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 face the challenge of leading this country out of the crisis.

right now, there's other breaking news we're following and brand-new cnn polling in four key states. michigan, wisconsin, north carolina, and arizona. these are states that are not just battlegrounds, they are critical for both candidates in this election. our political director, david chalian, is joining us right now, so david, we're just releasing these numbers now. what jumps out at you with these new polls released, what, just three days before the election? >> yeah, these are our final round of state polls and you are right, they are critical states, two in that midwest region, michigan and wisconsin, and two in that sun belt region more, north carolina and arizona. let me show you our arizona numbers first. we, in our final preelection poll here have joe biden at 50%, donald trump at 46%. this is a margin of error race. there is no clear leader here. there is no clear leader in this race in arizona. this is a true toss-up race right now in arizona. let me show you in michigan.

it is a biden lead, and a significant one. 53% for joe biden, 41% for donald trump. in north carolina, we're seeing biden edging ahead of donald trump by 6 points here, 51% for biden, 45% for donald trump, and in wisconsin, a critical state, joe biden is at 52%. he has an eight-point lead over donald trump at 44%. of course, wolf, when you look at all four of these polls, donald trump won all four of these states four years ago, and you could just look at the recap of all four of them and what you see is joe biden at 50% or higher in each one of these -- in each one of these polls. >> that's really significant. let's dig a little bit deeper, david, into some of the key demographic groups in this poll. so, what are you seeing? >> so, take a look at women. okay, female voters have been powering joe biden in this race, and it is not going away, at

least according to these polls in the closing days here. the advantage for biden among women in arizona, 56% to 41%. wisconsin, 55% to 40%. north carolina, 59% to 37%, a 22-point lead among women and in michigan, also a 22-point lead among women. i will note to you, wolf, that joe biden is doing better with women in all four of these states in these polls than hillary clinton did with women in all four of these states four years ago. let's look at men. we see a similar story here in terms of biden's able to dig into trump's advantage here. so, among men, which is a trump category in north carolina, he's winning. 53% to 42%. in arizona, trump is winning, 50% with men, 44% for biden. in wisconsin, it's near even. that's a huge thing that it's even because it is a big trump advantage four years ago, and in

michigan, joe biden, numerically ahead, but again tied among men, 47-46. again, in all four of these states, wolf, among male voters, donald trump's advantage is diminished here on the eve of his re-election battle than from what he had experienced in 2016. and let me just show you a couple others. independents. joe biden just cleaning up with independents across all four states. in michigan, he's winning them by 11 points. 50-39. in north carolina, 51% biden, 38% trump. in arizona, 53-37. in wisconsin, 55-35. again, i just want to note for you, wolf, in 2016, in all four of these states, that donald trump won, he won the independent vote. he's losing it to joe biden and doing so significantly in each one of these four states. and look at whites without a college degree, wolf. this is -- this is donald trump's base vote.

this is what he is relying on in an explosive turnout with white, noncollege voters on tuesday. you can see it is advantage trump here. it's his category. in north carolina, he's winning them 64% to 33%. arizona, 57%, 39%. michigan, 55%, 40%. wisconsin, 51%, 46%, that's much closer there, only a 5-point margin there. what we're seeing again is that his advantage four years ago, even with this base group of white noncollege, was greater four years ago than it is now. joe biden digging into that a little bit. >> what's motivating voters more, david? support for their preferred candidate or is it more voting against the other guy, the opponent? >> there is no doubt that donald trump is the factor in this election. this is a referendum on the president, and what you see among trump likely voters across all four states, they are coming out for their guy. they are -- what is motivating them is supporting donald trump.

trump-likely voters in wisconsin, 79% say they're voting for trump, 18% against biden. michigan, 77% for trump, 15% of trump supporters say against biden. arizona, very similar, 77-18. north carolina, 71-20. you're not seeing huge numbers of trump supporters saying, hey, i'm going to vote because i can't stand joe biden. the attempt to muddy up joe biden in the public's mind doesn't even seem to be working with trump supporters. but it is the flipside when you look at biden likely voters, okay? when you look at biden likely voters, what's the motivating factor here? well, 52% in wisconsin say they're for biden. 43% say against trump. 47% in michigan say for biden, 43% against trump. north carolina, 45% for biden, 43% against trump. what you see here is a more even divide that about, you know, 4 in 10 biden supporters are being motivated by their opposition to donald trump.

and yes, a little bit more in these four states are coming out to express their support for joe biden, but you see what a motivating factor donald trump is for joe biden's supporters here as well, wolf. >> these four key battleground states, our final poll before the election just three days to go. david chalian, thank you very much. i want to bring in cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris. also joining us now the epidemiologist, the public health expert, dr. al sayed. what do you make of these new battleground polls we've just seen? >> i think david chalian hit on a point i want to elaborate on. there's a tendency of 2016 where most people expected donald trump to lose to think we're looking at a repeat here. sure, the polls say one thing but he might win. what you see that that data, as david went through, all four of those states are states that donald trump won. he is now down by double digits in a few of them, behind in arizona, or at least it's close in arizona, i'll say. this isn't a repeat of 2016.

it doesn't -- that leads know point two, wolf. it doesn't mean donald trump can't win. even without those four states, there are paths for donald trump. most of them include florida and he would have to have a run. he's not going to be able to lose a lot more than, let's say, those four states but a path does exist but it is important to remember, 2016 does not equal 2020. doesn't mean donald trump can't win but it is not the same race. >> you know, doctor, you ran for governor of michigan at one point. you're the former detroit health commissioner. you know the midwest, obviously, very well. do you trust the polling, specifically the latest poll numbers in your state of michigan, 53% biden, 41% trump? >> i do, and i'm going to give you three reasons why. number one, one of the parts of these polls that sometimes is missed is the excitement of young people for whom the question is, am i going to vote at all? and if i do vote, i'm coming out fn biden. these folks already in early voting are eating beyond compare

their vote totals in 2016 in this election cycle in 2020. that's number one. number two, the question right now is not just what the numbers show but what have they shown over time throughout the race and it's pretty clear that this has been pretty fixed since early on. these polls aren't really changing. they've been pretty solid and so it gives you reason to trust them and the last thing i'll say is i really appreciated how you and david broke down the fact that, you know, women, that key swing demographic, women are predominantly for biden and it's because we're in the midst of a global pandemic, and we cannot forget the context here. we've got a president who's fundamentally failed to take on this pandemic. all of our lives are affected by it, predominantly people of color in particular measure, and i think folks are coming out to vote for change because they realize we can't do another four years of this. >> you know, dr. el-sayed, a woman you know well, a woman i know well as well, debbie dingell has warned about trump.

she warned about trump winning back in 2016. her warnings wreren't adhered t by the hillary clinton campaign but she's urging democrats to pay more attention to michigan union workers in this final stretch. who will the union workers vote for in your state of michigan? >> that's right. one of the most complex and confounding aspects of 2016 is how strong union workers and communities like mccomb county and down river went for donald trump. and i think, you know, as you go to these communities, a lot of them have stuck with the president but it's becoming harder and harder to do, and a lot of those voters are starting to peel off and realize that if we want any semblance of normality, in 2016, if we want to be able to go back to our lives, our kids go back to school, our younger ones going back to day care, not having to worry about whether or not we're going to continue to worry about losing our jobs because of this pandemic, then the clear answer is to vote for biden, and so i'm seeing a lot more shift, though. of course, the enthusiasm of trump voters is pretty evident. i've got family who lives in mccomb county. we were just there a couple days

ago just visiting them in a socially distant manner, and it was very clear that the folks who are for trump are very for trump, but here's the thing. enthusiasm doesn't vote. whether you're holding your nose or voting with abandon, it's the same vote and we've got to realize that a lot of this is going to be whether or not those who did not vote in 2016 come out to vote this time and whether or not those folks in the middle who weren't partisan either way are going to vote for biden this time around. >> and wolf, i just -- >> go ahead, make your point, chris, because i got a question for you. >> very, very quickly, to the doctor's point, i think one thing that you're seeing in those numbers that's striking is joe biden, yes, some democrats are for him but it's a binary choice. they don't want donald trump, and so they are going out to the polls to vote donald trump out and joe biden's the alternative. he's the other guy. he's proven the case, i think, that he's an effective alternative, but if donald trump isn't that president, i think the biden case is more complicated. it doesn't have to be, given the way donald trump's behaved. sorry, wolf, go ahead. >> the former president, barack

obama, he's been campaigning with joe biden in michigan today. we're going to hear from both of them very soon, later this hour. we suspect. we'll have live coverage of that. how significant is it that the former president out there actually campaigning together with the democratic presidential nominee? >> oh, i mean, in a state like michigan, wolf, remember, this is a state that no one expected donald trump to win in 2016 because it had been democratic for a very long time. barack obama left office in 2016 extremely popular. not just in the democratic party but among many independents. the reason that obama is in michigan, to make sure that the african-american vote turns out, to make sure that the hispanic vote turns out, to make sure that affluent whites turn out. those are the people that biden is not as well connected with as barack obama in terms of messaging. so he helps them there and remember, this is an extremely popular democratic politician and a very able speaker who can attest to the fact that, yes,

joe biden was by my side for eight years. this is the right guy. so that's why they're deploying him. it's a huge, huge advantage for joe biden. it's one of his strongest assets. it's, i think, in many ways, why he wound up with the nomination. people said, well, he served by barack obama for eight years. we want steady. we want a return to normal, as the doctor said. this -- some semblance, if we can get back to normal. joe biden's the guy that a lot of voters think can get them there and the voters trust barack obama's judgment. >> i think everybody has made up his or her mind right now. the key is turnout, getting people to show up in these final three days and vote and as far as the democratic base is concerned, no one is better at doing that than the former president, barack obama. chris cillizza, thank you, dr. abdul el-sayed, david chalian, we appreciate the new poll numbers from cnn. let's get out to the campaign trail right now, the two nominees hammering states they need very desperately as the final days tick down to election day. arlette saenz is joining us from

detroit. ryan nobles is in butler, pennsylvania, outside pittsburgh. arlette, the former vice president got a strong in-person endorsement on stage today, very important. tell us about it. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. joe biden today in the state of michigan joined by his former boss and really most powerful surrogate, former president abrah barack obama. the two of them appeared in flint, michigan. they also made another stop at a c canvas kickoff and they will be here in detroit for a drive-in style event. you heard the former president talk about joe biden in very personal times, talking about their time in office and how he witnessed joe biden operate during those two terms in the white house. and former president obama also presented this stark contrast between joe biden and the current occupant of the white house, president trump. he criticized the president's

