of what we could do together because you know we could do anything. >> good morning, welcome to "a.m. joy" i'm jonathan capehart. with three days to go until election day, the candidates crisscross the midwest making rounds in the states of michigan, wisconsin, iowa and minnesota. in this final week, trump is expected to make four separate stops around pennsylvania today. and biden will make his final mid western push in michigan, campaigning with president obama. the latest polling from fox news has biden up eight points over trump nationally. for months, i've argued that this election is more than a choice between joe biden and donald trump. it is also a choice between american democracy and white supremacy. given trump's history of racist rhetoric including his promise to save the suburbs, coming a

mid a stark racial divide on display when chris jansing sat down with a group of older women in sarasota, florida. >> he has caused social unrest. >> oh, that is not so. oh, come on. >> he has encouraged white supremacists. >> oh, no. >> yes, he has. >> and he is -- >> no he hasn't. >> he is. >> he is not. >> he is a systemist racist institution that we're dealing with. >> don't use those terms. >> yes i will use that term because racism is real. >> and i know that i'm not because i'm white and i'm proud of it. >> my people are still getting shot without provocation. >> because they're doing things wrong. they're not police eppi-- not s listening to the police. >> on november 3rd you chose between what you want. an the president who made racism

and white supremacist the hallmark of his 2016 came and his presidency who labelled mexicans rapists an drug dealers but referred to neo-nazis in charlottesville as very fine people, who teargassed those taking part in a peaceful black lives matter for a photo on and told a hate drup to quote, stand back and stand by during a presidential debate. and a president who has made extraordinary efforts to suppress the votes of plaqblack brown people encouraging an army of supporters to, quote, monitor the polls through intimidation. all of that is on the ballot in just three days. joining me now is michael steel, former care of the republican national committee and senior adviser to the lincoln project. donna edwards, former congresswoman from maryland and a msnbc political analyst,

stewart stevens also senior adviser to the lincoln project and author of "it was all a lie" and connie schultz columnist, everybody thank you very much for being here this morning. i just have to start this conversation off by playing two pieces of sound. the first one is senator susan collins of maine. watch this. >> 30 seconds for a follow-up. is systemic racism a problem here in maine. >> i do not believe systemic racism is a problem in the state of maine. >> thank you. >> and now watch this from vice president mike pence. >> joe biden explains it all by saying believes america is systemically racist. and he said that police officers have a implicit bias against

minorities. >> michael and stewart i'll come to you first. starting with you, michael steele, why is it so difficult for soeenator collins and for republicans to state the obvious, that there is systemic racism in the united states? >> because they don't believe it. they don't believe it. they have led themselves to believe or otherwise have confirmed through whatever their experience is that that is not as big of a problem as some other left, as they would put it, or others out there would make it out to be. they have not had the experience with the police that black folks have it. they've not had the experience with red lining in their neighborhoods as brown skinned communities have. they have not had the experience of having the kinds of educational and health care and

other disadvantages to deal with. because they have lived in a place maybe or in an environment where that is either not something they have to concern themselves with or they could very easily ignore. so that is their experience. but what is more telling from that, jonathan, is the lack of listening. the lack of listening to the black and brown people who are saying, it is a problem. it may not be a problem for you. but as a united states senator, you're answer should have been it may not be a systemic issue here in our state of maine, but i know it is elsewhere and as a united states senator, i will do something about it. but they can't turn that corner because they're looking around and they're seeing all of these trump-fied folks around them like you saw in that clip saying that ain't true, that ain't true and worried about i do need to get across that ballot line on

tuesday. that is the problem. >> and you know, stewart, to chairman steele's point about the lack of listening, as we saw in that clip, when the black woman said, you know, systemic racism, the white woman across her was yelling back, doan use that term, don't use that term. ab pick up on your reaction or reasonings for why the republican party just is incapable of recognizing and acknowledging that systemic racism does actually exist. >> well, look, i think they don't wan to believe it. i think it is as much that they don't believe it as they don't want to believe it. because if you do believe it, it lays you down a series of conclusions that are self-damning and troubling and much more comfortable to believe this isn't a problem. look, the republican party went down a path, it had a choice but it went down a path to embrace

white grievance as its core. and we are in the last gas as a national party. i think donald trump is going to be crushed on tuesday. absolutely crushed. even if he won, where this country is going is determined now. and donald trump and stephen miller and all of these people, they're not going to stop it. of the americans who are 15 years and under, the majority are nonwhite. they're nonwhite whether they turn 18 and start voting and that is the end of the republican party as we know it. so you could deny gravity, but when you jump out of a window, gravity is going to win. and that is where the republican party is at. >> that is the best analogy, stewart. connie, you're there in ohio. could you give a sense in terms of the kochoice pout thathat i there, there in ohio which do

you think will win out? >> well, the latest quinnipiac poll shows that biden is ahead i think by three points. it is going to be close. i remain optimistic. i do want to address this notion that those white women who were yelling at that black woman as soon as she began speaking don't believe there is racism. there is no way they're not sitting at their table over can after bridge and not hearing the language, they are hearing other trump supporters talk in racism tones ab th tone and they know that trump is a racism but they don't want to acknowledge it. and i have nobody white people like that my entire life. i come from the white working class and this is certainly the mentality of many despite everything that they were seeingch seeing, and i don't have to be black and i don't have to experience police brutality to understand it is happening in our community. we're the city of tamir rice.

and i don't have to see the effort to keep people from voting and i want to give a shoutout here in ohio, there are attorneys getting up and meeting by zoom in the 7:00 a.m. hour strategizing how they're going to protect the vote on election day. they've had the training and they're called by to do it and that is one of the reasons i'm hopeful. >> let me pick up on something else, connie. it is one thing for people to sit around and use racist language when folks feel like they're among like-minded folks but it is another thing to be fine with it. believe it, be okay with it. do you think that is at play here? >> i do. because trump used the language of an abuser and of a racist. and at the heart of that is to make white people afraid of black people. why all this talk to suburban women in particular will not

wanting people would live in poverty or people who are trying to work their way out of poverty living in their communities. this is about ramping up the fear. and fear works. we know this. it worked in campaigns. everyone on this panel could attest to that for decades. fear has been the message that often attracts voters and getting them to the polls. this time it is not going to work but it is certainly the language he's been using. >> congresswoman edwards, i know when i say this election is a choice between american democracy and white supremacy that i'm going way out there. one, do you think i'm being hyperbolic in presenting the choice that way, and two, from your advantage point as a former member of congress, where do you see things from your perspective given what connie and stuart and char man steele have said. >> one of the things that we have to understand is that we see and hear these women and we

hear susan collins and what they don't want to acknowledge is that by supporting and voting for a racist, means they're a racist. i mean, there is no other choice in that. i mean, donald trump doesn't just use the language of racism, he actually enacts policies that by themselves are racist. and you can't tell me that you're voting for him and you're not owning that. and so i just think that -- i feel like at the polls that voters are showing by their votes their unwillingness to accept this. we see the record voter turnout and the record number of new voters and i think that those voters are coming out because they want to make a choice between what you described as white supremacy and democracy. and those two things cannot live in the same house.

