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on cnn and i'm jessica dean in washington, 17 days and counting and the world political eyes are focused on the critical swing states that will decide who wins the white house. kamala harris is set to speak shortly at a rally in atlanta, just going to be joined on stage by music superstar usher more than million people in georgia have already cast their ballots just days after early voting got underway in that state with a record smashing turnout so far 11 million americans nationwide have already voted even mckend is in atlanta. >> she's joining us now alive at eva. what are we expecting from tonight? from the vice president is her increasingly using the former president's own words and actions against him pointing, for example pull to how he talks about sell americans as

the enemy from within or the comments he made about being the father of ivf when he of course, was responsible for elevating these three supreme court justices is that ultimately led to the reversal of roe versus wade. and it's all an effort to characterize the former press. president is unstable and unhinged. you hear senator jon ossoff on stage right now. the georgia senator, he just said that trump is unfit for the presidency, that this is not about party loyalty. take a listen to how the vice president speaks about this as well. >> he's becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged and it requires that response. i think the american people are seeing it witness saying in a real time and we must take note of the fact that this is an individual who wants to be president of the united states. and i think the american people people deserve better than someone who actually seems to be unstable and just when you

speak to democrats here, they tell me that here in toss-up georgia, it is all about engagement on the ground that's why the big message here tonight georgia votes early, they're trying to lean on folks to get out and vote right now. >> if they can. >> yeah. and as we mentioned to usher is going to be there tonight, lizzo, brock obama, bill clinton. these are all people we have seen out on the trail campaigning either with kamala harris for kamala harris? harris she's got a lot of support. >> but what is the campaign actually think that can do conversation in democratic circles. >> do the celebrity endorsements really help? i can tell you, even though the former, even though republicans go after democrats for the celebrity endorsements, make front of it, you best believe that if they had that kind of a list, star power our behind them and usher for example, to be a campaign surrogate, they would be using him if they could because listen, the fact of the matter is there are so

many voters that are just not paying attention to politics when you have these big names out here calling attention to the election, you make pickup people that otherwise might not be engaged. so that is the theory of the case from democrats and why they're leaning on people like usher and lizzo to elevate vice president harris. >> alright, eva mckend there at the rally in atlanta. thank you so much for that reporting. i want to go now to pennsylvania. donald trump is holding his the own rally in the swing state of pennsylvania earlier, he urged detroit supporters to vote early even though he and other republicans have repeatedly and falsely claimed that early voting is rife with fraud. steve contorno is on the trail in which robe outside pittsburgh, he's joining us now live in see if it is, it is quite interesting to see trump and other republicans make the turn on early voting mail-in voting when they attacked it and attacked him and attacked it in 2020 what more can we expect? back to hear from them tonight well, he's going to

set the stakes for this election for the voters and his supporters in his critical battleground state, i'm looking through the jack excerpts of his speech that we just received and it's quite dramatic what he says yeah. >> the stakes of this election are, he says this election is a choice between whether we will have four more for years of failure and disaster, whether we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country. he will say quote, your vote will decide whether we give up on america or whether we save america. and he will also say 100 years from now the presidential election of 2024, you look to ban as america's great, his victory. so clearly playing into the drama and the stakes of this election, he has also recently been pushing back against vice president harris is assertion that he is running out of steam as we head into the final weeks of this race, take a listen to what he had to say yesterday in detroit what events that i

can't i haven't can't. she does it go to any events? she's a loser. she doesn't go to any of us. you didn't even show up for the catholics last night? at the hotel. he was insulting. they all they are sound bites. i've gotten 48 days now without arrest and i've got that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rapid taught me when you've seen me take even a little bit of a risk, not only am i not i'm not even tired really exhilarating, you know, why would killing her you can see, jessica and sort of in a similar manner that he did when she insinuated that his crowd sizes were not as large as his clearly getting under his skin there with that one i never attack will interesting to see how he responds to it today. >> there's a pretty decent crowd behind me ready for him to speak. although i will say that i bet too many trump over the past few months. and this one had a little bit of lower energy coming into trump's

remarks obviously, he's getting a lot in here it's just about take the stage. want to see how they respond to the former president is a critical part of a battleground state. he's in western pennsylvania, just outside this berg and westmoreland county. this is a county he won by two-to-one margin four years ago and jessica, he's going to need that kind of support from it. once again he's going to win this state all right. >> steve contorno there in la trobe in pennsylvania, laying out the stakes for for president trump in pennsylvania, and tropes specifically, we are going to keep our eye on that rally. thank you so much for that. in the meantime, georgia began early voting this past tuesday and already more than 1.2 million georgians have cast their votes in the battlegrounds stay right. i wanna go to cnn's rafael romo, who joins us from a polling site in lawrenceville and here we are on a saturday. rafael, what kind of turnout have you been seeing? >> yeah, it's been quite steady. jessica, right now, not

