grandchildren. may they all rest in peace, and may everybody during this holiday weekend stay safe, follow those guidelines, wear your mask, stay healthy so we can see you next year. i'm jim acosta. thanks very much for watching us. happy holidays. erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, the president's claims about the election have no merit. that's from a trump appointed judge tonight as the president suffers another devastating setback in his efforts to overturn the election. plus, breaking news tonight. the u.s. surpassing 13 million coronavirus cases as the cdc is now set to hold an emergency meeting to determine who should receive the vaccine first. and a woman who just lost her father and aunt to coronavirus joins me. what she wants every american to know about the virus that is infecting record numbers of people tonight. let's go out front.

good evening. welcome to a special edition of out front. i'm pamela brown in for erin burnett on this friday. tonight, a blistering takedown. a federal appeals court flat out rejecting trump's efforts to challenge the election results. a trump-appointed judge writing in the opinion, quote, the campaign's claims have no merit. the number of ballots it specifically challenges is far smaller than the roughly 81,000-vote margin of victory. and it never claims fraud or that any votes from cast by illegal voters. calling an election unfair does not make it so. that is the truth. that is -- those are the facts. but president does not want to hear that, because accepting that reality would mean that the president becomes what he fears the most, a loser, and a sore loser at that n. a statement, biden's campaign writes, this election is over, and donald trump lost. both in pennsylvania and nationally. again, those are the facts.

but trump is not living in that reality. instead he is spouting off more dangerous and baseless claims and even backtracking even after seeing he would leave the white house if the electoral college votes for biden tweeting today biden can only enter the white house as president if he can prove that his 80 million votes were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. when you see what happened. massive voter fraud. he's got a big unsolvable problem. claims he also made before cameras last night. >> the numbers are false. the numbers are corrupt. it was a rigged election. 100%. this election was a fraud. it was a rigged election. i mean, i hate to say it, but this was a rigged -- at the highest level, it was a rigged election. this election was a rigged election. thank you very much, everybody. >> so, again, just to quote the federal appeals court judge that

was appointed by trump, quote, calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here. kaitlan collins is live outside of the white house. and jay lee is with president-elect biden in delaware. i want to start with you, caitlyn. another strong rebuke of the president's voter fraud claims today. you know, the president continues to say that there was voter fraud but his arguments are really undercut by his lawsuits. >> yeah. palm, in so many of these rejections or dismissals of these lawsuits that the president and his allies have brought you have seen this blunt language used by judges to dismiss the case they are trying to make saying they don't have the evidence to make it. but this might be the most bunt we have seen since the day of the election. writing it is ballots not briefs that decide the outcome of the election and voters not attorneys that are going to make

that determination. basically, what this judge -- who was appointed by the president, we should remind people. making in this skpargt in this opinion is that there was no case here at all for the trump campaign. it's not like they could come back -- this judge wrote there is nothing here at all. the president and his allies said they were going to try to appeal this to the supreme court. that seems unlikely to change anything. that still remains to be seen. if you are looking at what the president told us last night here the white house, his first time taking questions in three weeks he is intent in keeping this up. one thing he was saying when he was asked would you physically leave the white house come january. some people wondered whether or not he would do that. the president said of course i will, but he said january 20th, when joe biden is supposed to be inaugurated is a long ways away basically saying they have weeks left to try to make their case trying to overturn the results this election. yet we have seen failure after failure in court. they are not gaining any

traction this. isn't going anywhere so far. now they lost or had dismissed or withdrawn about 31 cases since the indicate of the election. it continues to build, pam, as their legal arguments are falling apart. i think the question is, does the president continue to push this publicly, as we have seen him do for the last three weeks when it is very clear they have very little if any at all legal merit that they are standing on right now and instead they are talking about what they are saying publicly not by what they are proving in court which judging by decisions like we saw today is not much. >> the judge said point blank you are not alleging fraud here. this is not a fraud case. even giuliani said that in court in one of the cases. thanks for breaking that down for us. it's go to m.j. lee. president-elect biden is pushing ahead with his transition efforts including who he may

