wisconsin. joining us is craig gilbert. paper andn with your the headline this morning on the supreme court's decision. u.s. supreme court declines to change wisconsin's voting rules and keep election day deadline for mail-in ballots. what did the court decide in what is the impact? caller: -- guest: the courts decided that ballots -- not to overturn an appellate decision. they said ballots cannot be accepted after election day. this whole site has a history dating back. of chaos andot court decisions at that point by a federal judge to allow the receipt of absentee mail-in ballots that had been bait -- mailed by election day but did until several days later. the supreme court let that stand back in april and the issue was revisited this fall in another lawsuit. in the same federal judge ruled shouldember that states accept ballots that arrive after election day if they were mailed by election day. i was overturned by an appellate court -- it was overturned by an appellate court. he went to the

wisconsin. next five days, washington journal will be focused on key battleground states with political reporters and analysts on the ground looking at what has changed since 2016 with public policy issues and motivating voters. and looking at recent political trends that could give us a clue on how that state might vote. today is the state of wisconsin. joining us is craig gilbert. paper andn with your the headline this morning on the supreme court's decision. u.s. supreme court declines to change wisconsin's voting rules and keep election day deadline for mail-in ballots. what did the court decide in what is the impact? caller: -- guest: the courts decided that ballots -- not to overturn an appellate decision. they said ballots cannot be accepted after election day. this whole site has a history dating back. of chaos andot court decisions at that point by a federal judge to allow the receipt of absentee mail-in ballots that had been bait -- mailed by election day but did until several days lat

this could potentially affect a lot of wisconsin voters. >> host: are voters in wisconsin to track theallot? >> guest: yet she can't but the problem is you go to my boat.gov website to track your boat but the problem is the clerks can't keep up. in the ideal world when the vote comes in it is tightly online, you can see your vote has been received but often there behind like a week, ten days. you really can't count on that. what people are being urged come if you have voted by mail already and planning on doing that you should take your ballot to one of the drop boxes or hand deliver it tot the clerk's offe to make sure it gets there on time. >> host: we spoke to you on september 21 about the presidential race in wisconsin. what has changed since then?en >> guest: the pulse of new kilobit in bidens direction buts overall things have been white stable. the bidens had a lead the range between six and eight points for in most polls. the battleground poll those conducted by my colleagues here at the research center at your voice and was caught morning and showed a four-point choate for joe

wisconsin. this poll was taken october 13 through the 21st. it's a bigger lead than he had in september. what's the lay of the land now? caller: the polling in wisconsin is pretty steady. having a is typically smaller lead for joe biden than what he has had in the national polls. in wisconsin polling that has arranged with most of the polls falling within a four to 10 point range. some people think the numbers closer to the small end, something gets closer to the large end, but it's very consistently showing biden ahead , despite all the twists and turns in the campaign. despite some chattering events and developments we have had. the numbers have never really changed too much. there's not a lot of evidence in the polling that the leader -- the lead is shrinking. it's not clear that it's getting bigger. we have to see more pre-election polls to know that. but the lay of the land is based on the polling, joe biden has lead. but the state is in play. both sides are putting everything into it. the

aspects to wisconsin.e saw that by putting in place progrowth policies in washington, d.c.. the work in front of us will be to continue to put in place progrowth policies, trade agreements that are in the benefit of workers and farmers like usmca so we continue to see job growth in wisconsin so everyone who wants a job is able to find one. david: has the president delivered on what he promised. i want to go back to foxconn. there was a big thing, there is to be a big factory in your district, did that ever get built? rep. steil: i visited foxconn just the other day. those buildings are going up. work is getting started. what we are seeing is all along the broader area we are seeing in kenosha county and the southeast corner of the state's significant economic growth slowed down by coronavirus. i believe what i will see is jobs continuing to come back as we ultimately defeat this virus. we have cutting red tape or getting trade agreements that are positive, we have competitive tax rates. those are the kinds

