sheehy of lying about how he got a bullet wound in the arm claiming he puffed up his military record on the stump by saying it happened while fighting in afghanistan. >> there's so much dark money out there that's spreading lies a answer a lot of -- about a are lot of folks. we need your help for four more days, let's get it done. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: now, there is no no doubt that sheehy is a successful businessman and a decorated veteran. he earned the purple heart and bronze star as a navy seal team leader in afghanistan. he and his supporters say tester is acting like a desperate man who is desperately trying to hang on the power for himself and for his democratic party. guys, back to you. bill: thanks, dan springer, in montana. dana: he's got a good assignment. bill he does. cool town. dana: great state. ♪ ♪

>> we are fighting for a democracy. >> are you better off now than you were four years ago? >> send kamala harris to the white house and win this thing and chart that new way forward. >> we have got to stop buying oil and gas from from tinpot dictators around the world. let's buy it from our own people, our own territory and our own country. dana: well, america, it's now or never. both campaigns are vying for your vote. any moment president trump is expected to take the podium in lancaster county, pennsylvania, where folks were lined up for hours the show their support. welcome to a brand new hour of america's newsroom, i'm dana perino. bill: nice to see you on a sunday morning -- dana: better than texting you all my thoughts on a sunday, i can just tell you right here. bill: i'm bill hemmer. we're tracking the movement ifs on the trail as the candidates make their closing pitches to voters. key battlegrounds getting all the attention.

dana: yes, the candidates making stops in pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia, michigan and new hampshire. voters around the country on both sides of the aisle explain that the issues are driving them to vote. >> just worried about the way the future's going with the world and our safety, the border, inflation. >> i appreciate her focus on the middle class. >> sadly, i think many of my if friends are voting for harris simply because they don't like trump the. >> definitely the housing costs. cost of living is just really high. >> young men in our generation are definitely more favoring of trump because we just don't feel like we belong in the democratic party. bill: we begin this hour, jonathan serrie reporting in charlotte, north carolina. aishah hasnie about a hundred miles to the east in north carolina, and that is where we start this hour. aishah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to to you from the great state of north carolina where all of these people are waiting to see

the former president, possibly really the last time they see him at one of these rallies as his campaign is winding out for this season. the former president is nonstop for the next 48 hours, go, go, go, headlining seven rallies across four battleground states. but the ticket is also going after some of those lean blue states like virginia last night where the former president spoke to the a very large crowd, and he feels like he can switch, flip that state this year. his running mate, j.d. vance, will be in new hampshire today with don j. jr. now, you can hear in trump's final pitch to americans that he is messaging directly at suburban female voters, he's hoping the economy and border security will sway that voting bloc. >> -- are under attack right now. when you're home in your house alone and you have this monster that got out of prison, he's got, you know, six charges of murdering six different people,

i think you'd rather have trump. >> reporter: now, all of this comes as a new des moines register poll came out last night, a shocking poll, showing harris beating trump by 3 points in iowa. she's being carried by women in that poll. but i've been talking with the campaign, i was talking with them last night, and they're telling me this is an outlier poll. they say while it might be close in battleground states, it is the not close whatsoever in iowa. they're actually questioning the timing of the release of this poll, right before all the sunday shows. the campaign pointed to an emerson poll that has trump up by 10 points in iowa saying emerson college far more closely reflects the state of the actual iowa electorate and does so with far more transparency in their methodology. so we're waiting to see today if the former president will address this iowa poll. he did speak about iowa last night here in north carolina just talking about his victory in iowa in 2016. but he hasn't yet addressed this

exact poll. back to you, bill. bill: okay. good deal, aishah, thanks. dana? dana: a record-shattering 4 million ballots have already been cast in north carolina. registered republicans outpaying democrats in early -- outpacing democrats in early voting. and we keep those people in mind as well. jonathan serrie is live in charlotte now with an update. hi, jonathan. >> reporter: hi there, dana, in this final weekend of the campaign. both vice presidential candidates will be in north carolina today. you have j.d. vance holding a rally in sanford this afternoon and then this evening tim walz will be in gastonia. that's where former president trump was yesterday with. north carolina's record-setting early voting period has ended with with nearly 57. of the state's registered concern 57% of the state's registered voters already casting ballot. in 2020 the democrats outpaced republicans by more than 1

