paways to the 270 electoral votes, i'm joined by npr's senior political editor and corrpondent, domenico montanaromenico, thank you h for being with us again. we are less than a week out. we're just, what, three days out. what is the big picture look like right now? >> well, the big picture, our map, so far, we have it at 279 ectoral votes for joe biden for states that are leaning toward him or likely to go his direction, and only 125 for president trump for states leaning in his direction or likely to go in his directio. so, you know, this has been a crazy year because, when yot u lookl of these states in yellow that are the tossu states from arizona, texas, georgia, florida, north carolina, ohio and iowa, all of those states are reason the margin of error, judy, so that gives a lot of democrats a lot of pause when they look at a number thasays, wow, joe biden is up by a lot, but that could all tip vry quickly pecially if there's a polling error that, by the way, would have to be a lot bigger than in 2016. by the way, there's a sceinnario hich, if trump were to win over all of those tossup states

and domenico montanaro of npr. tamara keith is away. >> nawaz: welcomyou both. amy, i want to start with you. because, man, millions of people have already voted. and a lot has happened in just the last four days. so what is the potential election impact, if any, of thesi prent's covid-19 diagnosis in these final weeks ahead? >> amy: right.re yoight, amna, the idea of an octer surprise usually was, we, something that happens in october that gives people three weeks or two weeks,ng or sometto process it, think about it as they go and cast their ballot inarly november. what we see right now is people are voting every single day,ven as huge stories are unfolding in front of us. president, of course, that has contracted the virus. it is people in and around his orbit, at the white house. we could be hearing more stories as we move forward. so it is definitely a factor as we move into this, you know, what could potentially be more shoes dropping. what we do know, though, na, is that this has been an incredible year of tumult and chaos and big events, and yet opinions

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