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is in your hands. >> i was elected to fight for you, and i fight harder than any president has ever fought. >> the biden campaign says their easiest path to the nomination is through that blue wall that president trump broke through back in 2016. >> we're going to show america that michigan is trump country. >> after four years of failure and division, we have the power to change america. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day," it is tuesday, november 3rd. 5:00 here in new york. this is a special edition of "new day," the final day of voting in america. in exactly one hour, polls open

in eight states. we've all waited a long time for this. and by this time tomorrow, we might know who will be president come january 20th. or we might not. but we do know is that this election has already exploded all precedent, nearly 100 million ballots have already been cast. that is a record. and frankly, bonkers. it is hard to wrap your heads around that. we're getting new information and analysis on each candidate's path to 270 electoral votes. remember, that is what determines who wins. joe biden closed out his campaign in pennsylvania just where it began more than a year ago. he blasted the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic which is spiraling out of control this morning. while president trump threatened legal action to stop vote counting in pennsylvania beyond today, he ended the night in michigan. >> and there is an extra layer of fencing around the white house this morning. the president plans to host hundreds of people at an

election night party there. all of this against the backdrop of a pandemic. another 84,000 new coronavirus cases were reported overnight. that's the 4th highest day since the pandemic began. more than 231,000 americans have died. and there is new reporting that dr. deborah birx is reportedly pleading with the white house for much more aggressive action. let's begin our coverage with cnn's jessica dean. she is live in philadelphia where joe biden holds an event today. what's happening at this hour, jessica? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn, and we made it, election day is here. the voters finally get to have their voices heard in all of this, the months and months we have been following it. vice president biden and president trump making their closing arguments to voters yesterday. both of the men here in this critical battleground state showing just how important

pennsylvania is in this road to 270. on an election day where nearly 100 million americans have already cast their ballots early, president trump and former vice president joe biden making their closing arguments to voters. >> you have the power to vote. so go out and vote. unless you're going to vote for somebody other than me, in which case, sit it out. >> the power to change this country is in your hands. and i don't care how hard donald trump tries, there's nothing, nothing he can do to stop the people of this nation from voting no matter how he tries. >> reporter: trump wrapping up in grand rapids michigan, just hours ago. >> this is not the crowd of a second place finisher. >> reporter: in five rallies across four states, the president repeating some of his biggest complaints, including casting doubt about mail-in voting. this time falsely implying there would be election fraud in

pennsylvania, following the supreme court decision to allow the counting of ballots received up to three days after the election. >> we're going to win pennsylvania. it's a great state. that's a very, very dangerous decision by the supreme court. i guess it was a political decision. i don't know what it was. i don't know what they were thinking. >> reporter: with pennsylvania as a key state to win the white house, the president holding a rally in his rival's hometown of scranton. biden closing his campaign in the keystone state, too. but in pittsburgh, where he pitched a message of unity. >> the only thing that can tear america apart is america itself. no one else can challenge us. and that's exactly what donald trump has been doing. folks, it's time to stand up and take back our democracy. we can do this. we can be better than what we have been. >> reporter: the event, the last of three in western pennsylvania

where the former vice president was joined by lady gaga. the biden campaign splitting up the battleground state with senator kamala harris rallying voters in philadelphia, and stretching its ground game down south to georgia and florida with the help of former president barack obama. >> the answer is not to stay home. it's to turn out like never before. >> reporter: this all in biden's push to build back the blue wall trump knocked down in 2016. that hope evident in biden's stop in ohio, a state the president won in the last election. >> it's time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. we're done. we're done with the chaos. >> reporter: vice president biden closes out this 2020 campaign season right here in pennsylvania today with an event his hometown of scranton and another here in philadelphia

before traveling back to where he lives in wilmington, delaware, to await election results. president trump is scheduled to visit his campaign headquarters in virginia before holding an election night party with hundreds of guests in the east room of the white house. alisyn. >> jessica, thank you very much for that. so what is the latest path to victory for trump and biden to reach that magical number of 270 electoral votes? cnn's phil mattingly breaks it down for us. >> john, alisyn, here we go. this gray finally mercifully is about to turn into red and blue, the states coming out as data comes in over the course of tuesday into wednesday, even longer than that. i think one of the big questions is going into this night, what is this actually going to look like. this is the 2016 map to some degree. let's pull out right now where things stand currently if you look around the map. you have where the toss up states are. you imagine that minnesota, not

