one day to go and we are in the waning hours of the last night with candidates making their final pitches to voters with closing messages and vice president harris and former president trump could not be more different. >> we had the safest border in the history of our country the day i left and i shouldn't have left. to get me somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. and i don't mind that so much. i don't mind it. >> america is ready for a fresh start and ready for a new way forward where we see our fellow americans not as an enemy but as a neighbor. we are ready for a president who knows that the true measure of a leader isn't

based on who you beat down but based on who you lift up. >> good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i am jim acosta. and there is the music and we are almost there and let's go to north carolina where the former president is holding a rally. a big day of rallies for the former president and what we expect that closing message to be? >> reporter: we are about 35 hours or so before the polls close in that closing argument that when i talked to donald trump's campaign and allies and those who want him to win they wanted to be focused on three key things, right now all

about turnout recognizing there won't be some sort of last-minute strategy that will change the game when we are close to election day but instead getting people to show up tomorrow and make sure his supporters aren't complacent and won't sit this one out. this is the key message they want trump to drill into their minds. the other thing of course is to continue to argue that he is doing a better job and he would do a better job of handling the economy in the border and what we have talked about repeatedly because they believe he is polling better on those issues and kamala harris but i was that several of donald trump's rallies over the weekend and he didn't always articulate that closing message but he spent a lot of time going off script and we played some of that at the top of the show. some of it wasn't more than 10 minutes and it shows kamala harris, polling, showing her gaining ground. but also he made claims saying he should not have left the white

house sowing seeds of doubt in the election and these are things the campaign doesn't want him to be talking about. i think the key question is whether or not he will do that weather here in north carolina or later when he goes to pennsylvania and michigan. >> all right. thank you. a very important day of campaigning. thank you so much. with hours to go before election day voting begins with the final polls in about a race very much up for grabs in the senior data reporter joins us now and we are standing mostly upright and we will see how the day goes. but sneak in the naps when you can and what do the numbers say? >> they tell us we are in a historically tied race were nobody knows what the heck will happen with the data go and let's walk through the swing

states and we have been talking about the seven states. the largest lead by averages trump +3 in arizona within the margin of error and then you have a +1 in less than a point in north carolina and nevada and then to the great lakes you see more blue than red, but again when you point out this less than symbol in there, you know it is tight in less than a point in wisconsin and michigan and what is that mean for the electoral map? 270 votes and you can't get closer than that and kamala harris favored because she carries those great lake battleground states but to 70 and the road is close but let's go back to history. how close is this from a historical perspective? i looked at the final polls in every cycle dating back the last 52 years and right now harris projected to get to 70 and if you take those final polls and projected it on the next closest race was 281 for al gore in 2000 because they had him in florida in the race ended up being won by

george bush by the slightest of margins but of course because the polls are closed, it doesn't mean we don't end up with a blowout and in fact if you were to projected out and use the forecast that nate silver has will the 2024 winter get at least 300 electoral votes? that is a relative a blowout in my mind any majority chance 60% yes compared to minority chance and 40% no. how is that possible given the polls are so close? it is because they are imperfect. if you go back through history -- i am certainly far from perfect in my girlfriend would let me know. swing state polling averages, if you look at the average error since 1972 it is 3.4 points in all seven battleground states are within three point so if you have an average error and it goes in one direction, what is it mean for the electoral map? if it benefits kamala harris, she

gets all the way up to 319 and she carries those battleground states and in the southeast in georgia and north carolina and carries nevada and north carolina but there is no guarantee that the polling error would benefit kamala harris and it could benefit donald trump and he would get the great lakes, southeast and southwest and he would get 312. the bottom line is this, as we stand here a day before election day, i don't know what will happen and it could be razor tight or a blowout in either direction and i have never known less going into an election day but i know we are both but -- two terrifically good-looking men. >> i appreciate that but i am glad you had the tv time and not that you haven't had enough. >> i am going to go sleep now and i have a pillow right over here. >> i hear you. i think you should take advantage of that. thank you is always in a great job the cycle and we will see

you on the other side. let's discuss this presidential campaign and we will start with you. i do want to show this extraordinary number from this news poll and the gender gap among likely voters in harris has an 11 point advantage over women over trump and trump has a five-point advantage with men look at on the far right under 30 years old harris is +40 over donald trump among women and that is a staggering number and i don't think i have ever seen anything like this. >> i tell you. if this is how the election ends up and we see this gender gap, it tells you a lot about particularly how the former president has campaigned by making this appeal to younger men, some of the things he said have turned younger women off. we have seen younger women particularly black and

latino women leading in voter registration in early turnout and these are women and i think a lot of women feel our lives are on the line and freedom is on the line but also they are excited and energized by vice president harris and you had so many young women and young people come forward and say i wasn't so enthusiastic but then at the top of the ticket it made them pay attention to the election and perhaps that had not been. >> we are also looking here is the trump rally gets going in raleigh and we will look at what the president has to say but we do need to talk about the elephant in the room with this other interesting poll this weekend in iowa a state that has not gone blue since obama in 2012 with harris according to the des moines register leading trump by three points and this could end up being an anomaly but this is according to the well-respected des moines register poll out

there and legendary status in terms of predicting elections and what you think when you saw that? >> i have done a lot of campaigns in my life and i think there is nothing more jarring than getting an outlier poll and it happens way more often than any campaigns admit and those are when they come in and what you need to do in this type of situation is look at all of your data points and they pointed the direction of there has been a trend moving this way and what have the other elections been like? in this case we saw the poll and we saw how iowa has been trending over the course of the last several years and to me this is 100% an outlier poll and i agree with you that the des moines registry is a standardbearer. but every pollster has an outlier poll and it happens all the time and elections. >> karen, i want to talk about what trump did over the weekend in addition to talking about people shooting at the media and saying he should have stayed in the white house after

