between four separate rallies in pennsylvania. the early vote totals are simply massive at this point. 90 plus million americans have cast ballots. the weekend script for both candidates putting the big focus on the battleground map. cliche is cliche for a reason. turnout matters in the final days. team biden and team trump are looking to drive coalitions that are key to their math. biden is focusing on african-american voters and suburban women voters. trump on white working class and rural voters who propelled his 2016 surprise win. the other impossible to ignore factor this weekend, the coronavirus surge. the president today telling voters that the u.s. is rounding the turn. it is a lie every time he says it. and the nationwide numbers show a picture that is sad and that is storming. 47 states failing to push down their coronavirus curve, only three states are trending in a positive direction. the friday case number, 99,000

new infections, breaking single day records for the u.s. and for the world, and the scary part of the pandemic somehow is still to come. one expert warning, quote, we're right at the beginning of the steep part of the epidemic curve. i want to go ahead and bring in jeff zeleny so we can see what's going on there in michigan and we just watched joe biden there. tell us what we are expecting today, joe. >> reporter: we're going to see barack obama and joe biden appear for the first time together on the same campaign stage of this campaign. and that underscores the pandemic here. in a non-pandemic year, there's no doubt, barack obama would have been out campaigning extensively for his former vice president but starting here and it's important he's starting in the city of flint in genesee county. fewer than in 2012. president trump only carried the

whole state of michigan by 10,000 votes. that is why every vote matters. that is why democrats are starting their turnout effort here at the drive-in rally. you can see that we'll be starting momentarily behind me. people are also gathering along the streets here, watching the former president come in and joe biden and also, they'll be going to zrodetroit later today. in that county, wayne county, 75 fewer democrats or people voted in 2016 than in 2012. adding just those two counties up together, 100,000 fewer people voted for hillary clinton. that is what barack obama and joe biden are after today. it is the math. it is the numbers trying to turn out those votes and i'm told that the former president is going to speak in personal terms about joe biden. why this is a moment the country can turn to him in a moment of unity. brianna? >> we're watching now the former president, barack obama, walking out ahead of this event as he will be campaigning with joe biden today and i wonder, jeff, as we're watching this scene and

i might interrupt you if we see him begin to address the crowd here. he is coming in sort of to a different place. actually, let's listen in. former president barack obama. >> hello, flint! it's good to be back in michigan. good to be back in the midwest. a little closer to chicago from here. how's everybody doing? can everybody give a big round of applause to don ray young. fantastic young man. thank you for the introduction. happy halloween, everybody. i love your masks. please give a big round of applause as well to governor gretchen whitmer, your own.

lieutenant governor garland gilchrist. my buddy from the senate, debbie staben stabenow. a man always in there fighting for you who we need to send back to the united states senate, gary peters. your congressman, born and raised right here in flint, michigan. dan kildee. mayor sheldon neeley. and the big three to come, the next president of the united states, joe biden. three days, flint. three days until the most

important election of our lifetimes. i love you too. listen. i know right now, you've got the michigan/michigan state game and that's a big deal. paul butrophy is on the line bu this tuesday, everything is on the line. our jobs are on the line, our health care is on the line. whether or not we get this pandemic under control is on the line. but here's the good news. on tuesday, you can choose change. on tuesday, you can like joe biden and kamala harris. you can choose a better america. and what's even better news, you don't have to wait until tuesday to cast your ballot, michigan. you can vote in person right

now. just go to iwillvote.com. and if somebody like you already voted, go help your friends and family make a plan to vote. because we need everybody, not just some people. we've got to get everybody out there. i love you too. okay, that's it. put that mask back on. listen, michigan. joe biden is my brother. i love joe biden. and he will be a great president. now, i'll admit, 12 years ago when i asked him to be the nominee for vice president with me when i was running, i didn't know joe that well. we had served together in the

senate, but he and i came from different places. different generations, but i quickly came to admire joe as a man who treats everyone he meets with dignity and respect. living by the words his mom taught him, no one is better than you, joe, but you're no better than anybody else. and that sense of decency and empathy, a belief in hard work and family and faith, the belief that everybody counts. that's who joe is. and that's who he'll be as president. i can tell you, the presidency doesn't change who you are. it shows you are. it reveals who you are. and for eight years, joe was the last one in the room whenever i

faced a big decision. and he made me a better president. he's got the character and the experience to make us a better country. and he and kamala are going to be in the fight not for themselves but for every single one of us. and we sure can't say that about the president we've got right now. you know, i said this before. i never thought donald trump would embrace my vision. i understood he didn't agree with my policies but i did hope for the country's sake, he might show some interest in the job. he might take the job seriously. he never has. he hasn't shown any interest in doing the work. or helping anybody but himself and his friends. or treating the presidency as anything more than a reality show to give him the attention that he craves.

but unfortunately, the rest of us have to live with the consequences. almost 230,000 americans are dead. more than 100,000 small businesses have closed. almost 300,000 jobs are gone in michigan alone. america just had its single worst week of new covid cases. and what's his closing argument? here we are. the worst week this week. we've been going through this now for months, the federal government has had an opportunity to respond for months and his closing argument this week is that the press and people are too focused on covid. covid, covid, cody, hevid, he complains. he's jealous of covid's media

coverage and now he's accusing doctors of profiting off this pandemic. think about that. he said this just yesterday. he said doctors are overblowing it because they're going to make money off of it. doctors. he cannot fathom. he does not understand the notion that somebody would risk their life to save others without trying to make a buck. as chief of staff said, we're not going to control the pandemic. that's a quote. said it last week. we are not going to control the pandemic. we noticed, mr. chief of staff. we understand you're not going to control the pandemic. but you know who will? joe biden will. when we elect him president of the united states. remember when republicans were saying let detroit go bankrupt? remember that? now they might as well be saying let america get covid, because

that's what they're asking. if trump were focused on covid from the beginning, cases wouldn't be reaching new record highs across the country. some of the places rallies have even seen new spikes after he leaves town. there was just a study by stanford university that just came out showing thousands of people are likely to have gotten sick because of these rallies he's holding. what is his obsession, by the way, with crowd size? you notice that? he's always worried. this is the one measure he has of success. he's still worried about his inauguration crowd being smaller than mine. it really bugs him. he talked about it. he's still talking about that. does he have nothing better to worry about? did no one come to his birthday

party when he was a kid? was he traumatized? what's with crowds? i've had crowds before, you know. have had quite a few, but you know, when a country is going through a pandemic, that's not what you're supposed to be worried about. and that's the difference between joe biden and trump right there. trump cares about feeding his ego. joe cares about keeping you and your families safe. and he's less interested in feeding his ego with having big crowds than he is making sure he's not going around making more and more people sick. that's what you should expect from a president. you can expect something different from a reality tv star but from a president, you want them to put you above their own

ego. here's the truth, michigan. this pandemic would have been challenging for any president. but this idea that somehow this white house has done anything but completely screw this up is nonsense. canada identified its first case the same week that the u.s. did. just a few miles up, right? i may not be pointing north, but canada's pretty close by. our mortality rate in the united states is 2.5 times higher than canada. think about that. if we had the same percentage of folks dying in canada as we do here, nearly 90,000 americans

would have died instead of 230,000 americans. if we had handled this pandemic like canada did, 140,000 of our fellow americans might still be alive today. think about that. think about that. and yet, despite that, last week, when trump was asked if he'd do anything different, he said, not much. really? not much? can't think of anything? listen, i understand the president was anxious to downplay it because he wanted to get credit for the economy that he inherited. and zero blame for the pandemic he ignored, but it doesn't work that way. the job doesn't work that way. tweeting at the tv doesn't fix things. making stuff up doesn't make people's lives better.

you've got to have a plan. you've got to put in the work. and along with the experience to get things done, joe biden has concrete plans and policies that will turn our vision of a better, fairer stronger country into reality. joe's not going to screw up testing. joe's not going to call scientists idiots. he's not going to host super spreader events around the country. what joe will do is get this pandemic under control with a plan to make testing free and widely available, to get a vaccine to every american cost-free and make sure our front line heroes never have to ask other countries for the equipment that they need. that's what joe biden will do. joe's plan will guarantee paid sick leave for workers and parents affected by the

pandemic. he'll make sure the small businesses in every community, not just some, not just big corporations, but small businesses that hold our communities together and employ millions of americans, can we open safely. donald trump likes to claim he built this economy. america created 1.5 million more jobs in the last three years of the obama/biden administration than in his first three years, and that was before he could blame the pandemic. joe biden and i with the help of democratic congress rescued the auto industry. gary peters was there. he told us to bet on michigan and we did. manufacturing in michigan grew by 15% over our last four years. trump promised he'd make

michigan the manufacturing hub of the world again. it's up 1% under his first four years. 15% under obama/biden. 1% under him. that's michigan. right here. we handed him the longest streak of job growth in american history. but the economic damage he did by botching the pandemic response means he'll be the only president since herbert hoover to actually lose jobs. herbert hoover. that's a long time ago. joe biden and garrey peters kno the key to a strong economy is not to lift taxes for billionaires but prospects for working americans. joe has a plan to create 1 million auto related jobs by accelerating electric vehicle production. he's got a plan to create 10 million good clean energy jobs

and fight climate change in a secure environmental justice, something that's relevant to flint, michigan. you know something about that. he'll pay for the plans by rolling back trump's tax cuts for billionaires. and this is important. joe sees this moment not to get back to where we were, but to build on the progress we made together and finally make long overdue changes so liit actuall makes life easier. for a waitress trying to raise a kid on her own, or the shift work always on the edge of getting laid off. or the cancer survivor worried her preexisting protections will be taken away. let's talk about health care for a second.

