they have to come in legally, and they have to come in through merit. [cheers and applause] just imagine the insanity that will ensue if pelosi is speaker, schumer crying chuck majority leader, kamala harris -- she makes bernie sanders look like a very strict conservative. [laughter] if kamala, you have to say that name exactly right, or they excoriate you. you have kamala running the white house. she already said that, right? she said that it's the harris/biden -- he actually said it. he said under the harris -- i never dud that. i never said under the pence/trump administration. and i love mike pence, you know? but i said, mike, that far we can't go. [laughter] and he said it, you know, he made a mistake. he's running for the u.s. senate. i'm a proud democrat running for

the u.s. senate. [laughter] >> we said, no, you're running for president. oh, okay. [laughter] >> can you believe -- this could only happen to me. how are you doing? we're tied. we're tied. how the hell can we be tied? he said four times. the other thing he says badly, he will be making a speech to the people of ohio. ladies and gentlemen of iowa. the worst in miami with the palm trees. ladies and gentlemen of ohio. no, he's made that many times. you know what i always said winston churchill was a great order, amazingly because he was a stutterer in his life.

you could give a speech equal to the best that he's ever made and if you've made the mistake welcome like we are in pennsylvania, great to be in new york. it doesn't matter how good your speech is. just walk off. it's over. he does it all of the time and nobody says it. under my leadership we achieved -- and he's not a nice person. if he were a nice person they would do commercials on me that are so false like with the soldiers, that's the biggest insult to me of anything that's probably ever happened, like with the soldiers and other things. they are so false. based on a phoney magazine. obama-tied magazine that's doing badly. they did a commercial -- we notified them and we had 26 witnesses, real witnesses and every one of them is furious but

he's not a nice person, so because he's not a nice person i don't mind saying exactly what i'm saying which as you know is the truth. he was never considered smart in his prime, but now he's really off. [laughter] >> and you can't him as your president because he will destroy our country. he will destroy our country. it probably won't be him because by the time he gets sworn in it'll be pretty much over. twenty-fifth amendment, do you think they were talking about me? no they weren't talking about me. they were talking about getting kamala in there as possible. kamala was going down like a rocket. normally you pick somebody that's going up. she didn't even make it to iowa, right, nobody spoke worse about him and that's the one they want to pick. the radical left would love to get her in. i don't know if you can ever

come back from a thing like that. i'm not sure that a country -- you look at venezuela and you look at what's going on, it was the richest, so great 20 years ago and now they don't have food, they don't have water, they don't have medicine. under my leadership we achieved the most secure border in american history. the wall. biden's plan to admit unlimited low-wage foreign workers will slash incomes, surge unemployment and devastate the middle class. all to enrich the globalist donors. as president, my only special breast is -- interest is you. that is true. [cheers and applause] >> to protect our national security i also suspended the entry of refugees from foreign nations, compromised by terrorism. just call up president macron as i do often and ask him what's happening over there, you saw those horrible attacks just last

week, more than 1. we are keeping radical islamist terrorist the hell out of the country if i had your approval. [cheers and applause] >> biden has pledged a staggering 700% increase in refugees. this is a deal made between biden and bernie sanders. crazy bernie. the manifesto we call it. a document, very thick document naming things that are all horrible. they've agreed 700% increase in refugees from the most dangerous and violent terrorists, hot spots anywhere on earth including syria, somalia, and yemen. these are some of the most dangerous places in the world, 700% increase. this isn't like oh, this is talk. this is a manifesto. it's a document. he's also vowed to terminate national security travel bans allowing for unlimited migration

from war zones and terrorist heavens. biden extreme policies will open to terrorists, jihadists and extremist. you don't have to worry about it. get out and vote on november third. i had the ban passed and approved by the u.s. supreme court. they did the right thing. under my administration the safest of our families will always come first. that's safety. we want safety. it has to come first. the secretary of defense under president obama robert gates said joe biden has been on the wrong side of every policy issue in his lifetime. president obama used to say that if you wanted something really screwed up, give it to joe biden to handle. [laughter] >> this is the guy that we have running. in fact, obama tried to keep joe from running. he was very famously quoted as saying, joe, you don't have to do this, you don't have to do

