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we will ask three college students about their efforts to get out the vote as they cast ballots in their very first presidential election. both president donald trump and joe biden were campaigning today. mr. biden held an event in durham, north carolina. the president attended a church service in raleigh, north carolina, a rally in asheville, north carolina and a rally. there is little talk about how to contain coronavirus in the white house. that is a big concern for the journalists hired to cover the president up close. we'll talk about that with the president's correspondence association. those journalists have a huge task ahead of them as november 3rd get closer. just consider what all happened the last few days. >> just three weeks before election day, president trump and joe biden hit the trail. >> president trump on the defensive in every major

battleground state. >> president trump on track to hold eight rallies this week alone with no social distancing, let alone masks. >> it's fantastic to be back in north carolina with thousands of loyal, hard-working american people. >> it's the first day of in-person early voting here in this battleground state. >> high turnout is what we're seeing in states with early voting. >> determined americans have stood in hours-long lines. >> it doesn't matter how long it takes, we will stand in line to vote. we're voting like our life depend on s on it. >> the biden campaign telling us that two people involved in the campaign have tested positive for covid-19. >> president trump will hold a live town hall hosted by savannah guthrie. >> dueling town halls in what should have been the second presidential debate. >> a town hall with president donald trump. >> our town hall with joe biden

starts right now. how about the people knowing about the expansion of the court? >> they do have a right to know, and i'll tell them before they vote. >> what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it fact, i hate to say that. >> remember the final presidential debate is this thursday. the moderator is nbc's kristen welker. she's chosen six topics, fighting covid-19, american families, race in america, climate change, national security and leadership. the debate begins thursday night at 9:00 eastern here on msnbc. this week president trump will continue traveling to battleground states. he's hoping to close the gaps between himself and joe biden. tomorrow he plans to make two campaign stops in arizona. he won that state by 100,000 votes last time. a new cbs news battleground poll shows mr. trump trailing mr. biden by just three points in arizona. even more interesting might be how the arizona senate race is playing out. that same poll found democrat

mark kelly leading the incumbent republican senator martha mcsally by double digits. joining us now is jessica taylor, senior governor's editor for the political report, and larry sabato, director for the center of politics and a politics professor at the university of west virginia. good to see you both. larry, let me start with you. the debates. i wonder how much of an impact you think that either anything that is said in the debates or that comes out in the news is really going to shape what we're seeing in the presidential race right now. it seems like just about everyone has made up their mind except for a handful of people. >> that's exactly right. now, look, something crazy could happen. why would i bring up the word crazy with donald trump being the incumbent president in that debate? but probably not, because i think people have already factored that in. as we always say, the cake is baking or maybe is baked. at this point, as you said,

there are very few undecideds left. it's possible that in a few states that have razor-thin margins, a few undecided could make the difference. if i had to bet, i would bet that almost nothing changed, that democrats will tune in to root for biden, republicans will tune in to root for trump, and people who are purely independent will go to one or the other 400 channels. >> jessica, the political report has seven states that are labeled as toss-ups. how many seats do you think are actually in play right now, particularly as democrats try to retake the senate and hold the house? >> so we have a dozen republican-held seats and just two democratic-held seats where democrats are on defense. i think they need three seats net, democrats do, in order to take back the chamber. and, again, with that widening math that we have seen, we have shifted ten seats toward

democrats just since january. and so, again, these toss-ups also tend to break one way or another, so when i'm talking to republicans, they think the best scenario for them on election night could be a 51-49 democratic senate. i think at this point they're just hoping they can keep their losses to a minimum and not creep up to a 53, 55% democratic senate. i think arizona and colorado are gone at this point. you look to maine, north carolina, iowa as sort of the tipping point states. montana t montana, two georgia seats and wisconsin the surprise, i think. >> let's look at joe biden and donald trump, just looking at some of the states being watched very closely. first of all, the nbc national poll average puts joe biden at about 51%, donald trump about

