good day i'm andrea mitchell in washington. with 15 days until election day and two candidates taking vastly different approaches to this stretch run. joe biden back in delaware today after a drive-in rally in north carolina sunday. now he's beginning final preparations to head home for thursday's critical debate while his wife jill campaigns for him in pennsylvania. the big democratic firepower this week coming on wednesday when former president barack obama makes his first campaign appearance in front of voters for biden. also in the must-win state of pennsylvania. despite biden's double digit lead in national polls, the candidate is telling supporters that the campaign is far from over when it comes to

battleground states. >> i'm not taking anything for granted. i'm out here every day trying to earn votes. look at the lines and voter misinformation going on. we've all been part of a lot of elections but this one is different. >> president trump's cross-country campaign continues today in arizona with what our nbc first read team is calling the 2016 playbook accusing his opponent of corruption and embracing new lock him up chants while the task force tries to contape the spread of the coronavirus. >> you vote for biden, he will surrender your jobs to in chao, he will surrounder your future to the virus. he's going to lock down. he's going to want us to lock down. he'll listen to the scientists. if i listened totally to the

scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression. >> i think it's fortunate that the president of the united states benefited from science. i think deep down he believes in science. if he didn't, he would not have in trusted his health to the very competent physicians at the walter reed army medical center. >> do you feel at times there's an all-out war against science? >> oh, yeah, particularly over the last few years. there's an anti-authority feeling in the world. and science has an air of authority to it. >> joining me now, nbc's miami memoli in nashville ahead of thursday's big debate. nbc vaughn hillyard in arizona ahead of the president's first rally today. mike, let's talk about the campaign. they are doing everything they can to make sure complacency doesn't set in. we saw this weekend, the very searing truth is that donald trump can still win this race,

and every indication we have shows this thing is going to come down to the wire. they are worried people will get overconfident, perhaps, with all these big numbers of largely democratic voters going to the polls early. that could cannibalize the vote actually taking place on election day. >> yeah, andrea, it's really quite a contrast, the two campaigns today. on the one hand you have the president insisting to his own staff that he still has a chance to win this thing. as you lay out, the biden campaign telling their supporters we still could very well lose this campaign. from the biden's campaign perspective, there are two reasons for that beyond just guarding against complacency, which is the word that o'malley dylan used. one is democrats have 2016 still very much fresh in their minds. there was a graphic i noticed that both trump supporters and biden supporters were both tweeting at this weekend which showed at this very point four years ago hillary clinton according to a "new york times" projection then had a 90% chance

of being elected president of the united states. the biden campaign using that to remind everybody of what still might not happen and what they might not be expecting at this point. the other thing, andrea, which is hard to get away from at this point, the coronavirus is still very much on the upswing. our experts are telling us in the next few weeks we could be heading into perhaps the darkest period in the pandemic. that's why the biden campaign is doing everything they can to drive voters to voting by mail, get those votes bangked now. senator kamala harris taking the stage in florida on the first day of early voting. jill biden in pennsylvania where they have early vogue as well. president obama heading to philadelphia, perhaps the biggest turnout engine in the state trying to drive voters to early voting in the city. moment for the biden campaign to get that vote banked now.

>> of course in pennsylvania, they have had so many republican court challenges, they are worried about voter suppression and all kinds of things happening at the polls. the latest polls show tightening in arizona where there had been a lead for national ticket but where mark kelly still holds a significant lead in that senate race against martha mcsally. what are you expecting from the president at his rally today? >> i think you said it there, andrea. this is not the republican party of arizona that we've seen over the last seven decades, the one of goldwater, the one of mccain. in fact, cindy mccain if you turn on the television here you see stumping for joe biden and kamala harris. that is why the president is in arizona, he won the state by 3 1/2 points back in 2016. that's why he's up here today, andrea. this is a place that went by a 2-1 margin for him back in 2016. there's a couple thousand

supporters here who have been waiting in line that are getting on these buses to head to his rally site here for this afternoon when he arrives to town. the stakes are so high in arizona with these 11 electoral votes on the line. when you're looking at the math, it becomes very difficult for trump to win his re-election, if he were to lose. that's why he's going to his second stop in pima county, a heavily blue area. one official in the state telling me they must stop the bleeding. they are expecting high democratic turnout levels. in some of these areas outside of phoenix, it is crucial to juice these numbers in order to counter that deficit among the suburb voters and independent voters that the trump campaign is expecting. andrea. >> vaughn hillyard and mike memoli. memoli in nashville where the debate is happening. kristen welker, the moderator expecting -- looking forward to that on thursday. let's bring in our panel, "new

