good day, everyone, from msnbc headquarters in new york. nine days before the presidential election, 81 days before inauguration day 2021, and this hour before we head into the final week when america decides the next president, we travel all over the country with you covering the candidates and the voters with many of our msnbc reporters out on the campaign trail from coast to coast, state to state and county to county. we'll be checking in this with them in just a moment, but first let's catch you up to date on today's fast-moving developments. a whole slew of polls out today. we'll take a look at them in the

next hour, but the latest has joe biden leading by eight points. as we head out into the world, 53 million people have already voted. the campaign is weighing today on the state of the race. >> i think the president's message should be, and continues to be, the promises he's made and the promises he's kept. in the closing messages, we have the opportunity to set our country forth in the next four years for a path we've been on for the last four years. >> we're focused on maintaining as many paths to 270 electoral votes as we possibly can. we believe we're seeing energy across the country for joe biden and against donald trump. >> trump will get caught up by eight points. it's a tough fight, but we'll win it. >> we feel very strongly about where we're positioned right now in florida. when donald trump wins big in florida on election night, it's going to set the path for the rest of election night.

>> everyone, i take you live to the president who is speaking in new hampshire, in derry, as we monitor it for you in the control booth. but first we go to texas where the front page of the dallas morning news reads, "biden rebounds to edge over trump in tex texas," and it's all based on the poll that shows biden eight points ahead in texas. and they are dead even in a quinnipiac poll. we are joined by houston. welcome to you. there is a big reason we're going to you this hour because that is a huge number if it reflects the truth. what do you know? >> reporter: polls here just opened, and as ux see, there are cars beginning to file through to drop off those absentee ballots. we have drive-thru voting happening down there and in-person voting happening in

the building nearby. i have to tell you, there is also a football game going on here. we are at the stadium where the houston texans play, and i had the opportunity to speak to some voters there, all of them who had already voted earlier. that snip we're seeing, 47% for biden and 47% for trump is something we saw talking to voters. i saw two people who were tailgating who said we are focused on our pocketbooks and they said we believe he is going to lead the economy in the right direction. i also talked to a voter on the importance of oil and gas, and i asked, did joe biden's comments at the debate impact your decision or the way you thought about voting? many told me, no. they think that oil and gas may wind down, fracking may wind down, but it's not going to happen any time soon, so they weren't really fazed by those comments. but what i will tell you is

texas is seeing incredibly high voter turnout. 6.3 million voters have cast ballots so far, 1 million here in harris county alone. it will be interesting to see what this record turnout could mean for those election results when they start rolling in next tuesday night. >> absolutely. okay. thank you for that. heads up on texas. appreciate it, priscilla. let's move to new hampshire as promised. monica following the rally there. i know the president is speaking there behind you. he heads to maine later. what are you hearing right now and what do you know to be the focus of his messaging? >> reporter: well, alex, the president is continuing to falsely claim that the pandemic will sumimply go away on its ow and that we are, in his words, turning the corner. it comes as there are thousands of supporters gathered on the tarmac behind me packed quite closely, some of them wearing masks, some are not, but all of this against the backdrop of a

coronavirus outbreak in the vice president's own office. we're learning that up to four aides who work quite closely with mike pence tested positive in recent days. among them his chief of staff mark short, somebody who was with him on the trail all week long, in addition to other aides who are frequently traveling with him. but that's not going to stop the vice president from traveling later today. he's going to be heading to north carolina despite being in close contact now of someone who has the virus. he claims that in consultation with the white house medical unit, he's going to be allowed to travel because he is deemed essential personnel. you have the president here in manchester, new hampshire continuing to echo what essentially the vice president is showing with this decision, which is that they're ignoring the health and safety guidelines of the pandemic crisis and pushing forward with an incredibly packed rally schedule in the next nine days.

the president will be heading from here to maine where a congressional district corresponds with an electoral vote. that's why he wants to campaign there. then tomorrow he will make multiple stops in critical pennsylvania before heading tuesday to wisconsin and nebraska, another district searching for an electoral vote. very, very busy days. no sign of slowing or taking any kind of pause despite, again, this complete outbreak in the white house, in the vice president's office, that could yield more cases, we understand, alex. >> monica, let me ask you, we are looking at the president. i know he's not within your line of sight there, but in this group behind him which is usually strategically placed, though not socially distanced, everybody seems to be wearing masks. what about the greater population of attendees at that rally? are people masked up? they're all close together, that's for sure, so they're not respecting social distance, but they usually don't during trump rallies. how do they look in terms of

