points or less and 2016 and there are only 2 battleground states ohio who are trump and biden are tied and texas where trump is ahead this is texas red state texas trump ahead by only 2 so given that i'd rather be joe biden today than down trump but let me tell you as we know. it all depends on turnout and. that close. polls are never that accurate that could change that's probably going for sure dynes a leader is going to diminish and so biden is right to warn his people don't take this for granted don't get complacent don't sit back and never do whatever it was don't think about not gloating because in the bag because it's not in the back what what could have changed that for trump the handling the coronavirus. i think that's the number one thing that could have changed that i think more than anything else. this election is a referendum on actually 2 things one it's a referendum on his behavior just his personality his personal attacks is rhetoric his language he attacks when many attacks attacks everybody number one number 2 is a referendum on how donald trump has handled the coronavirus and i don't see how you can look at that. a

points or less and 2016 and there are only 2 battleground states ohio who are trump and biden are tied and texas where trump is ahead this is texas red state actors trump ahead by only 2 so given that i'd rather be joe biden today the.

points or less and 2016 and there are only 2 battleground states ohio who are trump and biden are tied and texas where trump is ahead this is texas red state texas jump ahead by only 2 so given that i'd rather be joe biden today than down drop but let me tell you as we know. it all depends on turnout and. that close. polls are never that accurate that could change that's probably going for sure dynes a leader is going to diminish and so biden is right to warn his people don't take this for granted don't get complacent don't sit back and never do whatever it was don't think about not gloating because in the bag because it's not in the back what what could have changed at.

texas will remain a ruby red state? i can tell you that the latest real clear politics average does show president trump by the lead here in texas2.3% you're not a very wide margin. >> bill: thanks. we will see how it turns out together. kc's vehicle they are in dallas. going to pop over. we've got about 2 minutes. what i will show you is what is going to happen over the weekend here now. there was a big story in florida because trump and biden were both down here in hillsboro. the part of the stay where you win. democrats down here. a lot of republicans in the panhandle. they will be in minnesota, that something perhaps a week ago, not a lot of people expected to see. joe biden will be in st. paul and minneapolis. the president will be in rochester. over the weekend on saturday, the story is really going to move. the state of michigan, the reason being barack obama will be with joe biden. for the first time that they have been together in person. they have done a virtual chat or resume. that is flint, michigan. fair number of votes for hillary clinton. in 2016. then they are coming down to wayne county. we were discussing this

red state of texas surpassed 9 million. this is important because that is greater than the entire turnout in texas for the 2016 election. we still have 70 hours to go. trump'sd in texas is razor thin. he holds a 4 point lead and the margin of error in play in the state of texas. so much so kamala harris was campaigning yesterday. with me to break it down is mark murray. mark, some of the information i gave viewers comes from you about how we made polling better and it is supposed to be most accurate. in the swing states, in florida and north carolina and pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin and arizona, those states. what are you looking at? >> you know, what i have been looking at, ali, is the fact whether or not in the national battleground state polls if there is any tightening. one of the differences with 2016, we saw a tightening race in the last two weeks of the election. with the revelation of the comey letter and scrutiny and focus on the hillary clinton campaign. we ended up having hillary clinton in many polls had a significant lead both nationally and battleground states. really much in mid-october after the "access hollywood" video and then it star

texas where trump is up by about two points. the democrats think they have a chance to turn the reliably red state blue. >>> nearly 8 1/2 million people have already voted in texas. that matches the high turnout across the country. almost 80 million people have cast their ballots.>>> the contra costa county registrar of voters office is investigating missing mail in ballots. the registrar's office at the ballots were put in a drop box in front of richmond city hall october 12. there is no evidence anyone tampered with the dropbox. they say the missing ballots could be the result of a mistake involving one box on that one day. >>> ballot boxes are emptied every day. they are emptied every day by a team of two people. and ballots were picked up on the 12th and on the 13th. we cannot explain why we don't have the ballots the voters said they drop in the ballot box on tuesday. excuse me on monday the 12th. what is really important is that those voters get a chance to vote. >>> the registrar's office is already contacted 40 voters whose mail-in ballots are missing. there could be many more. anyone who dropped off the ballot at richmond city hall on monday the 12th an

texas has always been a red state, so i'm not really sure. >> well, erin, a poll out just this week shows that trump is up in the state by three points, but, again, this is texasats are saying that a republican candidate by this point should be way ahead. again, they say this is another sign that things are changing in the state. erin? >> all right. thank you very much, jason. and thanks to all of you for joining us. anderson starts now. >>> good evening. the country has just crossed yet another terrible threshold. according to the data team at john hopkins university, today is now the worst single day for covid cases in the country. the worst single day of the entire pandemic. 83,757 new cases so far, and that number will not be final for hours yet. 940 lives lost so far. and it's just 8:00. with that, as the horrible scene setter, we begin tonight with one state, two candidates and two very different ways of campaigning in a pandemic. one about as safe as you can make it, given the circumstances. the other about as reckless as you can

texas which traditionally has been a deep red state. democrats had their eye on it for quite a while. this is pennsylvania. look at texas, 47-47. a dead heat in texas between joe biden and trump. joe biden spent a lot of money, and the numbers in pennsylvania where president barack obama will be today and where donald trump was last night. ashley, the other big piece of [000:08: