iowa. thank you, garrett. thank you so much. thank you for joining us, everyone. see you on "the five" in a couple hours. i'm turning it over to my friend, bill hemmer. >> bill: it's almost here. we have been talking about this forever. dana, nice to see you. ♪ good afternoon. i'm bill hemmer. both campaigns and battlegrounds. nearly 100 million of you have cast a ballot. more than two-thirds of the total number of votes from 2016. pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes front and center. president trump holding a rally just outside joe biden's birthplace of scranton. the former vp speaking moments ago north of pittsburgh. trump is scheduled to hit wisconsin and michigan later today. both campaigns breaking down the battlegrounds from ohio up into wisconsin. we'll break down the battlegrounds on the touchscreen

and we have complete coverage from the trail. jacqui heinrich reports. secretary alex azar on the effective covid on the campaign. most unusual one. first, to john roberts live in the president's rally. good afternoon. here we go. >> good afternoon to you. the route to victory... president trump sang a few minutes ago as he said in fayetteville, north carolina, earlier to name that if he wins pennsylvania, he believes he can won it all. you mentioned that this is joe biden's birthplace, scranton specifically, not this whole area. scranton specifically. the president kind of trolling joe biden by holding his final pennsylvania rally here. the president hammering joe biden for what he said of the final debate about wanting to end the oil industry. the president talking about his support for fracking here in the keystone state as well as his

record on the economy. this is what the presidents had a little while ago. >> this election comes down to a simple choice. do you want to be ruled by the arrogant, corrupt, ruthless and selfless political class or do you want to be governed by the american people themselves. do you want to be represented by a career politician who hates you or by an outsider who will defend you like you have never been defended before. >> president trump keeping up the drumbeat about mail-in voting. yesterday in charlotte he suggested his campaign could be sending out teams of attorneys to challenge mail-in ballots before election night is over. the president blaming the situation on recent supreme court rulings and allowing for extended mail-in ballot deadlines. listen again. >> what are ruling. who all are really. what a horrible thing that they've done. you know that with our country and danger. you know it can happen during

that long period of time. get your ballots an end have them in long before the third and have them counted before the third and have an election where we can say to the world that we know who won. we know who lost. >> president trump campaigning last night until well after midnight. he has three more rallies after this one. one in wisconsin and two in michigan. as he did in 2016 the president will wrap up his campaign in grand rapids, michigan. he believes that it was that the last rally in 2016 that won him michigan. we'll see if you can do it again. i've got to tell you there's a big crowd out here for being a monday, cold and blustery. it's an indication of enthusiasm in pennsylvania. >> bill: interesting and the day is not even half over. john roberts in pennsylvania. here's the map from 2016. we have referenced it. two electors from the state of texas not going with the president. he ended up with 306.

here's pennsylvania, narrow win, 44,000 votes in 2016 all came in around 2:30 in the morning. you remember that night. here's where john is. it's a blue county. it went narrowly for hillary clinton by about four points. 3.5 points. pennsylvania, philadelphia, very blue. pittsburgh, allegheny county and that's where we roll next on the other side of the state campaigning in pittsburgh, jacqui heinrich reports from my mock-up pennsylvania. >> >> good afternoon. joe biden holding his final campaign event where he started last august in pittsburgh. biden said donald trump won in 2016 through white working class america but said that he abandon those workers with policies that favor the wealthy and biden said he is going to beat trump in 2020 it's going to happen in

pittsburgh. he called himself a union man. took a veiled shot of hillary clinton saying voters here didn't believe that she understood them. biden is going to finish his campaign on that very same note in a blue pocket surrounded by a sea of western pennsylvania red after a similar pitch in ohio this morning, swing state no republican has won the presidency without. >> donald trump keeps telling us what a great job president he is. is going to finish his four years in office with fewer jobs than when he got elected to office. no surprise. remember the lies that he told the workers. >> senator kamala harris is talking up biden's labor credentials in counties that swung for trump in 2016. our rally in philadelphia. democrats reportedly spooked by weaker than expected turnout among black voters and other key