this, joe, don't do it. you don't have to do this. i could see that and wouldn't endorse him until long after primaries had ended. and joe is lost, he wouldn't endorse him. he was the vice president and wouldn't endorse him. made terrible statements and wouldn't endorse him and after he won it was months before he endorsed because he didn't want to see it happen. he's probably the most surprised person on earth, obama and they said, sir, obama is going to start campaigning for him a couple of days ago, i said that's okay, that's good. he campaigned for hillary, how did that work out? [cheers and applause] >> his crowds are extraordinarily small just so you know. 22 people, 18 people. for months joe biden and kamala harris have been inciting violence against police officers and riots like those carried out by biden supporters in

philadelphia. look at what's going on in philadelphia. they should call us in to philadelphia and we will solve the problem or let the police handle the problem. let the police handle the problem. if elected the democrat ticket will pass legislation to end cash bail, create sanctionary -- sanctuary cities across america, we will higher more on tough on crime prosecutors to put violent offenders behind bars. [cheers and applause] for 47 years joe biden betrayed african-americans at every turn. he took your votes, he took you for granted and then he shipped away your jobs and flooded your cities with cheap foreign labor. he devastated black families with his 1994 crime bill that locked, really locked up tens of thousands of african-american

men with unfair sentencing and he called african-american young men super predators all of the time. he would say super predators. a name that has always been something, there has been no name that they've hated more, they hated it with hillary clinton and they hate it with joe biden. super predator. the term super predator. that was his term. he forged close relationships with prosegregation lawmakers and his trade deals decimated the black middle class. joe biden cares more about refugees living thousands of miles away than he does about black americans living in philadelphia, milwaukee, detroit, baltimore, oakland. he's done nothing and he says to me, we should do this. i said, joe, again, always so easy, 47 years, but he left. it was only 3 and a half years ago. this wasn't a long time ago.

injustice of biden's crime bill by signing landmark criminal justice reform, prison reform. [cheers and applause] >> and under our recently announced platinum plan we will create 3 million new jobs for black americans, increase access to capital, restore safety to every neighborhood and we will deliver school choice to every parent in america. [cheers and applause] >> and i'm also fighting every day for hispanic americans. this week i announced our american dream plan. we are doing very well with hispanic americans. you see that, they are saying what's going on in florida, they like me and i like them. we are doing very well with our -- with the black community. they like me now. they are getting to know me better but i've always liked them. the american dream plan which creates over half a million new hispanic-owned small businesses

and jobs and going to be fantastic for our hispanic americans. great people. my administration is also standing proudly with the people of cuba, nicaragua and venezuela in righteous fight for freedom. biden sided with the brutal socialist communist regime. you saw the horrible deal with the united states by obama and biden. i don't think biden probably was too involved if you know the truth. it was a terrible deal. like the iran deal, 150 billion for nothing. as long as i'm president, america will never be a socialist country. we will never be. [cheers and applause] >> this year i laid out the boldest and most ambitious second term agenda in history. we will create 10 million new jobs in the first 10 months. 2021. we will have 10 million jobs. over the next years we will make america into the manufacturing

super power of the world. we will expand opportunity zones and we will bring medical supply chains all coming home and end reliance on china once and for all and we will defend religious liberty, the right to life and the right to keep and bear arms. [cheers and applause] >> and we will restore patriotic education to our schools. [cheers and applause] >> in our debate last week joe biden said that america has, quote, never, ever lived up to our founding ideals, right? he said it was an idea, it was just an idea. no, america is a great country. the united states is a great country. it's not an idea, it's a great country. pennsylvanians know the truth more than most when you think of the great history of the state. from washington's crossing and

independence hall in philadelphia to the quacker who ran the underground railroad from the union soldiers who lay at the rest and you lay at rest -- they lay at rest in gettysburg. one of the most beautiful places and so gruesome for a period of time. they fought uphill. to the workers of bethlehem and alantown, america is the story of everyday citizens who have given everything to help this country live up to the highest ideals. my fellow citizens, you deserve a president who believes in america, a president who loves our country and a president who loves you. [cheers and applause]