totally a safe seat for democrats right now. we'll go ahead and put that in the democratic column, colorado as well. trump campaign making a play for nevada, democrats feel like they have locked that up. where does that leave things? everything you see that's not colored in are states that could be in play. democrats feel like they will be able to lock in new hampshire, they feel like they will lock in maine as well. what happens to the rest? you look at the electoral maps, 233 electoral votes for biden, 125 electoral votes for trump. there's one clean and easy pathway for the biden campaign to 270, it goes like this, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. that's the blue wall. you put that back together. you undo essentially what president trump was able to ride to election back in 2016 and joe biden is the president of the united states, and the big question and why you're seeing everybody flood pennsylvania over the last couple of weeks, what if president trump wins pennsylvania, and holds on to ohio which he won in 2016.

joe biden made a trip there. republicans feel like they're in good shape. iowa as well. where are the pathways for joe biden, what happens if wisconsin goes republican as well. that is why you have seen a focus for democrats down here. north carolina, georgia, obviously florida, always a toss up, and arizona, a state that democrats finally believe is ripe to come their way. so joe biden, 249 electoral votes in the state of north carolina, win the state of georgia, over 270. what happens if president trump wins florida, wins georgia, well, democrats win north carolina, win arizona, over 270. now, there's one state i haven't filled in yet, and frankly it's because nobody knows what's happening there. you have seen over the course of the last several weeks, the state of texas with an early vote that has surpassed by a substantial margin, their 2016 total vote. now what does it mean? you have had several election analysts put this in a toss up column. we don't know right now.

we can't break down in a bipartisan manner the way the early vote is going. president trump didn't win texas by as much as republicans traditionally. democrats believe texas is in play. if texas is in play, the entire map changes. joe biden has rewritten a democratic pathway to the presidency. pay attention to all of these things. donald trump has a clear pathway to 270 electoral votes and reelection. but joe biden also has a pathway to a huge electoral win, one that might rewrite the map entirely. wins texas, flips georgia from a red state to a blue state, wins back florida, the state of pennsylvania. all of a sudden you're rolling up a huge electoral victory for vice president biden. not to say it's going to happen. not to say any combination is going to happen. what it underscores, going into the final day, the final votes being cast, there's a clear pathway for president trump to be elected. multiple pathways for joe biden to win reelection. that's why we wait and see what

happens over the course of the next 24 hours. >> our thanks to phil mattingly, hanging on every word there. i dream of magic walls these days. >> i thought you were going to say, i dream of phil mattingly. >> joining us cnn political commentator, errol louis, and margaret, the policy editor at axios. i'm going to start with me. i want to put on the screen a number which i just can't wrap my arms around, this is the number of people who have voted already. 99 1/2 million americans have voted. i have covered elections for 25 years. we have never seen anything like this. i don't know how to factor it in to what i'm watching today, because i'm sitting here doing math, what does that mean, how many votes are left, how much would donald trump have to bring in to win now. what are you watching?

>> that's right. listen, it's very important, not to skip over that point because it blows out everybody's expectations. all of these carefully crafted models based on past elections. you have to throw a lot of that out the window. not just texas but also i think hawaii, montana. they have exceeded all of the vote. people are doing that in a way we don't necessarily understand why. what i'm going to be watching for, john, is this has all the makings of what could be a wave election, similar to 1980, similar to 1994, we're not sure exactly what is going on here, and frankly, that's a wonderful thing for those of us year of year have tried to push for people to participate more, here's their answer, and we're going to find out what it all means. >> or margaret, that huge number has cannibalized what we'll see today and people did it early because of the pandemic, and because of whatever else is happening in the world, and as errol and john have said, we