million early ballots, but this year both parties had a strong showing with republicans slightly outpacing democrats. now the campaigns pivot to election day. >> the strategy is find those voters who have not voted early -- [laughter] get them to the polls. find the voters who are your consistent supporters, make sure they show up. and for those few persuadable votes who are out there -- >> reporter: while polls suggest trump and harris are in a statistical tie in north carolina, democratic insiders tell new york magazine they are, quote, nauseously optimistic about their chances. but north carolina congressman greg murphy tells fox news he believes mr. trump is further ahead than the polls suggest. >> i think some people are reluctant to admit, good, bad or indifferent that they're pulling for president trump because of some of emotion emotional attitudes that go through that.

>> reporter: and one of the biggest surprises, dana, in early voting was the the heavy turnout in the western part of the state. that region heavily damaged in the wake of hurricane helene. turnout there was around 59%, and that's about the 2 points higher than the statewide average. dana? dana: thank you so much, jonathan serrie. dis. bill: bill okay, want me to to confuse you for a second here? dana: i love it. well, let's see if you can. bill: good query there. s this is the last missouri times polling put out -- new york times polling put out last night. they've got trump up in the in arizona, kamala harris a up by a point in georgia, dead a tie many michigan. north carolina, heavy got her up 22. nevada -- 22. let's see -- 2. let's see, this is where it gets really interesting. here we go. what if we're all wrong in maybe the blue wall's red. maybe the sun belt's blue. is that possible? voters deciding over the last

few days, is this what the new york times has determined, voters are breaking for harris, they believe. but in the sun belt, 2 to 1 over trump. mt. north, 60-40 trump. is that possible? i guess. who knows? [laughter] maybe they're wrong. and maybe they nailed it. in this happened across the street last night right around midnight. >> kamala, take my palmala. [laughter] the american people want to the stop the chaos and end the dramala. [laughter] with a cool new stepmomala. cape dan vice president harris jetting into new york city last night to appear if on "saturday night live." it's the show's final episode before the election. who didn't get an invite? donald trump on the other side of the 2024 ticket. mary katharine ham, charlie hurt, both fox news contributors. here's a headline i remember, "saturday night live "head

insists there'll be no trump or harris cameos this season, and he cited equal time provisions. he said you can't bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the election time provisions. you can't have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in lee states, and that becomes complicated. what happened there, a mary katherine? >> very interesting. what did happen? i don't know. i'm not mad if somebody takes it up on sn if l. you can take it up9 with the pokes in detroit who she was going to go seen. i thought maya rudolph was carrying it -- dana: she's so funny. >> she's done a lot of these things where she's trying to to soften herself, and i don't know how well it comes off all the time. trump would do well in the same situation. but i think he's taking his moments in a garbage truck and at mcdonald's, and he kind of does his showman thing this those spaces and count really

need to be on snl and goes viral. bill: does n nc -- nbc get punished for this? or is this something where, hey, man, we had to make a radical change here because she was flying to michigan. the plane was diverted to new york. are they seeing something where, like, hey, man, we need a hail a mary pass. >> they have pretty good testimony from lorne michaels right there. can you imagine them inviting donald trump to come in and do the cold open? if i agree agree with mary katharine. this is the problem with sort of doing the hollywood campaign, i think it actually makes people feel like they're more disconnected from her whereas you have trump doing these sort of more organic things. and highly entertaining, by the way. he constantly -- he seems to wreak the internet about -- break the internet about three times a week. he gets into the culture stream

pretty well on his own without the help from beyonce and lizzo or maya rudolph. cape deign in the last little bit, kamala harris is going to change back to unity. we went to to fascism and now we're back the unity. listen to this. i think that we have it. >> there's one more thing trump and his republican friends want to do. they want another giant tax cut for the wealthy. now, i know some of you guys are tempted to think this macho guy -- i'll tell you what, man, when i was in scranton, whenever we used to have a little trouble going down to the plot once in a while -- [laughter] i'm serious, these are the kind of guys you like to smack in the [bleep] dana: all right. sorry, that was not the right one, but it's still a fun one. she's on unity and president biden has to to come in there and undercut her. >> yeah. this is the way it always goes. by the way, we'll know how mad biden is if if the the fcc does