>> i want to play something from what the president said in lansing, michigan, on tuesday. listen to this. >> you know, we are going to win minnesota. because of omar. because of omar. she likes telling us what we should do how we should run our country. isn't that nice. no we're going to win. she hates our country. >> stewart stevens, a couple of things, one congresswoman omar is monan american and two numbe republican has won the state of since 1972. but to the point that i think that both connie was bringing up and donna was bringing up, the use of fear by the president in this campaign, you are a veteran of many campaigns, many presidential campaigns. in 2020 will fear work?

>> i don't think so. i toy donald trump is completely misjudged where the country is. take my home state of mississippi, right. we take down the state flag finally which was basically the confederate battle flag. the same week donald trump gets into a fight with nascar because they ban the confederate flag. and now we have a president in a cultural war with nascar. that is not a big future. i think when he talked to women in the suburbs, first of all, this panel know better than i, but i know a lot of women that live in the suburbs but though don't like to call themselves housewives and most of them have seven or eight jobs. i don't know if someone moves next door of a different ethnicity and religion that they won't embrace them. there is just to place that reinforces racism in our society in a cultural sense, our films and books other than what the cesspool on the internet.

so i think it is a bad guess an we'll see it in the numbers. i think the people will vote against donald trump to prove they are not racist and reject the idea of the country. >> and connie, from stewart and talking about mississippi, connie, in ohio, do you have -- share the same assessment? >> i do. and i love what stewart said about his referring to women as housewives. donald trump is a 1950s white man campaigning in a 2020 world. and when he misread the room, certainly here in ohio, we have a very active suburban and a lot of coverage in the times and the atlantic about this group of suburban women who decided to do something after 2016 and they have really become a force here in ohio. and we're seeing these kind of things that erupt around the state. again, i think it is close but i remain optimistic. >> and chairman steele i'm going to end with you with less than 90 seconds left, do you agree with stewart that the president

has completely misread the country? >> oh, absolutely. and remember we're watching a replay of the 2016 campaign. he's running against hillary clinton. he's running against those dark shadows that were created. he wanted to talk about his kra campaign being spied on. he's living out one truth for himself that is in his head an the rest of us are living out the reality and the truth of covid, a flat lined economy and social unrest. he's talking about -- nostalgically about the 1950s. white suburban women. and we're living out the reality of moms having to home-school their kids because they're not in class because of covid and they're trying to balance out their lives and move their families forward in the face of those three big barriers, covid,

the economy, and civil unrest. >> and with that, we're going to have to leave it there. chairman steele, i thought you were coming back but you're not. so thank you very much. and stewart thank you very much. but up next, jon ossoff joining me. but first here is a look at a powerful new ad from the naacp. >> this is morgan freeman. i know that many of you are wondering how soon you'll be able to hug your friends again. or visit your parents and grandparents without fear. i know that many of you are angered by ongoing racism in our nation and worried about having a jb to repay your student loans and afford the basic needs of life. it wasn't long ago that people were beaten and even killed to obtain the same red power each

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perhaps senator perdue would have been able to respond properly to the pandemic if you haven't been pending off multiple investigations for

insider trading. it is not just that you're a crook, senator, it's that you're attacking the health of the people that you represent. you did say covid 19 was no deadlier than the flu. you did say there would be no significant uptick in cases. all the while you were looking after your own assets and portfolio and you did vote four times to end protections for pre-existing conditions. four times. >> after being rendered speechless at wednesday's georgia debate, you could say that senator david perdue chickened out. perdue has decided to join donald trump on the campaign trail at a rally in weekend instead of facing off in a final debate with democratic challenger jon ossoff. as of this morning, 3.6 million votes have been cast in the peach state. up 90% from this point in 2016. here is another data point.

more than 385,000 georgians have tested positive for coronavirus, including republican congressman drew ferguson who attended a rally on tuesday with georgia governor brian kemp who announced friday that he is now in quarantine due to close contact with someone who has test tested positive. joining me now to discuss the state of the race is senate candidate jon ossoff. great to see you. thanks for being on the show this morning. >> good morning. great to be here. thanks for the hospitality. >> let me throw up some polling numbers here. where it has you leading senator perdue 47% to 44%. there is the monmouth polling that has you up 49% to senator perdue at 47%. and then there is the -- well i'll hold that one for another yes. but the question i have for you here is i don't know if a lot of people understand this. if you do not hit 50% on

election day, you and senator perdue then go for a runoff? >> that is right. that is georgia election law. and i'm not paying much attention to the day by day polling, jonathan. i'm running every hour like i'm behind. and we are doing everything that we can do to generate maximum turnout to protect ballot access and to make sure that georgia voters know that health care is on the line and the capacity to respond to this nearly unprecedented public health emergency, this pandemic that is still killing a thousand americans per day. that is on the line, too. senator perdue doesn't want to discuss issues of substance. he didn't defend his record of corruption and competence and negligence. he's on the run. he doesn't want to debate. we're taking our message to the

people and doing everything we could to get people out to the polls. >> and one more question, about him not wanting to debate in public. when would the runoff election be. that is not until january. >> january 5th, that is right. >> when was the debate supposed to be and when did he pull out? >> well, what happened is you got a guy who has been in office for six years without any sense of accountability to the people. haven't held a single public town hall meeting his entire first term in the u.s. senate. he's not accustomed to be asking tough questions. he feels entitled to a senate seat and he had no answers when i asked straightforward questions on thursday on that debate stage in savannah. why did he vote four times to repeal protections for pre-existing conditions. why did he tell us covid was no deadlier than the flu when he knew better. why did he buy stock in a manufacturer of medical equipment the same day the senate got a private briefing on this virus in january.

these are questions he is obligated to answer. so that georgia voters understand exactly who he is and what he's done and what his record is. he believes he is entitled to the senate seat but this is people's seat. he's on the run an stands to lose the seat on tuesday. >> i keep thinking back to the gubernatorial race, stacey abrams against brian kemp an the voter suppression efforts that happened there. how concerned are you despite the big numbers that i talked about in the intro to the segment of people voting early compared now to 2016, how worried are you that voter suppression efforts will be successful in keeping people from the polls. >> well despite the precedent and inspiring moving demonstration of the will to vote by the people of the state, voter suppression in georgia is a fact.

