tim in tucson, arizona. caller: i keep thinking back to the testimony that congress -- that lawyer michael cohen. he said his boss, mr. trump, had an uncanny knack for making it known what he wanted without ever saying it. one of the committee members just asked him point-blank, did trump tell you to write that check? he said it is hard to explain. trump never comes right out and tells you to do anything. but he has some charisma, some code. host: how does that relate to january 6? caller: i wish the house managers had hit on that more. the parsing of words like fight does not necessarily mean violence and things like that. it won't cut it with whether or not trump communicated exactly what he wanted. this guy testified. he was hard-pressed to give a quote. a verbatim -- sort of like a jailhouse circumspection, if you will. he just knew exactly how to let it be known what he wanted without using the words. host: alexandria, virginia. independently. -- independent line. caller: i think this country is in trou

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this is phoenix, tucson, maricopa, you find the majority of the population of arizona, that's phoenix and maricopa county. look at the difference here, joe biden's picking up 46,000 over donald trump, in 2016 donald trump beat hillary clinton with a difference of 41,000. we're talk 4 to 5,000 votes in the most heavily populated part of arizona, that made a difference ultimately. now, i know we're decision desks and a lot of election analysts were seeing returns come in prior to election day in favor of joe biden, and the mail vote. that's critical, too, i'll end that in a moment here. if you go into tuesday and trying to get your voters to the polls as donald trump and republicans try to, they managed to do that and successful at that. the mail vote made a substantial difference in the election much 2020. you could almost make a case based on covid and comparing this campaign to four years ago, it's not apples to apples. it was very different in a lot of these battle ground states in how they conducted a vote. i'll come down to georgia, this is the metro area and we've been over that

tucson, the suburbs around them. that's how you settle the race. >> hold on one second. i want to go to bill weir in phoenix. he's getting the votes right now. update our viewers, bill. >> reporter: yeah, wolf, this is the last big significant dump of the biggest county here in the state of arizona. my math privileges have been revoke, which is a good call by the decision desk so i'll give you the raw numbers. biden-harris, 1,023,516, trump/pence, 95,495,000. it doesn't look like the president made up as much ground as he needs to. >> he certainly did not make up that much ground. you can see what's going on over there. those are the total numbers that we're talking in maricopa county right now. >> right, the numbers and you see the map. we have to match this up. joe biden goes from 04 up to 23, and you see the president jumps up a little bit. so you're just trying to see, are we getting to a point where the president can narrow the lead. let me just move this out of the way so people can see what we're talking about. you've got 60% of the vote and you're looking at perc

we came across chris smith at a trump rally in tucson last month. and after touching down in philadelphia on election eve, we chatted with debbie smith, a democrat who voted forjoe biden. as the election draws to a close, she says america cannot tackle its most pressing problems without unity. our people need to get back to work, we need to heal this country. so at the end of the day, it's going to come down to we need to recover from the coronavirus. people have lost sight of what's happening. for some republicans, the coronavirus isn't the main election issue. ask chris smith. you think it's fraud? i mean, guys, we don't go to bed at ten, 11, 12 o'clock at night, two in the morning leading all the key swing states and wake up at seven o'clock in the morning and suddenly they've found hundreds of thousands of votes and they all happen to be forjoe biden. hello, catherine, greetings from philadelphia, it's good to see you again. the last word goes to catherine. do you think the two halves of america can unite now? perhaps in the future we can start

whatever reason the way we count blallots we would be talking about the historic vote in phoenix and tucson. but miami is only 3% of the entire overall latino population. it is true that president trump had some increases there, but that is predominantly with the cuban american population who is overwhelmingly republican and one issue was that in 2016, he underperformed with cuban americans because if you recall, mika, he spent the greater part of the presidential primary bashing marco rubio and ted cruz. two prominent republican cuban american senators. so they came back home. they've been republicans for decades. they came back home a little bit. overall, put it in a national perspective. the latino vote was very strong for vice president biden coming in around 70% nationwide. >> matt, it's willie. you look at the voting in texas and the voting in arizona, joe biden is about in line with where hillary clinton was four years ago. in fact, in miami-dade county, he was close to in line and it was donald trump who added 200,000 extra votes in that county. there's a lot inside those numbers. b

