night if you tune into that rehearsal i mentioned or 6:00 p.m. eastern monday. keep it right here for the reidout. can you believe it? in just four days the polls will be closing in what is arguably the most important election of our lifetime and under what are inarguably historic conditions for presidential election. already more than 85 million americans have cast their ballots. joe biden and donald trump are campaigning in the thick of it. trump is holding a rally tonight in minnesota while biden campaigns in wisconsin. a critical battleground hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. a pandemic that continues to ravage the entire country with more than 9 million cases and

230,000 deaths. more than 90,000 new cases were reported just yesterday. a new single day record with nearly 1,000 deaths. today at events in iowa and minnesota biden once again torched trump for his handling of the pandemic. >> we're not learning to live with it. we're having to learn to die with it because of you. by the way, we don't cower. nor do i. never will we. unlike donald trump, we'll not surrender to this virus. i'm going to shut down the virus. >> meanwhile, ahead of trump's swing through the midwest today his eldest son donald jr. suggested on the day the u.s. set a new record that the virus was just disappearing. >> i kept hearing about new infections. i was like why aren't they talking about this? oh, because the number is almost nothing. because we've gotten control of this thing. we understand how it works. they have the therapeutics to be able to deal with this.

if you look at that, look at my instagram it's gone to almost nothing. we're out performing europe in a positive way so well because we've gotten ahold of this. >> okay. yeah. look at his instagram don't ask the doctors. he may have said that to fox host laura ingram but she still showed up at trump's rally in michigan today wearing a mask and got mocked for it by donald sr. >> where is laura? i can't recognize you. is that a mask? no way. are you wearing a mask? i've never seen her in a mask. look at you. she's being very politically correct. >> it is not politically correct to wear a mask at a maga rally, donald. it shows that she is smarter than you. meanwhile georgia congressman drew ferguson has tested positive for coronavirus and governor brian kemp of georgia and his wife are in quarantine after kemp and ferguson attended a maga meet up rally on tuesday. that was smart. back to donald trump. today in michigan and wisconsin

he spread misinformation about the pandemic like fertilizer. while also accusing doctors of profiting off the pandemic. >> it's always cases are up. people go crazy. you know? no. it's you live with it. you know, our doctors get more money if somebody dies from covid. you know that, right? what they do is they say i'm sorry but everybody dies of covid. by the way, with or without the vaccine we're rounding the turn but the vaccine makes it go faster. >> hum. okay. just to give you an indication of the tone deafness of trump's comments here are what some front line workers in wisconsin and montana, another state that's seeing a spike in cases and deaths, has had to say about what they are seeing. >> we continue to break record number of patients each day in our hospital. >> it's terrifying to see someone struggling to breathe. you can see the fear in their eyes. you can see how scared they are. >> as you've seen as you came through the hospital these are not people who are political

consequences. they are real, sick people with real viruses. >> it is shocking to me how fast it has accelerated in the last couple weeks. >> i'm kind of broken. i'm broken. and my colleagues are broken. >> joining me now is the reverend al sharpton president of the national action network and host of "politics nation" here on msnbc and infectious diseases physician at the boston university medical center and presidential historian. doctor, i'll go to you first and let you respond. the idea that the president of the united states and his son would try to minimize this death count, this historic and horrible death count that looks like a war death count. a world war death count. and to accuse doctors of profiting by reporting deaths, we just heard those doctors and nurses speaking. i'll let you respond to that. >> good evening. as a front line health care worker, i have a few choice

words to that malicious lie that i unfortunately can't say on national television just to share the heart break of my fellow health care workers going through this process but let me just start by saying, no. doctors do not profit by listing someone as being covid positive on a death certificate. in fact, most doctors i know have seen cuts to their salaries or potentially no increases and their hospitals suffer major financial losses. the american hospital association says that hospitals are likely to lose $323 billion by the end of 2020 because when there is a big surge we have to stop all other services. here in the northeast when we saw that we actually had to furlough health care workers because all of the elective surgeries and everything else were put on hold. this is really damning and actually someone who is now anticipating our hospitals getting full again, you know, watching my cohealth care workers suffer through this in wisconsin and the midwest it