announce as part of his cabinet. >> president-elect biden has been spending the holiday weekend here in delaware. while things have been quiet, we expect a busy week next week. on monday he is going to receive the presidential daily briefing for the first time since he became the president-elect. there has been a bit of a delay as the biden time waited for the gsa to officially ascertain he was the winner this election. now that it has happened the meetings are going to regularly take place. and he is going to be announcing some members of his economic team. we don't know exactly custom positions are going to be announced next week, but we do know that janet yellen the former federal reserve chairwoman is expected to be named joe biden's treasury secretary. earlier this week you remember he did announce some members of his national security team. but there were two porno missions. we still don't know who he is going to name as cia director. we also don't know who his defense secretary is going to be. our reporting is that some of

the names that are being floated right now kplu initial floor now, a veteran point official. also jeh johnson, the former secretary of homeland security under president obama and also senator tammy duckworth. now, it is worth noting that as for this federal appeals court decision about pennsylvania and you know trying to revive the lawsuit and then rejecting it, the biden campaign making it clear, donald trump has lost this election no matter what he says. this is clearly a reality that donald trump himself is not publicly acknowledging. pam into right. it's interesting, too, the biden camp leaving a lot of the messaging to lawyers and spokespeople. not a lot from biden himself. we will see if that changes. thanks m.j. lee. we appreciate it. out front now, david gergen. who advised four presidents including clinton and nixon. and long time republican donor,

dan ebber hart. thank you, gentlemen, for coming on this friday post thanksgiving. we really appreciate it. den, let's start with you. let's just dive right into the trump campaign losing yet another legal challenge to overturn the election results in pennsylvania. a federal appeals court saying bluntly the campaign's claims have no merit. but trump campaign lawyer jenna alice says now on to scotus. did you see in this tweet right here? is there any chance the supreme court could side with team trump here or is this simply prolonging the inevitable? >> it would be hard to imagine that they could. you have got trump appointee writing the opinion in the 3rd circuit. you had a conservative republican judge writing the district court opinion. neither of them found anything to do with it. as you know, pamela, one of the first things they teach new law school is that if you don't have the facts, pound the law. if you don't have the law, pound the facts. if you don't have the facts or

the law, pound the table. we are in the table pounding stage. >> that's a really good way to put it. table pounding stage. president-elect biden is refusing to dignify the president's baseless claims of election fraud as i pointed out earlier letting his campaign and lawyers do much of the talking three weeks later. do you think that is still the right move? should he come out and be more outspoken about this. >> i think that joe biden, so far, pamela, has been -- run a very wise and good campaign. i think he's off to one of the best starts i have seen in years in the transition despite the delays. and i think part of that has been his tone that he has set. he is a calming voice. he's a comforting voice to so many. there are many americans who were scared and frightened by what was goingan . i think he has gotten everybody to sit back and say thank goodness he's there. the adult in the room. i wouldn't move away from that. he probably needs a couple of other people, not him, but a

couple of others who can occasionally make a point. that could be kamala harris. an attorney. there are various ways you can do it without him leaving his high perch. now, if he gets into a brawl with mitch mcconnell and others -- and that could come. we won't know that until probably the georgia votes. but if he gets into a brawl and they get nasty, then he is going to have to hit back. >> you talked about him maybe getting others to speak out. there is also the question about republicans. i mean if you really want to get through to trump supporters who believe the president, republicans speaking out against it, particularly those who are presidential allies might have an influence. president trump, dan, is still doing insane all he can to try to undermine an election that he lost three weeks ago. look. >> the numbers are corrupt. we caught them cheating.

