. never mind red and blue. red and orange, the pink, darker colors, deeper the shading, higher the case count in counties across america. it is the collision of the campaign in coronavirus. a lot of this happens everywhere, but things are hurting in places that matter. we talked where the president is going. he is going to michigan, wisconsin, minnesota. one big circle. wisconsin in particular. incredibly hard hit. a lot of red everywhere, upper midwest and across. the president is traveling to where they're seeing the pain of the virus. florida, texas, everywhere. it is everywhere. arizona, key battleground state, painful summer surge there. small counties that supported the president and republicans for years, dealing with a huge

coronavirus problem right now. if you think about where the president is traveling today, let's look at some of this. he is traveling to wisconsin and to minnesota and to michigan. wisconsin especially hard hit now. hospitalization issues. a 13.2% positivity rate. public health experts say try to get the positivity rate, what percentage of people that take a test are positive. try to get it to 5, then push it down more. nearly 8% in minnesota. 6% in michigan. michigan performing best now, but the president is at war with its governor who thinks she's doing a good job fighting coronavirus. that's one way to look at it. joe biden is on the ballot against the president but the virus is also his opponent in this campaign without a doubt. another way to look at it in sadness of the campaign, just in the last week, including yesterday, we are breaking records. the president says we rounded the final corner. president says things are fine. thursday, 88,000 cases.

83,000 cases. 83,000 cases. experts say 100,000 cases is a few days ahead of us. as we said, on these three days, the president's message on coronavirus, this is alarming. not the president. >> we have the vaccines, they're going to be great. with or without it, we're rounding the turn. normal life is all we want fully resuming, we want normal life to fully resume and that's happening. did you hear him the other night? it's going to be a cold, dark winter. very inspiring guy. we are rounding the turn, doing great. our numbers are incredible. >> we know the disease, we social distance, we do all the things you have to do. if you get close, wear a mask. you know the bottom line, you're going to get better. >> joining the conversation to start the hour, dana bash and maggie haber man of "new york times." we talked about this before. in the final days, especially as we watch the case count surge,

the president, it sounds at times, what i am about to say, people say it is disrespectful, sounds like he is in a parallel universe. >> john, there's no other way to describe it. i understand the president and his supporters feel as if they have been under siege, but we're talking about objective data, about case counts and about deaths he is insisting isn't there. that's just simply what we are talking about. he is describing a universe in which, and he has been saying this for months, we are rounding the corner on the virus. in fact, it is getting worse as we head into winter. that's what his own government is saying, and he sounds totally detached from that. he is saying this as you know in places as part of the blue wall, formerly blue wall states in the midwest where he is competing and where there are a surge in cases and there are large concerns about the coronavirus. he says we have this figured out, yet he constantly makes fun of people for wearing masks.

so i understand that this is the reality he wants it to be. he has been pushing this reality awhile, but objectively if you're talking about the math and the numbers, these are not good numbers. >> they're not. and dana, you get in a political campaign, any politician wants to try to bend the truth, shade the truth, stretch the truth. there's sort of norms of political hyperbole. this is something the president is trying to tweet away or simply ignore. he blames it on bad communication. not on a bad plan. he hasn't done anything to change the administration's strategy even as we watch the cases go up and up the past few weeks. he blames it on a bad communications plan. as you listen to him, his son right after seems to contribute to the problem. >> we are doing the greatest job, except with one thing, publicity. our public relations, we're spending too much time working, not enough time talking.

no matter what you say to these people, won't make a difference. >> if i went to the cdc, i kept hearing about new infections. i was like why aren't they talking about this? oh, because the number is almost nothing, we have gotten control of this thing. >> number one, the president says he has a pr problem, it is facts, it is data, it is thousands of americans getting infected with covid every day. to his son's point, the number is almost nothing. the number is a quarter million americans dead and the projections are that it will pass 300,000 in the next 100 days. >> and let's just play this out. almost as ridiculous that we have to fact check that kind of remark. it is important to and i understand why. let's just say he is right and that you are still getting the case numbers through the roof across the country. that's not nothing. there are people that get sick and they're fine. there are people that get sick and have remnants of it, the

long haulers, for a very long time and it is a truly novel disease. no health expert really knows ultimately the long term effects and that's a really big public health problem, no matter what the president's son says. on the president's comment, d john, he is his own communications director, he is the one that sets the tone and has the biggest megaphone, most twitter followers. if there's a pr problem, it is his problem. it is not a pr problem, it is a problem of the disease, it is a problem of the government's handling it under his leadership or maybe in this term in this vain, lack thereof, and that's why this four days out from the election, this is a referendum on the president. >> it is indeed. and maggie, before the president left the white house, as he left to hit the campaign trail, he was asked about new reporting you had this morning, that the original plan was for the