42%, so a clear lead there. if you go state by state, it's a little different. wisconsin, you see joe biden leading 51-46. arizona also leading by roughly the same margin, 50-47. contrast it with the arizona senate poll in the u.s. news ugov poll. mark mcsally is up by seven points. are they kind of existing on parallel tracks or do they diverge at least in some places? >> you pointed out arizona, and i think that's one of the places where the democratic candidate for senate is probably going to do better, maybe much better than joe biden is, even if biden carries arizona, which he's currently favored narrowly to do. but the democratic candidate mark kelly is doing extremely well against martha mcsally, and i think he's very likely to win. but that's rare. i got to tell you, in the vast

majority of cases, just as we saw in 2016, these races are going to operate, as you said, on parallel tracks. and by and large, the vast majority of voters now are so polarized and so partisan that they're going to vote for a particular party for the white house and go right down the ballot and vote for the same party all the way to the courthouse. that will be true for both parties. it will keep the results in line with one another for the most part. >> jessica, what would you say are some of the most fascinating senate races that you're looking at? we heard a lot about the races in, say, north carolina -- south carolina, rather, with lindsey graham and jamie harrison. is that at the top of your list or are there others you're watching? >> the money that they're spending to save north carolina, texas and alaska just shows you how far this map has grown. in the toss-ups i would watch,

as larry mentioned there, that we typically see the senate races track pretty closely to the senate results, but even in states like kansas and montana, we are seeing much closer presidential results. for instance, in montana, trump won it by 20 points last time. i think he's in the single digits. that's a very interesting race to see kind of the national trends overcome that, even though in 2016 every single senate race went the same way the presidential result did. here you have governor steve bullock who has outperformed president trump before running against republican steve daines. i think that race is within a few points. i think kansas is another one that's maybe not on a lot of the national radar, but you have an open seat there. democrat barbara bulliot, a former legislator that switched to the republican party running a very strong race there, and carter has had to have a lot of

national money come in to shore him up. >> those voters who are still sore over 2016 and say, the polls were wrong in 2016. you lied to me last time, i'm not sure i should believe you this time. what do you think they should look at as they watch these polls? >> all the businesses have it, too, so we're a little more hesitant to go out on a limb. but the polls have made improvements since then, and we're looking at far more polls in key states. you know, wisconsin, for example, has two and a half times the number of polls it had in all of 2016. that doesn't make it right. polling numbers are not votes. but i have more confidence, not total confidence, but more confidence in the polls this time. >> jessica taylor and professor larry sabato, appreciate you starting us off this hour. thanks very much. covering the white house is one of the most coveted jobs in

ju journalism, especially leading up to an election. it's a powerful window to the most powerful office in the world. but more than two dozen west wing staffers and three reporters have tested positive for covid-19. this week at least seven news outlets have pulled reporters off that beat. things apparently got so bad that even senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he's been avoiding the white house. >> i haven't been to the white house since august the 6th, and i personally didn't feel that they were approaching the protection from this illness in the same way i thought was appropriate for the senate. >> let's discuss this with zeke miller, white house reporter for the associated press. he's also the president of the white house correspondence association. zeke, tell us first of all what some of the precautions are that white house reporters are taking these days. >> first off, it's great to be with you. since the beginning of this crisis, seven months or so ago,

the correspondence association working in cooperation with the white house but also with the cooperation of our members, i've worked on safety issues from the white house briefing room that would be filled with all kinds of reporters and things like that. we cut that back in march, and now there's a daily testing of the pool, and that's a small collection of journalists that travel with the president or are with the president at all times. they're tested every day. there's mask wearing. those are all the things that largely have come out from the press, but they're in place to do their best and try to balance the health and safety of the journalist covering the president but also maintain that coverage that the person people rely on to make informed decisions about their leaders. >> i should also ask, zeke, for people who only hear about the term when the correspondence center comes around, what is the white house correspondence association? is it a trade group? is it a union? is it a lobbying group? what is it?