we caught them stealing. the only way he got 80 million votes is through a massive fraud. this should never take place in this country. we are like a third world zmun he's comparing a u.s. presidential election to an election in a third world country. millions of people believe what the president is saying. they hear that, they believe it. and republicans are largely silent today. how is this possible? >> well, first of all, you know, i think the republican members of the senate and republican members of the congress really need to step up or step out right now. what we need is leadership from below in the republican party so people that are elected officials but below the president to really come out and say, look, mr. president, unfortunately, you lost. biden won. and the country needs to move on. the republican party needs to move on. i think that trump is really creating a stain on his legacy right now. if he wants to be remembered for the supreme court shift or the tax cuts or one of his other

america first policies he needs to keep quiet and show a little bit of grace right now. instead he is doing the opposite and tripeing down. i think it is damaging the republican brand. >> but the republicans -- you are saying it is damaging the republican brands. then why aren't they saying more? why aren't they speaking out more? dan, you are a republican. how does it make you feel. >> it makes me feel frustrated daus i think the party and the republicans need to be focussed on making mitch mcconnell stronger right now, which is winning these two seats in georgia. and then we need to be focused on winning the next election and taking the house back in 2022. and we can't do that if trump has frozen everything. the republican senators, congressmen, governors are afraid of the trump tweet. would need to get over that as part of the republican party and tig your out how to move forward. >> okay. so ben i am going to get to you in a second. i want to get david's perspe perspective here.

republicans are scared, they are worried about the trump tweet. overall, when it comes to this country, why -- in your view, why is this concerning for this country, who is happening right now with millions of people believing this president that the election was stolen from him. how could that be a threat to democracy as a hole? >> it is a very series threat to democracy. trusting government, trusting our national institutions has been declining for a long time now, decades. it accelerated under donald trump. what we know from other western nations which have been democracies -- trump has now got three quarters of various polls saying that trump is going to be an illegal legitimate fraudulent

president. there are a lot of republicans i am sad to say who are going to be feeling a lot of pressure from their base not to negotiate. not to deal with this fraudulent president, to drive him out, to close him down, see if you can bring him down. i have never seen a presidency begin on that kind of tone. and i think it is very dang rouchls it is certainly going to make it more difficult for joe biden to negotiate successfully to have a great start to his 100 days. he has shown he has the character to be president, he has shown he has the empathy to be the president. let's not spoil it before he even gets out of the gate. >> i would agree -- >> go ahead dan, then i want to get ben in here. >> i was going to say the idea of weaponizing the loss to further foment your base is a danger to democracy and it is going to be a systemic pattern if it is allowed to continue

into the future. >> the longer president trump does this, the more it is going to be more baked in with the base. on top of that ben you had president trump saying he would leave the white house on january 20th, let's watch. >> if the electoral college does elect president-elect biden are you not going to leave this building? >> just -- certainly i will. certainly i will. and you know that. >> as we now know, he is walking that back tweeting biden can only enter the white house as president if he can prove that his 80 million votes were not fraudulently or illegally obt n obtain obtained. i'm curious, you hear the president, see tweets like this and compare that to what is playing out in court it seems like his legal battle is undercutting any fraud case he is trying to sell to the public. does that even matter? it seems as though his follow remembers going to listen to him even though you have judges like

today appointed by trump saying this has no merit. >> absolutely right. what is 100% true is the constitution says his term ends at noon on january 20th. so he will be gone. and he is mounting up a longer and longer string of losses. we should only hope he takes this case in pennsylvania up to the supreme court because that will explode the other myth that judges are just going to lay down for him and do his bidding because they are republican judges. so the more the president goes along in this fashion, it really is counter-productive to what he apparently wants to do. but the process is going to work just like around the country any number of republican officials and poll watchers and volunteers did the right thing so that the president's comments now appear all the more ridiculous. and what his followers will see,

once he is out of office, is that there were a lengthy string of losses, losses, losses. and that, in effect s going to be part of his legacy as we look back at this. >> you are saying even if they appeal the pennsylvania case to supreme court even if the supreme court does not hand the trump camp a win that would only validate biden's victory as president and invalidate the president's argument? >> yes. the legitimacy of the biden victory is even stronger if the president does take this case to the supreme court and the supreme court rejects it, which i'm confident they will. >> all right. thank you so much, gentlemen. ben ginsburg, dan ebber hart, david gergen. really interesting discussion. i appreciate you coming on and sharing your time with us. >> thanks. >> thanks. >> thanks. out front up next we have breaking news for you. as cases and hospitalizations hit new records the cdc is