and the county that tucson is in, pi many, a couma county. in maricopa county, he has a lead of 85,000. but 83% of votes are in. i'm hoping this number changes in the course of the next little while. the issue is, will it break in these proportions? remember, they're not that far apart. 52% to 47%. if they continue to break in this pattern, this increases the lead for biden. but that is not what happened earlier this evening. we'll also be looking at stuff from nevada coming in probably a little later this morning. but you mentioned georgia. i want to show you that. we're expecting votes coming in from georgia. if you look at the remaining vote in georgia, the big areas, these are nine counties around atlanta. they're not all looking for big numbers. but the counties northeast and northwest of atlanta, we're expecting big numbers. cobb county with 95% of the vote in, 15,000 left there. walton county, dekalb county. 95% in, looking for 3,000 votes there. clayton county, looking for 20,000 votes. there's a lot of places all over, columbus count

here is tucson near the mexican voter. the trump campaign believes there are enough votes to make up the difference of 79,000 plus. where do you get those? a high vote number here at 75%. you pop down here to 63% just east of phoenix. at 65 and 66%. just a moment ago there is a congressional race in this part of arizona that just flipped from the democratic lead to a republican lead. whether or not that holds we can't say. that was a flip a moment ago. this is the mother load. this is maricopa county and phoenix with the greater majority of votes. joe biden 52%. 17% of the vote still out standing. how will that break? joe biden is doing very well in maricopa county, so far in this election. tucson down here. this has been expected. 2-1 the democrat joe biden over donald trump. the maricopa vote is a flip from 4 years ago. in 2016, donald trump won the county by 40,000 votes. still enough to win that state. coming back to 2020, we will see how this fills in throughout the night. maricopa county is something to keep an eye o

in the tucson area, biden has a lead around -- he has a 99,000 lead there. we're expecting 53,000. you can see how those two states work. let's go to georgia earthquakely. a similar situation. we have bubbles that show you how big the outstanding votes are. you will notice they're in two counties. one of them is to the northwest. 89% in, 49,000 lead for biden, and about 46,000 votes, and in dekalb county we're looking at 54,000 votes. so that is why we're looking at these three states. let me just give you a picture of this. let's say that wisconsin gets called for joe biden. let's say that nevada breaks toward joe biden, and say arizona breaks toward joe biden. i'm not worried about these ones on this side for awhile. you have 254 to 213. joe biden needs 270 votes to win. put in georgia, joe biden getting his 270. put in michigan, joe biden gets 270. even without pennsylvania, which i don't think we're going to get a full story of for a couple days, if michigan comes in for joe biden later today, that seals the deal for him most likely assuming that we get wisconsin called in the

i want to check in tucson, pima county, 89%. again, still counting, joe biden at 60, donald trump at 39 if you round that up. no guarantee the ballots yet to be counted match those percentages. if you're the biden campaign and look statewide, you know what's out, you know the size of that lead, you know most of the votes are in the blue areas you're confident. again, we have to get to the finish line. you mentioned nevada. let's check nevada quick. nevada, you look at the state, see all that red. you think the president must be winning in nevada. that's not how it works, you have to go to population centers. 72, 73, maybe 74% of the vote in clark county, that's vegas and suburbs, joe biden 53, donald trump 45. 84%, still about 16% of the vote, 15, 16% still to be counted here where the most votes are. if the trend continues joe biden keeps the lead. it's simple math. if he's winning more than half of what's left donald trump can't catch up. does that happen? that's why we count votes. check up here, this county is more competiti

one of the stronghold, pima, tucson, 60-38, overperforming there. the trend so far and it's been holding for the last two to three hours, you would know better than me, democrats are in a good position in arizona but it's just with 20% out you just can't project it yet. >> whit johnson, the vote is just trickling in, that remaining vote. >> reporter: we're getting more clarity on the outstanding ballots that exist. we just talked to maricopa county officials again and we keep going back to them because as we mentioned maricopa county makes up at least 60% of the vote here in arizona. within the next ten minutes but talking to my producer, it still hasn't come up they were trying to do the final dump of results and this is the in-person votes from today. they were counting those throughout the night and thought they were going to finish that up so could get those results at any moment but there are still several hundred thousand outstanding ballots and they gave us some clarity on that. we talked about the near 250,000 absentee ballots that people dr