president election night to go to his nearby hotel, truck international hotel a few steps from the white house, now you say those plans are on hold or pause. this was the president's explanation a short time ago. >> we haven't made a determination. we have certain rules and regulations, you know, washington, d.c. is shutdown. the mayor shut it down. so we have a hotel. i don't know if you're allowed to use it or not, but i know the mayor shut down washington, d.c. and if that's the case, we'll probably stay here or pick another location. >> does that track your reporting, the reason he thinks he can't do it, not allowed to have a large crowd in d.c. or is there more to this? >> that's one explanation i heard. i understand they're trying to suggest we're still assessing it, my understanding is it is not happening and maybe they'll get to that statement later. but yes. look, there's a cap on gatherings in washington, d.c., 50 people. they clearly knew this before

they started sending fundraising solicitations for people to show up at the party. if the hotel violates that, they could be putting among other things liquor license at risk. this is controlled by local authorities. i think that's one reason. i think another reason is that we don't know what kind of night this will be for the president, right? i think showing up at his self named hotel, if this isn't looking like a great night or if it is not clear, may not be the best option. i think we're going into a very uncertain tuesday, unlike any we have seen in recent years and i think they're aware of it. >> to that point, i am grateful to have two great reporters at the top of the hour. to that point, dana, if you look at the polling, look at the fact senator harris is in texas, read things that this is reagan versus carter, biden will have a ten point victory, the senate will flip, you can read that, see harris in texas, say

democrats are bold and optimistic or hear joe biden and kamala harris spending a day monday in pennsylvania trying to protect those 20. so which is it? nervous, play defense? optimistic, play offense. all the above? >> it is all of the above because so many of these critical battleground states are so tight according to modeling in both parties, according to sources i have been talking to, in some of them they could go either way. the thing that's most interesting about the biden campaign, the biden strategy is yes, they're planning for florida, but it is unlike donald trump, it is not a must win. joe biden as you well know can win with another path that doesn't include florida. that's why you're seeing a heavy push in the upper midwest, in pennsylvania because that is the kind of voter they think they can get. rebuild the blue wall, bring back some of the working class

white voters who were traditionally historically democrats, went for donald trump, took a chance on him four years ago. and arizona and texas, those are from the perspective of the democrats, would be nice, but they feel that they have played ball there before, whether it was two years ago in the senate race against ted cruz or look at arizona and they have not been successful. democrats i am talking to, i'm sure both of you as well, think the demographic shifts in both those states make it worth a try. that's why kamala harris is going to texas. >> and so maggie, flip the table. biden campaign has a wider menu, more choices on the menu to get to 270. the president has a more narrow path. their take when you talk to them, we did this four years ago, we'll do it again. polls were wrong four years ago, we're going to do it again. people came out of the wood work four years ago, they're going to come out again. is that spin, especially when

you look at the democrats have to finish. early voting in most places is advantage democrats, a great asset as long as you finish and execute in the final four days. does the trump campaign really see this? >> there are members of the trump campaign that see it, john. the president himself does believe he is going to win. i think part of it is because he tends to believe things work out for him. this will be one of those times. they absolutely know they have a narrow path, if he does win, he is probably going to have a larger popular vote loss than last time, he would squeak by with fewer electoral votes than when he got 306 last time. it is a narrow path. they're serious, they think there's a chance it can happen. in terms of polls being wrong, i don't know what the trump campaign internal polling is showing, and we are obviously careful about internal polling. i suspect if it showed trump doing well or largely counter to

the public polling and trump was up in a bunch of places they felt reliable about, they would release it. i think they're seeing a tight race in a bunch of states, same as the biden people. both campaigns said it does not match the larger margins of public polling. this is not 2016. that's not to say the president can't win, but it is not the same race. >> it is not the same race. to echo that, several republican polsters have seen this rnc analytics analysis that shows a path to a trump victory and they simply don't believe it, some of the republican polsters. we'll see. that's why we have elections. final weekend. up next, a big ruling in minnesota up ends that state's plan to allow absentee ballots to arrive past election day. and another one of the late campaign flashbacks. this to the final days of 2008, the year america made history. >> friends, we need to bring real change to washington and we