too many voters right here, but in the midafternoon hours, the line extended that all the way out, then jessica, some voters have been standing in line for over an hour. polling sates. not only here and when it county and other locations across the state of georgia gwinnett county, is that only the most ethnically diverse in the entire state of georgia? but it's also had great population growth in the last few years, surpassing the 1 million mark over the summer, president biden. let's remember, carried gwinnett county and 2028 is in counties like this one in battlegrounds states like georgia, where the 2024 election may be decided, people are very motivated by friday. voters, as you mentioned before, had already cast more than 1 million ballots here in georgia says, early voting started tuesday. some poll workers say they had never seen this level of interests from voters and are working extra hard to make sure the process run smoothly given the precedent and number of people voting earlier early,

this is what one of them had to say >> it was the highest voter count i've ever had in my career with elections i worked my legs, we had over 1,200 voters here in 12 hours family of five imagined this composed by two grandparents two parents, and their college age daughter who came to this polling station to vote together everyone has a citizen should come and vote. and just look at the economy, how it was the prior years and then see what you can do better by voting for the right candidate. so that's the reason why we were here today million people have castor balance. >> it hasn't even been a week since early voting started. now, back to you, those record numbers. >> all right. rafael romo for

us in georgia. thank you so much. i want to go to nevada now. another swing state, this one saw early voting beginning today and joining us now is nevada secretary of state francisco aguilar mr. secretary, thank you so much for being here. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me you excited to be >> first, just tell us how it's going so far. what are you seeing? what kind of volume are you seeing and are you seeing any issues we're seeing a lot of great enthusiasm. >> we were out visiting polling locations this morning, one in chinatown. and the excitement the enthusiasm to vote was really exciting to see what was really cool to see as we've been working really hard to ensure that our language access programs were strong and ready to go we saw them in motion. we saw interpreters communicating with our aapi community. >> it was a great thing. >> and you guys are expecting a high volume of mail-in and absentee voting. current state law allows ballots to be counted if they were received up to four business days past

election day, we know the rnc has appealed before the ninth us circuit court of appeals disputing that law because they claimed democratic candidates are more likely to prevail with mail-in ballots counted after election day, where do you see that lawsuit and how do you think the court's going to rule? >> look, this has been an implemented in 21. we've been working this way, both over my previous colleague who is republican. we're continuing to do the same processes, the same rules that we had in 22 and 2020 and we're moving forward as if they are going to exist by the time the election occurs. >> and i'm curious to how early voting is specifically to your state where we know a lot of voters in that state are in the hospitality industry. they work different hours than a normal nine to five job. how does that impact kind of where you see the numbers in terms of voting day of vs early voting versus mail-in voting. >> right turnout so far has

been about 28,000 across the state. >> we know that in 2020 that was about 39,000 we're seeing great momentum, but we understand in-person voting is very different with our mail-in process, nevada run some of safe, secure, and accessible elections just because they're accessible doesn't mean there aren't safe and secure. the accessibility piece is really important and understanding the u.s. and adoption of mail ballots by a working community, especially those in the gaming industry, is really high. so seeing the turnout numbers so far and understanding that does not include mail ballots or digital east system, we know so that nevadans are excited and motivated to get to the polls and how long do you think it ultimately take to count the ballots there? >> do you think there could be any sort of delay? obviously, you don't have a crystal ball for something that would come up, but i'm also thinking about any plans for misinformation to combat misinformation if there is a delay, if there are things that crop up you know, when i ran in 22, i had to wait till

saturday after the tuesday election to find out that i want knowing that information, reviewing are statutes here in nevada. >> we're been working extremely hard the last 18 to 20 months to look at our processes, to look at our systems and to allow the county's to start counting and processing votes. so when election night comes in, the last voter votes in nevada, we are able to release a substantial amount of results for the general public to make the decisions they need to make about races. >> all right. nevada secretary of state francisco aguilar. thanks so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> when we come back us officials are investigating what they call a quote deeply concerning leak of highly classified documents detailing israel's plan to attack iran plus the death of hamas leader yahya sinwar is prompting cautious optimism from the white house about a road to peace in the middle east, while more on that, you're in the cnn newsroom you want to answer a astute political analysis, you have questions, how biden said

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to be authentic, and they're highly class so if documents that suggest that the u.s has been essentially spying on israel's plans to retaliate against iran for that massive missile barrage that iran inflicted on them on october 1. >> and these documents are marked top secret. they are also they also have markings suggesting that the only entities that should be viewing these documents are the u.s. and some of its closest allies, the five eyes partnership. and so this is obviously very concerning to us officials. and while we are not going to quote from these documents or shared them directly, we can outline them broadly. one of them, for example, which a source to the national geospatial intelligence? agency discusses israel's movement of certain munitions in order to prepare for a possible strike on iran. another document which is sourced to the national security agency discusses these really air forces preparations and exercises for a strike, including information about