in the greater suburbs of the phoenix and tucson areas. you saw among independents, he won independents back in 2016, albeit narrowly, but now polling consistently showed him down by 15 to 20 percentage points among independents. and that's when this campaign started looking elsewhere, started looking out to the more rural areas because it was the democratic party the likes of kyrsten sinema, mark kelly, that tried to rein in that old john mccain sort of western independence mantle and that is when this campaign realized what these numbers look like in the suburbs, athong those college-educated voters. even shifts among senior voters. that's when they started looking elsewhere in the state. and you know, we were out there last week and stalking to people like stephanie corson, who did not vote in 2016, thought it was in the bag for donald trump because, well, it's arizona. well, he only won it by 3 1/2 percentage points in 2016 and a great number of republicans not only up there but even thoekz like this gentleman named rick who was standi

the greater tucson area. hillary clinton won it by 15 percentage points. and these early numbers here with 80% in show joe biden doubling that number. again, in that last 20% batch, i'll let steve take it away a little bit more, but in the last batch we should expect republicans to narrow it. but at the same time, go back to 2016. democrats spent almost no money in arizona. donald trump won it by just 3.5 percentage points. the other part of the electorate that we should be looking at is independent voters. they make up 1/3 of the electorate here. back in 2016, donald trump won them. but what we have seen consistently in polling dating back to march when joe biden became the expected nominee is that donald trump has been losi losing independents binary from 15 to 20 percentage points. if that is the -- in fact the case, particularly in maricopa county suburbs, you are going to see donald trump suffering. and based off of these early numbers here, the first 80% in, it seems like that is the case here in arizona. >> vaughn, let me ask you about a dynamic tha

the other county we'll be watching for results is pima county, and that includes tucson, and that is the one county that hillary clinton won sodly in 2016. mark kelly feels so confident toght that he has already planned an event tonight in tucson. >> woodruff: very, very interestinu all of what e saying. if that is a pickup for the democrats, for joe t bidet is significant. that is 11 electoral votes in arizona. i of course, early. the state has not been called yet. about the couny around phoenix, maricopa county, and what youe telling about pima, all of that very, very important. i nt to talk about that with amy walter in just a minute. right now i want to hear from our dan bush, who is in philadelphia, looking at what is happening in the state of pennsylvania. dan, we're hearing it is ju going to take a while for some of the votes to be counted. a record number of absentee ballots cast in pennsylvania. so we are not going to have a clear picture of results until well after midnight. yesterday the biden mpaign cautioned on a call with reporters, they didn't expect a cler picture in

that's not something you can make up hoping rural -- >> what about in tucson? >> 80%. let's see how biden campaigned to clinton. he is running nine points ahead of her. she won it. it's a democratic county. it usually is a democratic leaning county. look, if we were seeing this latino vote helping trump it would show up. we are not seeing that there. this is a reminder that it doesn't -- not all latino votes are the same when you are trying to compare them, particularly in the southeast versus the southwest. arizona, this is the first sun belt state that you sit there and you are like, okay, there's not a lot of rural remaining vote you sit there and say, okay, we will see the same that we have seen with trump and ohio and north carolina that as the rural vote comes in it starts to load up. let's look at north carolina. i said, one of the things you will -- we will get straggling rural counties that will add to his number. there was room to grow in the big blue counties. there's a lot of vote in wake county. this is a huge -- that's a lot of voters left. this has been

you look at it now and see the entire state, you see the familiar cities, flagstaff, sedona, yuma, tucson, let's be honest, this comes down to maricopa county and phoenix. one of the fastest-growing areas in america. 60% or more of the vote comes right out of here. 77% of it in. again, we'll figure out what's missing from that. joe biden at 54%. the president 44%. so a ten-point race. little under ten-point race. let's go back and look at it. excuse me. get that click in. again, so donald trump wins arizona four years ago. wins maricopa county. this is the biggest basket of votes. phoenix and the fast-growing suburbs. four years later in 2016 to 2020, this is one of the fastest-growing states. you get out of phoenix, go down here, fast-growing suburbs. again, suburbs have revolted against this president. an important senate race in this state as well. let's come back to 2020 and look at the map. maricopa county is blue, a source of joy in the biden campaign right now. they have to keep it that way. let's look down here, peopima county, 64%, if you round that up, 85% of the vote in. by ten