let's talk about health care for a second. republicans love to say right before an election, they'll protect your preexisting conditions. well, you know what? joe and i actually protected them. ten years ago. with the affordable care act. and since we did so with no help from republicans. republicans tried to repeal or undermine the aca more than 60 times. and when asked why are you doing that? why are you being so mean? you don't think they should, no, we've got a new plan. it's going to be beautiful, terrific, except it's ten years now and they still don't have a plan.

they're trying to bamboozle you. instead of actually coming up with a plan, they've attacked the aca at every turn. they've driven up cost. they've driven up the number of uninsured. now they're trying to get the supreme court to take your health care away in the middle of a pandemic. in the middle. right at the time when people need health care. sign on to a case in the supreme court where they're trying to take insurance away from folks who need it with nothing but empty promises to take its place and now mitch mcconnell is pouring millions of outside super pac dollars to beat gary peters because that's part of their agenda. michigan, here's the truth. joe and kamala and gary will protect your health care, they will expand medicare, they'll

make insurance more affordable for everybody and the reason you know that's true is because they were there when we did it the first time. here's another thing. with joe and kamala at the helm, this is a big benefit. michelle and i were talking about this over dinner the other day. you're not going to have to think about them every day. you're not going to have to argue with your family about them every day. it won't be so exhausting. you'll be able to get on with your lives knowing the president is not going to suggest we inject bleach as a possible cure of covid. you won't have to find out, you won't wake up in the morning, open your phone, oh, news flash. the president retweeted conspiracy theories that the navy seals didn't actually kill

bin laden. you're not going to have a president who goes out of his way to insult people just because they don't support him. this is not normal behavior, people. we would not tolerate it from a teacher or a coach or a coworker or a family member, if a neighbor was acting like this. you'd stay away from that neighbor. why would we accept it from the president of the united states? and you know what, there are consequences to this action. there are consequences to his actions. it's not just a joke. it's not funny. those actions embolden other people to be mean and divisive. and racist. it frays at the fabric of our lives and affects how our children see the world and how they treat each other.

it affects the way our families get along. it affects the way the world sees america. that's why joe talks about the soul of america. that's why he talks about decency. and kindness and responsibility and hard work. that more than anything is what separates joe biden from his opponent. he actually cares about every american. he does not have a mean spirited bone in his body. i have seen him spend time with people, strangers he doesn't know when he hears about they're going through a hardship, he talks about what he's gone through. when he sees a kid, his eyes light up. because he thinks about his own kids and grandkids. joe biden tries to live the values we cherish.

honesty, hard work, kindness, humility, responsibility, helping somebody else out. that used to be the definition of manliness. not strutting and showing off. acting important. bullying people. used to be, being a man meant taking care of your other people. not going around bragging but just doing the work. not looking for credit. trying to live right. passing on those values to your kids. looking out for a community. carrying your weight. giving up a little bit of what you might have to help somebody who has a real need. what you elect joe, that's what you'll see reflected from the

white house and those shouldn't be republican or democratic values. they didn't use to be. we grew up learning from our parents and our grandparents and they're the values we still try to teach our kids and they're not white or black or hispanic or asian or gnattive american val values but american values. to reclaim them, we have to turn out like never before. if we're going to reclaim those values, we need to leave no doubt. we can't afford to be complacent. not this time. not in this election. we got a little complacent the last election. i understand why americans get frustrated and sometimes think government is not going to make a difference. voting is not going to make a difference. i understand that. people in government are not

perfect, even when it's working. government snis not going to soe every problem but we can make things better. a president can't by himself solve every challenge facing the economy here in flint or michigan, but if we elect people like gary peters and dan kildee and we get a house and a senate joined with a white house that are more focused on working people and getting you the help that you need, they will make a difference and some folks will get jobs that wouldn't otherwise have jobs and some folks would have health care that otherwise wouldn't have health care. a president by himself can't eliminate all racial bias in our criminal justice system, but if we elect district attorneys and state's attorneys and sheriffs focused on quality and justice and once again have a justice department and a civil rights division in the justice department that cares about

these issues, we can make things better and that's what voting's about. not making things perfect but making things better. it puts us on a track so that generations from now, we can look back and say, right about then, things start getting better again. the fact that you don't get 100% of what you want right away, that's not a good reason to vote, you've just got to keep it at. typically over 50% of us vote who are eligible. think about that. almost half of the people in most elections eligible to vote don't vote. imagine if 60% of us voted. imagine if 70% of us voted. imagine january 20th, when we swear in a president and jury present who's got a plan to get us out of this mess, who care about folks like you, who have been in your shoes, who know

what it's like to struggle, who knows what it's like to have to work hard, who are thinking about working americans and have a plan to help you start getting ahead. imagine what it's like to have a president and vice president who believe in science, and who have a plan to protect this planet for our children, and who believe in racial equality and are sending a clear signal that we're all in this together and are doing the work to bring us closer so that we have an america where no matter what we look like, where we come from, who we love or how much money we've got, we can make it. and we have a place and we're treated with dignity and respect. michigan, that's what's possible. and i'm asking you to remember that it's possible. i want you to remember what this country can be. but you can't just imagine a better future. you can't just wish for it. you've got to fight for it.

we've got to outhustle the other side. we've got to vote up and down the ticket like never before right here in michigan and all across the country. we've got to leave no doubt about who we are and what this country stands for, and if we do, we will send gary peters back to the senate. and we will elect a man who loves this country and who cares about you and who will fight for every single one of us and will look out not just for folks who support him but even the folks who don't. my friend the next president of the united states of america, joe biden. joe biden.

joe biden. get you fired up. honk if you're ready to go. >> mr. president, thank you, thank you, thank you. remind you how good it can be listening to him, doesn't it? as my mother would say about barack, god love him, he's a good man. folks, it's good to be back with friends. governor whitmer.

debbie stabenow. gary peters who you are going to send back to the united states senate because i'm going to need him. we can always count on him to be your senator for you and your family and my good friend, congressman dan kildee who we need to send back. dan's a good man, a good man, and of course, i wish we could figure out how to send back a guy who we used to have an expression up in scranton. we'd say when someone, patch on his jeans. i tell you what. mr. president, you're still driving him crazy because he knows he wasn't a patch on your jeans. i tell you what. barack, it's great to be with the president again. it reminds me of what we can be. when you have a president of

character, a president respected around the world, a president our kids looked up to. i want to say something we don't say often enough and i mean this from the bottom of my heart. barack obama was a great president of the united states of america, and i want to make sure we say here today, mr. president, thank you, thank you, thank you. eight years without one single trace of scandal, not one single trace of scandal. it's going to be nice to return to that. flint, three days. three days, we can put an end to this presidency we have now that's divided the nation. three days, we can put an end to a presidency that has failed to protect this nation. three days, we can put an end to this presidency that has fanned

the flames of hate all across this nation and made us the laughing stock around the world. millions of americans have already voted. millions more are voting today, tomorrow, and god willing, all the way through to the polls on tuesday. and my message was just simple. the power to change the country is not figuratively, but literally in your hands. i don't care how hard donald trump tries, there's nothing, let me say it again, there's nothing he can do to stop the people of this nation to vote in overwhelming numbers and taking back this democracy. and when americans vote, no matter how many threats he makes, america will be heard when america heard, i believe it's going to be loud and clear. it's time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home.

we're done with the chaos, the tweets, the the anganger, the he failure, the refusal to take any responsibility. we've got a lot of work to do, got a lot of work to do and if i'm elected your president, we're going to do it. we're going to act, and we're going to need your help in doing it as well. we're going to have to get covid under control on day one of my presidency, i'll put in action a plan i've been talking about for months already laid out. a national mandate, mask wearing, social distancing, testing, tracing, all things as president obama just said, should have been, could have been put in place months and months ago. a plan for full and fair and free, i might add, distribution of therapeutics and vaccines when we get one.

imagine where we'd be if we had a president who wore a mask instead of mocking it. i could tell you this. we wouldn't have 9 million confirmed cases of covid in this nation. over 230,000 desks, seeing a new record of cases we're seeing right now. 90,000 cases. today, yesterday, 90,000 new cases, by the way, 500,000 in the past week. this guy tells us it's going away. makes it go away, if he goes away. desperately trying to improve his image. trying to talk to bob woodward,

thought he could change his mind but what he did, he let it be known. all the way back in january, he knew how dangerous this pandemic was. and he hid it from the american people. he knew it was worse than the flu. but he lied to the american people. and he knew it wasn't going to disappear but he kept telling us, america was coming. and yesterday, he had the gal to suggest that american doctors, people are putting lives on the line, on the front lines to save other lives along with nurses and so many others. he's suggested falsely they're inflating the number of covid deaths to make more money. it's perverted. he may believe because he doesn't do anything other than for money. the people of this nation suffered and sacrificed for nine

months. none more so than the doctors on the front lines and health care workers, and this president is questioning their character. more than offensive, it's a disgrace. especially coming from a president who has waved the white flag of surrender to this virus. front line health care workers. i will never raise the white flag of surrender. we're going to beat this virus, we're going to get it under control. and the first step to doing that is beating donald trump. what a great job he's done as president, oh, man.

well, did you know president obama and i created more jobs in the last three years of our administration than he did in the three years before the pandemic? how about this? or did you know, donald trump is going to be the first president in 90 years to finish his term with fewer jobs under his leadership than when he started. look, that's a lot of presidents. that's a lot of crises. but only donald trump will have fewer jobs at the end of his presidency than when he started. you see, i and barack understand something donald trump doesn't. wall street didn't build this country. you did. built the middle class. a wage war on american labor.