>> everybody knows that joe biden is not equipped to lead america, to republicans, democrats and independents across this state, across this nation, i'm asking for you to honor me with a vote that's going to make our nation greater than ever before. [cheers and applause] >> i will continue to fight for you with every breath in my body and with your support on tuesday, we will show the world that for our country and for our children and for the incredible people of pennsylvania, the best is, indeed, yet to come. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. ♪ ♪ arthel: okay, from president trump in newtown, pennsylvania to former president obama at a

drive-in rally for joe biden in flint, michigan. let's listen in. >> along with the experience to get things done, joe biden has concrete plans and policies that will turn our vision of a better fairer, stronger country into reality. joe is not going to screw up testing. joe is not going to call scientists idiots and not hold super-spreader events across the country. what joe will do is get the pandemic under control with a plan to make testing free and widely available, to get a vaccine every american cost free and make sure our frontline heros never have to ask other countries for the equipment that they need. that's what joe biden will do. joe's plan will guaranty paid sick leave for workers and parents affected by the

pandemic. he'll make sure that small businesses in every community, not just some, not just big corporations but small businesses that hold our communities together and employ millions of americans can reopen safely. donald trump likes to claim he built this economy. america created 1.5 million more jobs in the last 3 years of the obama-biden administration than in his first 3 years and that was before he could blame the pandemic. joe biden and i with the help of democratic congress rescued the auto industry. gary peters was there. he told us to bet on michigan and we did. and manufacturing in michigan grew by 15% over our last 4 years. trump promised he'd make michigan the manufacturing hub

of the world again. it's up 1% under his first 4 years. 15% under obama-biden, 1% under him. that's michigan, right here. we handed him the longest streak of job growth in american history. but the economic damage he inflicted by botching the pandemic response means he'll be the only president since hoover to actually lose jobs. hoover, that's a long time ago. joe biden and gary peters know that the key to a strong economy isn't cutting more taxes for billionaires, it's lifting up the prospects for working americans. and joe has got a plan to create 1 million new auto-related jobs by accelerating electric vehicle production. he's got a plan to create 10 million good-clean energy

jobs and fight climate change and secure environmental justice something relevant to flint, michigan. you know something about that. he will roll back tax plan. this is important. joe sees this moment not to get back to where we were, but to build on the progress we made together and finally make long overdue changes so that our economy actually makes life a little easier for everybody, for the waitress trying to raise the kid on her own and the student figuring out to pay for next semester's classes or the ship worker always on the edge of getting laid off or the cancer survivor who is worried that her preexisting conditions protections will be taken away. let's talk about health care for a second. let's talk about health care for

a second. republicans love to say right before an election, that they'll protect your preexisting conditions. that's what they say. well you know what, joe and i actually protected them 10 years ago with the affordable care act. and since we did so, with no help from republicans, no votes from republicans, republicans have tried to repeal our undermine aca more than 60 times. 60 times they've tried to take people's healthcare away and when asked why, why are you doing that, why are you being so mean, you don't think these people should have health care, no, no, we've got a new plan. it's going to be beautiful, it's going to be terrific except it's been 10 years now and they still don't have a plan.

they're trying to bamboozle you. they've attacked aca at every turn. they've driven up costs. they've driven up the number of uninsurers and they are trying to get the supreme court to take your health care away in the middle of the pandemic, right in the time that people need health care. they signed onto a case in the supreme court where they are trying to take insurance away from folks that need it with nothing but empty promises to take its place. now mitch mcconnell is pouring millions of super pac dollars to beat gary peters because that's part of their agenda. michigan, here is the truth. joe and kamala and gary will protect your health care, they will expand medicare, they'll

make insurance more affordable for everybody and the reason you know that is true because they were there when we did it the first time. and here is another thing with joe and kamala at the helm, this is a big benefit, michelle and i were talking about this over dinner the other day. you will not have to think about them every day. you're not going to have to argue with your family about him every day, i won't be so exhausting, you'll be able to get on with your lives knowing that the president is not going to suggest we inject bleach as a possible cure of covid. you won't have to find out -- you won't wake up in the morning, open your phone, news flash, the president retweeted conspiracy theories that the

navy seal didn't actually kill bin laden and you will not have a president that goes out of his way to insult people just because they don't support him. this is not normal behavior, people. we would not tolerate it from a teacher or a coach or a coworker or a family member if a neighbor was acting like this, you'd stay away from the neighbor. why would we accept it from the president of the united states? and you know what, there are consequences to this action, there are consequences to his actions. it's not just a joke, it's not funny. those actions embolden other people to be mean and divisive and racist and affects how our children see the world and how they treat each other.