york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker author of the new best seller "the man who ran washington, life and times of james a. baker." former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, a contribute be columnist at the "washington post." peter barraker some breaking ne trying to project confidence with his campaign team. woulder going to learn, learning from monica alba. he's calling dr. fauci a disaster, quote, and saying there's always a bomb when he speaks, when fauci speaks. i guess this after that "60 minutes" report last night, we showed a clip, then saying the president saying joe biden is a criminal who should be in jail, talking about his opponent, his rival who is going to be on the debate stage with him this week. is the poll -- are the polls driving that or is it also "the new york times" reporting on the front page today by your

colleague maggie haberman that there's real concern among the insiders. >> there is concern among the insiders, they can see the polls like everybody else. even polls they pay for can't disguise the hill that the president has to climb in the next two weeks in order to win a second term. i think you hear that frustration in that call that he made today, a call that multiple reporters ended up getting on. it wasn't that much of a secret call in the end. you heard his voice, you heard him express frustration with fauci. now he said fauci is a bomb, even broached the idea of firing fauci but said if i fired fauci, there would be a bigger explosion. making it clear in the clip his regard for scientists at this point seems to be at a low even for him. i don't know that he can fire fauci in the sense he's a career civil serve unless there's a cause, and there's not. but he can be sidelining him and he does seem to be side lining

him to some extent. you're hearing a campaign just two weeks away from an election day and, in fact, arguably a quarter of the way to the election day if you look how much people are voted and all the winds are blowing against him right now. >> and thanks. i want to play from our viewers some of what we're hearing from the president and his rally crowds in just the last few days. >> i'll tell you something -- lock them up. you should lock them up. lock up the bidens, lock up hillary. lock 'em up. [ chanting ] >> inexplicable to be campaigning against hillary clinton, the whole lock him up, false conspiracy theories against the bidens really is

stunning. he could be talking about the economy and making false claims about that, blame it on covid. he could be talking about the supreme court nominee who is popular with his base and what they have done with the courts. yet he's going after rudy giuliani created false plots that we now have learned could well be tied to russian intelligence because giuliani was wittingly or unwittingly meeting with russian intelligence agents, people from the government. >> he's playing his greatest hits, isn't he? he's playing the hits from 2016. the problem is this time around he's fat elvis. it feels derivative. 2016 is a different time. nobody cares about hillary's e-mails anymore. yes, it is disturbing to have the president of the united states make it his signature line to imprison, indict and imprison his political

opponents. this is a guy who seems to have lost the narrative here. look, four years ago, a lot of americans wanted to burn it all down. this year a lot of americans just want to keep their jobs, want to stay alive, and want a return to normalcy. i think you see the gap between the things that work in 2016 and the mood of the country in 2020, which is why winds are against him this year. >> don edwards, the president went on the attack against michigan governor gretchen whitmer again this weekend in her home state just a week after the arrest of more than a dozen men accused of plotting to have her kidnapped and perhaps killed. her family under threat, and the threat increasing as we approach the election, according to law enforcement officials. here is the president responding to chuck todd on "meet the press." >> what you're doing in michigan has been amazing. now, you've got to get your

governor to open up your states. the schools have to be open. right? it will happen. lock 'em all up. >> 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. >> so is that the message to suburban women he seems to be concerned about losing when he says you've got to like me? >> i think -- you know what, andrea, as we can see the president of the united states, one, he's running a 2016 campaign. two, he hasn't done anything to bring on those new voters or suburban women that he's been

losing. this message here against a woman who is governor, who is trying to lead her state out of covid is not a way to win them over. it's really shameful for the president of the united states. i just think right now we've seen that the president has tried all kinds of, you know, messages or pseudomessages, and they simply are not working. what we're seeing is somebody who is desperate, who knows that he is losing, and can't find a way to really attack his opponent. i think that the american people have gotten much more savvy than they were in 2016 about these messages coming from who knows where and the kinds of threats that the president is making. he's no longer this outsider challenger, he's an incumbent president of the united states leading a failed response in a failed economy, and that is his problem. >> well, thank you very much.