but the wisconsin legislature -- i have never seen a legislature like the republican wisconsin legislature that ignored the 2016 referendum that passed overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana. they just did not do anything about that. they just ignored a referendum that passed overwhelmingly. i wonder if the professor knows many cases where they have had referendums like that, where they passed overwhelmingly and were ignored? guest: that was a nonbinding referendum. it did not have the defective law. process, wisconsin's you have a special process for changing the state constitution that has to pass the legislature. this was not like that. we do not have a direct initiative process that allows the voters to put something on the ballot, that ends up becoming law. was likelike this that the marijuana initiative, was a nonbinding referendum, so the state legislature was not compelled to follow that result. host: what down ballot races are you watching, and are there other referendums that the voters will be deciding in just a few days, and are they also nonbinding? guest: we do not have many co

wisconsin is now surpassed that. wisconsin is now around 579 per million. my point is that what was considered unacceptable back in april has now been totally surpassed by wisconsin and we're starting to see that same sort of trend line happening in several states around the country. so this is by no means over. this is actually getting worse and we're starting now this third peak or wave or whatever you want to call it at the highest baseline that we've started overall in this pandemic and that's going into winter. >> david, i just want to show that poll again that john alluded to and that is the handling of coronavirus by president trump, this was registered wisconsin voters out just this morning, the abc news "washington post" poll, they disapprove now -- this is -- >> this is a horse race. >> i don't want the horse race, i want the handling of the pandemic. they disapprove at 59% now, that is up from mid-september where it was 54%. they approve of him only by 39%. and so what do you make of it? >> i just think that, you know, if the question is the coro

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you're going to be the next justice on the wisconsin state supreme court."e) ..ith my friends and my colleagues. the final margin was over ten points. and if someone had told me before the election that we were going to win by more than ten points, i would have told them they were absolutely czy. ♪ >> cobb: but the victory belied an unseting fact. with our colleagues at columbia journalism investigations, and the "milwaukee journal sentinel" and "usa today," we examined the results. we found that over 23,000 wisconsin voters had their ballots rejected ♪ can you talkbout the role the safeguards may play in the confusion about how to vote by mail? >> sure. every safeguard that's put in place, you know, well- intentioned it may be, is another thing that a voter has to deal with or another thing that an election official has to deal with. those are real hurdles for people, particularly in a pandemic. >> cobb: more than 10% of those rejected ballots were from milwaukee. neil albrecht took us to the room where they're kept. >> we would normally see only a small ha

wisconsin is in a crisis. wisconsin is in a crisis. that's a quote from the state's chief medical officer. but don't take his word for it if you don't want to. here's what it looks like. look at the curve of their case numbers right now. that's very bad. they thought they went through a peak toward june. look where they are now. wisconsin hit a record number of covid deaths today. they had a record number of people hospitalized in the state. here's the "a.p." lead today in wisconsin. they set a new record for covid-19 deaths on wednesday and they threatened to overwhelm some hospitals. some said they were close to being overwelcomed by covid-19 cases. they said only now seems like it could happen in wisconsin. case spikes in northern and northeastern wisconsin were causing many of the hospitalizations. officials at theta care in fox valley said they had exceed capacity at their appleton medical center. they started sending patients to other cities. the chief medical officer for acute care at theta care telling the "a.p." today, quote,

wisconsin comes as the university of wisconsin hosted the first big ten football game of the season last night against the university of illinois. the conference had delayed the season for almost two months because of covid worries. the mayor of madison, wisconsin, signed a letter with other big ten school city leaders saying they are worried the universities are not doing enough to protect the populations against the coronavirus, especially at football games. wisconsin is the most populous state in the country, ranked in the top five of coronavirus cases. the numbers show that wisconsin is suffering one of the worst outbreaks in the country behind the dakotas and montana, and the data shows the surge is showing no signs of slowing there. fredricka? >> brian todd, thank you for that. >>> next, the pandemic spurring turnout at the polls. americans are voting early in record numbers for fear their mail-in ballots may not be counted. we're live next. ♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪light it up, dynamite ♪shining through

vice president pence will make stops in wisconsin and michigan. more than 68 million americans have already cast their votes. that's more than half of the total votes in 2016. so let's begin our coverage with cnn's arlette saenz. she is live in atlanta. arlette? >> alisyn and john, good morning. with less than a book to go until the election, joe biden campaigned here in georgia, a state a democrat hasn't won since bill clinton back in 1992. today, biden is back in delaware, where he will receive a briefing on covid-19, from public health experts, which biden has said would guide his coronavirus response if he's elected president. meanwhile, president trump canvassed the midwest, including south in michigan and wisconsin, but as the president and his administration claimed they've ended the pandemic, the realities in hospitals and communities there paint a very different more. >> reporter: with the countdown to the election quickly winding down, former vice president joe biden made two stops in georgia, looking to flip the traditionally republican