just breaks my heart. it is hurting us as we're walking into potentially what might be the worst phase of this pandemic. >> i normally don't ask you to speak as a pastor because you know a lot of politics and you know donald trump but please take a step back for me as a pastor. you have the leader of the christian right basically donald trump accusing front line health care workers who are risking death themselves in order to treat covid patients going into rooms where the family can't go and having to take those risks and are treating people and holding people and being the last one to see people when they're going to die. when you hear the president of the united states, who is the leader of the christian right for all intents and purposes say that, what is your response? >> my response is it is the ultimate insensitivity toward human life. we're talking about someone who sees everything in terms of money and usually money to him. so he tries to equate everyone

else and all they're interested in is making money. we're talking about saving lives. we're talking about loved ones that have died. we're talking about loved ones that will get seriously sick. and he is reducing it to some fantasy that doctors are trying to make money because that's his world view. the morality of this is outrageous. before you even get to the politics how could you have such a lack of concern for the health, welfare, and even lies of the people you are supposed to be caring about as president or even a human being. it is outrageous by any scale and by anybody that is looking at this. >> you know, your career as an author, as a commentator, is looking at presidents throughout the course of history and trying to sort of measure what they are. this is a president who has not once really expressed a real

personal connection and pain about the deaths of nearly 250,000 people under his watch. not a sense of shame. not a sense of sorrow. sorrow for the families. herman cain basically died for him right around juneteenth as they were mocking it with a rally in tulsa where the tulsa massacre took place and they missed it by a day because somebody clued them into the calendar. this man died basically for trump. they don't even talk about him. let me give you an example, audience. you've heard this before. this is what they do at his rallies. >> they call me up, sir, you shouldn't be speaking about hunter. you shouldn't be saying bad things about bikers. nobody cares. i disagree. maybe that's why i'm here and they're not. but they say talk about your

economic success. talk about 33.1% the greatest in history. look, if i do, i mean, how many times can i say it? i'll say it five or six times during the speech. 33.1. >> it's that and lock her up chants about the governor of michigan who had a plot to kidnap her and kill her. so he has fun with that and laughs about it and says ha, ha, ha. that's funny. lock her up. that is what he does at these rallies. not a word about the dead. your thoughts? >> he is an entertainer and i think it says a lot about america and where we are and have been since 2015 that enough americans have found this entertaining enough to sustain this presidency. i think we'll be talking about this and examining it if we're doing the right thing because we have to understand what's happened here. if we want to keep the worst parts of it from happening again. you mentioned empathy.

you know, the greatest leaders, and reverend sharpton will back me on this i think, the greatest people are those who actually have the capacity to follow to some degree the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. nobody wants to love their neighbor as themselves. right? it's really hard. i wish you well if you're my neighbor but do i love you as much as myself? a very difficult thing. that is why it is such a revolutionary commandment at the heart of the great religious and moral traditions. but our greatest presidents have managed to convince enough of us to see each other not as adversaries and also not as an audience but as neighbors. and in a republic we have to be able to reach out much of the

time to achieve a common good that outranks personal gain. what you just showed and what you showed before about the virus is a man who has no interest in the common good and is entirely consumed by a personal brand and a personal mission here to entertain, to be at the center of events, and not to do the hard work of governance. >> what he said isn't even true. he then throws in a little fake brag about the economy. the economy lost like 36% gdp and gained back 37%. i think steve rattner said it's as if you lost a hundred bucks and found 65 on the floor. you still lost a hundred dollars. he doesn't even know the truth about his own boast. rev, you know this guy and have for a long time. he is now apparently going to cancel his election night party because he doesn't want to lose o in his own hotel. he is going to basically sit in the white house and i guess maybe go back down in the bunker and whatever if he doesn't win. and then if he wins come back out i guess on the truman

balcony and do another mussolini act. that's the plan. what do you think happens to him if he loses? what do you think he'll do? >> he'll be sitting in the white house planning a narrative on how he was robbed even if it's a landslide against him because he is not the type of person that can even deal with his own insecurities. so he can never concede that he lost. he will be trying to figure out how to spend a defeat if he is defeated. and how he will try to have the whole country in an uproar even if he in no stretch of the imagination has been the loser on tuesday night. i think we need to be prepared for that. if we're looking for a man that will be giving any concession it will be something that he is incapable of. this is a man that believes you win at any cost including

