she is traveling to charlotte in north carolina. done in wilmington, north carolina. you are for the biden-harris ticket. good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: we are fine. caller: i did it happen to ballot because i travel that did an absentee ballot because -- i didn't absentee ballot because i travel quite a bit. i'm not going to say i am the smartest guy in the world. when i travel, i primarily listen to right-leaning because it is kind of funny they all get the same script and then want to hear people supporting trump against biden. it is the same talking points. it just kind of blows my mind. do you have an original thought or original opinion based on your own experience? you keep saying biden is divisive. biden is going to turn us into socialist, communist, marxist. can you make up your mind? socialism and communism are different forms of government. i find it curious people repeating the same things. look at me, i'm smart repeating something sean hannity said. host: what is it like where you live? what are you seeing on the ground? trump i see more s

host: all right, sharing the opinion in north carolina. what about seniors in north carolina? guest: north carolina is a place where a lot of seniors retire. military in the state, a good number of them, as low as people in the mountain area and along the coast that have come there. senior population is extremely important. joe biden has a slight advantage among seniors, which is very different from 2016. been hitolina has pretty hard by the coronavirus, thaty polling indicates the seniors have switched and support joe biden and now have to attribute that to the president's response to coronavirus. host: what about the female vote in north carolina? will it be important? females make up 54% of the electorate, they have turned out at a higher rate than men for many election cycles. we expect women to be a majority. again, the gender gap that i ,now a lot of people talk about they are trending democratic for their support. my polling as well as other showed that women as a group are supporting joe biden and men are supporting president trump. breaking that women support down is

lot generallyit a in north carolina. i'm not sure it is going to have a huge impact for better or worse in north carolina. it is not being discussed on the ground in north carolina. to the point about the masks, one of the spokespeople for the trump campaign, he said they had out those masks. i'm not sure they are exactly on them,that say maga but they do hand out those masks , and it is up to them to put them on afterwards. one more point about the shutdowns and the person that was homeless. it is true that republicans have gone after roy cooper. the one thats been put in these restrictions that shut down restaurants and bars. ins are still barely open north carolina. democrats will argue it is because we did not have enough testing and it spread so much that he was forced to do that. who is at fault? is it the governor or the president? host: let's talk about the competitive house races in north carolina. what are you watching on tuesday? guest: north carolina is technically 10-3 republican, although i should say it is

i promise you we will create a north carolina that works for everyone. thank you. >> that concludes tonight debate, and many thanks to both men for a civil and engage in debate on behalf of all north carolinians citizens. our thanks also to the north carolina broadcasters association, educational foundation for providing the opportunity for the citizens of the tar heel state. thank you for watching, and please remember to vote. good night. ♪ ♪ >> will who will control congress in january? stay informed on all the competitive congressional races leading up to election day with c-span's campaign 2020 coverage. watch the candidates debate and election results on c-span. watch online debt c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. >> democratic vice presidential nominee senator harris has canceled her campaign trips to key battleground states through sunday after two people associate with the campaign tested positive for covid-19. yesterday a flight crew member and the director tested positive for the coronavi

i'm the north carolina tv news anchor your moderator for tonight and welcome to the 2020 north carolina gubernatorial debate produced in association with the north carolina association of broadcasters educational foundation and umc tv. we introduce the candidates tonight, the governor of north carolina democrat roy cooper. and the lieutenant governor of north carolina republican dan forrest. and we should note the debate is happening of course during a critical time for the state, the covid pandemic. many north carolinians have died of the virus. you will probably notice several precautions tonight inside of the studio to help ensure safety against covid-19 including the fact there's no live audience tonight only the two candidates, the moderator and some studio technicians. in the last 12 hours, everybody in the building and in the studio tonight has tested negative. we quickly you want to review the rules of the debate and it will last for one hour. then i will submit candidates and the radio digital news association of the carolinas haven't been read or seen by the candidates or thei