masks? >> reporter: exactly, alex. it's a mixed bag at best, and that's what we normally see. it's quite inconsistent, but you're right, usually those supporters who are directly placed behind the president are the ones who are instructed to wear a face covering so it is visible in the views of the cameras. that's what you're seeing today and has been very often the case. among the crowd and others i'm seeing here, people are simply not wearing those masks. they are distributed by the campaign, but they are not required or mandated, and here in new hampshire, i'm reminded when the president was last here in august after the national convention, some of the program speakers encouraged the crowd to wear masks, and they responded by booing, saying they didn't want to do that at all. that just gives you a flavor of the resistance here in new hampshire, a state the president lost in a rnarrowly in 2016, bu election campaign believes he could do well here. the poll shows him trailing, but they really think new

hampshire -- >> okay, monica alba, a little bit of a dropout at the very end. new hampshire looking for electoral votes. thank you so much. let's go now to road warrior ali have ali vitale joining us. what's the plan in the week ahead? >> reporter: there is a virtual rally tonight. jon bon jovi, pink, legend, just some that will be on that call as the biden campaign tries to rev up voters on the ground. we know the former vice president's first stop this week is going to be to georgia, and they're billing it as a significant speech for a closing message. we saw him in gettysburg, pennsylvania, for instance, a few weeks ago talking about invoking and needing to unify this country. he'll be going to warm springs, georgia because of the significance there.

fdr went there as a place to heal, and we heard biden consistently talk over the course of this campaign about needing to heal the country from president trump. i imagine he'll say that when he heads to georgia on tuesday. we know the key states you and i often talk about, you laid them out on that map, places like florida, north carolina, pennsylvania. that's not one of the trips we know the former vice president is not going to make, at least not yet. i was told by sources in the campaign that we should also expect him to be spending time in those key battlegrounds, but listen to kay bettingfield on "meet the press" today which for some people is kind of evocative when we saw hillary clinton making stops in places like arizona that would not become as important in the rearview mirror as places like wisconsin. listen to what they are saying

about that. >> we have been very aggressively campaigning, but here's the difference between what we're doing and what donald trump is doing. we're doing it safely. we're taking into account the safety of these places we're visiting. i saw a new york story a couple days ago that covid is happening in the wake of his rallies and are putting people in jeopardy. we're never going to do that. >> reporter: so the biden campaign, they're doing a few things. they have long campaigned in the way they want to govern in terms of this virus, really closely adhering to cdc guidelines. we know they don't do things like big crowds, masks are always mandatory. a lot of things you would ask of me, monica, you would never ask of me in these biden campaigns because they're listening to the cdc on the recommendations for the pandemic.

cbs and bet talking about young black voters. they say they're less likely to vote, less likely to be motivated than younger voters. if you go deeper into why they're voting for, in this case, joe biden, older black voters say they're voting for him because they like him. but the younger black voters say they're voting for him because they oppose donald trump. we're seeing this as we talk to voters about why they're turning out to vote, and we get a good picture of what's happening with young black voters in this final stretch before election day. >> you are echoing the "time" magazine's charlotte alter in the last hour. she said the very same thing about the motivation of young voters to get donald trump out of the white house. meanwhile, it's a very tight race in arizona, everyone. joe biden leading the president

by just three votes, 49% of the vote. but more than a million people have already voted in that state, democrats hoping to flip a historically red state. we have vaughn hillyard live for us in tucson, arizona. >> we focused a lot of our time the last few months in maricopa county. it makes up 60% of the electorate. we're here in tucson, pima county, the second largest county in the state. hillary clinton won here by 14 percentage points. two years later, kyrsten sinema, the democrat in the senate, she won it by 15 points. that is exactly why this biden campaign is looking at pima county here, because they see an opportunity. so far from the early ballot returns that are coming in, you see 42% of them at this point

are democratic ballots. of course, among voter registration as a whole, the number of republicans outnumber the number of registered democrats, expect the number of republicans to turn in those early ballots to increase. but i want to hear from two democratic volunteers, urban and sabrina, for the first time volunteering this week, and i met them yesterday at the urging of their son. listen to our conversation. >> my son, he actually had to work today, but he asked us to come out and volunteer. >> the community giving back to the community, i think it's important. >> i'm all for getting out there, getting the voices out there, getting the word out there. >> so your son recruited you guys into this venture? >> he did. >> before your son, were you guys politically involved? >> no. >> i didn't like anything having to do with politics, i haven't for voting or anything until my stepson eddie. if it wasn't for him, i wouldn't know anything. >> it's just so much hate, and i think it's time to change it.