i think wisconsin again you see the public polls. wisconsin is down by five publicly. i think we're within 1 to 1 1/2 points behind biden right now. and you are seeing the rural part, the more conservative part. people haven't voted before are driven to come and support president trump. we have schools, colleges in wisconsin which are big democrat voters, democrats aren't organizing the colleges. the professors because they're on zoom feel less secure talking to politics to kids. i think when you look to milwaukee. more from african-american. i think trump will do well. how motivated are they to vote on election day? >> i don't know the democrats of people of color in your state. i do know them better in my former state of minnesota. so i can't speak to that but i can tell you that in terms of early voting it used to be a republican thing and what this president has helped undo for the party. people may be afraid to go to the polls. great to mail-in now. you are caught between dropping off at a box and going to the polls. it's a weird conundrum that got -- republicans

officials said today there were no ballots from wisconsin. >> no wisconsin ballots were involved or impacted by the incident. >> reporter: around the country, state officials are increasingly speaking out, particularly upset over this call to action by the president. >> i'm urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully, because that's what has to happen. i am urging them to do it. >> reporter: democratic governors of 11 states issued a joint statement, saying, "there is absolutely no excuse for promoting the intimidation or harassment of voters." >> well, voters have a right to be left alone. they have a right to be left in peace and not intimidated or interfered with. >> reporter: president trump has also suggested that people who vote by mail should show up at the polls on election day to make sure their vote was counted. the top elections official fairfax county, virginia, today, told me that could cause real problems. so, what would happen if everybody that voted by mail did what the president said and came here in person? what would that do to you? >> it wo

wisconsin is seeing a sharp rise in new cases. the state posted single-day records for hospitalizations and deaths on wednesday. despite those numbers, president trump is planning to hold two campaign rallies in wisconsin this weekend. but let's begin with the debate fallout. we havejennings, a former special assistant to george w. bush and van jones, former adviser to obama and joe lockhart, former press secretary under president bill clinton. great to see all of you guys this morning. let's start there, scott, with the fallout from the debate and i mean for republicans. it seems like the clean-up on aisle 8 on capitol hill is falling to republican senators. let me just play some of them who were forced to explain president trump's lack of denouncement for white supremacists. >> i think he misspoke. i think he should correct it. >> i want to associate my comments with tim scott. he said it was unacceptable not to condemn white supremacists, so i do so in the strongest possible way. >> the president condemned white supremacists? >

what kind of infvemation do we bout wisconsin voters doing that? >> we have already recei md more than olion ballots back in place, which, to give you tme perspectivre were only three million ballots in 2016 together. so, we're at 30% of 2016 now, we're expecting larger turnout th that. overall, 2016 was a down year, especiallyor democrats, and there's a lot more enthusiasm for that. but we have nothing to compare this to. in the past, early voting and absentee-by-mail were considered relatively small pool for voters. but after what we happened in the spring with the pandemic and our-- our presidential primary in the middle with closed-down polling sites, people are voting early and doing that in personry tond get that in as early as possible. i think 150,000 people have voted absentee early in person in just the last two days. >> sreenivasan: all right, zack schultz, pbs, wisconsin. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: we will contue our "roads to election 2020" series tomorrow with reporting latest on the campand thee the record early vo

we have northern wisconsin, the center of wisconsin to the north, and president trump won by 18 points16. today he is pushing 30 points ahead in rural america with enthusiasm off the charts. yes, it is a little down in the suburbs. but the hard thing for these pollsters, margaret, as you bring up, they can't measure this kind of disparity between the rural parts of this country and what is happening in the suburbs. >> brennan: so you think he is still going to win wisconsin? >> well, i've got to tell you. i saw the cbs poll this morning, and i'm not spinning you. i was slightly encouraged by it because in the real clear politics average in wisconsin, in 2016, the president was actually down by 6.5 points, and he won. but also, margaret, jerry johnson got 106,000 votes as well in 2016. trump didn't just win wisconsin in 2016 when they said he would lose by 6.5, he won, plus another conservative candidate got 106,000 ballots. >> brennan: one of the things with wisconsin as anthony salvanto pointed out, that base, that white, non-college-educated voter that came out strongly for the presi