her radicals put environmental agenda ahead of north carolina jobs and north carolina farmers.romise you that president donald trump and i will put north carolina workers and farmers first. and, on energy, and on energy, joe biden and kamala harris spent the whole last year talking about how they want to ban fracking and abolish fossil fuels. they started to say different and they are starting to go -- the president is in pennsylvania all day, so they have been going to pennsylvania and they have been starting to say, no, we are not, and this and that. i mean, and then in the presidential debate last week, how well did president trump do in the presidential debate everybody, wasn't that great? how good was that? , ifhe presidential debate you watched it all the way to the end, they get to talking about energy and joe biden says we need to transition from the oil industry. said, that is a big statement. have beenruth is they talking about abolishing fossil fuels and establishing their radical green new deal. evers they are saying now, that is what they are planning on doing. pre

she is traveling to charlotte in north carolina. done in wilmington, north carolina. are for the biden-harris ticket. good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: we are fine. caller: i did it happen to ballot because i travel that did an absentee ballot because -- i didn't absentee ballot because i travel quite a bit. i'm not going to say i am the smartest guy in the world. when i travel, i primarily listen to right-leaning because it is kind of funny they all get the same script and then want to hear people supporting trump against biden. it is the same talking points. it just kind of blows my mind. do you have an original thought or original opinion based on your own experience? you keep saying biden is divisive. biden is going to turn us into socialist, communist, marxist. can you make up your mind? socialism and communism are different forms of government. i find it curious people repeating the same things. look at me, i'm smart repeating something sean hannity said. host: what is it like where you live? what are you seeing on the ground? trump i see more signs

now, i know the numbers up in north carolina and i'm very pleased with that. you're not showing that good a number here in south carolina yet, and that's simply because the algorithms aren't there yet. but between now and november 3rd, we think we're going to change some attitudes and some emotions. and i won't be a bit surprised to see joe biden win the state and i think jamie harrison is going to win the senate seat. >> and i'm going to be talking to jamie harrison very, very shortly. congressman clyburn, let me ask you about something you said to "time" magazine this week. you said, this election is much more than whether or not there will be law enforcement reform or a cure for covid or whether we will have the economic development we need to create jobs. none of that will matter if trump is re-elected. if trump is re-elected, it will seal the fortunes of this democracy. it will be no more. there are some people who would say, that's strong language from you, to say that the re-election of donald trump may actually challenge democracy itself in america. >>

lumberton, north carolina, in the central part of north carolina, due south of fort bragg, north carolinal see what the president has to su say. this is an area though, gillian, that's been hit hard in terms of manufacturing. textiles and the like, goes right to some of the president's core issues about the economy. gillian: president trump is going to address all of those issues where he's campaigning this afternoon. might mention the other big, hot button issue that he's focused on this weekend. we're inching forward to what is the expected confirmation of supreme court, potential supreme court justice amy coney barrett. we're anticipating him touching on that. let's listen in to the president. ♪ ♪ and defend her still today 'cuz there ain't no doubt i love this land -- [cheers and applause] >> four more years! your -- four more years! >> thank you very much. it's great to be in lumbertop, and i'll tell you, we have a lot of friends here. we said let's do a quickie. we're on our way to wisconsin and ohio. we have some rallies, but we wanted to stop. i have a lot of friends in this group

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.

another 4000 here in the state of north carolina. on friday, we saw the highs -- highest number of new cases in monday since july. in the last two days, the worst day since july. yet, the other night, trump said at one of his rallies, we've turned the corner. as my grandfather would say, this guy's gone around the bend, we've turned the corner. my grandfather would say, this guy is around the bend if he thinks that. things are getting worse. he continues to lie to us about the circumstances. experts say we're lucky to lose as many as 200,000 additional lives between now and the end of the year all because this president cares more about his park avenue perspective around the world, the stock market, than he does about you. he refuses to follow the science. it's estimated that if we just wore masks, we would save, between now and the end of the year, 100,000 lives. his own head of the cdc said that. t's you know what, wha really sad about this? the president knew how dangerous the virus was all the way back in january. he hid it from