>> it's a little bit of all of the above there. we exist to work on behalf of our members to allow them to -- and on behalf of the broader american public. we are a public interest organization to ensure that the american public has the information they need about their elected leadership, what the president is doing, who they're talking to, what they're thinking, where they are going, who they are meeting with, all sorts of things. that is the core of what we do. we also give scholarships out and throw a dinner once a year when the pandemic allows us to. but we're really there to help our members and the american public through them understand what is happening, what the president is doing so that, again, they can make those decisions they need to make. >> the relationship between the press corps and the white house is obviously adversarial, as it necessarily is. it also is mostly collegial? the white house itself is not a

gigantic building. when kayleigh mcenany returned, she tested positive for covid-19, came back and was briefing the press without wearing a mask. we've seen her brief without wearing a mask, we've seen the chief of staff mark meadows say he would rather brief without a mask or not brief at all, not willing to accommodate journalists who are covering the white house. what's that been like? >> it's obviously been a very challenging time for white house journalists. our situation in a lot of ways is no different than people who work in grocery stores. the circumstances of us doing our jobs has changed in the course of the pandemic. that said, we're doing everything we can as a press corps to try to keep ourselves safe, try to keep those around us safe, try to continue in our critical roles. we have worked with the white house at times. we've had a fairly constructive

relationship around things like contact tracing and the like. we have encouraged them at every turn to follow the administration's own guidance and guidelines in terms of face coverings and social distancing and the like. at the end of the day, we're not -- the press corps in general, we're not actors in their drama, we are there to cover what they are doing and what they are saying on behalf of the american people. it's a balance we have to strike every time one of those situations come up. >> when i think about the day in the life of a white house reporter, a lot of what white house reporters do does not necessarily take place at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a lot of the work happens by sources and by phone and so forth. i hear a number of people say, you know what, if the white house wants to work like that, then to hell with them. maybe you shouldn't show up. maybe you should let them continue to be in a petrie dish and let them get their act together before you come back to the white house. they don't deserve your coverage. what would you say to that? >> i would say that either the white house correspondence association and particularly the

white house pool, which i mentioned was this 13-member collection of journalists, they follow the president -- they're at the white house, they are there with the president whenever he travels outside of the white house, they're on a plane with him on air force one. that is a tradition that is unique around the world when it comes to heads of state and how they're covered by the press corps. you look at any barn summit, no delegation rolls quite as deep as the americans', and that speaks to the power and performance of a free press, an independent press to our democracy, and we would be -- we don't want to roll that back. we are trying to find ways to do that safely. that means testing, that means wearing masks, that means social distancing to the extent that we can, in our cramped work spaces, but from our standpoint, that pool may be able to maintain the integrity of that pool throughout this crisis, and we intend to do that once this coronavirus is over and for generations to come, because that really is sort of the bedrock of what we do as white house journalists, making sure

there are eyes on the president whenever he leaves the white house at all times. in the event something happens, that can run the gamut of all sorts of things, that there were eyes and ears from the independent press corps to cover it. >> zeke miller, president of the white house correspondence association and white house reporter for the associated press. zeke, thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. coming up, a panel of young voters tell us which issues matter most to them. and the final debate is just four days away. what should we expect? first up, richard lui is here with the headlines. richard? >> covid cases have risen in every state in the united states. the only detours were texas, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. this comes as epidemiologists warn of a possible third wave of the disease. demonstrations took place in a france city for the murder of a history teacher. he was beheaded friday.

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. president trump, by kocount interrupted 145 times in that debate, so the question i have is, does he plan to be as disruptive in the debate this week as he was then, or will we see more of the same, or is he going to change his strategy? >> chris, i still thing that's about half as many times as the president was interrupted at his town hall on thursday night. when you look at the full picture, i think he did pretty well and i think he won the first debate. but when you talk about style and you talk about approach, i do think president trump is going to give joe biden a little

bit more room to explain himself on some of these issues. >> anchor chris wallace had the same question on fox news sunday that many of us do. how different will this week's presidential debate feel compared to the other one nearly three weeks ago? i guess it was that long ago. the first debate was, by pretty much all accounts, a train wreck. president trump bulldozed through chris wallace's questions and joe biden's answers. many said the broadcast was more than a little frustrating to watch. the final debate is this thursday. the second one was replaced by dueling town halls after the president was diagnosed with covid-19 and refused to debate virtually. nbc's kristen welker will moderate this time. the commission on presidential debates released her list of topics. it includes the fight against covid-19, race in america, climate change and national security. joining us now to talk more about the next debate is baz bazel smichael and a woman who