where was wisconsin in 2020, brian?i think wisconsin is tighter than five national would suggest. certainly incredible energy on the ground and an opportunity to appeal to the left swing voters although komeito position. and i think you said it with the appearances today, it is a tale of two candidates. so you have president donald trump going to green bay exactly where the republicans need him to be here the reason for that, it is a key swing state that has done well for republicans the past couple of cycles so the president can go and turn out voters and turn out the middle class voters still supporting him and hopefully sure things up with those kind of hire end suburban voters with that democrats have made inroads with. that is different than joe biden playing defense in milwaukee. >> bill: you mentioned milwaukee, this is green bay and this is where you are, by the way. the president did well 56% in the county alone. he's been working this area of wisconsin, 61%. you can pop around a lot of the rural counties throu

deaths also rising sharply in wisconsin now.e us a sense of what you're seeing and how bad it is. >> good morning. thanks again for having me. what you're saying is exactly right. over the past week, we've seen an amazing rise in covid-19 cases in wisconsin and in particular, our area. we did break 5,000 earlier in the week. on tuesday, we had over 5,200 patients test positive. so what that means is 7 to 10 days down the road, somewhere between 4 and 6% of those patients will need to be in the hospital. that's from a single day. we don't see those numbers slowing down. so we're seeing a steady stream of patients needing to be admitted to the hospital. so far, we've been able to keep up, but that is more than likely going to change fairly quickly. >> what do you mean? you say, so far, we've been able to keep up, but if it does increase at the rate that you just warned us about, what happens? >> what i mean by that is we're trying to coexist with covid, which means take care of every other patient that needs health care. people th

do you think he will be received in wisconsin now that wisconsin is going to wake up tomorrow to thee hicks has tested positive for coronavirus. she's been on air force one with the president four times this week. she goes everywhere with the president. she's in the white house with him every day. donald trump has now been exposed to the virus from hope hicks. she began this hour by saying the president should now be quarantines. >> right. so i would hope that the president would actually lead by example. we have been asking citizens to self-quarantine when they have come in contact with those who have been -- who have tested positive for the virus. and i believe as a leader it behooves the president to lead by example and to self-quarantine and not travel at this time. >> we also have reports that the trump group does not wear masks and they do not wear masks when they go to these rallies and when they have these rallies. the only person who is actually in any way socially distanced at the rally is donald trump himself, which he explained to a reporter in nevada. he's the only one w

ryan nobles is in west salem, wisconsin. jessica dean is in georgia, where joe biden rallied supporters. ryan, it is pretty stunning to see the juxtaposition between the governor of that state with a mask on, pleading with residents and the president at a largely maskless rally trying to say covid is a product of fake media. >> reporter: it's really stunning in many ways. the president of the united states really mocking the governor of wisconsin's response to the coronavirus, acting as if it's not that big of a deal, where you don't have to travel too far from where we are to find hospitals that are bursting at the seams because of the crush of coronavirus patients. the president telling the crowd to ebb visinvision coronavirus racetrack where they're turning the last corner, but the numbers are skyrocketing, particularly in a state like wisconsin. the other thing we should point out, erin, the president is trying to make the case that in many ways the coronavirus is just a creation of the media and his political opponents

that's in wisconsin. guess where the president is going this weekend, wisconsin.is a group of people, a large gathering of people close together, often not wearing masks. he's going to green bay and lacrosse, areas the coronavirus task force considers red zones for having the highest level of community spread. i want to start,

especially here in wisconsin. what's interesting also jim and poppy are the attitudes towards covid, the democrats aren't knocking on doors. they're doing virtual calls, texts, whereas the republicans we hear are treating this as if it's any other election. getting out canvass. >> if you had a doubt as to why these stories we've been covering matter, delays in the postal service, how many drop boxes are available to people, they matter because it's about whether your vote will be counted. joan, to the law, there are other state cases pending, and crucially in other battleground states. how does the supreme court ruling in wisconsin impact those cases? some of the decisions for the folks in the majority here were broad in their language. >> that's right. speaking of battleground states there's a case back from pennsylvania, there's one pending from north carolina. you look at bill there with the wisconsin capitol of madison, that's going to be the scene of so much chaos as he says, but right here in washington d.c.

