think one big question that loomed large was how were americans going to respond to the increase in infek infek -- infections? 1,000 people died today of coronavirus. yet when we're looking at the map, we don't see much has change as far as the way people generally -- haven't, again, heard from the battleground states yet, but we haven't seen a lot of change from how people cast their votes in 2016. there couldn't be much more daylight between the candidates. >> i want to take that to jen ashton. we have seen through the campaign such different visions on how to hand it will pandemic from joe biden and donald trump as the entire country, basically, more than 42 states, are in the grip of this second wave. >> absolutely, george, and we heard dr. deborah birx in an internal white house memo citing that we're going into the most dire period of the pandemic to date. she is expecting to see 100,000 cases a day in the next week. and we have seen different approaches. we have seen different approaches when it comes to testing. we have seen some missteps. we have seen a series of broken down communicat