go after snl. [laughter] i kind of want to laugh at that, but also he's the president of the united states of america, so that kind of concerns me that he's, with gusto, saying these things on the trail. i'm sure she doesn't appreciate it. i do have trouble unifying with someone who calls half the country fascist and fascist supporters and the allies who called the madison square garden rally a nazi rally. i do think it's hard to come together in that way. [laughter] and i think that undercuts her message. bill: i don't know what you guys have observed over the past week, but it's sure been stunning, some of the reporting that's been going on. maybe you were living on a different planet. hugh hewitt had quite a moment, and i just want to ask you specifically about the coverage. >> is it me, or does it seem like this week donald trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in pennsylvania, by suing bucks county for alleged irregularities? >> we are news people.

you have to report the whole story so, yes, he's upset about bucks county, but he was right, and he won in court. >> i don't appreciate being lectured about reporting. >> i won't come back, jonathan. this is the most unfair election ad i have ever been a part of. bill: he left that interview and then quit "the washington post." when you think about trump -- new york times had a big write-up about it and did not quote what trump actually said. >> in these closing weeks or days, what is your view about how the media's handled this? >> not to be overly harsh about it, but i do feel there is a deep, profound concern among a lot of a people at the new york times and people who are terrified. they're a starting to realize that, oh, my gosh, the orange monster really is on course ors to come back and be president

again. now, obviously we have no idea what's going to happen on tuesday, but i think they're freaking out. and they are sort of letting their slips show, and they're being -- they're not even -- whatever pretense was left of them trying to be fair and balanced about these things is completely gone out the window. they're not -- and, you know, the idea that hugh hewitt, hugh hewitt is a very cerebral, balanced, normal, intelligent guy. and the idea that that anchor is going to sit there and lecture him like he's sort of some right-wing nutjob is idiotic. and, of course, this comes after jeff bezos dropped the hammer on the washington post and said, hey, listen, guys, we're going to try the actually start reporting the news accurately. and, you know, the frustration has reached -- bill: i would say after this election is over, there's going to be a deep read that will be required for many of us -- >> but it's a great question you asked, how many times have we said that after how many

elections? dana: right, every election. >> and i do think the credibility gets washed away with each one of these elections, which i think is a good hinge. >> in the time of plummeting public trust, this country is desperately in need of reliable their ray -- their ray to to haves. the press' actual job is to el the truth so that people who are reading the news don't have to go watch three primary sources and parse it owl out. in this case, hugh's bringing facts to the table. he's an unflappable guy, very mild mannered, and they ticked him off enough that he walked -- dana: mark halperin said something about the media coverage on this election. i mean, in 202016 the reporters had to go out and do all these stories at how they missed it. so we might see that again. we might. will: thanks for being here on sunday, okay? make the most of your day. >> i will. bill: thank you, charlie. >> people are about 50-50 on the fence. i think they're just trying the make their final decision on who they want to vote for.

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♪ ♪ >> the economy right now, where it's at as far as prices, that's everything. >> primarily, it's the abortion one. >> securing the border and, hopefully, boosting our economy. >> i am a woman. i have a daughter. i want her to have a good role model. dana: voters in arizona revealing the issues that drove them to vote early. both campaigns dispatching their vp candidates in a final push to drive turnout. alicia acuna is in phoenix this morning. hi. >> reporter: hi, good morning, dana. early in-person voting is now over, so the name of the game is general election day turnout. is and as you mentioned, on saturday governor tim walz was in solid blue flagstaff and tucson, and senator j.d. vance in conservative-leaning scottsdale, both pushing supporters to get to the polls. folks can still return their early ballots off at dropboxes on monday or bring them to a polling location on election day or, of course, wait in person