it affects the way our families get along. it affects the way the world sees america. that's why joe talks about the soul of america. that's why he talks about decency and kindness and responsibility and hard work. that more than anything is what separates joe biden from his opponent. he actually cares about every american. he does not have a mean spirited-bone in his body. i have seen him, spent time with people, strangers that are going through a hard thing, when he sees a kid his eyes light up because -- because he thinks about his own kids and grandkids joe biden tries to live the values we cherish, honesty, hard

work, kindness, humility, responsibility, helping somebody else out. that used to be the definition of -- of manliness, not showing off, acting important, bullying people. used to be being a man meant taking care of your -- other people. not going around bragging, but just doing the work. not looking for credit. trying to live right. passing on the values to your kids. looking out for a community, caring your weight, giving up a little bit of what you might have to help somebody who has a real need. when you elect joe, that's what you'll see reflected from the

white house and those shouldn't be republican or democratic values. they didn't use to be. what we grew up learning from our parents and from our grandparents and they are the values we still try to teach our kids and they are not white or black or hispanic or asian or native american values, they are american values and we've got to reclaim them right now but to reclaim them, we are going to have to turn out like never before. if we are going to reclaim those values, we need to leave no doubt. we can't afford to be complacent. not this time, not in this election. we've got a little complacent the last election. listen, i understand why americans get frustrated and sometimes think government is not going to make a difference, voting is not going to make a difference. i understand that, government is not perfect. the people in government is not perfect even when it's working.

government is not going to solve every problem. but we can make things better. a president can't by himself solve every challenge facing the economy here in flint or michigan but if we elect people like gary peters and dan kilde and we get a house and a senate joined with a white house that are more focused on working people and getting you the help that you need, they will make a difference. and some folks will get jobs that wouldn't otherwise had jobs and some folks will have health care that wouldn't otherwise have health care. a president by himself can't eliminate all racial bias in our criminal justice system. but if we elect district attorneys and states attorneys and sheriffs focused on equality and justice and we once again have a justice department and a civil rights division in the justice department that cares about these issues, we can make

things better. and that's what voting is about, not making things perfect but making things better. it puts us on a track so generations we can look back and say you know what right about then things started getting better again. the fact that you don't get 100% right away, you have to keep at it. typically over 50% vote who are eligible, almost half of the people in most elections were eligible to vote, don't vote. imagine 60% of us voting, imagine if 70% of us voted, imagine january 20th, when we swear in a president and vice president whose got a plan to get us out of this mess, who care about folks like you, who have been in your shoes, who

know what it's like to struggle, who know what it's like to have to work hard, who are thinking about working americans and have a plan to help you start getting ahead, imagine what it's going to be like to have a president and vice president who believe in science and who have a plan to protect this planet for our children and who believe in racial equality and are sending a hear signal that we are all in this together and are doing the work to bring us closer so that we have an america where no matter what we look like, where we come from or who we love or how much money we've got, we can make it and we have a place and we are treated with dignity and respect, vision, that's what's possible. i'm asking you to remember that it's possible. i want you to remember what this country can be. but you can't just imagine a better future, you can't just wish for it. you've got to fight for it.

you've got to fight for it. we have to outhustle the other side. we've got to vote up and down the ticket like never before right here in michigan and all across the country. we've got to leave no doubt about who we are and what this country stands for and if we do, we will send gary peters back to the senate. and we will elect a man who loves this country and who cares about you and who will fight for every single one of us and will look out not just for folks who support him but also the folks who don't. my friends, the next president of the united states of america joe biden! joe biden!

