good evening, and welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead, american flood. we only have a handful of "politics nation" shows after this one. that is a handful before election day. and two weeks out, it would be easy to fixate on the president's seemingly insurmountable deficit in polling and start popping

champagne or in my case sipping tea. because in addition to his self-inflicted injuries which would seem to compromise the bulk of his presidency, the pandemic has resurged and the economy appears to be stalling ahead of the holidays. of course, we mentioned the polls but we know they aren't perfect predictors. what does send a tangible message is a vote. and some 22 million americans have already cast their ballots, a sign generally read as being in democrats' favor. so can president trump win re-election? what does that win look like? because national numbers tidy and comforting as they are, mean nothing. if anything the pandemic has exposed, fully exposed the philosophical differences between states on key issues and you shouldn't expect that not to

reflect at the ballot box. of course, the president has never been above manipulating those differences at the grossest possible times. and last night in michigan, a state struggling like many with the pandemic, where the governor was allegedly targeted for murder by racist terrorists, he showed up. >> what you're doing in michigan has been amazing. now, you got to get your governor to open up your state. okay. >> lock her up. lock her up. >> lock them all up. >> we'll get into what michigan means for the country shortly. but it's sunday. so we start with that near biblical flood of early voting that just might rinse out the white house. joining me now is the governor of oregon, kate brown. thank you for coming on with us

this evening, governor. let me ask you, what is the predictions and the outlook of voting in your state? let's start there. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. appreciate the opportunity. oregon has been voting by mail for more than two decades now. it's absolutely safe. people don't have to put their health or their safety on the line to participate in this process. and it's nonhackable. there's a paper ballot. so you can replicate, verify the results. so we had historic turn out in our primary in may and i expect the same thing in november. >> now, are you of concern when you hear what has happened to your colleague, governor in the state of michigan, being targeted by militia groups? you've had in your state,

portland with all kind of allegations made by the president and others that people in oregon, that i've worked with in the civil rights community say, don't represent at all what's happening with the 99% of the people in oregon. are you concerned at all, as governor, about these groups possibly being in oregon and being anywhere in the country where any governor is targeted like this? >> absolutely. there's no question that this president has blamed the divisions of hatred and violence in this country. it's absolutely unacceptable. there is no question he is calling white supremacists to action with his statements stand back and stand by to the proud boys. this is absolutely unacceptable. white supremacy in this country

is absolutely unacceptable. i am so committed to making sure that every eligible american votes during this election cycle. this election is like no other and we all have to participate. each one of us, every eligible american needs to make sure that their voice is heard, that they have a plan to vote and that you take action early. >> before i run out of time, madame governor, i know you and i share a voter access as a passion point. so i want to bring you, specifically, to talk access and security in the election. how will you try to secure that in the state of oregon? >> we've had extensive experience with vote by mail. many oregonians know they need to get their ballots in early. and because it's paper, we can replicate and verify the

results. so every signature on the ballot is checked. there's an electronic system to ensure that the ballot is yours. and then we audit the results of every single election to ensure the security and integrity. but what's most important this election cycle is that people, across the country, eligible oregonians exercise this fundamental right to vote. i literally won my first race for election by 7 votes. i am living proof that your vote really does matter and i'm committed as the oregon governor to make sure that every single ballot is counted this election cycle and i'm working to help governors and secretaries of state across the country to ensure the integrity of our election system. >> you won by how many votes? >> seven. >> wow, i wanted you to repeat that. that does show you are a living example and you per son fie,

every vote does count. thank you, governor kate brown. joining me now is congresswoman debbie dingle -- i'm sorry the governor of oregon was just with us. let me ask you congresswoman dingle, when you look at your state, this is your governor on "meet the press" this morning responding to the president's attacks on her yesterday where people were chanting lock her up. look at this. >> it's incredibly disturbing that the president of the united states, ten days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial and execute me, ten days after that was uncovered, the president is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism. it's wrong. it has got to end. it is dangerous, not just for me and my family but for public servants everywhere.