>> i feel like we can really change the state blue. i think there is a lot of people that don't agree with a lot of stuff that goes on. >> we all just need to come together as a community. >> in pima county, i've seen so many people come together. like i said, my son has brought our whole family together as far as politics. we never really even looked twice, and since he was a baby, he just opened all of our eyes. everybody in our whole entire family has voted. and it's just amazing. >> reporter: so why are those words from sabrina and irma so or important? it's because the trump campaign is trying to rally up this state. perhaps they can juice their numbers in the rural part of the state, but democrats are looking to pima county to juice their own count. also, when we're talking about suburbs, there are suburbs around the tucson area that are

traditionally conservative. ora valley is one of them, your conservative suburbs there, but democrats are looking to see if they can pull out a share of those republican and independent voters and really begin to expand that number here in pima county to make up for whatever extra voters the trump campaign is able to extract out of those rural counties, alex. >> i have to tell you, the activation in arizona has been pretty dramatic. thanks very much. there is probably no stage more critical than pennsylvania with its 20 electoral college votes, and it's where joe biden campaigned yesterday, it's where president trump will be tomorrow. biden holds the lead in the latest polls there. here with a county-to-county report is mara barrett in the town of beaver. mara, what do you know standing there? >> reporter: hey, alex, as you mentioned, both candidates

spending a lot of time in this key battleground state. joe biden is taking a different approach than donald trump, though. he's going to counties in which he's hoping to shrink the margins in which trump led back in 2016. meanwhile the places we see donald trump go tomorrow are counties where he's already got an intense stronghold and expects to win again. beaver county where i am is one of the counties he won by 19 points back in 2016, a massive lead of what used to be a democratic stronghold. they're hoping natural gas could be a new boost for their economy. when we hear donald trump bring up fracking on the debate stage and constantly since then, he's speaking directly to voters here in this county. but what's interesting is when i begin talking to people here, it's not necessarily the first thing that comes up when they're talking about local issues. they acknowledge there is a shell plant down the road that a lot of people credit the president for building, even though it was in the works before he became president, but it's not on the top five list of the issues they care about.

i spoke with adrian gabriel, she is a rare biden supporter, actually, in this very deep, religious red county. tell us what she says are among the top issues with her and her friends. >> they're concerned about health care, they're concerned about the economy, they're concerned with this virus spreading, even when you open restaurants back up, nobody wants to go, so a lot of people are out of work. and i think the covid response and the health care are really the things i hear the most about from my friends. >> reporter: and it's important to note, alex, erin is talking both about her republican and democratic friends. she's heard of some people who have changed their minds here in beaver county, but again, not likely to swing for joe biden but looking two shrink those margins. another important thing about pennsylvania, as we're talking nine days before the election, we will likely not see results here in pennsylvania which could be integral of what we see on

election night, because ballots will continue to be counted here three days before the election to account for that gross influx of ballots we'll be seeing. alex? >> mara barrett, thank you for that. we have more states to get to this hour. next we'll take you to a republican stronghold in michigan. grand rapids, you're getting a live look right there. it's looking kind of purple. then off to des moines. you'll hear from voters in iowa about who they think will win. o. did you know that your clothes can actually attract pet hair? with new bounce pet hair & lint guard, your clothes can repel pet hair. one bounce mega sheet has 3x the hair fighting ingredients of the leading dryer sheet. simply toss into the dryer to bounce out hair & lint. look how the shirt on the left attracts pet hair like a magnet! pet hair is no match for bounce. it's available in fresh scent & unscented. with bounce, you can love your pets, and lint roll less.

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wallace. it's a state that the president turned red in 2016. of course fr, the democrats hop they can flip that support back to joe biden in michigan. dasha is in grand rapids. dasha, what are you hearing there? >> reporter: i first came here last november, and the developments i'm seeing here are fascinating. donald trump did win michigan in 2016, bhe won it by a pretty narrow margin, so if it does go blue, it could be because of some of the republican voters in this county. this is the hometown of gerald ford, and, alex, i have to tell you if i had a dime for everyone telling me they are a gerald