♪ ♪ >> joe biden! ♪ >> honk if you are fired up, honk if you're ready to go! ♪ ♪ >> joe biden. ♪ ♪ >> mr. president, thank you, thank you, thank you. it kind of reminds you how good it can be listening to him, doesn't? as my mother would say about barack, god love him, he's a good man. folks, it's good to be back with friends, mayor neely, governor

whitmer, lieutenant governor, gary peters who you are going send to the united states senate because i'm going to need him. we can always count on him to be your senator for you and your family. my good friend congressman dan kildey who we need to send back out. dan is a good man, a good man and, of course, i wish we could figure out how to send back a guy who we used to have an expression up in scranton, we would say when somebody -- a patch on his jeans. mr. president, you're still driving him crazy because he knows he wasn't a patch on your jeans. i tell you what, barack obama, great to be with the president again. it reminds me of what we can be when you have a president of character, a president respected around the world, a president

that our kids looked up to and did look up to. i want to say something we don't say often enough and i mean this from the bottom of our heart, barack obama was a great president of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> i want to make sure we say here today, mr. president, thank you, thank you, thank you. 8 years without one single trace of scandal, not one single trace of scandal. it's going to be nice to return to that. flint, 3 days, 3 days, we can put an end to this presidency we have now that has divided the nation. 3 days, we can put an end to a presidency that has failed to protect this nation. 3 days, we can put an end to this presidency that's fanned

the flames of hate all across this nation and made us laughing stock around the world. millions of americans have already voted, millions more are voting today, tomorrow and god willing all the way through to the close of the polls on tuesday. am my -- and my message is simple, the power to change country is literally in your hands. i don't care how hard donald trump tries, there's nothing, let me say it again, there's nothing that he can do to stop the people of this nation from voting in overwhelming numbers and taking back this democracy. when americans vote, no matter how many threats he makes, america will be heard, when america is heard, i believe the message is going to be loud and it's going to be clear. it's time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home.

we are done with the chaos, the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure and refused to take any responsibility. we have a lot of work to do. we have a lot of work to do. if i'm elected your president, we are going to do it. we will act and we will need your help in doing it as well. we are going to act to get covid under control on days of my presidency i will put an action, a plan i've been talking about for months i've laid out and a national mandate, mask-wearing, social distancing, testing, tracing, all things as president obama just said that should have been put in place months ago. a plan for full and fair to free i might add to ensure therapeutics when we get one.

imagine where we would be if we had a president of wearing a mask instead of mocking. we wouldn't have 9 million confirmed cases of covid in the nation. over 230,000 deaths. we wouldn't be seeing a new record of cases, we we are seeig right now. 90,000 cases today and yesterday. 90,000 new cases. by the way, 500,000 this past week. this guy tells us it's going away. maybe it will go away if he goes away. folks, we wouldn't facing other 200,000 deaths in the next few months. this president knew in january the virus was deadly and trying to improve his image and trying to bob woodward and thought he

could change his mind but what he did, he let it be known all the way back in january, he knew how dangerous the pandemic was. and he hid it from the american people. he knew it was worse than the flu but he lied to the american people. he knew it wasn't going to disappear but he kept telling us , america is coming and yesterday he had the gull to suggest that american doctors, people that are putting their lives on the line, on the front lines to save other lives along with nurses and so many others, he suggested falsely that they're inflating the number of covid deaths to make more money. what in the hell is wrong with this man? excuse my language but think about it. it's perverted. hema believe it because he doesn't do anything other than for money. people in this nation have suffered and sacrificed for 9

months. none more so than the doctors in the front lines and healthcare workers and this president is questioning their character, integrity, their commitment to fellow americans. it's more than offensive. it's a disgrace especially coming from a president who has waved the white flag of surrender to this virus. our frontline health workers have given it all to beat the virus. we have a president who has given up. i will never raise the white flag of surrender. we are going to beat this virus and we will get it under control and the first step to doing that is beating donald trump. look, donald trump keeps telling us what a great job he's done as president. [laughter] >> oh, man.