and vote then. and election officials have been warning about the likelihood of long lines for weeks. in part because the arizona ballot is the longest it's been since 2006. voters have been telling us it took them a half hour to fill that out. now take thing a look at the early vote numbers, out of arizona's 4.3 million eligible vote earth, little more than 2.2 million returned their ballot as of friday. the final new york times-sienna poll found of people who said they've already voted, trump leads harris 50% to 46 in this sate. maricopa county officials are encouraging people the to print out a sample ballot, fill it out and then bring it in the use as a guide to keep things moving and keep the lines going. dana: that makes sense. we'll see how many people do it. alicia, thanks. bill: this is georgia now, okay? georgia has been the focus for four years. it's gotten a lot of attention. they did a rewrite of their

election laws. the early vote in georgia, 4 million, okay? that equates to about 55% of all registered voters in the peach state. that's really, really impressive. and speaking of which, on election night when you're watching us between that 7-8:00 hour, georgia closes at 7:00. by 8:00, we're going to have a lot of different color on the map the let you know which way georgia is going for that moment in time for the night if come tuesday night. let's look at this now, okay? in person, they love to do it, 3.7 million. got a lot of others by mail, 22222,000. -- 22,000 -- 22 22,000. either one can make a big difference. i want bring in a judge in georgia rejecting the rnc's lawsuit. the rnc was arguing against large counties accepting hand-returned ballots on the weekend. they were saying that's against the rules. our legal editor is here now to

take us through it. they made the case. it appears they were denied. what's at stake there, carr arely? >> you know, we're going to continue to see so many of those kinds of challenges in not just georgia, but all of the swing states. here the rnc was arguing that fulton county and other counties were allowing people to to drop off their mail-in ballots past the early voting deadline and keeping their offices open on saturday, yesterday, and sunday -- today -- another so. now, the state came back and said, wait a second, we've always allowed people to drop off their mail-in ballots in person, and also our law allows counties, if they desire, to keep election offices open on the weekend if they choose another so. and so the rnc was disappointed about this. they're appealing that. but separately, they were allowed to introduce poll observers into those counties. so my if understanding is they were there yesterday and today in these counties watching to make sure that the process is going smoothly and okay. with. bill: okay. here's the rnc chairman, michael

whatley. he didn't like this movement if at all. we're talking about fullton, dekalb, that's four of the five top populated counties in georgia. disregards the law, they've also failed to let poll observers in to watch the process. he concludes the secretary of state issued guidance to allow poll watchers in, but local officials refuse ifment, in all -- refused in all caps. you're saying that last part has changed. >> it kid change. they said poll observers could, in fact, come in, but they are appealing the underlying session. bill: okay. jonathan turley's got a pretty good headline. he says halloween's over, but the election litigation is getting really scary, all right? then he writes rocket science is elon musk catching a massive booster rocket. getting the staff and computers in place in a historic election should not be a great challenge. is he wrong? >> but it is one. and i would say there are a

couple of reasons as to why that is. with the widespread introduction of mail-in voting during covid, it doesn't mean the system, it broke the system or the system is broken, it just makes things a lot more difficult for everyone. i would say that combined with the fact that we have moved toward election season versus election day in this country just makes, you know, all of these things ripe for challenges. and if i were to categorize the kinds of lawsuits the dnc and rnc are bringing, i would say the dnc lawsuits have been focused on people having access to mail-in ballots. a number of lawsuits have said people haven't, they need to get those. and the rnc lawsuits have been characterized by challenging the validity of mail-in ballots and state laws about signing and dating and envelopes. so you can see how these things can converge and clash and, hence, the litigation that we've been seeing for the month leading up to now and probably the litigation we'll be seeing after as well if the race is close. bill: i think that last thing is

interesting, what are republicans looking for and complaining about a, what are democrats looking for and complaining about. we'll keep that in mind come tuesday, maybe beyond. kerri urban with. thanks. >> thank you. >> wisconsin, you know me. i'm not afraid of tough fights, obviously. >> we love being in wisconsin -- [cheers and applause] i'm thrilled to be back in this beautiful state. dana: it is a great state. and in wisconsin candidates are taking their final pitch to green bay packs -- packers fans. gosh, i wish i was there. plus, harris' campaign running two different messages on israel's war against hamas, targeting jewish and arab-american voters in key battlegrounds. are they resonating? >> you've never voted before, and you're voting for trump. >> yes. i never voted before, and this time i'm voting for trump. the republicans, they promise for peace. duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine, like google, but it's r