this is james crow esquire. this is the new poll tax, the new literacy test. black voters waiting six, eight, ten hours to vote. we're doing everything that we could here in georgia in honor of congressman john lewis and if folks want to help us in the final days to make sure every eligible georgia voter could make they're voice heard, win the two u.s. senate races in georgia, folks could log on to elect jon and chip in a couple of bucks for a voter protection fund in the final hours. >> in the previous segment i was talking with four panelists and a lot of them believe that this election america will move forward, that the hatred and the racism that we've had to endure for the last four years will be pushed aside by pushing aside president trump. i was going to play the segment

from your debate with senator perdue where you push back against him doing racist things in his campaign against you. do you think that georgia is ready to move beyond the racism and hatred that has been pushed soe senator perdue by electing you. >> absolutely. he's trying to dust off an old playbook that doesn't work any more. and to everybody out there at home, take a deep breath and feel some hope. feel some confidence. we could heal this country. we could reunite in country and and focus on solving problems together, controlling this virus, generating an economic recovery, making investments in clean energy and infrastructure. passing strengthen and civil rights and voting rights legislation, making sure every family has access to great health care. we could do all of these things. but in order to begin that era,

we have to win on tuesday and i'm asking folks again to log on to electjon.com and resource us to finish strong and win this election. >> last question for you, jon, could joe biden win georgia, yes or no? >> absolutely. and senator harris will be here on sunday. i'm looking forward to campaigning with her. >> jon ossoff candidate for georgia. thank you so much for coming on the show today. >> it is an honor. thank you so much. coming up, trump accolades people packing for his rallies as covid spreads faster than ever. that's next.

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our vaccine will eradicate the virus. and by the way, we have it. but whether we have it or not, it is rounding the turn. it is rounding the turn. >> he's doing nothing. we're learning to die and donald trump has waved the white flag and surrendered to the virus. the candidates closing messages on pandemic couldn't be more different. as the virus is spreading uncontrolled throughout the country and donald trump continues to hold superspreader events every day. friday was another record-breaking day with more than 98,000 new coronavirus cases nationwide. marking the second day in a row with more than 90,000 new cases. friday also saw 978 deaths from covid. joining me now is journalist,

author "the coming plague" lori garrett. thank you for coming on the show this morning. >> good morning, jonathan. >> okay. so what we weren't able to show before because it is over, the president leaving the white house to go for his final stretch of campaign rallies there on the south lawn throwing hats to supporters there. not wearing a mask. someone who had the coronavirus, had tested positive for covid-19, how irresponsible is that? >> well, let's step back a second and ask what is the point of the mask? a lot of people unfortunately think that the mask is just about protecting themselves and that makes it a libertarian choice. i don't care if i get sick or i do care if i get sick and see it as just, it is me keeping you away from me. that is exactly wrong.

it is actually not as effective to protect you as it is protecting others from virus you may be carrying. and not aware you could transmit. so the problem is a lot of people have framed it as a selfish question whether in fact it is a question about you and the world. you and everybody around you. do you give a damn about whether the stranger coming toward you on the sidewalk lives or dies. do you care whether you might be unknowingly asymptomatically carrying a virus that could kill someone that you stand next to in a restaurant or at a political rally, and unfortunately the president has also harkened on this idea that it is a matter of personal choice. and made it seem that whole point of the mask was sill my to protect yourself and since he's already had covid, and as he told us, i'm immune, then he didn't think he needed to wear a

mask. and since he becomes the marlboro man image of the macho in a pandemic, the men in his crowd say same idea, man, i'm not wearing a mask. i'm too tough to care. here is a startling thing to think about. yesterday we had more new cases in america reported in total in one 24-hour period than the entire total of cases in china since december. yesterday we had -- let me get the numbers right. 98,583 new cases reported in the united states of america. the total for china since christmas is 91,339 cases. >> lori, could you say that again. so we could drive this home for the american people. >> in one day. we had more new cases in the

united states of america than the cumulative total of chinese cases since the virus was first recognized in december. >> good lord. lori, this is one of the reasons why i love watching you and i love having you on because you just zero in on the salient issue. you zeroed in on why the mask is por important. listen to something trump said the other day. listen to this. >> you know, our doctors get more money if somebody dies from covid. our doctors are very smart people. so they say i'm sorry, but everybody dies of covid. they're sail it is terrible what he said. but that is true. it is like $2,000 more. so you get more money. >> what happens is you get it, you're to get -- if you get it, stay away and you're going to get better and then you're immune and it is a whole thing and it goes away.

>> go, lori. >> i mean, yesterday the american medical association, which is traditionally a fairly conservative organization denounce the the president and said this is malicious, fallacious lies. no doctors are getting kick backed for reporting medical cases in my specific way. the insurance reimbursements had a r handled to hospitals not to doctors. individual physicians make no additional money for risking their lives doing 20-hour shifts in an intensive care unit. this is such a disgrace. i want to introduce you to a nurse in montana named joey traywick. in the last week he held the hands and watched individuals die 23 times. because the individuals were in intensive care, could not be near their own family members, joey held their hands and watched them die.

how could this president denounce medical care workers who are all that stands between your virus and your death. at this time, and try to claim that the deaths are not his responsibility, the deaths are somehow being jerry rigged and lied about and fake numbers conjured. if anything, jonathan, the deaths are an undercount. we've had numerous studies from many different independent teams show that there say that there is a growth of excessive deaths across the last several months where, yes, there is an excess that is ascribable directly to covid but an additional excess that is far above death tolls on same dates last year or previouses combined. and this is undercounted covid according to the cdc. this is not a radical institution. this is the center for disease control and prevention.

