he's now landed in north carolina and he's now on his way to lumberton. you can see the stage set up there. aishah hasnie standing by with what the president is going to talk about in lumberton. >> hi, leland, yeah, that's right. thousands of folks, trump supporters are waiting for the president to arrive. he has wheels on the ground en route to the fairgrounds here and we are going to bring it to you live as soon as the president arrives here in lumberton. some things are good to know. like where to find the cheapest gas in town and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your buck. something else that's good to know. if you have medicare you may be able to get more benefits without paying more through a medicare advantage plan. call now to request this free guide. learn about plans that could give you more benefits from humana. a company with nearly 60 years of experience in the healthcare industry. humana offers a wide range of all in one medicare advantage plans that include medical and prescription drug coverage. plus valuable extras that may i

that was in, as you saw, lumberton, north carolina. we, we're going to show you a bit of the president there. we don't have that. our apologies, we'll get it. we do have live team fox news coverage, hillary vaughn in pennsylvania, but let's begin with steve hey began who's in ohio -- heir began. stop number two for the president who'll be heading there right after he leaves lumberton momentarily. polls show in ohio the president is leading mr. biden in the latest fox news poll by two points, so what is the mood like and the expectations there? >> reporter: pretty excited crowd here, eric. they were here early this morning. the ohio state football game is behind me, so you might hear some roars from the crowd when the buckeyes score. of it's been a buzzy travel day -- busy day for the prime minister, starting -- president, starting out in florida, a stop in north carolina, then he comes to hah -- to ohio and then in wisconsin. a rural part of the state, circleville, about 30 mile south of columbus. he'll arrive by motorcade, a few thous

he is in lumberton, north carolina. what's very key about the location here, we've heard from each of the people speaking so far is the lumbee indian nation. and that's because in early october, former vice president joe biden said that he is supporting federal recognition for the lumbee indian tribe. donald trump a few days later indicated that he also has support for that. this is a very diverse crowd for a trump rally. there's a large contingency of lumbee indians here waiting to hear what the president is going to say to them. it's also a county that has the third highest rate of covid-19 in north carolina. the president, before he decided to go on his tour of the nation voted himself. he did so in person in florida. and managed to spread some disinformation at the same time. >> it's a very secure vote. much more secure than when you send in a ballot. i can tell you that. everything was perfect. very strict. right by the rules. when you send in your ballot, could never be like that. could never be secure like that.

that are also dealing with covid-19 surges at this time, fred. >> all right, dianne gallagher, in lumberton, north carolina. we'll check back. >>> any moment now, former president barack obama will be back on the campaign trail stumping for joe biden. this comes after joe biden once again clam slslammed president handling of the pandemic in pennsylvania today. for more on this, in north miami where president obama is set to speak in the next hour. the war of words, it's heating up as we enter this home stretch now, just ten days away until election day. >> yeah, really is, fred, and today, the biden campaign is focusing on florida and pennsylvania, two states that could be critical to deciding this presidential race in november. joe biden held a drive-in event a little bit earlier today in bucks county, pennsylvania, where he once again took aim at president trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. biden really making this a central focus of his closing pitch to voters in these final weeks. take a listen to what biden had to say a little bit with the drive-in event in pennsylvani

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. >> i'm telling you what, you could tell last night in lumberton but you can especially tell tonight, north carolina is trump country. thank you all for coming out. thanks so much for coming out and standing in the pouring rain to hear from this vice president about the choice that we face, the progress that we've made and what we all need to do over the next nine days. it's really great to share the stage today with a couple of people i deeply admire, an accomplished doctor, a man who traveled all over the world healing the sick, in the state house a leader in north carolina in the fight against opioid abuse since 2019. he's been one of the greatest allies of the mag, a agenda on capitol hill, join me in thanking congressman murphy for being an outstanding leader and a great friend. also great to be here with a man who grew up on a family farm in four oaks and, again, emerged as one of the strongest conservative voices on capitol hill. he's a champion for north carolina agriculture. join me in thanking congressman david rouser. we're all standing in the rain for one reason and one r

the most recent one in lumberton, north carolina, that's where he's trying to hit the rural areas, the areas that he already has support to gin up his base. take a listen. >> in 2016 nbc nbc votorth caro to elect an outsider. >> we're going to win north carolina. he have' been back here so much, i might as well call it my home state. >> reporter: now most of the polls showing joe biden is actually just slightly ahead of president trump, but still it is too close to call. neither side is taking this for granted. we are going to see joe biden and comedian amy schumer in charlotte, north carolina today. we will see vice president pence here and president trump tomorrow. victor? >> suzanne malveaux, thank you very much. this is happening across the country. more than 86.8le million voters have cast ballots. that's according to a survey of election officials. cnn, anderson research and catalyst. provides data, nonprofit issue advocacy organizations. >> we want to give you some context here. that pre-election count is already nearly 2/3 of the more than 136 million total ballots that were ca