well, did you know president obama and i created more jobs in the last 3 years of our administration than he did in the first 3 years before the pandemic? how about this? or did you know donald trump is going to be the first president in 9 years that will finish his term with fewer jobs under his leadership than when he started? look, that's a lot of presidents. that's a lot of crisis but only donald trump will have fewer jobs at the end of his presidency than when he started. you see i and barack understand something that donald trump doesn't, wall street didn't build this country, you did. working people built this country and unions built the middle class. he's done nothing but wage war

on american labor. i see the uaw sign out there, first to endorse me when i was a 29-year-old kid. god love you. look, we have a different view. we believe we should be awarded work not wealth in this country. under my plan, if you make less than $400,000 a year, you're not going to pay a penny in additional taxes. but the wealthiest people, the biggest corporations, 91 of the fortune 500 companies pay zero in federal income tax last year. they will start to pay their fair share. the super wealthy will pay the same rate they paid at the beginning of george bush's administration and corporations are going to start to pay their fair share. why should a firefighter, an educator, a nurse pay higher tax rate than someone making a

billion dollars? or why should you pay more in taxes than donald trump? he paid $750 in taxes the one year we know of. he's yet to release -- i've released 22 years of my tax returns and you go online and look. he hasn't released one. he talks about corruption. what is he hiding? he owes 41 million bucks out there. who does he owe it to? if you noticed, he's the only president i know of that has a secret bank account in china, paid 50 times more taxes in beijing than he's paid in the united states. and this guy talks about corruption? look, we are also going to act to protect health care, trump

and republicans jammed through supreme court nominee for one overwhelming reason. as barack said, the president said, they have been trying over 50 shots to take out obamacare, destroyed affordable care act, but they will be in court i believe 7 days after the election, win or lose, they will be in court, and if they get their way, 100 million americans will lose protections with preexisting conditions including more than 4 million michiganders, donald trump thinks health care is a privilege. barack and i think it's a right for people to have adequate health care. we are not only going to restore obamacare, we are going to build on it, we will keep your private insurance, if you like it and you can choose a medicare like public option, if you don't, we

will increase subsidies and lower premiums and deductibles, out-of-pocket spending and reduce prescription drug cost by 60%. look, we are going to make sure you keep the protections for people with preexisting conditions, meanwhile donald trump laid out what he's going to do in his second term if he's elected to social security. the actuary at the social security administration says if he gets that plan passed, it will, quote, bankrupt social security by 2023. something millions of americans live on, paid for their whole life. when i said back 6 years ago, as debbie will tell you, when i said the republicans are going to try to eliminate medicare, they said, no, that's crazy, first thing paul ryan and the republicans in the congress did was try to cut billions of

dollars out of medicare. these guys mean what they say. i am going to protect social security, medicare and medicaid because it's a life-line for so many working folks. but, folks, i have to admit to you, it's kind of personal with me, there's nothing worse that this president has done in my view than the way he speaks about our women and men in uniform and those who have given their lives. he called them losers and suckers. my son beau was a major in the united states army, gave up the attorney general's job and petition to go to iraq for one solid year after u.s. attorney, being in kosov, i'm going to add, i will be a typical dad,

he's the only foreigner in kosovo who has a 12-foot memorial dedicated to him, a major highway, the beau biden highway because of his commitment. my son came home with a bronze star that can speak to his service like so many others before he passed away. but guess what, he wasn't a sucker, he wasn't a loser nor any of you who have served, you're patriots, and just like all of your sons and daughters, parents and grandparent who served, the president likes to portray -- i love this. likes to portray himself as a tough guy when you're in high school, wouldn't have liked to take a shot, it's a different story. a macho man. when was the last time you heard a president of the united states

literally laughed at by world leaders when he spoke in the united nations, laughed at out loud. when was the last time a president of the united states laughed by leaders of nato in nato conference and can you believe we have a president that acts like vladimir putin's puppy. putin put bounties on americans heads. strong -- trump is not strong, he's weak. maybe that's why 6 generals and admirals who work for him left