wisconsin is in a crisis. wisconsin is in a crisis. don't take his word for it if you don't want to. here is what the crisis looks like in terms of their case numbers now. look at the curve. that's very bad. they thought they went through their peak before june. look at where they are now. wisconsin hit a record number of covid deaths today. wisconsin also had a record number people hospitalized. here is the ap lead today. a new record for covid-19 deaths today. the surge in cases threaten to overwhelm hospitals. hospital officials in some parts of wisconsin says they were being closed to being overwhelmed. officials have been warning could happen since the pandemic began. only now seems like it could happen in wisconsin. case spikes in northern and north eastern wisconsin. causing many hospitalizations. officials at feta care in the fox valley in wisconsin had exceeded capacity in their covid-19 unit, they started sending patients from their appleton center. to hospitals in three other cities. chief medical officer telling the ap toda

that's the case in wisconsin. you know wisconsin is dealing with an incredible curve in covid statistics. new cases over 28,000. positivity rate to 28%. 245 deaths reported. this is a major problem there and this is where joe biden is focusing his message. is it a missed opportunity for the president to speak to that state and what they're dealing with when it comes to coronavirus? >> of course, no, the president is going there today to wisconsin and he is going to focus on the economy. it is not either/or. we don't have to talk the economy or the china bribery scandal with the bidens. i think they're linked. one of the reasons that joe biden sold out american workers to chain i believe is just -- >> sandra: i'm talking about the situation in wisconsin and a missed opportunity for the president and trump campaign to focus on a situation that is keeping kids home from school, that is keeping people from going to work. >> you asked me about the economy and that i'll get to that. my point is it isn't either/or. we ha

david: when those of us were not in wisconsin here about wisconsin we are told there's a big differenceetween the cities and the rural districts. is that true and how is that breaking down this time? ben: the magic recipe in wisconsin for trump if he wants to win, he needs to stem his losses in the suburbs, especially suburbs around milwaukee. he is clearly trying to suppress the vote in cities like milwaukee. i am sure he would be happy to suppress the vote in madison, and he needs to rack up massive margins in rural areas. we are working to help every possible voter cast a ballot in our cities. we are working to organize folks in rural areas to hold down trump's margins and i think we are gaining ground in rural areas. in the milwaukee suburbs and suburbs across our state, there is a huge swing we can see happening in real time. trump would have to win a commanding share of the votes in places like waukesha and washington county, the so-called wild counties. instead we are seeing state assembly candidates on the march in these districts that were gerrymandered to be permanently republ

cnn's bill weir is in madison, wisconsin, for us. bill, tell us more. >> reporter: wolf, here in wisconsin both parties are scrambling with last night's supreme court ruling that all absentee ballots must be received by election day. not postmarked but received, which means that the some 320,000 outstanding ballots will have to be mailed by today to safely be counted. the way this campaign is being run for both parties also emblematic of the attitudes towards covid-19. a lot of democrats doing everything virtually, phone and text, and republicans knocking on doors and trying to canvas. after a disastrous judicial election where there are only a few polling places, we've got thousands of volunteers around the state meeting voters at their cars to help them avoid risk of covid-19. wolf. >> bill weir in madison, wisconsin. >>> first lady melania trump made her first solo campaign appearance in the key battleground state of pennsylvania just ahead of an important deadline there. cnn political correspondent sara murray is joining us. what

he is campaigning in wisconsin tonight. tomorrow he will appear in michigan with his former boss and most powerful surrogate, president obama. stevie wonder is also joining them on that campaign trip to michigan. and then in the two final days before the election, all eyes are on pennsylvania. biden will campaign in philadelphia. and on monday the democratic ticket and their spouses are fanning out across pennsylvania. that state is critical to the biden campaign's path to 270 electoral votes. wolf? >> certainly is, arlette. stay with us. i want to bring in gloria borger and our senior political reporter nia malik henderson. they're crossing these midwest states tonight . why is this region so important for the race for the white house? >> well, because it's pretty much a tie, and they both need it really to win. and when you look at the midwest, as arlette was saying, biden wants to establish the blue wall, and the president needs to get out the vote. if you talk to people in the trump campaign they will tell you that whil