from north carolina. sanctuary city this is the goal to suspend any illegal alien no matter how bad they are murderer or racist they had to deal with crazy bernie sanders he lost the first time and he took a lost a second time elizabeth warren should not have dropped other day more energy but it happened twice to bernie. i will be watching and be very careful because it would be the notification of us borders and what would happen is the country will be overwhelmed with illegal immigration coming in jobs and i will go to the roof now the strongest southern border in the history of our country more than 400 miles. >> the wall will be completed very soon and is criminal cartels will suffice important will we got rid of thousands of ms 13 we said congratulations who they are were not taking them bad people if biden wins he will borders are gonna major healthcare is gone middle class is gone and safety is gone. it's very simple. biden has pledged, with bernie sanders, this is the agreement, they all agreed th

north carolina. it will be. [applause] in that way, the choices and decisions you are making will impact people around the country. in that way, what you are doing to vote, and vote early, is going to impact people you may never meet and people who may never know your name, but whose lives will forever be changed because of what you are doing. 13m here in north carolina days before this election to thank you for what you all have already done and what you are committed to do. of who willefore us be the next president of the united states has everything to do with fixing the problems, but it also has to do with restoring , in our country, what we know to be our highest ideals. together,nging folks rejecting these notions of fear, hate and division. we have hade know the capacity and have the capacity to do to regain our standing in a way we can feel good about the future of our children and our nation. all of this is at stake right now. proudd i are particularly of the fact that ours is a campaign that has probab

they are from north carolina.ity into a sanctuary city this is their goal in suspending all removals of any illegal aliens no matter how bad they are, murderers, rapists and they deal with bernie sanders, crazy bernie. life's greatest loser of all time. he lost the first time and to get and then lost the second time to elizabeth warren should have dropped out and i'd be running against him and i would be okay. i don't care. there would be more energy, smaller base, but it happened twice to bernie. i would really be watching it very carefully because it would be the total nullification of u.s. borders. they don't want borders. they want to have this country and what would happen would be our country would be overwhelmed with illegal immigration coming in. jobs, crime would go through the roof and now as i said we've got the strongest southern border and history of our country over 400 miles of war -- wall. the wall will be completed very soon and ms 13 and criminal cartels would have rampaged freely all over the co

we're looking at live images of the rally in north carolina. let's listen in. >> 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 caroli

cast ballot s in north carolina.otes cast in 2016. early voting goes until saturday the busy days are expected to be friday and saturday as weather comes through, the remnants of hurricane zeta in north carolina. they're expecting today to be the day people get out and vote. about 850,000 votes came by mail. they're encouraging people, if you want to mail your ballot in, get it in. if not, drop it off at an early voting location or take it to your county board. let's check in with sarah murray in pennsylvania. >> reporter: the ballots are rolling in pennsylvania, more than 3 million people requested the ballots and more than 2 million have already returned them. if you have a mail-in ballot in pennsylvania turn it in now. if you are voting on election day, expect there to be long lines. in the meantime, expect competition for these 20 electoral votes. we know the democrats have the advantage when it comes to the early mail-in voting so republicans look to run up the score ahead of election day. ivanka trump is here t

ins are still barely open north carolina. democrats will argue it is because we did not have enough testing and it spread so much that he was forced to do that. who is at fault? is it the governor or the president? host: let's talk about the competitive house races in north carolina. what are you watching on tuesday? guest: north carolina is technically 10-3 republican, although i should say it is 9-3 because mark meadows left to be chief of staff, so that is an open seat. north carolina lawmakers changed the map. we believe we are going to go from 10-3 to 8-5, republican advantage. south of the triangle and district six in the piedmont triad, those are going