donna edwards, peter baker, and charlie sikes, i do think this is the first time charlie sikes has talked about fat elvis on amr. thanks for that. you made my day. meanwhile, on the clock, speaker pelosi giving the white house 48 hours to get a covid funding deal done before the election. the darkest days, a grim warning from lead health expert on what the coming weeks could look like as cases rise in most states across the country. >> i know we're all tired of hearing about this. we're all tired of the masks and of isolation and hearing the numbers and comparing the flu to covid, so we need to stay vigilant. we need to listen to the science, pay attention to the measures that work. to the measures that work

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officially back on the campaign trail after two of her campaign staffers tested positive for covid-19. harris is now in orlando, florida, early florida mobilization event. in-person voting just started in florida this morning. cam paper says harris was not in close contact with the infected staffers but they pulled her off the trail just out of an abundance of caution last week. she heads to jacksonville later today. now to the latest on the coronavirus crisis. here are the facts at this hour. the number of covid cases in the u.s. now nearly 8.2 million. with 220,000 americans have died from the virus. cases in 38 states and d.c. have increased at least 10% in the last two weeks with public health officials warning the worst is yet to come. >> six to twelve weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic. vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to third quarter of

next year. >> in north dakota, 4% of the population has contracted the virus. most of them in the last few weeks, this with the added challenge of early voting beginning today. nbc's national political reporter josh lederman in bismarck, north dakota. hi, josh. talk to me about what their capacity is. they don't have a lot of icu beds you'd find in a metropolitan area. >> that's right, andrea. it's really tough, because it's really expensive to run a hospital that serves a largely rural area like this one. even in the best of times, they don't have a whole lot of excess capacity because when they do they lose money. now that they are in such a difficult position, they have such little wiggle room as the cases are starting to climb. here at sanford medical, they added six icu beds to try to surge their capacity. now, almost all of those beds are gone as well and compounding this problem for public health

officials, andrea, is this continuing division in the state about whether masks should actually be mandatory. take a listen. >> you know, from my perspective, the mask mandate, it's going to be hard to enforce. you know, i think there's a segment of the population that doesn't want to do this. >> if the mandate is in place, we'll get a majority of additional people to start practicing that and start wearing a mask, knowing that it's important and people need to make that choice and make the right choice. >> and andrea, just as we came on the air, we got the latest update from official here. the problem, once again, has gotten worse. another 185 cases added to their active case rate. that means there are now 5,837 active covid cases in north dakota. andrea. >> that is alarming, indeed, for a rural state, largely rural

state. thanks so much, josh lederman. joining us dr. peter hotez, director of children's hospital center for vaccine development. dr. hotez, it's always good to see you. you heard what he said to "meet the press" chuck todd, next 6 to 12 weeks will be the darkest days of the pandemic. are federal and state officials prepared to handle that, or even better prevent the worst case outcome from happening? >> yeah, andrea, unfortunately i think michael is correct. we're in for a very difficult and dark period in the nation. look, the numbers are already going up to 70,000 new cases a day and with no obvious end in sight. if you look at some of the projections for institute of health metrics and evaluation, it's been with us the whole year we're looking at double the number of deaths by the week after the inauguration.

so this could be one of the darkest times in our epidemic. there is good news. i do believe we'll have vaccines available by the middle of next year. we're also developing a covid-19 vaccine, so things will get better. but we're going to have to figure out a way to navigate this very difficult time. the other thing, andrea, that we haven't really talked about, depending on how the election goes, this could be a lame duck executive branch of the federal government at the worst time in the epidemic. i don't know how that works, whether we've had a difficult time persuading the white house and white house coronavirus task force to launch a national covid-19 control program even when it was all hands on deck. now that they will be partially absent, i'm really worried about how this goes. so i'm advising friends and family and colleagues to get ready for a really tough time. identify your family that you want to social distance with. try being alone, look after your

mental health, because this is going to be a stressful, scary time. >> it's really, really scary, dr. osterholm and you in agreement about what the danger ahead is. the president calling dr. fauci a disaster. you need public confidence to get any kind of response from the public. his credibility, dr. fauci's is critical to get people to buy into the vaccine once it does roll out. you have the president going after him worse than ever. >> it's beyond strange. if you remember, i think over the weekend the president mocked vice president biden for, quote, listening to the scientists as though that were something nefarious or something that shouldn't be done. that also gives me a worry. so this -- and then you have scott atlas, the president's science adviser putting out