the election and he was spreading more false claims about election issues and let's listen. >> they found, as i understand it and i don't know what happened in the last day or so, but in lancaster, they found 2600 ballots all done by the same hand. in other words, the same exact penmanship, the same hand, the same everything and it was all done by the same pen. and they go and say, well, this is a conspiracy theorist. >> that is false. karen, you know, i guess the question is is he planting the seeds or chumming the waters or laying the groundwork to say even if he loses to say he won? >> absolutely. we have seen several stories over the last week. one of the organizations i work for cataloging the many instances. it isn't just trump. you have donald trump doing it and surrogates doing it and you have a legal strategy in play where it is

like 2020 on steroids where there are fake elect tors ready to go and lawsuits ready to go. thankfully i would say democrats are prepared. we have seen this movie before. the most important thing to remind people is to get out there and vote. we will make sure that every vote is counted and we will make sure that every vote is certified in due time in the process moves smoothly the way it is supposed to. part of this goal is to create a sense of chaos as we saw him do in 2020 to say, oh, my goodness, the county is taking so long so something must be wrong. nothing is wrong but the process has to unfold the way it should in our job will be over the next few days to really help people understand what is happening and that it is okay if it takes longer and push back on the disinformation. >> reminding our viewers that

trump was saying he had won before all the votes were counted and it is funny that they say stop the steel when he was trying to say stop the counting when you had votes coming in from philadelphia, detroit, and so on. l'anse, i want to ask you about this comment he made at a rally yesterday that he said he wouldn't mind if somebody tried to shoot through the media to get at him and let's play that one. >> i have this piece of glass here. but all we have really over here is the fake news, right? and get me somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and i don't mind that so much. your response -- >> your response? >> both sides do better when

they stick to the issues. i've said it before and i will say it again. and for the last month i wish he would stick to the issues. >> it is in both sides. >> it kind of is. look. you know how i feel about this. i wish he wouldn't say this type of thing. we have seen the harris campaign amplify violent rhetoric with hitler and not theism and i wish both sides would stick to not talking about this angry violent rhetoric that i do will point to you there is an interesting juxtaposition here going on but the harris campaign in the washington post had a story over the weekend and you saw her go positive in the last 48 hours and that is quite telling about where they are headed because the washington post had a story over the weekend which said her super pac had been advising them for week that they needed to get off the attacks on donald trump and the attacks about fascism and all that stuff or not working and it is a sign over the course of the last 24 hours they know they have work to do with some

of the voters. >> that is the -- is not what they said and it is part of what the super pac said in over the last two weeks and particularly the last week she has increasingly talked less about trump more about herself and more about the vision she has for this country. frankly, last night, and i will tell you through the end of this campaign, she won't talk about trump. why? she doesn't need to. she wants to make this election about the people. trump is the one talking about anger and grievance and violence. she is trying to make this about the american people in our future. >> i do want to say -- go ahead, lance. >> it isn't accurate. they spent the entire month of october attacking donald trump and that is a fact in the story reported out that the super pac was saying her campaign was stalling out because she was spending too much time talking about him. >> i read that mental and it's not what it said and i have

talked to that organization. please don't misrepresent the truth. >> i do appreciate the time but we will go to this trump rally in a few moments but i do want to say, the hard-working men and women of the press, they shouldn't be talked about in that manner and i want to say having been out on the trail at those rallies, they are human beings too. >> thank you so much. the road to the white house runs to pennsylvania in the message vice president harris is delivering to voters.

just a day away from one of the most consequential elections in american history and perhaps the most consequential and both campaigns are focusing on pennsylvania. vice president harris will be crisscrossing the battleground state with five stops. look at that. joining us now is vernon boyle of pennsylvania a surrogate for the harris-walz campaign. congressman, how do you think the vice president will do in pennsylvania? what do you think? >> well, you know, the beginning of this year, even before we knew all that would happen in 2024, i thought pennsylvania was destined to be very close at a one point race and that is what it was the last two presidential elections and in most of our statewide races have been like that in presidential years. here we are , literally, the very last day of the campaign. we are basically a one point race. i will say however that kamala harris has closed in a very strong position this past weekend. this past weekend was incredible and i crisscrossed the entire district and all

sorts of activity and events. i really didn't see anything on the other side, which surprised me going back to when george w. bush was running and even trump the first time you saw the other side having field offices and a lot of activity as well. we really have not seen that so much in 2024. but, in the end i will end where i began. it will be incredibly close and we will be up very late tomorrow night and wednesday. >> we showed the polls deadlocked and these get out the vote operations these things in pennsylvania that would make the difference? >> i have seen that in my own race when i was running for congress and impossible to capture really in the polling before hand a ground game that can make a difference of a few percentage points. and even in a presidential race. i think one previous example ,

unfortunate from my perspective but well documented was in 2000 for the bush ground game in ohio and elsewhere added a few more points to what their public polling was suggesting. they were able to win that in there have been other examples on the democratic side as well especially when barack obama was running in 2008 in 2012 when he would do better than the polling was showing. i hope in a close race all of that activity and all of that investment early on in that first president biden and kamala harris made into the ground game will end up making the difference here in the state that will make the ultimate difference. >> i don't know if you saw this. i am sure you did and we talked about this a few moments ago, this very surprising poll out of iowa that shows kamala harris leading donald trump in

that state. that hasn't been a swing state or battleground state throughout this campaign, but perhaps it is in the des moines register which has a very respective pollster released this over the weekend but other elements of the electorate there in pennsylvania where you see a similar thing and surprise people? >> the track record of anne selzer is remarkable and she was the first one to pick up that donald trump was doing better than the polling suggested and whether this is accurate or not i don't know but i will say it's not the only one from iowa to suggest that the ground is shifting somewhat towards democrats. we are now investing heavily in two or three congressional