ford republican, there are people who find themselves struggling with republican identity. they told me they don't feel at home anymore in the republican party. i want to talk to you about katie. she voted for donald trump in 2016, does not plan to do so again. she regrets that vote. she's going to vote for joe biden, but i want you to hear about her decisions down the ballot as well. take a listen to what she told me. >> so this is definitely the first time i'm going to vote blue all the way down the ballot, because i think it was really important for republicans to come up and denounce trump's behavior and who he was. i honestly think that republicans have put the nail in the coffin for the republican party. trump has allowed, i think, hidden, deep-seated hate and division to come back to the surface, things i didn't realize

still existed today in america. it's not the america i want for our children and our future, and i'm not going to sit by and allow, you know, my vote to go for people who aren't going to stand up for the rights and liberties of all americans. >> reporter: and, alex, as i've been following this theme of republican voters who are struggling right now, asking themselves some really tough questions, that actually led me to the evangelical community here. donald trump does still have majority support in that community, but recently there have been a few faith leaders who have come out and publicly supported joe biden, including belinda bowman. i want you to hear from her. she has never pushed for pay democratic candidate. i've heard several the same things from others. take listen. >> i voted a straight ticket, but i presume like my brothers here, it wasn't in a vacuum. there was an examination, maybe

for the first time, honestly, in my life of actual policy. these days the internet, the amount of fact checking, there is no excuse not to know what the people that are in control of how you're about to live actually care about. >> reporter: have you ever voted straight democrat before? >> never in my life, ever. ever. >> reporter: and, alex, just over 2 million ballots here have already been returned, but remember, michigan is one of those states, this is the first presidential election where they have no excuse absentee voting, unprecedented number of absentee ballots which they cannot start opening until the day before the election, and they cannot start counting them until election day. so another one of these states that might require some patience from us on election week. alex? >> absolutely. but dasha burns, let me just

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covered our candidates is garrett haake. he never gets a day off, by the way. you have seen donald trump, you have seen joe biden's massive rallies. what is your take on that? >> reporter: it's very interesting, when you cover them both, especially when you do them back to back like i did last week, it's like looking in a fun house mirror. these trump rallies look pretty much like they did in 2016. lots of people, very few masks, little mention of the pandemic at all. it plays on the tendency the reporters have to want to fight the last war. you're always covering the campaign through the last campaign's lens, and you have to fight that feeling. in 2016, i also covered mitt romney. in 2016, mitt romney had big rallies, too. we didn't really think of the president trump rallies as indicative of enthusiasm as they were. in 2020, i think there's a tendency to look at these rallies and think, oh, my god, there's all this enthusiasm and

joe biden doesn't have that, and then you start to see the early voting start around the country. for me, when i'm trying to compare enthusiasm, i compare the trump rallies to the biden voting lines. most of these people who are voting early, depending where you are, do tend to be democrats. republicans like to vote on election day, more commonly than not. that's how i square that circle, but going back and forth between the two can lead to a confusing experience about who is up, who is down, who has that enthusiasm in this race. >> i'm curious, given the fact you're on capitol hill today, it's all about the amy coney barrett hearings which have concluded but they'll have the procedural vote and potentially the vote for tomorrow. i spoke to chris coons and he talked about the real frustration democrats have this vote, a pivotal, decades-long influential vote happening this close to the election. how do you see this affecting the race overall, these supreme

court hearings? >> reporter: it will probably not be as big of an effect as republicans had hoped. you know, this cuts different ways depending on what kind of race you're in. there is a lot of republican senators running for re-election in states that donald trump won or is campaigning heavily in who just aren't as popular as donald trump is. a supreme court fight is the kind of thing that could potentially lift them up if you're joni ernst in iowa or thom tillis. that was the kind of thing that could help those candidates. but the president himself hasn't focused on this nomination, which will be a win for him come monday, barring something happening, and it's like formal those voters to take advantage of it. likewise, democrats in the last couple years have woken up to supreme court politics. democrats have not voted on the courts as an issue in nearly the same way with the same intensity the republican voters have, but

the kavanaugh confirmation, the death of ruth bader ginsburg who was an icon on the left, i think, have got democratic voters who didn't used to pay attention to this issue now perhaps as equally as fired up as the republicans are about the prospect of filling this seat. i don't think it was the dramatic race-turning moment that republicans had hoped it would be. at least, that's not been the case where i am talking to voters. >> garrett haake, thank you for your perspective on all fronts. appreciate that. let's go to iowa where the senate presidential races are very tied. according to a cnn college poll, joe biden is leading by 3% in the presidential election, while democratic candidate theresa greenfield is trailing republican joni ernst by one percentage point in this very tight race. this weekend very long lines formed at polling places across the state, and this is what voters had to say about issues that brought them out to the polls. >> reporter: what issues are important to you this time around? >> the economy.