>> how do you respond, congresswoman, to the president's behavior and the kind of acrimony we're seeing by some that were in your state and that many are concerned about when you're talking about terrorist, white supremist groups, talking about kidnapping and possibly harming or murdering your governor? >> reverend sharpton, it's always good to see you and be with you. i was with the governor this afternoon, i want you to know, i'm proud to call her a friend and she is steady, strong and consistent. but she's not afraid to speak out, and neither am i. the fact of the matter is, this pitting us against each other has got to stop. what he did yesterday was unacceptable, having been the target of some of that viciousness, those words that

hurt and have consequences, i know what it's like to be the target, and it's scary and it doesn't need to be. he's the leader of the united states of america. his job is to bring us together. not to pit us against each other. and we need him to do that. so by coming here to michigan and doing what he did, throwing ke kerosene on a fire, we don't need that. we need a healer to stop this division. >> even if you don't have the moral character that one should have, which i and others have raised about the president for decades, you would think it is not politically wise to go and try to appeal to suburban women while you do this to a woman governor of a state. i don't even understand the political calculus that he is thinking that he's doing by

giving some kind of attack like this to a governor who is a woman, who just ten days ago, it was uncovered by law enforcement was targeted for kidnapping and possib possible harm. >> it doesn't make sense but the president has -- goes after a number of women. and actually, a number of them happen to be from michigan. i want to tell you about my governor and why what he does angers so much. she called me after she had been briefed about the number of people that could die in michigan. she felt the moral responsibility for the lives of michiganaders, she said debbie i have to do tough things. i said i have your back. she was focused on keeping people safe, stopping community spread and keeping people alive. and everything she's done has been focused on that. and if the president -- i'm

sorry, i'm going to say it, would wear a damn mask he could save thousands of lives. instead he's pitting us against each other, that's not leadership. and it doesn't win votes with suburban women. we have two weeks less, i believe we have to work our blanks off until election day. >> now the latest poll in your state has joe biden up eight points over president trump, 48% to 40%. but with this increase in far right violence, specifically this plot to kidnap your governor, how concerned are you about the next two and a half weeks? >> i'm very concerned about the next two and a half weeks for a variety of reasons, the michigan militia is always a presence here. remember one of the worst incidents of domestic terrorism in this country was the oklahoma

bombing done by michigan militia. the secretary of state made it clear guns cannot be brought to the polling place. we have people on all sides working to ensure the polling places are safe. but we have an increase of covid right now. the numbers are increasing by great numbers. i don't want people to be afraid to go to the polls because they're afraid of covid. we can vote by mail now. that's the most important thing, every person should vote. >> all right. thank you, as always for being with us congresswoman, dingle. joining me now is republican strategist rinne shaw and former obama aide chris lu. when you see the president continuing this attack, lock her up, it started with hillary clinton, now we have another woman, i for the life of me can't figure out, lock her up for what?

were they talking about if the kidnappers, the militia group had been successful in bringing her, putting her on trial, are they saying they should lock her up? i mean, lock her up for what? you certainly don't want to lock her up for trying to enforce the safety of the citizens of michigan. >> you know, rev, the words of a president matter. when you have a president like donald trump who has called on his supporters to liberate states like michigan and virginia, it is not surprising that some people have, you know, taken him up on his offer. this is important. as you said, the governor of michigan has tried to balance public health and the economy. we now know we are in the third wave of this pandemic, and it is starting to rage across midwestern and northern states. and so this idea that the governor of michigan, again agree or disagree with her posture, should be threatened in any way, that she should be

locked up in any way, i think is just another example of this president crossing democratic norms and how he's inciting his supporters to commit violence and he's a divisive figure we don't need in this country any longer. >> what is the politics of this when you hear this, rinne, from the president of the united states? certainly i don't think it helps him as he tried at other rallies to appeal to suburban women. who is he playing to here with those chants and with his being less than forceful against qanon and other extreme elements now that seem to be getting credibility from him? >> he's singing opera to the far right is what he's doing. he knows it. he knows in 2016 that lock her up chant was so popular, it was on shirts, on hats, something that the president became known