leadership style and also the approach that he has taken to the coronavirus pandemic, including, as you are starting to see, cases rise in midwestern states like here in michigan. and the former president talked about how some of those rallies that the president has been holding, focusing on crowd sizes, and contrasting that to biden's approach. take a listen to what he said earlier today in flint, michigan. >> our country's going through a pandemic. that's not what you're supposed to be worrying about. and that's the different 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: that was a bit of the message you heard from obama as the two were reprising their campaign road show and they are here in the all-important state of michigan with just three days to go until the election. one of their key messages was simply for voters to get out there and vote heading into tuesday. they do not want to repeat any of the mistakes that were made back in 2016 when democrats lost here in the state by about 10,000 votes. so, they are focusing putting the work in on the ground here in michigan, including at this rally that they're about to hold. we just heard stevie wonder is taking the stage now as he is also trying to help get out those votes in these final days. >> turnout will be so critical. ryan nobles have in butler, pennsylvania, for us right now. ryan, this is one of president trump's four, not one, not two, not three, but four appearances in pennsylvania today. underscores how important the state is. tell our viewers about turnout and what about the intense

barnstorming? what does this say about the president's need for that state, pennsylvania? >> reporter: well, wolf, you cannot overstate the importance of pennsylvania in terms of the president's path to victory. he needs a win here. he got a win here four years ago, which surprised many, and he's hoping he can bring a win home again in 2020. now, the big difference here for president trump is that he is dealing with a lack of resources to get up on television and get his message out through tv ads. so instead, his campaign is focusing on an intention ground game, and these rallies, the one that i'm at right now, are part of that effort. what they do, wolf, is they target each and every person that enters into this rally space. they find out where they are, find out where they live, and then they track whether or not they have voted. they then have their volunteers and paid staff reach out to the folks that show up to these rallies who haven't voted yet and make sure that they do. they will call, check in on them, even knock on their doors if they have to. now, the trump campaign believes that this ground game, which

they've invested more than $300 million in, and began building shortly after president trump was elected, could be the difference in some of these key battlegrounds, pennsylvania among them, but you also mentioned those states that david chalian just outlined in our recent polling like arizona, wisconsin, others where the margin, north carolina, is very close. also in florida. the key, though, wolf, is that in order for the ground game to make a different, they need to keep the race close and that's why president trump has gone just on a massive swing across all these battleground states. he's expected to make at least 14 different rally stops between now and election day in every single one of these important battlegrounds, and not only will they be able to use these rallies as a way to figure out where their voters are, it also garners significant local media attention. it gets the president's message out there. it gets his voters to the polls. so, wolf, the president's campaign certainly playing like they're the underdog, despite

the fact that he's the incumbent, but they firmly believe he has a path to victory and these rallies are going to be a keywo toward that end. >> i don't see any social distancing where you are, ryan. i see a large, very enthusiastic crowd. are they at least wearing masks? >> reporter: wolf, they're not. nothing has changed from that perspective at all. the president made the decision basically at the end of june that he was going to continue to hold these rallies. he has not stopped, and they have not really changed their behavior at all. people here are packed in, shoulder to shoulder. there are very few, if any, masks being worn. they're doing, you know, somewhat of window dressing. they take people's temperatures as they're coming in. they offer masks but they don't require anyone to wear them, and wolf, we should point out, while the trump campaign believes that there's a net benefit to having these rallies, there is certainly a risk that there is the perception that these rallies are a problem with the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, and there is a concern

there could be blowback as a result of it, but republican officials believe this is the only way the president can win, so they're going to continue down this path right through election day, wolf. >> yeah, nearly 100,000 americans were diagnosed with coronavirus just yesterday. more than 1,000 americans died just yesterday from coronavirus. ryan and arlette, we'll get back to you. thank you very much. a reminder to our viewers, we're expecting president trump, former president obama, former vice president joe biden, all of them will be speaking soon. stay with cnn. much more of our coverage on that. that's coming up as well. and as we mentioned, both campaigns are making a big push across several swing states today. take a look at this, live pictures once again coming in for president trump's rally in butler, pennsylvania. he's expected to speak later. former president barack obama in michigan, campaigning for his former running mate, joe biden. they'll speak soon as well to voters in detroit. we'll have live coverage. much more coming up. (brad) apartments-dot-com makes getting into a new home easier than ever.

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♪ keep on loving ♪ believers, keep on believing >> stevie wonder performing in detroit at the obama rally with joe biden over there. let's listen in a little bit more to stevie wonder. i love stevie wonder. ♪ it won't be too long ♪ ♪ ♪ keep on trying until i reach my higher dwround ♪ >> stevie wonder doing a great job. he's performing. pretty soon we're going to be hearing from former vice president biden and former president obama at this rally in

detroit. a key, key battleground state. more than 2.5 million votes have already been cast in some of the key battleground states, including in ohio. statering all previous records and with 18 electoral votes up for grabs, republicans in ohio are banking on a repeat of 2016, while democrats are hoping to flip the state and put an early end to an election night uncertainty. cnn's gear tuckman is joining us now. where do things stand in ohio? >> reporter: extremely busy, early voting all throughout the buckeye state. right now i'm standing next to the ballot dropbox in cleveland, ohio, and i said the, purposely, because this is the only ballot dropbox in cleveland, ohio. the only ballot dropbox in the county. you can see this woman right here casting her vote. did you vote for reagan or jimmy carter? >> carter. >> reporter: we don't want to get too personal with people but you can see there are cars

waiting to come to this ballot dropbox to drop off their votes. you may be saying, why is there only one? this building is the only early voting election precinct here. the chuyahoga precinct. one of the reasons it's so crowded is because it's the only one in the county. all 88 counties are only allowed to have one location so that's been a problem for locations but there have been lots of days for early voting, wolf. this is the 22nd day of early voting in the buckeye state. there will be more early voting tomorrow for a 23rd day and even monday for a 24th day. so, because of all the days, because of the nature of this election, the turnout here has been very high. ohio, too close to call. that's what the polls show right now. it's a swing state, but it's also the ultimate bellwether state. for 14 straight elections, buck you a voters have picked the winning presidential candidate. the last time they picked a loser was back in 1960 when they

picked richard nixon over john f. kennedy and before that, 1944. since the civil war, ohio has only missed four times so it's very close and we may not have a very long night here in ohio no matter who wins because these votes that are being put right now this this box and the boxes of 87 other counties and the other early voting that's taking place, they're being processed as we speak. at 7:30, when the polls close, they start getting counted. >> we'll watch ohio. ohio, ohio, ohio, as they say. thank you very much, gary tuchman for that. joining us now, the former republican governor of ohio, john kasich. he's now supporting joe biden in this election. governor kasich, thank you so much for joining us. so, what do you think? you know your state about as well as anyone. what's happening? >> yeah, well, he said it, wolf. it's too close to call. and again, i always think about

ohio as a hockey stick. you know, the western part of the state is very strong republican. the southern part of the state is also very strong republican. but then it's the middle that is going to matter so much. and what's interesting is what he had to say out of cleveland. the real question is it's all about turnout. and as we started this segment, you were talking about barack obama being in detroit. i think that we're going to look back on this, and i think you're going to see that barack obama had a major influence in this election. he's really working hard in terms of african-american turnout, and so it's interesting. what are we seeing in cleveland? are we seeing a significant african-american turnout? but i would have said to you, wolf, couple months ago, that president trump was going to be easily re-elected. i'm not so sure. i think it is literally too close to call and we're going to have to watch turnout. now, with early voting, it's two

and a half times the amount that we saw in the last election. one other thing, wolf. i kind of look at this election, at this point, like i look at 2018. the republicans suffered a lot of losses in 2018. now we move into 2020. i don't think the situation has changed much for the president, but there's one other thing that has happened, and that is a more significant african-american turnout, and over the last two years, you've got to ask yourself, did donald trump do anything to help himself? i'm not so sure. i'm not -- i'm for joe biden, but i'm not giving you these numbers or these statistics because i'm kind of weighing in on his side. i'm just telling you what i think. i'm calling them like i see them. >> what does it say to you, governor, that the two candidates seem to be spending a lot more time in other states, like florida, pennsylvania, michigan, for example, than they're spending time in ohio right now? >> well, i mean, what it looks

like is that, you know, for example, they want to win michigan. so, that's why they're -- the president, the vice president, is in michigan. florida, always. you know, too close to call again. you know, and they're going to the places where they -- where they really think that they can make a difference. you've seen a lot of activity, for example, in north carolina. you've seen a lot of activity in arizona. i think it's been kind of conventional wisdom that ohio has gone red, and that is really because the democrat mechanisms in the state have been ground down. they don't have a very effective mechanism or infrastructure in ohio. the democrats have been wiped out a couple elections, including the one that i won re-election, winning 86 out of 88 counties. but because of this tremendous turnout, it gives everybody hope. so, it's not as though ohio has been ignored. but it's more in play than people would have thought just a couple months ago, and they're coming. they come. and they spend some time here. >> we'll see what happens on

tuesday. all right, governor kasich, as usual, thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate it. >> all right, wolf, thank you. both president trump and joe biden speaking to voters across key states today but with the election only three days away, the u.s. is breaking all sorts of new records when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. what may lie ahead. we have new information. stay with us. student loans don't have to take over for the rest of your life. with sofi it's possible to get them paid off and start new. ♪