cities like miami. the biden campaign revealed their contingency plan if president trump declared an early victory or appeals to the supreme court decision allowing absentee ballots to be counted three days after the election here. reporters get these press calls all the time but there's a reason this call was open to the public. >> i think it's very telling that president trump is focused not on his voters but on his lawyers. his lawyers are not going to win the election for him. >> the campaign used a powerpoint presentation to show what they see as there are many paths to 270. they aim to quell any speculation if president trump gets vocal about pennsylvania or other battleground states. >> bill: thank you, jacqui heinrich. nice to see you. from pennsylvania we move to john roberts. it's very interesting. four years ago how close michigan was.

10,000 votes, 11,000 votes that determine the entire outcome. detroit, traverse city, this is gerald ford country. grand rapids. this was where the president wrapped up. he will do the same thing tonight and we will watch it as it unfolds. i want to bring in health and human services secretary alex azar. member of the white house corona task force and thank you for your time. good afternoon to you. >> good to be with you. thank for having me. >> bill: what do you believe the effect of covid is on the campaign, mr. secretary? >> i can't comment about politics or the campaign. i'm here in my official role in what we are trying to doing his minimized case, keep hospitalizations down and minimize fatalities. we have seen tremendous progress in the last several months. people aged 70 and above. in april, if you got covid you had a 30% chance of dying.

that's down almost 70% thanks to the therapeutics and better treatments president trump's historic response has brought to this crisis. >> bill: part of the reason why we bring this up is, a comment came up last night, it happened around midnight. here's what the president said about the potential fate of dr. anthony fauci. just watch. >> fire fauci! >> don't tell anybody but let me wait till a little bit after the election. i appreciate the advice. i appreciate it. he's been wrong. he's a nice man, though. he's been wrong on a lot. >> bill: a lot of people want to know if ouchi's drivers on the line. how would you respond? >> well, the president likes dr. fauci. he hears from many different advisors is seen as top doctors and top scientists and others to advise him and he hears conflicting views and he sorts them out designs the best course for the country.

we really need to be focused on, instead of the this individual, that individual, the historic accomplishments. operation warp speed. we are literally within weeks of having data on vaccines. ten months since this virus hit american shores. this has never been done before in history. we are literally making millions of doses of vaccine for the american people so that if and when the author fta authorizes it, we will be distribute and within 24 hours of that decision and have enough to vaccinate our most vulnerable citizens by the end of the year and our seniors, first responders and health care workers by the end of january. every american who wants a vaccine by the end of march to early april. real accomplishments and that's what we need to be focused on. >> bill: it's remarkable. once we get there, we will applaud that. the other thing that fauci said is that we are in for a lot of hurt heading into winter. people moving inside and getting to get together. what's your view? >> the primary mode of distribution of this disease

that we are seeing right now is indoor gatherings, especially in the household. with cold weather we are moving indoors. household, family members and neighbors. it is spreading that way. we've got to be vigilant. we are so close to those therapeutics and vaccines so please practice social distancing, where face coverings when you can't do that. keep your household gathering small. i know it is sacrifice. i know you've given a lot. i know you are fatigued from this but we are so close to a better future. we want to make sure that next year's thanksgiving, everybody is there to celebrate. >> bill: i asked you this question about politics at the beginning. i want to double back, not specifically about the election. you consider millions of americans are going to vote in person, what concerns do you have for what happens after that? >> we always recommend the same three ws. wash your hands, watch your distance, where your face coverings when you can't watch her distance and those can do an effective job at mitigating the spread of the disease.

most spread happens indoors. we see very little spread throughout or activity with individuals. practice basic precautions and we know that our voting and polling places, we have given guidance from the cdc. we know it can be done safely and effectively. just like we can do other activities. we go back to school, schools have proven to be very safe in terms of means of transmission. universities, very safe, workplaces, airlines. this can be done when our leaders who are leading these organizations put their minds to it and follow the basic simple guidance we put out. >> bill: thank you for your time. let's get that vaccine. mr. secretary, alex azar. more than 90 million americans voting. states with different rules for counting ballots and what that means for tomorrow night. what you need to focus on as a voter and a viewer at home. bracing for a backlash. the white house and beyond. business owners across america boarding up in case election night turns violent. more on that. can democrats flip the senate?