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♪ ♪ dana: ohio's historic senate race could whisk control out of democrats' hands. sherrod brown facing the toughest fight of his career against republican bernie moreno. nate foy has made his way to the columbus, ohio, where early voting has come to a close. what do we know now, nate? >> reporter: hey, dana. today a's the last day of early in-person voting here in ohio, and the polls open in about two and a half hours. you can see behind me that people are waiting to vote early, and there's a lot of money pouring into this senate race with over $400 million in ad spending so far. as you mentioned, the gop challenger, businessman bernie moreno, relying strongly on his endorsement from former president donald trump. the incumbent democratic senator sherrod brown is seeking a fourth term, he's the only ohio democrat in the past decade to win a statewide election. the top issues here, the economy and workers' rights, immigration as well as transgender and reproductive rights. nearly 22.5 million ohioans have

voted early so far, and the work is already being done to count them quickly. >> so in ohio by law, we're allowed to extract our ballots, and we can pre-process our ballots and prepare them for tabulation on election night. >> reporter: a key factor in this race will be the impact of former president donald trump. he won ohio twice. he's expected to win it again. so the questions are, will moreno be able to carry that momentum to a win or will senator brown have enough split-ticket voters the secure a fourth term. that? dana: nate foy, thank you so much. >> reporter: you got it. bill: you know, you turn on the tv in ohio, you can't get away from it, okay? [laughter] you need the football game to kick off to get away9 from the political his thing, all right? here's your senate race, right? brown, the incumbent, 48. moreno, 46. that's what the polling average tells us.

but trump won ohio by 8 points in 2020, by 8 points in 202016. a lot of people think he'll drag moreno over the finish line regardless as to where he's polling, so we'll see whether or not that's the case. this is the stunner though in ohio. look at the ad spending, okay? most expensive this if history for the buckeye state. how much money is that, dana? right? $467 million spent on one senate race in the buckeye state. we'll see who gets the winner come tuesday. if it's a lot of buckeyes, dana. dana: a lot of buckeyes. a lot of bucks. [laughter] bill: a lot of 'em. dana: well, the harris campaign writerring the lines of her midwest promises -- boundaries. but the consequences of this flip-flop could be costly. joining us now, the the white house reporter for the "wall street journal." it's great to have you here. want to play this for you, this is hearst targeting jewish voters in pennsylvania -- harris targeting jewish voters in

pennsylvania. >> we've seen in our fellow americans neighbors, in the enemies. we believe in each other. dana: and i just want to play this the for you right away in case you guys heard me there, this is harris targeting the arab-american vote in michigan. okay, maybe they don't have it. basically, let me tell you what it says. what has happened many gaza over the past nine months is devastating. we cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, our common humanity compels us to act. annie, she's been trying to have this balancing act. if anyone can actually understand where she would come down as commander in chief. >> yeah, i mean, i think that's right. she's been asked this question in interviews, and she's done a pretty skillful job of avoiding answering it. you look back -- and this is an issue that her campaign has been struggling with really since day one. i mean, you know, if you rewind back to the democratic national

convention, she didn't have any palestinian-americans speaking, and that caused outrage in that community. a little further back she decided not to pick josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, to be her running mate in part because, you know, he -- because of his faith. and that was -- she would be spending -- sending a message to the jewish community that she was with them and would be alienating the arab community. that was part of the reason. so she's been having to balance this kind of at every turn. and here now at the very end of the campaign, you are seeing her targeting each community with a different message. now, that's not unusual for politicians. you also see republicans doing something similar, you know, targeting each of those communities with different things that she has said. deign dan yeah. but in this one, rashida tlaib is a congresswoman from the detroit area, refused to endorse kamela a harris as -- kamala