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190,000 new coronavirus cases already tonight. that is the second highest number since the start of this pandemic. the total number of cases surpassing 13 million. the surge in cases is leading to a major crackdown in los angeles announced just moments ago. let's bring in nick watt, he's "outfront" in los angeles tonight. so what can you tell us, nick, about this new order? >> reporter: well, pamela, authorities are saying that case numbers remain at alarming levels. so from monday and for nearly three weeks, people in los angeles are being advised to stay home as much as possible and basically we will not be allowed to mix with anyone outside our immediate households. you can go to church, you can go to protests, they say that's constitutionally protected. but basically, what they are trying to do here is keep a lid on this virus, and this stretch between thanksgiving and christmas. americans were urged not to travel for the holiday.

millions did any way. >> i am so worried about everything that's happening over thanksgiving, because we have a massive surge on top of another massive surge. >> reporter: that massive surge in numbers, more than 100,000 new cases logged every day for 25 days straight. thanksgiving day, more than 90,000 americans in the hospital with covid-19. yet another all-time high. on average, more than 1500 deaths are now reported every day. some experts say this could double in the coming weeks. but take florida. the governor just extended his ban on local government enforcing mask mandates with fines. >> the most important job of an elected official, whether you're president, governor, or mayor, is public safety and health. if we all do these things, we will reduce our numbers, less people will get sick, and less people will go to the hospital, and unfortunately die. >> reporter: national daily case counts and death tolls will dip

the next few days. don't be fooled. some states aren't reporting over the holiday. the world this country, not in a good place as we wait for a vaccine. >> the vaccines are being delivered literally it will start next week and the week after. >> umm, very unlikely. >> reporter: the fda hasn't even authorized a vaccine yet. their advisory committee meets december 10th. a decision could take days, even weeks. so likely late december, best case, for first shots in arms. >> don't let joe biden take credit for the vaccines. >> reporter: the president is playing politics, still. even in defeat. >> the political theater absolutely has to stop. people are much more hesitant, even health care workers. i'm in a health care setting, and health care workers are hesitant because of everything that's been going on. >> reporter: so the fda authorizes the vaccine, but the

cdc decides who gets it first. and they have just scheduled a meeting for tuesday for their advisory committee. they're going to talk and vote on that very issue. they're doing it so states can get their distribution plan in place. they're doing it so everyone can get their ducks in a row. so as soon as the fda gives a green light, they are ready to move. pamela? >> nick watt, thank you so much. and "outfront" now, dr. saleen gounder, an infectious disease specialist and member of joe biden's coronavirus advisory board. great to see you. we just heard nick talk about this emergency meeting on tuesday to vote on who will receive this vaccine first. i'm just curious about biden's involvement in this, your involvement, the other doctor's involvement in this. we know biden said health care workers should be among the first to get it. what more do you know about this? >> well, other than health care workers, others who will be first in line to get it will be

people who do have chronic underlying medical conditions, who are older, as well as communities of color who have been disproportionately impacted by this pandemic. now, among those groups is where it starts to get a little bit more contentious. how do you prioritize between the 85-year-old woman in the nursing home versus the 65-year-old african-american, especially when that 65-year-old may be just as high risk of significant disease? so that's where it gets a bit more political. frankly, this is where the president-elect is leaving it to the public health experts and scientists to figure out how best to allocate the limited supply first. >> so the u.s. is reporting 17 straight days of record hospitalizations, more than 90,000 americans and hospitals with coronavirus. you have said this is your biggest concern right now. health care workers are overwhelmed and only expected to get worse as cases surge after the holidays.