breaking all the rules and what he cares about the principles of voters expressing their views and giving their will at the polls is absolutely nothing. he is as ruthless as all of his life and it will not change by tuesday night. there is no damascus road he will be converted on between now and three or four days from now. >> the big worry then is what does he do between now and january 20th for the country if anything or what vengeance does he try to seek out. reverend al sharpton, doctor, john meacham, thank you all very much. right now joe biden is preparing to hold an event in milwaukee. we'll go there live for the latest on his strategy for the final days of the campaign. with everyone nervous about what is going to happen on tuesday and beyond, we will sort out where things stand including some of the historic, demographic shifts, nearly all of them bad for donald trump.

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i almost lost my husband. this is not a joke. >> i'm sorry. >> this is very serious for people to get out here and vote. it is hard for me to stand but i still made it out here. we need everybody to get out here and vote. >> really important this year because of all the things going on with the coronavirus and everything. it is really important for everybody to come out and vote. >> reporter: did you vote in 2016? >> i did not. you don't really realize until you actually grow within yourself and to see what the world determines. it is very important to vote. >> wisconsin voters are showing up early in the middle of a raging pandemic to vote.

in 2016 many voters in the state did not. in fact, they had the lowest turnout in 16 years which helps donald trump to win the state by a mere 27,000 votes. fast forward nearly four years. nearly 200,000 new voters have cast ballots. whole different world. both candidates visited the state today. joe biden has spent the past two months trying to rebuild the old blue wall, which includes wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. covering the biden campaign and early voting in milwaukee is msnbc's political reporter ailey vitalie. >> reporter: we've heard the pandemic and politics of this moment are linked. you played a conversation i had with one voter at the beginning of your segment where she was talking to you about the fact she can't even stand but she is out here voting and it is because she says she almost lost her husband to the virus earlier this year. this is not a theoretical for

these voters. it is something that is impacting them every day in their lives and cases here are continuing to rise. as the candidates make their final pitches across places in the midwest they are also touching down in states where the pandemic is only getting worse. that of course doesn't track with the reality that donald trump paints in his rallies but it is the crux of joe biden's closing argument that his top priority will be handling of the pandemic. frankly, you talk about the turnout here in wisconsin, from the very moment after the 2016 election i was talking to democrats who were all about investing early and rebuilding what they had lost here in wisconsin. turnout is key to that. earlier today i went canvasing with a group that is nonpartisan. they want to make sure voters get out to vote. one of the women involved with that leads a church here. she was saying the key is getting people just the information that they need. if they can go door to door, tell people they're registered, where they can vote, maybe even offer them a ride to the polls, that can be enough to break down

the barriers that keep some people from voting in 2016. that being said, though, i have met a lot of voters here who have said that they didn't vote in 2016 because they thought their vote didn't count and they have realized that, boy, were they wrong about that. joy? >> good to see people realize that. it is so important to vote. ali vitale great work. thank you very much. let's bring in the director of the university virginia center for politics and the president of emily's list. does that surprise you to hear that there is so much greater motivation now even with black voters who are pretty stalwart voters for the most part that sat it out last time and seeing it now 200,000 new voters sweeping in. >> i'm not at all surprised by this enthusiasm and, yes. it's been led by black women and the democratic party for years now but, honestly, joy, this has

been brewing since the moment donald trump won in 2016 and i'll be really honest with you it is being driven by women voters across the country. we've seen that in 2017 in virginia. we saw it in 2018 as the democrats and democratic women took over the house of representatives. i'm seeing it literally everywhere across this country. new voters, any voters, they're coming out to have their voice heard and it is fabulous. >> yeah. it is one of the biggest complaints larry for people into politics is that so few americans vote. we are at the bottom in terms of the western world in terms of voter turnout. people don't even believe it when they see the polls. they go i don't know. it doesn't seem possible and they don't connect the low turnout to what happened in 2016. i want to go to you and look at the crystal ball. i am obsessed with this stuff. i love it. i'm glad you're here. let's go back and first let's look at the electoral college. this is what you have put in as