tweets to try to discredit masks that had to be taken down by twitter. this is part of a much larger anti-science disinformation campaign that really revved up over the summer and has literally been deadly. i think it's a major reason why people have been defiant about wearing masks and refusing to social distance. i think it's led to many deaths in the united states. i think we can probably come up with a number at some point. so whether we can get the american people to buy in during this very tough time, i think it's probably going to be worse in the northern states than in the southern states as people are endorsed more. there's also some data indicating that mortality rates go up in the colder weather, possibly because there's more virus around and higher inocula, that's a little bit controversial, but no matter what we will be in for one of the worst periods in modern american history, i believe. we're in the middle of not only a public health crisis but the

fact that the white house and executive branch of the federal government is so disengaged they have managed to turn this not only into public health but homeland security crisis because people feel no one is looking after them. it means the governors are going to have to step up. i means people are going to have to take a lot of personal responsibility. it's going to be a rough period. the only good news i can offer is that by the middle of next year we'll be past this and in a much better position than we are now. >> dr. hotez, the truth telling from our scientists. thank you very much. thanks for being with us. deadline white house. will the trump administration meet house speaker nancy pelosi's demand to reach a covid deal by tuesday. that's tomorrow. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. a mitchel reports" only on msnbc

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the deal needs to be reached by tomorrow with the legislative schedule if they want to sign it in before election day. joining me capitol hill corbett and way too early host kasie hunt and john boehner who knows a lot about deadlines on capitol hill. kasie, first to you, what is the reality check. is this just the speaker trying to get them moving or count the days and how long it takes to get through the house and senate, personal when they are all going home to campaign? >> right. andrea, i think this is really just a question of what can the white house do not with democrats but with senate republicans. i think that's part of why you're seeing nancy pelosi lay down the law here and say, fine, politically you're saying the president wants this. we do have a limited calendar. there are only two weeks and a day before election day. so if the president is serious, there are very real logistical

reasons why he needs to actually step up. but the problem -- nancy pelosi has been pretty clear about where she stands and what she wants. essentially if the president wants a deal he's going to have to go to her and say let's do it. she has a lot of leverage, house democrats have a lot of leverage in this situation but the question is whether the president can get mitch mcconnell and senate republicans on board. the reality is tom cotton in new hampshire, behind the scenes senate republicans don't think the president has a chance of getting re-elected. they are in even worse shape than the president is at home, partly because of how unpopular the president is entirely because of that and because of the way he continues to conduct himself in public. all of the capital that the president used to have to try and get something like this done that would help his own political bottom line, he has essentially squandered. i think the question is can or does this demand from nancy pelosi put enough pressure on the white house to actually get

something agreed to with senate republicans that they know could actually move forward and eventually be signed into law? >> and something would have to include state and local and a lot of red lines. michael steele, take a look at mitch mcconnell in the debate with democratic challenger and the way he tweeted the whole issue of whether this money was desperately needed and needed to be passed soon. >> the house passed a bill in may and the senate went on vacation. you just don't do that. you negotiate. senator, it is a national crisis. you knew that the coronavirus wasn't going to end at the end of july. we knew this. i just think you've got to -- here is the thing. if you want to call yourself a leader, you've got to get things done. those of us that serve in the

marines, we don't just point fingers at the other side. >> and you don't just laugh off amy mcgrath's comments about what people need. michael, i'm not in politics but i've certainly watched a lot of politics. tweeting a woman, a combat veteran to say the least, treating her like that on the debate stage, how did it strike you? >> wasn't a good look. senator marc connell is cognizant of the reality. senate republicans will probably go along with almost any agreement president trump reaches with speaker pelosi. that's where the real negotiation lies here and speaker pelosi has had a strong hand, a maximal position throughout the conversations. she's not yielding an inch. so a good result here for republicans, i think it was possible until relatively recently, we're probably past that point now but a good result is taking the pelosi bill,

shredding out things that don't pensacola sense, tax cuts for wealthy democrats, marijuana provisions, giveaways to public sector unions, strip that out, get a smaller, sensible, targeted package that's still too big for most senate republicans and pass it through the senate with democratic votes and some republicans in tough political situations and retiring are able to cast that vote but the problem is the president. he's got to get on board and stay consistent with a position that works. >> and the problem could also be his chief of staff that keeps countermanding any kind-of-sign of yielding by the president. kasie hunt we're in for a difficult 15 days as we see how this winds up. >> it's a mess. >> thanks very much. it is a mess. speaking of a mess, using the president's own word to recruit poll watchers quote, unquote. could that raise fears and scare off voters? plus star power, president obama heading back to the trail for the first time this week to

campaign for joe biden of his former senior adviser valerie jarrett jones us after the break. r valerie jarrett jones us after the break. online last night ♪