great to be in lumberton. >> he forgot the forgotten man.hard for those who don't support me including the chumps with the microphone out there. jillian: president trump kicking his campaign into high gear with several weekend stops across battleground states. meanwhile, joe biden made the trip to pennsylvania saturday and had a virtual event last night. if energy alone determines the outcome of the election, who has the upper hand. joining me with his answer, which i can imagine what he's going to say, is senior strategy advisor, steve cortes. thanks a for being here. >> good morning. jillian: good morning. you now, look, there is no doubt -- >> listen, if it's -- jillian: i was going to say, when you look at the images, the president has enthusiasm at his rallies all across the country. it needs to be more than rallying his base. do you think the president is getting that? >> i do. look, the rallies are certainly really important. it's a lot of earned media that's significant. it's also providing a contrast for the american people. if i we

we saw the live pictures, people gathering there in lumberton, north carolina. let's talk about the president's strategy, continuing to ignore the dangers of the pandemic and encouraging people to come out to these rallies, people in close proximity. and at the same time, you know, the president falsely continuing -- continuing to falsely claim that we're rounding the corner of the virus, when now we're looking at a record in the number of cases in a single day. the president continues to kind of traverse in this alternate reality. >> it is alternate reality. when you have a global pandemic that's hitting hardest in the united states, when every day there are tens of thousands of new cases and every day there's plus or minus about 1,000 deaths, the idea that we are rounding the corner is not only wrong and it's not only misinformation, it's an insult to the people who have contracted the disease or to people who have died from the disease. to the extent that this campaign is about the response of the government to the coronavirus, the federal government, this is

then he spoke at rallies in lumberton, north carolina which is south of fayetteville, and circleville, ohio. that's outside columbus. tonight he is due west of milwaukee in the suburb of waukesha, which is with which wisconsin, and we will take you there in just a minute. joe biden campaigned in two pennsylvania towns, bristol and dallas. those are near trenton and scranton. senator kamala harris was in cleveland and president obama campaigned for mr. biden this afternoon in miami. we'll hear his message to voters shortly. check out some of the recent polling in florida, pennsylvania and wisconsin. both campaigns are homing in on a few swing states including these during this final stretch. victory in november may well come down to any or all of these states. also this week the company that makes oxycontin pled guilty to federal criminal charges as part of an $8 billion settlement. it's remarkable for more than just the deal's size. the company agreed to basically reconfigure itself and act in the public good. what does that actually mean? and will that ease the opioid epidemic? and a

the day in florida again where he's expected to vote early in west palm beach and then it's off to lumberton, north carolina. he trails joe biden by 1.5%. he'll hit circleville, ohio. it's a state where that same average has him just ahead of biden by 0.6%. he'll wrap up the day in waukesha, wisconsin. he's down by 4.6% there. and on sunday he'll be in manchester, new hampshire, where he trails biden by 11% the president has been beaten badly in the money race so far but they did say he had a monster night online raising 26 million for team trump on the heels of that better debate performance. today we saw the president taking better advantage of the incumbency advantage holding an event in the oval officen event in the showing sudan has normalized relations with israel. showing he's doing the job, shep back to you. >> eamon javers on the trump campaign mike memoli. >> reporter: a very different scene here in delaware no rally no crowds. >> joe biden picking up where he left off in last night's debate hammering president trump. biden vowing if elected president he would immediately confer wi

at a rally in the town of lumberton, the president said coronavirus cases are surging because of increasedtesting. >> that is all i hear about now. turn on the television, covid, covid, covid, covid, covid, covid. by the way on november 4 he will not hear about anymore. covid. covid, please don't go and vote. >> reporter: he also holds rallies in ohio and wisconsin today. >> i will shut down the virus, not the economy. >>> at the first of two driving rallies in pennsylvania, democratic challenger joe biden continued to slam the president's handling of the pandemic. >>> when i told him, we are not learning how to live with it, you are asking us to die with it. >> he also said that was 60 minutes. he was asked what is your priority in your second term? what did trump say? he got mad and walked out of the interview. he thought the questions were too tough. >> reporter: but many early voters, people stood in long lines in new york city. >> they could've opened a couple more early voting areas but i get it, and this is day one. >> our vote is our voice so we need to make sure everything we want

onaturday,rump camigned in lumberton, northarolina. pres.rump: with us today are members of the incredible lumbee tribe, which has been wrongly denied federal recognition for more than a century. when i'm reelected, i will probably sign the lumbee recognition act. it should have been signed a long time ago. amy: another state to watch is montana, where republican incumbent u.s. senator steve daines is running against the state's governor steve bullock. native voters make up 7% of montana's electorate. well, for more on these races, voter suppression in indian country, and the record number of native candidates running for office from local to national races, we go to santa fe, new mexico, where we're joined by investigative journalist jenni monet. founder of the newsletter "indigenously: decolonizing your newsfeed" and a tribal citizen of the pueblo of laguna. her recent piece for medium is headlined "the native voters who could decide control of the senate." jenni monet, welcome back to democracy now! you write in your piece -- "across indi