just don't know, and we also don't know about new voters. when you take a poll, it's of likely voters, and there may be an influx in young voters or newly registered voters and we don't have them as part of the calculation necessarily either. >> well, alisyn, and happy election day, i think that's all completely true. and you know, for sort of an average voter sitting at home, i think sometimes you feel detached from the process and you look at the modeling and predictions and you extrapolate, i don't have to vote today or if i vote it's not going to matter where i live, and the truth is that that's just not true. even as much early voting as there has been, the outcome in all of these key battle states absolutely depends on who comes out today to vote in person as well, and so the models are only as good as the assumptions they make, and it's extremely hard to make assumptions when so many parameters are out of whack, when the pandemic has changed people's behavior, when the

candidates themselves are behaving as candidates never normally do. you're watching a sitting president attacking preemptively the supreme court as part of the closing round of electioneering. it's an extraordinary year. i think it's important for people who are still thinking about participating to understand that none of these models can be predictive without understanding what people will actually do today with their masks on, standing in line in the polls. >> just one more, more people have voted in texas already than voted in 2016. what does that mean? who knows. that's why we're not going to leave our tv for a minute over the next 14 or 20 minutes. errol, margaret brought it up, let's talk about it. the president's closing message seems to be a threat of violence against americans based on the supreme court. this tweet i'm about to read you, twitter has already taken it down because it is spreading misinformation, they say. the president said the supreme

court decision on voting in pennsylvania is a very dangerous one. it it will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire system of laws. it will also induce violence on the streets. something must be done. to be clear, all the supreme court did was decided pennsylvania, which decided it wants to accept ballots post marked by today for three more days. he's saying somehow that will lead to cheating. twitter thinks that's a lie, and then there's the idea the president says will incite violence, though i don't think he knows the word incite. he said induce violence. >> it's good that twitter took that down. there are 21 states, plus washington, d.c. that allow for mail-in votes to be counted after election day. military ballots, absentee ballots, the postal service takes a couple of days, and different states, half the states have figured out how to

do it, and pennsylvania says three days. other state says ten days. other states say seven days. for the president to say this, and he knows it's not true, he's trying to sow confusion, shift the legal base and shift the terrain on the assumption he loses and will need the electoral votes of pennsylvania. that's all this is about. >> we're not done with you. >> far from it. >> stand by. much more to come. a federal judge ruled in favor of more than 100,000 texans who have already cast their votes. he said their votes will count. this has to do with drive-through voting locations in harris county, the biggest county in texas. what does this mean for the votes already cast? what does it mean for today? that's next. - [announcer] meet the ninja foodi air fry oven. make family-sized meals fast. and because it's a ninja foodi, it can do things no other oven can, like flip away. the ninja foodi air fry oven,

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overnight, the biggest county in texas decided to close

all but one of its drive through voting locations. the harris county clerk said he does not want ballots cast at those locations to be jeopardized. errol, let me make sure i have this right. a judge decided or the supreme court decided that the ballots cast through drive-in locations do count but as of today, you drivers and voters have to get out of their car and walk those ballots into a building, and i guess the bigger question is this just somehow a sign of the challenges and counter challenges that will be happening elsewhere outside of texas on other issues. >> it's a real shame, and a number of states, texas of course being exhibit a, what you're finding is what are purported to be legal challenges are really about power, about who thinks they can get an advantage by tweaking the rules in this direction or that direction. get out of your car or into your car, harris county tends to skew democratic, you have republican lawyers pushing in that

direction. we may see something similar going on elsewhere across the country. it's unfortunate. the judges, if you read the tone of the rulings and actions they have taken, they have been admirable, they have been saying, this is about the law. we're not going to look to who appointed us or which party might get an advantage, we're going to follow the letter of the law, the spirit of the law, which is toward participation. as long as everybody does that, i think we're going to be fine. >> the important thing that happened in texas just so we're clear is the texas supreme court ruled and federal judges agreed not to disenfranchise 120,000 voters who have voted. if you voted in a drive-through location in harris county, your vote counts. that's the major story here. now, as for the drive-through locations today, they will not be open but you can get out of your car and go vote inside. there isn't any reason to believe that will disenfranchise voters. your vote counts if you voted through a drive-through. that's what everyone needs to leave here with going forward.