i see the uaw sign out there. first ever outfit a 29-year-old kid. god love you. look, we have a different view. we believe we should be working, not wealth in this country. under my plan, if you make less than $400,000 a year, you're not going to pay a penny in additional taxes. but the wealthiest people, the biggest corporations, 91 of the fortune 500 companies pay zero in federal income tax last year. corporations start to pay their fair share. why should a firefighter, an educator, a nurse pay at a higher tax rate than someone

making literally a billion dollars? he paid $750 in taxes, the one year we know of. released 22 years of my tax returns. you can go online and look. he hasn't released one. he talks about corruption. what is he hiding? owes $41 million out there. who's he owe it to? if you notice, the only president i know of with a secret bank account in china. pay 50 times more in beijing than the united states. and this guy talks about corruption.

we have been trying over 50 shots to take out obamacare, destroy the affordable care act but they'll be in court. i believe it's seven days after the election. win or lose, losing protections for preexisting conditions, including more than 4 million michig michiganders. donald trump thinks health care is a privilege and barack and i think it's a right. we're not going to restore obamacare but build on it. if you like your insurance and choose a medical like public

option, if you don't. we'll keep subsidies and out of cost reduce drug costs by 60%. look, we're going to make sure you keep protections for people with preexisting conditions, meanwhile, donald trump laid out what he's going to do in the second term if he's elected to social security. the actuary said if he gets the plan passed, they will, quote, bankrupt social security by 2023. something millions of americans live on, paid for their whole life. when i said back six years, debbie will tell you, republican tried to eliminate medicare, everybody said, no, that's crazy. first thing paul ryan in the congress did was try to cut

billions of dollars out of medicare. these guys mean what they say. i'm going to protect social security, medicare, and medicaid because it's the lifeline for so many hard working folks. but folks, i have to admit to you. it's kind of personal with me. there's nothing worse that this president has done in my view than the way he speaks about our women and men in uniform and those giving their lives. he called them losers and suckers. my son bo a major to the united states army. gave up the attorney general's job and petitioned to be able to go with his unit to iraq for one solid year. u.s. attorney, being in coast

se ko kosovo, the only foreigner with a 12 foot memorial dedicated to him. major highway they built, the bo biden highway because of his commitme commitment. my son came home like so many others, before he passed away. he wasn't a sucker or a loser. nor were any of you who served. you're patriots and just like all of your sons and daughters, your parents and grandparents who serve, the president likes to portray himself as a tough guy. if you're in high school, wouldn't you have liked to take a shot, that's a different story, but anyway. a macho man. but when's the last time you read about, saw, heard about a president of the united states world leaders when he spoke at

the united nations? laughed at out loud. when's the last time you saw a president of the united states being mocked by the leaders of nato at a nato conference? can you believe we have a president who acts like vladimir putin's puppy? putin put bounties on the heads of american soldiers serving in iraq. and trump was too scared to challenge him. trump never mentioned it. trump's not strong, he's weak. he commands little respect at the national stage. this is a president who not only doesn't understand sacrifice, he doesn't understand courage, physical courage, it takes to serve in uniform in a war zone. maybe that's why six generals and admirals who work for him

left his administration and said he was unfit to be commander in chief. when's the last time any president has had that happen? tough guy. that's why joint special operations commander, general stanley mcchrystal, that's why head of the navy seals oversaw bin laden, admiral craven and 22 other four stars have endorsed me, saying they support me to be their next commander in chief. because like obama and bush and before him they know and respect him and support him. i've been in and out of war zones, senator and vice president, over 35 times. i tell you what. these folks we have only 1% of the country in the military. we owe them.

the heart of who we are. that's why we have to support our military and get rid of trump. you know, i want to tell you something. think about this. no such thing as climate change. he calls it a hoax. i see it as job, sehelp and safety. too often on poor and communities of color. we'll make sure communities benefit from the hundreds of millions of infrastructure and climate change we're going to do of the change of structure. we're going to create local jobs

to rebuild roads, build sidewalk cracks to live, work and play safely. turn on to have clean water come out and what happened in flint will never happen again in america. we can and must do this. donald trump has rolled back more than 100 environmental protection laws. many enacted under barack and me. it also holds polluters accountable with most ambitious environmental agenda ever. folks, active on racial justice in america. protesting is not burning or looting. violence cannot be tolerated and it won't, but these protesters try for justice. the name of george floyd, breonna taylor, jacob blake will

not soon be forgotten. they'll inspire new wave of justice in america. america had their eyes opened up. they're ready. we can and must. no choice, that's how democracies work. proud democrat, but i will govern as an american president. i work as hard for those who don't support me as those who do. get it into a drop box as soon as you can, you can also safely earlier to the afternoon.

or on election day. we have such an incredible opportunity. we've got to move up and down the ticket here. i, honest to god, believe, i give you my word, honest to god, believe, we're in the cusp, in the inflection point, we've got a chance to make such enormous progress because the american people have seen what the other looks like. they've gotten a glimpse of the abyss. i really mean it. they're ready. they're ready to change so much. i'll never forget what president kennedy said when he promised to send us to the moon. he used the phrase that guided

me. he said we're doing it because, quote, we refuse to postpone. well, i refuse to postpone the incredible opportunities for the united states and the american people. there's nothing beyond our capacity. there is no limit to america's future. the only thing that can tear america part is america itself. and that's exactly what donald trump has been doing from the beginning of this campaign. dividing america. pitting americans against one another based on race, national origin. it's wrong, it's un-american. that's not who we are. folks, everybody knows who donald trump is. let's keep showing who we are. we choose hope over fear. we choose unity over division.

we choose science over fiction. and yes, we choose truth over lies. take back our democracy. we can do this. we're so much better than we've been. we can be at our best. united states of america. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> former vice president joe biden wrapping things up in flint, michigan, after getting an opener from a big name,

former boss and former president barack obama. as we're watching these two attempt to greet there in the era of coronavirus, i want to bring in jeff zeleny who's there following this event. he's in flint, michigan. i wonder, how the biden campaign is feeling about michigan. this is a state that trump won narrowly. this is a state joe biden needs. how are they feeling? >> brianna, they are feeling confident but certainly not overconfident. that's why barack obama is here in michigan. and i think the central theme of his speech, perhaps, the most important thing, never mind what barack obama said about the current president to democrats, don't be complacent. we got a little too complacent in the last election and by the numbers, that's exactly what happened here in genesee county, 25,000 fewer people voted here so that is the point here.

you can hear the horns honking and the crowd cheering. barack obama was speaking to democrats saying, look, get out and vote. so it is extraordinary that we should take account of this moment. the first time we have seen these two together, i believe, since january of 2017 when president obama presented the medal of freedom to joe biden as vice president in the final days in office. and here they are together on stage again for the first time of two appearances in michigan today. that's all we're going to see them. no question, the pandemic politics have changed everything and democrats are worried it may not get everyone out to vote because the old field programs haven't been working as much and early voting, there was a question of that. that's what president obama was here doing, urging democrats to come out and vote. urging any voters to come out if they're not satisfied with president trump, brianna. >> i manaimagine there's a lot nerves about president trump in

michigan. in retrospect, there were democratic operatives who had said they were worried about how the race was shaping up there and felt some of the concerns might have fallen on deaf ears. certainly, the biden campaign has the benefit of hindsight but as you listened to the topics, former jury presepresident and president. >> reporter: about health care in former barack obama's speech and joe biden's. it was the signature accomplishment of their administration and it is indeed on the ballot in every respect because the supreme court is considering this days after the election and we hear president trump talking about his health care plan, how he will protect preexisting conditions. but we've not seen a health care plan from him. they have had four years to do

it. we've got seen it. that is central to the obama/biden argument here protecting health care and brianna, you are right. four years ago, you and i covered the clinton campaign. we were not here in the final days of the campaign. congresswoman were sounding the alarm, saying come to michigan. they didn't do it. that is something the biden campaign is doing there, taking nothing for granted and the reality is here as we drive around flint and talk to voters, some believe the democratic party has left them behind so president trump has an appeal to the former democrats, blue collar workers. that is what joe biden is trying to get across here and certainly, african-american voters as well here in flint and in wayne county, and you can just see a bit of trump activity here as well. some, certainly, last minute campaigning but president trump was in michigan yesterday. he may be coming back, so this is, again, a key battleground here and on election night on tuesday, all eyes will be on

this blue wall to see if it does stay or if president trump wins it again, brianna. >> the fight will be fierce. i want to bring in to our conversation here, jeff, our political director, david chalian and then wall street reporter, april ryan, white house correspondent for american urban radio networks and also, sybrina, one of the big topics as well was jobs which barack obama was really there to hammer home to folks in michigan. the question is, is this going to take hold with some of the voters that donald trump was able to sway? what do you think? >> that certainly is the hope and democrats see president obama as one of the most effective surrogates on the campaign trail. that's why you've seen him take on a more prominent role over the past week, in addition to his event in hawaii today also traveling to georgia and florida on monday.