for. this is why he goes back to his same old playbook. i wanted to say something important here, many women, including myself, saw trump's election in 2016 as a threat to women's rights. with defeating hillary clinton i saw a real rebuke of women's power because this president has a problem with powerful women. no mistake about it, he is not the champion of women he purports to be and his family makes him out to be. the women for trump group have been on the road this entire pandemic going out saying how this president has put hundreds of women in powerful positions -- >> these are women for trump groups? you're a republican strategist. these are women for trump groups out on the road saying this against the president? >> oh, yeah. katrina peerson, laura trump have been in states like florida, all other the country, these are women that are related to him or work for his

administration or campaign all going out there saying this guy is a wonderful man, you should trust him for his business instincts, he's a champion of women and he calls it like he sees it. what they see and what governor whitmer experienced at the words of this president is just business as usual. they don't see it as problematic. they don't see it as inciting violence, which it is. they don't see it as donald trump reinforcing how much of a -- how he feels threatened and how much of a problem he has with a powerful woman. they see it as him criticizing somebody for their leadership and making no qualms about whether they're a woman or male. that's how they see it in their own brains. they can't see what's wrong because it's been four years of this being normalized. they know that nobody has really challenged them. the polls are now telling us, we know there's a real appetite out there for kamala harris, since she was given the vp nod women

are feeling energized. we're feeling there's a plan perhaps ahead of us for this pandemic and how our nation will deal with it. we know that powerful women in this country have helped lead it through its darkest times. so this president should be sitting scared, running scared, because powerful women are going to seize the day next month. >> chris, i can't help but to think of if president barack obama, who you worked in his administration, had done any of these things, there would have been impeachment proceedings. i mean, having political rallies on the lawn of the white house to all the way to being soft, in terms of denouncing supremacy groups, the double standard here of even a lot of the media on the right and the republican leadership in the senate, the si silence is astounding.

>> we can consume this entire hour cataloging the destruction of democratic norms the way that the president has sold out our country to adversaries. the way he's codyed up to dictator dictators, given tax cuts to his friends, used government to enhance his own business. but fundamentally what the election is is about leadership. and donald trump has failed leadership in the most crucial way which is to keep americans safe. we're up to about 215, 220,000 people who have died from the pandemic. we're in the midst of a historic economic recession and what is the president's answer to this? he continues to hold the superspreader rallies around the country endangering his supporters. yesterday he was in wisconsin, a state this past week had the highest number of covid cases they have had. the highest number of hospitalizations and the highest positivity rates. this is a president who continues to disavow sensible

public health guidelines. as you pointed out, is now attacking public officials who are trying to find that right balance between public health and the economy. it's simply inexcusable and one of the reasons he's so far down in the polls right now. >> while many of us are focused on politics and the pandemic this week, the supreme court on tuesday cut the census short by two weeks and on friday said it reviewed the trump administration effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional representation. what are the president and those around him up to with the census and what can be done to stop them? >> i would say -- >> for me or rinne? >> i'm going to -- go ahead. >> i just -- it's very clear to me, he doesn't want certain communities to be counted. he doesn't want to embrace the fact that america has changed in what it looks like in his lifetime. it's hard for him to accept that. so communities of color if they

don't get counted in the census, which we know a lot of lower income communities are not going to. the people are not going to fill out the census. there have been massive public compani compani compa campaigns. i hope people understand how important it is, it's only done once every ten years. but he knows the communities of color will not do this and will not be counted so why not take the step. they'll do anything to count us out. >> chris? on the census, you were getting ready to say something? >> let me echo what rinne said. this is an effort to undercount people, to deny funding to cities and states with large numbers of people of color, immigrants. but more importantly in this effort to take undocumented people out of the census for apportionment purposes it's an