races in iowa and we feel very good and when i say we, house democrats, we feel very good we will win at least one of those if not two or three. there has been other pulling out there suggesting that iowa isn't quite as red as it showed in 2016 and 2020. iowa has a large white population that trends older. pennsylvania also does have a large white pennsylvania. we are the second oldest state in the union. i do hope this trend we see in iowa bleeds and wisconsin, michigan, and as far east as here in pennsylvania. >> i guess finally, which message do you think, which issue do you think is rising to the top? is it inflation or the economy? is it abortion that you hear the most from voters in pennsylvania? might it be, and perhaps it is something that caught everybody by surprise , what was said at the madison square garden rally for

donald trump a week ago where one joke appeared to really alienate a lot of latino voters and particularly puerto rican voters in your state? >> not just in my state but specifically in my congressional district. all of those issues you mentioned and more do matter. but if you are attempting to encapsulate all of it, i think kamala harris has the best line in the final week which is the, she will go to the oval office every day with a to do list, while donald trump will go in there with this enemies list. she is fighting to preserve the freedoms and rights of the american people, fighting for ordinary middle-class and working-class americans while donald trump is a billionaire who is for billionaires. i think at the end of the day the fact she talks about the people and their issues and what could make their lives better while donald trump is talking about god knows what . one minute he

is talking or suggesting about harm that should be done to liz cheney. another moment, you know, he is talking about getting into a garbage truck that he can barely get into himself and the next moment he is trying to spread hate or other conspiracy theories including here in pennsylvania. in the end, i would put my chips on the campaign that is actually talking about what is best for the american people and how to help them. >> all right. thank you very much for your time and we appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up, ramping up the rhetoric and more from donald trump's closing message of his campaign. we are also monitoring a campaign rally that is about to take place.

you are looking at live pictures from raleigh, north carolina where donald trump will rally his supporters on his last day of campaigning. joining me now is the white house correspondent laura perrone lopez and another political analyst. thank you for being here. we were talking about this iowa poll during the commercial break and we put it up on the screen and check -- chatted about it. the des moines register i always take to be the gold standard in our line of work and maybe it will be off and maybe she won't win but i look at battlegrounds and trend lines and it looks like that the numbers are maybe inching in her direction a little bit? who knows. we will find out. but when you see something like iowa, it makes you feel that way?

>> yes when you look at the details of that poll it shows women over the age of 55 are moving toward her or are voting for her in double digit numbers which is really the harris campaign is betting on that women across the board across age demographics not just over the age of 55 but across race and ethnicity but all of them will turn out more for her than donald trump and especially in states like arizona and nevada where they do hope that in addition to that the abortion ballot initiatives will encourage more women and voters to support them. >> in iowa there is an abortion ban that went into effect over the summer and maybe it had an effect there that we didn't pick up on. >> there is a lot we don't know. when you see a poll like this, it doesn't necessarily mean the vice president may win iowa. however, you can look at

big picture trends. for a campaign and party that made reproductive rights such a centerpiece of their messaging, you know, this has to be positive news for you here and may be an indicator it is moving women in rural areas across the span of age as well and especially as you have a campaign now trying to focus on the battleground states and not just in the cities but expanding it to rural counties. this has got to be affirming but we also have a gender divide in the selection. if this poll is indicating that some of that messaging has energized women like a place in iowa that is positive news. >> when we showed this breakout number from abc over the weekend that showed how harris is doing with women , and i don't know if you could put that on the screen again, it shows this extraordinary number in terms of women voting for harris among women under the age of 30 and here it is right there. she is +40 among women under the age of 30 and i

covered a lot of races and covered presidential races since 2004. i have never seen anything like this before. it is extraordinary. it makes me wonder and you look at the trump campaign and they have gone after the breaux vote -- bro vote. >> it doesn't seem like they have and they haven't come up with a cohesive message on reproductive rights and all over the place and sometimes trump and vance saying two different things. in addition you have donald trump when sometimes he talks about kamala harris or encourages his audience when they compare her to a prostitute or making sexist remarks throughout the campaign so i was in north carolina a week or so ago talking specifically about generation z voters in the gender gap couldn't be more obvious and young women were

pretty repeatedly mentioning reproductive rights is one of the biggest reasons they were voting for harris. >> we have to sneak in a quick break but the other factor that we don't know about is the latino vote and whether that madison square garden rally had this impact. >> we have a very large puerto rican population in pennsylvania which is one of the more important states when it comes to the electoral college and we will see if that event in new york was a pivotal moment for galvanizing a very critical crucial voting block in the selection. >> thank you so much. there is a rally coming up that we will watch. stay with us. we will be right back.

donald trump is already making the baseless claim that the 2024 election is being stolen from him and here is what he said in pennsylvania yesterday. >> they are fighting so hard to steal this thing and look what is going on in your state. every day talking about extending hours. >> whoever heard of this. it is a shame and i am the one who talks about it because everybody is afraid to talk about it. >> among trump's other false claims that voting by noncitizens is widespread. it isn't. that they are using early voting to commit fraud. there is no evidence of that and he claims there is no verification for overseas or military ballots. these base looks -- basically claims --

baseless claims. it is great to be with you and thank you for coming on. what are you battling right now in terms of election misinformation? >> there is all kinds of stuff out there, particularly the notion that early voting is somehow nefarious and you have a heck of a lot more republicans using early voting in arizona and you have. that and some other things that we are currently in fact as of not too many hours ago working with the department of homeland security and the critical infrastructure security agency on some information that was misinformation. we will attack all of this and attack it with the truth and the fact that american elections and arizona's elections have been secured, free, and accountable for a long time and they remain so in spite of the conspiracy theories and lies. >> can you fill listen, adrian? what is being discussed and what are you working on in