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to have more time to receive ballots, as long as they have an election day postmark. joining me, analyst richard childress, thanks for being with us. as a layman, my advice to people when you see one state does this, there are different rulings for different states, my advice is go online, figure your own state's plan, do it yourself. you have to take personal responsibility. as a constitutional scholar, are you seeing any legal theory come into play here that not only could in the next couple days before the election, could be meaningful for challenges after the election? >> yes. the big legal issue across a number of cases like pennsylvania and minnesota now is the question about whether the state legislature in those states by setting dates in election code cannot be interfered with by state courts, by state secretaries of state who have been agreeing or by

federal courts who have been agreeing to postpone the receipt deadline for absentee ballots by several days after election day, given that the election code says they have to come in election day. the big question here is how much are state legislatures protected by the federal constitution when they set these rules and this is a very big question could have significant implications, a lot of dimensions in play for litigation after the election. >> so let me try to follow up on that point. let's say you have a ruling in one state that's allowed to accept ballots, they're allowed to count ballots that come in after election day as long as they're postmarked by november 3rd. if that state becomes critical, is it possible to challenge in the courts and say no, in this state and that state, you ruled they had to be in by election day, legislature didn't change the deadline, a judge did or the governor did or some executive

action. therefore, can you challenge it then off do you have to challenge it before the election? >> this is one big dimension to the problems. there are tremendous reliance interests they have in a state like minnesota. until yesterday, they have have been told they can get ballots back six days after the election and they're valid. now ballots are being put in a separate pile, also put in a separate pile in pennsylvania, ones that come in within three days after the election. the question is are courts going to turn around and say even though we let you vote this way, even though the state policy let you vote this way, going to tell you sorry, too bad, they're invalid? there's a lot of relines in the rules in place before midnight hour, 11th hour decisions. there's a substantive legal issue but also the reliance issues which are very powerful in this context.

we'll see how they come together after the election. >> so this is a collision of politics and law. help me through this one. the president tweets about the north carolina decision. this decision is crazy and so bad for our country. imagine what will happen during that nine day period. the election should end november 3rd. one of the scenarios trump critics worry about, he comes out 1:00 a.m. election night, and says look, i am leading, we're done. i win. no other ballots should be counted, it is rigged, illegitimate, who knows where ballots are coming from. what happens then? >> let's calm it down a little first. one of the benefits of massive early voting, getting absentees back in these states, it puts that issue in a smaller box. but yes, this has always been one of the scenarios we worried about. we know that absentee ballots are likely to favor joe biden. we know the president will do what he did with the florida

races when this came up, start proclaiming we should start counting. that's not going to have effect, election officials and courts will do what they normally do, but there's a risk of turmoil around this, certainly litigation is imaginable, and courts are, this minnesota decision is really a troubling one because we are so close to the election, and to tell voters sorry, ballots you cast and mailed back and are coming in after election day when that's been completely legitimate up to this point are now going to be tossed out, you know, that would be a really stunning result if that were to happen. >> i suspect there will be follow-up lawsuit from somebody that happens to, somebody that says i mailed it two weeks ago, not my fault. we'll see if that plays out. we'll keep in touch as we watch the cases make their way through. hopefully it goes smoothly, perhaps post election challenges

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43 states. 43 states. look at the map. all that red and orange. that means more new infections now compared to data a week ago. 43 states trending the wrong direction. deep red, three in new england, alabama, michigan, oregon. 50% more covid-19 infections compared to a week ago. orange means you have at least 10% higher infections. up to 40% higher infections. it is a bleak map. five states holding steady, two, oklahoma and louisiana have fewer new infections than a week ago. that's a bleak trajectory. this just reinforces it. nine states hitting records for new infections yesterday. you see maine, north carolina, midwest, prairie states are hit hardest. nine states with new records yesterday. top five case days. these cases go back to june. there was one back in the summer peak, july 16, 77,000 cases for us. but look, the other four in the past week. the other four in the top five

throughout the entire pandemic, four of the top five days have been this week, including 88,521 yesterday. a case record that will be broken in the days ahead, without a doubt. here is why. you have more cases today and there will be more cases tomorrow because so many states have a high positivity rate. people get a covid test, comes back positive. look at the numbers. 26% in alabama. 13% in pennsylvania. double digits is bad. look at these. 31 in iowa, 28 in kansas, 46 in south dakota, 32 wyoming. 23, nevada. 34, idaho. stunningly high positivity which means more cases today and more people with likelihood of spreading infections, so you get more cases tomorrow. let's start there and bring in our cnn chief medical correspondent. sanjay, you look at the map and you think give me something positive. let me find something that tells me this will take a turn for the better.