what looked like safe, what looked like toss up, what looks like republican states. people look at that and they see that yellow is florida. georgia is florida. north carolina. those states are toss ups in your view. how confident are you that those states are really in play? and i say that as a deep doubter in florida being ever blue. it seems to me to be a red state that occasionally votes for democrats. >> you have every right to question it after 2016. but i tell you things have improved in the analytics department since 2016. we've all worked very hard to improve the polling instruments, to include questions, demographic questions that give us a better handle on how to weight the individual parts of the electorate. there are a lot of other things. i won't bore your audience with all of them but i have a lot more confidence than i did in 2016. when i think all of us who are

commentators contributed to what happened on election day. we gave everybody the impression that hillary clinton was in like flinn. you look at those states right now, joy, if you put up that map and you see the yellow states that are toss-ups, donald trump won -- they really are toss-ups this time. every indication that we have including from republicans and republican pollsters is that things aren't going too well for donald trump. now, will biden carry every one of them? i doubt it. will he carry a couple? i think so. he's already at 290 on that map. you only need 270. so it's clear who is in a good position and who isn't. >> what about for the senate? we'll put up the senate one as well. these are all of the seats where people say georgia is georgia still. north carolina is north carolina.

i point out to some folks when people say that to me that some states have democratic governors like north carolina so democrats can win statewide. kentucky has a democratic governor. how much do you think those toss ups we see in yellow are again real toss ups like georgia for instance? >> georgia has two seats up and unfortunately we'll have to wait until early january to resolve at least one of them that will go to a run off. it is possible both seats will go to a run-off because georgia has this strange law requiring 50% plus one and it is difficult to get when you have more than two candidates on the ballot. so, look. they're dead tied. the campaigns agree on this. the pollsters agree on this. it isn't just people sitting in their back office playing on the computer and deciding they're toss ups. the one i would point to, though, is north carolina. amazingly, and i really mean this, joy, i've been at this 50 years, i don't even want to tell

you how long it's been, but i am truly surprised that what was a scandal that emerged on the democratic nominee hasn't hurt him very much. you know, it cost a few points. he is still ahead and in some surveys well ahead of the republican incumbent who i think is quite weak. >> yes. >> so there is a potential gain for democrats where i think they threw up their hands and gave up a couple weeks ago. >> yeah. north carolina, democratic governor. back to you. i want to play donald trump a little bit. we don't like to play too much donald trump. this is how donald trump is talking to what you talked about which is where he is really vulnerable, really suburban white women. here is his message to suburban white women. >> they were talking about suburban women don't like donald trump. i said, i think they do. i'm also getting your husbands, they want to get back to work, right? they want to get back to work. we're getting your husbands back to work. >> thank goodness it is finally

time to vote. what about the democrats? repeal the tax cuts? that will cost me over a thousand dollars. i can't afford that. higher taxes on employers? my husband is looking for work. >> that is an ad from trump. my husband is looking for work. there are people pushing back on that. obviously the lincoln project and others are running ads saying he is -- you know. your thoughts on this kind of an appeal to suburban white women? >> joy, i can almost not find the words. first off i don't know what suburbs he is talking about. but maybe they were around in the 1950s. they are not the suburbs of 2020. these are diverse communities that are more urban looking than anything else. the women, particularly college educated women, have mobilized, energized, and he is really right in that they really don't like him. they really don't like him. and that is not going to change

by suggesting that he is going to fix their problems with finding jobs for their husbands. this is not what is going on. in fact, we know we're dealing with, you know, a deep, deep recession because of his failure in managing the pandemic. that is really affecting women. it is really hard on women across the country in all aspects of our society so he just does not understand what is going on here. it is just shocking to see and hear him talk about it. that is why we're seeing the massive swings and as larry walked through his crystal ball what you are seeing in so many of those swings and toss up states are a lot of suburbs. you're seeing the charlotte suburbs. texas. texas is completely in play here. >> absolutely. >> why? because of the suburbs. that's what's going on here. >> you know who is a suburban woman? me. i live in the suburbs.