terms of getting the truth out there? >> we do have a report to cisa right now and we will work with them to get some guidance on how to treat this as far as public disclosure is concerned so that should be surfacing in several hours but the bottom line is this. whenever we do see something, we get it out there. we talk about it and make sure to get in front of it as much as possible. i think what most people don't understand is the root of the vast majority of all the lies and misinformation is foreign enemies and russia, china and iran and they want us to distrust one another or hate one another as americans and they know they can't defeat us economically or militarily but the only way they can do it is to turn us against one another. we have plenty of examples of this coming from the foreign adversaries and we continue to fight against them to protect our own democracy. >> all right. we will look for

that official announcement i guess from your folks later today and we will monitor that and secretary of state, we are tight on time because we have a rally coming up in some guests coming on that i want to squeeze in but thank you so much for your time and we will be back in touch with you. thank you so much. >> coming up, it is the insult that could very well have changed the election. veteran journalist geraldo rivera will explain his endorsement of kamala harris and how a joke or a so-called joke at madison square garden could make a difference in the campaign. that is coming up.

welcome back. could a so-called joke about puerto rico change the outcome of the 2024 election? recall last week that a comedian referred to puerto rico is a floating island of garbage at madison square garden and trump has not disavowed that insulting comment. geraldo rivera is the correspondent at large at news nation. you and i have covered a lot of these campaigns and i am curious about what you think about this. when the races are this tight, anything can change the numbers a bit and we saw this happen with sandy in 2012 and 2016 the call me letter change the outcome of that race potentially and is it possible this insult was a game changing moment for kamala harris? >> it is great to see you. i

believe it was. my vibe is definitely this was a profound punch in the gut for the puerto rican people, specifically. but for latinos at large. it was so insulting and so low down and dirty and a floating island of garbage and puerto ricans who are very keen and love their flag and island and you don't insulted and that gratuitous way and it really implied that president trump, the host of this event after all was allowing them to disparage a very proud strong people for whom respect is very important. when you don't have respect, you don't get the vote. i do believe that there is a substantial pocket of puerto ricans in the philadelphia area that i think eastern pennsylvania particularly but around the country really this insult has resonated. >> what is your sense of the

race right now? you have known donald trump a long time and what goes through his mind? do you think he grasps the possibility that this may slip away from him? what do you think? >> i don't know that he would ever admit that , even to himself. he is a very proud person. i think part of his strength has been his devotion to his candidacy and his presidency. you know, he is assailed from all sides of his various legal cases and so forth. i think he's may see this as a last gasp. i don't know if he is focused on the puerto ricans particularly, but i think it could be the mouse that roared. puerto ricans are born citizens and those on the island, the 3 million+ that can't vote but the 5 million+ on the mainland certainly can and every indication is they will be and in terms of resident trump in this 11th hour, i wish he hadn't gone the low road and not insulting

immigrants as vermin and animals poisoning the blood of the country and genetically predisposed to murder. any national group can only take so many or so much until you rebel and you are repulsed by it. even some of those who are a rapper have endorsed or withdrawn their endorsement. how is it that an artist by the name of bad bunny when push comes to shove be the most influential of all the endorsers and he of course is a puerto rican superstar along with ricky martin, jennifer lopez. >> the list goes on. >> it is quite stunning listening to the spanish-language media and spanish oriented media and this is still resonating. a week ago

the presidential campaign like a year ago but people still remember. >> i am just curious while we watch donald trump take the stage in north carolina and if we break away and when we do that, i apologize in advance but your sense of the dark and menacing tone on the final push for this campaign for donald trump and a real quick thought and then i jump into the rally. >> i worry he is a cheerleader or the principal cheerleader now for a menacing attitude toward what should be a joyous occasion of the presidential election and to demonstrate the pride in our nation and so forth. but this grievance or attitude. >> all right, i have to shoot through. i am sorry to cut you

off and i have to jump in and we will listen to the president. we will see you on the other side. >> with north carolina, i always have that. so, essentially, they have an expression and i hate the expression, it is ours to lose. if we get everybody out and vote, there is not a thing they can do. and if we don't, they have to get every person that ever signed anything and a horrendously dangerous party that will destroy our country and it already is destroying our country and we can't let that happen. we can't let that happen. it is my only purpose and even being here today, get out and vote. and i am thrilled to be back in this beautiful state with thousands of proud, hard-working american patriots.

that is what you are and you built this country. you built this country. but i would like to begin by asking a very simple question, are you better off now than you were four years ago? and i have asked that question so many times and i have never had one hand go up for the other. with your vote tomorrow i will and inflation and stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country. which i happen to think is the appaloosa -- absolute worst thing that has happened to our country and they are putting in murderers and releasing all their prisoners from jails all over the world and not south america but all over the world and into our country and i think it is the worst thing in the polling and when i see it i see that inflation in the economy are

number one which is sort of standard but i would really like to close up that border so fast and we will get most people there. and she couldn't do it if she wanted to and she wouldn't know what to do and open borders. you know what, if things went bad today, and tomorrow, you would have open borders the first day and 21 million people they lead into our country and many of these people are murderers. think of it. the big drug lords in the prison populations from all over the world and if i ran a country they just walk in and no vetting. think of it. we have no idea who they are and you are not allowed to ask and they just walk right into our country. and you have murderers and you have 13,099 murderers

and many of them have killed far more than one person. bad things will happen and you have terrorists at levels you have never seen before. we had them down the lowest and in 2019 and this isn't done by me but border patrol which endorsed me and they gave me a great endorsement and they said he is the greatest president ever. and he is the greatest president. and he made a beautiful speech but said he is the greatest president our country has ever had and i said does that include lincoln and washington and a few others but it was very nice but the gave me the strongest endorsement. i have to say this. the same speech they said she is the worst thing to ever happen to our country and it's very hard for them to say that and she never made one phone call in four years to the border