the president says we are around the final turn. you look at the positivity map, we're headed into a crash. >> yeah, john. unfortunately i think that's true. when you look at the positivity rate, i think that may be one of the most important things, measures here. we see the case rates. we know they're going up. we know they surpassed following the july 4th weekend. there was a significant surge in cases at that point, then it peaked a few weeks after july 4th. people were outside. they had that to sort of buffer against the significant rise. now we're still very much on the upward turn and can't be outside as much, then there's positivity which is just as you said, john, to 46% in south dakota, what does that mean? 100 tested, 46 come back positive. it should be closer to five come back positive. that gives you a sense you're testing enough. when you're up to 46%, one of the highest positivity rates we have seen, it means that there's a lot of people out there who haven't been tested, they're

carrying the virus, they don't know it, they're continuing to spread. that's the crystal ball, if you will, are positivity rates more than anything else in terms of where cases are going to continue to surge. >> as numbers have gone up the past couple weeks, they're spiking now obviously, there's no change in the administration's posture. members of the task force are traveling the country, begging states to try to do more to stop this. we hear nothing from the president. the vice president doesn't share calls with governors, he is out campaigning. listen to a governor, republican governor from ohio who has been proactive, trying to fight it from the beginning. mike dewine talking about the trouble he finds himself in right now. >> this is by far the highest number of cases we've ever seen during the entire pandemic. in fact, it is about 700 cases more than our previous high which was just a few days ago.

virus is raging throughout the state of ohio. there's no place to hide. >> no place to hide, dr. gupta. i want to follow it up by bringing up hospitalizations. no place to hide. the governor is trying to layout a stark case. we see hospitalizations. 46,000 plus yesterday. it was 60,000 at the first peak, 60,000 in the summer surge. we're heading back up. this impacts not just covid patients, but are we getting back in some states to the point if you need elective surgery or other health issues that require treatment, that you're discouraged, go away, we can't handle you now. >> absolutely, john. i experienced that firsthand as well here in georgia. we had a period of time where the hospitals were all essentially covid hospitals and every night there would be a committee meeting basically trying to decide for the next day what operations needed to be done and what operations would be considered more elective, and

it was challenging because you had operations that had been planned weeks if not months in advance, we had to start can selling a lot of operations to make room. that's a situation that is happening i should say in many parts of the country right now and as you point out, not related to covid, those are patients that need operations on totally unrelated things that are going to have to wait and get that care. john, the hospitalizations i think is going to be key in terms of the policies that are set within the various communities. people keep saying look, we're not going to shutdown. fine. but that's under the pretense that it is going to be your decision. at some point i don't think it is any human being's decision. the virus makes that decision. what i mean is if hospitals become overwhelmed, they're going to say look, we have got no place to put new patients. we are sending them out of the region already, that's happening in texas, utah is saying this is unprecedented situation, you have field hospitals as you've

seen in wisconsin. john, i don't know how many more clues people need to how bad this is getting. >> we try to give it to them every day. again, in the final days of the campaign, this should be separated from the campaign in terms of personal behavior. people want to vote based on the president's reaction, but in terms of what you should do now, you should follow the numbers. grateful for the insights. up next, back to the campaign and update from correspondents in battleground states with just four days to go. it's me! your dry skin! i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture. we've got to have each other's backs... cerave. now the #1 dermatologist recommended skincare brand.

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they're closing the gap on democratic numbers, but the big number is what everybody is talking about. 400,000 people in florida voted just yesterday and they're continuing to vote at a very steady pace here in tallahassee today. two more days of early voting. they'll vote saturday and sunday and it is all about getting out the base. that's why both candidates were in florida yesterday. it is why jill biden will come to florida to tallahassee sunday. eric trump will be across the state as well. all about getting out the base, those final crucial votes. kyung lah is watching the voting going on in arizona. >> reporter: well, drew, here in arizona we're seeing the convergence of the pandemic and the election. take a look over here. this is an early voting site. nothing unusual about it. we have seen a trickle of people coming in and out to early vote. now swing this way, take a look. this white tent that you're

seeing is a covid testing site. in this one location, park your car, you can get tested for covid and vote in person. technically today is the last day of early voting so this place should close, except this year there's going to be something different. because of a decision decided last month by the board of supervisors, this will be one of 100 emergency voting sites that will remain open on saturday. i want you to take a look what we saw at the elections department in maricopa county. we saw them loading items like ballot boxes, ppe onto the trucks to head out to emergency voting centers and this is all in response to covid that emergency voting centers are allowed to stay open this weekend. meanwhile, all of the ballot counting is continuing. 2.25 million early votes counted. 100 emergency centers will

remain open tomorrow. over to diane in north carolina. >> reporter: i'm in raleigh. you can see behind me, we have a bit of a line forming at this early in person voting center. this is the final full day of early voting in north carolina. t tomorrow is the last day. it end 3:00 p.m. more than 50% of registered voters in north carolina have already cast their ballot. to put it in perspective, we're looking at budgabout 85% of the total votes cast in 2016 already banked in this state. again, they still have until tomorrow to vote in person, plus mail in ballots are coming in as well. at this point the state board, john, says we're looking at roughly 80% of those that already, people who requested them, they've already voted. north carolina at this point says it is feeling good about breaking records for turnout come election day. >> count them on tuesday.

remarkable to see the interest in voting, it is great. keep it up, folks. get out there and vote. dianne gallagher in north carolina. thanks to all correspondents across the battleground states. up next, the president hopes law and order support for law enforcement will help make a dirchls dirch difference in the final days. in the bay area, we believe in science.