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♪ >> stevie wonder performing in detroit at a biden campaign rally. the former president, barack obama, expected to speak shortly. followed by biden. stevie wonder there trying to generate support for the former vice president, the democratic presidential nominee. we'll stand by. we'll have live coverage of that. in the meantime, let's get to the horrible news involving the coronavirus here in the united states. the u.s. has just set an appalling record, 99,321 new confirmed cases of coronavirus reported on friday alone. just yesterday. that's a single-day global, not just u.s., but global record for new confirmed covid infections. it eclipses india's september record, a high of more than 97,000 new confirmed cases in one day. cnn medical analyst dr. lena nguyen is joining us now. dr. nguyen, nearly 100,000 --

not nearly, almost exactly 100,000 new confirmed cases in a single day here in the united states, this is not where we wanted to be as winter approaches. how much worse should we expect it to get? >> things are going to get a lot worse, wolf, and that's because we're on the verge of exponential explosive spread here. we look at the critical number of test positivity, and that number is far too high. it means that we are missing many infections that are going under the radar because of asymptomatic spread. actually, we're estimating that we are missing up to five times the number of infections that's actually reported, so instead of having 100,000 cases of new infections yesterday, we could have had 500,000 new infections, we're just not detecting it so imagine what that translates to in terms of hospitalizations, icus, and our health systems could very well become overwhelmed soon. >> you know, with nearly 1,000 americans dying from covid almost every single day,

including just yesterday, the president and his surrogates are continuing to campaign on very, very serious and dangerous disinformation. watch this. >> i went through the cdc data because i kept hearing about new infections but i was like, why aren't they talking about this? because the number is almost nothing. >> our doctors get more money if somebody dies from covid. you know that, right? i mean, our doctors, they're very smart people. so what they do is they say, i'm sorry, but everybody dies of covid. >> so, what goes through your mind, dr. wen, when you hear outrageous statements like that? >> well, first of all, it is completely false. it is insulting. it's offensive. and it's incredibly disrespectful. i mean, it's disrespectful to the 230,000 americans who have died from coronavirus. the many hundreds of thousands of people who will be living with the long-term effects of this disease. and it's disrespectful to healthcare workers. already in this pandemic, over

1,000 frontline health professionals have lost their lives. some of them are people whom i know and have worked with. and we, as healthcare workers, we're on the front lines, we're risking our lives, we're also trying our best under very trying circumstances. it's not our fault that this pandemic has spiralled out of control. it's actually the lack of action by the trump administration, and i wish that president trump and his entire family will visit our ers, our icus, our hospitals, so they can see the exact toll of this pandemic on americans. >> yeah, i don't think i've ever heard a president of the united states smear the nation's doctors like the president of the united states just did, like president trump just did, and his son suggesting that there are almost nothing when it comes to new deaths. just to be precise, 1,000 americans died yesterday. in fact, over the past four days, 4,000 americans died. that's a thousand more that died

on 9/11, 3,000 died on 9/11, and he's saying that the number is almost nothing. have you ever heard anything like that before from a president or a top surrogate of a president smearing what's going on and distorting what's going on right now? >> no. i have not. and those types of misleading statements are exactly why we are in the position that we are, because by trying to downplay the threat of the virus, we're also -- the president is also then not encouraging people to take the actions that they need to in order to save lives, because the trajectory of where we could be, because by the end of this winter, we could be at more than half a million americans dying from coronavirus. we don't have to get there. there are actually things that we can do right now to protect ourselves, avoiding crowds, for example, wearing masks, making sure that we keep social distancing. we can do these things and save lives. but the president's words and actions really matter, and they're actually discouraging people from taking these

life-saving measures. >> yeah, he says the number is almost nothing. you tell that to the mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters of the thousands of americans who have died in the past few days and the 230 -- more than 230,000 americans who have died since this pandemic erupted in january. dr. leana wen, thank you very much. back to the campaign trail. these are live pictures coming in from the campaign trail this hour. president trump is in the key state of pennsylvania where polls show a very tight race. meanwhile, joe biden is joined by former president barack obama. they'll be speaking live shortly. we'll bring it to you live. that's coming up. stay tuned. tired of overpaying for your prescriptions? try optum perks. it's a new way to save up to 80%. and everyone can do it. it's from optum, a health care company that's trusted by millions of people. you don't have to sign up for anything. just go to optumperks.com. and get a coupon to use at your pharmacy. that's it.

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retrace his 2016 path to victory. our senior political analyst mark preston is joining us right now. all right, mark, so how are the midwest and the rust belt for that matter, how are they unfolding in the contest to get to the 270 electoral college votes necessary to be elected? >> well, wolf, they are certainly key and perhaps be the key to winning this election, whether joe biden or donald trump wins. let's take a quick look. let's look at the map from 2016. this is how it all shook out at the end. look at all the sea of red, kind of enveloped a little bit by the blue wall. but part of the blue wall that collapsed was right here. pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. it stopped right there at minnesota. minnesota held for hillary clinton back in 2016. hugely important right there, because if you look at it this way, wolf, if you look at where donald trump had 306 electoral votes and then you change that to -- change this here -- well,

clear this out. change this. change that. and change that to toss-ups. donald trump no longer is in the lead at this point. now, we saw some good news for joe biden. joe biden's campaign did today. new polls out of michigan and wisconsin show that he has leads right there but this is why they're spending so much time there. michigan right now, wolf, if you look at michigan, donald trump won that by less than half a percentage point. we see that in pennsylvania, less than a percentage point. wisconsin, less than a percentage point. so that's why, when you see where donald trump went today, we saw him one, two, three, four, five times in pennsylvania. we saw his daughter in ohio, which still very strong for republicans, but still, but still, part of that rust belt. we saw his son, don junior, up here in michigan and tiffany trump, rather, over here in minnesota. so, if you look at that right here, let's give those to joe

biden, clear that out right here. you get pennsylvania to joe biden. he gets up to 252 votes. let's roll right into michigan. he is now two votes away -- two electoral votes away from winning, and then you add in wisconsin and there you have it right there, joe biden wins. so when we talk about this right here, this area, this is extremely important to the election, election night, and in fact, we've seen donald trump's schedule for the next couple days. he's going to spend a lot of time in michigan. we're going to see him here and we're going to see him in pennsylvania, wolf. the midwest, the democrats are trying to rebuild that blue wall that collapsed back in 2016. >> yeah, that blue wall is so, so critical in the next few days. three days precisely. mark preston, thank you very much. any moment now, former president obama will be speaking at a rally for joe biden in detroit. you're looking at live pictures coming in. we'll have coverage of that. we're also monitoring news out of the uk where the prime minister has just announced a

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all of them elderly, by the way, would mean that doctors and nurses would be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would get oxygen and who wouldn't, who would live and who would die. >> the advisers to the government saying there was a real risk, this second wave could be twice as bad as the first wave. so, a four-week lockdown starting on thursday assuming parliament approves it. everyone thinks that they will. non-essential shops will have to close. non-essential travel is band. but schools will remain opened, wolf. boris johnson very aware the mental health signs of keeping it opened. >> it's certainly getting worse here in the united states. any moment now, the former president of the united states, barack obama will speak at a rally in detroit. we'll have live coverage from the campaign trail when we come

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welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. this is cnn special coverage of the countdown to election day. we begin with the election only three days from this hour 6:00 p.m. eastern on tuesday, polls will close in the first two states, kentucky and indiana and soon after we could begin to see results in this election. today the candidates are focusing in on the critical region of the mid-west, specifically, michigan and pennsylvania two, states that both candidates saw president donald trump and former vice president joe biden see as crucial to this election. this hour, we will hear from former president barack obama and his candidate joe biden. and, of course the last critical

days of this campaign are unfolding against the national nightmare of the coronavirus pandemic. let's go to our reporters covering these campaigns for us. cnn arlis is in michigan. that's where joe biden is stopping with former president barack obama. cnn brian nobles is with our trump campaign. president trump narrowly won four years ago. the team of obama and biden carried it twice, the two elections before that. so what is the former vice president's pitch to voters right now as he tries to get michigan, such an important battleground state back? >> reporter: well, wolf, you are seeing joe biden and former president barack obama out on the campaign trail today reprising their campaign road show as they are making that pitch to michiganders in the final days before this election. the two of them held a drive-in event in flint, michigan earlier today. they also stopped at a canvass

kickoff. in just a short while, they are taking the stage here at another drive-in socially-distanced events. you heard the former president talking about hits former vp in very personal terms. personally attesting to seeing him operate in-office during those two terms. they served together in the white house. the former president also didn't hold anything back within it came back to him criticizing president trump. he was very forceful in his rebuke of the current occupant of the white house, including the way he is approaching the pandemic. that is a crisis still gripping the country including in mid-western states like here in michigan where covid cases are on the rise. you heard the former president talk about those campaign rallies that president trump is holding and his focus on having large crowds, take a listen to what he said earlier today. >> our country is going through a pandemic. that's not what you are supposed

to be worrying about. and that's the difference between joe biden and president trump right there. trump cares about feeding his ego, joe cares about keeping you and your families safe and he's less interest in feeding his ego in having big crowds than making sure he is not going around making more and more people sick. that's what you should expect from a president. >> reporter: and you also heard former president obama and joe biden talking about healthcare, talking about protecting pre-existing conditions as is done under obamacare laying the stakes out for healthcare in this election and with three days to go, they are here in the battleground state of michigan. a state that democrats narrowly lost to president trump back in 2016 and the message from obama and biden is simple. it's get out there and vote. they want to make sure that they

don't repeat any of the mistakes of last time when not as many voters turned out in the 2016 election compared to those 2008 and 2012 races when obama and biden ran before. but michigan is one of those states that is critically important to biden's goal of reestablishing the blue wall, the michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. those three states that fell to president trump back in 2016 and you are seeing the biden campaign really hone in on those states in these final days heading into the election, wolf. >> we'll stand by to hear from owi biden and obama. the first lady melania is speaking at a campaign rally. >> we can move forward. the united states is a shining city on a hill, a place where the possibilities are endless and where families can grow and flourish, a place where everyone

is united in unending love of country. [ applause ] under this president, our american values and ideals are protected, cherished and upheld. in early 2020, our nation began feeling the effects of a global pandemic an invisible enemy invaded our beautiful nation and we found ourselves with a new virus that no one really understood. with the president's leadership, we quickly learned what it was, how it spreads, and ways to mitigate it. i watched donald work very hard to keep people informed and come, to protect our economy and make difficult and unpopular decisions in order to keep us all safe. in a time when our nation needed

to come together, the democrats and the media chose to attack and create chaos and confusion. >> all right, on that note, let's break away from the first lady of the united states, melania trump, speaking at a campaign event. a campaign event for her husband in the key battleground state of past. we'll continue to monitor what she is saying. we'll, of course, update our viewers on any news that emerges. meanwhile, let's go to cnn ryan nobles. he is covering the president for us. ryan, the president holding four campaign rallies in pennsylvania today a must-win state for the president if he hopes to hold onto the white house. so what's his bottom line message? and you have been listening very closely to what he has been saying now just three days away from the election? >> reporter: it's interesting, wolf, listening to the first lady speak there for a minute. you heard her talk about the coronavirus poirks its effect on the country and the president's