so the president is trying to cover his own tracks, his own failures, his own administration lack of coherent policy by blaming the deaths on money-grubbing doctors. how dare he. >> to your point, lori, and i saw the interview with nurse joey in montana and the word he kept saying that really hit me here was that he and his colleagues are broken. they are absolutely broken by what they're seeing. i just want to put back up a map that he showed while you were answering another question, lori. and this is showing where the coronavirus is right now. and if you go to "the washington post" and see this map, it is actually automated. and it will show you how the virus and the pandemic has moved across the united states. and it will show you just how rapidly things have deteriorated in the country. >> jonathan, if we could keep

this map up a moment. let me walk you through something. when the virus first came into the united states, it came on the left coast, on this map, the pacific coast from china. but it came on the right coast, the northeast from italy. and what you saw were two separate introductions of virus that came at the coastlines. and so our first wave in the spring was really on the two coasts. seattle, san francisco, california, on one side, new york and the tri-state area on the other side. our second surge came after memorial day weekend when much of the south and particularly florida panhandle area up into texas and over in arizona decided to party hearty over memorial day weekend and we suddenly have an explosion of cases in a region that had chosen not to go into lockdowns. so that is the surge that took

us through july and august with a huge death toll across that region. but then in the end of august, we had the sturjis motorcycle event in which 400,000 plus bikers converged on sturgis, south dakota, mostly coming from the prairie state region. from the dakotas, montana, wyoming, nearby minnesota, indiana and so on. it was a massive number of people for several days, no masks to be seen anywhere. a lot of heavy alcohol use and partying. and then they disperse back to their home states and we have this explosion now across the prairie states and the old industrial result belt region of america. and this is of course also the region that the president is trying to win over in the election as his supporters right now. and it is just -- there is something so macon of going to

these states that are so hard hit by accepting his message don't wear a mask and they are suffering the most. >> lori. and as we're showing the pictures here as i mentioned, moments ago at the white house, and the south lawn, you see the president of the united states before departing for his last bit of campaign rallies. tossing make america great again hats to the crowd, as you could see the crowd, lots folks in the crowd appear to be wearing a mask. the president of the united states, someone who had tested positive for coronavirus, not wearing a mask. lori. >> well, his doctors insist that he no longer has virus in his body and that he has neutralized the antibodies to protect him. that may very well be true. he may not be a carrier. but there are many people around him what that have been infecked and reinfected because the white

house is a superspreader site with multiple occasions of spread within the white house. i think the real issue is not whether the president himself is likely to pass virus to another individual, it is the messaging. he's a superspreader of disinformation, of lies and half truths and wholly concocted fictions. the list of all of the drugs and medicines that he claims are curative and the latest being the regeneron antibody treatment that he received which is now been kind of put on hold because it is not showing any efficacy in open trials in people who are seriously sick with covid. and the company is pulling back on a lot of its claims. one by one, hydroxychloroquine, useless possibly dangerous if you have a pre-existing heart condition. remdesivir, now looking like, nope, not a great drug. not particularly helpful. but very expensive.

devours 3,000 plus out of your pocket book. all for a course of treatment. and so i mean i think it is wrong to focus so much on the president as a potential actual viral transmitter, it is better to focus on him as a transmitter of disinformation that is leading people to take on behaviors that put them at great risk, not just for infecting themselves but more importantly, acting at infectors, as vectors within their own population group, in their own families, in their communities. >> laurie jarretgarrett, you're national treasure. thank you for breaking it down and putting it in plain language. >> thank you. barack obama and joe biden vb a few things to say about the current occupant of the white house. keep it right here. ep it right ♪yo yo yo yo yo yo start your day with secret.

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you know that, that blue wall is going to, has to be re-established. with the grace of god, i'm going to win pennsylvania, and it's a matter that's a great deal to me personally as well as bluely. i think we're going to win wisconsin, michigan, in minnesota. a fighting chance in ohio, a fighting chance in north carolina, a fighting chance in georgia. a fighting chance in iowa. >> welcome back to "am joy." i'm jonathan capehart. today president obama joins his right-hand man in michigan pap place he won twice but hillary clinton narrowly lost. joe biden appears to have tide in his fave perp several recent polls show him with a sizable lead. isn't even in the double digits. part of that is because biden seems to have regained support among the white working class voters whom clinton failed to

connect with in the rust belt. often ignored in the conversation is the significant decrease in turnout among black voters in 2016. black voters who just opted to stay home. michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania are each home to at least one city with a large black population. milwaukee, detroit, philadelphia. the detroit free press reports that in detroit, clinton won roughly 50,000 fewer votes than obama did in 2012. those 50,000 votes could have made all the difference in a state that clinton lost by less than 11,000 votes. proving that the black vote in michigan is absolutely crucial to biden's success. joining me now is valerie jarrett, former senior adviser to president barack obama and author of "finding my voice." always great to see you. welcome to "am joy." >> thank you, jonathan and good morning to you. nice to see you there.

>> let me start with this -- president obama out on the campaign trail reuniting with his former right-hand man, the democratic nominee, joe biden. why is president obama getting out there on the campaign trail in ways that people wished he had done a lot sooner? >> well, this is the home stretch. we call him the closer. obviously, a very popular former president and really uniquely suited to describe why he thinks that joe biden with whom he served all eight years is the perfect leader coupled, of course, with his running mate senator harris to move our country forward, not backwards, and he'll make that case very compellingly and also provide a contrast to the kind of leadership joe biden would provide our country compared to what we have right now. >> you know, as i mentioned, in the intro, the fact that in 2016, 50,500 fewer people voted in detroit in 2016 as voted for

president obama in 2012. do you think that having former president obama and former vice president joe biden going to flint, michigan, and going to detroit, michigan, today will be the spark that gets people to show up and vote? >> absolutely. and we are seeing across the country, jonathan, record turnout in the early vote, and seeing for example in texas, more young people are voting than ever before. georgia's in play like never before. and michigan is so important to get the voter turnout there. the dynamic duo of vice president biden and president obama i know will do it and the other signal i think is that no one's resting on the laurels. it doesn't matter how high vice president biden is in the polls before the election day is completed. all that matters is the poll that ends that night. so we want to make sure that every single person who's eligible to vote makes a plan and gets out and votes in these

closing days, and we know we're down to the wire and i think the enthusiasm that will be generated in michigan and seen around the country by those two together will be really a very strong signal. >> so in flint, michigan, for current vice president mike pence was there. listen to what he had to say to the people in flint, michigan. >> now, joe biden explains it all by saying he thinks america is systemically racist. and then he and kamala harris actually believe, joe biden and kamala harris regularly say they believe that police van implicit bias against minorities. >> valerie, my question to you is, you know, of course he's saying that because he's trying to motivate his, their voters, but do you think that that actually will backfire overall in the state of michigan? that sentiment? >> i think it will not only

backfire in michigan, i think it's going to backfire around country. it's a good example of what i think both vice president pence and president trump are trying to do, which is to excite a shrinking base. and the fact of the matter is it does not reflect the pulse of the rest of our country, which we saw this summer when people of all races, of all ages, of all backgrounds, can demonstrating support of black lives matter. so the rhetoric that they use is suburban housewives. i know a lot of women who live in the suburbs's that's now how they see themselves, depending upon who takes care of them. they're more worried about the covid-19 virus is wreaking havoc among their homes. going into harm's way, bringing back the illness, their parents, whether or not they'll see them in a nursing home in their last remaining days. they are completely out of touch. the coronavirus virus going covid, covid, covid, that's all

we're talking about? yeah. because over 220,000 americans have died. millions more are sick or will have lost their jobs. so making a mockery of this is just like the absolute worst thing to can do, not only a mistake on a human level, on a scientific level as opposed to leading by example, it's not politically very sound either, and i think that the consequences are going to be seen on two states. >> valerie, one last question. s as you said the final poll is what's important, what happens on election day. as i said before, quite a few people didn't show up to vote particularly in detroit and in michigan, african-american voters. what would you say to those voters, black voters in general, on the fence whether or not they will cast a ballot tuesday or in this election? >> this is "the" most important election of our lifetime.