obama's message was really about not just the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the impact that the pandemic has had on the economy, but just more broadly, his behavior and his conduct in office, and what obama was really pushing voters to do was to ask themselves why they have been willing to tolerate that behavior from the president of the united states when they wouldn't tolerate it from a friend, a coworker, a teacher, a coach. that was one of the key messages he was trying to drive home because this isn't really about voter persuasion anymore. it's about boosting turnout with just three days remaining until election day and democrats remember all too well that the election in 2016 really came down to roughly 77,000 votes across three states. pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan where the president joined his former vice president today and hopefully trying to resolve some of the issues that hillary clinton faced where she underperformed in those three states four years ago. >> april, you know, to that

point, one of the things that former president said was, basically, imagine waking up in the morning and you don't have a president who retweeted a conspiracy theory about the navy seals and osama bin laden and the raid not really going down the way it went. >> barack obama, for many, the forever president, came out swinging, talking about joe biden and kamala harris will be people in the oval office, in the white house who you don't have to worry about, because they won't be tweeting, they won't be saying insulting words to people and so on and so on. but at the end of the day, president obama made a very poignant case about this president, donald john trump and he did it from a space that donald john trump traveled to four years ago, flint, michigan, and if you look at what donald trump has done since he went to flint, michigan, when he was campaigning to be president, nothing has changed.

and it's also spotlighted even more so, infrastructure issues across the nation, not just in flint, but in washington, dc and other states, in the carolinas and other states. this president made it clear not just about being in flint but talking about the fact that donald trump is not a person of humility. he's a person who struts. he's a person who has no shame and he also talked about covid. and michigan is a state that has been impacted by covid. the governor, gretchen whitmer, had been fighting so hard to get ventilators, the swabs for the covid testing kits, and now look at what's happening. we are in the moment, former president barack obama emphasized strategically we're seeing an increase at this moment, the worst week ever as this white house is saying that it's not going to, this is not happening anymore. this is over. so president obama made the case poignantly, strongly, and he

also, if you remember, four years ago, he said don't, and try to take the anxiety people and turn it into action. >> david, as you're watching michigan, a state obviously that donald trump won pretty narrowly, but as jeff reported, there are a lot of union workers in michigan who say they don't plan on coming back. they're standing by president trump. the question is, how widespread is that and can biden turn out other voters who could counter some of those folks that may be lost to the democratic party? >> right, like those union workers we saw, home of the reagan democrat. that's where they were in michigan. the term the reagan democrat came out of michigan but you asked the right question, brianna, what is biden going to make up with that lost vote with women in the suburbs, with independents, with other slices of the electorate where he seems

to be performing rather well and of course, boosting turnout among voters like african-americans, which is part of barack obama's mission today. i do think what you were just speaking of though gets to barack obama's message here, broader than simply the immediacy of the get out the vote turnout operation that he's trying to light a fire. the note about trump exhaustion, you won't have to worry every night at dinner with your family, talking about what joe biden and kamala harris did that day, that's barack obama speaking beyond just where he is in flint today, but speaking to all those what we call pivot counties across the country that went for obama and then went for trump and reminding people who had been with him in some of these key places who are not necessarily just core democratic base voters but actually moved, just how exhausting these four years may have been for them and

perhaps, they can find a way in a biden administration to not have to worry every moment about what's going on at the white house. that's a real thing, you hear from voters. not just a throwaway line. it's real voters experiencing, and i think president obama was speaking to a lot of the obama voters. >> he spent time in april talking about the tone as he did about policies. we know there's a lot of people who are out there who worry about having a president on their television if they sa, sa have children at home, is he going to say something the kids should even be listening to, this is a big concern especially for suburban women voters who the president as he is addressing them in his final push here, appears to be

misunderstanding and talking about women and get the husbands back to work, when really, it is women who with covid going on or leaving the workforce at four times the rate of men. >> women, as we all know, we vote in force. we are the majority vote and black women in particular are leading the black vote but getting back to the suburban woman issue. it's a racist issue that this president wants to bring back from the '50s and '60s and beyond that how dare black people come into the community that is quiet and calm. this goes along with red lining. keeping black people out of communities that they are allowed to the fair housing act, happened in 1968 where you can move and live anywhere. and this president is going against civil rights laws. this is a law, this is not myth or conjecture. it's a law. also, brianna.

i want to bring back something, in michigan, a lot of those suburban white women were in the auto industry as well. their husbands were in the auto industry and the auto industry right now is suffering, and they are split. the domestic auto industry split on this president about the things he says about domestic auto cars and also, this tariff that is painfully, financially hit the pocketbooks of suburban women's households, so this president has given a double message. given a message of, i'm going to help you in your suburban communities so you can be safe from crime, but yet, the pocketbooks are hurting in the michigan suburbs from what he's done to the auto industry. so it's being weighed carefully by these white suburban women. >> and serena, we saw highlighted here, the difference in the message on covid as we're heading into these final days of the election. it does seem like the trump campaign's approach is to downplay that it's really a big thing, even though it's a huge

thing and it's getting worse. and to that point, you heard the former president say that as well. as a device pointed in the direction where he thought canada might be, the point it's not far away and they're having much better success when it comes to preserving lives because of the way they have handled coronavirus. >> absolutely. these two campaigns are operating in entirely different worlds and when you look at the closing argument for the biden campaign and his surrogates like president obama, their message has been entirely focused on this administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and trying to drive home that point that you just raised that the rest of the world is actually doing a lot better. it doesn't mean that there's still not ongoing challenges in terms of containing the virus and its spread but that this is really, in terms of where the united states is right now, a consequence of the administration downplaying the severity of the virus and not

really heeding the calls of public health experts. on the other side, you have president trump out there barn storming at these large scale rallies where there really isn't any social distancing in place. a lot of people still not wearing masks. the president who himself, earlier this month, hospitalized after testing positive for covid-19, but that has not changed his message as he claimsclaims the u.s. is rounding the corner as it's not. the question is in three days from now, the president out there saying resonates with voters whose lives have been paralyzed by this pandemic, the children are home from school, who have seen their jobs up ended by the impact on the economy. that really is what we have seen in polling that this president's handling of the pandemic is directly tied to the drop in his approval rating. how much that will really be perhaps what makes the difference on election day. that's what remains to be seen. >> and jeff zeleny there on the ground for us, what else are we

expecting from president barack obama's involvement in the biden campaign? >> reporter: brianna, we are expecting him to travel to detroit just a little bit south of here later today. there's going to be a big event with barack obama, joe biden and stevie wonder, focusing on wayne county. these voters have been talking about specifically 75,000 who did not vote for hillary clinton in 2016, many did not vote for president at all in that race and voted for down ballot. they believe georgia is an opportunity to pick up african-american voters, suburban women as well, inspire the voters and it's a bit of a fire fighting exercise to put out what they believe is a fire in south florida. they do not believe that democrats have sufficiently turned out in early voting the

former president who won florida is going down to south florida to try to fire up some of the younger african-american voters and younger voters overall. so the biden campaign, i would say is confident, heading into tuesday, but certainly not complacent because they do not know, frankly, if the program of virtual organizing has been successful as traditional organizing. that's why they're sending former president out there again on monday and joe biden for his part is heading to pennsylvania where that is the mother of all battleground states. president trump, of course, spending all day there today for that. that's what the next three days look like, brianna. >> i'm, jeff zeleny, april ryan, it's wonderful to talk to all of you into election day. in the meantime, president trump filled his schedule with back-to-back rallies in the must-win state of pennsylvania. he has four there today. so i want to go now to cnn's

sara murray in redding, pennsylvania, yet to get under way. sara, what is the president's message to pennsylvania voters here in the final days? >> reporter: well, look, i think what the president is trying to do is really sprint through the tape in pennsylvania. republicans here are optimistic about his odds, even though he's down in the polls. they know big early mail-in voting in the state and that's going to be a lot of democrats. the president is barn storming pennsylvania because he wants to turn out as many of his voters in public. the first today was about the suburban women kind of trying to stop the bleeding in the color counties around philadelphia. won by 10 points, trying to run up the score and then later today, deep red parts of the state where they are really trying to turn out voters that they believe are pro trump but just didn't turn out in 2016. that's their strategy here. we'll see if it works. joe biden going to be in

pennsylvania tomorrow as well. this is a big prize, 20 electoral votes, no one is taking for granted at this point. >> what kind of precautions are they taking there? there's been an analysis of trump events and the fact that spikes in coronavirus have followed in many places. what is going on that you can see, sara? >> reporter: well, brianna, i think in these rallies, there's no social distancing whatsoever. there are some people here who are wearing masks but it's certainly not the norm. it's kind of funny because a guy just walked by with a bunch of these trump face coverings he was handing out and went pretty quickly. it goes to show you, if the trump campaign and the president himself was really out there promoting this, how popular it could be. this one is really no different,

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of coronavirus every second. one american dying of coronavirus every two minutes. >> reporter: officials nationwide are pleading with people to opt for public safety instead of public celebrations. >> as we head into halloween weekend, the time when many would normally be out and about in a different sort of face mask, please stay home. >> reporter: the midwest where both president trump and former vice president biden campaigned on friday has seen a particularly grim spike and while mask wearing and social distancing guidelines were visible at all of biden's events, trump poked fun at a fox news personality for following protocols at his rally in michigan. >> i can't recognize you. is that a mask? no way. are you wearing a mask? i've never seen in a mask, look at you. she's being very politically correct, whoa. >> reporter: this as the new seven-day case rate in that state is up 52% from last week.

