so, tom hudson, what about florida? florida, florid florida, florida.h campaigns would love to have it. fair to say president trump needs it. >> absolutely, presidemp needs it. the road back to the white house through his adopted home state here in florida. it's veryul difffor president trump to see his way to an electoral college victory without the 29 electoral college votes that florida has to offer. now, former vice president joe biden has multiple routes therey that may or not include florida. that's something worth watching, november 3rd we move into the way florida tips, if to trump, that becomes certainly a more certain route for him. if not, it becomes much morer difficult he president to win reelection and, lten, judy, florida is a 1% state in the best ofees. thiyear these polls less than 1% when you consider the margin of error right now. >> woodruff: interesting how much money has been poured in by omke brg among others and of course former president obamn campaithere for joe biden in the last few days. alex samuels, i'm going to come back t

in florida, tom hudson. in michigan, zoe clark. in thank you all.uels. protests in philadelphia against police violence are the latest in a year of nationwide demonstrations against racism and police using excesve force. amna nawaz is back with more on how the protest movement of today takes a page from history. amna: to help us put this moment into context, i am joined by peniel joseph founding director of the center of the study of race and democracy at the university of texas at austin and auor of "the sword and the shield: the revolutionary lives of malcolm x andngartin luther r." welcome to the "newshour."op a lot of are turning to history to better understand what we are seeg right now at this moment in history. when you compare the protests as you see them today and the protests in the civil rits movement, do you see more similarities or differences? >> tha you for having me. i see both. in the context of the 1960's, we lad massive upheavals for rac justic much of it was peaceful, but at the same time, both during the kennedy, johnson, and nixon a

tom: back to benjamin lately or at tower hudson, he says money is going out of equities, maybe he soughtnto high-yield. this has been an extraordinary week. we will move the discussion forward. so much of the discussion will be on politics. kevin cirilli in washington and david westin at 12:00 driving the conversation forward. maybe we will hear from the two candidates through the day. on bloomberg markets this afternoon, scott minerd of guggenheim. this is bloomberg radio. this is bloomberg television. good morning. ♪ ♪ from london and new york for our audience worldwide, good morning, good morning. "the countdown to the open" starts right now. equity futures nicely positive. we are up 20 points. we advance .6%. we begin with the big issue. playing headline roulette, the white house signaling nest to large-scale stimulus after speaker pelosi pushed back on individual measures. speaker pelosi: there is legislation we had in the c.a. r.e.s. act we hoped could continue that expired at the end of september. we can do that separately, but we cannot do it unless there is a big bill. jonathan:

tom: we have two people could talking melt up. ben laidler at our hudson and chris verrone -- at tower hudson, and chris verrone. he is looking at the number of stocks above their 200 day moving average and other smoke and mirrors to really get him a bullish cast. you wonder if it is the markets expecting out into next year. jonathan: he was thinking japan. he was thinking sweden. tom: very international. he listened that she listened. jonathan: i did -- you listened. jonathan: i did. i just had a little dabble in "bloomberg surveillance." plenty of happy talk thi morning. tom: happy talk you brought up -- happy talk? you brought up mookie betts. [laughter] if jeromeill find out powell is happy or not. the focus of the discussion is digital currencies and cross-border payments. of course, people looking for any guidance he may give in terms of whether the fed could ease again and what the parameters are. , christine lagarde is speaking at an ecb conference, talking about pairing science of being a central banker with the practice of it. people also looking

tom: it is part of the american fabric. pennsylvania, -- our martin schenker out in force, some are lost up the hudson river valley.g, long lines, voting. that is really nationwide, isn't it? marty: it is. i myself voted up in new york. half an hour before the polls open, the line was around the block. tom: it is so much the allusion 2000 tougher 2016. which does this compare to? 2000: the democrats hope eight. for the republicans, they hope it is a repetition of 2016, where polling showed hillary clinton ahead about donald trump pulled it out. francine: and have the polls changed? i guess the one unknown is the shia trump voter. you speak to half the people, they say they are very few of them. others say this is a major factor, that people have been shamed into saying that they vote for president trump here one of the polls telling us? marty: it is amazing that the national polls have been ready consistent for months, essentially, with joe biden digits. high single some polls even had him above 10%. but it is in those battleground states, and the new states that should contentious that give everybody pause before

tom: you are the adult in the room. you have to be measured and research-based work. moments ago, benjamin legler at tower hudson't mince words. he looks ahead to a melt up q4. what's the positioning right now? is the gloom out there tangible? gina: i think it is very tangible. the volatility is probably the how nervousdence of investors are with respect to the election. if you look at the volatility contracts, it is extremely expensive to hedge for volatility. investors are anticipating volatility to continue to accelerate through november and remain unusually high, even into early december. so there is some anticipation of a lot of volatility in the equity market ensuing with the election and continuing through the weeks after the election, as we presumably may not have an easy transition of power or a very clear result. whatever the case may be, investors are very concerned. i think you see this to a degree in the equity market as well. we have focused a lot on technology stocks getting re-inflated and sort of driving the rally. our contention is the reason technology stocks, in particular, the safety version