his administration and said he was unfit to be commander in chief. when is the last time any president has had that happen, tough guy. that's why special operations commander and that's why navy seals who saw raid of bin laden have endorsed me to be commander in chief because like obama and bush before him, they know we will respect them, support them. i've been in and out of war accident scenes as senator and vice president over 35 times. i tell you what, these folks we have only 1% of the country is in the military. we owe them. they are the backbone, they are

the heart of who we are. that's why we have to support our military and get rid of trump. folks, you know, i'm going to tell you something, think about this. this is a guy who says there's no such thing as climate change. he calls it a hoax. i see it as jobs, health and safety. the impact on climate too often fall disproportionately on poor communities of color. we will make sure that communities benefits from the hundreds of billions of federal investment and infrastructure and climate change we will to as a consequence of the change in the structure. we will create local jobs to

rebuild roads, build sidewalk cracks, install brad -- broadband and turn on the facet and clean water comes out and what will happened in flint will never happen again anywhere in america. we can and must do this. donald trump has rolled back more than 100 environmental protection laws, many enacted under barack and me. it also has -- holds polluters accountable with environmental injustice ever. folks, protesting is not burning or looting, violence cannot be tolerated and it won't but protestors are cry for justice, the names of george floyd, breonna taylor and jacob blake will not soon be forgotten. they will inspire a new wave of

justice in america. america has had their eyes opened up. they are ready. look, i believe this country has to come together. i know when i announced well over a year ago, when i said i wanted to unit the country, that was a long time ago, you did it before biden, you can't do it again. we can and we must. we have no choice. that's how democracies work. i'm running as a proud democrat, but i will govern as an american president. i will work as hard for those who don't support me as those who do. that's the job of a president. it's the duty to care, the duty to care for everyone. so please vote, you still have ballot, get it to a drop box as soon as you can. you can also vote monday

afternoon or election day. just make a plan. help get out the vote and you heard this ten times already, visit iwillvote.com/mi. folks, we have such an incredible opportunity. god love you, thank you very much. but here is the deal, guys, we've got to up and down the ticket here. i honest to god believe, i'd give you my word as a biden, i honest to god believe we are in the inflection point and we have a chance to make such enormous progress because the american people have seen what the other looks like. they've gotten a glimpse of -- i will never forget what kennedy

said when he promised to get us to the moon, he used the phrase that guided me, he said we are doing it because, quote, we refuse to postpone. well, i refuse to postpone the incredible opportunities to the united states america for the american people, there's nothing beyond our capacity, there's no limit to america's future, the only thing that can tear america apart is america itself and that's exactly what bb&t -- what donald trump has been doing from the beginning of his campaign, dividing americans, pinning americans based on race, gender, ethnicity, that's wrong, that's not who we are. folks, everybody knows who donald trump is. let's keep showing who we are. we choose hope over fear, we

chose unity over division, we chose science over fiction and yes, we choose truth over lies. fellow americans, it's time to stand back and stand up and take back our democracy. we can do this. we are so much better than we've been. we can be when we are our best, the united states of america. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. ♪ ♪ eric: fired up joe biden after former president obama spoke for him. they are both in flint, michigan, biden slamming president trump and his record calling him vladimir putin's puppy saying something is wrong with the man for saying doctors want more coronavirus deaths because they want more money saying mr. trump failed the nation in the growing and spreading coronavirus pandemic on the economy and our health

care. by the way, covid-19 has infected almost 100,000 more americans in the last 24 hours, cases increasing in 47 states, not because of more testing because it's spreading and infecting more americans. we will have coverage of all the rallies this afternoon and more, arthel. arthel: thank you, as we watch this picture here, rare picture so far in this campaign of former president obama and former vice president biden there who is looking for his mask and that's the reason why they weren't really together on stage for too long, they are wearing the mask, social distancing and it's also why they are doing this rally drive-in rally as well there in flint, michigan, i'm going to bring john bosse, john, you know, listen the former president and vice president campaigned together for the first time, there today hitting