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just three days until polls close and joe biden is holding a pretty comfortable lead nationally. he is 10 points ahead in cnn's poll of polls but presidents aren't elected by popular vote and 2016 offered a lesson in that. cnn political director david

chalian. people at home say biden's ahead, but we thought hillary clinton was ahead in 2016 and look what happened. there are a lot of people who, they're just waiting to see what happens come election day. >> as they should. we're waiting for the votes to be counted. what we've done here with the electoral map, for you to look at the paths to 270 electoral votes for both biden and trump, brianna, is we've taken all our toss-up states and added in our leaning states. states that are slightly leaning to biden or to trump. we made them all yellow and let me just walk you through here what sort of joe biden's path to 270 would be. when you divvy up the states, joe biden at 203 and donald trump at 125. but let's start with the states that hillary clinton won in 2016. donald trump trying to make something happen in a couple of

them but so far, the polls haven't indicated it's working but in nevada, colorado, i'll give to biden. minnesota, and new hampshire. so those are the four sort of hold states for joe biden. hillary clinton won them narrowly in new hampshire and minnesota and trump made a real attempt in minnesota and nevada specifically, so we'll see if he's successful there, but let's let joe biden hold them for the purposes of this exercise. and then the next thing that joe biden needs to do which he has said very publicly is he needs to rebuild that blue wall, right? pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. if he does that, that's it. joe biden's at 278. donald trump can win everything else yellow on each and he won't get to 270. so these are joe biden's two most critical missions. hold those states that are currently leaning his way that hillary clinton won and build back the blue wall that donald

trump busted through. that is joe biden's path, brianna. let me show you what donald trump needs to do. he needs to hang on to arizona. obviously, he needs to hang on to texas. a 38 electoral votes, not much he can do if he loses texas. hang on to florida, georgia, north carolina, ohio, iowa, now he's at 258. congressional district in inv t nebraska. he won it four years ago. same thing in maine. they award electoral votes by district. he won that four years ago. let's get, he's at 260. where does he go to get those last 10 electoral votes? well, he goes right to this region, the great lakes states. pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, and he tries to recreate what he did in 2016. pennsylvania would do it, if that stayed blue. then michigan would do it, that would put him over the top.

if michigan and pennsylvania were to stay blue. wisconsin doesn't, so he just would need one of them, if he were to win all those other toss-up states and those congressional districts. he just would need one of those three. but this, winning all this red right now is a tall order for him. could happen, that's what we're going to watch for on tuesday. this is certainly his path back to the white house for a second term, brianna. >> david, thank you so much. it's so important to understand what the math looks like and that was incredibly helpful. david chalian, thank you. now the u.s. is smashing record after record and not in a good way. nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases yesterday. nearly 1,000 deaths and moments ago, the uk announced it is going to enter a second national lockdown. can the u.s. avoid the same? we'll have a live report from london right after this. at t-mobile, we have a plan built just for customers 55 and up.

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the u.s. recorded nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases on friday. this was far and away the highest number yet since this outbreak began. what is more, the five highest days of new cases have all come in the last eight days. in other words, things are moving very quickly all across the country now. i want to bring in dr. peter hotez joining me now from houston, a professor and the dean of tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicine and co-directs the texas's children hospital for vaccine development. dr. hotez, i first want to talk to you about what we're seeing happen in the uk which is they're announcing a new lockdown, a second lockdown. this happened just moments ago. with all of the numbers that we just listed in mind, is the u.s. headed for the same fate? should it be doing the same thing or can that still be averted? >> yeah, i think so because, look, the numbers in the uk look

like they're around 40 or 50 new cases per 100,000 residents over a seven-day period. we're actually double that now in the dakotas, north dakota, south dakota, up in wyoming and the great plain states. so we're already past that level. so there's no question that we should now be getting ready to aggressively social distance, having masks mandates, but we're photo doing th not doing that. we don't have the leadership in washington that's stressing the importance of that, if anything, they're continuing to play down the importance of this epidemic. we're not seeing mask mandates coming from the governors. in fact, some of the governors in the states have been deliberately defiant about masks. we're headed in a horrible, horrible direction and the country's clearly going this the direction of probably the most serious part of the epidemic. we'll hit 100,000 new cases per day any day now. >> we just crossed 230,000

deaths. we can see that on our screen, dr. hotez, and you mentioned the president playing down the death toll. he's doing that, his allies are doing that. i want to listen to part of that. >> i went through the cdc and kept hearing about new infections. why aren't they talking about deaths? oh, because the number is almost nothing. >> our doctors get more money if somebody dies from covid. you know that, right? i mean, our doctors are very smart people. so what they do is they say, i'm sorry, but everybody dies of covid. >> i mean, the lies there, we just have to fact check real quick. donald trump jr. doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. he's not talking about the right numbers. he's completely misrepresenting what's going on with deaths. we just shouldn't even listen to what he's saying there because it's just full of crap, to be frank, and then when it comes to president trump, i mean, he's talking about provisional numbers, dr. hotez but i want to ask you about what president trump, and just to be clear on provisional numbers, that's

death certificate information. so whatever you're looking at with a provisional number today isn't going to be correct. and then you hear from the president there, what he's saying about doctors, i mean, he's saying they're committing fraud, which every time i talk to a doctor about it, is just appalling to them. they're not getting paid more for this. hospitals might get paid more because it costs more to deal with the covid patient, but that's not what they're doing, dr. hotez. >> you know, you're absolutely right. you made the statement, they don't know what they're talking about. the horrible reality is they do know what they're talking about and they're deliberately deceiving. this is a coordinated disinformation campaign coming out of the white house to play down the severity of the epidemic, to make up, try to discredit masks, to try to say that we're going to reach herd immunity. this is all carefully orchestrated and coordinated to deceive the american people. i hope it doesn't work on

november 3rd because it's having deadly consequences. the new numbers coming out of the institute for health metrics show we'll double the number of americans who die from covid-19 by the early part of next year, unless we can get 95% compliance with masks and aggressively social distancing. so it really breaks my heart to see how we're just accelerating towards the number of deaths that so many could be prevented right now, especially where the epidemic is the worst, in the northern part of the midwest and the great plain states and pretty soon, if you look at the heat map of the u.s., it's going to be over the entire country. we're already pretty much getting there, and that's what that 100,000 new cases per day really means. >> i think that's an excellent point that you make. they've put out this false information. they know it's false. they continue to say it. they're saying knowingly something that's a lie. if you can stay with me.

we have some developing news that i want to get to but then i want to get your take on it. because the british prime minister boris johnson just announced a renewed lockdown in england. so this isn't the entire uk. this is in england, and this happened just moments ago. i want to get now to max foster, covering this for us in london. tell us what this is going to look like. >> it's a four week lockdown from thursday. it has to go through parliament, but we assume it will go through parliament. it won't be as strict as the first english lockdown because schools remain open but bars and restaurants have to close and what's worrying about this, the type of language they've been using to describe the scale of the problem. this isn't something that boris johnson was planning to do. it's very much a u-turn but looked at the numbers and we've just seen the number of coronavirus cases going over a million here in england and that's a huge concern, but he's

looking at the national health service and he's talking about a potential medical and moral disaster if the number of hospital admissions continue to go up at the rate they currently are. he's concerned about the national health service collapsing in a matter of weeks unless something is done, so he's telling people to stay at home for four weeks. he's aware, it's a huge problem for businesses, many small businesses said they're going to collapse, but he's extending the furlough scheme for businesses in england but major turnaround for him and expresses the problem not just here in the uk and across europe as numbers surge, kate. >> max, this is very serious what we're seeing going on here. it looks like a u-turn because they confront reality. i want to bring in dr. hotez to talk a little bit about this. clearly, they believe this is necessary and doctors are telling them this is necessary in england. when you're looking at the u.s.,

whether or not donald trump wins the election or loses the election next week, or whenever we find out the results, he is going to be in charge of the government response for months to come. so what is that going to mean with the type of measures, as we look to the uk to see what they're doing in england, what is that going to mean for what the federal response will be here for what's needed in these dark days ahead of us? >>. >> brianna, you asked the most important question and there's two parts to that answer. what mr. johnson is doing today, that's the face of pragmatic leadership that cares first and foremost about saving lives. and that's what a leader is supposed to do. and what he's worried about and what the uk government is worried about is, as the numbers start to accelerate, there's these huge surges on hospitals and as intensive care units get overwhelmed, that's when the mortality rate skyrockets. that's what we saw in spain and

italy earlier this year, what we saw in new york city. and the british prime minister is basically saying all hands on deck to avoid that. that's exactly what the u.s. president needs to be doing right now in the worst affected states in the northern part of the country. and he won't do it and we know it's already happening. we're already seeing massive surges in hospitals in utah, north dakota, south dakota, we're seeing it now in el paso and texas and instead of showing leadership, what's happening is it's being left to the governors, or in some cases, not even the governors, it's being left to local leaders to figure out. there's an absolute refusal from the national government to lead a national response of covid-19 in the united states and there's a reason why we have 225,000 americans who perished and there's a reason why it will continue to double and you point out that no matter what happens with the election, president trump is still in the white house for the next few months until january 20th and it's been

bad enough even without having lame duck that we haven't had anything resembling the full force of the federal government and the executive branch of the federal government and the cdc in charge leading this response. i can only imagine what it's going to be like as we go through november, december, and january. i'm just horrified and so upset, and that's why i'm here trying to push as hard as i can and i know you are as well to inform americans, to look after their families, look after themselves, be aware of social distancing, be mindful, having situational awareness, and also, we have that reminder to keep track of your mental health as well because this is going to be a very stressful time and identify your social distancing unit that you need to be with, try to avoid being alone if you don't have to, and have numbers available for mental health counselling. this is going to be one of the darkest periods in our history. the only good news i can offer is this will get better starting

next summer, i think vaccines will become more widely available. it won't completely change things, but it will make our quality of life much better as companion technologies existing public health control measures. >> that's one of the things you've been saying, get some mental health resources in place because you may need them and if you don't, that's great, but get them in place if you do need them, they're ready. wonderful to see you. thank you so much. >> great to see you, brianna. >> and we're going to be right back. we made usaa insurance for this season. and the veterans that never quit on their team. when being a fan gets tough, and stretching your budget gets even tougher... ...our agents put in the time and legwork for you, ...so saving on auto insurance is easy. because saving a little extra goes a long way. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for.