our democracy is on the ballot, our rights are on the ballot. the humanity and goodness of our country being able to come together and heal all of that is on the ballot, and not only do we have to win, we have to win big and i encourage people who are in red states and blue states alike to go and show up. your voice matters, and it sends a signal not only around the country about the pulse of our nation and where we stand, but it sends a signal around the world. everyone's watching this election. everyone's worried about the state of the united states and so your voice matters. get out and, please, vote, for vice president biden and senator harris. >> the world is watching. valerie jarrett, thank you very much for coming on this morning. >> you're welcome. now, joining the conversation is former congresswoman donna edwards and msnbc political analyst. connie shults, pulitzer prize winning column uist from ohio a a form 0er u.s. attorney for the

eastern district of michigan is also with us. welcome to all. thank you very much. i'm going to start with -- with mayor owens, and there's a mend to my madness here. mayor owens, we're all talking about michigan. former president obama's going to be there. joe biden is going to be there. how important is it to have those two people show up in michigan three days before election day? >> good morning, by the way. i'm honored to be a part of msnbc's "am joy" and weith the great panelists before me. to answer your question, i think it's very influential they came to michigan but in the end when it comes to election time, the black community wants something that is very influential and authenticity in a selection, and sometimes when a lot of times when people come to the black community at the end or to get

pictures and things like that, a lot of the black community is tired of that. they want someone that comes in before and doesn't come around when it's election time. but i think getting those last-minute voters to see how important it is to come to the community and see that they care and want to hear their voice, at this point, i think it's very important. >> uh-huh. mayor owens, you are, correct me if i'm wrong. you are the youngest mayor elected mayor at this point. correct? >> yes. the youngest and the first african-american. >> that's the next thing i was going to say. also the first african-american mayor of east point. how did that happen? >> well, how that happened was the same reason that the presidential election has gone to the black community. it's very strategic. i gib it to him. that's is how i won my election. my strategy was to go to the black community as well which i came from, because they wanted

to see representation. they wanted a voice. so when you see the presidential election now, these same people want a voice as well and they want to hear what the presidential election, people who are running, have to say. they -- and not just talk but listen. the black communities wants someone to listen to them. when you see the things going on in our community and around the country with systemic racism and things like that and you see breonna taylor and george floyd and other victims of systemic racism, those parents and the people that look like them look like me and you and so they want someone to listen to them and find not only a cure to covid-19 but the cure to racism and how do we do that? i think my election was successful was because i worked on the resources. i worked finding ways to have the black community and minorities have a voice.

not only did i listen to them, i worked towards finding ways to put them at the table, to set the table. >> right. >> and invite them to the table and have real conversations, and i think that's what we are looking at as a community, as, you know, as country, as americans. >> right. >> we're looking for someone, people, to represent us not just presidentially but locally, too, and people have to understand the local elections are just as important, not most important than the presidential election. >> right. and so -- >> go ahead. >> so, mayor owens, i'm glad you laid all that out and e especially talking about the importance of legislation and now going to barbara mcquade. barbara mcquade was instrumental in making it possible for mayor owens to become the mayor of east point, michigan, and barbara, talk about why i'm making this assertion? >> well, first -- thank you, jo

jonathan. of course, mayor owens won that election on her own and her skill and working on that campaign. the table was set by a lawsuit filed by my former office it's a the u.s. attorneys office. east point is a community with voting rules in place that was making it impossible for minority voters to have their votes heard. it was inviolation of section 2 of the voting rights act. we brought a lawsuit to require the city of east point to change the way that it elected its still council members and its mayors and it resolved that voluntarily. wanted to do the right thing. by resolving it it moved to a ranked-choice system giving the 30% of black voters in east point a greater voice. you know, it was solely majority win. those 30% of the voters could never command a majority, but they could command a very compelling voice and when plenty of other people also used rank-choiced voting the top vote getter was a great candidate like mayor owens. so i think it speaks to the subtle ways that laws are used

to suppress votes all around the country. here in michigan where the black vote going to be incredibly important in detroit, we saw michigan go to trump in 2016 by less than 11,000 votes. and a very low turnout in detroit. the strategy is the same again. suppress the vote in detroit in hopes that will help get trump over the edge. we've seen floods of calls, robocalls, telling voters, targeting detroit voters that voter information will be used to arrest people. to be shared with debt collectors. to use for adverse health consequences. all of those subtle things are done. it is, you know, it's jim crow in a more deceitful way. >> and the candidate for u.s. senate in georgia called them james crow, esquire in his current modern incarnation. congresswoman edwards, you know, wh one of the things talked about overall in the election is that,

you know, vice president biden, the way he's been running his campaign, he hasn't been out there. he hasn't been physically out there and the way that the president -- in the way that the president has. do you think that his not campaigning as much as the president in-person harks had a detrimental effect on his campaign? >> i don't. in fact, i think it has actually helped define the campaign and to define the stark differences between the former vice president and donald trump. on the issue of coronavirus. i think that that has been, you know, a real salient point in his election. let me just say, you know, to mayor owens. i spent a lot of time over the last year and a half meeting with organizations on the ground, in michigan, who decided that they were not going to have the same story written in 2020 as was written in 2016. and so they used the moment just like the former vice president

has of reconfiguring the way that they reached 0 ut to voters. digitally, online, by text message. by phone calls. organizing in their communities and continuing that just replicating, really, what the former vice president is doing in terms of reaching out to voters, and defining the differences between donald trump and saying, here's a guy who's going to go out there and endanger your lives. you have a choice of the former vice president who's going to protect your lives and see he's even doing it in his campaigning, and i think that has actually played to his benefit as these coronavirus cases have increased, as the deaths have increased and as you see the danger that donald trump has placed the nation. >> and connie, in terms of the impact of covid, you know, we saw, we played tape earlier of the president leaving the white house on the south lawn, no mask.

