georgia, former president donald trump is focusing on a different battleground state today, pennsylvania, he holds a rally in just a few hours from now. cnn's eva mckend and steve contorno are all monitoring all the developments. eva is on the harris campaign trail in atlanta. so the vice president just spoke in detroit soon, making your way to georgia. will the message, message be similar or different? from the vice president is hurt increasingly using the former president's own words against him as she aims to the rise himself him as fundamentally unserious in on hinge and it's a strategy that could work with swing-state voters, particularly those in georgia. those who had those republican voters who have illustrated that, they just cannot support the former president, those split ticket voters. and she's standing by that strategy. take a listen. >> he's becoming increasingly

unstable and unhinged and it requires that response. i think the american people are seeing and witnessing in real-time and we must take note of the fact that this is an individual who wants to be president in the united states. and i think the american people deserve better than someone who actually seems to be unstable president, has been spent as much time here in georgia as the other battleground states since she launched her campaign, when you speak joe her allies in this state they say that it's the work that she's been doing over several years that she has a built in base of support here and the organizing infrastructure on the ground in order to do well here, if they consolidate democratic coalitions like black voters, like latino voters aapi voters in we are going to see that very much on display. >> this evening, offshore going to come out, we see a sign signs all over the amphitheater here that says georgia votes

early. so that is the big message we are expecting to hear from her. if you are able get it done, make a plan, get out and vote early red, alright, eva mckend atlanta, steve contorno. >> let's go to you in pennsylvania. what is the trump campaign strategy there walking into this rally today. >> there are signs signs that say make a plan to vote male absentee or early in-person is on certainly driving today's message. it's a little bit more difficult for donald trump to get that across to his supporters than it is for vice president harris, though and that is because he has spent the last four years undermining many of those strategies to get people to the polls. but it's certainly something that has campaign has put emphasis on in recent sunday's yesterday, donald trump offering a very colorful explanation for why he feels like it's important to get his supporters out there. take a listen to what he said early voting is underway, so get everyone you know, and go

out and vote go tomorrow. >> it's just starting go and vote. make sure you vote and bring all our friends at one of vote for us. tell him jill, get a fad husband off. >> they can get that. get that fat pig off that couch linda go and vote for trump. he's going to save our country get that guy that hell off get them up to you, slap him around, get them up dad, i'm up jail. we want them off the couch to get out and vote. bring your friends and get them out so that message will be delivered today in an area of pennsylvania that is about 45 minutes, just eats east of pittsburgh. >> it's a big population center in pittsburgh obviously that is going to be driving this election in this part of the regional area is westmoreland county, where trump won by a two-to-one margin just four years ago, already hundreds of thousands

of people have voted in pennsylvania and trump's team is hoping that they can run up the margins in places like this however, they are first focusing on getting people who don't typically votes to come out in support of him. it's a strategy that comes with risks there's a reason why these individuals don't tend to go out to show up on election day. but trump's team is convinced that they have the magic formula to get them out there. this go around and that they will make a difference in a state that could be determined by just thousands of votes, fred. >> all right, we shall see as steve contorno, eva mckend. thank you so much. >> so early. >> voting indeed is underway in several battleground states, including the critical state of georgia, where voters have already turned out in huge numbers. >> cassie more than 1 million ballots in just four days. former president donald trump lost the people which state to president biden by a small margin in 2020. cnn's rafael romo joins me now from gwinnett

county, ga. so rafael, what do you hearing from these early voters, if anything? >> hi fred. well, the common denominator heater here is that the voters are very motivated for different recent some tell us that they want to cast their ballots to vote on issues that they deeply care about. some of the ones that they have mentioned are the economy, taxes, abortion rights different issues that they care about. it and you can see right behind me the line has extended all the way outside now, which is actually something that we didn't see earlier here. but the reality is that this his would ned county, this is the most ethnically diverse county and the entire state of georgia. and it is in counties like this one where the 20 let me 24 election may be decided. this is georgia, a state that has turned purple. it's a battle battleground states. so