i mean wisconsin is in crisis right now in covid. wisconsin is top three in the country right now in terms of how bad their covid situation is. it's really bad in north dakota. it's bad in south dakota. it's bad in a number of other states, but wisconsin is setting records almost daily now for new cases, for the number of new covid patients hospitalized, for new deaths from covid. the governor of wisconsin just announced that a new field hospital has to be opened at the state fairgrounds because so many wisconsin hospitals are hitting capacity and getting overwhelmed. we are hearing stories now from wisconsin and from the dakotas as i mentioned about covid patients being turned away. doctors spending hours on the phone trying to find a hospital that will take a transferred covid patient because everybody's full and there's nowhere to put anyone. this was the news today in the "grand forks herald." bismarck, dickinson, and minot, north dakota, all managing heavy patient volumes. as of yesterday, there are a grand total of three icu be

that's wisconsin -- pennsylvania, wisconsin, and the blue mirage in southeast florida, georgia, texastion night. just to talk about the blue mirage stuff, you know, in states that dump all their early votes first, right? so the first thing that shows up on the board is, we've counted all our early votes. here they are. we're expecting that early vote to be pretty polarized and not necessarily reflective, right. >> >> no, that's absolutely right, but really it's going to be very state by state, you know. dave wasserman was right. in a place like florida, what did we see in 2016? we actually saw the early vote dumped and, you know, secretary clinton was doing extremely well until her vote led kept being chipped away until she lost. that's the same thing we're going to see in a state like texas. before polls close, like by 8:45, we had half of the vote in 2016 in. we'll probably have that again this time. but again it's the early vote, and the early vote's going to look a lot different than the election day vote. >> we're also going to have this wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan issue, w

wisconsin. >> covid, you turn on the news, covid. you know when they are going to stop talking about it so much? november 4th, you're november 4th. it is too complicated to explain. >> not that complicated actually. let me take a stab at it. not that complicated. so, a pandemic hit. you, meaning president trump had a playbook for it. but you threw it away. you denied it to the public while the same time telling bob woodward all about it in private. failed to do the bare minimum it would take to keep americans safe while you are promoting ludicrous ideas for cures. remember, injection, you know, bleach. disinfecta disinfectant. now more than 226,000 americans are dead. not that complicated. and in coronavirus hot spots the president is still holding crowded rallies with cheering supporters all packed together, even though it puts them at risk. he was gathering at a crowd in wisconsin, right. the governor says this. >> there is no way to sugar coat it. we are facing an urgent crisis. there is an i

joe biden will also be visiting wisconsin tomorrow.rpool have started trials of a new treatment against coronavirus. the preparations are meticulous. safety para mou nt. mention clinical trials and many still remember when six volunteers in london fell dangerously ill within minutes of receiving an experimental drug. that was 14 years ago. now, doctors must wait 24 hours after the first person is dosed. after northwick park it was recognised that we must have a pause between dosing our first individual and dosing the rest of the cohort, so 24 hours is a reasonable time period for most medicines. it gives that time for the emergence of any unusual side effects. so, we have the go—ahead. yesterday's volunteer is fine so that means catherine, a nurse, can be given the trial drug — these antiviral tablets, which are designed to prevent her covid infection getting worse. i've got it quite mild so i can stay at home. i don't need a hospital admission. so, if we could treat more people in the community with this medication, if it does work, i

hospital beds in wisconsin are taken. >> icu capacities are getting near capacity in the state of wisconsin. the situation is dire. so it's a very serious situation in wisconsin right now. >> one of 13 states reporting record high hospitalizations and it's in one of the regions dr. anthony fauci is most worried about when he talks about the hospital crisis in america brought on by this virus. >> there are some places in the heartland and the northwest that never had the kind of hospital and intensive care facility is flexibility that some of the larger hospitals in larger cities like new york, chicago, new orleans, philadelphia, and others. >> reporter: and one expert says with hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients there will be a deadly cascading effect. >> if it's overwhelmed because of a single disease, there are also many other diseases which we need immediate care like heart attacks, strokes, so we're going to have an increase in deaths in this country due to other causes. >> this disease keeps getting more devastating. new cases are averaging 74,000 per day. ohio just record