margaret, axios has some new reporting on how the vote will come in tonight. obviously we know some states will count more quickly. some states will count the early vote first. some states will count the votes cast today first. the words we choose to use here are shifts. other people use words like barrage. we're going to use shifts because these are real votes, not fake votes. >> well, that's right. but a number of months ago, a democratic firm called hawk fish, this is a michael bloomberg funded firm came up with a model, they called it the red mirage, you're calling it the red shift, which could model a really big lead for president trump on election night, and could shift more towards joe biden, and they say ultimately deliver biden the victory in the days after. they have new updated modeling that we're reporting first this morning that still shows an ultimate biden victory as they model it but shows that mirage or that appearance of what it

could look like tonight, actually much tighter for president trump. they still say, they still warn that if it looks like he's leading tonight, it doesn't mean anything, but the margin by which they think it might look that way is much tighter than just in august, and the reasons why are quite interesting. one reason is that many states did scramble in the last couple of months to try to figure out can they actually process ballots faster, what mechanisms do they have under state law and local election regulations to do that, and another reason is because vice president biden actually gained in many of the polls that the modeling is built on since this summer, the third reason is interesting and it's that many republicans, although democrats and independents by far are more afraid of the coronavirus and more inclined to mail in votes, many more republicans than they initially predicted did go ahead and early vote, whether in person or by mail. that's changing their modeling die n dynamics. when we talk about the modeling,

it doesn't mean somethings is going to happen. it means some of the assumptions fall into line, that's what's going to happen. their modeling shows this massive fluctuation in what could look like is happening, and what could actually happen based on that thing that we have been talking about all morning, what we still don't know, which is who's going to turn out in person, and kwhowho's going to those early votes which will be counted in the early days. >> errol, this is your wheel house. this is what you live for every four years, how are you spending tonight, and when do you think that you'll know something conclusive? you'll see some sign that tells you what's happening? >> i will be coanchoring our broadcast out of new york, like a lot of other news channels around the country, one of the things i'm going to be looking for are the early results that come out of north carolina and florida. these are southern swing states that could make it an early night if florida, say, goes to joe biden. if trump fails to carry that important state with 29

electoral votes, it becomes very hard to see how president trump gets reelected. that's one of the early things i'm going to be looking for. and then the rest of it is just going to be a long slog, and there will be lots of questions like states like arizona that might flip, and texas that was identified earlier. that's also something all of us will be watching. >>er thank you both so much, great to talk to you, and join us for cnn's special coverage of election night in america. it begins today, 4:00 p.m., eastern. the coordinator of the white house coronavirus task force contradicting president trump quite forcefully, warning that the u.s. is entering the most concerning and deadly phase of the crisis. we have the latest on the pandemic next. all otc pain relievers including voltaren have one thing in common none are proven stronger or more effective against pain than salonpas patch large

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overnight, more than 84,000 new coronavirus cases were reported. that's the fourth highest single day since the pandemic began. 13 states reporting record hospitalizations. in the last month, the number of americans hospitalized has soared, more than 50% joining us now. cnn political commentator, dr. abdul al sayed. the numbers don't lie, they tell a clear story, and dr. deborah birx, the coordinator of the white house task force has now somewhat publicly split from the white house public messaging on

the coronavirus. "the washington post" reports overnight, she put together a memo that's been circulating that says we are entering the most concerning and deadly phase of the pandemic, leading to increased mortality. this is not about lock downs. it hasn't been about lock downs since march or april. it's about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented. calls coming from inside the house, doctor. >> that's right, john. unfortunately the numbers don't lie. we have been now in a surge for at least the past two weeks, cases are skyrocketing, and i want folks to appreciate that this is a different kind of surge than the first surge that we experienced back in the spring. there the virus was mainly relegated to large cities with very good hospital infrastructure. now, the virus is everywhere, and for that reason, it's hitting rural chuommunities and suburban communities alike, and you're seeing hospitals in the rural and suburban communities that may not have the same quality hospital infrastructure as a city like new york or