okay? black people live in the suburbs. hate to tell you, donald. >> exactly. thank you for saying it. diversity. >> thank you. we always love to have you on. thank you very much. welcome to the show. still ahead a nation on edge. unprecedented tensions and fears simmering just below the surface of this election. how do we get here? can we find our way back? next on "the reidout." one day we'll look back and remember the moment that things, for one strange time in our lives, got very quiet. we worried over loved ones, over money, over our planet, and over takeout. let's remember this time when so many struggled to feel secure, and build a future where everyone can. because when the world seems like it's standing still... that's the perfect time for us to change it.

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>> i just voted for kamala harris, and just thinking about how black women have showed up in this space and we continue to show up in this space, you know, even when they are those that don't stand with us we continue to grind. we continue to serve. we continue to protect. so, you know, i am real moved

right now about what all it has taken for us just to get to this place. >> our friend latasha brown from black voters matter captured what many americans are feeling right now. the thrill of voting in this particular election with a black woman on the ballot and also an opportunity to choose a different path for our nation but along with that thrill comes fear and anxiety about what lies ahead in just four days. one of my next guests shared the video message that you are now seeing after she heard alarming news from the fbi. the latest example of a disturbing reality for black women and people of color in the movement. joining me now are my guests, co-founders of the black lives matter movement. thank you both for being here, friends. it is so good to see you both. let me start with you patrice. we played a little bit of your video but we know we have you in person. i wanted you to just tell the

story rather than just play the video. please tell us what is happening with you. >> sure. and thank you so much, joy, and, hey, it's good to see you. >> i was called by the fbi on friday, october 23rd. i was told that i was on a list of names and at that time didn't disclose it was a white supremacist but i assumed it was. later on after the next 48 hours and 72 hours of talking to other folks and getting more information found out it wasn't just one person that was arrested. it was multiple people. they were known white supremacists. and since then have been really trying to talk to both myself and my family about how we get prepared for potential violence and, also, really recognizing that there is a long legacy of black leaders who are fighting for justice, who not only end up

being -- receiving threats by white supremacists but are often harmed and killed by white supremacists so i took this very seriously. >> absolutely, as well you should. i know this is something you're also dealing with. >> that's right. i mean, i got the same information as patrice did on the same day, the difference is that the fbi showed up at my house and, you know, i think one of the things that is not surprising about this is that this is the likely impact and effect of this administration that we've seen time and time again give a pass to white supremacists while, you know, trying to characterize this movement as a violent and terrorist movement. but i can say this. i'm not stocking weapons. i don't have names of people in the list in my home that i plan to do harm to. and this kind of gas lighting, this kind of lying and

intentional space being given to, you know, white supremacists who are doing harm in our communities is unacceptable and it is something that has to be addressed and this president needs to understand that his words are not just words. he is literally giving a green light to people who would cause either patrice or myself or the thousands and thousands of activists across the country who are just fight tog make sure that black lives matter, that is not a terrorist mission. but putting someone's name on a list and having it inside your home with weapons that are illegal and threats and giving them threats is actually a problem. >> you know, patrice, i am glad you mentioned the history here because, you know, there is a long history of black activists who were all young. people forget, dr. king died, he was younger than kobe bryant was when he died at the times of death he was actually two years younger. these are all young people even

back in the 1960s. the difference is the president of the united states was not encouraging off duty police officers to go -- not encouraging people to stand up and stand by, domestic terrorists, not egging on the racists to go and do it. black lives matter was founded during the obama era. can you talk about for people who are worried we've got all of these. we'll put up a whole list of things people are worried about. you have minneapolis police trying to recruit. people who are afraid and going to try and go to vote on election day or before what message can you send to them of hope given what you guys are facing? i'll start with you, patrice. >> well, if you haven't made a plan to vote we need you to vote. now is the time to change the course of history as alicia talked about so brilliantly. it is this president and his administration that has created the kind of emboldened racism and white supremacy we see right now. and so we can vote out white supremacy november 3rd and we