it is rural western wisconsin. an area that was very democratic until 2016 when it became much more competitive. president trump is looking at running up the score in rural wisconsin and making inroads in some of the more democratic parts of small town wisconsin. that's how he views the map of winning wisconsin. he has to win one of those three midwestern states to get a chance to get to 270. >> sandra: lacrosse county, wisconsin, where you are talking now. a key county the president will be visiting today with the stop in west salem. hillary clinton back in 2016, 55% of the vote there while donald trump got 45% of the vote. are you saying that president trump sees an opportunity in that state in that county? >> that's right. any area that is not a big city or suburb that's where trump is spending a whole lot of time across the country in the final couple weeks. that's the county that voted for hillary clinton but the margin that clinton won by was much smaller than democrats usually get. so for president trump if

everybody was focussing on wisconsin, wisconsin, wisconsin.ss than a week to the election and both camps understand even if donald trump doesn't, that joe biden has wisconsin put away and michigan not far behind. >> i think, you know, joe, i feel uncomfortable at any point at this point talking about anything being put away only because, i mean, we've seen opposite consistent polling out of those two states that suggest a strong and steady lead for biden and now a widening lead if this poll is to be believed in wisconsin. i don't think anybody thinks -- no one in the world thinks joe biden's going to win wisconsin by 17 points. the reason i have any his tans at th hesitance less than a week out, we're getting down to the steady lead in the strong polling in the battleground states, some of things we've talked about in the last six months besides that are rearing their head related to the upper -- the great lake states, wisconsin, michigan, all of them have voting systems that are going to be really put to the test. all of them -- none of them

>> i think wisconsin is likely to be one of those states. i think another state that we won't know results for, for quite a while is california but that's not new for california. california has always taken a couple of days to announce its official results. their final certification date actually isn't until the second week of december. so certainly we will be waiting for them. >> jessica, grateful for your important insights. i know you spent months studying this issue. we're lucky to have you in the final days of the campaign to walk us through all of this. >>> up next, joe biden said to join barack obama on the final days of the campaign but here's a flashback of the final days. 2000 race. >> i'm running against somebody who is full of confidence, so confident he announced he invented the internet. but here's our response, if you're so smart, how come every internet address begins with w? . or it isn't. it's either testing an array of advanced safety systems. or it isn't. it's either the peace of mind of a standard unlimited mileage warra

he has a comfortable lead in wisconsin and michigan which puts him outside the margin of error. the key prize in pennsylvania. you stated in your broadcast biden is more popular among suburban women and that bodes well for him in pennsylvania congressional district 557 where democrats ran a table in 2018. i think he is nationally more popular among women, they have him at 61% and places like maricopa county in arizona will decide this thing. a third of the voters are independent and leaning towards biden. i am not concerned that there's going to be some sort of aberration in terms of wisconsin going in a different direction than michigan. leland: so much is the african-american vote and whether it turns out, the african american turnout hillary clinton waited for barack obama we would be talking about president clinton, would have won pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. black support for gop candidates, take a look at the numbers here. this has been a point the president continued to make about trying to make inroads with the african-american community, in 2020, 8% in 2016, mi

wisconsin saw a record 4,105 new cases on friday alone.esident trump campaigned there on saturday. cbs news white house correspondent weijia jiang reports. >> reporter: president trump drew thousands of supporters to a wisconsin airport hangar on saturday night. the state is grappling with grim covid highs, hospitalizations, and daily deaths. but the president claimed the end of the pandemic is near, praising his performance. >> president trump: we're rounding the corner. we've got the vaccines. but even without it, we're rounding the corner. >> reporter: even at contracting the coronavirus himself, he hosted rallies in seven states last week. the campaign tells cbs news it took strong precautions at all of them, but at each of them, few people wore masks as they stood shoulder to shoulder. >> i do not believe that the masks are going to do what they say it is going to do. i don't believe that it is the cure-all that we've all put it out there to be. i believe it is a symbol of fear. >> reporter: in michigan, the crowd repurposed a familia