i am on this panel because i studied north carolina civil rights history. whichspeak to the ways in brendan's book is making a really significant intervention in the history, not only of civil rights writ large, but the civil rights movement and the black struggling north carolina in particular. atm wheeler's perch mechanics and farmers bank interim, he was a consummate insider and power-play or who understood the calculus of social change dictated variegated approaches and the pursuit of freedom. this is one of the questions i want to knock around with dr. winford in terms of the dynamic interplay that we see with wheeler way in which he is trying to operate in the middle of the 20th century. we are introduced in the book to a figure that embodies the potential for and the limits of social change. this is a much-needed contribution to the story of the black freedom struggle in both north carolina and the larger region. we have lots of pockets of scholarship and i think we are still very much in the process of connecting the tissue when it domes to the civi

north carolina.nks for being with us. carol, let me start with you, where the president is expected to be, shortly. pennsylvania obviously so critical. we've been talking about this to his electoral map calculations. remembering the closing days of the 2016 campaign, and in those final days, we saw a different, i would say, more subdued, more stick to the script version of donald trump in the final days of 2016. what are we seeing on the campaign trail in the final days of this campaign? >> reporter: well, if anything, you're seeing a kind of defiant president trump, where his argument in allentown, and he'll presumably make a similar argument when he gets here. and then he goes on to martinsburg, pennsylvania. and it is essentially that we've been counted out before. we're going to win this anyways. this is the same narrative according to the president that we heard in 2016. and he's telling his supporters not to listen to it. not to get complacent and not sit home and make sure they get out and vot

you're in north carolina. the president was supposed to have a rally there later tonight, but that's not happening tonight? >> no, wolf, that rally got postponed until monday because as you can see it's a little windy here. we're getting the remnants of the hurricane here in north carolina. instead, the president is inside ft. bragg right now. then he is going to go back to washington, d.c. this comes after the president spent the day alongside joe biden in florida, which of course is always at the center of presidential politics. but even more so because it's one of those states you mentioned that is in the red zone for when it comes to coronavirus cases as the president is seeing the last few days of this 2020 race be defined by the one thing he didn't want it to be, the pandemic. president trump and joe biden crossing paths in tampa, florida today with duelling rallies. >> five days from now, we are going to win florida. we are going to win four more years. >> the heart and soul of this country sat stake, r

he'll be in north carolina next hour. pence is the hid of the coronavir -- head of the coronavirus task force, even as the virus surges across the country. there he was, making his way to north carolina. on top of that we have learned that mark meadows tried to keep the news of the outbreak under wraps. this morning, when asked about the surge in case numbers nationwide, here was mideadows' response. >> we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics. >> why aren't we getting control of the pandemic? >> because it's a contagious virus like the flu. >> why not make efforts to contain it? >> we are making efforts. >> by running all over the country not wearing maskses? >> we can't get into the back and forth 678 let me say this. we need to have the proper mitigating factors to make sure people don't die from this. >>> joe biden is now pointing to that comment as proof that the white house has given up. just moments ago president trump campaigning in maine without

we are going to win state of north carolina.going to win four more years in the white house. [cheers and applause] this election is a simple choice. if biden wins, china wins. you see what's going on? [boos] when we win, north carolina wins, and america wins. it's very simple. [cheers and applause] for the last 47 years, joe biden portrayed the workers of north carolina through one active economic treachery after another, and they got caught stealing, folks. biden is a servant of the wealthy donors and globalists, and special interests, who got rich bleeding america drive. taking jobs from north carolina and every other place, and moving them out of the country. we turned it around. you've got to remember that. [cheers and applause] these corrupt forces, they don't see our nation as a protector of its citizens, but as a vehicle for personal profit and power at your expense. and you see it happening right now. they hold everyone in contempt, and they always put the american worker last. that's what's happened, until i came along.