can make sure that white supremacy does not win. we all, the people, we have the power to make that happen. >> yeah. alicia, you ladies are so brave. i have to tell you that the things that you guys do out there that people like yourselves, you all founded this movement that is the new civil rights movement so, you know, on a day-to-day basis what keeps you grounded and strong and keeps you doing this work? >> well, the fact that what we're fighting for is just and right. i deeply, deeply believe and work hard every day to make sure that black lives have dignity and have value just like every life in this country deserves to have. and sometimes that means, you know, getting people to the polls to make sure that the people who are making the rules, that govern our lives, are doing so without the shadow of institutional and systemic racism. and sometimes it means taking to the streets and expressing our displeasure and our

dissatisfaction. with the ongoing police violence that exists in our communities. but most of the time it means working to put more power into the hands of more people so that we can all live a dignified life. that activity gives me hope because it is the way this country is supposed to be. >> two brilliant women. brave and brilliant. please stay safe. take care of yourselves. we need you. thank you very much for being here tonight. up next, actress and activist here to tell us about her efforts to get out the vote. we will be right back. honey honey? new nyquil severe honey is maximum strength cold and flu medicine with soothing honey-licious taste. nyquil honey. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever best sleep with a cold medicine.

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there are no excuses for sitting it out. >> i just want our voters to know in the city of detroit, 50% turnout is not good enough. we need to be out here. we need to be voting. there are food trucks all up and down the boulevard to refresh you as you wait. we have 23 vote centers in the city of detroit open seven days a week. there is no excuse. >> she was dressed and ready and told you there's food. you better go and vote. that message is being cast all across the country including from our theater industry. and joining me now is actress, tony nominated playwrite, and the walking dead and warrior who is leading the get out the vote event online, fixing my face so i look like i have some dignity. how are you? i'm a huge fan. tell me about your get out the

vote effort from the theater industry. >> yeah. so great to be here. it was a decision that myself and my colleagues came to about not only wanting to contribute about the way playwrites can and do tell a diverse number of stories through amplifying american voices but also to support the amazing theater industry that is in this country that is really struggling right now through the pandemic. so we brought together an amazing group of actors and writers and they were all so keen to really create pieces that embodied this moment in various ways, with various perspectives all around the idea we must vote. we must, must vote. >> that is amazing. so people can see all of you. did i ask you, the theater industry, my son was an usher at "hamilton" so i am obsessed

with the theater industry and where it is right now. it is really stalled at this moment. is coming together for get out the vote a way for particularly theater actors and performers and crews to really stay involved and stay together? >> you know, it is really a contribution we could make at this moment but there is so much more to be done. there are a lot of theaters involved in this effort that we have brought together and tried to give these pieces to them to use in their way of contributing new content because that is what they're not getting. they're not getting any new content, not able to supply their places with employment, and there are so many people who are employed as you mentioned through this industry. so it is the beginning of our trying to figure out how do we consistently keep the theater community buoyed in this very difficult time. >> i would be remiss if i did not include asking you about this. there was an issue where donald trump was making fun of the name of what might be the next vice president of the united states. let me play it really quick. here it is.

>> it is the first gift that a child usually when they enter the earth receives from their family. it is usually informed by tradition and love and the hope and aspiration the family has for that child. it is something precious and sacred. >> crazy bernie is like a conservative compared to her. she even -- kamala. you have to pronounce it exactly right otherwise she gets very upset even though she can't pronounce it right. >> we played them in reverse but that was kamala harris's response to donald trump. you know, as somebody who also grew up with an african surname in a town where no one could pronounce it, when you hear the president of the united states going after, you know, a sitting united states senator or other senators doing it, what is your response to people like that? >> i find it quite shocking because, you know, my name in

case you didn't know is danai-shall it is something i was born in a teenie, tiny town in iowa. so it is very much something that strikes me in a number of ways. to me, it very much is honestly it feels unamerican because where i was born and when my parents were trying to teach people how to say my name people were invested. they've always been. that's what i've always loved about americans. there's always been this intent and this investment to actually embrace your specific narrative. and i've experienced that right through my life in this country. i've had so many friends try to say and people in general even one of your technicians just now the way he really tried to hit the "r" in my last name i appreciate that. that feels like an american thing. i've been in other parts of the west where that is not the same. they want your name to curve toward them. that is not america. as america we embrace each other's specific stories and