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>> bill: how do you get to 270 between biden and trump. here are the battleground states. you can play with this board and find whatever scenario you'd like. one thing we haven't given a lot

of attention stew is the control for the u.s. congress specifically the u.s. senate. the states, 11 in total. what we considered to be the battleground tomorrow and tuesday night. i want to bring in from washington, d.c., he's been hanging out, bret baier. we will keep our distance. >> fully tested now every day. >> every day. >> how do you see the map breaking tomorrow night? >> 53-47, republicans control. democrats have to pick up a net four or three plus the white house. if you look at these races, it's definitely possible but over the last few days there have been some races, recent polls show they are going the other way. in iowa for example. joni ernst getting a bump in those latest "des moines register" polls.

martha mcsally closing a bit in arizona. if you pick out the states, you can get a scenario where it's 51-49 with two senate races remaining. those two being georgia which have to get to 50% otherwise they go to a runoff in january. we'll see how it goes. i think president trump has definitely lifted some of these races on the republican side. turn out perhaps tomorrow but it could be that january is going to decide who controls. >> first week of january in georgia. republicans defend 23 seats. democrats defend 12. this looks to be razor tight for the balance of power in congress. >> it is and a lot of the states are swing states. just as the presidential race goes so does the fortunes of the g.o.p. in the states in the senate races. i think over time you look at lindsey graham. is he going to be the big

takedown for the democrats? we'll see. i think there are indications that the g.o.p. is showing up some of those races and some voters are coming home. it all depends as you know on who shows up tomorrow. >> bill: let's talk about the presidential level. i'm hearing that it's tight and i'm hearing that a lot of this depends on who shows up to vote, as you mentioned a moment ago. i'm also hearing the african-american vote is down a pointer to which could be significant in florida. georgia, north carolina. maybe even wisconsin by tomorrow night. >> listen, 95 million people are early voting. 90 for something. that's astonishing. so depending on the state we are going to get those numbers right away when polls close. other states do it differently. the early vote is tough because you have republican ballots, democratic ballots and unaffiliated ballots. these are people who don't say they are either party.

how the unaffiliated batch goes. 60-40, 50/50, depends on what the early vote looks like. it's tough to go down the early vote train and come up with the prediction. it really depends on if donald trump can get all the people out tomorrow. >> bill: great point. the reason i mentioned wisconsin, milwaukee county, heavy african-american turnout which could shift the race. we saw how close wisconsin was in 2016. the same could be made for detroit. wayne county in michigan. we just showed the map from 2016. 10,000 votes to 12,000 votes to decide it. >> it's truly amazing. think about how many people have already voted and how to narrow margin was in 2016. it could really change. it depends on who's already voted and how many are out there. >> bill: give me a sense, when you come on the air tomorrow night with martha, what are you looking at? what are you looking for? >> i think we're going to have a pretty good picture early in the night because of florida, north carolina and georgia.

i look at those counties around atlanta. i look at charlotte, north carolina. a look at the villages down in florida. where are those votes going compared to, on your map, when they went 2016? if trump is over performing and some of those places significantly, potentially it's a really good night for donald trump. >> bill: it's going to be very interesting and we'll watch it together. thank you, nice to see you. we have coverage all day tomorrow as expected. key report is the battleground states that we just talked about an hour special coverage of bret and martha kicks off at 6:00 eastern. find it here. thank you, bret. breaking news. the in austria. several people injured after shooting at a synagogue. they are warning "we are on with all available resources, please avoid all public squares in the city. that's breaking news. we will get more information as it breaks out of austria coming up. in the u.s., election day coming

