tonight, closing arguemeants asa nation heads to the polls. trump, and biden, barn storming the battleground state. >> we are going to win four more years at the white house sglumpt spent 30 years voting for republicans. are you still a republican. >> a swing state now trending blumpt how suburban women may change the race. plus, we have traveled to another key state. >> so is north carolina the old south, the new south, the different south what is north carolina becoming? >> can biden flip north carolina, a republican stronghold. >> hello, north carolina. >> will the president's staunches supporters carry him to victory and the possible

power shift in the white house. could the democrats take back the senate. your voice, your vote, we will be right back. ♪ ♪

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as we come to you from a battleground state. i'm in michigan. >> the can key issue here, changing demographics. >> we begin in the suburbs of detroit, in a look at what could be the swing voter, white, college aged women that may hold the key to up lock a democratic victory. >> four years ago, i did not put up many signs. it was try to keep quiet about your political beliefs. i have changed and i have become very loud mouth about it on social media. >> middle school teacher rachel babbit is hoping to be part of a blue wave of women handing biden a victory. here in michigan, home to wealthier suburbs, women like babbit are coveted at the ballot box. many voted for trump, and the

president now pleading them to not spurn him. >> suburban women, will you please likeme. please. please. i saved your damn neighborhood, okay. >> reporter: a life long republican and devout catholic, she grew up learning two life lessons. >> we never missed mass and never missed a vote. >> reporter: you spent 30 years voting republican. are you still a republican? >> no. >> reporter: you don't have to be a democrat to vote for biden. >> no, you have to have a heart. >> reporter: in 2016, she could not bring herself to support the gop nominee. >> he did not have any solutions, he only had anger. and division. >> reporter: instead, she voted for the libertarian. >> i through away my vote and i don't want to do it again. >> reporter: she has taken offense at the attacks on women

from trump. especially if for her governor. what does the t-shirt mean to you? ? we will not be silenced, we are all that woman in michigan. >> reporter: do you think women in michigan approved of the way trump dealt with the governor? >> this woman didn't. the women i talked to didn't. >> reporter: we met up with young suburban women who's podcast called the deerborn girls focuses on the american they were behind bernie last time we were with them. >> i cried when he dropped out of the race. >> reporter: right, and the bernie supporters were not going to hold their nose and vote for anybody else. >> they have to get on board, it's not about us at the end of of the day. who wants another four years of trump? we need to vote and put pressure on biden every ever single day that he is in office.

>> reporter: these two women have been getting out the vote for joe biden in one of the largest arab american communities in the u.s. with the power to make or break. >> trump won michigan by 11,00 votes. we are trying to contextualize that, there's 11,000 arab americans here, if we turned ouout r out, we could have given him michigan. >> reporter: the polls now showing the president behind by 8 points. biden showing up in michigan over the weekend with president obama. >> obama! >> wow, look at this. hello, north carolina. hello. >> reporter: as they say in the south. the race in north carolina is tick tight. president trump, makes his 11th visit in three months trying to hold on to a state he held

easily four years ago. one of the toughest blocks evangelical christians. at this service, hardly any mask, little social distancing. pastor chad harvey estimates 90% of his congregation will vote for trump. >> like iter or not,er o or n r are more in line with evangelical theology than biden. >> reporter: they are interpreting the biden literally. and the most important topics, abortion. >> we do have a biblical standard, if the church does not protect the unborn,

rightcheousness and -- >> reporter: my mama raised me to be a person of grace. how tough is it to give president trump grace. >> grace needs to be directed by god, it's between him and god. >> reporter: martin leeuther ki, jr. of course said sunday at 11:00 a.m. is the most segregated time in the world. 45 different nationalities are represented in these pews, the reflection of the shift that has been happening in north carolina for more than a decade. since 2015, north carolina has averaged more than 110,000 new residents each year. so, is north carolina the old south, the new south? a different south? what is north carolina becoming? >> it's just a strange hybrid right now. >> jimmy: that strange hybrid making it difficult to know

which way the state will go tomorrow. because the state's new diversity could can mean a win for biden. >> it's going to be very, very close. >> jimmy: david lara, a son of immigrants moved to north carolina from new york city, for a better life. >> traditionally, it's ban conservative sta -- it's been a conservative state. but with the transplants of other people moving here from other states you see a swing of liberal minded individuals. >> reporter: covid-19 is also on the ballot in north carolina. seventh highest rate. >> i was struck by a church today that 95% of the congregation was not wearing a mask or social distancing. explain that to me? >> everyone is individual. even when i serve as, in my profession as a registered nurse. vy i have to respect that person has a right to choices that comes to their care.