works with #leadershipteam. good to see both of you, and bazel, lelt t me start with you. what do you think the candidates need to focus on? what tops the list? >> i think if you're a democrat, you're joe biden, to be honest, i think the votes for him are actually there in this country right now where he can get re-elected. the biggest concern i have and so many of my colleagues have is over voter suppression and intimidation. so i would be focused on making sure that the votes that are there for you are able to be asked and counted. and i think what we're going to see going forward is a very robust strategy by both the national party and the campaigns specifically and then the state parties as well in terms of being able to put out poll watchers and a legal team that can help support voters as they go and cast their vote.

i think that for joe biden, that is probably the one thing that he and his campaign need to focus on. >> reena, what about you in terms of what to focus on? particularly any kind of october surprises that may or may not come up? there were october surprises that were supposedly going to materialize, there was no big unmasking. we're still weeks away from getting a vaccine. that seems dubious at best. what left hook factors into the election? >> trump has been looking for that last-minute surprise for a while now, and so far, like you just named, has fizzled out. nothing has stuck. this president has a way of throwing things at us to see what sticks, is the most popular. i wouldn't put it past him to concoct something with his team. this latest thing about hunter biden's laptop brought to you by

the hilariously awful duo of julianne bannon. what i'm looking at in these debate are topics that are extremely important for both candidates, but especially trump, to talk about the future for families. especially being the mother of two very young children, i see how my fellow american women have taken the brunt of the hit from this pandemic. right now more than 800,000 -- i know, 800,000 american women dropped out of the labor force just last month. and that is a significantly larger number than men. and, again, this is a move that didn't happen by choice, this is all due to this pandemic. there doesn't seem to be a plan. so this president really needs to depict his plan as actually far more different than joe biden's, because one of the worst takes i heard after that first debate was that their plans were actually quite

similar. that could not be less true. >> bazel, i'm more concerned about misinformation leading up to the election. we saw twitter remove a tweet from one of the trump's top advisers claiming masks don't work. what's the guidelines for dealing with online misinformation. >> they used to tell me if you don't take it down in three hours, it becomes the truth. all of us, every surrogate for the democratic party, every surrogate for good sense needs to, every time we see information like that, go back and correct it with the best information we can find. there is no better way to tackle misinformation than an attempt to get the truth out from sources that are legitimate and are science based. >> reena, the last few seconds, do you think this debate is going to move the needle on

thunderstorm? >> absolutely not. i think the die has been cast. this is a situation where we want to clear the air a little bit, we want to see what happens. and, truly, it is a good opportunity for both candidates to paint themselves as radically different from one another which that first debate didn't give an opportunity to. i think we'll see the president slightly different, but it's not going to change the minds of voters who are obviously against him. long-time republicans like myself who didn't like him in 2015 and 2016, and still don't like him now and think he's the worst president this country has ever seen. >> bazel, rina, thank you for making time for us. even if that debate does not move the needle, we would still like you to join us for the debate. we'll have coverage thursday night. afterwards we'll have analysis and highlights. our first full coverage of the debate begins this thursday at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc. what can you do if you're not old enough to vote?

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teenagers across country are getting involved in this election in many ways, even if they're too young to vote. some are taking the place of older poll workers who are sitting out because of covid-19. we spoke with two teens in kent county, michigan. >> these are the tabulators at the precinct. >> reporter: that's michael d e dykstra. he's 15 going on 16. and this is edie lowman. also 15 years old. you're not even old enough to vote yet, and here you are helping out in one of the biggest elections in u.s. history. what are you doing here? >> my mom does work here, so, i mean, i don't want to say i'm