effort to try to skew the voting in this country to ensure that states don't get their representation. and frankly, it's a blatant violation of the clear wording of the constitution that says that everybody has to be counted. and it's one of the reasons why the supreme court is taking this up. we can only hope that even in a supreme court that will be divided by a 6-3 majority with a 6-3 conservative majority that they will even understand that what the president is doing is a violation of the constitution. >> many people don't realize it's a redistricting year. that's the most important thing. >> we'll have to live with the results for ten years. this is as serious as it gets in terms of resources in our communities that need it the most. thank you rinne shaw and chris lu, i have to leave it there. coming up, voters in the state of georgia are shattering early vote records defying multiple voter suppression tactics to stand in line for hours, if need

be. why are they doing that? i'll explain next. first my colleague richard lieu with today's top stories. >> good afternoon. europe is suffering from what has been dubbed coronavirus fatigue after weeks of loosened restrictions cases continue to rise and new rules being put in place. in paris bars and restaurants must be closed from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. in london, residents cannot socialize indoors with anyone outside of their own household. the uk hit over 700,000 confirmed cases of covid-19. u.s. cases surging toward a third peak. more than 70,000 new infections reported friday. making it the single highest day increase since july. cases now surpassed the 8.1 million mark, the death toll at 220,000. more "politics nation" with

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for this week's gotcha. i'd like to turn my attention to georgia and the two huge senate races under way right now. let's start with the peach state's senior senator david purdue who disrespected his colleague and current vice presidential nominee, kamala harris, this friday. >> and kamala orca ma or

kamalala, whatever. >> his office released a statement that he mispronounced senator harris' name and he didn't mean anything by it. but it's more than a slip of the tongue. they've been colleagues for three years now, and they both serve on the budget committee and they know how to pronounce her name. he was trying to other-ize her to make her seem somehow less american. but i've got news for senator purdue, kamala harris is the american dream personified. and purdue's bigotry was named and shamed on twitter, with the trending hashtag is, my name is.

dozens of celebrities joined in, sharing the meaning of their names with pride and calling out purdue for his racist doing whistling. if you think he deserve it is benefit of the doubt, i would give it to him if it wasn't such a pattern of behavior. including this summer when his campaign ran an ad that was viewed as anti-semitic. it showed his competition who is jewish with a larger nose. and neither purdue nor georgia's senator kelly loughlin, speak up at the president's racism. the silence from the peach state

senators following the president tweeting a white supporter shouting white power, what's going on? loughlin has her own bigotry to defend. as part owner of the atlanta nba team, she criticized the involvement in black lives matter, leaving her players to openly campaign for her opponent on the court. but georgians are no longer responding to these kinds of racist behaviors from either of them. recent polling from quinnipiac. shows ossoff leading perdue by 6 points. and lo,effler has slipped into third place. other polling suggests the races remain tight. but one thing is clear, georgia is no longer the reliably red

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early voting is under way in tennessee and voters shattered the first day early voting record. according to the tennessee secretary of state's office during the first three days of early voting, there was a 54% increase in turn out compared to 2016. an 88% increase compared to

2012. davidson county, where nashville is located, has seen a staggering 120% surge in early voting since the last presidential election. but will this turn out be enough to flip the ruby red state to blue? joining me now is democratic senate candidate marquita bradshaw, the first black woman candidate for senate by a major party in tennessee. thank you for being on ms. bradshaw. let me go right to it. your primary win was historic. you are the first black female to become a candidate for senate by a major party in tennessee. tennessee is a deep, red state. what do you hope voters will see in you? >> well, i want to dispel the myth, tennessee is not a red state. when it comes to votiing we ran

last. now we have a million voters registered to vote who are engaged in the process and ready to go vote at the polls. people are lining up around our grass roots movements because they want change. these people are actually going to go to actual vote early and actually flip this state. >> now in august, tennessee's governor billie sign lee signed that threatened the right to vote if people are caught protesting on property. how concerned are you about voting in your home state and across the country right now? >> right now there's been issues with voter suppression, not only here in tennessee but also over the country. what we need to do is just show up and show up in numbers. and that's how you make sure that people's voices are heard.