what can joe biden do to address this, that the trump administration is not doing right now? >> well, unfortunately the surge is really going to hit before president-elect biden takes office. we are going to see additional transmission, as dr. wen said in the previous segment, a surge on top of a surge. you're going to see that from the thanksgiving holiday and people getting together over the last couple of days. so in about one to two weeks, you'll see people getting sick. another week or two, you'll see hospitalizations and then deaths. so people who don't realize they're infected today will be in the hospital, in icus over christmas and new years. unfortunately, that's also a time of year when hospitals are operating on skeleton crews because doctors and nurses and health care workers want to take time off to be with their families themselves. >> with the flu season, covid, i am recovering from a cold. you know, it's just -- it's a

time where researchers are already strained. just to think, doctor, we're talking right now, and so many people from right now through the end of the year are going to find out they have covid, then they'll be hospitalized and die essentially. that's what you're saying, right? >> that is what i'm saying. unfortunately this is already in the works because of transmission that's been happening this week. you know, all i can say is i really do hope people will take this seriously with the other holidays that are coming up in december that people will wear masks, stick to their household bubbles, socially distance. and if they're going to be around other people, do it outside. >> so i'm just wondering here, the u.s. is reporting more than 1300 deaths today already, bringing that death toll to 264,000 lives lost to this virus. when you advise joe biden and you lay out these numbers, how

bad are you warning this could get for him when he takes office? you alluded to it's going to get worse before he takes office. and then beyond. how are you advising him about this? >> well, you know, we do have to be prepared for that. so that means really trying to be prepared in terms of surge capacity, and unfortunately, our weakest link in that is the health care workers. it's not possible to manufacture health care workers in a month or two. it takes years of training to get people ready to take on those roles. where we have a bit more flexibility is stabbing up the old hospitals, perhaps tapping into some of the resources within the military, some of their hospitals and personnel. so that is certainly something that we may well have to look at, at least until we can get this current surge of transmission under control. >> all right. doctor, as always, thank you for coming on and sharing our important perspective as someone who has insight into what's going on behind the scenes to fight this pandemic.

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tonight, an emotional plea from a woman whose father just died from coronavirus. she lost her father earlier this week. she says he started feeling flu-like symptoms after attending a family funeral out of state, and then tested positive after returning home last month. earlier this week, he passed away. "outfront" now, she joins us. heena, thank you for having the courage to come on after just losing your dad to share your story. you wrote a long, heartbreaking twitter thread about your family's experience with covid. it only took a month from the time your father experienced

symptoms to passing away. tell us what happened. >> yeah, again, just a very quick, with everything happening, as you mentioned, it started off with a funeral unfortunately for my dad's brother-in-law, when it was a noncovid death. and him being him and just wanting to be near family, wanted to support my aunt and unfortunately i think there were family members, it was a larger funeral, and then people coming through my aunt's household. who knows how it came through? but from there, it just spread, took a life on its own. once my dad came back and my mom came back from florida, it just took over the household. so about 3 1/2 weeks ago is when my dad was first hospitalized. and, you know, we were very hopeful. we spoke to the physician this evening who came by just to pay his condolences and said we were hopeful your dad would do well,

because when he was in the e.r. was doing pretty good. but just very quickly, 3 1/2 weeks, we had his funeral on wednesday. it was family members only. broadcast by zoom. we didn't want to put others at risk. i think we have learned our lesson. even with my mom, there were three people in my household, we had three different outcomes. my brother was hospitalized. he came home within six days. it's just been all around. my aunt succumbed to covid, as well in this time period. and my dad never knew his sister passed away. so it's just -- both families are still reeling from all of this. >> and what really stuck out to me, maybe because i had to go through this with my mom this year is the fact that you couldn't really communicate with him over facetime. you couldn't be there by his bedside. i was on facetime with my mom this year when he was in a coma

trying to tell her how much i love her. it's just so unbearable to see a loved one over facetime, like you put out on this twitter thread, saying i'm scared to you, to his daughter. and there's really nothing you could do to console him in person. what was that like for you? >> i mean, it broke my heart when he said that. he said it to my siblings as well. and to control yourself in that situation and to be strong for my dad to say it's going to be okay, it's going to be okay. there are things i didn't even put on the thread that was just so emotional for me. for example, when i was home, while he was in the hospital, i noticed because ihis ipad is connected with his phone, he had taken a bunch of selfies of himself. i saw his progression of when he was on just a nasal flow, then the c-pap machines. he has pictures of himself.