here in north carolina, we have a do-nothing governor.r years, we have a governor who has done absolutely nothing except for shut our state down, shut our schools down, close our economy down, and destroy one of the greatest economies of the u.s. join with me over the next 13 days to vote republican, vote donald j. trump, and vote in force for governor -- dan forest for governor. god bless you. pres. trump: thank you, dan. thank you. thank you, dan. he will be a great governor. you are making a lot of progress. i see the polls are very close. they're getting a little nervous. a friend of mine from the beginning, she's always been with me. just a fantastic woman. virginia foxx. congresswoman. congresswoman. [applause] she walks into a room, and those congressmen, they shake and bake -- they quake. another friend of mine, who we were involved in the beginning, he's got another race coming up no, i hope everybody will be with him. he turned out to be a great congressman, dan bishop. dan bishop. [applause] thank you, dan. great job. a lot of

democratic governor right now, because if we had a republican governor, it would be a lot worse in north carolinaat georgia, look at north dakota, okay? i mean, like, texas is another one. you know, now the red states are starting to spike and so forth. you've got to get serious about thi this. >> so the interesting thing is, i was a few minutes late getting to that panel and they had all been talking to each other about a half hour before we got there. and nobody knew each other's politics and they were getting along like a house on fire, and then they blamed me for ruining their chi, by asking who they were voting for. but in the end, they all left as friends and happy to have had that conversation. and my great thanks to my six panelists for joining me yesterday in asheville. thanks for their candor and thanks to everyone who have joined me every week. it's been such a great conversation. we're not finished, though. next sunday, for what i assume is my last stop on "velshi across america," i will be live from pennsylvania, next sunday morning, 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. eastern. be sure to tune in. >>

watch, november 4, north carolina, we are opening up.e only doing this for political reasons. many states, big powerful states are open, doing great, but your governor does not want to. if you look at michigan, michigan, we want and the supreme court. she had no constitutional right to do what she did. the only one that had freedom in michigan was her husband. he had plenty of freedom. he went swimming and boating whenever you wanted. a biden will delay therapies, prolong the pandemic, close your schools, and shutdown your country, and that is what he will do. he will massively raise our taxes. he will not even know he is doing up by the way. he has no clue. barry regulations, dismantle police departments, dissolve our borders, confiscate your guns. at that will be happening very quickly. eliminate private health care, 180 million people, private health care. they love it. they want to eliminate it. they want to go to socialized medicine. [booing] you too can you go to a hospital ward and wait for four or five days to see how you're doin

an north carolina g.o.p. chairman a friend of ours, the great gentleman michael whatley, thank you, michael, great job. how are we doing? doing all right? looking like a good win, right? and the numbers standing in line getting ready to vote. bigger than you anticipated? he is saying the right things. i hear it. it was broadcasted, the numbers are crazy. you know what to do is called? and this is what we will have, a red wave. [cheers and applause] right? they don't want to send in the ballots and have the ballots thrown away into a dumpster. trump, get rid of that one. it is the craziest thing. they want to vote, or people want to vote. it is going to be a big, beautiful red wave. and let them put and they are deal and we will check in every one of them. we are watching very closely where they came from, where they went, how did they get there, all of the stuff going on. not a day goes by that you don't read about what crooked things are happening, but the red wave will crush it. and those are the people tha

and that is north carolina.t around the national average in some key demographic areas that we are following this election. watching how trump and biden perform with these groups could tell us a lot about what's happening across the country. no one battleground state is a perfect microcosm of the country, but north carolina isn't, you know, isn't bad when you look at it. florida and north carolina probably both the closest that we got these days. as we mentioned earlier our brand new nbc marist poll shows joe biden with a surprising six-point lead over president trump. this poll shows thom tillis trailing cunningham by ten points. that could be one of the races that is the tipping point in the senate. joining me now is the republican governor, and democratic strategist. and i'm going to make a prediction and assume that both of you are not going to fully agree with our poll numbers or at least the spread there. but -- >> right. >> pat, i'm going to go to you first because you did say something to me earlier toda