right now we're going to win this election the same way we won the primary. that's by grass roots organiz g organizing. i've been an organizer for 20 years on environmental equity -- i mean, environmental justice, education equity, labor rights and also tax reform. and we are creating a movement in tennessee that's going to flip the state. >> the things that you have represented, you are in a race to fill lamar alexander's senate seat, who's not running for re-election after assuming office in 2003, i believe it was. the last time alexander ran he beat the democratic challenger in a landslide by 30 points, the former governor of your state and a democrat ran against republican marsha blackburn in 2018 and lost. what has changed in the last two years to show that this time voters are ready for a democratic victory? >> we have more voters engaged

in the political process. we have people wanting a change. and participating. and we've been building this grass roots organization of voters across the state of tennessee that's diverse in demographics, as far as religions, culture and also location. tennessee has 95 counties. and we have been to just about all of them -- i've been to all of them individually. and officially we have about 15 more that we actually do public events in. but right now, it's about people wanting change and you -- this is one of those elections that you cannot buy. we won in the primary with $22,000 and we will win again. we raised over $1 million. and right now it is what voters want, they want change. they want healthy and safe communities. they want environment free of racism and they want to move

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♪ ♪ turn me around ♪ turn me around >> this is about power. this is about our power and ultimately when we show up, we win. >> with early voting under way across the country, people are certainly showing up and it would be tempting to see the long lines in places like texas, north carolina, and georgia,

mainly as evidence for voter enthusiasm. but while that's certainly part of the picture. these videos show something far more nefarious, voter suppression. at 2019 study showed that long waits to vote are extremely targeted to black neighborhoods with residents waiting on average 29% longer to cast their ballots and far more likely than other voters to spend more than 30 minutes waiting. joining me now is latasha brown cofounder of black voters matter. she's been on a bus tour, getting voters out. in fact, you're talking to me from a bus right now, i believe, you made a bus stops in georgia, tennessee, alabama and florida. how does the tour help to get the vote out, and where are you headed next? >> so we're in mississippi actually as i'm speaking to you.

we have 35 cars on the caravan, working in canton, mississippi on our way to jackson. we've been to 11 states so far. what we've been finding is that people are frustrated, but people are determined. everywhere we've been going we've been seeing energy from black voters, they're determined to go out to vote. we were in houston on monday, they broke a record. it was the largest early voting day they've had in the history of elections in houston. so while we've been seeing a resiliency and excitement we've seen voter suppression when we see lines that's indicative of voter suppression, and restrictions instead of expanding voting access at a time we need it during covid-19. we were in alabama this weekend a couple of days and we saw on line you had early voting for the first time we had to sue the state of alabama to make sure

there were two days there on the 24th and then -- i mean, this weekend and next weekend from 9:00 to 1:00, why not extend that to 5:00, at 1:00 there was still 100 plus people in line who were turned around. so what we're finding in the states they're restricting access instead of expansion. we went to galveston, texas and on the ballot there were three seats for judgeships left off the ballot currently held by republican incumbents. so we're seeing voter suppression in a myriad of ways. in georgia, there were voters who were out there working -- there was a white woman who pulled a gun in albany, georgia. so voter intimidation. >> in albany, georgia this happened? >> with our vote on yesterday. we had to call the police on the white woman that actually -- she said she was being harassed and next thing she pulled out a gun on people out there providing water and snacks to folks waiting in line.