the tucson area. there is a likelihood that the numbers that we are seeing now and arizona will stay in. >> i have heard from the biden campaign that he's going to speak. they felt that al gore had a bi mistake in 2000, by not coming out early and speaking and not necessarily declaring victory, but acting like he was a victor and they thought he was always on the defense versus george w. bush during that entire recount. i think they expect that there is going to be some litigation that goes on here and they want to approach it to a certain degree, it's just pr, but from position of strength. >> this is the biden motorcade that we are worked looking at. >> with minnesota, assuming tha arizona stands. biden is now at to 37. he is 36 votes away from the 36 electoral votes away from the magic number of to 70. i was going through the states that are outstanding. nevada six, pennsylvania 78 wisconsin, ten. north carolina, 15. georgia 16. there are a lot of pathways. not to say he's going to win it but there

i was in tucson on saturday. here in phoenix, these next few days. i'm seeing overwhelming enthusiasm for the turnout by latino voters. and i think that's going to be consistent in all the key states like texas, florida, arizona, nevada. i think we're seeing a real uptick that will be historical. >> arturo, are you seeing the same thing? >> absolutely. good morning. good to see my good friend janet today. we've been doing a tracking poll for the nine weeks leading up to this election. as of today, we have surveyed 3,700 latino registered voters. half of them have told us they already have voted as of today. our projections at the educational fund were that 14.6 latinos would vote. that's a 15 m% increase over 20. we think our projections are going to be shattered by tomorrow. well over 14.6 million latinos will vote, according to our poll. enthusiasm is extremely high. up to 75% of latinos are telling us they are certain to vote. and so we're excited about a strong latino turnout. >> janet, as you suss out the differences between president trump and

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announcer: vice president mike pence campaigned in arizona, making stops in tucson and flagstaff. he told supporters president trump has the best economic plan for their future. president trump lost those cities in 2016, but won the state. showsok political report the race right now leaning democratic. ♪ >> how is everybody doing today? you ready to welcome vice president pence back to arizona? got four days and about seven hours to save our country. are you ready to do it? it has been an honor to work with president trump and vice president pence to have a strong economy. we had our strongest economy in history. we cut your taxes. you are all for that, right? working to rebuild our military after it was decimated under obama-biden. looking within them to secure our border. and to put over 200 judges on the bench, including amy coney barrett. [cheers and applause] >> she is amazing. i have a front row to history to be at the white house and watch her get sworn in. mark kelly said he would vote no on amy coney barrett before one word came out of her mouth. arizona, everything is

a similar story in pima county, that includes tucson, arizona. so when it comes to records on early ballots, those are being smashed in arizona. kyung lah, cnn, scottsdale, arizona. >>> on wall street, worries over covid-19 infections, more restrictions and election uncertainty led to another selloff on wednesday. by the time it was over, the dow plunged 943 points and the s&p 500 was down 3 1/2%, the worst performance since june. now, u.s. futures are gaining some ground in overnight trading that major asian markets have pushed lower in thursday's training. jo things have become much riskier in the marketplace. >> almost double trouble with the covid-19 spikes we're seeing in europe, and still lingering doubts about the u.s. election despite the poll results we're seeing now. more about the ballots and the question marks around it, and there's real concern in europe because of covid-19 because it's at the core of major economies which will slow down growth, require more stimulus, and even the potential for social unrest. i think it's important t

that includes tucson, arizona. so, when it comes to records on early ballots, those are being smashed in arizona. kyung lah, cnn, scottsdale, arizona. >> all right. kyung, thank you so much and thank you so much for watching. our coverage continues. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. >>> hello, and welcome to you, our viewers joining us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber, and you're watching cnn newsroom. just ahead, five days left to vote in the u.s. as both presidential candidates crisscross the country with their closing arguments, focused almost exclusively on the worsening covid-19 pandemic. >>> and that crisis getting so bad in europe that france and germany are going back under coronavirus lock downs. then, severe weather striking this hour. tropica