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country. in final days before election day, the president leaning into law and order messaging, appealing for the law enforcement vote. this is his tampa rally yesterday in florida. >> we believe in law and order. i have been endorsed by every law enforcement group. all law enforcement all over florida. i asked sleepy joe at the debate, said joe, name one law enforcement agency, just one in the whole country that endorsed you. he couldn't do it. remember? >> joining me now, a leader of one of those organizations, national trustees chairman of fraternal order of police. rob, thank you for your time. tell me why, is it because of policy difference that president trump is for this and joe biden is not? that you are for president trump or is it more that the president is so vocal every day in spoken support for law enforcement, what's the biggest reason? >> good morning, john. i'll tell you, the biggest reason really is the president's unwavering support of law enforcement.

i can't speak for other organizations but i can tell you national fraternal order of police has been involved constantly with the president and white house staff and executive orders surrounding law enforcement, police reform. we were at the table for the first step executive order on prison reform. he engages us. he engages law enforcement in those important decisions and he has clearly and continually voiced his support for police officers, even during tur buhlent times sfwl how has the union dealt with internal disagreements as there always will be, it is a big country, you're a big union, presidential campaign, things get testy or feisty. this is a member of your union in philadelphia. we are members of these unions and they don't take into consideration our feelings about donald j. trump. they don't care about us, they care about our views. there are a number of

african-americans that said we don't like the way the president talks about race, we don't want our unions behind him. how do you deal with that? >> i think it is important to note, john, i heard from african americans in our organization and officers from all over the country on this topic and i think it is important to note there are many african-american officers that aren't happy with endorsement of president trump. fop has the most democratic process for endorsement of the president. we on the national executive board, we don't tell members who we're going to endorse, they tell us. we have a process in which we send a questionnaire to the candidates, they send it back. we distribute that questionnaire to local lodges and to local members and our members have an opportunity to go to lodge meetings and have the discussion and have their vote and so i don't know, we're absolutely

open to talking about how we can make the process better if there are those of our members that feel their voices haven't been heard, but that's the way this goes. members tell us who we're going to endorse. and as you said, john, i'm not going to tell you all 356,000 members are going to agree, but overwhelmingly they voted to endorse donald trump and they told us who that was going to be. we didn't tell them. >> my dad was active in labor unions when i was growing up, i have been privy to some of the conversations. that's democracy. let people talk it out. all good. rob, grateful for your time and grateful for what you and your brothers and sisters do every day to keep us safe. >> thank you, john. i appreciate that. thank you. up next, david purdue, supposed to be on the debate stage, backs out, wants to go to a rally with the president. and take. it. on... ...with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill... ...can dramatically improve symptoms...

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independent investigative bodies didn't charge him with anything. when i was in george this week, i asked about the fact david purdue has been cleared. >> was he exonerated by bodies that investigated his stock transactions? >> whether or not senator purdue was indicted, what he did was deeply unethical and he should be held to account for it by the people. >> clearly, david perdue didn't want to get involved in back and forth at the debate sunday which is why he is not appearing, instead showing up with donald trump to rally conservative voters in northwest georgia. john, that's one of two senate races that are critical in georgia. republicans hold both seats, both are at risk of flipping. we may not know the winner tuesday. georgia requires the winner to get more than 50% of the vote. if not, goes into a runoff. that will be decided in january, we may not know the winner of senate majority for weeks to come, john. >> a lot of counting after

tuesday. we may continue the count quite some time. manu, appreciate it. thanks for your time today. brianna keilar picks up after a very quick break. i'm sorry, she picks up coverage right now. have a great day. hi there, i am brianna keilar. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're in an unprecedented place now. more than 84 million ballots have already been cast, well over half the total turnout in 2016. experts say we are entering a scary time in this pandemic. the highest single day total for coronavirus cases since the pandemic began was yesterday. nearly 90,000 americans were infected and almost 1,000 americans died. experts are warning that death rate could triple by beginning of next year. and this chart shows you how bad the moment is compared to others.