were north carolina doesn't. they can move from california to new york to north carolina.if the regulatory state is too big same thing. it's not just at noblest pressure here. that's where businesses and people locate as well. it creates the market style pressure through federalism forces. that doesn't always work. if you're just talking about a case for your local business. if your business is getting sued by its workers are businesses locally. and the state is too permissive for the state's lawyers. they will be less likely to open. the similar federal pressures in play. the doctors can relocate to other states. and hospitals can invest elsewhere. we do have a situation where a national service department. as long as it's in the stream of commerce. north carolina could relate that. it could not protect against the lawsuit coming from madison county illinois over the other places that the american tort reform is association calls the hellhole. we seen with this federalism. are the elected officials but they are local or state elected officials basically dictating policy f

now some 500 miles south tonight, the current president is holding his own rally in north carolina. now, that's a state that president trump won by four points four years ago. well, tonight, it is considered a toss-up. but even as president trump tries to change the momentum of the race, he's not changing his stance on the coronavirus, saying in an interview there is "not much he'd change" about his handling of the pandemic. now, that comment comes as new cases of coronavirus across the country, including in north carolina, are surging. and there's also some breaking news tonight on the virus. the c.d.c. saying it has a new understanding of how the virus spreads. and so it's now redefining what it means to have close contact with someone who is sick. so there's a lot of new reporting to share with you tonight, and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. cbs' ed o'keefe is going to lead off our coverage tonight from philadelphia. good evening, ed. >> reporter: well, good evening, norah. as we begin tonight, the former president just wrapped up a speech to about 200

president trump and senator kamala harris both in north carolina, while former president obama hits therail for the first time to drum up support for joe biden. the president looks to turn out white working class voters, while obama hopes to get black voters who stayed home in 2016, to cast their ballot for his number two. breaking news" in a rare evening press conference from f.b.i. headquarters, national security officials say iran and russia are hostile to the united states and have obtained voter information to sow chaos. only on cbs, our cameras go inside wisconsin's largest hospital. >> i wish people would take this serious. >> o'donnell: and a nurse tells us how her husband, a war veteran, prepared her for the battle of her life. breaking news: new c.d.c. guidance that could change how schools and businesses operate in the pandemic. still separated: more than 500 migrant children who were taken from their parents are still apart, many of them under the age of five. tonight, the effort to reunite the families. the pope's stunning shift: the leader of the catholic church expressing

that's why you see trump in north carolina and florida. if you look at polling averages, those states are within the margin of error and it's why vice president biden, even though he's the scranton guy, is making two stops in pennsylvania today. it's a must-have for biden and democrats if they want to reverse 2016, fred. >> and on biden's side, president obama back on the campaign trail today, holding another rally for biden and, you know, we've already heard from obama saying trump lives in reality tv world, but the reality is this coronavirus is very serious. how potentially impactful is obama's case for the seriousness of coronavirus and this is a referendum on the current administration? >> right, fred. president obama came out with those two events in pennsylvania on wednesday. both the sit-down with various elected and community leaders and the speech that he gave later in the day, i took three messages from president obama coming out. one, the fact that it was in pennsylvania and philadelphia, emphasizing that that is a must-win sta

for joe biden in north carolina. this is what we talk about here. the mail-in voting, the early voting under way. north carolina certainly one of these states. look at all those ballots that have been returned. they're up to a third of what we they got in 2016. overwhelmingly, heavily here, democratic. that's what we're seeing in carolina and a lot of other states. the early voters in this election have been disproportionately democratic. we see it in north carolina. we see it nationally. democrats getting excited about some early voting numbers they're seeing. republicans, of course, when you talk to them, basically it's going to happen election day. that's when the republican votes will come out in force on election day. one of the stats they get excited about in a state like north carolina, these are new party registrations. these are basically since north carolina's primary here. you see republicans outpacing democrats in north carolina and republicans will say, they've got new voters registered here that maybe a