patrol. how are we doing? it used to drive me crazy. they probably said, oh, no. it is the president again. yes, and i used to -- it used to drive them nuts and i had nothing to do and i said call the border patrol and just drop that chart and it's my all-time favorite chart. my all-time favorite chart and i love that chart . i sleep with that chart and i kiss it every time before i go to bed and i wouldn't be here without that chart and if you take a look at the arrow on the bottom, that was the day i left office. that was the lowest illegal immigration we ever had and i kept it pretty good. and then you take a look and we had mexico pay for their soldiers and they didn't want to pay for their soldiers and while we build the wall and i said they

won't do that and they left and i suggested it and i said here is what we will do is i will put a tariff of 100% and everything that comes into the united states and you know what they said? they said we would be greatly honored to let you have our soldiers free of charge and how many would you need an i said as many as it takes. they were great and they made a big contribution to our security. let me tell you but they have to stop and now we are talking turkey and one of the first calls they will make is to mexico and you stop letting people come into our border and come into your southern border. relationship with the president but he retired. he left. he was

a socialist. you can't have everything but he was a good one. they paid a fortune for the soldiers along the border. we built 579 miles of all. far more than i said. i was talking about 200, 250. we built 571 . nobody talks about it. you know what i did? we had a congress that was not behaving so i said, i don't care. this is an invasion of our country i'm taking it out of the military. i took it out of the military because i gave them 725 dollars. i said, congratulations. it is called a wall because we are being invaded by mexico. now we have a new president in mexico. i

suppose a very nice woman. i have not met her. i will inform her on day one or sooner that if they don't stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, i'm going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send to the united states of america. the reason i delayed that -- you are the first ones i have told it to. congratulations, north carolina. it's only got a 100% chance of working because if it doesn't work i will make it 50. if that does not work i will make it 75 then i will make it on hundred. at some point they will have so many soldiers on their southern border. that is where they come

in. they come right through. by the way, it has a 100% chance of working. i will start off at 25%. that's a lot. mexico is our number one trading partner. they make a fortune. they have taken over our country since biden and harris. they became our number one trading partner and they are ripping us off left and right. it's ridiculous. they wanted $3 billion to meet . they would not have said that to me . i would do the opposite. if you don't give us $3 billion i will oppose the biggest freaking tax. i have never told you any of this. i wanted to wait until today because i don't want to have her, she's a low iq individual. i don't want to have her say i had an idea last night while i was sleeping turning and tossing,

sweating, because i sleep i turn and i toss and i sweat . i don't even sleep. i have gone through 62 days without a day off . every single day . you know what? she takes a day off every other day. last week she makes a terrible , she has these press conferences that last for about two minutes and then she takes the day off. when you are running for the president of the united states and you want to do it because you have to fix the country, that is why i am doing it. i would not do it. i could be at the most gorgeous beaches of the world but i would much rather be with you people because i like you. i would much rather be with you. we are doing something historic . this

has never been done before. they will never have rallies like this. we went to milwaukee the other night -- we are doing great in wisconsin by the way. we could have filled that arena. it had 28,000 seats including the floor . we could have filled it three times, maybe four times. people outside, thousands and thousands of people. there's never going to be that. and four years you will handed -- have a candidate, republican democrat candidate they will come to north carolina and they will say, how many are there and the consultants back there that make a fortune because they think they bring these people, nobody brings anything. we bring them. we together bring them . you know what they are going to say, the same people. they are very smart people, good people. you can't give them too much leash , but they are going to have 250 people come and that is standard. see the ladies of

north carolina. they have come. it is beautiful. they are looking better and better all the time. these beautiful ladies, i think they are very well-to-do. they are always so beautifully coiffed. look at that. here is what i love. they are great americans. they love our country. they love north carolina. isn't it nice where you can be closer, still travel to california. if i went to hawaii they would be in hawaii. i think they are loaded. the reason i never see their husbands is because they are working. these wives are traveling all over the place. 257 . they have been at 257 rallies their husbands are

going to be so happy. >> you have been listening to former president donald trump on this final day of campaigning on a rally at raleigh, north carolina. let's go to the fact checker who will walk us through a couple of things we heard a couple moments ago. one of the things that i heard you talked about this a number of times. he repeats the same falsehoods over and over again. it makes your work a little bit easier. they talked about releasing prisoners from the jails from all over the world. you and i have talked about this a number of times. >> we have. he says it over and over. it is still wrong. there's zero evidence that any country let alone countries all over the world are releasing prisoners from their prisons to have them come here as migrants. he talked about the global prison population being down . it is actually up under biden and harris. he spoke of these 13,000 immigrants with murder convictions he came -- claims came in under biden and

harris. the people that came in over 40 years including his own administration. he talked about 21 million people coming. the number of encounters is just over 10 million and even if you count so-called got a ways it does not in get anywhere close to that figure. it is the same nonsense . it does make our life easier but it's not good for public discourse. >> absolutely not. what all stands out to you. he's been talking about immigration pretty much the whole section of the speech we've been listening to. >> those are the false claims i heard in the first part of the speech. >> he also said if harris wins she will have open borders. that is not the case. let me talk to the rest of the panel about this. we have adam kinsinger, brad todd, let me go to your first, adam. your sense of where we are as a country

one day before election day. >> the country is extremely tense. there's this, nobody really knows what is going to happen but everybody feels like their life depends on the results of tomorrow's election. there's a lot of tension. i do worry about this whichever side loses there will be this outpouring of anger particularly if the trump side loses because they've already shown they have the ability . i think tomorrow will be cathartic for people to actually get through election day and i feel harris is in a strong position even though the polls show it is tight i feel like the fundamentals are favoring her right now. >> we saw that poll over the weekend. that felt like a tea leaf that a lot of folks were weighing in on and seizing on. >> i think people looked at that . the fact is there's nobody from the harris campaign going to iowa to campaign but