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>> bill: we mentioned a moment ago. how does donald trump win a second term and 270 electoral votes? on the math behind us, republicans feel good about the following states. they feel good about texas. they feel good about ohio. they feel good about georgia and north carolina, two more biggies. they feel good about florida and they feel good about iowa. we'll see whether all six break

that way. even if you do that and you are at 247, you still don't have a second term. pennsylvania will get you close. you need something else on this board. around 9:00, arizona closes. see if that breaks for the red team and you are at 258. then you need perhaps if you don't get pennsylvania, it would have to be michigan perhaps. that would give you 274 needed. if you do not get a michigan, then you start hunting around here in minnesota or wisconsin hope to get a break. president trump holds five rallies today. in a 12 hour span. he's on track to visit four battleground. want to bring in steve cortes, trump 2020 trump campaign senior advisor. welcome back and thank you for your time. where is the race? >> when i look at that map, my prediction is there's going to be sun belt sweep and what i mean by that is we are going to hold key sun belt states of florida and arizona and we are going to add nevada.

i say that for a couple reasons. number one is the economy and those are largely states, the sun belt states, texas, nevada, arizona, florida. they are reopened aggressively in the economy is humming and roaring back to life. by the way, nationwide it is. magnificent manufacturing numbers today, a two-year high on the ism manufacturing index. in the sun belt states, the key to the win i believe is going to be hispanics. the president continues to earn the support of latino americans all over the country. just today a new poll shows that on a nationwide basis we are winning the hispanic vote. if we do that, i believe the sun belt sweep happens and that means that the northern, upper midwest states, we only have to win one of them. i think we are going to win all four but the point is we need one if i'm right. about flipping nevada and holding arizona. >> bill: if joe biden goes and takes georgia, that essentially blocks, it makes it very difficult now to win.

you mentioned the upper midwest. i bit back to red for the sake of the discussion. minnesota, wisconsin, michigan. where are you the most confident if at all in anyway? >> i don't want to pick a favorite state. i don't want to dissuade anybody. i think we are competitive in all of them and i will tell you when it comes to michigan and pennsylvania, i think fracking, people don't realize michigan is a big fracking state. fracking is a very big issue in both of those, even more of an issue in pennsylvania. i believe joe biden may very well have lost himself pennsylvania on that stage in nashville when he said we are going to transition away from energy. it would be terrible for a country's national security, terrible for economic prosperity and it would smoke states like pennsylvania. >> bill: there was a report about the president declaring victory early in the night. what sort of like can you shed on that in terms of a strategy, steve? >> there's a lot of misreporting. i don't know who the supposed sources are. here's the reality.

if it's clear we won we're going to declare victory. will we try to. declare it? no. >> bill: okay, all right. i will's -- we will see as it develops in real-time. you're making a strong case for hispanics. where do you see the african-american vote? take us behind the numbers. is it soft? whatit mean. white voters could make up for the missing african-americans tomorrow night. >> they could but we are trending well there as well among african-american voters. whether it's blacks or hispani hispanics, the minority communities which we believe have been taken advantage of by the democratic party and frankly forgotten about, they pay attention to them at election time but not between election cycles. blacks and hispanics by definition are largely working-class constituents. the 2020 america first trump republican party is becoming a

workers party. we are becoming in many ways with the democratic party would have been a couple generations ago. because of that we are earning the support of a lot of working-class folks, many of whom happened to be black and brown. they work with their minds and their hands. they can't have lockdowns. we are getting a lot of them to our side because we pledge no lockdowns and joe biden's threatening unfortunately to haying bat over our economy and our country. >> bill: thank you for your time. we have more to talk about. thank you, we will see whether or not you're right. fox news alert. i judge in texas rejecting an effort to toss about 120,000 votes placed during drive-thru voting and the largest county there. more on that decision in the moment. officials in philly setting the stage for a drawn-out ballot count. our monday team. marc thiessen and mo elleithee are on deck in new york as we gear up for election night. it's monday.