administration's response, it's far more than you hear president trump talk about the coronavirus on the campaign trachlt at least in that specific tone. he talks about it a bit more broadly, kind of complains the way he has been covered in terms of his response and mocks people who wear masks and suggests that we're rounding the corner when it comes to the coronavirus, which isn't at all true. getting back to pennsylvania, wolf, the fact that the first lady is here today, the president has four events here. the fact that they are spending money on ad time here. they have all kind of volunteers and paid staff on the ground here. this is a crucial state for the president and his re-election hopes. this is a state they did not expect to win four years ago and pulled out the blue wall. these rallies that the president continues to hold, while they are, indeed, controversial because of the lack of social distancing. the lack of masks, it is still a crucial part of their overall vote getting strategy. they have a very, very specific

and complicated voter modeling system, part of which is built off these rallies, where every single person, data is collected. information is collected and volunteers and staff will make sure those people vote. it is a key, wolf, to the president capturing pennsylvania again in 2020. >> ryan nobles covering the brought. we'll get back to both of you for more on election analysis right now, and this is the crucial final weekend of the race. let's bring in former democratic candidate andrew yang and cnn senior political analyst, ron brown. guys, thanks, very much for joining us. andrew, americans are on edge as you well appreciate. coronavirus infections are soaring. there is no relief at all from congress. right now, people are bracing forrest after election day. so what do you think they're listening? what do you think they hope to hear from these candidates in these final few days?

>>. >> reporter: wolf, for joe and his team, it's all about trying to turn the page. wolf, everyone knows that donald trump and his administration have mishandled the coronavirus on an epic scale and we are seeing record numbers, unfortunately even now, just as winter is arriving. as we just said and you and i discussed previously, congress has dropped the ball in terms of getting the relief in the hand of american family who's are struggling. so for joe, it's a very straight forward case. we cannot take four more years of this kind of leadership. we need a different team in the white house. i believe that's going to be a winning message. >> i want you guys to stand by, governor gretchen whitmer of michigan is introducing the former president barack obama and the democratic presidential nominee joe biden. i want to hear what she is saying. >> when michelle obama spoke during the democratic national convention, she said, there was one state where the presidential

election was decided by two votes per precinct. now, she didn't name us, but we knew she was talking about us. right? we knew she was talking about michigan. we cannot afford to let that happen again. right? we have an opportunity. we have an opportunity before us. are we going to stick and have four more years of callous leadership? of leadership that is cruel, that is incompetent, that has led to 230,000 american deaths, tens of millions unemployed during this pandemic. people in food pantry line who's never imagined they'd knead help just putting food on the table. or are we in michigan going to vote for two people who have decency, see humanity in others,

have integrity and experience in joe biden and kamela harris? are we ready? all right. so, here's what we know. we've got a candidate who can bring us together. joe biden-kamela harris will build bridges, not walls. they will seek common ground, not scorched earth. they will bring us together spartans and wolverines. go green, my friends. >> all right. we're going to continue to monitor governor gretchen whitmer of michigan. she is introducing joe biden and we'll have live coverage of the president and vice president. stand by for that. i want to get back to andrew yang and ron brownstein.

ron, it's a very disturbing businesses have begun boarding up in some cities right now in new york, for example, we see wooden boards coming up on some stores in washington, d.c. we are seeing that where you are in los angeles. i know in rodeo drive and beverley hills. there is a lot of concern, law enforcement is worried, there could be post-election unrest. what do you see? what are you hearing? >> look, we've seen some disturbing things, a biden tour of texas was forced to stop because trump supporters in pickup trucks surrounded a bus on a highway. we saw a sheriff today in north carolina using pepper spray against a voting march. something that looked like it was lifted from the 1960s. we have republicans going into court in texas to invalidate 100,000 legally cast ballots. people should have no illusion about the magnitude of what we are seeing here.

i'm not sure. right now it is possible this could be a very decisive election, washington. look at the four cnn polls that have just come out with biden leading, not only in arizona, michigan and wis but arizona and north carolina. a very consistent pattern from state-to-state. you look at the big metro areas of every state, the places driving the economy, driving economic growth. trump may face a historic repudiation. he lost by 15 million votes. he may win counties that produce only about 30% of the gdp and on the other side of that line, kind of a non-metro that was his base last time. he is spending all his time in pennsylvania, michigan, and north carolina. he is still strong. there are some cracks in that fortress both because the coronavirus weakened his hold on older voters and biden is making a determined push to pick up a

push among voters. look at the springstein ad in my hometown, probably tomorrow in the philadelphia eagles game, aimed direct lip at those voters. if you look at the cnn polls, he is doing just enough. he's up to 40% of non-college whites in michigan. over 45. that's the job they were hired to do. he is not proceeding off the doors, he is doing enough to leave trump in a very, very precarious position. >> a huge bruce springstein fan. many of his conerts over the years. andrew, tensions clearly are rising right now. so is voter enthusiasm, especially among the younger voters. enthusiasm is up 21 points compared to 2016 based on cnn polling. what do you see going on right now? >> reporter: over 90 million americans have already cast

their votes, including me, so if you haven't voted go to iowavote.com. that's two-thirds of the entire vote total from 2016 and we haven't even reached election day. you are seeing record levels of turnout. young people are coming out in droves and both mail-in voting has been tremendous for getting more people to the polls. we're kind of making it easier for voters. there is almost no excuse not to vote this higher turnout is going to help joe and kamela and the democrats i do want to caution, i agree, the polls look great for joe. but michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania, they're not easteeven allowed to count the votes until election day. so in order to have a result on election night, there would need to be wins for joe in places like florida, north carolina, even tvenlgs we may exas.

we may be in for a wait. that ends up flaming the people that want to protest on one side or the other. >> that's an important point that andrew is making. those states will take some time in counting the early ballots that have come in, whether by mail or in person. florida on the other hand, they've got a lot of excellent experience. they'll release numbers very, very quickly. most of the state closing in florida at 7:00 p.m. eastern. the central time zone in the panhandle at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we should know relatively early in florida what's going on. >> well, look. there have been 51 million votes cast in presidential elections in florida since 1992 and 20,000 total separate the two parties according to steve shale who is kind of the democratic strategy in the state. florida is tough and tight. it's been heart break hill for democrats over the years. but as you say, if biden wins florida, it will be a pretty

clear indication that this is going to be almost impossible for the president because florida and any other major state. it is right, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, it's not like they don't have expertise and experience in counting this level of direct mail ballots, but the legislatures refuse to change the law to allow any early handling and preparation for the count, precisely to give trump more leverage in an aftermath period and to try to use the courts to somehow cut off the counting of legal ballots. this is a precarious moment, wolf. we are seeing the most unprecedented effort to not only suppress but invalidate the vote. it may be a very decisive result. certainly the cnn poll in michigan and wisconsin is pointing toward that. but there is a lot of turbulence between here and the finish line. i think all americans have to

understand that things that we have taken for granted in terms of democracy, your vote will count and be fairly treated. all of these things are up in the air. the idea that 100,000 votes in texas might be invalidated because people voted for it, cast the vote while in their car. that is something very outside the american tradition. it is something accelerating in these last few days. >> this is such a disturbing development all around. thank you, andrew yank, thanks, to you as well. any moment, joe biden will be joined by barack obama at a rally in michigan. we are standing by. we will bring it to you live. we'll be right back.

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obama beginning his campaign speech for joe biden in detroit. let's listen. >> happy halloween, everybody. i like your masks. give it up for my dear friend mr. stevie wonder. the original mo-town sound. >> we missed you. >> i missed you, too, that's why i came back. i love you back. we've got a great crew in your corner here in michigan. governor gretchen whitmer you tell the governor mike duggan, senator debbie stabenow. a man that's always fighting for you, when you need him, you got to send him back to the senate, gary peters. three outstanding congress women who need to be sent back to the house. brenda lawrence, elisa swatkin

and halle stevens and you also have the next president of the united states joe biden. three days, detroit. three days. three days until the most important election of our lifetimes and that includes mine, which was pretty important. this tuesday, everything is on the line. our jobs are on the line. healthcare is on the line. whether we get this pandemic under control is on the line and the good news is on tuesday, you can choose change. you can elect joe biden, you can elect kamela harris, you can choose a better america and you don't have to wait until tuesday

to cast your ballot, michigan, because here in michigan you can vote in person right now. go to iwillvote.com. find your polling place. go vote. if you have already voted, then what do you do? go get your friends to vote. get your family to make a plan to vote. we need everybody to turn out. this is a family affair. detroit, joe biden, is my brother. i love joe biden. he will be a great president. i'll admit, 12 years ago, when i asked him to serve as the nominee for vice president, i didn't know him all that well. we had served in the senate together, but he had been there a while. i was still fairly new. he and i came from different places. we came from different generations. but i came to admire joe as a man who is decent to his core.

a man who worked early on to treat everybody with dignity and everybody with respect. somebody who lived by the words his mom taught him. no one is better than you, joe, but are you no better than anybody else. and that decency, that empathy, that belief that everybody counts, that's really who joe is. and the good news is, that's who he'll be when he's president. because i can tell you something, the presidency doesn't actually change who you are. it just reveals who you are. and i saw who joe was and i saw how seriously he took the work and i saw how critical it was from his perspective to make sure that the voices of ordinary families were in the room when decisions were being made.

for the last eight years, joe was the last one. he made me a better president. he's got the character and experience to make us a better country and he and kamela are going to be in the fate, not for themselves but for every single one of us. sand you know what, you can't say that about the president we got right now. i mean, look, i knew donald trump wasn't going to agree with me, that he wasn't going to embrace my vision. i understood he wasn't going to continue my policies. but i hoped he was going to show some seriousness. i mean, if you get elected for president. if you run for president and become president, the assumption is you are going to take the job seriously. you are going to understand the solemn obligation when you are sworn into office. but he never took it seriously.