north carolina, let's go back to 2016 to remind us. north carolina should be a trump state.n it, 173,000 votes four years ago. it is in play in campaign 2020. one of the states the president won four years ago where joe biden is tied or leading. right now, let's look at the most recent polling in north carolina. biden, 46, trump, 42. that's statistically a tie, maybe a slight biden edge, but competitive with maybe biden in a lead in a state the president carried four years ago. what's the problem and can the president come back? let's discuss. cnn commentator, republican strategist doug hyde joins us. you have done some campaigns in the state. why is it at least competitive now, shouldn't be. >> we have both empirical and anecdotal evidence on this. if you look at the polling, it is consistent joe biden is in a good place compared to where hillary clinton was. the reason is that joe biden is seen as a likeable, popular candidate, where hillary clinton wasn't. anecdotally in 2016, i remember being home the week after the "access hollywood" tape came out, hearing people say i

so those are the forces at play at the hawkeye state. >> both north carolina and georgia feel like ast goes, so does senators and representatives. yamiche alcindor, what is your obsession the last few days? >> south carolina. i'm looking at the race between jaime harrison and senator lindsey graham. this was a race solidly looked at as the republican seat. it's been moved over by the cook political report as a toss-up. it's fascinating because jaime harrison is able to raise boatloads of money and put lindsey graham on the defense. this is a state president trump won in 2016 by 14 points. they have not sent a democrat to the senate in two decades. if jaime harrison is able to pull this off, it will be a major blow to republicans and lindsey graham has emerged as one of the closest allies to president trump. that's what makes this race an interesting one to watch. >>/yamiche, i want to play a piece of this tv ad jaime harrison is running because he decided to add a third candidate to the race. take a look at this ad. >> bledsoe was pro trump from day one, opposes all abortions and bled

this can only happen in north carolina! joe biden has campaigned here, too. this state matters and how its christians vote may well help determine who wins the keys to the white house in three weeks‘ time. good evening. many of us got to enjoy the changing autumn colors with something drier and sunny out there through sunday, but as we go into monday, it's back to square one again. the cloud rolls in and something wetter arives off the atlantic to many areas during day. we will see that progress actually take place through tonight. got a warm front pushing in, cloud, maybe some patchy rain on that, and then a heavier burst of rain on the cold front as that works its into the morning. before it arrives, though, with the isobars spread out, light winds out there at the moment, clearer skies for central and eastern areas. bit of a chilly night once again, temperatures well down into the lowest single figures in the countryside, east anglia, the south—east. temperatures actually rising through the night, though, towards the wes

this can only happen in north carolina!lina five times since august... my name's joe biden. ..and joe biden has campaigned here, too. this state matters, and how its christians vote may well help determine who wins the keys to the white house in three weeks' time. hello there. we're moving into a quieter spell of weather. it may only be short—lived, mind you. essentially we've got high pressure dominating but again the centre of the high pressure is towards the north of the uk, hence those winds off the north sea as we've seen over the past few days bringing with them a few showers as well. probably not as many showers today compared with what we had yesterday. and more places will be dry with a little sunshine. but it will be a chilly start to the day on friday especially where we've got the clearer skies in the west. we start with a few showers mainly for the eastern parts of england. they'll run their way through lincolnshire through the midlands towards parts of wales and some showers in the extreme south—east of englan

the same has been the case in north carolina.litigation that i have a part of. they have tried to eliminate the witness requirement. that's been ordered reinstated by a federal judge. but will the eliminating or delaying the final deadline for receipt of mailed in ballots until nine days after the election coupled with the possibility of dumping ballots into contactless drop boxes outside of election places is terrible. as one of the dissenting judges in the fourth circuit of appeals there are endless lawsuits attempting to change these rules. and apparently it's because people expect to lose and maybe they want to give an opportunity to see things change in the days after the election. but it's not the way we should run elections. jillian: real quick 20 seconds to go. do you think this nine day thing stays in way or are there chances of change at all? >> the lawyers will be filing a request to the united states supreme court today for a stay, an injunction to reverse that result. we are still hopeful and we are going to be villa