>> reporter: what in particular? >> i want my kids and everybody else's kids to have a job, and i want it to be a good-paying job with benefits, and so that's more important to me than anything else, because everything else we can fix later, but if people aren't working, we can't solve it. >> my husband is a gig worker, he's a professional musician, and he has not had a gig since march 13th. i'm a teacher, so i'm trying to support a family of six with my income, which, fortunately, i still had because i still got paid. and my husband did get unemployment, but at the end of july, when that $600 was cut off, it was all of a sudden we've been, you know, living hand to mouth for months now, and it's not been easy. >> msnbc's cory coffin is joining me now from des moines. that is brutal, cory, that teacher's husband not having a gig for eight and a half months

as a family of six survives on her income alone. it's so tough there. what are the voters telling you? what are you hearing from them? >> reporter: yeah, it's stories like that, alex, where you really understand the human impact of the impasse that's happening in congress right now with the lack of passing any extra covid relief. other voters also tell me the health care topic is an issue, because for them, we heard from one voter who has serious medical issues which, if the health plan changed. they would have some $800,000 in mounting medical bills plus preexisting conditions. so there's some really passionate stories that we're hearing from people, and that is what's getting them out to vote, and it is going to be a very tight race. i want to touch on something that some of the voters were talking about there that we just heard from, the jobs aspect and small businesses. we talk to voters a lot, but small businesses, we also wanted to hear from them and their impact in all of this. i'm joined by veronica tessler.

she's the owner of nosh eatery in des moines. veronica, thank you for talking to us. we couldn't help but notice your shop is just a couple feet away from the capitol here. pre-covid, it would be a very busy area and you guys would be thriving. how has this been the last seven to eight months? >> well, the foot traffic is down to almost nothing, so we've been struggling every week to try to get by, and it's been really hard. >> reporter: where would you say you're at in terms of being able to stay afloat? how many more months would you have in yf you don't get any so of help from the government? >> without help, it's really uncertain. we need help now. we needed help two, three months ago after the first stimulus ran out. >> reporter: and you were mentioning to me that you guys burned through that very quickly. >> yes. rent hasn't subsided. we still have our operational

costs and the money ran out real quick, and we need more help. >> reporter: there has been some talk and some question about the state response as well. how have you felt that the government has done in regard to the state of iowa and iowa's governor? >> we got some funding eventually from the state, but the lack of leadership from the governor's office left us all to fend for ourselves, and it was a long and lonely process to get through. we burned through that cash as well, so we really need more support immediately. >> reporter: so when you're looking at the election coming up here in just a matter of days, which candidate do you feel is going to give you the support you need, give small businesses the support they need to come back from this? >> i feel like joe biden and kamala harris have small businesses on their mind, and those -- that's the candidate that i trust to get us through

this. >> reporter: why do you not trust the president with this? >> there's just been no plan, no real substantive response from the beginning, and no truth about what the future is going to be. and there was just -- we were given the runaround from the beginning. we thought this was going to be over, and here we are eight months into it, and there's no end in sight. >> reporter: i think that's the biggest concern, alex. thank you so much, veronica, for talking to us this morning. that's the biggest concern, i think, the fact there is really no end in sight for these small businesses. now that we know there is no economic stimulus coming for these small businesses before the election and that this has turned so political, a lot of these businesses don't feel they have the president's support anymore and that he should have done something. if he does get voted out of office, he should have done something while he was in office. it's a very volatile situation. i want to end things with you, alex, with the line from the des

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democrats in florida are hoping to flip a key congressional seat next week. congressman brian mast won the 18th seat in 2016 representing parts of port st. lucie. now they hope naval officer pamela keith can win the senate. pamela, kei keith, that's a big smile. a poll was taken about a month ago and you were trailing congressman mast by eight points. but you are given the endorsement. they say you are better than congressman mast. do you feel like you've been able to build support in the last couple of weeks? >> absolutely, alex, and the latest has our campaign up two

points. that is within the margin of error, but we'd rather be up two than down two, and the support has been spectacular. democrats hold almost a 28-count lead in voter participation as well. we're more than optimistic. we're seeing the absolute dividends of grassroots campaigning, all the hard work that we've done and the strength of the campaign that we've earned. >> those are great numbers, thanks for sharing them. do you realize that brian mast calls himself a moderate? what has that done for your campaign? >> we are dealing with something absolutely killing americans. we have 220,000-plus dead so far and the number keeps going up. moderation and stopping dead americans is a sin, it is a moral bankruptcy. we need people who are going to