tossing out hats. going, doing campaign events that are basically super spreader events. the president cannot win re-election unless he wins ohio. how is that the way the president is campaigning, playing, in ohio? >> well, as for covid, we're very similar to the other states in the country. we are a nation in mourning and that includes so many ohioans and you and i talked before, jonathan. it's not just the people who died of covid. it's the countless millions left behind around the country who are mourning people who have died of cove'd or could not be with dieing loved ones who are suffering from other diseases because of the rixds restrictio covid. the language. i love when mayor owens talked about how the black residents of her state and i would say this is true of ohio as well, they need to see them showing up before and after which is why i don't just look at what joe biden says. i watch what he did, and he wanted, what he did was give us

kamala harris as his vice presidential nominee. i don't think we can underestimate the messaging in that. listen to how she talks, listen to what she believes. there is no way this administration is going to ignore the people, the, everyone, obviously, but the people of color. black people and latinos in this country. finally i just love that when trump was in michigan recently he said to the women, we're going to give your husbands their jobs back. he thinks we're out there churning butter and making bacon grease on the homestead. keep on talking, donald. keep on talking. >> leave it there. donna edwards, connie shults, barbara mcquade and mayor monique owens, so great to meet you. thank you all very much for being on the show. next up, the great reverend al sharpton joins the conversation. don't go anywhere. when our daughter and her kids moved in with us...

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your vote is your voice. silence is violence. if you don't vote, you're leaving your future to in somebody else's hands. >> in the last few months we have seen african-americans fight for their lives by having to simultaneously battle police brewality and a deadly virus that has disproportionately affected their community so much is at stake for black voters. especially when flooded with disinformation intended to suppress think vote. just a few hours from now joe biden and former president obama will be in flint and then on to detroit, michigan, in a crucial appeal to plaque voters. joining me now, reverend al sharpton founder and president of the national action network and host of msnbc's "politics nation" and author of "rise up." reverend al, thank you for being on the show. >> thank you. always good to be with you. >> can you talk about the

importance of president obama and former vice president joe biden going to flint and going to detroit in the final days and hours of the presidential campaign? >> well, it's important on many levels. first of all, politically it is important because michigan was won by donald trump in 2016 with only 12,000 votes. and many of the people on the ground that i know and work with in the national action network chapter there said that if hillary clinton had come more they could have made that up in or two or three churches. so i think that clearly they're doing that this time with joe biden coming in, and he couldn't have a better person with him than barack obama who was president and won there. but i think it's also important that they're going to flint, because flint became a national issue of how the water there had been poisoned and where in the

21st century we saw a city completely ignored by state officials and allowed for this kind of poisoning of children suffering and the whole city had to shut down the water supply, and i think it's symbolic of the infrastructural and environmental challenges particularly in the black communities. so i think it sends a national message as well as it establishes local and state politics three days before the election. >> you know, one of the jobs you had i didn't mention in your intro, you're a radio host. you have a national radio show and i wonder, given -- you've been doing that radio show for years. so you have your finger on the pulse of america and particularly black america. in your role as radio host and doing those call-ins, what are you hearing from black voters, from black people? >> a lot of determination.

a lot of people that said they didn't vote in '16 are voting. a lot of outrage on what this president has done and said, and i read a lot this weekend. i'm on all over the country. a lot of calls on how this president coming in with some rappers is in many ways offensive to them. not because they're rappers, but because they are rappers that had never, ever been involved in politics or in issues before. it's interesting that the rappers that endorsed him never endorsed anybody else. never stood up on any issue from trayvon martin to george floyd. so i think in many ways this halloween he may be thinking of trick-or-treat anding in the black community think it's a trick, not a treat. >> rev, can you talk about the, these efforts, the disinformation that are targeted at the black community?

are those -- are those efforts working? >> no. i think that there has been a lot of efforts, everything from trying to denigrate the candidates saying that they were in mass incarceration distorting their records and i think there's been enough people out there pushing back with the facts. yes. joe biden was one of those that sponsored the '94 crime bill and so was most of the congressional black caucus and most civil rights leaders. i was one, as you know, jonathan that marched against it and said that the detroit census went too far, but we were attacked by many of the black leadership at that time. so joe biden was wrong and has said it was a mistake. but don't act like this was something he dreamed up in his basement. kamala harris as state attorney general. take one situation, try to make her that. a lot of people are pushing back, because, again, the people

putting it out have no credibility. but you're putting it up against a man saying, well, don't go biden. go with trump. trump, who supports the impact of the crime bill now. trump who said, i mean, trump who said that he would supports. one of the head of police in new york who fought for the police that choked eric garner to death stood and said the choke hold should not be made illegal, he had him speak the night of the white house that he accepted the republican nomination. a lot of disinformation that worked in the past doesn't work when you have somebody as blatant as donald trump. >> you know, earlier this week, jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, also senior white house adviser went on television, i believe "fox & friends" and said basically that, well, black people can't only be as successful as they

want to be. i know you know what i'm talking about. respond to that, that smear, that black people are somehow lazy and shiftless? >> it is absolutely jared kushner's way of saying that we're lazy and shiftless, like we don't want to be something. well, first of all, we need to ask his father-in-law, who operated a real estate and development business in new york how many times did black contractors come to him and couldn't get a contract? they wanted to be something. donald trump never gave them a contract. i brought black contractors to him in chicago and new york. so i mean, this whole thing like we don't have an ambition, we don't have initiative, we don't want to be something is an insult, and it is absolutely the 21st century version of, we don't want to be anything. we're just lazy and shiftless and happy-go-lucky people.

if that is the way they think that is the way they go. >> uh-huh. yeah. i was going to ask you a last question, rev, but you've got to answer that phone. talk a little more later on in the show. next up, we'll see where in the world is, hmm, ali velshi? of a restful night's sleep. new zzzquil night pain. silence pain, sleep soundly. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the feeling of total protection now that we protect your identity, and mobile phone, as well as auto home and life

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with three more days of voting it's all eyes on pennsylvania. donald trump has multiple rallies in the state today. you'll see momentarily, we have picture of people awaiting the president. you see them in newtown, pennsylvania, about 24 miles outside of philadelphia. you can also see not much social distancing going on, but i do see a few masks. also, joe biden will be in philadelphia tomorrow. this final push as a new

quinnipiac poll has biden winning in his home state of seven points. in 2016 trump cinched pennsylvania by less than 1% over hillary clinton. the trump campaign and its republican allies worked for months to curtail mail-in voting in the keystone state challenging the state's intentions to count mail-in ballots up to three days after the election. state officials have decided to separate the late ballots as a precaution, because they still expect more gop challenges. back with me is reverend al sharpton and joining malcolm n canyatta. pennsylvania state representative. thank you both very much for being on the show this morning. especially representative, wonderful to meet you. i've been watching you, following you from afar on twitter for a while now. >> thank you. >> but on a serious note, i do want to start and get your view, because correct me if i'm wrong, you're from north philadelphia,