harris. that is happening. let's also ask you about this, it's getting a lot of attention this morning, an outlier poll in "the des moines register", and she says this: right now in iowa kamala harris 47, donald trump, 44. in june it was joe biden 332% with donald trump at 50% -- 322. nate silver or actually said it's pretty bold to put out a poll like this when it's so out of line with everything else people are seeing including an emerson poll that said he was up by 10. you've been out and about. i've listened to your podcasts, e read your reporting. does this poll indicate there might be something happening with kamala voters as late deciders? >> yeah. i think, you know, nobody seriously, really believes that harris is going to win, you know, iowa. that's -- ann seltzer has a pristine reputation, but it is -- it does peel like an outlier. looking underneath the hood of

that poll what it does show is consistent with some of the things that we're hearing on the campaign trail which is late-deciding voters, particularly women and older women, are breaking for kamala harris. and, you know, in the last few days of this campaign and one of the strengths of this poll, quite frankly, is it's been in the field very late, late in the game. and so you are seeing the effects of what trump's closing message has been which has been a little bit surprising, i think, if you're trying to woo those independent voters. it has been a little harsher. and it hasn't been attracting the kind of, sort of anecdotally, the sort of late-deciding, independent voters. this poll is suggesting maybe that message is not doing what it needs to do for trump to win. dana: there's an nbc piece i saw this morning abortion issue, even if it's not on your state ballot, is on the mind of voters nationally. annie, we'll continue to follow you. thanks for joining our show. >> thank you.

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of control. inflation. dana: some wisconsin voters addressing their concerns about pocketbook issues. but it's sunday in green bay, and that means that 2024 candidates will face stiff competition from the packers game. mike tobin is in green bay where kickoff is only a few hours away. what's the atmosphere like, mike? >> reporter: well, the tailgate is not free of politics. surrogates are working the parking lot trying to guarantee that no eligible voter sits this one out. >> for me, this is really an opportunity to stand up for our country, to stand the up for europe -- for unity. i cannot bear the divisiveness. i can't bear the vitriol and the hate especially aimed at our own countrymen. >> this is a make or break moment for america, and certainly the people that are voting for eric love key and president trump -- hovde and president trump realize that. so they are incredibly incentivized to come out

and not only vote for themselves, but talk to everybody they know. >> the trump team is doing everything they can to make sure people get that access to vote. find your way to the polls, to places, be aware of the issues that are going on. if you need help, we'll get you help. whatever it is, all hands on deck right now. >> reporter: the last two presidential elections were decided in wisconsin by less than a percentage point. the people here understand that evidenced by the fact that early voting numbers are up by more than a quarter million ballots from this time last election. dana? dana: mike tobin, thank you so much. bill hemmer, what do you have down there in that studio? bill: hey. some of the features our viewers will be introduced to now, and you'll see a lot more come tuesday night. i just want the recap. the race to to 270, that's what this is all about. even today as we are here, trump's best chance to get to 270, like the straight-line path, is where he's campaigning today; pennsylvania, north carolina and georgia. if he sweeps those three states, he'll be the

president yet again. let me go ahead ask and take these off the map here and show you for kamala harris, it hasn't changed. if that -- it's the that blue wall strategy, right? upper midwest, wisconsin and hennigan, pennsylvania, and if you concern michigan, pennsylvania, and if you get that one electoral vote in nebraska ooh too, that would give her enough to win the white house at 270 votes, okay? i'll take this off, and i'll take you back to, take you back to a time four years ago, okay? this is 2020. this is the blue wall right here, all right? biden swept it. wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. okay? wisconsin was the closest of the three, in fact, won it by .6 percentage point, all right? now i want to look at the vote difference in pennsylvania. what you see here is the historical view of pennsylvania going back to the year 2000. democratic state. it's been blue every time except for one, and i would point out, you know, obama's victory in 2008, that's not even a

battleground. won the state by 10 points. romney was able to go ahead and cut that by about half. but when trump flipped the state in 2016, he was able to win the white house by 44,000 votes. let's look at the vote difference now for michigan. what you see is a similar picture. even more democratic, right? look where obama was in 2008. i gotta reach that far to get there, 16 points, right? 16.5. this was the difference maker for trump in 2016, winning by 10,700 votes. i mentioned wisconsin. let's look at the vote difference for wisconsin. very interesting history. i don't know what you see at home. what i see are four really close national elections with two yacht liars, '08 and 2012 -- outliers. but this was the difference maker yet again in 2016.