>> now, the supreme court gutted the voting rights act in 2013. i was in the courtroom for the oral arguments with martin luther king iii, and john lewis was there. and since the death of john lewis, democrats have been working to pass a new one through congress. that was part of the two issues we raised at the huge march on washington at the end of august. do you think local activism has a place in pushing this fight to get a new john lewis voting rights bill through the senate as we vote on many senate races, local activism, should they be raising that issue about voting rights and this congress and senate ought to commit to that as part of the reason people should or should not vote for them? >> absolutely. i'm a native of selma, alabama even on this weekend, there was an elder i was voting with who

said she was concerned that her vote wouldn't count that's why she was coming out early. local activists, voter suppression doesn't just affect the presidential election but all throughout the ballot. just as i raised what happened in galveston, texas. we need americans, we need folks who believe in democracy, putting pressure on the senate right now on mitch mcconnell's desk is the voting rights -- the john lewis reparations voting rights act. so local activists do have a role in pushing and making sure that our elected officials enforce that. >> now, you know, when you say that -- because most people don't know, when i was a kid, i was born and raised in brooklyn, new york. but when i joined the movement at 12, it was always local activists that started moves that became national. it was not the other way around. and it was some of those out of the south that came to brooklyn

and taught me that song you have now innovated, don't let nobody turn you around. you connect to my heart with that. i was probably the only one walking around brooklyn humming that and i was in high school. that's what we need voters to do whoever they vote for. my mother was from alabama she used to say whomever you vote for, don't you let nobody turn you around. >> we need to be honest about what we're facing right now. we are literally facing how are we going to push and save democracy in this country. the voter suppression i am witnessing in this election, in my 49 years of life, i have never seen it. i've never seen it. the truth of the matter is, there's a group of bad actors in this country that are afraid that they're losing because they don't have power, because they don't have the people on their side. so fundamentally we should be organizing from the ground up.

change always happens from local organizers from the ground up. that's how selma ignited a movement that changed the world. it was in local communities and local activists. so that's where the power is. that's why it's important for us. >> one fight should literally be voter suppression. >> it was amelia and the local folks that started that movement that changed the world. >> that's right. >> latasha brown, thank you for being with us as you ride. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. next, my final ths stay with us it was built on blue-collar, hard work. hard work means every day. getting it right. it's so iconic, you can just sit it on a shelf if it's missing, you know it. your family, my family, when they drink that coffee, and go "man, that's a good cup," i'm proud because i helped make that cup. ♪

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as i hear about voter suppression and people saying, reverend al, i don't know, they're trying some tricks some places, you must be more determined than those that are trying to stop us from voting. no matter how long the lines are, we must be determined at this juncture in american history. and no matter how inconvenient it is, think about how people died to give blacks the right to vote. to give women the right to vote. to break down the barriers of those that would deny us the democratic principles. goodman, cheney, and swerner, two jews in a black war killed, mowed down with their eyes open in the mississippi delta registering people to vote. a woman came from michigan, a white female, viola louisa died

to give us the right to vote. medgev was killed in his driveway in mississippi, died in a pool of blood as he was going around jackson, mississippi, to getting people to vote. nobody's shooting you, they're not bombing your churches. just a little determination for you to go and vote and some of us too lazy and ungrateful to exercise what some people gave it all to give us the right to have. we cannot make any excuses. don't let nobody turn you around. it's time to rise up. that's why i came out with this book just two weeks ago in time for the election. it's "rise up" time. sitting down is not an option. not standing up for your children, for yourself, for your place in history to say, when it counted, i was there, and i did what was right. i voted. i'll be right back.

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listen commercial free with tunein premium. i'll see you back here next weekend at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, my colleague, alicea menendez picks up our news coverage. >> thanks, as always, reverend sharpton. i'm alicea menendez, live in miami, florida, a state always critical to election day, which is now just over two weeks away. in this final stretch, both candidates are on the trail. donald trump remains on the attack ahead of a week that brings us their final debate. and a final pitch by joe biden, for a man who knows a thing or two about being president. also tonight, covid numbers spiking again, almost no state is immune. hospitals fear what's coming and how that feeling of being over it is leading to more americans getting it. plus, democracy is working. we are hours away from this crucial battleground kicking off early in-person voting, as ballots fill to the brim in states we did not expect and in

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