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>> bill: bottom of the hour headlines. nypd arresting 11 anti-trump demonstrators. police say the protesters did not obey orders to disperse. this was yesterday. they are facing charges including resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. businesses boarding up in d.c., new york city and many other cities out of possible demonstrations over the election outcome. some business owners say they are worried after looting and damage during the george floyd protest. a law-enforcement official confirms that a fence designed to help people from climbing the wall around the white house will be billed. the d.c. metro police chief said there are no credible threats to violence. the entire police department will be on duty tomorrow. record number of americans have voted already. it's pretty extraordinary. on the map behind me we are

creeping toward it. not there yet. the advanced vote tops 93 million votes cast. rules and a handful of states do not allow election workers to begin counting ballots until tomorrow. the mayor of pennsylvania's largest of these warning felt they could be counting for days. let's bring in the monday team. mark ethan, mo elleithee. fox news contributors. mark, mo, good afternoon, gentlemen. we are finally here. marks, what do you think about the pregame prep? trying to put people in a position that maybe tomorrow night is not called. what's your feeling? >> i think tomorrow night the canary in the coal mine is florida. florida, on like pennsylvania, florida has been counting ballots for three weeks. a lot of the early voters that you showed on your screen, their votes are counted and they are going to get numbers in pretty early. how florida goes will tell us a lot about how the rest of the country goes.

if donald trump loses florida, the election is probably over. if he wins florida comfortably, by three points, that means we are going to have, he's got a very good chance of winning the whole thing. if it's narrow it means we are going to be litigating pennsylvania for the next month. >> bill: here's the early in person vote in florida. more than 4 million ballots return. the advance vote of almost 9 million. mark, they are sorting those. they are not counting them provide nor trump yet but it will populate around 8:00 eastern time tomorrow. we will see where we are. >> i'm looking at florida, and looking at north carolina, looking at georgia. those are very competitive states had we should know the results of those relatively early. then there's going to be other states, pennsylvania, ohio, and a number of others that are close and will likely remain close. we will not know who wins for

days afterwards. that's okay. i think it's important for us all to pause and take a deep breath and reflect on that. that's how the process works. that's how the laws are set up in those states. that's how the courts have so far said they should play out. so we are all going to have to kind of have to sort of take a deep breath and be ready to know that we may not know the results of this for a little while. those are of the states. the last one i'll mention that i think is really interesting and could help tell us what is to come is arizona. if everything else stayed as it did in 2016, but michigan and wisconsin arizona for example, it could have a pretty interesting outcome. >> bill: mo is the man of reason. listen to that tone. this is north carolina. 4.5 million early votes. let's go to philadelphia. here's what the mayor says. never in the history of the city

had so many people voted by mail. staffers are not allowed to start opening and counting ballots until election day. that means getting a tally of mail-in ballots will easily take several days. this may determine the outcome in philadelphia and in the commonwealth as a whole. with gratitude. did you see that? >> yeah. it shows how unprepared some of these states are, particularly a key state like pennsylvania, for the deluge of ballots coming in. the democrats have pushed for this early voting and mail-in voting. state laws are prepared. it makes perfect sense not to start counting the ballots are sorting them or touching them until election day if you only have a small number but if you have a massive number, then it's an entirely different matter so i think pennsylvania is going to drag this election out. >> bill: wisconsin and michigan in the same boat. it early ballots, you cast them. they start counting and tabulating tomorrow morning. philadelphia. hillary clinton had more than half a million votes in 2016.