. >> reporter: senator harris meeting with business leaders before a drive-in rally in tucson. >> we've seen how women in small businesses have suffered in the midst of the covid virus. but joe and i are committed to supporting them and giving them more resources. >> reporter: biden voting early back in delaware. he's off the trail but on message. getting a covid briefing from health experts before laying out his plans to get the pandemic under control. >> we'll let science drive our decisions. we will deal honestly with the american people. and we'll never, ever, ever quit. >> reporter: it comes as the white house science office is taking heat for a press release that listed ending the covid-19 pandemic as one of the president's top accomplishments. despite record surges now sweeping the country. a white house spokesperson calling the statement poorly worded. >> we're certainly not getting ahead of it. we're still in the midst of the pandemic. we do say we're turning the corner. >> reporter: the grim reality of the virus contradicting the message the president wants to send six days be

the same story, erin, in tucson. so when it comes to early ballots, it is being smashed when it comes to records. >> thank you very much. keep it here in new york. a state that everyone assuming it is a go. three hours of wait. thanks for joining us, "anderson cooper 360" starts now. >>> good evening. it is just six days. >> the virus does not have a preferred candidate. according to health e experts, that's what it will do. tonight we are getting a reminder of how cynical the trump administration have always been about the pandemic that killed 228,000 americans. we know from the worst, the president's son-in-law on tape of new released clip that we never heard before. that's all the messy work. the stuff that you may get blamed for. the plan was take credit for success and human lives be dammed. it is really that simple. jared kushner said it himself. bob woodward joins us later tonight. the data came to johns hopkins university reported of 70,000 new covid-19 cases for the day and 985 deaths. >> that's a bad positi

the same story, erin, in tucson. so when it comes to early ballots, it is being smashed when it comes to records. >> thank you very much. keep it here in new york. a state that everyone assuming it is a go. three hours of wait. thanks for joining us, "anderson cooper 360" starts now. >>> good evening. it is just six days. >> the virus does not have a preferred candidate. according to health e experts, that's what it will do. tonight we are getting a reminder of how cynical the trump administration have always been about

she will also hit tucson. president trump when he's here later today will focus on the rule turnout, hitting rule cities. but the fact they're even here in arizona underscores the battleground nature and how close arizona is. all of this happening as the early vote is under way and tabulation of the early vote is under way and that is only going to grow. here in maricopa county, the number of early voting sites is expected to grow today to 90, 90 early voting sites. as far as the number of ballots that are currently being counted, maricopa county, again, the most populous counties here, 2.1 million bail-in ballots requested. more than half of them, according to the election departments, have been signature verified and counted. >>> now to look at the situation in another battleground state, our miguel marques is in detroit, michigan. miguel? >> hey there, kueng, unlike you guys in arizona where they are doing early balloting in polling places, here in michigan, most of those ballots are being dropped off in dr

for the democrats, kamala harris will travel to phoenix and tucson to urge people in the state of arizona to make a plan to vote early, including returning their mail-in ballots. more than 71 million ballots already have been cast in the 2020 election, according to the u.s. elections project. battleground voters account for more than half of the early ballots cast. in all but one traditional battleground state, early voting is more than 40% of the total vote for 2016. texas leading the nation in early voter turnout with 82% of the total number of 2016 voters already having cast their ballot. according to the center for information and research on civic learning an engagement, part of the texas voting phenomenon is a 600% increase in voters under the age of 30. and on that note, joining us now, grammy award-winning rapper and activist common, he has been out on the campaign trail in several battleground states encouraging young african-americans in particular to vote. he'll be in north carolina later today. common, it is so good to see you, my friend. appreciate you taking some time. i kno