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cnn's natasha chen joining me now from the election headquarters of gwinnett county, second most populous county in the state. natas natasha, walk us through the process in that facility. >> reporter: yeah, brianna, this is going to be similar to what a lot of you across the country would have in your local counties. now, basically, the ballots come through those back doors via mail and what these people are doing right over here, they're looking at the envelopes to make sure there is a valid signature and that it matches the signature on file. now, because we are so close to the election day, if there is an issue, they are required by the state of georgia to contact the voter within one business day to rectify the situation. now, if you've got a ballot that is good to go, they are accepted and sorted into the bins over here by precinct and from there, they go to a team in the back. i think some of them are on break right now, but they would be extracting the ballots from the envelopes. now, if there is any issue at

all with the markings on the ballots, for example, if somebody crossed something out and chose another candidate, there are teams of three that have to all agree on what the voters' intent was. and the scan into machines and the machines that are scanning these are currently in another room. they were able to start scanning on october 19th throughout the state but they cannot tabulate those until tuesday nights so the first returns that you see, at least from this county, are going to be the in-person early votes and then the absentee ballots that are all behind us right here and the paper copy is stored in a locked bin for auditing purposes. let's take a look at some of the numbers that really indicate the enthusiasm, the turnout that we've seen across georgia. in total, so far, 3.8 million votes cast. in person, 2.6 million, and of the ones that were filed absentee, 1.2 million out of

that total. and this is a 63% increase compared to the same point in the 2016 election. we should note that the secretary of state here did tell us that there are almost 300,000 absentee ballots that have not been returned yet. so wherever you live, if you're hanging on to an absentee ballot, the guidance is you probably want to drop that off in a dropbox at this point instead of putting it in the mail but one of the reasons it could be outstanding is anecdotally, we've talked to people standing in lines early voting who wanted to surrender that ballot and vote in-person instead. the good news here is that gwinett county tells me they're all processed as far as yesterday's ballots and they're working on today's ballots. >> it gives you an appreciation for the process of all this. thank you so much for taking us through that. businesses in many cities around the country are boarding up their doors and windows in anticipation of post-election unrest.

i want to go to jean casarez in new york to talk about this story. i will tell you, jean, we're seeing that very much in washington, d.c., as well. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: well, we are, and we do have some video of that, but first of all, let's look at the new york situation. macy's at harold square, 34th street, it is the flagship location of macy's for this country, and as you can see, they are boarding up a lot of their windows right there at 34th street and 6th, which is just the hallmark of new york city for shopping. they're saying they're doing it and taking additional security measures out of an abundance of caution, not only at the flagship store but they're also saying at several other stores throughout the country. they're not disclosing the other ones but now i take you to washington, d.c., because there are a lot of businesses that are being boarded up in that city, and the deputy mayor for planning and environmental development in d.c. says that

they don't have intelligence that there is going to be anything that is happening, but they are vigilant, and they do support the businesses, and they understand the situation the businesses are in who feel that they must do something like that, and they also say that they call on anyone to please exercise your first amendment rights, but if you see violence, report it immediately, because that is not, they say, exercising your right under the first amendment for free protest. >> no. all right, jean, thank you so much. thank you so mu thank you so much, jean casarez in new york for us. special live coverage the way only cnn can bring it to you from the first votes to the critical count, understand what is happening in your state and all across the country. election night in america, our special coverage starts tuesday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. and as we go to break, let's listen in to president trump on the campaign trail in reading,

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hi there, i'm brianna keilar and i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. president versus president today on the campaign trail. three days until america votes, and the democrats' closing weekend strategy is to get the band back together. joe biden and barack obama making two stops in michigan today. the first was in flint. it featured an often-personal, often. >> barb wire sharp speech from the former president outlining why the current occupant of the oval office does not deserve the chance at another four years. >> he's still worrying about his inauguration crowd being smaller than mine. it really bugs him. he talked about -- he's still talking about that. does he have nothing better to worry about? did no one come to his birthday party when he was a kid? was he traumatized? our country's going through a pandemic. that's not what you're supposed to be worrying about. and that's the difference

between joe biden and trump, right there. >> crowd size versus coronavirus. pettiness versus empathy. not normal versus normal. lies versus the truth. that is how the biden campaign is framing the choice heading into election day. the president is in pennsylvania for four rally stops. he has a far different message. recovery versus the lockdown. the president says the united states is rounding the corner, rounding the turn on coronavirus. it is a lie every time that he says it. the numbers prove it. 47 states are failing to push down their coronavirus curve. only three, as you can see there, are actually trending in the positive direction. in the right direction, reducing numbers of cases. the friday case number was 99,000 new infections, which is a single-day high in the u.s. and globally. the virus is surging everywhere that you look. there are still millions of

americans without jobs. the only way out, president obama says, is to vote for joe biden. >> what's his closing argument? here we are, the worst week this week. i mean, we've been going through this now for months. the federal government has had an opportunity to respond for months. and his closing argument this week is that the press and people are too focused on covid. you may remember when republicans were saying, let detroit go bankrupt? you remember that? now they might as well be saying, let america get covid because that's how they're asking. >> all right, let's listen in to president obama at an -- a previously unannounced stop in michigan. >> if we care deeply about restoring a sense of decency to our federal government, a government that's going to look out for ordinary people, that is going to take this pandemic

seriously and get on top of it so we cannot only save lives but also make our economy healthy again. if we want a nation that is living up to its values and its ideals, so that we set an example for the world, if we care about climate change and making sure that our criminal justice system is free of racial bias, then we're going to have to work for it, and we just got a few more days to make that happen, and the good news is, because of all of you, your willingness to get out there, you know, it's -- i live a little further south now so it's good to feel what autumn's really all about. for all of you to be willing to do this, it makes me hopeful, and it makes me inspired. and the other person who makes me hopeful is somebody who i

served with for eight years who was in the room before i made any big decision, a person of character, a person of decency, a person of kindness, a person who understands the solemn responsibilities you take on when you become president of the united states, somebody who's going to put you first. my friend, i could not be prouder to support him and i could not be prouder, i hope, in a few days, to be able to call him mr. president-elect, joe biden. >> thank you, mr. president. >> joe biden. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. you know, one of the great privileges that i have had wasn't just serving with president obama. it was, as we -- we used to have lunch every tuesday. we'd have lunch alone. and one day, we looked at each other and just that little area off the oval office, and he said, you know, what i didn't expect would be to become such

good friends. and we did. our families are friends. michelle and jill, my granddaughter -- i have two grand daughters with me today. one of them is the president's -- come here, maisey. is the president's number two daughter's best friend. am i exaggerating that? >> you know what? we love maisey. she was also the star of our rec league basketball team, the vipers. who were champs. sasha was power forward. mai maisey was lebron james. >> by the way, she made all state in two other sports too, soccer and lacrosse. anyway, the point is, though, that our families became friends, and we remain friends, and it was one of the great honors of my life serving with a man with integrity. but there's a governor out here

volunteering. this guy right here. >> oh, i didn't -- >> i didn't -- i could tell, man, without the mask, i knew it. i knew it. how are you? god love you, both of you. you need this like you need a hole in your head. >> we need you. >> we need joe biden. >> you know, one of the things that the president and i have talked about is -- in the past is when you run for president, win, lose, or draw, you end up making friends for a lifetime. and you end up making friends for a lifetime, and that's the case with us. and all of you, i can't tell you, the president is absolutely, positively correct. it makes a gigantic difference, your volunteering. that's how you win campaigns. every campaign that i have ever been in that i have won has been the folks who have been doing everything from making the phone calls to sending out the petitions to knocking on doors to making -- i mean, you make a gigantic difference, and the idea you are here today and it's cold in this parking lot, and

you're still doing it. i can't tell you how much i appreciate it. i'm not going to keep you much longer, except to say, you know, again, the thing the president and i talked about. this is a pretty dark time for the country. but the point is, the irony of all ironies is, i think what's happened with these quadruple problems we have from the pandemic to what's going on relative to the racial unease, the unemployment, the recession, as well as our situation internationally, it's taken the blinders off the american people. you know, there's two ways you get inspired in politics. i'll end with this. one, you get inspired, and i'm not being slolicitous, by a man like barack obama. he's an inspirational figure. i really mean it. there's a second way you get inspired, and i'm not being a wise guy. but really bad leaders. and i'm not joking. because when people get to see

the other side, they realize, my lord, i didn't think it could get this way. you're all young. you never thought, even at your age, that you would be in a situation where we're fighting for democracy. we're fighting for -- literally fighting for our democracy. and the idea that that's what you're doing is something that i think is -- we have such enormous opportunities. we're going to not only deal with the climate change. we're going to create millions of good-paying jobs. there was an article in the paper yesterday, mr. president, actually yesterday, where the president's secretary of the treasury is saying, wall street's going to regret saying joe biden's going to create more jobs. you know, that's not a liberal think tank. the fact is, that's where we come from. we are. we're working class folks. that's how we both came up. that's how a lot of you have come up. but in fact, we have a enormous opportunity, and here's my hope. i hope that in addition to us winning, i hope you stay

engaged, stay involved. i hope some of you run for office. i'm not being -- i'm not being solicitous. i really mean it. you can get engaged but stay engaged. you can change things. you're going to be -- i think you're probably already surprised how much you can change. and i want to see -- i want to be back here, god willing, four years from now talking to y'all and supporting some of you or two years from now. some of you are running for office. we can change. we have never been in a better position. i've never been more optimistic about america's chances. it's because of you. by the way, z generation and the millennials, you're the most informed generation in american history. not a joke. you're the best educated generation in american history. you're the least prejudiced generation in american history. and you're the most engaged. so, i expect that to continue. and by the way, you guys are going to own it all. if your generation votes at the same percentage that everybody