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president trump is continuing to make false claims about voter fraud as we approach the election just two weeks from now. here he is campaigning in battleground michigan this weekend. >> you've got to watch it. watch those ballots, watch what's going on. did you see they found 50,000 ballots in like a river? they found ballots in an ash can. you're dealing with a very tricky, smart group of people. >> at that rally, one activist and militia member was out recruiting trump supporters to become what they call poll watchers. >> hey, guys, you you've got to know how important it is to protect the vote. have you heard about poll watching and poll challenging? we need to be eyes at the polls, okay? >> joining me now is nbc news

reporter dasha burns who followed that recruitment effort in michigan as part of our county to county series. what did you hear from adam, this recruiter and other supporters on what they are planning to do at the polls? >> reporter: hey, andrea, adam figured a trump rally would be a great place to recruit like minded individuals who were eager to get involved and he was right. he was a pretty popular man in the crowd waiting for the president. as we spoke to those folks, it became clear the president's repeated calls to go to the polls and watch carefully, which he repeated again at the rally over the weekend, resonated deeply with supporters. there's a lot of scepticism of the electoral process and people want to take it on themselves to safeguard the vote. a lot of newly engaged individuals, first time poll watchers, still unfamiliar with how that process works but ready to take action. that includes adam himself. you want you to hear why he believes this effort is so

important. take a listen. >> they are going to see things that they didn't expect to see, that we haven't known about previously, because we'll have been too afraid to speak out. when we get people who are outside of the system of political power that keeps them afraid, i feel truly that we're going to have people uncovering wrongdoing that has not been uncovered before. >> andrea, there's been a lot of talk about guns at voting locations especially here in michigan, which is an open carry state. on friday the attorney general and secretary of state banned firearms within 100 feet of a polling place. i talked to some of the trump supporters there including adam, a militia member in his local community. he tells me he's not encouraging anyone to open carry at a voting place. those we spoke to, gun owners, tell me they aren't planning to

bring their guns to polling places either. they do believe it's state government and should be left to individuals. andrea. >> dasha burns in michigan. thank you very much. joining us valerie jarrett senior adviser to president obama. her book is called "finding my voice." it's out now and it's a great read, so find it. valerie, thanks for being with us. >> thank you, andrea. >> just catch my breath that the whole idea of these michigan militia members, some already, as you know, not these people but some have been charged with trying to kidnap stand execute the governor of michigan for covid regulations. now they are talking about wanting to bring guns to the polling places. if they are going to observe this ban on it, they are still going to try to watch the polls. how intimidating will this be for minority voters or others who are afraid to vote. >> it can be very intimidating,

andrea. that's why we have to continue to show up, make a plan. if you can vote early, do so. don't wait until the last minute and certainly do not let anybody intimidate you. i think what president trump is doing is fueling anxiety about the integrity of our election. in the united states that should not be. we have secretaries of state around the country whose job it is to make sure we have open and fair elections, and yet we see the kinds of activities where people are standing in line waiting 10 and 12 hours. it's unconscionable. the way we combat that is to vote, not get discouraged and let anybody intimidate you but show up and vote. >> the president again this weekend in michigan attacking governor whitmer, again, 12 days after the plot to kidnap her. she says the president is encouraging domestic terrorism. what can we do about this since he's going to be out on the

stump every day. >> we'll have to combat it. i'm glad she's using her voice to combat and push back on him. all she's trying to do is keep people of michigan safe by encouraging them to take reasonable precautions and that norgs the action you see. i think this will backfire on president trump. he's appealing to a shrinking base. men and women around the country who look to joe biden who has a message about bringing us together. he says, yes, i'm a democrat, but i'll be the president for all of america. andrea, i think that's what's resonating. but in the process, i think what president trump is hoping is that if he doesn't win, then he casts a pall on the integrity of the election. we're a country committed to democracy and the smooth transition of power. yet he's implying there should be no transition of power. if he doesn't win, something nefarious is happening.