he hasn't shown any interest in just doing to work or helping anybody but himself or his friends or treating the presidency as anything more than a reality show to give him the attention he craves so desperately and the rest of us have had to live with the consequences. almost 230,000 americans have died. more than 100,000 small businesses have closing. almost 300,000 jobs are gone in michigan alone. america just had its single worst week of new cases. we have been living with this thing for months now. and we just had the worst week in terms of incidents. and in the face of that what is donald trump's marketing? no, he says the people are too

focused on covid. covid, covid, covid, he's complaining. he's jealous of covid's media cov coverage. but that's not enough. now he is starting to accuse doctors of profth oiting off th pandemic. he said this they are making a big deal off this to make more money. who says that? here you got doctors who are risking their lives to save other people who have to every time they go in and then they come home, they have to completely isolate themselves and remove all their protective garments. they are doing everything to make sure their own families don't get sick. in some cases don't get to see their families. he is saying they are doing that to make a buck. she can't fathom that somebody would be willing to make

sacrifices for others unless there was some economic motivation. that's how he thinks. now we have his chief of staff saying, he said this on tv. he said, we're not going to control the pandemic. that said, we're not going to control it. we notice. yes, you're right and that's why we got to have joe biden and kamela harris in the white house because you're not going to control the pandemic they just kind of got i guess i'm dating myself, you guys remember "mad" magazine, all the people do. remember the guyed a alfred e. newman, remember he had that big grin, funny-looking dude, ears like mine, he used to say what mean word? that's how these guys are,

right, why should i be worried? the same way republicans are saying, let the sword go bankrupt. you remember that? now they might as well say let america get covid. its not our problem. you're exaggerating it. that's what they are literally saying every day. listen, if trump were focused on covid from the beginning, cases wouldn't be reaching new record highs across the country. and some of the places he's holding rallies have seen new spikes after he leaves town. he's going around having events, big events, no masks, no protective gear. no precautions. what is his obsession with crowds, anyway? >> he is still worried. he is still talking about his inauguration crowd being small,

although, he doesn't admit it. does he have nothing better to worry about? that was four years ago. what kind of trauma did he go through? did no one come to his birthday parties when he was a kid? is fox news not giving him enough attention? lord and that's the difference between joe biden and donald trump right there. trump cares about feeding his ego. joe cares about keeping you safe and your family safe and getting this country moving again. and that's why you got to make sure that every single one of you vote look. this pandemic would have been challenging for any person. but this idea that somehow this white house has done anything but completely screw this up, well, the facts tell, say

otherwise. canada, right across the way, used to be you could go there. remember? you can't go right now. it turns out this administration was building a wall to keep us in by bungling this pandemic. canada identified its first case the same week the u.s. did. the same week our mortality rate, the number of people who diaper capita is two-and-a-half times higher. if we have the same mortality rate as they do, sarnd 90,000 americans would have died, which still would be a tragedy but it wouldn't be 230,000. if we had handled this pandemic like canada did 140,000 of our fellow americans might still be alive today. that's a sign of how much

leadership in the white house matters. it matters. this is not a game. this is not a contest of just calling each other names. this is a sporting event. this is life or death. and last week when donald trump was asked, would do you anything? he said, not much. not much. i really can't think. you can't think of anything you'd do differently? look, there is not a thing i did as president where i didn't look back and say, man, i could have done that a little bit better. even the stuff that worked. he can't think of one thing not one thing. oh, lord. look, i understand this is a president who wants full credit for the economy he inherited sand get zero blame for the pandemic he ignored, but 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 got to make a plan. you got to do the work and along with experience to get things done, joe biden has concrete plans and policies that will turn our vision of a better and strong were country into a reality. joe biden is not going to screw up testing. he's not going to call scientists idiots. he's not going to host super spreader rallies around the country or in the white house. joe will get this pandemic under control with a plan to make testing free and widely available and 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. his plan will guaranteed paid sick leave for workers and parents by the pandemic and make

sure the small businesses that hold our communities together and employ millions of americans can reopen safely. small businesses in every community, not just some community. not just big corporations. 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 the first three years of the trump-pence administration. that's a fact that was before he could blame the pandemic. joe biden and i worked to rescue the auto industry. jerry peters was there. debpy stabenow was there. gary peters understood what was at stake. he told us to bet on michigan and we did and manufacturing grew by 15%. over our final four years in office. donald trump came in, he said,

i'm going to make michigan the manufacturing hub of the world. it's up 1% under his first four yea years. 15-1. we handed him the longest streak of job growth in american history, but the economic damage that he's inflicted by botching the pandemic response means he'll be the only president since herbert hoover to actually lose jobs. herbert hoover. that's the furthest. that's a long time ago. there have been a lot of presidents since herbert hoover. he'll be the first one to lose jobs during his presidency. joe biden and gary peters knows the key to a strong economy, it's not tax cuts for billionaires. it's lifting the prospects of working americans. and joe's got a plan to create 1 million new auto-related jobs by

accelerating electric vehicle production he's going to create 10 million clean energy jobs to fight climate change and secure the environment am justice and he's going to pay for it by rolling back trump's tax for billionaires. joe biden sees this as a moment not just to get back to where we were. he wants to build on the progress we made during our administration and he wants to take it further. help wants to make long overdue changes so our economy actually works for everybody. makes life a little easier for everybody. the waitress trying to raise a kid on her own. the student trying to figure out how to pay for next semester's classes. the shift worker, always on the edge of getting laid off. >> the cancer survivor who is worried about pre-existing

protections. being taken away i appreciate you. i do. i am great. . >> listen, let's talk about healthcare for a second. republicans love to say right before an election, they'll protect your pre-existing conditions. all right. joe and i actually protected them ten years ago with the affordable care act. we didn't get republican votes. not one and republicans have tried to repeal or undermine the affordable care act more than 60 times. why they want to take people's healthcare away is not clear to me. i don't know why you'd have that spirit fixed. you know, i want to make sure

that person has healthcare. i don't know why they would think that way. when they're asked about it, they say, no, no, no, we're going to repeal, replace wit something even better even bigger. more beautiful. >> they've promised a new plan for ten years now. no plan for two years when this new president came in office, he had a republican congress could have passed this new beautiful plan. didn't happen. nobody can find it it's the same place they put the playbook we gave them to deal with a pandemic. it's lost. it's gone. missing. instead, they just attacked the

affordable care act at every turn, driving up costs, driving up the uninsured. now they've got a -- [ lost audio ] . >> no, no, what kind of -- [ horns beeping ] . >> all right. there were issues over there in detroit, the former president

barack obama seemed to be the audio isn't working. we seem to have cars honking at that rally in detroit. he has been speaking for a while, really railing against the current president of the united states. he says that it's three days until the most important election of our lifetime. he added including his election as well. he has been speaking robustly, very positive of obviously the democratic presidential nom know. i love joe biden. mark pressly is with us, a political analyst. as we wait for that aude there in detroit to get fixed. clearly, the former president does amazing work for the current democratic nominee in the important issue of getting out the vote. >> he seems to be energized by the crowd. we saw him earlier, wolf, he seems to be connecting with this group. look, this is somebody that joe biden certainly needs, certainly

needs the states like michigan. we are seeing him head down, wolf, to florida, we have been told. he is also going to be going down to georgia as well. these are two states that really shouldn't be in place, necessarily, for joe biden. but they are and we think that barack obama can help drive up the vote in these two states. it's worth noting, democrats have not won in georgia. since bill clinton won the state back in 1992. they've only one it three times in the last 12 years. in florida four times, which says something about where we are in this state of electoral politics. >> the democrats are not taking anything for granted, in their new cnn poll, which we just released a little while ago, among likely voters in michigan right now. that's where barack obama is right now, joe biden is right now. they are speaking to the voters specifically in michigan. the new cnn poll has biden at 53%, trump at 41%. that's a pretty robust lead,

clearly, the democrats are not taking that for granted. they are working hard in michigan right now. >> for a couple reasons, one they gave up on michigan as has been well documented in 2016. when i say given giving up, they didn't put the resources into it and lost it with less than half a percentage point. at the same time there is concern amongst democrats in talking to them globally in the sense nationally, it's their concern that there were perhaps some trump voters that are not acknowledging that in fact, they are going to support donald trump when they are talking to pollsters, to friends and, in fact, that is a bit of a concern, so these leads that we are seeing in the polls perhaps are going to shrink in some states. there are still several days before this election. >> you talk to former president barack obama they fixed the audio. let's go listen to the former presiden

president. healthcare as we speak and that, oh. again insure all to insure that we have joe biden and kamela harris in there and that we got gary peters because we cannot allow anyone to take away healthcare right in the middle of a pandemic then they tried to get the supreme court to take away your healthcare and just have an empty promise to take his blaise. you got mitch mcconnell pouring millions of super pac dollars in the midst of trying to beat gary peters. but detroit, joe and kamela and gary will protect your

healthcare. they will expand medicare. they'll make insurance more affordable for everybody and they'll make sure that our healthcare workers, our front line workers have the protections they need, if you vote. >> now, here's one other thing that's important joe and kamela went out. you won't have to think about them every day. they won't be trying to get your attention, everybody. you won't have to shake your head, slap your forehead every day. it won't be so exhausting. you will be able to go about your lives knowing that the president is working. and you are not going to have to worry about a president who suggests that maybe we inject bleach as a cure for covid. you won't have a president who

is retweeting conspiracy theories that maybe feels they killed bin ladin. we won't have a president who going to go out of his way to insult anybody that doesn't agree with him. you want to have a president that just makes stuff up, every day? multiple times a day? probably doing it right now as we speak. it is not normal behavior. we would not tolerate it from a high school principal. we wouldn't tolerate it from a coach. we wouldn't tolerate it from a co-worker. can you imagine if you were working and they lied every day. at a certain point, you'd be like, we would fire him. why would we accept the from the president of the united states? because there are consequences to this. there are consequences to his actions. they embolden people to be mean

and divisive and racist and appraise the fabric of our society and our lives. it affects how our children do things and how they interact. it affects the way our families get along. it affects the way the world looks at america. that's why joe talks about the soul of america and that's more than anything that separates him from his opponent he cares about every american not just some and he cares about the values that make this country exceptional. i know joe biden. he does not have a mean spirited bone in his body. he cares about everybody's story. he wants to hear everybody's voice. he tries to live by the values that we cherish. honestly, kindness, humility.