else voted last time, guess what? 5.2 milli 5.2 million more votes cast in america. so, you can own it. okay? and i hope to all see you, god willing, and the crick not rise, as they say in southern delaware, i hope to see y'all at the inauguration. gov, thanks, great seeing you. thank you. >> joe biden, everybody. joe biden. >> thank you. >> our next president of the united states, joe biden. let's get to work. >> you are seeing the former president barack obama campaigning alongside the former vice president, joe biden, and i want to bring in arlette saenz. she is in detroit, which is where obama and biden will be headed. they are going to appear at an event with stevie wonder very soon and i also want to bring in our cnn analyst to talk a little bit more about what we're watching, serena, national politics reporter for the "wall

street journal," april ryan, white house correspondent for american urban radio networks. arlette, to you first. this is sort of the tag team today that we're seeing on the democratic side with the former president barack obama lending his popularity to the former vice president. this was a previously unannounced stop, something they stopped on the way at a church, at a canvassing kickoff. tell us about, you know, what you are listening for today in this final push with barack obama on the campaign trail. >> well, brianna, you heard joe biden and barack obama sort of rallying the troops as they head into this final critical push heading into election day and their message over the course of the day has been simple. it's, get out there and vote. and you have also heard the former president talking about his former vp in very personal terms, talking about how he witnessed the way he worked in the white house and how that has

provided him with the skills to become commander in chief. and you also heard president obama make a very forceful case against president trump, contrasting both the leadership style of the current president with that of joe biden and also the way that they are approaching this coronavirus pandemic. which is hitting so many people across the country, including in a lot of these midwestern states where covid-19 cases are on the rise. take a listen to a bit of president obama's message in flint, michigan, earlier. >> our country's going through a pandemic. that's not what you're supposed to be worrying about. and that's the difference between joe biden and trump, right there. trump cares about feeding his ego. joe cares about keeping you and your family safe. and he's less interested in feeding his ego, with having big crowds, than he is making sure he's not going around making more and more people sick.

that's what you should expect from a president. >> reporter: and you also heard both the president -- former president and joe biden encouraging people to get out and vote. they are spending three days out from the election here in this critical battleground state of michigan, which will be central to reestablishing that blue wall heading into november. or that is one of the priorities of the biden campaign in these final days. they don't want to take anything for granted. this is a state, brianna, as you remember, that hillary clinton lost by only 10,000 votes, so they are putting in the time here, trying to turn out those voters heading into tuesday. >> yeah, this is something, look, joe biden really needs michigan, and donald trump also really needs michigan, april, so all eyes are certainly on this state during this final push. michigan getting, perhaps, the attention it deserves this time around compared to four years ago.

>> hillary clinton is not even a factor today. what's the factor in the state of michigan is that michigan was hit hard early on with the coronavirus, something that's now the kryptonite for this president who wants to consider himself superman. but nonetheless -- and you have the governor of the state who, because of the president's words, has been targeted for her efforts to fight for the people to make sure that they get the needed help, the testing that they needed, et cetera, the ventilators, what have you. michigan also has the auto industry there. four years ago, the auto industry was saying, oh, donald trump and this trade deal will work. four years later, they are hurting. the auto industry is split on what it feels about donald trump. they have been impacted by his words and by the tariffs. and they are trying to battlegrourebound just like the country that's in a recession, trying to stave off a depression. so, this president needs michigan but he's going to have

to come back with more than emp empty promises because he's been tried and what is true at this moment is, people are hurting in the state of michigan, and joe biden has a chance there. donald trump has proven that he's dropped the ball in some areas in the state of michigan. >> and yet, sabrina, democrats are worried. they are worried that michigan is going to repeat what happened in 2016. >> well, i think if you look at the broader context, a democratic nominee, joe biden, is ahead in both national and battleground polls. he has been consistently ahead of president trump over the last few months. he has raised an unprecedented amount of money that has enabled him to compete everywhere. that's why you've seen his campaign not only try and lock down some of these key battlegrounds but also to expand the map. but then again, as you point out, this is a party that is still haunted by the ghost of 2016 and remembers all too well

that hillary clinton was in this a similar position but ultimately came up short on election day in a handful of states that were separated by razor thin margins. democrats, of course, feel this is different. this time, trump is not a hypothetical candidate. he is the president, and they have four years of his record to point to. that is what you heard former president obama do during his campaign rally today on behalf of joe biden, making that case that we can no longer accept the kind of conduct and behavior that we have seen from this president. but you know, you have those early voting numbers up as well, more than 90 million americans have already cast their ballots, and timothat this point, it's n about converting support from the former obama to trump supporters, it's also about boosting turnout from some of the coalitions who are key and have been key to the success of the democratic party in previous cycles and that includes black voters, hispanic voters, young voters, single women. i think this party understands

that it has gained support from suburban voters and independents who helped the party take back the house in 2018. but they also need to make sure that they do not lose sight of their base, and so a lot of the next few days is really just about energizing people to actually go to the polls and vote. >> sabrina siddiqui, april ryan, arlette saenz, wonderful to see you ladies. president trump today on an all-out blitz in the state of pennsylvania. he's on his second rally of the day. he's got two more to go after this. he, of course, won this state in 2016, and it is a must-win this year. cnn's sara murray is joining me from a rally in reading, pennsylvania. these final stops are ultimately about lighting a fire under supporters to get to the polls. >> reporter: yeah, that's absolutely right. look, anyone in pennsylvania for the first time can vote by mail, and a lot of people have, you know? more than 2 million ballots have already been returned and trump

and other republicans in the state know a lot of those are going to be democrats. they know he has to be here in this state to drive his base to the polls on election day. and that is why we are seeing him barn storm the state today, going to four different counties. some of that is to try to get some suburban women to come back his direction. some of it is to go to red parts of the state to drive up his numbers and make sure they turn up on election day. but that's why we're seeing him all across the state today. you know, he sounds like he may be winding down here right now, and we're hearing what we would expect. we're hearing him downplay the coronavirus, talking about how he's going to ensure the economy has a v-shaped recovery and brianna, he's going after this rule in pennsylvania that lets them count ballots that they receive between november 3rd and november 6th, which he's saying is akin to cheating, which is not the case. it's allowed here in pennsylvania. >> coronavirus, very much, alive and very well, threatening the health of americans and it's not a v-shaped economy. sara murray, thank you so much

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who are moving here. i'm in maricopa county. this is the fastest-growing county in all of america, and so the people who are moving here tend to be more college-educated, because of the tech jobs who are here. they tend to be more moderate and more liberal as well as younger. so that has been a change in this state. also, as far as the people who are making this place home, a third of people who live in arizona are now latino, so those demographic shifts have helped move this state into the purple category. does this mean that should the state go to the democrats, that it would stay that way? absolutely not. you can talk to democrats. you can talk to republicans, and what they will point to are the registration rates. the voter registration rates. currently, republicans still hold the lead over democrats. the way it breaks down right now is about a third republican, a third democrat, and a third independent. so this is a fiercely independent state.

so, the people who are driving up here to these emergency voting places like this one in phoenix where you just pull up and drop your ballot, it's really hard to tell which way they're going to go, and those independents hold a lot of sway here in arizona. >> kyung, thank you so much for bringing that to us from the campaign trail in phoenix. arizona is not the only reliably red state that is potentially in play, and joining me now to talk about this is cnn political director david chalian. so what other red states are democrats setting their sights on? >> so, this year is the 2016 map. you remember it well, brianna. this is where it ended election night 2016. donald trump with 306 electoral votes, hillary clinton with 232. what you were just talking about with kyung, sort of the sun belt path, those reliably republican states, traditionally republican states, that democrats now, for ten years, have had sort of a project of looking at the demographic changes and seeing if they can change the map.

so, watch what would happen here if indeed joe biden won arizona, okay? and then where would they go next? well, the biden campaign feels pretty good about their chances in georgia. they see it as a real dead heat kind of a state and one that some biden folks are a little bit more bullish about, even, than arizona. and then the third one here is north carolina to look at. look, i just made those three states go blue for biden and biden wins with that, with 274 electoral votes. you see that keeps pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, those usually traditional blue states that he flipped four years ago red. joe biden could potentially make his way to the white house not building back the blue wall but here through the sun belt, and that is without texas or florida, two real battleground states, brianna. >> yeah. and a lot of votes there. that's pretty interesting to look at how you can just move some of those around and get the sense of what he does and does not need. david, thank you so much for taking us through that.

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british prime minister boris johnson announced a second national lockdown in england just a short time ago. he had rejected such calls for weeks. he was opting, instead, for targeted measures, but here we are at this point. and i want to go to max foster on this. you had said, max, at your reporting from london, this is a bit of a u-turn. >> reporter: it is, because boris johnson has been resisting a national lockdown.

instead relying on a regional strategy, regional lockdowns, but it just hasn't worked, as it hasn't worked in other parts of the continent, so now we have the three major economies in europe, france, germany, and the uk all in national lockdowns. boris johnson, though, having this last-minute national address on a saturday night, all televised across the nation, very high-profile, but laying out his reasons for his change in stance, and they are, basically, that he's worried that the national health service is about to become overwhelmed and wouldn't be able to carry on serving the public in a matter of weeks if we carried on as we were. he said potentially this part of the pandemic could have been twice as bad as the initial peak if we didn't do something at this point. so, he's turning around, he's saying there's going to be a national lockdown for four weeks from thursday, but crucially, schools won't be locked down this time round. let's listen to his explanation for that.