>> reporter: is it fair to say that for you, covid is a choice? but abortion is not a choice? >> to me, covid is not a choice because it's not something that any one of us can control. >> reporter: in a church that is proudly conservative and intentionally diverse. there's anxiety about america's deepening racial divide. who do you think will better bridge the racial divide in america? donald trump or joe biden? >> doesn't matter. i think it comes down to us. >> our pastor said when two people of different colors or ethnicities look to jesus, it's a triangle and they become closer to jesus. >> we have a storm brewing right now in this earth. >> yes. >> covid. >> yeah. >> social injustice. and with all these things happening, it's making people become woke. right? had my question is, what are

people awakening to? and for us, we are awakening to what does the word of god say? >> somebody asked me if i'm a democrat, minority or caucasian and i vote biden, can i still be a part of our church? the answer is absolutely. >> reporter: if next sunday, joe biden is determined to be the next president and 90% of your congregation will be disappointed. >> yes. >> reporter: what will the sermon be? >> if joe biden becomes president, we will pray for him like everybody else. >> reporter: prayer will be plentiful tomorrow. but which way north carolina moves remains a mystery of biblical proportions. a promised land to the future for the past. also, happening on election day, the most expensive senate race in u.s. history playing out here in north carolina. coming up. could democrats win back the

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jaime harrison grew up. raised by his teenage mother and raised by his under educated grandparents the odds were stacked against hstack ed against him. >> it was not easy, but it was mine. >> reporter: he went on to yale and then to georgetown law. he is facing another uphill battle. trying to nab graham's senate seat from the 17 year incumbent. >> you cannot grow up the way i grew up, and be scared of a challenge to lindsey graham or anybody. everyone has told me, you cannot do this or that. and i kind of laughed and chuckled, because every time, i prove them wrong. >> reporter: harrison is one of severity democratic candidates with their sights set on flipping the senate. >> i'm jamie harrison and i approve this message.

>> i approve this message. >> reporter: republicans hoping to keep his seat and hang on to the majority. >> there's about ten races in play. maine, iowa, colorado, arizona, the democrat is either favored or tied in eight of the races. >> some of the closest senate races reflecting the changing demographics and the cultural shift in america in the wake of the #me too movement and georgee floyd's death. if jamie harrison, it will be historic. the historically red state, growing more diverse over the years. 60% of democrats in south carolina are black. >> we are extremely important. i know south carolina is a red state. but we are hoping to turn the state blue and we are going to be hopeful. there's always hope. >> reporter: with harrison out fundraising his opponent by nearly $30 million last quarter.

graham taking to fox news. >> i'm being killed financially. this money is because they hate my guts. >> reporter: we met up with jamie in one of had his favorite barbecue spots before he exploded in to the political spotlight. >> the hush puppies are the best. >> reporter: some of his campaign tenants, expanding medicaid, and expanding broad band. >> there's good folks in washington, d.c. that go to congress trying do good for the american people. that's who i want to be. >> it is who i thought graham was at one point. he epitomizes why

p politici politicians. >> in maine, senator suzanne collins has been under fierce scrutiny since the 2018 supreme court confirmation of now justice brett cavanaugh. during the hearings, a group of women organizing a letter writing campaign. sharely deeply personal stories of sexual assault, hoping to appeal to a sense of sisterhood. >> i have to urge senator collins on behalf of me and others and believe dr. ford and find somebody else and vote no. >> if collins votes to confirm cavanaugh, we will absolutely defeat her. >> we are coming for your senate seat. >> reporter: the organizer launching a go fund me campaign that donates all the money raised to collins 2020 opponent if she voted yes on cavanaugh.

ultimately collins would praise cavanaugh's legal expertise, and claimed they did not think an fbi investigation approved sexual assault and her vote paving to way for cavanaugh to the supreme court. >> shame! >> reporter: a heartbreaking moment for marie and her friend. >> i thought it was a tragic choice. that, betrayed women. betrayed her constituents. we will do all we can to take back senator collins senate seat and ensure that she never represents us again. >> two years later, marie and her group may see that promise fulfilled. a new poll showing senator collins down six points against her closest competitor. democrat sarah gideon. >> i'm personally excited to see sarah as our next u.s. senator and i look forward to actively

advocating for health care with her. and i look forward to pressuring her on changing her opinion on medicare for all. >> a year and a half ago, you would never think susan collins is vulnerable. because she has sided with donald trump a number of times and because maine people are used to elected independent minded senators i think many maine voters have come to the conclusion that susan collins has lost the independent quality, and it created an opening nor the democrats. >> reporter: marie's group handed over the donations to their campaign. >> $4.1 million was raised with over 120,000 people from across the country and maine saying we have had enough of you susan collins. you did the wrong thing. >> reporter: marie hopes the political winds are shifting and that tuesday will usher in a new balance of power. >> if the democrats were to take back the senate and the

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