responsibility talk about somebody having a hard time. when i hear this phony macho acting tough, smiling all the time. that that's not that's not what it used to be, to be a man, a father, a leader. you go on bragging all the time. you didn't go around putting other people down and joe understands that. and when you elect joe. these shouldn't be republican values or democratic values. it's what our grandparents tout us. we still try to pass on to our kids, black values, latino or asian-american, they're american values and we have to reclaim them. but to do that, we're going to have to turn out like never

before to reclaim what's best in this country, we can leave no doubt. we cannot afford to be complacent. not this time. not in this election. the last time we were complacent some of us. some of us said, ah, you know, i don't need to bother voting. i understand why americans get frustrated sometimes, they think government might not make difference. because government is not perfect. election officials, even the best aren't perfect. you know that is not going to solve every problem. but we can make things better. a president can't solve every economic problem by himself, but if we elect people like gary peters and haley stevens and we get a house and a senate that's more focused on working people and getting you the help you need, we can make things better.

it can make a difference him some more folks will get jobs. some young people will get more opportunity. some folks will be able to afford a college education. some folks will be able to go to and get an apprenticeship and get a trade. you know, if a president by himself can't eliminate all racial bias in our criminal justice system. electing him doesn't make us both racial. buff you know what, it can if we elect district attorney's and sheriffs focused on equality and justice and a justice department that reinvigorates the civil rights commission, it can make things better and then maybe some folks won't be subject to some of the tragedies that we have seen of these last few months. and that's what voting is about. it's not about making things perfect. it's about making things better. and better is good.

putting us on track so that a generation from now, we can look back and say, you know what, right about then, we turn the corner and we started back on a better trajectory. the fact that we don't get 100%, it's a reason to keep voting until we do get it right. wolf, on average, just over 50% of us vote. 50%. you got almost half of eligible voters not voting. those are some of the same folks complaining. but imagine if 60% of us vote. imagine if 70% of us vote? imagine january 20, we swear in a president and a vice president who have a plan to get us out of this mess. who care about working americans and have a plan to help you start getting ahead, who believe

in science, who have a plan to protect this planet for our kids, who believe in racial equality and are willing to do the work to keep us closer to america, where no matter what we look like or where we come from or who we love or how much money we got, and everybody's got dignity a chance to raise family. michigan, it can happen. i'm asking you to remember -- what this country can be. the thing is, though, we can't just imagine a better place. we've got to fight for it! we got to hustle the other side. we've got to get to work. we've got to vote up and down the ticket like never before! 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.

we'll send brenda lawrence and elissa slotkin and halle stephens back to the house and we will elect a man who loves this country. who cares about you. who will fight for every single one of us. my friend. a real leader. the next president of the united states of america -- joe biden! [ cheers ] [ horns honking ] ♪ we can hear it all over they can feel it all over ♪ we can feel it all over ♪ >> the vice president, joe biden, running up to the stage right now. got a trick, terrific introduction from his running mate. the former president of the united states, barack obama. flu see joe biden. he's going is to be speaking

right now. they're in doietroit. michigan is a key battleground state as we wait for joe biden to take the microphone. michael smerconish is with us right now. high importan how important is it for barack obama to get the vote out for joe biden right now? hold on one second. biden is just starting to talk and we want to listen in. right after these done we will talk. stand by. >> it's good to be with so many friends! mayor, you're one hell of a mayor, man. and spent a lot of time with you. the president gave you an easy assignment. he said -- detroit's in trouble. get them what they need. tell you what, all i did was listen to what duggan told me to do and i did and gretchen whitmer, governor whitmer, you are one quite big governor.

and lieutenant governor gilchrist, my buddy debbie stabenow, your once and future senator gary peters. i can always count on gary to be there for you and your family, and that's a fact. and congresswoman brenda lawrence, we need to send you back to the house just like we need to send halle back. halle stephens. tell you what, you know that slotkin girl. happens to be in congress. two things you got to know about her. she's forgot more about the intelligence committee and one thing, she's smarter than you. and stevie wonder is here a powerful voice for just is for a long time and a treasure.

and of course president barack obama. tell what you, didn't he make you feel nostalgic just hearing him? compare him, compare -- great, god almighty. great to have you here. reminds us we have have a president with character, decency, respect. a president respected around the world. the president our kids could and did look up to. i want to say something we don't say often enough. president obama was a great president. [ cheers and applause ] and one of the great honors i had was not only serving with him but becoming a good personal friend. our families became close. my two granddaughters and two are, his two daughters went all through school together. remained each other's best buddies. we want to make sure to say it

here today. mr. president, thank you. thank you for everything. thanks for reminding us what we can be again. look, i want to start on a serious note here by extending by condolences to the syrian community here in michigan on the tenth anniversary of our lady of deliverance church massacre in baghdad. i, i was there in baghdad. i met with the archbishop. been to baghdad many, many times during the war, and i'll tell you what. they were worried back then and after it occurred i came out here. look, the right to worship is a fundamental right in america. and as americans, we should be proud that people from all over the world find a home here in our communities, here in michigan. where the right to vote is the most fundamental right and the

right to protect our religious freedoms, and so my heart goes out to all of those ten years seems like a long time, but not if you lost somebody. it's like yesterday. so you have my sympathy and my support. well, detroit, three days. three days! [ cheers and applause ] three days to put an end to a presidency that has divided this 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 a president that has fan pd tned the flames hate across this nation. millions of americans have already voteded. over 85 million so far, they tell me. millions more are going to vote in the days ahead, because as the president said, we have to overwhelmingly vote, and

overwhelmingly win this thing. so my message is simple. the power to change the country is in your hands. i don't care how hard donald trump tries. there's nothing, nothing he's going to do to stop the people of america from voting. [ cheers and applause ] nothing. [ horns honking ] and wen americans vote, we will be heard. when america's heard, i believe the message is going to be loud and clear. it's time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home! [ cheers and applause ] as the president said, we're done with the chaos. with the tweets, with the anger, with the hate. with the failure. with irresponsibility. folks, we got a lot of work to do. i not only need you to get me elected aneed you once elected. because if i'm elected your

president we're going to get things done. we're going to act. we're going to move. we're going to move for all of our families. we're going to act to get covid under control. on day one of my presidency, we'll put in action a plan i've been talking about for months. masking, social distancing, testing, tracing. a plan for full and fair and free distribution of therapeutics and vaccines when we get one. imagine where we'd be if we had a president who had worn a mask instead of mocked it? i can tell you this -- we have 9 million confirmed cases of covid in this nation. 9 million. we wouldn't have 230,000 deaths. we wouldn't be seeing these any record numbers of cases we're seeing every single night now. nearly 100,000 cases nationwide in the united states just

yesterday. we wouldn't be facing another 200,000 predicted deaths in the next few months. this president knew in january this virus was deadly. i kept saying and others have said, look, the intelligence briefed him, briefed him in detail. what did he say? he said, no. i never read the report. that didn't surprise me but turns out he did. he knew and he hid tu from the american people. he knew is it was must worst than the flu. he lied to the american people. knew it wouldn't disappear but kept telling us, a miracle is coming. and just yesterday he had the gull as barack said, to say that doctors, the people that have been on the front lines, some have given their lives along with nurses and others, first responders, he suggested these doctors were falsely inflating deaths due to covid, because they wanted to make money.

what in the hell's the matter with this man? what's the matter with him? look, the people of this nation have suffered and sacrificed for nine months and none more so than our doctors on the front line, our health care workers. and this president is questioning their character, their integrity, and their commitment to the fellow americans. it's more than offensive. it's a disgrace. especially coming from a president whose waved the white flag to this virus. our frontline health workers, i give them all the best to beat this virus. many of them have died, but they have a president, we have a president, that's given up. i'll never raise the white flag of surrender. we're going to beat this virus. we're going to get it under control! [ cheers and applause ] and the first step of beating this virus is beating donald

trump! [ cheers and applause ] [ horns honking ] look -- trump keeps telling us what a great president he is. the staple genius as you flow. did you know president obama helped create more jobs in our administration than in the first three of his before the pandemic? how about this? did you know donald trump issing sgo to going to be the first president as the president said in 90 years? he's going to finish his four years with fewer jobs under his leadership than when he started? that's a lot of presidents, man. a lot of crises. but only trump is going to have fewer jobsality the end of his presidency than at the start. look, you see i understand something donald trump doesn't. wall street did not build this country. you did! people like my parents.

ordinary worker people of this country, and unions built the middle class! [ cheers and applause ] [ horns honking ] that's a fact. back when the economy was on the brink in 2009, when detroit was on its back, barack and i bailed out all the workers. my dad was an automobile man. the objective including many like vice president pence, we stepped in and rescued the automobile industry and saved at least 1 million jobs. [ cheers ] but when you may not know is congressman halle stephens was on that task force to make sure we got it done. look, where i come from i believe we should be willing to work. not wealth. work in this country, not wealth. under my plan, if you make more than -- less than $400,000, i guarantee you're not going to

pay a penny more in taxes, put were you make more than that, the wealthiest biggest corporations, 91 fortune companies that paid zero taxes you're going to start paying your fair share. [ cheers and applause ] folks, why should a firefighter, an educatoeducator, a nurse pay higher tax rate than a billionaire? that's a fact, by the way. you're a nurse, if there's any -- if there's anyone having nurse, male and female, man. all right. well, god love you. i've been a significant consumer of health care and i can tell you. i can tell you, the fact of the ma thor is that, that this is the god's truth. doctors let you live. nurses, male and female, make you want to live. and make you want to live. that comes from a guy that spent a lot of time in the hospital with two cranial aneurysms and a few other problems.