that did tell you a lot about college-educated white women. it told you about independent women. it told you about voters that are 65 and above. we will get the results from wisconsin wednesday morning and i believe that will give us the roadmap and we will be able to see what the election will look like. i think people need to take a chill pill, go outside and touch some grass. >> after the program is over. it is cathartic for a lot of people. i will go saturday. if president trump wins i will call president trump and watch my son play flag football. the world will not and that there's a lot of emotion in this and i do have a feeling that the 45th president will act out by calling himself a victor before the votes are counted and that is something that is beyond the pale. >> first off, i know everybody is stressed out but one of the constitutional guarantees is that the election will and tomorrow. i know people cherish a lot of their constitutional freedoms and they should cherish that this must stop . i

think the task will be strong no matter who wins to try to keep the country together. i don't think anybody needs to rearrange thanksgiving. they need to welcome family members who voted different from them. that makes the country great and that is the task ahead of us. we may have a tense couple of days. i don't think the race has changed much, the polls have recently froze. i think most people made their mind up and they were done about eight days ago. >> where there are some numbers that worried you? there is also this abc poll we've been showing where it shows a massive gender gap for kamala harris. >> there is a gender gap that goes both ways. the challenge for the trump campaign is to win men by more than they lose women by. there's polls that claim they could do that that show the national popular vote tied. that's the strategy for both sides. his enemy is not

really kamala harris. it's the xbox. he needs a lot of younger men that don't care much about politics. >> laura, there's no surprise that he is closing on immigration. this is how he started his race back in 2015 . it was about what he was see as an invasion of migrants coming across the country. to a large degree it has worked in the republican party. let's listen for just a moment. >> seven miles up and then go a mile left and drop them at the opening in the gate. can you believe this? this is kamala . so all that stuff ends very quickly. they could have put up 200 miles. you know what they did with that expensive stuff? they had it laying in the sand,

laying in the mud. it was all there to be put up. all they had to do was put in an up. three weeks, we would have had 750 miles of all. think of it. walls work and wheels work. they never get obsolete. the computer in about two minutes or obsolete. we have the best computer guy there is. we have elon . you know where he is right now? he is in pennsylvania campaigning because he thinks it is the single most important thing he has ever worked on. he is an amazing guy. when i saw that rocket came down when i saw that sucker come down, 22 stories. people think it is like five feet high. it is 22 stories. that sucker is coming

down. those engines were blowing. >> we are continuing to listen to donald trump in north carolina. laura, i will go to you first because i cut you off. he was just there praising elon musk a few moments ago. i do want to get a reaction from the rest of you as to how much you think he is making a difference in pennsylvania. >> donald trump has outsourced a lot of the doorknocking to people like elon musk . that could be a big risk. elon musk has never done that before so it remains to be seen. to your earlier question you are asking about his final message on immigration. the anti-immigrant message. within that is also something elon musk is pushing which is this lie about noncitizens voting in massive numbers. that is really laying the groundwork. the final message is anti-immigration it also laying the groundwork of potentially saying the election

was stolen. >> can elon musk get out the vote. places like turning point. there's been some anecdotal evidence they are lagging behind the harris campaign. >> respectfully we have been whipping their in terms of ground game . they are running an amazing operation in nevada because they gave him that operation. in arizona no ground game. in michigan you read the stories about people coming up in fans, getting fired, don't have food or housing. pennsylvania the same thing. brian kemp does have some operation but will that be enough? i think chris and susie , excuse me jason miller they've done a great job with what they've had but one of the biggest mistakes in this race will be outsourcing this or allowing elon musk who has never done this. it's

different. he smaller than all of us combined except ebu and he can build a rocket that is different than actually getting people from their couches to the polls. there are people out there that can do that work. there's one other small tidbit. we spent a lot of time talking about black voters. there is literally no poll bearing that out. he was pulling at 9% african-american voters which is less than the exits. georgia and north carolina hitting those marks. >> are you telling me we fell for a narrative once again. >> i was sitting here all the time saying no . they are not going to vote for donald trump because of gold sneakers. >> the polling has moved a little bit in her direction. i wonder are we seeing something that is happening in real-time in the final days of the campaign? >> here is the question. the old political adage the undecideds go to thirds for the challenger at the very end. the

question is, who is perceived as the challenger. you could say it is donald trump because kamala harris is currently in office but everybody knows everything about donald trump. they don't know everything about harris. i think she is kind of seen as the challenger. undecideds are breaking to her because they say even if they don't know everything about her, it's been a three month campaign. they know everything about trump. i think that's where you are seeing these polls break. >> i have pulling in pennsylvania with 800 people. there were literally five humans out of these 800. if you are undecided you are truly a freak. one thing i go back to the point, i don't think democrats are kicking republicans but on the ground. in philadelphia they are already at the early vote number. the democrats are off

in philadelphia but democrats have to do something in large cities tomorrow they have not done since 2004. >> you are on message. i have to wonder what your thoughts are in the final week of this campaign having the madison square garden rally where there's a so-called comedian joking about puerto rico being an island of garbage. donald trump saying i'm going to be her protector whether you like it or not. the stuff he was saying over the weekend about shooting through the media. i can imagine heads just exploding. >> this is his entertainment. this is his way of entertaining a crowd. joe biden also called half the country garbage which is not exactly a unifying message. >> he is not on the ballot. >> i would guarantee you he is on the ballot. if joe biden's presidency had been a failure

it would be a very different election. >> in terms of the impact. the harris campaign says undecideds are breaking for them. i was speaking to puerto ricans and women who said they were undecided. one was a two time trump border. they cite the madison square garden rally. they say they did not like what they heard . that solidified their vote. >> let's listen to trump talking about putin. >> you let keystone go forward and you close up the russian pipeline but he did the opposite. then they said trump loves russia, trump loves russia. that's the biggest project they've ever had. the first day he was there he let them build it. so what is that. i love dogs. we love dogs. you