philadelphia matters in determining the outcome of pennsylvania and that's why so much focus is on it. mo, i've got ten seconds. >> i think you're absolutely right. don't forget ohio. they got ten days to count ballots that come in. there's going to be a lot of states that are going to be close. i think we should reflect on the fact that it's going to be a close election. even if the end result is a landslide one way or the other in the electoral college, it will likely be because of a lot of close wins in a lot of different states. >> bill: thank you, gentlemen. mo and mark. mo you pointed out the calendar, a lot of the states right now based on their law they can receive ballots tomorrow and still count them and you mentioned ohio. that's ten days away. we'll see if we reach that point. iowa gives them a seven day advance. speaking of iowa, real clear politics average shows president trump leading biden by

1.5 points. 31 counties in 2016 for the president. to hold on his got to win again. garrett tenney has a measure of iowa and he is live in dubuque and joins us from there. >> bill, those 31 counties are going to be the ones to watch tomorrow night. if president trump is able to repeat and most of those counties, the level of support or even surpass it, what he saw in 2016, he has a good shot at winning the state. we are into butte county which is one of those historically blue counties -- dubuque county. turn out here and across the state is expected to be the biggest factor in the election. it could be independent voters who decide the race. about a third of iowa's voters are registered independents and over the past month there's been a huge swing in that group going from joe biden to president trump who now has a 14-point lead among those voters in "the des moines register"'s iowa poll. sean schreiber runs his own

organic farm in dubuque and he is one of those voters who recently made up their minds to vote for the president. for him, the deciding factor wasn't joe biden. it was the other leading democrats that were around him during the primaries. >> i just saw how far left everything went and i said, i'm kind of liberal. i'm kind of conservative but that's way too far. everything they were saying was just... who could out-left each other and i feel like i saw their true colors even though they trying to backtrack during the general. >> iowa's six electoral votes could be a difference maker in a close election but the senate race here is a sure thing in terms of impact and could decide which party controls the senate. senator joni ernst has been locked in a tight race with her democratic challenger, theresa greenfield. in "the des moines register"'s final poll, senator ernst is leading by four points, just outside the margin of error. the top of the ticket is what's

driving turnout. if president trump does as well as he did in 2016 here again when he won by nine points, republicans are expected to be able to hold on to the senate seat as well. >> bill: thank you, garrett garrett tenney. these are the results from 2012. you see that blue, the blue counties? that was barack obama winning. in 2016, they all went red and boy, did they flip. the president taking that state by 7.5, eight points. more on that moment. back to breaking news. austria's news agency reporting one attacker has been killed and another could be on the run after shooting near a synagogue. the jewish community president in austria saying it's not clear if the attack was a direct one on the synagogue. it was not open at the time of the shooting. shots were fired just near 8:00 local time in vienna. president trump says a red wave is coming.

he holds two rallies there. i will talk with a congressman from michigan next.

>> we are leading all over the place. we are supposed to be leading after the income of the great red wave is going to come over the next little while it's coming. it's going to be a wave like i think and this is far beyond the last one. this is going to be a wave like nobody has ever seen before. >> bill: that was in michigan. chili there yesterday. president trump sprint to the finish continues in michigan. he holds two rallies today. one will be around traverse city. detroit is here.

56, 57%. you start poking around some of these counties. not a ton of votes but a fair amount, the percentage is very high in that part of michigan. he's going to conclude later tonight. that's grand rapids, the home of gerald ford. we want to bring in dan, democrat from michigan. house majority deputy whip. it's come to this i do believe. what are you hearing on the ground? which way does michigan break and why? >> i don't think we can look at the polls to decide that. we have been through this before and we have seen that the polls are an estimate of what might happen but the good news is now it's in the hands of the voters. we are seeing incredible turnout in terms of absentee voting. i am in flint and i'm going to go, there's a line outside city hall on the sidewalk for people to cast their absentee ballot today to avoid tomorrow which will probably be even more busy. basically what i'm saying is people are going to show up and