eric: that's the president of course at his lumberton, north carolina rally yesterday, criticizing the news media for reporting of on the extent of the coronavirus pandemic. the rate of death has decreased. but infections and hospitalizations rapidly increasing, especially cutting through the midwest and the mountain states, in fact idaho may soon have to air-lift patients to washington state and oregon because of the overburdened hospitals there. the president has said covid, quote, affects virtually nobody. but a new study from the university of washington forecasts more than 500,000 dead by the end of february. that's half a million americans dead four months from now. political scientist ian bremmer writing this, quote, covid is the most important story before the he'l election, covid is thet important story after the election. with us right now, reuters correspondent, jeff mason. there are different portrayls of the pandemic. the president says we're rounding the corner, we've had great success, a vaccine is on the way. joe biden blames him at the administration for dropping the b

perhaps trying to change his fortunes, donald trump held a rally yesterday in lumberton, north carolina, which by the way was officially billed as a way for trump to present, quote, his vision for native american communities, but rhetorically, was almost identical to the other rallies trump held yesterday and featured almost no remarks at all on native american communities. he also made it known that he couldn't care less about the most pressing public health crisis of our lifetimes, one that's taken the lives of more than 225,000 americans and counting. >> that's all i hear about now. you turn on television, covid, covid, covid. covid, covid, covid, covid. a plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don't talk about it. covid, covid, covid, covid. by the way, on november 4th, you won't hear about it anymore. covid! >> glad he thinks it's funny. you will hear about it for as long as we have to report about it. 225,000 dead americans. yesterday, mike pence's chief of staff, marc short, was diagnosed with covid-19. nbc news has learned that one of pence's senior political advisers also teste

accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems and he's joining us on skype from lumberton and wells thank you very much indeed for giving us your time sir do you feel that given the fact that hunger is regrettably a constant on the planet that it sometimes gets lost in amongst the sporadic crises that build up. yes i do. like the leaders of the world food program creative i think we should all who by the incredible efforts that they are making to alleviate hunger in areas the world which i hope to watch 'd for one and highly dangerous to get access to and so welcome are these the world preprogramming or its employees very much in the right thinking in parallel with that it should be remembered that very often the conflict which makes the hunger problems much worse is it so precipitation by the great all of the problem in systems due to climate change is that so is that knowledge though and that in turn is due to the way in which are probably created on natural capital and destroyed the ecosystems which used to provide the populations that stable good and i think that if we

the day in florida again where he is expected to vote early in west palm beach, then it is off to lumberton, north carolina, where he trails joe biden by 1.5% according to the "real clear politics" average. he will hit circleville, ohio, a state where the same average has him ahead of biden by 0.6%, a squeaker there he will wrap up the dah y in wisconsin where he is down then he will be in new hampshire on sunday where he trails biden by 11% the president has been beaten badly by the money race so far, but he had a monster night online, raising about $26 million for team trump on the heels of the better debate performance for the president. today we saw the president taking advantage of the incumbency advantage, holding an event in the oval office to show that sudan has normalized relations with israel. that's something only an incumbent president can do, showing he is doing the job. back to you. >> eamon javers. mike memoli live in delaware mike. >> reporter: shep, a different scene here in delaware no rally or crowd, but joe biden picking up where he left off in last night's debate, hamme

we are joined in lumberton, north carolina that will be a big big focus certainly the trump campaign as its already been right now for joe biden & company. what are things looking like there? reporter: hi, neil we're expect ing thousands of people to be here this afternoon a lot of people are already filing in and you're right this is a very important state and we can tell that by how much time and how much money the campaign is spending in this state. this will be the president's third trip to north carolina just this month as he chris crosses the nation making his final push for a vote but not before voting himself as you mentioned if you can pull that shot back up in west palm beach, florida president trump now joining millions of americans including millions of folks here in north carolina by voting early casting his own ballot this morning in florida. we believe that first lady melania trump was not with him and then he will head here next, one of three stops today. now trump won the tarheel state in 2016 by 173,000 votes and today more than 2.6 million residents here have alrea

president trump: great to be in lumberton. we'll win the state of north carolina.e'll win four more years in the white house. i fight for the middle class. biden and his cronies, serve one class, the donor class. hello circleville, it is great to be back in ohio to celebrate the return of big 10 football. sleepy joe said, president trump didn't want to have football. i said what the hell is he talking about? hello, wisconsin. the people of wisconsin must stop these anti-american radicals by giving joe biden a thundering defeat. if we win wisconsin, wins, if we win, america wins. pete: kamala harris was caught on a hot mic moment, are we in cleveland? hello, cleveland. not like they're making a lot of stops. watching campaigns, barack obama and joe biden, the hat and humans versus honking horns. magas versus the mazdas and people versus the priuses. huge rallies, people swarming we want to be open for the economy versus the sort of very different approach biden is taking. will: we have a lot of that coming up later in the show including how joe biden spreonded to so