be aggressive in addressing covid, bringing it under control. i mean, this last segment you had, alex, you talked about a small business that is basically struggling because the customers don't have any money to spend, and it's not necessarily safe to go out. those are problems squarely in the hands of the gop. and brian has voted against the help that that small business owner desperately needs, just like the small business owners right here. he voted against the heroes act on political posturing where people are desperate to stay alive. what businesses need now is customers. and what customers need is money. >> so the democratic party lost this seat, the 18th congressional seat in florida in 2016. brian mast picked it up there. what has been your strategy and the message to the voters of why you think it's going to resonate this year more than it did in 2016? >> i just think there's been this perception that you can win this district from the middle,

and i don't think that's true. i think you have to stay true and authentic to who you are. i have been able to energize democrats like they've never been energized in this district before. i won the primary with 80% of the vote and increased democratic participation by 8,000 votes. then you ask what is the middle looking for? the middle is looking for practici pragmatism, somebody who understands the issues, somebody who served the country, like myself, and somebody who understands business. i served in business for 28 years, nobody is going to say i don't know how the economy functions. but it's really the bottom bmba president trump and i am creative. >> i have to tell you, actively qualified pamela keith, best of luck to you. thanks so much. 50 million and counting,

enthusiasm or fear out of the record turnout, next. later tonight you can join steve kornacki as i breaks down the latest polling for election night. it's here at 10:00 eastern on msnbc. n msnbc.

a new poll shows that black voters are likely to vote before election day. some express concern about voter intimidation. this comes weeks after long lies outside of polling places. joining me now is keneisha grant and cornell william brooks. he is also the former naacp president and ceo. both of you good friends to the brask, too. la

broadcast, too. are there signs to you of enthusiasm with the long lines or fear of voter intimidation, or both? >> i think it is a little bit of both. i think that folks are very interested in making this decision. some have within waiting four years, so there is for sure ennews yasm, but i think there is also a problem. we have not figured out a way to make voting efficient in the united states. we might be standing out here in our midday rainstorm to cast this vote which is a problem. >> can be certainly if the weather doesn't cooperate. >> do you think communities of color will be the ones to bear a heavier burden. >> absolutely, experience says

it's true. we see ajoss the length and breadth of our country people who committed to showing up. certainly people that believe in record numbers prior to election day. we're going to make history and i just say here that this is a beautiful demonstration of. >> yeah, the gop has filed dozens of lawsuits across several jurisdictions. is there any pattern there. do you think republicans are targeting specific groups? >> i would say there is certainly a pattern there. there is a patter of discrimination against individuals that want to vote by mail. we know many of the people that

want to vote by mail are inco democrats. they take extra days to ex tra education from a person in their community. and they want to vote when it is convenience for them. for sure we see they are trying to make it benefit for people to vote by mail, trying to make it more difficult to hold up these things where states are going to try and make different things nap. >> also about poll watchers, what do you think they need to know as they vote by mail as they're doing right now for the last few days here or as they go to the polling places. >> i think it is critically important for all voters to look

to responsible reliable credible sources about casting their ballot. two to be in touch with organizations. black voters matter, so they understand that there are people who are standing at the ready to help. and also the ways that people are looking to take away their vote. also voter depression from abroad. the iranians and russians who are affecting it here. you can also appreciate the organizations that are standing at the ready to protect your right and to assist you in

voting. >> absolutely to that point. i want you to both tablg a look at this video. these security guards are armed near an early voting site in st. petersberg florida. they were standing in front of a trump tent. there was no laws broken here they say. what where does that leave voters that might feel intimidated? >> i am glad some voters that might be worried about this are watching your broadcast. what are they supposed to do if something illegal is in question. you can continue to participate in the franchise. it should not be the case that anyone is walking in telling you what to do or anyone is harrising you in a polling place or challenging you. so talk to the people that work for the polls. it should not be that news

people are armed. >> quick thought, what do you think they should do? >> any tom, dick, and harry. white supremacist tom, dick, and harry can carry a gun. but we all carry the constitution in our hearts. so the point here is we should rely on the people that understand and appreciate and stand ready to appreciate the right to vote. don't be dissuaded or discouraged or intimidated by anyone who purports to be do this. >> good to see all of you. thank you. >> does wall street want another four years of trump? could a biden win will baked into the cake? we have answered ahead from

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