vote. it's no longer the pundits for get to the side. candidates don't get to decide who wins or loses. it's in the hands of the voters. >> bill: i like the democratic message. here's what i'm hearing. i'm hearing that it's razor tight. this really is too close to call. i'm certain you've got a feeling that in th on the ground in fli. >> it's hard to tell. i understand your point. the point that i'm trying to make is we only operate by looking at the data and the anecdotes we pick up. i guess the point i'm trying to make is we all have our opinions about how close it is. i think it will be close in michigan, just to be more direct. i think it will be close. it doesn't even matter. you go back to 1998, the michigan reasons are always close. 1988, i should say. the bottom line is voters get to choose the reason i say that, i think it's really important that

democrats and republicans and independents but especially those on the polar ends of it, we vote, we count the votes, and then somehow whoever wins we've got to get this country rowing together the right direction and i hope that i'm going to do my part to reach across a on the matter what the outcome is and try to join with my republican colleagues and get back to some kind of collegiality. we can't have families divided. we can't have a nation divided and we have to somehow come together. >> bill: what do you think about the president's appeal to workers in your state who've often felt neglected for the past 30 years. >> i get it. you understand how he won in 2016. michigan has been through tough times and we are still in tough times. we still have had a net loss in manufacturing jobs and of course now with covid, things are tough here. even in 2016, we have been having a difficult time as a state making a transition from

the old economy to the new economy. that was one of the things president trump had. >> bill: buckle up and we will see it together. to remind you in 2016 it was a difference of 11,500 votes. thank you, sir. democrat from flint. what is that? >> 10,704 but who's counting? the one who's counting, that's right. thank you for coming back. the battle over a drive-thru polling places in texas, the judges decision. that story coming right at you after this. an air force veterae of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right.

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indiana. a federal judge rejecting a republican attempt to invalidate about 20,000 votes. eric shawn is on that story live here in new york. with that and more. >> for now those votes will stand. no federal judge andrew hainan was just ruled against the republican to throw those ballots out. he said the g.o.p. lacked standing to bring the suit. the state supreme court and texas turned on the very same request yesterday because activists claim that the state and harris county didn't have the jurisdiction to set up those drive-through centers that only the state legislature could do that. he says it was nothing but a person power grab and

those county election officials said the band affects both -- voters in both parties if it went into effect in the cold that move voter suppression. >> the crux of this case is that we made voting to easy, and by making it too easy those votes should be illegal. it simply and undemocratic and un-american view. we know that we are in this together. >> although some states do use drive-through voting, jennifer morale works with the group election group and she told us that it is the safe and tested way to cast a ballot. >> it certainly isn't new and it's not unique to texas. i think for accommodating voters in a pandemic it actually is really good option. when it's done with the same security protocols and the same sort of constraints that we

would expect inside a polling location. >> one of the voter who cerebral palsy says "i voted legally, how is this justice or the american way? it now appears that his vote will count unless of course it's appealed. >> neil: eric shawn there live in our newsroom. i want to check now in on avoca, p.a. a rally there with the president in lackawanna county just wrapping up now. that means you have three more rallies that will continue throughout the day. not only in pennsylvania, we will move further west into michigan. we will cross lake michigan into southeastern wisconsin, that's kenosha, wisconsin, then back across lake michigan tonight for a midnight rally in grand rapids as we see the president emerge there on the steps. p.a. is the second of five stops today after this monstrous schedule has not just wrapped up but it's pretty close to it after we have seen this

throughout the weekend. good day for the dow come up around 400 points, including the day before election day which is today. trying to hang onto that shot, there goes the commander in chief. that will be election day in america, good luck. >> president trump: we are going to win this state and we are going to win four more years. >> we are going to win pennsylvania and show the world what america stands for. >> it's on, sylvania. and the road to victory goes right through the keystone sta state. >> we are going to get this done, aren't we? >> neil: we are going to get this done, yes. but a frenetic troubled schedule especially ith