know lara trump, by the way, she is married to my son. she's the vice chairman they are doing an incredible job. she would come into the office. she loves dogs. >> we dipped in for a moment to see if he was talking about vladimir putin but he did say he loves dogs. >> i don't know if that was in relation to his earlier comment about haitian immigrants. >> dogs are more popular than cats. >> one of the things i do want to talk about because we are getting really close to election night in america. that is what we saw the last election night. i was at the white house when donald trump went out there and claimed victory when he was on the verge of losing by almost 7 million votes. are you worried

he will do that again? i suppose you might think he will do that again and what happens next? >> yes. there is a fear and worry that donald trump will claim victory. we do believe he will try to file litigation to stop counting the ballots. the harris campaign, i'm sure they will tell you this once . every single ballot will be counted. if there is fraud root them out and put them in jail but we need every single ballot counted. the earlier point about major cities is actually spot on . you can tell what is going to happen in michigan if detroit gets 50% turnout. if we get 50% turnout kamala harris wins michigan. joe biden got 49.5 and won by 100,000 votes. the clerk of the city of detroit recently said they expect 51% turnout which bodes well but can you do that in pittsburgh, philadelphia, milwaukee. that's where you

have to have somebody. >> adam, kamala harris could have a very good night tomorrow night but regardless donald trump may go out there and say he won this election. this is in your wheelhouse. you were on the january 6 committee. we saw where all of this poppycock let us the last time around. it led to violence. >> this is what happens when you convince a significant amount of the country that the election was stolen. we fought a revolution over taxation only if you are represented. if somebody comes out and says they are stealing their vote. if i believed my boat was stolen i would've been on the capitol in a different capacity. that press conference you were at that was where i decided i can never defend him again. the other thing is we are not talking about what used to be called the red mirage

where it looks like somebody is ahead and estate and then they start counting early votes. particularly pennsylvania that will calculate. he will use that to feed into his narrative. >> the allegheny county clerk said they will be done by midnight. i think that is a good thing to watch. that's where pittsburgh is. it's a key democratic county but relative performance to last time i think that is a thing to watch. >> everybody, thank you so much. we will keep monitoring this donald trump rally in north carolina. we will be right back.

vice president kamala harris is heading to the battleground of pennsylvania for her final day on the campaign trail. in mckenna -- eva can't is in allentown. it's a very important place and also the center for the latino population in pennsylvania. i have to think kamala harris will be reaching out to those voters. >> reporter: she sure is. let me take a step back here. it's noteworthy that the vice president did not mention the former president by name and her rally. what i am told by the campaign is they are being really intentional about closing out on a optimistic message and centering on the idea of a new way forward. can she make that argument given that she is the vice president. can she convince voters ? only time will tell.

>> we have the momentum because our campaign is tapping into the ambitions, aspirations and dreams of the american people. >> reporter: she begins today here in battleground pennsylvania in joe biden country in scranton where she will rally up canvassers. she then comes to allentown for the heavy latino population. after that she goes to reading, pennsylvania, where she will be with the most prominent progressive and governments -- governor shapiro. she and the day with two ralleys. one in pittsburgh and one in philadelphia. she's telling supporters, come off of the sidelines. we don't want to wake up the day after the election feeling like we did not do everything we possibly

could to bring home victory. >> it is so fascinating that she is spending basically her entire day on the last day before election day in pennsylvania. eva mckend, thank you so much. i really appreciate it . thank you for all your hard work. coming up we will take you inside a county election center in battleground georgia and how they are preparing for tomorrow.

in georgia, the republican secretary of state just wrapped up a press conference moments ago where he assured voters the state is ready for tomorrow's ballot count . more than 4 million people have already voted but the office is facing

a slew of allegations many from his own party. valencia joins us . you are inside an election center where they are processing ballots, getting ready for election day. walk us through what is happening. >> reporter: this is a fascinating look at democracy in action. so many wonder what election workers are up to in the days leading up. this is what they are doing in georgia which is one of the states you can preprocess absentee ballots by mail before the election. this separates the ballot from the envelope. it goes to this group of volunteers. you see it sorting into batches by precinct and then into batches of 50. after that they are taking down the hallway and stored until tabulation is officially allowed. there's a lot of other things happening to remedy the disinformation. that is holding onto the empty ballots in case they need to

counter a dispute. also, everyday activity. phonebank with questions and concerns and registration of new voters. of course, they will not be allowed to vote on election day but the process happens anyway. if that wasn't enough you have this room over here where the board of elections will be. two republicans, two democrats and an independent. they are in charge of certifying the election. this is a new addition to the election cycle. it will be stressful so this is a peaceful place for election workers to step away during the process. i want to introduce you to one of the people that will be very busy. sac manifold, you are the election supervisor. i was talking about disinformation. you saw a russian campaign of disinformation last week. there are people that just don't believe you. what are you doing to combat disinformation. >> we have a full outreach

staff doing events in communities, meeting with people, putting that face to who is behind the elections. we are trying to hurry up and knock down the fake video that popped up in georgia. it is nonstop . here at the office it is purposely built wide open. you can see the process of the ballot coming in the door through the process following to get scanned and tabulated. >> this is not a shadow we process. these are your neighbors. you were talking to me off camera about who is working and volunteering. >> i tell people to remember who you see. there's 2000 volunteers that are grandparents, pta parents, firefighters, teachers. those are the people volunteering. that's who you will see. not so much the staff behind-the-scenes working, but your community is who runs your

elections. >> reporter: he said there is a potential for 60% of the votes to be counted by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow? it could be a smooth process. >> we had such a large turnout of advance voting. 300,000 voters came through advance. we think 60 to 70% of the votes . that should be up by about 8:00. that will give a pretty good first indication and then the first precinct shows up about it: 30 and the last one around 11:30 to midnight. >> we will be here for every step of the process. a super fascinating look at what goes on. this is democracy in action. >> we will all need is linden -- a then dan . there will be a line out the door. no question about it. we will be right back.