seeing that and unexpectedly seeing that, i didn't know he had done that, he had taken pictures of his room. you could see the isolation. to me, seeing those pictures, i had a breakdown. >> understandably, this is your father by himself. i mean, like you said, he had to be alone, as doctors one day say things are going to be better and the next day he's being intubated. you had to give that okay for that over the phone. and before this happened, i'm just curious. i'm sure you saw and read stories about other families hit hard by covid. how did going through this impact your perspective? and what is the -- what do you want to tell people? like those people out there right now who are still down playing covid, what do you want to say to them? >> absolutely. this is why i'm here today. how do i make this tragedy into something positive? as i put on my twitter thread,

my sorrow should be your lesson. i don't want anybody to have to go through this, what we had to go through as a family. what i want to say is, take precautions. you know, my dad, all year long, he's diabetic, had some heart disease, so he knew what to do when he was home all year long, and support the family. he wanted to go see his sister, and it was just maybe somebody we don't know that came in and not thinking about it and a just started the whole system. but to your point earlier when you were discussing, social distancing. i came home knowing the risk that my brother and my mom was positive at the same time, because i needed to make sure they were okay. my sister-in-law and i both were masked, we were face shielded, constantly washing our hands, disinfecting, so we were taking the proper precautions. one thing i want to point out, i'm a participant in one of the vaccine trails, and because i felt like i'm pretty sure i got

an active vaccine, i felt a little more comfortable. but that still didn't stop me from going through all the proper precautions of the personalperson personal protective equipment, just double masking, washing hands and she and i never got sick. so, again, people need to think hard if they're thinking masks don't do anything. it does do something. it protects you, but it can protect somebody else, as well. >> well, you saw -- you have the perspective of, you know, what you were going through, seeing your dad suffer. also as a health care professional, a pharmacist, you were going through the vaccine trial, just remarkable. i want to just end on talking about your dad and i want to give you this opportunity to tell the world about your dad. what do you want them to know about him? >> oh, gosh. bear with me, because my father,

as i said to him, when they did let us in the room that i couldn't have asked for a better father. just an amazing man who raised four amazing children. was a wonderful husband. my parents were married for 52 years. and they -- just hearing stories from his friends of the impact that my dad had on them, and just -- my dad was one of those who helped everybody. that's where i feel like i get it from. how can i make somebody better? what can i do to help somebody who doesn't have the same fortunate life i do. i want to continue that legacy. i really can't explain what a wonderful man he was. it's hard for me, and i think the devastation from this, my heart is completely broken. it will never heal from this. >> i'm getting a little emotional. because saying those goodbyes is the hardest thing in the world and you just had to do it.

and you're so brave and courageous to come on the air. so thank you. >> thank you. and your mother passed away, so my condolences to you as well, so you know how this feels. >> it's a very hard time for everyone. it's important that you share these stories, because people need to know how real and serious it is. so thank you so much, hina. >> thank you for having me. i really appreciate it. >> i want to go to dr. jonathan reener. he advised the white house medical unit under president george bush. hearing stories like that, it's just heart wrenching. i obviously have gone through a lot losing my mom this year during the pandemic, not because of covid, she had something else. but it is such a difficult time. as you hear stories like hers, how representative is it of what the average american has to go through when a loved one succumbs to covid? >> it really resonated with me, pamela.

you know, i read her really very evocative thread on twitter, and i had tears in my eyes. it also filled me with anger. anger that it didn't need to be this bad in this country. an intense sadness as to how much we have lost. and not just how much we have lost, but how much we have suffered in this country. you know, the kyron on the screen gives us sort of a quantitative number of deaths, which i'm afraid we're becoming numb to. but what she so eloquently and sadly described is the suffering. you know, her dad didn't just suddenly die, he struggled for a month in the hospital like so many people are doing. and then i was really proud that she also mentioned the health care team that cared for her

father, and how cognizant she was of their struggle. >> uh-huh. >> what i would say to people in this country is, as we move into the holiday season, if you see someone, you know, in a supermarket wearing a scrubs, maybe a nurse, maybe a respiratory tech -- >> i think it just froze. i think he was saying share your thanks with these health care workers on the front lines fighting this pandemic. they are exhausted. we thank you to dr. jonathan rhymer for coming on and sharing his thoughts. "outfront" next, president trump backtracking after claiming georgia's election had been lirife with fraud. but will his attacks hurt republicans in the special election? and a court delivering a major blow to overturn the results of the 2020 election. what is the president's next move? we'll discuss this next.