these really air force's use of air to surface missiles and so this is obviously going to cause some consternation to say the least. >> in israel itself. >> and of course, it comes at a very delicate moment between the u.s. and israel than it really reveals, i think something interesting, which is that for all of the united states is efforts to get information directly from israel intelligence about what they're planning to actually do in iran and having all of these conversations, they're still collecting intelligence on them and doing surveillance on their activities so that the u.s. of course, can get its own understanding of what might transpire. and so for now what we're hearing from us officials is that they're not going to confirm the authenticity of these documents. for now, when we reached out for official comment. but we are told that one of the main focuses at the investigation at this point is just determining who had access to these documents to begin with, jessica. >> all right. and tasha bertrand with the latest reporting on that. thank you so much and with the killing of

hamas leader yahya sinwar comes renewed oh pay in washington for an end to the war in gaza. but president biden acknowledges sinwar's death won't be an immediate resolution to that situation. julia benbrook is joining us now from washington julia, what is the white house saying? >> well, there's a lot of uncertainty following the hamas leader. is beth, but the biden administration continues to try and be optimistic that there could be an opening for a resolve to this conflict for months now, frustrated american officials who want to see an end to the war in gaza have quietly express that this is the scenario that could loosen deadlocked ceasefire talks. now whether or not that's going to happen remains to be seen. hamas has said that they're not releasing the hostages unless israel ends the war fully withdraws from gaza and releases palestinian prisoners. meanwhile, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed does it continue fighting. and lets all of the

hostages are released. the biden administration knows that sinwar's death, they acknowledged that his death is not going to be an immediate solution to this situation. but like i said, they continue to express cautious hope alright, julia benbrook for us in washington. thank you so much for that still ahead with erase. >> so close, one key voting group could be key to winning the white house. and it's been a weak spot for kamala harris, his coalition, a weak spot that donald trump is trying to use to tip the scales are in the cnn kamala later wednesday at nine eastern on cnn if you have chronic kidney disease you can reduce the risk of kidney failure with parsi because they are places you'd like to be for secret can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal dehydration, urinary tract, or genital yeast infections. >> and lopez a rare life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur, stopped taking for sika and call your

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final weeks leading to election day early voting began today in detroit with other parts of the state set to follow in the country thank days. in michigan so far just over 1 million absentee ballots have come in. that does not include early in-person voting joining us now to talk more about this, cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein. ron, we're starting to see people going to the polls. we've seen record turnout in georgia so far. we michigan, nevada is starting early voting what do you make of the turnout so far well, actually saw people voting today on early voting and in detroit on the first day. look, it is difficult. >> i mean, i know people try to read the tea leaves of which party has an advantage based on the early voting returns. i know there are people who analyze it it's really hard to know whether you are getting new voters are just kind of cannibalizing your election day eventual voters, the one thing i think that is clear is that when biden was still in the race against trump there were serious people saying to me

that turnout could be down to as low as 100 140 to 145 million after a hundreds 60 million in 2020, the highest turnout rate since before women had the right to vote. now, i think the indications are, we may not get all the way back to 160, but we are looking at another high turnout election in which the swing states might be decided by even smaller margins than they were last time. >> it is that's likely crazy this thing to think about too, because it's so many people voting. and yet the margins continue likely to be so, so small in your latest piece for the atlantic, you argue that working class white women or i'm sorry, this is for cnn working class white women could be a decisive group in this race. tell us more about why well, look, i mean, we are seeing an enormous gender gap in most polls in this race with harris having a really formidable position among lots of different groups of women, college educated white women,

who tend to be the most probably pro choice segment of the electorate and also a priority why is that issue more very likely, xi has a very good chance of running even better among them than biden did in 2020 black women, maybe some small erosion around inflation in the end, maybe not. >> maybe she's over 90% among them latinas also potentially some small erosion among and i'm around inflation, but again, a very strong performance probably likely in the mid 60s somewhere single women, younger women, enormous gender gap among younger women. the one kind of loose spot in the wall of this formidable wall of support among women are those working class white women democrats don't have to win them they don't really bill clinton is the only one in 1996 who was one most of them since the 1980 election, but they do have to run competitively among them, particularly in those former blue wall states of michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin which i think from

the calendar you can get the sense that they are where harris sees our her path. and so holding at least somewhere in the mid low to mid 40s among them is absolutely a critical for her. you continue to see her pound these states with messages and appearances. liz cheney on monday and another appeal to previously republican voting women and most of these lemon, as i said, have voted republican, but they don't like the economic outcomes they've gotten under biden, but they also don't like trump, don't like the way he is. his language, the kind of belligerence. >> and they are a truly conflicted group. so interesting, we are looking at live video run of former president trump, who is in lotro, pennsylvania. he is talking, i believe right now how about his closing message which has been on a lot of ads about transgender people. i want to dip into this and let's just listen. if you don't mind to hang on with this for a moment. >> that i said to my son, don, he knows a lot about guns and eric does a grea