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it's really here. it is election day in america. and one very important state to watch is pennsylvania. polls open there in a little more than an hour, and cnn's alexandra field is live in wexford, pennsylvania, with more. what's happening there, alex? >> reporter: hey there, good morning, alisyn, we know there's a scenario where it all comes down to pennsylvania, but putting that aside, we know that the 20 electoral votes that the keystone state has to offer are critical in the campaigns path to 270. we have seen donald trump holding a series of rallies here in recent days, visiting the parts of the state most friendly to him, trying to drum up

enthusia enthusiasm amongst his supporters. he wants to hold a state he flipped in 2016, with less than 1% of the elect rate. don't forget former vice president joe biden launched his campaign in pennsylvania. he also wraps it up in pennsylvania with big events yesterday in pittsburgh and philadelphia. he will be back in philadelphia and scranton today while on the trail in pennsylvania, he has tried to play up his scranton roots. working to appeal to his union households that flipped to president trump back in 2016. pennsylvania of course a critical part of that so-called blue wall that democrats are trying to rebuild. what is really interesting about pennsylvania, alisyn, is the fact that 2.4 million mail-in ballots have been cast. that sounds like a big number but it's less than 40% of the total 2016 electorate. there's a whole lot of voting that is going to happen today. we're in allegheny county, the home of pittsburgh, the one spot

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americans decide today whether president trump deserves a second term. a record breaking number of americans, nearly 100 million, have already cast their votes. so how are democrats and

republicans feeling about their chances? joining us now are cnn political commentator, paul begala, and scott jennings. scott is a special former assistant to george w. bush. great to see you on this special day. scott, how are you feeling? >> i feel fine. i love election day, and it reminds me of the durability of the american democracy, and endurance of our institutions. people are taking advantage of voting. i feel just fine. >> how do you feel about the republican candidate's chances? >> yeah, i can real a poll. it doesn't look like donald trump is going to win the election. it's not for us to sit on tv today and to say that. what's for today is for the american people to go out and make the final call, and so, you know, in terms of progress na, e

that didn't vote in 2016, including people they have been able to register this year. they're banking on a traditional ground game to give them extra points in the swing states. >> let me say, you look terrific this morning. you feel good and you look good. you have two things going for you at least. >> i sleep in this tiny box that you guys give me, so i'm just here. the lights go off, come on, and i'm just here. >> paul, when you wake up at 2:00 a.m., a lot of things occur to you, and it occurred to me this morning after i woke up, pennsylvania could be really important, and you know who knows a lot about pennsylvania, paul knows a lot about pennsylvania. when you were in junior high, you cut your teeth running the campaign of harris wofford in 1991, a huge victory for the democrats. you have done a lot of other races there. what do you see in these final hours in that state and what will you be looking for? >> yeah, i have called a lot.

first, jennings looks great. he's gorgeous and i'm jealous. i have run five campaigns in pennsylvania. i spent a good deal of time of course in the last days calling my friends there including by the way, senator casey, the senior democrat in that state ho knows it better than anyone whose father was governor, who i worked with senator casey a million years ago. they know we're going to know. it's interesting, we have a reporter in allegheny county. it's going to take a while to count the votes. democrats believe widbiden is gg to win by enough. look at the turnout. there's two messages in politics, only two choices in life, seriously, whether it's your diet or your marriage or what television station you watch, the question is always stay the course or time for a change. and i'm hearing from pennsylvania, of course i'm hearing from texans and georgias, people want to change. too many people have lost friends to trump's politics, his

jobs to economics, too many people have lost a friend or loved one to his botched handling of covid. it's a time for change, i think and you're going to see it in pennsylvania and across the country. >> the pittsburgh post gazette endorsed president trump, scott, which i think came as a surprise to many people. do you agree that it's all about pennsylvania today, that's where you'll keep your eyes peeled for all night? >> well, of course. i mean, if donald trump could hold pennsylvania, it would really close off some of biden's paths to 270. the first state is florida. if florida doesn't go back in the president's basket, then it's going to be a very short night, i think, truthfully. once you get past florida, pennsylvania is vital. if the holds those two states, we're going to be in for several hours of not knowing what's going on there. if one of those falls, i think it would be problematic. >> honestly, we really don't know what's going to happen. mostly because 100 million