every both matters here and earlier had an opportunity to talk to a mother and daughter. they came together of all the things that they could have done, go for brunch so shopping, they decided to exercise the right to vote. i asked them thread, what is it that is motivating them to vote today? and this is what they had to say abortion rights. he wanted to make sure that, you know, we have somebody that's want to support women and abortion rights is very important to us is that the main driver for you today? >> yeah. yes, it is my main reason is to beat the chaos on the big day. >> to experience in just a witness to see how it because this is a big election. so i just wanted to see a lot of young people that just wanted to experience it. but on early fred already here in the state of georgia, one 1.2 million

people have cast ballots as early voting started on tuesday. >> now, this is gwinnett county. it's number three when it comes to early voting of course, it fulton county were a plant is located in cobb county. the third most populated county in the entire states wow. very fascinating all right. rafael romo in lawrenceville, georgia, gwinnett county. thank you so much. >> all right. right. now, early voting is also underway in north carolina, despite a part to the states still reeling from the devastation left by hurricane helene. voters are making extraordinary efforts to cast their ballots. here's cnn's miguel marquez raises a good ron. ron, right now, this is a really can access. >> some areas of storm ravaged north carolina. ross robertson has been helping out, doing anything and everything since day one. >> brush cutting landslide

clearing, immediate needs, met now a big new need, figuring out how to vote in an area cut off by the most severe storm damage. >> those that want to go i'll 100, 100% be able to get them their right to vote but there will be communities that probably some people don't get the vote that want to vote. >> water swept through jeff, a lettuce home on the cane river in yancey county. >> we would like to early vote if we can get in. we might need an all-terrain vehicle, but we will get in it's about yancey is one of 25 north carolina counties plus cherokee tribal areas in the disaster zone where election rules have changed. 1.3 million, mostly conservative tar hill voters live there with over 7.7 million registered voters statewide this year every vote critical, it's a state trump won in 2020 by just over 74,000 votes. >> how will you actually vote i will go to one of the voting

stations in town. >> i have a truck their swat can get in and out well difficult, but i can and nothing will keep you from voting. no bill and in murderers, huge supporters of donald trump have concerns about voting nationwide here at, home. >> they totally trust their vote will count. >> she's gotten absentee ballot, but i'll probably go in and vote if i have to go to town. oh, hit track. if i have to fight with partisan anger is still simmering over trump's 2020 loss. >> new fears, changes to election laws approved by the states bipartisan election board among other things, allowing displaced voters to receive absentee ballots. at a different address. >> i'm concerned that these relaxing of some of the rules that they have is also going to invite you know, fraud into the system and i'm a i'm worried about the people just being able to vote the extreme storm, claiming more than 230 lives so

far here in north carolina, around 80 are still missing. >> and now with winter coming despite all the misery something surprising. >> this somehow gives you hope absolutely for the country, absolutely something that i, that i worry about a lot. we could ever get together again as a country as a people get past this the partisan divide are definitely gives me hope that this encourages that so after seeing the horrors that this storm has brought across such a large swath of north carolina. we did not expect the positive vibes that we heard from ross there at the end of that story. but we're hearing that every, everywhere people coming together and really having you know, healing effect here in north carolina. and they hope it's something bigger than it starts to trend toward getting away from the politicization. >> but first days of early voting, we are seeing massive crowds at all of the precincts that we've been and to state board of election saying they may be on target for a record

turnout on early voting back to you miguel marquez. thank you so much for that. >> alright on wednesday, i'll be sure to watch cnn special event in the final sprint to election day, vice president kamala harris faces voters and takes their most pressing questions live. anderson cooper moderates are presidential townhall with harris wednesday at nine kim eastern time right here on cnn. next in the cnn newsroom. >> new details are emerging following the death of hamas leader yahya sinwar. >> what we're learning is israel's prime minister vows the war in gaza will move forward until the end. he says, and cuba, it's in the dark right now after a second massive power outage, this as a new storm forms in the atlantic with its sights set on cuba. >> details straight ahead political analysis you have questions out. biden set the