right now i'm in durham, north carolina. polls don't open until 8:00 a.m., so we still have a couple hours. no lines forming just yet. but there seems to be almost record turnout, if not record turnout. the north carolina board of elections is looking into that, but already, 14% of registered voters have already cast ballots in this state. this is the first weekend of early, in-person voting. it's just the very third day. we were in raleigh all day yesterday and we spoke to voters, why they decided to come vote early, and sometimes, stand in line in the rain. here's what they had to say. >> we talked about sending in a ballot, but we wanted to make sure we knew that our ballot would count and that it would get here and there would be no issues with it. >> early voting is just a nice way to get it out of the way. and we have always believed that it is important, but especially right now. we just really want people in office who we believe want the most good for the most of us. >> reporter: and north carolina is a critically i

here in north carolina.jim, i've got to tell you, this book "the unelected", you can buy this book now, i think my colleague rence is can be posting in the comments section of our facebook page where you can actually get your copy of "the unelected".tell us about the key theme of your book and why you wrote it. >> the key theme really is that people don't understand just how much government activity that oversees our lives and in some of the stories we will talk about later in the book, tragically has influenced lives of some people and in other cases just given significant headaches. but how much of an apparatus goes forward, no matter how we vote. that doesn't mean that elections don't matter. whose president matters, who's in the congress matters, state level, governor, general assembly, here we elect judges and justices and they made matter a lot too. it's not that the elections don't matter but they only capture an incomplete picture. there are couple million federal employees. 50 states, thousands of m

and because north carolina is on the east coast, we may actually hear early, if norlth carolina ghes for bid for biden, that wo be a bad sign for donald trump. and thom tillis is in the fight of his life and people are assuming that susan collins will lose in maine. but she may not lose. there are internal polls that show her doing a little better recently. so you want another route to those three senate seats that they need to take control if they also get the white house. because a bidenrd is presidency without a democratic senate won't get very much done. so that tillis seat is super important. and north carolina is a great place for him to deliver his message to suburban women who are moving toward him but he needs to hold them, he can't have erosion in his support. and the one thing that he didn't mention in an otherwise very good speech is that he won't raise your taxes if you make less than $400,000 a year. that is a very important message to those suburban voters that you can expect him to include in the debate. >> yeah, something he hasn't wavered from. i'm sure that he will

i think the president needs to maintain states like north carolina that are states like north carolina like north carolina that are really tight right now. he definitely needs to win florida where the race is tight but i think most polls have a biden up think most polls have a biden up about three points. and then maybe pick up some other states that people might think rn biden‘s camp and maybe they actually aren't. nevada, the polling shows biden ahead but there hasn't been a lot of high—quality polling so perhaps they are seeing something in their internal polls that show some they have a chance of picking this estate up. it will ta ke picking this estate up. it will take a lot of things to go in trump's favoured for him to a win here on election day. —— picking this state up. is there a danger that pollsters, a nalysts, a danger that pollsters, analysts, everybody is... 2020? if we have the same sort of polling error that we saw in 2016, you would still seejoe biden picking up the election. if all of the states are the same, you would see them winning by over 300 electoral votes. st

hey, he is from north carolina.y the way, north carolina, tell your governor, open up your states. ♪ >> right now the latest polls show a tight race in north carolina. the average polls with a slight edge, biden but in the margin of error. the president is off to florida for a fund-raiser, and in his town hall on nbc news. a few moments ago, he called a set up. and remember, supposed to be a second presidential debate in miami but now, dueling towns, and former vice president joe biden on abc. >> president trump: they are doing him on abc and i would like to watch him because i want to see if he can make it through the program. >> now, part of the reasons that president trump came to north carolina today, yes, courts and all important battleground states, but he came here because this morning early voters started in the state. part of the reason kamala harris was supposed to be campaigning here today as well but she had to cancel after her communication director tested positive. moments ago, president trump wished e