forced but i'm kind of voluntold, if that makes sense, to come here. >> reporter: what's been your favorite part of this whole process? >> testing election equipment. that is really fun and really fascinating to see how those machines work, and i'm running ballots through them, testing the voter assist terminals. really cool stuff. >> reporter: michael and edie are election workers in kent county, michigan. a critical county in a must-win battleground state, but like other states across the country, michigan has struggled to staff their precincts due to covid-19. >> have you seen the older volunteers have to sit this one out? >> the volunteers we've had said, we just can't do it because we just don't feel safe with covid. >> reporter: clerk peggy sadler has been working with local high schools to recruit students. >> we've kind of had to start over with quite a few positions

and find new blood, if you want to say. >> reporter: clerk sara bilect from the city of walker appreciates their help. >> i appreciate their willingness to learn, they're great on computers, and they can process the ballots or the voters at a very speedy process. >> reporter: but the process is not as speedy as the younger generation expect it. what's been the most surprising part of the process? >> probably the fact that everybody does this by hand. like, i did not expect that. i always thought fit was something you feed into a machine or the machine does it. >> reporter: yeah, you're doing manual labor here. >> that's abby is all too familiar with. she's been working elections for almost a decade, until now. >> i feel bad i can't be out there to help. it was really difficult this time around, especially with covid factored in. >> reporter: instead, she is passing the torch.

>> i'm so impressed. i can't believe he's so young with such an interest and such a curiosity about voting. >> reporter: soon-to-be voters helps learn in this historic election while getting a crash course in civic duty. >> i think it's something many young people should do, get involved. even if you aren't old enough to vote, it helps you learn how the system works and it helps you become a more informed voter. >> that was nbc's dasha burns reporting. what about young adults who are old enough to vote and get their friends to the polls, too? we'll meet three college students voting in their first presidential election, when we come back. come back. false alarm. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ one ups the cleaning power of liquid. can it one up spaghetti night? it sure can. really? can it one up breakfast in bed?

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last week we spoke with a group of senior voters about what's motivating them to cast ballots this year. this week it's the younger voter's turn. back in 2016, about a fifth of voters were aged 29 or younger. nbc news exit polls showed most of them voted for hillary clinton. in the last four years, more than 15 million people have turned 18. that means there is a big new voting bloc this year, assuming they show up. so far voters 29 and younger have returned 8% of the mail-in and early in-person ballots. our data shows most early voters

are age 65 and older. joining us now is a group of college students who are encouraging their peers to vote. they're also voting in their very first presidential election. alange alvarez, tom attends william and mary. i am delighted to see the three of you here on our air, and i want to begin by just asking three of you what the issues are that are most important to you, maybe the one or two biggest political driving issues for you. alange, let me start with you. what is your biggest political issue in terms of what moves you toward or away from a candidate, shall we say. >> i think the investment that they want to make in public education and definitely affordable health care for all. >> justine, what about you? >> i think a candidate who is willing to make a change particularly with immigration.

>> and tom? >> i would say the two biggest issues for me right now are the economy and the security of our judiciary. >> alandra, you mentioned education. you have been working hard on advocacy about school board members as well as the top of the ticket. how did that awareness build for you? i know most voters, i think, tend to focus on governor, senator, president. how did school board kind of land on your radar? >> i think it started with going through the detroit public school system. i was always so disappointed in the lack of resources that there was, and i always thought it fell on the principals, but then i realized it fell onto the school board, and those are the people who we elect. i realized that as an individual we didn't do much research, so i knew when i turned 18 or whenever i was going to be able to vote, i wanted to make sure i was going to elect people who

made sure students had resources to be successful. >> tom, you're involved in grassroots and door knocking experts of public opinion. i believe you're the first vice chair of the college in virginia. i spoke to young republicans around the country, and what i found is young conservatives seem to be highly pragmatic but not very dogmatic. you all just want to get things done, and i was interested in hearing them talk. what has your experience been with older conservatives, especially in this election? >> i think you're right on the money in that sense that we're pragmatic as opposed to dogmatic. i definitely have spoken with a lot of older republicans, and there always is some sort of generational tension there. but i do think we generally see eye to eye, maybe not so much in