look, you should pay -- why should all of you be paying more taxes than donald trump, the billionaire? he deducted -- he has an income, he says, he paid an income tax of $750. as they say in the south, how about y'all? what did y'all pay? $750? my lord. and remember when he was asked about why he paid that much. he said it's because i'm smart. he knew how to game the system. well, get what, mr. president. i'm coming for ya! we don't game the system xm the system that you gained, and you all have to pay, it's not right. it's not fair. and we're going to act. we're going to act to protect health care. trump jammed through a supreme court nomination and you know

why? one reason. to destroy the affordable care act, to rip it out. if they get their way, 100 million americans will lose protections for pre-existing conditions, including more than 4 million people here in michigan. donald trump thinks health care is a privilege. barack and i think it's your right. [ cheers and applause ] i'll not only restore obamacare, we'll build on it. you keep your private insurance or choose a medicare-like option in the plan we're putting together. low egg preer premiums reduce prescriptions by 60% and we're going to do it, the wealthy will pay their fair share to make sure you get a fair deal. we're going to make sure we keep the protections for people with preexisting conditions. meanwhile, social security. actuary and the social security

said, donald trump said he's going to change social security if he gets re-elected. said if his plan goes through it would bankrupt social security by 2023. go home and tell your parents and grandparents what a great gift is coming, if he were to win. i'll protect social security, medicare and medicaid. but, folks, nothing worse to me than the way he's spoken about those that served in uniform and those that died. he called them losers and suckers. well my son beau biden won the bronze star and the conspicuous service medding spending time in iraq. he wasn't a loser! he was an american patriot! and i mean it. just like your sons and daughters, your parents and grandparents. the president likes to portray himself as a tough guy. the macho man. but when was the last time you saw the president of the united

states literally being laughed at by the world leaders of the united nation? the entire u.n. laughed at him. when's the last time you saw a president of the united states attend a nato meeting, being openly mocked by the leaders of the nato countries making fun of him? tough guy my -- [ cheers and applause ] -- my word. [ horns honking ] and you can believe -- you can believe -- you believe we have a president hood vladimir putin's puppy? putin put bounties on the heads of american soldiers in afghanistan. trump spoke to him six times since he knew about that and is too scared to challenge him. donald trump is not strong. he's weak! he commands virtually no respect on the senate stage. this is a president who not only doesn't understand sacrifice, he doesn't understand courage, physical courage. that it takes to wear that

uniform. maybe that's why six of his generals in his administration who worked in the administration has since left, said he's unfit to be commander of the united states military. that's why special operator mcchrystal, commander special operations command oversaw bin laden's raid, admiral bill mccraven and 24 our four stores endor endorsed me saying they'd be honored to have me as their commander-in-chief. that's why, because they know i'll have the backs of the military wherever they are! folks, look, folks, well, by the way, you're right. the gentleman says, what about the 545 kids who were kidnapped? why i announced immediately day one making a special commission

and find those kids unite them with their parents. make they're the children and the parents are together. what a total embarrassment. my god. nats why we have to support our military and vote for -- look r lo folks, we will act to meet the climate crisis as well. the staple genius call it is a hoax. by the way, today i think he said, perfect physical specimen. maybe that's why he thought he was able to write off $70,000 on his taxes, because he needed special hair care. seriously. $70,000 written off for hair care. i tell you what, man. i hardly have any hair but i'd

rather have what i have. stable, per effect specimen. whoa. now, we couldn't make this up. you know? i mean, think about it. i mean, this is -- look -- well, tell you what -- >> man: that's why we need you! >> -- when i hear climate change i see jobs. he said, hoax. i see america workers building and installing 500,000 charging stations across our highways of this country. i see america switching to clean electric vehicles built here in detroit and rebates for incentives. i see the federal government and the purchasing power to buy clean electric vehicles for an enormous fleet we have in washington. they made and sourced by union

jobs right here in america. this would mean 1 million good paying jobs across america in the auto industry alone. let's hear it for those honks of the cars out there whos made here in michigan? [ horns honking ] look, and we'll act to deliver racial justice here in america. protesting is not burning and looting. violence must neveren tolerated and it won't. but these protests are a cry for justice. the names of george floyd, breonna taylor, jacob blake, must not be forgotten because they will inspire a new wave of justice in america. look, i believe this country has to come together. i'm running as a prouddemocra e

but work as america's president. i'll work as hard for those who support me and those that do. you know what? in this america, in my america, there's no red state or blue state. it's everybody. that's the job of the president. the duty to care. to care for everyone. so for god's sake, please, vote. if you still have an absentee ballot get it to a drop box soon as you can. you can also vote early up to monday afternoon or vote on election day, but just make a plan. make a plan to vote as i've repeated many times tonight bp go to iwill will -- iwill will vote.com. the words my kids reminded me,

the words president kennedy said as he promzed to send us to the moon. he said we're doing it because we refuse to postpone. well i refuse to postpone the incredible opportunities that the american people have available too them. there's nothing beyond our capacity! there's no limit to america's future! nobody that can tear america apart, the only thing is america itself. and that's exactly what donald trump's been trying to do from the very beginning of his campaign. dividing america. pitting americans against one another base and race, gender, ethnicity, national origin. it's wrong. it's not who we are! look, folks, everybody knows who donald trump is. let's show him who we are. [ cheers and applause ] we choose, we choose hope over fear. we choose unity over division. we choose science over fiction.

and, yes, we choose truth over lie after lie after lie after lie! so it's time to stand up. take back our democracy. we can do this. we're so much better than we've been. we can be who we are at our best. the united states of america. god bless you all, and may god protect our troops! thank you, thank you, thank you. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> all right. there's the former vice president joe biden railing, railing almost screaming in his -- in his attacks on the current president of the united states, and look who's right behind him right now. the former president of the united states. a little elbow bump. maybe, no, not necessarily happening. got their masks on. we welcome viewers here in the united states and around the

world. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. this is cnn special coverage of the countdown to election day. i want to bring in michael smerconish to assess what's going on's we'll get to the trump campaign shortly, but michael what did you think of that combination, obama-biden on this only three days away from the election? >> wolf, i do a fair amount of public speaking around the country, and i've often had the experience of maybe being back stage, at a head table and someone else is speaking. and they have an incredible gift and i say to myself, oh, my god. i've got to follow that? and i couldn't help but think it as i was watching president obama speak and think about how joe biden must have felt. i'm not taking anything away from the vice president's speaking abilities, but we got to be fair. barack obama has a gift. and the very hard to follow that act regardless of who you are. it's a strong tandem. i'm reminded as well the

dichotomy between what you hear from obama and biden versus trump today, because for the former, it's all about a referendum. a referendum on donald trump, and yet i've been listening to a lot of the trump speeches today and for him, it's a choice. it's donald trump versus joe biden. so it's a really fascinating day and i have to say we've been at this for a long, long time, but today really strikes me as sort of a high point for the campaigning. the retail campaigning, because of the pandemic we just haven't seen up until now. >> the democratic nominee right now, detroit, michigan. michigan a key battleground state which democrats lost narrowly back in 2016. the republican candidate, the current president of the united states, donald trump, he's in your state of pennsylvania right now. we're going to hear from him shortly, but give us a sense of what's going on in pennsylvania right now? trump won pennsylvania four years ago. >> i think we in the

commonwealth finally know what it feels like to be a resident of iowa or new hampshire. and to have all of this attention heaped on us. you know what the data said? the data says vice president biden leads president trump by a couple of percentage points. there's some polling that suggests that enthusiasm might be on the side of president trump. wolf, what it all comes down to is whether there will be a repeat of the rural rebellion beyond philadelphia and the inner suburbs that can boost president trump to where he needs to be. i don't think that there's any doubt when you look at the data as to the party identification of those who have returned mailed ballots thus far that it's almost like they're starting a basketball game in the fourth quarter on tuesday and joe biden has a significant lead because he's already banked a big vote. you don't know how those folks voted but you it kel the party

identification of who requested the ballot and the the rate returned. 66% of those returned are democratic ballots. 22% of republican ballots. i'm sure many voted for the other party, but likely it's a strong sign that joe biden has a head of steam and now can that enthusiasm of republicans who show up on tuesday offset that. that's what we'll find out. >> all right. stand by michael. i want you to come back to us. the current president of the united states, donald trump, the republican nominee, he's speaking right now in your state of pennsylvania. let's listen in. >> -- grandparents, starts january 1st. bigger than health care, you watch. all set to go. january 1st. all signed up. lower drug prices even more. favorite nations. going to go from the highest to the lowest price. anywhere in the world. drug companies are not good fans of president trump. they don't like me. they've taken out more ads than sleepy joe about me.

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and space force. we hneed that i saw russia, china, saw it, said we need to do that, too and got great help from the republican senate and this gentlemen here and actually had bipartisan help, believe it or not. which is not ed to get. we will prestore patriot education to our schools. we will teach our children to love our country, honor our history and always respect our great american flag. [ cheers and applause ] and we will live by the timeless words of our national motto, in god we trust. [ cheers and applause ] you know, at the democrat national convention, the plep of allegiance, they took the word god out. and i watched it. and i said, they must have made

a typo. the problem was, then i heard it a second time. and i said, that was not a typo. and the american public went crazy and all of a sudden they put it bucack, but that's where they're coming back. never going to happen with me. never going to happen with these guys. never happen with our guys. right, fellas? for years you had a president apologizing and now you have a president standing up for america and standing up for the great people of pennsylvania. it's true. for the last four years you've seen me fight for you, and now i'm relying on you to deliver another historic victory for our country. [ cheers and applause ] on november 3rd we must finish the job. have to go out and vote. just have to go out and vote. we're going to finish draining the swamp. it's deeper and more vicious than anybody ever thought.

swamp creatures. you know? it's a great -- a swamp. you know what a swamp creeper is? we got them all over washington. >> all: drain the swamp! drain the swamp! drain the swamp! drain the swamp! drain the swamp! drain the swamp! [ cheers and applause ] >> so get your friends, get your family, get your neighbors. get your co-workers, grab your boss. come on, boss. and you have to get out and vote. november 3rd. and november 3rd and you want to do that. you want to do that. we're doing so well, because november 3rd our people just want to get out and vote. we're going to have a historic day. i really believe that. we're going to have, just based on what's going on throughout all of these other states. so -- but we win pennsylvania -- >> all right, we're going to continue to monitor the current president of the united states speaking in butler,

pennsylvania, for us right now. michael smerconish is still with us. michael, what's your thought right now about your state, pennsylvania? it looks like a very, very intense battle going on for pennsylvania. a key battleground state between these two candidates? >> before we dipped into the president i talked about the data. data you've presented how the race stands as best we know, and there are a few ways to look at this when you ththink about the on the final full day of campaigning monday you'll have the entire democratic ticket and spouses. right? you'll have vice president biden, you'll have senator kamala harris, you'll have joe biden, you'll have doug inhofe all in pennsylvania. the a rorshach test. say, wow, maybe nervous about pennsylvania and have their own question about those polls, or you can say they are coming to the commonwealth to deliver the knockout blow, if they can, because president trump absolutely needs to win the

commonwealth. if he can't do that i really -- i know there are a variety of different paths but it's very hard to see how he gets home without the 20 electoral votes that pennsylvania provides. >> what are you seeing in some of those philadelphia suburbs, for example? which potentially could be so critical? >> i don't think there's a question -- you know, if you hand me a map right now of pennsylvania, 67 counties, i feel comfortable having spent my entire leaf here thife here ande is fell you which county would win with machen a margin of one or two. the question is the margin. by all accounts the polling data anecdotally, spent my entire life in philadelphia or surro d surrounding suburbs. joe biden is coming out of the city of philadelphia and surrounding suburbs, inner suburbs with an an believable head of steam. look, you have to also say that hillary clinton historically speaking did what she needed to

do in pennsylvania four years ago. but what lies beyond suburbia when you move into central pennsylvania, get to the northeast, when in butler county, the southwestern part where you just heard the president speaking, things changed. that's just a sea of red. so that map, when john king stands at the wall tuesday night or thereafter, it's going to be all blue in the lower right corner and then it's going to be a sea of red with very little exception. >> we're going to watch it together with you very closely indeed. michael sm micha mike smerconish, smaunk thank you. we're watching special coverage of the count down to election day. up next the march to the polls turns into a clash in north carolina. we'll share information that just is coming in when we come ba back. hed. to stir that fire, university of phoenix is awarding up to one million dollars