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tonight, president trump is urging republicans not to boycott the georgia runoff

election. some of his supporters have said now they're not going to vote because of widespread fraud in georgia, repeating a claim made by the president. and it comes with a lot of risk, as these races determine who controls the senate. ryan nobles is "outfront." >> reporter: for decades, georgia was a reliably red state. but no more. >> georgia is not accustomed to being a swing state. >> reporter: joe biden's victory in the state is the first for a democrat since bill clinton in 1992. four years ago, donald trump beat hillary clinton here by five points, more than 200,000 votes. in 2018, democrat stacey abrams narrowly lost her bid for governor by 55,000 votes. less than two points. that trend gave democrats confiden confidence that georgia could be competitive in 2020. >> democrats have been calling georgia on the cusp of being a

swing state for a number of years, but this was the first year they realized it. >> reporter: the question now is whether democrats can realize it again in six weeks. with two senate seats up for republicans are making senate control a key part of their appeals to voters, arguing that democrats will pull the country too far to the left. >> this is not in hiding or secret meetings. he's telling us. he wants to change the body rule in the senate so he can do anything they want. if they get our two seats, 50/50, the tie breaker is the vice president so they don't have a majority. >> reporter: they're counting a boost with president trump. >> speaking of georgia, i will be going there. i spoke to the great senators.

we'll have a tremendous turnout. georgia and republicans hope to message residents with party's voters, george hollinder a loyal supporter of the president. >> reporter: 2020 turnout passed 2016 by more than 9,000 votes. michael hill to turn out and up end the historic gop dominant in the election. >> this is very important for the senate. get out and rovote, just like y did with joe biden. you got to get out. same thing. ossoff and warnoff are drawing

to tap into democrats and republicans who sour on the president. >> we are reaching out to voters of all backgrounds and views and reaching out to ask for support. >> run offs have been good to republicans here in georgia. this battleground is so much different than it has been in past years. one thing for sure is that there are so many dynamics in place and each one of them will be important. the results will be very close. >> ryan nobles thank you so much for bringing us the latest. >> our national reporter, he was just in georgia covering the run-offs. stacey abrams told you she's thinking this coalition will hold for the run-off. what is your sense on the ground

whether democrats can pull it off? >> this is the key question here. we know our republican base is going to be nerenergized. the question is can democrats bring together that same type of coalition. stacey abrams and other democrats are making that this is not just something that came together in the name of donald trump in november. it is a growing kind of mosiac of what georgia looks like that was building in 2016 and 2018. it came into -- and as those population grows, th, they see will be consistent. >> trump is now saying that he

can go twice to georgia before the election in january. so far there are no plans for president-elect biden to do the same. how do you think this is going to impact the race? >> yeah, president trump is the driver of republican turn out strictly on those conservatives. they are playing to their base and republicans they think that's enough in the state. president trump is inspiring the backlash and the same people voted for joe biden in november would come out again. they don't need joe biden to come down to georgia to make it a permanent case. that's what the candidate is doing itself. it is a funny situation, they could benefit and president trump decides to make georgia. >> president trump is sending mixed messages to georgia voters.

he's calling senators to boycott the election because of baseless claim of fraud. we must get out, otherwise we are playing to the hand of some very sick people. this comes a day after georgia has a quote "fraudulent" system. he's grappling with his election fraud and encouraging support for the senate run-off. the lost of joe biden and georgia was not and the same time it is necessary to vote these two senators in so democrats don't have control of congress and the white house. i think this is not a president who does think by strategy but basically, some of the conservative outlets supporting him have been saying this election is fraudulent.

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welcome back to a special edition this friday, i am pamela brown. the president and his campaign wrapped up another loss, pushing back against trump's baseless claims. the court writing free and fair election are the life blood of our democracy. calling an election unfair does not make it so. >> charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here. >>. >> there is no way that biden got