and i want to talk to you about what happeneds to walter wallace jr. who was shot by police and killed, 27 years old. this happened on monday. two officers, seven shots each. apparently mr. wallace was having a mental health episode and neighbors said the officers did not try to de-escalate. could you give, do you have anymore information on what happened and more importantly, how is the community reacting to what happened on monday? >> first of all, thank you, jonathan, and you've been doing such a great job in this weekend hour. let me say this -- you know, my heart goes out to walter wallace's family. and not only walter wallace but i had a constituent with another video that went viral of the police smashing through a window, beating her in the street, pilling out her young son and beating him. so what we are seeing is that

our criminal justice system, policing system is deeply broken, and this tragic situation is yet another stark example of what we've gotten with donald trump and what we can get from a president joe biden if we go in a different direction. the vice president put out a statement and folks from the team were reaching out almost immediately with condolences. reaffirming their commitment to changing the way we do policing in this country. and the president on the other hand was doing what he always does. he's never found a fire that he didn't want to make bigger, more divisive, more angry, and it's why i think he's going to lose pennsylvania in a big way. he has failed at his core job of keeping people safe, of bringing us together when there's a moment of tragedy. that is deeply unfortunate. >> i want to read a joint statement that was issued by the mayor, the d.a., police commissioner and wallace family.

what's it says, the wallace family, mayor, district attorney and police commissioner all agreed that releasing the bodycam footage and 911 audio on wednesday november 4th by close of business is in the best interests of our city and its residents. philadelphians are experiencing an immensality of pain and significant unrest persists throughout the entire city. the collective hope of our local government and the wallace family is that releasing the recordings on november 4 will provide enough time to calm tensions and for the recordings to be released in the most constructive manner possible. representative kenyatta, your reaction and then rev, your reaction to that. >> we need accountability. we need to know what happened. we need to understand this situation, and in as much detail as we can. but the reality is, the specifics of walter wallace's case aside for a second. we know walter wallace is not the first black person we've seen shot down ext extraditionl

when calling for help. shot multiple times in front of his parents and his neighbors. this is the type of work and the type of injustice in our criminal justice system i know the rev has been working on for a long time. it's what we've been calling for in the state legislature for a long time and why i've been going to every part of this states, jonathan, you know, talking about why it's so important that we elect joe biden and kamala harris, but also that we elect state election officials that will deal with some of these issues. at the state and local level we need to see major reforms and where they're going to happen. >> reverend sharpton? >> i think it is clear what representative kenyatta has said. i've talked with the attorney for the family of teddy johnson and i think that the family is seeking johnson, and they're raising an issue that needs to be really dealt with, and that is how you deal with mental health issues in our community.

and if you look at how tth is viis -- it is viewed in other communities. reaction to someone having a mental health crisis, it's not the response that we're seeing here, and all they want is justice. i think this family has been very responsible with that. but when you look at the larger issue, the context of this summer into the fall where you have this case in the backdrop of the case of george floyd and breonna taylor and others, and every one of them, this president has consistently tried to exploit this saying it is about lawen eneene eneand order. it is not about justice. well, we are about law and order. we want the police to follow the law, and we want them to quick breaking order in our community. if a family calls for an ambulance for their son having a minutesal health issue, it is

broken by police coming and shooting him rather than having health professionals handle him. it is bogus for the particular ed too say he's the law and order candidate. the activists are law and order people saying we want the law to work for everybody. so you stop having disorder in our community. >> rev, i want to update the audience and you here on the panel on breaking news from the campaign trail. msnbc's mime memoli reporting that president obama will campaign in florida and georgia on monday. also known at election day eve. he's going to be campaigning on behalf of joe biden as well as georgia senator candidates jon ossoff and's reverend rafael warn wa warnok. news of president obama going on the campaign trail. rev, your reaction in terms of how important it is to have president obama out on the campaign trail literally up until the very last minute.

>> i think it's very important. i think there's no one that brings more gravity and gravitas, gravity in terms of the seriousness of the issue and gravitas in terms of his political following than barack obama, and i think it also shows that he is committed to seeing the senate change, because as representative kenyatta talked about state officials, and we need state officials, county officials, we need a new senate. we have the george floyd policing that we can't even get it in front of the senate because of mcconnell. we have the john lewis voting rights act. i think what president obama's doing by going not only today to michigan with biden but to go to these states for senate races on monday shows up to the last minute he's giving the priority folk whas t it ought to be and one can do it better and bring more weight to it than barack

obama. >> representative kenyatta, president obama has campaigned on behalf of joe biden. you are an elected official in pennsylvania coming from philadelphia. i'm wondering, the level of enthusiasm for this election, the 2020 election, are you seeing it among your constituent went and have you heard from anyone who's saying they're either undecided or going to sit this election out? >> jonathan, i think everybody understands this is a life or death election, and i said it once and i'll say it 1,000 times. every time donald trump comes to pennsylvania he ought to bring an appaologies and mask becausef his complete incompetence. every morning i get an email from the secretary of health showing all the folks we've lost because of this pandemic. folks who have had to bury loved one over a zoom call because this president refused to accept

basic facts and take this seriously. you know, this guy became famous of saying, you're fired. pennsylvania's going to fire him, because he has failed at his job. people are going to come out in record numbers to make an up or down vote on his last four years of performance. nobody would rehire somebody like donald trump who doesn't show up to work when he shows up he doesn't do anything. when he does anything it makes things worse and then he doesn't take accountability when he does something wrong. he is the worst kind of employee. the american people are going to fire him, and i think it's time that he lost his job, like the millions across the country that have lost their jobs because he is so feteless and irresponsible. >> representative kenyatta, the president sent out a tweet about mobilizing poll watchers. he tweeted out, philadelphia, all caps, must have poll watchers. i don't even know where to

begin. >> thz ere's so much wrong with that. >> what's your problem with that? >> first of all he doesn't know how to spell philadelphia. that's a problem in itself. the other thing, the fred doesn't inside we have poll watchers. we have safe, free and fair elections here in pennsylvania. but the reality is, that's what the president is afraid of. he's afraid of every vote being counted. he's afraid of the volunteers who are going out and talking to their neighbors about what's at stake. like a woman i met this morning, harriet. who was volunteering with nancy geist, openfully a future counter part of mine. rising up to vote for not only joe biden but vote for their families, for competence, compassion, character. something that the president lacks. he does not know how to treat people. he does not know how to do this job, and it's time that he lost his job. >> i want to play a -- a sound

bite from a woman named jean pollen, and i want to interview, before we close out the segment, each of you react to what she has to say. let's have a listen. >> i'm looking at the police should get better without pulling their guns out first. taking some kind of actions. maybe tased him or do something without just shooting. i feel so bad for the black men out here, and i have two kids that's 36 and 25 and i'll be so scared when they walk out the door. they two very intelligent men. when they look at our skin they automatically think that we're criminals and we're not. >> you see she's standing in line to vote, early vote. motivated to early vote by the fear that she talked about for her two adult black male sons.