this weekend the trump campaign ramped up accusations of voter fraud in pennsylvania despite the fact officials are still investigating potential issues and have not reached conclusions just yet. joined me now is a longtime election attorney ben ginsberg. your thoughts on trump pushing these claims ahead of the election? what might be in store over the next few weeks if he loses? >> we have seen this before. it's what happened in 2020. there were wild accusations. he had the chance to present evidence in court and in all 64 cases that he and his supporters filed, he failed to produce evidence. i think it is

reasonable to assume that this is a prelude to a similar strategy, they will still have to come up with real evidence to be able to make their case. >> have you seen anything to make you question the integrity or trustworthiness of the election so far? >> not at all. we've been traveling around to the most contentious jurisdictions. election administrators and officials are incredibly conscientious about preparing and checking their roles. and all the pre-election litigation that has been filed by the republican national committee, some 90 cases, again there is a lot of supposition. no hard evidence of any illegal voters or any machines not working. >> i want to remind our viewers of what trump said after the 2020 election with votes still

being counted he was declaring victory. >> we were winning everything and all of a sudden it was just called off. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win the election. we will be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. >> it is pretty chilling to listen to that. he obviously did not win the election but what happens if he loses and still declares victory anyway. i suppose it goes to the courts after it goes through the electoral college and we see how it plays out. >> i think there will be a bit of buyer beware in his allegations. there are echoes of what happened in 2020. he could not produce evidence then. he will go to court. we will see if he can produce evidence. he should remember what happened in the first week after the 2020 election. there were wild allegations of fraud. rudy giuliani at the four

seasons total landscaping company. the press conference at the rnc sort of tellico's accusations of fraud, none of which turned out to have any substance. i hope that will figure in to consideration of the charges they will hear . >> he had a supreme court that was stocked with his justices the last time around that did not intervene on his behalf. is that in part because when you go through , you go through the election process and make any claims you want but when you go to court judges at every level possible will want to see evidence. you cannot play that game in front of a federal judge. >> no, you can't. in 2020 judges appointed by republican and democratic presidents alike including trump appointed judges did what they are supposed to do they look at the

fact and the law. since there were no facts very few of them got around with having to deal with substantive legal issues. >> i suppose there are armies on both sides that are ready to do this out. you will have a lot of boats and vacation homes named after this is all done. >> the society of hourly billers is not disappointed with this outcome. there will be lawyers on both sides. in an interesting development, donald trump 's has pretty good lawyers working for him pre-election but he did in 2020 as well and they started to peel off and be unwilling to bring cases when there was no evidence , but the trump campaign insisted that they bring cases. many of the lawyers who did ring the cases postelection have run into some

problems with their local bar associations for just that, presenting cases without the required evidence. >> that is right. most notably rudy giuliani. that is exhibit a. thank you so much. i appreciate it. candidates are calling this the most important election, the most anxiety inducing.

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are showing a razor thin race to the finish regardless of who wins the white house one thing is certain. this election is going to make history. joined me now is presidential historian tim. do you have a prediction at this point other than just a lot of nerves around the country? >> i have a gut feeling but i'm not sure what it is worth. i will say this. this is absolutely going to be a historic election and one that will be remembered regardless of who wins. if kamala harris wins she will break the last great graph -- glass ceiling of our politics. this will have an effect not only at home but around the world. only one -- 31% of the countries in the u.n. have ever had a woman head of state. the united states is an influential country. if the united states had a woman head of state that would have enormous benefits for women in many countries around the

world. if donald trump wins the election, not only will he be the oldest president we have ever had, but he will be the first twice impeached president to be reelected. he's the only twice impeached president we've ever had. more importantly he will be the first person in american history to have come to power after provoking an insurrection . he will also be the second president to have run on the campaign based on vengeance. his vengeance is different from andrew jackson. in 1828 andrew jackson sought vengeance but he sought vengeance against quincy adams . he did not seek vengeance against half the country. either outcome is certain to produce historic consequences. it will be an election remembered, i would argue, forever. >> absolutely. one of the things i have noticed covering campaigns since 2004. in 2008 you have the financial crisis.

that really cinched things for barack obama against john mccain. in 2012 you had super storm sandy that moved the race toward barack obama . he was probably going to win anyway. in 2016 you have the call me letter. in 2020 we were dealing with covid. i wonder in this last race of the campaign whether the crack about puerto rico, the madison square garden rally, whether that might be viewed after this is all said and done as a big moment. >> i am so glad you asked me that question. rather than have a certain gut reaction what i've got is a series of questions. first of all, will the joe rogan vote show up? will the iowa poll suggest there's a nikki haley vote that is quietly going to kamala harris? have the posters in an

attempt to try to re-create a model that suggests the electorate, have they undercounted the number of women who are going to vote or have they once again undercounted the number of americans without college degrees ? what about arab-americans particularly in michigan? with a sit on their hands and not vote as a way of protesting the humanitarian crisis in gaza. and finally, what about black men. to what extent will they support and the large numbers -- of course a majority will support kamala harris but how many will support her in large enough numbers to make a difference in pennsylvania and michigan. finally, the question we always have about young people. will they vote? >> it is so true. we have been showing this number all morning. we probably don't have time to show it again. this abc poll over the weekend showing young women under the age of 30 just in droves siding

against donald trump for kamala harris. there is one more time, to me it is a mind-boggling metric . sometimes it is the things we don't see , that we don't appreciate enough that ends up making the difference. thank you, as always. thank you so much for joining me. i am jim acosta. please go out there and vote. it is your right. stay with us. inside politics with dana bash starts after a short break. have a great day.