that shocked me because that sort of disrespect doesn't have any place in any public or private narrative. >> amen. amen. i am a huge fan. just to show you how much this is me dressed as your character a ago for halloween. that means i'm for real for real. thank you very much. i'm note as good a michone, bless you and great work. thank you for all you are doing. up next, if you still have not voted and you are looking for reasons to get out and do your thing, i have you covered. boy, do i have you covered, stay with us. water? why?! ahhhh! incoming! ahhhahh!

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mates have made their closing argume arguments. >> remember, the final words left to us by your late congressman and my personal friend, an american hero, john lewis. he said, quote, the vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have. >> let's honor the ancestors. that's a reason to vote. another reason to vote, everything is at stake. >> we are going to make america great again. again. >> and in theory, i didn't really have to be here. >> and the stakes, i mean -- the stakes have been made viscrysta clear. we are voting to see if the country will take on covid or mask death. we are voting to decide whether you, your kids, your parents and your grandparents will have health care, including the nine million of you who have been stricken with the coronavirus.

whether we will finally beat back racism and white supremacy and emerge as the multi-racial democracy, we were accidentally built to be. whether we will finally reform policing and make it the mechanism that society all needs. whether the rights of women, black, brown and indigenous voter vote vot voters and lgbt communities can fight, and we can preserve our hard won rights. whether we will get back in the fight to save the planet from the destructive out growth of our greed and lack of respect for the earth, air and water we depend on to survive. in short, everything we care about is on the line in this election. everything. have you voted? i did. my family did. if you haven't, why not? seriously. as president obama told us this week. not voting out of cynasism,

doesn't make sense. >> when i hear people say, i voted last time and thing-s did not change as much as i thought. listen, we have never come close to seeing what it would be like if everyone voted. >> exactly. as michelle obama told us, we are really all we have got in the end. >> we don't have the luxury to assume that things are going to turn out okay. we cannot afford to withhold our votes. >> and guys, there's people voting who are taking far greater risks than some of us who are healthy and able. take lonnie interest and clare nee lmp n n neeley, they are 101, and they swung "sweet low, sweet chairiot before entering the courthouse.

and another drove 100 miles to vote. this 90-year-old woman, the 22nd child of a former enslaved person who submitted her ballot, or james wendell williams, who's last wish was to vote. and who's son took him to the polls though he was stricken with cancer at 77 years old. he voted. though sadly in his state, his vote won't count because he died. but to the very end, he voted. and his families votes will count. look at the people. responding to long lines in philly, not by leaving without voting, but by dancing. or at the brooklyn marching band who turned long lines outside of the barclay's center in to a street party. you can do that too. andif you need more motivation, i want you to listen to otis moss, jr., and his son and grandson telling you the story of reverend moss's father who

walked miles to the polls, determined to vote to be turned away. >> go vote, papa. >> six miles to the town's center. >> he on advertise, it looks like you have come to the wrong polling place. >> a clear and blatant lie. >> you are in the wrong place. >> his will and dream to vote out weighed any disappointment. >> boy, i'm sure sorry, the polling place closed. >> wounded but never give up. setting an example and a memory for generations unborn. >> vote, because mr. moss couldn't. vote for all the people who were denied for centuries this basic right of citizenship, the enslaved and their descecendans had to fight 100 years after the

13th amendmeant. vote because our rights mat. our lives matter. our planet matters and because you matter. i'm asking, i'm pleading. you have got one more souls to the polls weekend. one more, america, vote this weekend, if your state allows it. vote on eelection day, drop off the ballot at your precinct, it's too late to mail it. please, for the sake of our country's future, vote. that is all for "the reid out," tonight, "all in with chris hayes" starts. >> tonight on "all in," this president has done everything to discourage us. we will not be silenced. 85 million people have voted so far. we have had enough. >> the wild discuss story of early voting in a pc