representative kenyatta, i'll start with you. talk about what you just heard here. >> you know what? we have a real opportunity and i share that pain. you know? this week was tough, and i'll tell you, i cried a couple of times because of the video of walter wallace, because of my constituent brutally beat by police, but we have an opportunity to elect somebody like joe biden and kamala harris, but also on the ballot here in philadelphia are two ballot questions. one that deals with citizens oversight board of our police. but also to finally end the disgrace of stop-and-frisk in philadelphia once and for all. and so it's why it's going to be so important that people fill out those ballot questions that they vote for us to flip the pennsylvania house. >> reverend sharpton? >> when you hear this lady, and i was in detroit this week as well as chicago, and there was a police killing in waukegan, illinois.

i went up and stood with that family. then philadelphia as i am dealing with people ahead of the national network in philly dealing with the family there. that is motivating a lot of people to vote. people are saying, we cannot continue to see incident after incident white house making systemic change, and the only way you're going to make systemic change is you've got to put people in office that will bring the law about. we were able in the state of new york to now making policemen that use compression, whether a choke hold or whether it is a knee on the neck illegal. you've got to change the laws. we cannot make people like us, but we can certainly hold them accountable that harm us and kill us. this is not about saving people's mentality or trying to change their heart. it's about operating a society that enforces laws equally, and that's why a lot of people are lined up voting now that never

voted before, because they understand in order to change laws you must change lawmakers or return the lawmakers that are able to stand up for the right thing. >> reverend al sharpton and state representative malcolm kenyatta thank you for coming on the though. >> thank you. up next, my final argument for any undecided voters out there. facing leaks takes strength, so here's to the strong, who trust in our performance and comfortable, long-lasting protection. because your strength is supported by ours. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you.

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confirmed three conservative justices to the supreme court who will continue to decide the fate of our country long after the trump administration is gone. the republican-led senate chose to acquit president trump of impeachment charges after blocking key witnesses from a trial. millions continued to file for unemployment and senate republicans in the trump administration failed to provide proper economic relief during a global pandemic. time and time again we have seen the senate enable trump's behavior. allowing our country to be a laughingstock to other nations. there's been so much outrageous behavior by the 45th president of the united states that it's hard to remember all of the ways donald trump has defied our democratic norms. so here's a reminder of what we've endured these last four years. >> this american carnage stops right here and stops right now.

>> i'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the united states of america. >> and when you see these towns and when you seie these thugs sfwleen the back of a paddy wagon, see them thrown in, rough. i said, please, don't be too nice. >> we've had very bad people in that group but also people that were very fine people. on both sides. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and others and said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> last night at my direction the united states military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world, chaas kassam al main

>> children ripped from parents arms and separated and now can't find over 500 sets of those parents and the kids are alone. >> they are so well taken care of. in facilities so clean. >> just breathe the air, that's how it's -- so that's a very tricky one. a very delicate one. it's also more deadly than your, you know, your, even your strenuous flus. this is deadly stuff. >> there's no reason to panic because we have done so good. >> this election will be the biggest test of our democracy. whatever your politics are, make your voice heard by casting your ballot. you can either continue with another four years of trumpism or change the leadership. you have the power and you have three days to use it. back with me, former congresswoman donna edwards. donna, given everything that i've just said, everything that we just showed in that tape, if

there's anybody who is left thinking, i don't know who i'm going to vote for, or, i don't know if i'm going to vote, what could you say to them to change their minds? >> well, donald trump brought the american carnage that he promised. and decency and integrity in the white house are on the ballot. health care is on the ballot. climbed change is on the ballot. race relations is on the ballot. all the things that we care about. so if that's not enough of a reason to vote, vote because are care about whether we're going to continue into a democracy or not. the all on the ballot. i cast my vote and got an email this morning -- >> i'm sorry. i have to interrupt and go down to miami, florida, where democratic vice presidential nominee kamala harris, senator of california, has taken the stage for a campaign event in florida. >> -- where is he? what an incredible, incredible leader, american leader.

i want to congratulate and thank all of the leaders who have been a part of today. congresswoman debbie powell, thank you for welcoming us to your district! and others, fat joe, jose an dra dres and sergeant paul cruz. thank you. there's the congresswoman. thank you all. okay. you guys ready to do this? we going to do this? we going to do this. and let me just start by saying, you know, i know there's been -- you know, folks on the other side trying to question, trying to question the values that joe biden and i have. so let me just be really clear, florida. joe biden and i are proud patriot americans --

[ cheers ] [ horns hom s honking ] -- who share the values with the vast majority of america who want a president of the united states who speaks truth, who uses that platform not to beat people down but to lift people up. the vast majority of the american people who want a president who understands that regardless of where we live, our race, our gender, the language our grandmother speaks, that we all have so much more in common than what separates us. that's what the american people want. [ horns honking ] [ applause ] that's what we want. so there's so much at stake, guys. so much at stake, and florida's

been so hard-hit. you know, i think that we're dealing right now with four crises that have all happened at the same time. we're dealing with this coronavirus. this pandemic. right? which at this point has killed over 225,000 people in just the last several months. people who tragically in many cases were alone, because of the nature of the virus. couldn't have family with them to hold their hands. in their last hours and minutes on earth. this pandemic that has afflicted 9 million people in our country who, by the way, will likely experience long-term health impacts. doctors are talking about things like lung scarring. we are looking at a moment where there has been such tragedy in

terms of loss of life, a mass casualty event that can only be compared to world war ii. and here's the thing. the president of the united states who is also the commander in chief, and it's important to point out everything sergeant cruz said about the responsibility that comes with what we give that person to become that including that their first priority should be the health and safety of the american people. but what do we have in the guy who's currently in the white house? on issue of this pandemic thanks to a guy by the name of bob woodward, we know he knew back on january 28th that this virus could kill people at five times the rate of the flu. we know he knew that it would impact people of every age. he knew it was airborne.

and what did he do with that information? right, sister. he covered it up. he didn't tell the american people. can you imagine as a parent, as a teacher, as a small business owner what you might have done had you known on january 28th what the president knew? what you might have done, because here's the thing. even before the pandemic, far too many americans were working two and three jobs to put food on the table and pay the rent, and by the way, in joe biden and my america, nobody should have to work more than one job to pay the rent and put food on the table. [ cheers and applause ] [ horns honking ] >> how people might have