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has suggested this is how sinwar was killed. but at israel's national forensic institute, the doctor who conducted the autopsy on sinwar's body, has drawn a very different conclusion. >> the cause of this he's gunshot wound in the head he has a bullet in his head and there's a severe traumatic brain injury he has injury from other sources, like a missile injury in his right forearm, fallen masonry on his left leg, or thigh, more and many sharpeners that roughness entered his body, but only in the chest. they caused the severe damage. but the cause of death is the gunshot wound in the head asked for comment and israeli military spokesman told cnn, they are still working to learn all the details of how sinwar was killed no, kugel said he is confident in his analysis. we see the volatile

his head so, and there's no another entrance he was also involved in the dna analysis that confirm the body recovered by israeli troops was in fact sinwar's. >> they have a suspicion that this is a uk sinwar and they sent a sample a finger that they cut from his body in order to make the dna profile, sinwar's left index finger cut off of sinwar's body in gaza delivered to dr. kugel's lab and confirmed to be a dna match. this is where sinwar was killed in the tal al-sultan area of rafah in southern gaza. cnn has geo-located this as the building where sinwar met his end in an area mt of civilians and ravaged by war in recent months. in this video from the scene, emaciated buildings line of street torn-up by tanks as sinwar's body lies and the rubble, that body has now been taken to an undisclosed military site. >> it's in the military hands

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in one of the most contentious battleground states in the presidential race republicans are now appealing a superior court judges decision striking down the state's new controversial election rules. >> the gop is taking their case straight to the the georgia supreme court the rules were put in place just weeks ago by trump-backed election board members. cnn's marshall cohen has more the fight over georgia's election rules is continuing. state and national republicans announced that they are appealing a decision that struck down some new procedures for this year. those procedures were passed by the state election board, which is dominated by trump supporters. those new rules highly controversial and opposed by bipartisan array of election officials could have disrupted the election certification process by requiring more hand counting of ballots and by letting county officials do additional investigations before they find analyze their

results so after the trump-backed board passed these new rules democrats and others went to court and judges have now stepped in to block or strike down these new procedures republicans now want the georgia supreme court to reinstate the rules, allowing for post-election inquiries rnc chairman michael watley blasted the ruling that declared those new procedures to be unconstitutional, and he called the decision, quote, the very worst of judicial activism. a message went out to georgia's counties on thursday instructing them to ignore the new rules because of the court decision those instructions came from the office of georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, a republican as well as the gop appointed chairman of the state election board. there letter told counties that quote, these rules and amendments are boyd, all this fighting though, has

not gotten in the way of georgians doing their civic duty, election officials say that more than 1 million ballots have already been cast in the peach state so far after four days of early voting marshall cohen, cnn, washington. >> thanks so much, marshall. now including today more than 1.3 million in georgia. all right. for more, we're joined now by legal counsel for the campaign legal center, jonathan diaz. jonathan great to see you. so all right. helped break this down even further. the georgia supreme court can actually refuse to take up this case, given it's so close to the election, advanced voting already underway. do you think they should be weighing in at this juncture? >> i mean, i think that what's clear here is that the georgia state elections board overstepped its legal authority by adopting these rules. so close to election day especially when several of

these rules, including the rule requiring hand-counting and the rule potentially allowing counties to delay certification seem too clearly conflict with georgia state law and so really the only purpose that these rules serve is to sow confusion and introduce chaos and delays into the post-election process. and i suspect that that's largely the point and that's why, as marshall said in that report, a bipartisan group of election officials from across the state opposed these rules and so in wednesday's ruling, the fulton county superior court judge thomas cox avoided rules including new measures that would expand access for poll watchers requiring more video surveillance of ballot drop boxes mandating a photo id and signature of anyone returning an absentee ballot. >> your organization actually filed an amicus brief to the court saying what? >> well, argument had two main pieces. the first was it's

simply too late to be introducing new rules and regulations into the election process at this time. as we just saw, more than 1 million georgians have already cast their ballots but election officials have been preparing to conduct the general election for months and introducing a brand new set of procedures that would complicate especially that critical post-election period is just not something that you want to do a few weeks out from an election but it's more than that. the georgia state elections board is a regulatory body. their job is to issue regulations consistent with georgia state law to increase uniformity in election administration across the counties and what the majority that adopted these rules did is go way beyond the requirements of what georgia laws require and that's the job of the legislature, not at the state elections board so that the that the superior court judge has struck down these measures supreme court may or may