the way that we present ourselves but definitely in policy aspects. >> justina, you told us you have seen young people care and now they care in the voice of advocacy. particularly because you are at howard, and it just so happens that the vice presidential candidate is an alumni. >> absolutely. that is definitely a motivating factor. i think for young people growing up and really coming to age during this trump presidency, we are looking for change. we are looking for people who are willing to push the limits, because we feel like our government doesn't represent us. i'm hoping with our young people that we have a large turnout. we've been watching from the sidelines and this is a chance to really do something and see some change happens. >> alondra, there has been a lot

made, especially in an article from fox, that keeps young people from voting. there is a piece in fox saying registering to vote and finding out where to vote is proving difficult for some young adults just in terms of navigating the process. i don't find that odd, because if you're a young voter and you've never voted before, you need someone to walk you through the process. what do you see, alondra, in terms of how well your peers just manage the mechanics of being a voter? >> yeah, like you mentioned, a lot of people just don't know, like, where to find the precinct or how to fill out a ballot. but i do -- like i have seen people really wanting to learn how to vote or, like, where do i vote? i've actually seen that in detroit hosting events every single friday until the election, and some people are so excited to vote. it's unbelievable and i wish more people would invest their

time in helping young people learn how to vote and get them excited about voting. >> tom, what's it like to vote in your first election given the incumbent is in the election and that there is so much heat over what four more years of president trump will bring. i don't want to guess how you vote, but how does the tone and intensity of this election affect you as a first-time voter? >> it certainly makes it interesting, that's for sure. i have a lot of liberal friends and conversations with them are always entertaining. i will say i do support the president. like i said, my two biggest issues right now are the economy and the judiciary. i think especially right now coming out of a covid-19 quarantine, we have to be realistic. a tax cut like we would see under the biden administration would probably be catastrophic. at least, i'm concerned about it. i know that a lot of people like to think of the economy as being

the stock market or wall street, but the thing we have to realize is the economy is everyday people. at least for me, i'm very concerned that a potential biden presidency could really result to some harm coming to everyday people. >> i appreciate you saying the stock market is not the economy. i see too many people who just see that one number in the dow jones and think that's all there is. that is not all there is. justina, what about you, particularly being in d.c., is at the heart of this protest at the black lives matter plaza? how do protest movements and such dovetail with voting? do you see them as interlocked, are they on special tracks? how do they mesh for you? >> i see a lot of people trying to make that connection right now. we saw young people come out in droves this summer. every protest i've been to, i've been encouraging people to vote.

i think making the connection between those issues and civic action is so important, and i do believe it's going to translate in the polls, especially because we have a president so willing to condemn equality. so i do think young people will come out and show their support, the same that they did for civil rights issues. >> i said earlier in the show to bishop curry that i feel hopeful about the future. i have to say one of the biggest reasons i consistently feel hopeful about the future is young adults today. i have traveled this country quite a bit, talked to a lot of kids your age, and not one of you has made they feel worried about the future of this country. alondra alvarez, justina blanco, tom callahan, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. what helps you stay politically engaged even if you don't want to be? we'll share some stories, and we

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the election is almost over. we've nearly made it. truly it can be tough staying plugged into election politics. val from washington state shared what keeps her engaged. val writes, every friday and saturday afternoon i mask up with fellow citizens and wave signs for joe biden, jay inslee, the governor, and local washington state candidates. i relish the supportive waves and honks. i smile and wave back at a few thumbs-down. it's rejuvenating to be around people who care. i'm an african-american man with underlying health problems and being 68 years old, i didn't want to catch covid-19 by voting in person. i did receive my mail-in ballot last week in pennsylvania.

i filled it out and returned it to my local county elections board drop-off location in person. they have sent me an e-mail confirmation that my official ballot was received and recorded. my stress level has evaporated and i can now tune out the news concerning the election, because i have voted and will tune back in on election day to watch for the results. abby writes, the energy created by the new lack of voter apathy and seeing people willing to speak up for their beliefs and keeps me engaged when all this stress makes me want to tune out. i list ton both sides to show my daughter the importance of not choosing a side but, instead, choosing what is right for her future. i teach her to research for herself and not just monthly me. in the end, it is our right but also our responsibility to vote for the future of ourselves and our children. for that i need is to stay engaged and listen. finally, if you live in the battleground states of alabama,

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