in wisconsin and michigan red in 2016.nsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, at the moment biden has comfortable leads and not just that he is above 50. third-party candidates are not polling as well this year. 43% and trump stuck in the low to mid-40s is a dynamic for his campaign. another dynamic. red and blue we talk about all the time and another dynamic in this campaign i think we need to think of in the final days and that is the covid dynamic. this pandemic has dominated our lex year but now a rising crisis. across the country this national spike in cases up over 80,000 new infections a day but never mind red and blue. the deep red is pain from coronavirus, the pink pain from coronavirus. even the dark orange is pain from the coronavirus. this is county-by-county across the country per capita. covid cases per 100,000 residents. look at all of the red especially again. we talked about battleground wisconsin. look at that red. look at that pink and look at iowa and look at that. senator harris in texas trying to make the cas

in wisconsin, we have seen something different. supreme court interject their and change rules that may lead to certain absentee ballots being rejected if not received by election day. was inerlying case there federal court. there is something called the guidingdoctrine, a doctrine for courts that basically says, do not make 11th hour changes that will cause chaos for election officials and chaos for voters. it is hard not to look at the supreme court violating that cardinal doctrine when they make judgments, or issue decisions that are literally turning the system on its head. -- final the vinyl stretch and voters deserve clarity. david: i think everyone would agree with that. maybe i do not understand the lower cases. in wisconsin, you had a district court changing the rule. the court of appeals changing that, and the supreme court did not get involved. the supreme court was not changing the rules in wisconsin, was it? >> that is right. is one of thes more conservative justices who is inclined to be deferential to state court dec

joe biden is in milwaukee, wisconsin, tonight, a lot of folks coming through wisconsin in the past fewys. president trump was in green bay earlier today which he won the last time around and the night joe biden heads to the area to shore up a place that hillary clinton won in 2016. a former wisconsin congressman sean and also jessica tarlov join us in just a minute, stick around. it. it. you know, it's made me think, i'm closer to my retirement days than i am my college days. hm. i'm thinking... will i have enough? should i change something? well, you're asking the right questions. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i know people who specialize in "am i going to be okay." i like that. you may need glasses though. yeah. guidance to help you stay on track, no matter what comes next. ♪ but when i started seeing things, i didn't know what was happening... so i kept it in. he started believing things that weren't true. i knew something was wrong... but i didn't say a word. during the course of their disease around 50% of people with parkinson's may experience hallucinations or delusio

wisconsin hospitals are completely overwhelmed. icu beds have reached 87% of capacity, and we are months away from where we thought the crisis would happen, months away. months early. how many will vote early out of fear? 68 million have already, way ahead of the pace four years ago. but cases are exploding as well. we're getting close to double the case number where we wer this summer as a rate. we're around 40. now we're at 70 plus. so, how many will stay home? how many will vote to punish trump for his inaction? how many believe that biden will actually make good on his promises of better? one thing is for sure. we are actually right now exactly where we didn't want to be. for months trump has been begged by many of us in the media, by insiders and experts, first responders, essential workers and health care to get the government to get together a real plan to fight covid and get it under control. all hands on deck. think about the last time that a major battle or effort in america didn't even have a name. the vaccine effort doe

then he will hit wisconsin. into these rallies as we get underway, the final weekend is actually looking like a jam-packed weekend of campaigning. also happening right now, hot off the presses our new

it shows how broad the community spread right now in wisconsin is. >> the surge in wisconsin comes as the first big ten game of the season against the university of illinois. they delayed the season for almost two months because of co-vid concerns. a letter was signed saying they're worried the universities aren't going enough to protect the populations against the coronavirus, especially at football games. >> reporter: wisconsin is ranked in the top five of coronavirus cases. the data shows wisconsin is having one of the worst outbreaks in the country behind the dakotas and montana and the data shows the surge shows no signs of slowing there. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> with just nine days until election day. more than 52 million americans have cast their ballots in early voting. this is in person and vote by mail, and it represents more than 36% of the total ballots cast in the 2016 election. more than half the early votes are coming in from competitive battle ground states. turnout records are being shattered across the u.s. in. in new york some 94,000 people voted saturday in