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they paused 8:40, representing the time the knee was on the neck of george floyd before he died. george floyd's niece was there. traffic began backing up and that's when they used pepper spray and then used it again at the event at the courthouse according to the police there. you can see the video kind of the chaos that ensued. police say they never sprayed anybody directly in the face but people on-scene as well at the people who witnessed it including candidates for office, a candidate for north carolina house district there has said otherwise. the point was it get out the vote as well and there was a polling place, today was the last day of early voting in north carolina. about a block away. i talked to a poll grader who was there and said that she actually came over to see what was going on, because they had been expecting people coming. they knew about this event and had stacked up with extra people there. and said that after everything that happened, eight people were arrested, wolf.

including the reverend. after everything that happened they went back to the polls and while the state board of elections says it did not interfere with anybody voting, that poll greeter tells me they didn't have people really who came from the event. they were expecting dozens and dozens of voters and they got maybe one or two from that event. so the north carolina democratic party has condemned this, what happened. they have said that they view it as a tactical voter suppression. we should point out here that this happened in al amass count. the sheriff was reprimanded several years back by the department of justice for a history of racial profiles and other issues but re-elected twice since then. so someone told me that unfortunately they were not surprised something like this happened while they were trying to get out the vote there, unfortunate indeed. dianne gallagher, thank you in raleigh, north carolina. thank you very much. meanwhile, both president trump and joe biden speaking to

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cnn medical analyst joining me, a former cdc disease detective. doctor, did you really ever expect to see cases reach once again 100,000 per day here in the united states? >> this is not the news we wanted to hear, wolf, with the records now breaking the records that were set with both the spring surge in the northeast are and the summer surge in the south. actually, what's happening now as awful as it is, is quite predictable, because we haven't seen a robust national program. we haven't seen testing rolled out to the scale that it should have been and we haven't seen contact tracing and follow-up isolating happening in the way that it should. look at other developed nations, they had a better response especially in asia. here, unfortunately, we've been on track for this, and if we continue we are set to triple the daily covid-19 death rate, that's if things don't change and i really hope that they do.

>> the last several days, 1,000 americans have been dieing almost every single day from this virus. just a little while ago the british prime minister, boris johnson, announced a second national shutdown in englandthat will start on thursday. do you think that is what, perhaps, we should be bracing for here in the united states as well? >> well, boris johnson has had to do that because the numbers in the uk are horrific and projections really bad in terms of overwhelming the national health system. the issue with a lockdown is it's a good short-term stop gap measure. on its own, it's not enough to deal with this pandemic. a lockdown is really effective reducing number of interactions with people lowering the covid rate for a while. however, then if you jut reopen especially reopen too early, the numbers rise again. the whole point of a lockdown is to have a period of time that basically buys the government time to roll out a national testing, tracing and isolating

program. so my worry is that in the u.s., even if we did have a national lockdown, what happens if we just repeat what happened in the spring this year? which is when the government squandered that golden opportunity to use that time of public sacrifice, people staying at home, schools closing down, but they didn't use that time to have a national response that was a really good one to ramp up testing. that's a problem. lockdowns alone are not sufficient to use that time to build a good response. >> in the waning days of this campaign, doctor, president trump and surrogates for that matter have made claims that are clearly not based in fact at all. here what he said about the virus today while at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. listen.we're rounding the turn. they hate when i say it.

i had covid and i'm here and you can see i'm in perfect physical shape and i'm extremely young. so i'm young and i'm a perfect physical specimen. ah, okay. ah -- now, so i'm sure i could have beatwithout -- but something happened when i took that sucker and it was gone. it was gone. i woke up the next morning and i ripped off my shirt and i said, doctor, get me the hell ouch here. out of here. >> clearly, belittling the whole coronavirus pandemic, you know. i don't know if he realizes how many people have died from this pandemic over these months here in the united states. he says we're rounding the turn. it's not getting better. it's getting a whole loss worse now. >> it is, and also his comments about his treatment, that are very expensive. a slap in the face to the more than 80 million americans either are uninsured or under insured.

people dieing because they get get to a hospital for knit treatment. offensive and his comments full of lice. his son's comments saying we're turning the corner. the numbers are nearly zero. nearly 1,000 dies is not nearly zero. that's 1,000 people whose lives could have been saved if this administration rolled out a plan. it's a slap in the face to those who have no health care. >> a direct groat donald trump jr., almost zero. tell that to the mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters who have died only just in the moss, but over the last four days. 4,000 deaths in the last four

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drive-thru voting. now to this county home of houston all because of covid. the drive-through voting, drive up in cars roll down their windows and hand over their ballots to election workers without ever getting out of their car. this is only happening in harris county. it's the only count any texas hope to 2.4 million voters but republicans are trying to stop it saying it's illegal. it unfairly benefits democrat saying in nine of the ten locations where this is set up that those locations alone favor democrats. now, the texas state supreme court, they have weighed in on this and said that it is legal and it can continue, but this is a federal court challenge that will hear this emergency hearing monday morning. of course, texas, it's usually leaning to a republican. we've seen in polls it could be a toss-up and why these republicans are fighting so hard for it. then we have nevada where republicans will are trying to stop the count of early voting. they say their observers haven't

been allowed to be close enough and the software analyzing the signature isn't stringent enough. wolf, these challenges are still ongoing, but, of course, we've seen a varying degree of rulings in other states. in minnesota, a federal appeals court has said that november 3rd is the absolute last time that these absentee ballots can be received. then on the flip side we saw the u.s. supreme court last week let voters in pennsylvania and north carolina have a little bit more time. voters have three days in pennsylvania. that's been the extension there. in north carolina, it's nine days to receive the ballots. a word of warning about those two states, though. while those ballots can still be received, it's possible that people could go back later and challenge those ballots. that's why tonight, wolf, officials in all of these states are saying if you absolutely want your vote counted at this point you should not rely on the mail. you should go in-person or actually go in-person to hand over your ballot. a lot at stake and still a lot

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biden's doing well in the swing states and nationally but this is the same exact poll that the polls and des moines register polls showed it's a bit of an outlier. this is the type of poll that democrats might go, h'm, this is a little bit concerning. >> who's looking stronger these final days? >> it's no doubt, joe biden is looking stronger. he's doing better than hillary clinton was four years ago at this point. you just look across the swing states, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. biden holds five points or more. this right here if you want to get an understanding in florida, you take a look at hispanics. joe biden is doing worse than hillary clinton. florida will be a very, very tight state. this is the type of thing if it occurs on election day, joe biden does worse among hispanics, this is the reason why. >> we all know that. it's very unlikely. i think you'll agree with me that trump can win the election if he loses florida, right? >> it's very, very difficult.

the same is true in iowa. he needs neither of those states. he would like both. >> harry, thank you very much. i want to bring in our national political reporter. barack obama was out campaigning for joe biden in michigan trying to recreate the magic of their joint runs of 2008, 2012. how do you see this unfold? >> obviously president obama is the strongest surrogate that joe biden has. we really saw that today as he was out there sort of touching off those xingers on trump and really getting the crowd engaged. urging them to get out and vote in these final days. and making the case that this has to be a race where democrats out hustle republicans. so that there is no doubt about the outcome of the election. and it was a really interesting contrast to what we saw earlier today with president trump where he was in pennsylvania at four stops today. continuing to raise questions

about vote by mail ballots, suggesting that there will be widespread voter fraud which we know there's absolutely no evidence of. and really kind of making president obama's point that democrats are going to need big margins as they go into what looks like it could be a grueling conflict in the days after the election as votes are counted, wolf. >> do you see either campaign showing any sense of over confidence right now? >> neither one has been showing a sense of over confidence, but what has been interesting in the last couple days just talking to republican sources is that they do feel like while joe biden had been on offense in states like georgia and texas and iowa, that they are starting to see a little more tightening now and that they are also seeing more of their voters at turn-in ballots, whereas, at the beginning we saw a lot more democrats turning in vote by

mail ballots. so they are confident that president trump could pull this out and of course while his path is much more difficult, he does have paths to re-election. and you see him really hammering home his closing argument in pennsylvania today which of course could be the tipping point that everyone's watching, wolf. >> we see the biden campaign actually holding events in georgia and texas. are those states really in play for the democrats? >> i think the democrats really believe that georgia is in play in part because there has been so much work that has gone into registering new voters and non-voters over the last decade or so. nonprofits doing a lot of that work. the question now is whether all of those people have turned out. you know, folks close to the trump campaign feel much more confident that president trump will be able to pull that out in the end, but you do have those hot senate races there and so it's a little bit of a wild

card, wolf. >> lots of wild cards, maeve weston. anderson cooper picks up cnn's special coverage of the countdown to election day, and that starts right knew. nobody is coasting to the finish because unlike past elections nobody knows where the finish line might be or what lies beyond it. already we're seeing difficulties in the number of places. people taking part in a black lives matter and the polls march were met by police with pepper spray. the racially diverse group walked from the church to the county courthouse where they held a rally urging people to vote. police told the crowd to