up flint and the next is detroit. president obama saying earlier that joe biden and i rescued the auto industry and manufacturing grew 15% under obama-biden. 1% under trump, so why did they save this dual campaigning for michigan and what did you make of president obama and former vice president's message? john: i think as you're seeing now, arthel, a last sprint to the finish line and the sprint is meant to energize people to get out to vote, not just the base but everybody, independents that you're hoping that you have swayed your way if you're president trump or vice president biden. that's why they are in the states that are going to matter the most. these are battleground states. president trump was in pennsylvania, vice president biden in michigan. they will be in florida and texas which is very interestingly become something of a battleground state as well and florida as well. so you're seeing the sprint to

energize the base, but at the same time i think that you're seeing the biden campaign try to focus the issues in a paramount way. they see the polls, they see that people have elevated the pandemic to the top of their list of concerns. they see the case load getting worse across the nation, hospitalizations getting worse across the nation, health care up for grabs in the supreme court. they are focusing on those issues because that's what the polls are showing people are most concerned about. that's why you saw vice president biden swinging on that issue and obama before him, that is the president's mismanagement of the coronavirus cases, crisis and the fact that we have a problem that's getting worse by the day. arthel: well, to your point, president trump is going big in pennsylvania today, he's got 4 rallies there today. the president narrowly won pennsylvania in 2016 as you remember. so if you were to review what

candidate trump promised the people of pennsylvania, did he get the job done? did he deliver and does it matter to those voters there at this point? >> yeah, let's remember also that president trump won michigan, wisconsin along with pennsylvania, though by a narrow 77,000 votes, very small percentage of the total votes cast but he won all 3 and he's hoping to reprize that win. he's coming at the -- the energy and manufacturing story in pennsylvania because there's a lot of fracking, there's a lot of manufacturing and steel operations, some coal as well. it's a mixed story for the president. he is trying to encourage and reassure voters there that he's behind them, but the tariffs that the president put onto protect the domestic steel industry had not gone to effect, including raising steel prices, raising imported steel prices

and creating winners and losers in the u.s. steel industry, manufacturing took a hit and partly because of the higher prices and so jobs lost in a variety of different sectors not just in pennsylvania but in other parts of the country, manufacturers like harley davidson moving abroad because they needed to escape the tariffs. he's still popular in the sectors particularly in the coal industry which has been waning as well. he's got a tougher sale. on the fracking issue, he's saying that biden wants to cancel fracking. biden said he's going to restrict it on federal lands but not on private lands and that he wants to transition to alternative energies which is his effort to get those people who are concerned about climate

change and methane that's also produced in the fracking process. he's trying to get those votes and the president is trying to continue to sort of hold onto the energy votes that he got in pennsylvania in the last election. arthel: so which approach would be more effective at the end of this election? john: well, we are going to see on election night. i mean, biden is ahead in these states but not by a lot. it's not just the concern of democrats that the polls were wrong in 2016, these are fairly narrow leads, in a couple of cases 5, 6 points but in others just 3, he's getting within the margin of error. so the sprint to the end is who do you turn out, how do you get your supporters to the polls? interestingly two-thirds of the votes cast in 2016 have already been cast in this election.

the total number, the two-thirds of the total numbers cast in 2016 shows incredibly intense interest in the election and i think that you're going to see, you know, 2016 surpass, how much of that is trump supporters who -- who perhaps may come in late, may come in late on election? how much of that are biden supporters wanting a change? we will not know until the final count and people should be cautious about this, arthel. it's going to most likely be a late night. a lot of the votes are going to come in late and tabulated late because they were mailed in. arthel: a late night and maybe not the end come the end of the day. john bussey, we will wrap it there, we will speak to you soon. eric. eric: i know we have seen the messages today the president demonizing democratic opponents while joe biden saying trump speeches are full of falsehoods and exaggerated claims and he blames the coronavirus directly

on him. we will have full special election preview and coverage, bret baier and martha macallum. stay tune for the wall street journal report. we will see you later this afternoon. ♪ ♪ paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. with 3 days to go until election day we are waiting for president trump to address supporters at a rally in reading, pennsylvania, the president crossing the keystone state today while biden and former president obama making appearance in michigan. polls show tight race in battlegrounds. 88 million americans casting their votes, what can we expect in the closing days to have campaign? let's bring in wall street journal columnist and fox news contributor karl rove, he served