people have voted already, and there's no way to plug that into the computer that i built in my head of how to process elections. i don't know what it means. i don't know what to look for today in terms of the vote. paul, donald trump is staying largely in pennsylvania, he's going to his campaign headquarters, hanging out at the white house. joe biden is going back to pennsylvania. it's not far, but he's going to scranton, and philadelphia. how much of a difference does that make on election day because it doesn't always happen. candidates don't often go campaign the last day. >> no, they don't, and, you know, some people have knocked biden for not being aggressive enough and campaigning enough, and i think this is terrific. it's where his heart is. you know, it's not like he's going to be sweeping restfully anyway. this is a really anxiety ridden day for a politician, so i love that. again, when i was working in pennsylvania, we used to call biden pennsylvania's third senator. he's from neighboring delaware, i'm pretty sure he was born in scranton, i'm not quite certain

about that. he loves those scranton roots, they're authentic, and he came up with a terrific frame. he said this is scranton versus park avenue. that's a pretty tight, pretty simple, pretty populist way of framing the election. and if president trump has a great many strengths, but one of his weaknesses is i think you can tag him as being far too much for the park avenue crowd, and joe is authentic, he's authentically scranton, and i love him about that. >> when you make a candidate do something, it's for the candidate to keep him from bugging everyone on the campaign stuff. you send him somewhere so he won't antagonize everybody, but we'll see if it makes a difference in terms of picking up votes. scott, paul, thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks. >> one of the things that affects turnout for sure is the weather. so what is the forecast in the key states on this final day of voting? next. find your rhythm.

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weather can be a huge factor in turnout, so what does the weather look like today? cnn meteorologist jennifer gray with the forecast. jennifer. >> good morning, john, yeah, we do have a couple of trouble spots on both coasts, mainly across the northeast and new england where we have a couple of lingering showers, a little bit of a wintry mix. we could see some isolated showers across portions of florida, and then across the pacific northwest we do have our next big system that's rolling on shore today. so here's a live look at the radar. you can see those showers, some

snow showers across portions of new york as well as massachusetts, sliding to the east, now, this isn't going to be an all-day problem. it's mainly just a morning event. and then it's going to move on out. so you can see 7:00 this morning, looking like this, and then as the morning goes on, it is going to clear out. we'll be left with a couple of lingering showers but nothing in the form of precipitation. most of that will be drying out and pushing offshore. of course across the pacific northwest we have our next big system that's rolling on chl. you can see across seattle, portland, getting big time rain and that's going to be lasting throughout much of the day into the afternoon, and that's going to slide to the east, so the pacific northwest will really see the most rainfall as far as today is concerned and so we are going to continue to see very mild temperatures throughout the day today. the morning starting off pretty chilly across portions of the southeast, and then those temperatures will warm up into the 60s and 70s across much of the country. john. it's a pretty good day to

have an election. we don't usually see weather like this over this much of the country on election day. "new day" continues right now. we have made america proud we have made america proud again and we will make america great again. >> let's vote as if our lives depend on it. >> they may have closed the gap somewhat with joe biden with these raucous rallies. >> we have to get out and vote. >> nothing, nothing is going to stop the people of this nation from voting, period! time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home! >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman.

that's right. we have a double open. okay? we have a double open. that's how big today is. welcome to ow viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day" and it is tuesday, november 3rd. election day. 6:00 here in new york. welcome to a special edition of "new day" and, yes, it's happening. don't adjust your sets. election day is finally here. the day that so many of you have been waiting for. polls are open as of this hour in these nine states. in the northeast, as you may be able to see on your screen. in half an hour polls open in key battleground states of ohio and north carolina as well as west virginia. by this time tomorrow, we might know who will be president for the next four years. or we might not. but we do know that this election is historic. nearly 100,000 -- no. scratch that. 100 million ballots h