i don't think so. by the fact we are seeing a record number of people who are voting by mail and showing up for early vote i think sends a very powerful message. this is no time to take the foot off the pedal. everybody has to vote. >> and the best weapon -- campaign rally weapon that joe biden has is his former, you know, running mate, his former boss barack obama, who is going to campaign for the first time in person in philadelphia, pennsylvania a key battleground state. what is the strategy behind coming out at this point in the campaign, and what will his message be to voters. >> look, this is the homestretch. obviously president obama has been very outspoken both at the convention and using his huge social media platform to explain why he believes joe biden and kamala harris are the best pair to lead our country going forward, that this the most important election of our lifetime and what's at stake and

he will contrast the two leaders. he had an opportunity to workday in and day out with president biden for eight years. he knows his intellect, his comp taep ton -- competency, and he'll tell the story why joe biden is the person to run our country. nobody knows the traits of a president than somebody who has been one and no one knows joe biden so ably who served as not just vice president but counselor, adviser, friend. he's a very powerful voice looking forward to campaign in a state that he loves, pennsylvania. >> how does he do it safely, given the covid restrictions? do you expect a drive-in rally such as joe biden has been holding? he can't do a traditional big rally indoors or outdoors. >> he certainly won't do anything that puts anyone at risk, either himself or the

supporters who show up in sharp contrast with president trump who seems to have this craving for these large rallies, even though his own advisers have said to him, his medical advisers have said that he's putting them in harm's way and everyone they come in contact with in harm's way. so i'm not going to get out ahead of the campaign on exactly what president obama will do but i can assure you it will be safe and follow the science and it will be exciting and exhilarating and i hope everybody tunes in. >> and the republican on the other side of the aisle, republican senator david perdue in georgia running for re-election was campaigning and mocking kamala harris's name friday. i want to play that just to remind people of exactly what happened. >> but the most insidious thing that chuck schumer are trying to

perpetrate and what kamala harris and kamal kamal kamal, i don't know, whatever. >> so he said it was just an accident, or he misspoke. he serves on the budget committee with kamala harris. what do you think his motivation is? was this racism? should he apologize? >> yes it was racist and of course he should apologize. he knows how to pronounce her name. it's another way to diminish her and seem like an other, which is a pattern in the republican party beginning with president trump calling her a monster, a communist. here is the point, andrea, it will backfire. people are sick and tired of that. they are sick and tired of trying to make americans feel as though they are less than. that's not just for the people who it's directed at. i think if you look at the mass support we saw around our country, demonstrations in all 50 states, people of all races and backgrounds in support of

black lives matter and yet our own president won't even admit we have inside of systemic racism in our country. i think they are out of touch and i'm hopeful that the american people will vote those values, vote that confidence vo that we have america is better when we look at what we have in common with one another instead of trying to polarize us. i think what the governor did was outrageous and i think there will be consequences that have to be paid up and down the ticket and that the republicans have to realize how out of touch they are and that's why, once again, i want everybody to get out there and vote in record numbers to send a powerful message up and down the ticket as to what our country really stands for. what are our values? how do we think we should treat one another. >> valerie jarrett, always great seeing you. thank you so much for being with us today. >> thanks, andrea. and early voting is up almost 500% in colorado.

you heard that right. we'll have a report from denver where people really are turning out ins just a moment. stay with us. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. c.

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colorado is a state hillary clinton won by 136,000 votes in self a it's now seeing early voting numbers. more voters have returned their voters up nearly 500% from this time in 2016. joining me from denver, is nbc news correspondent gaudy schwartzs. what's going on out there? >> hey, andrea. a little bit of that can be attributed to the fact that denver and colorado in general is voting early even earlier, a week or two weeks earlier they started getting the ballots, able to put them in the mail. colorado is one of about five states that allows for those mail-in ballots for anybody that registers. if you register to vote you get a ballot in the mail and drop it off in the mail or do this, ballot drop off lane. this is actually two different lanes where people can drive up and they come over to these precinct judges and poll workers

hand them their ballots and they go into that secure box there. we have seen a tremendous amount of engagement so far. in fact, not just in people that are early voting, it's also people volunteers to work like these are. did you guys know how many people tried out for your jobs this year? >> no. >> no? >> i know that there was several hundred that were turned away. >> more than several hundred. interestingly enough, they have about 1,000 spots they have to fill. they had 8,000 people apply and you guys are the cream of the crop taking in ballots like this gentleman over here. so we've got drive-through democracy in action. so far things are move moving very smoothly. andrea? >> well, it's great to know. gaudy swartsz thanks from denver. thanks for being with us. steve kornacki is up next with "mtp daily" after a short break. h "mtp daily" after a short break. type 2 diabetes like emily

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