that was trump by 2 22,000 votes. the blue wall in 2016 got away from this blue patternful let's clear this a second here. much more to show on that with wisconsin, but that was the closest battle in 2020. i said .6? if raw vote is 20,000. i don't know if it's boeing to be that close this year, but we'll be able the tell based on history a little bit, dana, about sort of what these previous elections have told us and the patterns and how america constantly realigns itself. dana: that's a great new feature, and it's helpful to have the it in terms of with that graphic. the team that you work with, heavy been extraordinary putting this together. bill: they sure have, the best. really, really working hard. and a lot of this stuff, dana, when we sat down two years ago and said how do you take all this information at one time, all data, all these

voters from all these counties in all these states and how are we better able to tell a story about america, and this is what we found. and we'll unveil a few more come tuesday night -- dana: i know. i'm excited for if everyone to e so it. all right. well, are you coming back? bill: i'll be up there. dana: all right. i missed you. former president trump making a play for nevada. what the voter registration numbers reveal about the state of the race there. plus, the the former president is about to rally support us in the key state of pennsylvania as candidates make the most of their last few days on the trail. plans. carry this card and you could have the power to unlock benefits beyond original medicare. these are convenient plans that offer all of the benefits of original medicare, plus extra coverage and benefits. with a humana medicare advantage plan, you could get doctor, hospital and prescription drug coverage in one convenient plan. with

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women. suddenly, an 19th hour bid to to put a rosy glow on the campaign. will it work? plus, legal challenges over ballot counting playing out in key states. jason chaffetz, ben domenech, the the faulkner focus, top of the hour. ♪ dana: and we keep it rolling. new numbers many nevada show republicans have virtually erased the lead held by democrats in voter registration on top of historic early voting numbers for republicans in the key swing state of nevada. jeff paul is live there in nevada. hi, jeff. >> reporter: hey, dana. yeah, we are in the heart of trump country here in nevada in nye county which is usually solidly red. and if the former president wants to win a state that he lost both in 2016 and to 20 the -- 2020, he's going to need every single one of his supporters in these rural counties to show up and vote is. when you look at the latest

numbers, has exactly what is happening right now. more than 1 million, or 52, of registered voters have cast their ballot so far -- 522. republicans far outpacing democrats statewide by more than 45,000 votes, and that's creating sort of a gop firewall. >> rural counties, we need to thank you. we need thank you because the rural counties are leading the charge in this early voting. [cheers and applause] now, that doesn't say that we need to sit back and we need the to just lay back and not do anything this weekend. we need to to keep the pedal to the metal all the way through election day. >> reporter: now, to complicate the voting picture here in nevada, a little farther, the nonpartisan voters due to the new state law that automatically registers people as monopartisan at the dmv, they are now the biggest voting bloc here in the state of nevada. so depending on how many of those voters show up, that will really tip the scales in nevada. dana?

dana: jeff paul, thank you. great to see you in nevada this morning. bill: on this sunday before we go, before we jet on out of here, want to share this fun, behind the scenes look here. long days on the trail leading to some intense snacking by both campaigns. "the wall street journal" did the digging -- [laughter] apparently, the trump team goes to at lot of fast food, right? if. dana: and a lot of diet coke. i would be right there on that train. bill: a little kfc, right? dana: mcdonald's, of course. bill: and she is a big fan of doritos. on the campaign, that's the go-to. what's your go-to on tuesday night, may i ask? dana: you have to the hydrate, but you have to calculate how long you're sitting there. so the hydration with the electroto lites is really important. okay? [laughter] bill: that's technical. dana: it is, but i've learned. what about you? phil bill i just want to come in rested and keep the caffeine going. cape deign we'll see you