>> my priority, our priority remains keeping people in education, so child care, early years settings, schools, colleges, and universities will all remain open. our senior clinicians still advise that school is the best place for children to be. we cannot let this virus damage our children's futures even more than it has already, and i urge parents to continue taking their children to school. >> so, the issue here, when you look at the numbers, brianna, is that the numbers are going up, but it's amongst the hospital admissions, the elderly going into hospital, a massive concern that the deaths would go up, but they won't be able to treat non-coronavirus sufferers either. so, a big concern here. we're going into national lockdown on thursday. >> on thursday. all right, max, thank you so much. max foster for us from london. yesterday, in the u.s., we recorded just under 100,000 new cases of covid-19. that is not only a record daily

total in this country, that is the highest ever in the entire world in the course of this pandemic. and the numbers suggest that the spike is accelerating, not slowing down. the five highest daily totals have come in the last eight days. friday broke thursday's record by more than 10,000. i want to bring in dr. david shulkin. he's joining us now in philadelphia, and dr. shulkin, we just heard just now of a second national lockdown in england. do you think that that is where the u.s. is heading or where it should be heading? >> brianna, i don't think any of us want to see a lockdown in the united states, but the situation in europe really has left them with no option. if they don't create that type of national lockdown right now, they're going to be overrun in their hospital system in just a matter of weeks, and i think we're about three weeks behind

where europe is, so we're inching very, very close to where this may not be a choice for us, and frankly, right now is the time for us to be acting. we need to have a national public health response. there needs to be a national mandate in terms of mask wearing, social distancing, limiting the gatherings that we're still seeing happening around the country. and without such rapid and swift action that we need to take right now, i'm afraid we are going to be in a situation where that's exactly where we may be headed in about three weeks right as we get to thanksgiving holiday for this country. >> yeah, and some people will be r reticent to change how they f t gather for the holiday. it's really arresting to hear you say that, that we're watching europe like it's a tsunami that is heading in our direction here in a few weeks. i should mention -- as i mentioned, you worked for the administration as the veterans

affairs secretary. you were undersecretary during the obama administration. you did not part ways amicably with the trump administration for sure. you are a physician, bottom line. that is your job. what is your response to the president's recent claims that doctors are profiting off of inflated covid-19 cases and deaths? >> brianna, i couldn't be prouder of the response of our physicians and nurses and first responders in this country. they really have done an incredible job. i know so many of them who haven't stopped working since this pandemic first started happening in february and march, and they have really been the heroes of this response and to take an action or to suggest that they are profiting from this or that their ethics are being compromised, i find highly offensive. this is a group of individuals that this country should have

great gratitude to, and frankly, we're going to need them and the public's going to have to continue to have confidence in our physicians and nurses as we enter into what looks like a increasingly alarming situation with the pandemic and certainly one that looks like we're going to be dealing with for quite some time in 2021. so, this is not the time to be attacking our healthcare professionals. rather, this is a time to recognize just how much they've responded and how much we're going to need them. >> this is -- i mean, we know this is certainly not what they are doing. they don't make extra money, doctors, for treating covid patients. you've worked with the president. do you think that he is knowingly lying about that? >> well, you know, it's hard to know. this president gets his information from, you know, friends and other sources and is highly influenced and sometimes or often doesn't take the time

to really understand the real situation, so i'm not going to assign intentions to this president, but i do know that this is not the right message in the middle of a pandemic. and in fact, the message that we need coming out of leadership and coming out of the white house is one saying that we are looking at a very scary situation right now. we have to rely upon our health professionals. we have to listen to them, and we have to have a national response. we can't continue to just watch thousands of americans die, projections that thousands more will die if we don't take swifter action. so this is a true public health emergency, and we need our officials to be acting that way. >> yeah, this is a key moment. will the government meet the moment? that's the question. secretary, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. if you have voted already, you are part of a record turnout of early voters. the impact that you could have on the race next. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements-

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it is three days until the polls close and we have an update on the number of people who have already voted. more than 90 million at this point. the majority of states are reporting record turnout for early voters. cnn's tom foreman joining us now, and tom, that figure, i mean, 90 million people, it's about 43% of registered voters in the country who have voted already, and we're not even talking about people who are voting absentee. >> reporter: yeah, this is just astonishing, how many votes have come in so far. really, we're pushing up on two-thirds of the entire number of votes that were cast in the 2016 election. certain trends have emerged that make this also very interesting. for example, the bulk of this early voting is happening in 16 key states that we have identified as being important here, including the battlegrounds out there. shows some of the enthusiasm. that is one of the up trends in this. also up, the number of young voters seems to be higher than it was in the past at this point in the race.

the number of older voters down at this point in the race. don't jump to big conclusions about that. older voters trend republican, tend to vote on election day. but nonetheless, they're interesting to look at those trends. and none of that tells us what we all really want to know. when will we have a result in this? when will it be counted? well, we could have some indications by tuesday night, depending on how the vote goes as to which direction it is headed, but in terms of a full count, it's complicated because state to state to state, the rules are different about when you start counting all the early votes and certainly the mail-in votes, the absentee votes. in some places, that's already going on. in other places, it will start on election day. that includes pennsylvania and wisconsin, which have been really key as battleground states. we've looked at very closely. they won't start looking at all that until election day. millions of votes, if they have any kind of complications, that could drag on. michigan starts a few hours

before the election opens, but still very, very close to the polls opening there too as well. so, all of that together, bri, tells us that maybe, maybe by election night, we'll have an idea of where things are going. very likely, it could be a day or two days later or a week later or more depending on the complications and how close the race is. brianna? >> all right, tom, we will get ready. thank you so much, tom foreman. we have three days to go now until election day. you are looking right now at president trump speaking live in reading, pennsylvania. moments ago, he made clear that even if he doesn't win on tuesday, he thinks he has some options. we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims,

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president trump just wrapped up in reading, pennsylvania, which is his second of four rallies today in a state that he won in 2016. and he said something incredibly concerning. >> if we win on tuesday or -- thank you very much, supreme court -- shortly thereafter -- >> all right, jonathan diaz is

cnn's election law analyst. i mean, jonathan, the president has -- he actually advised the court today. he's not happy with some recent decisions the court has made. he is, though, it appears, expecting some help from the supreme court if he is not declared the winner of the election. i mean, first off, just react to what he said, and what do you think he can expect or really anyone can expect when it comes to the supreme court? and the election. >> thanks, brianna. i mean, i think, first of all, it's incredibly concerning that the president of the united states would suggest that the supreme court would have any role in determining the outcome of the presidential election, particularly one in which he is a candidate. it's important to remember that in the entire history of this country, there has been one presidential election in which the supreme court has played any role and that was famously in 2000 or infamously, depending on your perspective. but the trump campaign and the

republican party appear to be doing everything they can to lay the groundwork for a similar challenge to wind its way up to the supreme court this cycle. there have been a number of cases, the ones the president was criticizing, in reading today, dealing with extensions to the absentee ballot receipt deadline in a number of battleground states, including pennsylvania, north carolina, and minnesota. the supreme court so far has not changed any of those dates, which allow absentee ballots that have been postmarked by election day and received within a certain number of days thereafter to be counted. but at least four of the justices on the court have suggested that they would be open to hearing post-election challenge as to whether or not those ballots can be counted. in order for it to get there, there are a number of steps that would need to happen. first, the election would have to come down to one of those states. it would have to be so close that the number of ballots received between election day and the extended deadline could

be decisive. and the president would have to be ahead notwithstanding those post-election day ballots in order for a challenge to really make a difference. those are not likely scenarios, but they are possible. and i think another thing that's important to note is that at the time that the supreme court declined to overturn those extended deadlines, justice barrett had been sworn in but didn't participate in those cases. >> yeah. >> so, if such a dispute were to get to the court, there's really no telling exactly which way it would go. but we're a long ways away from that. >> we don't have the full picture or an indicator of what that would be. so, right now, when it comes to these battleground states, you have, from both -- both campaigns, legal experts in battleground states who are preparing to challenge results should they see there be an opportunity or a reason to do that. how do you see that time after

election day playing out? what could this look like? >> it's difficult to say, because we've never had an election that has featured this much litigation in the run-up and where the parties themselves have telegraphed so clearly that they plan or expect there to be post-election challenges. the rules, like everything else in our electoral system, for who can challenge ballots on or after election day and on what grounds are different from state to state, and in some states, you know, that window has passed. for example, in pennsylvania, for mail-in and absentee ballots, challenges to voter eligibility had to happen at the application stage by 5:00 p.m. yesterday. so, it is really hard to predict when and where these challenges are going to take place. i think the only thing we know for sure is that they will. >> yeah. certainly they are going to. there is going to be a lot -- you are going to be very busy, jonathan, and we certainly appreciate you coming on today,

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i'm wolf blitzer in washington. this is cnn's special coverage of the countdown to election day. we're only three days from an election that will be like none we have ever seen in our lifetimes, coming in the midst of a deadly pandemic. today, the focus is on michigan and pennsylvania, two states that both candidates, president donald trump and former vice president joe biden, see as crucial to this election. we're waiting to hear from both candidates as well as former president barack obama, who's campaigning with his former running mate in michigan today, and of course, the last crucial days of this campaign are unfolding against the national nightmare of the coronavirus. the pandemic that may be raging worse than ever here in the united states. yesterday, we saw a record number of new confirmed coronavirus cases. 99,321. while 1,030 americans were confirmed dead from the virus just yesterday. whoever wins this election will