i will note he's not going to maricopa county, or around tucson. he's not going to the suburbs. he's going out west where more of his base is to pump that up. but also last weekend, he's going to new hampshire as mike memoli said. safe democratic state. so it seems. he lost it in 2016, albeit narrowly. he was out in minnesota. so he seems to be trying to find different paths here, but i'm not really sure where i can define exactly where he sees it. and we talk about georgia. i was talking to somebody today who does a lot of races down there. and he told me that a lot of ways georgia is becoming the new virginia. that state is rapidly changing. and the three counties to watch for republicans are the atlanta suburbs, fulton county, cobb county and dekalb. fulton is the main one. that was a swing county. that's becoming more blue. dekalb, democrat stronghold, becoming even bluer. cobb, even as recent as 2017, even after hillary was a republican stronghold. that's becoming purple. for senate or any statewide, you have to do well in fulton and really get your guys out in cobb and so

traffic on 6 ad backing up all the way into fremont back from mission north so crawling from fremont in tucson all because of this crash the southbound traffic. it's okay but they have a view of it so it's a little slow passing the scene as well because of the robber attackers. another motorcycle accident this one and hayward it's 80 south a tennis and several lanes blocked here so if you have to head south it's jam from to 38 the northbound commute opposite side of the crash is stacking up out of union city so a little heavy for you there in both directions this morning looking at 31 minutes for your commute time to make it from to 38 to 2.37 sol be watching that and another problem, a traffic alert issued for concord east for after the left lane blocked by an accident involving a truck, so it's just crawling there before and after the 6.80 split saw be on top of all these problems and have another update in a bit back to you, thanks a lot rob and his to and some restaurants in california are suing the state because they were charged fees while they were closed during the pandemic the lawsuit

lincoln now works for an environmental organization in tucson. to witness the destruction as a ranger would have been unbearable now at least he's creating hope despite the pandemic. the violent killing of george floyd has brought a renewed sense of unity to those who oppose trial. and i think it's really clear that the status quo is not working for people and that it is possible to build a more just and beautiful world and in that sense you know the struggle. of the black was not a struggle and our struggle against the border wall against trumps track counting immigration policies are very much linked. to young people like maxine lake and are working hard to make sure trump loses arizona and 2020. revolution in phoenix is growing like no other city in the u.s. thousands move to the desert city every year it's a cheaper place to live many bring with them liberal values which could significantly change this formerly deep red state changes what we really need black lives matter is uniting many people both black and white who are fed up with trump's

pima county, tucson, the greater tucson area, the bright blue part of the state looking to ju their turnout numbers there as well to offset what the trump campaign is looking to do in the more rural parts of the state. if those two offset each other, it comes down here to maricopa county. we should note, we're approaching 8:00 on the west coast and 8:00 p.m. on election night is when the poll results will be coming in so just eight days from now i think we'll be talking about results here, steve, out of arizona. >> yeah, that's right, vaughn. as you well know, it's the first few minutes after they're allowed to release the vote, we get a ton from arizona so we're looking forward to seeing what those numbers have to say and tell us about where the election is going. vaughn hillyard in phoenix, thank you for that. really appreciate that. that's going to wrap up this special hour. nine days and counting. thank you for watching at home and i'll see you all day tomorrow on msnbc as we continue the countdown to election day. "the week" with joshua johnson is going to start right after this quick

lincoln now works for an environmental organization in tucson. to witness the destruction as a ranger would have been unbearable now at least he's creating hope despite the pandemic. the violent killing of george floyd has brought a renewed sense of unity to those who oppose trump. and think it's really clear that the status quo is not working for people and that it is possible to build. more trust and beautiful world and in that sense you know the struggle. is doris in there. oh oh she left can i leave us with now that we've all our voices voices behind us is not i feel that that was the point of oslo and i think that i think that's what a lot of people feel and i'm going to we're going to write like you have to go on you know you know so we all do this someday and i teach him that there's not that you can't do in life you're not things we want to be when you grow up. it's fun for you or i miss me i know this but i live by the lights and that's it you're black man oh man i think i've hit up on me a long time ago but on the off fight for help so

we're here in tucson, pima county, the second largest county in the state. hillary clinton won here by 14 percentage points. two years later, kyrsten sinema, the democrat in the senate, she won it by 15 points. that is exactly why this biden campaign is looking at pima county here, because they see an opportunity. so far from the early ballot returns that are coming in, you see 42% of them at this point are democratic ballots. of course, among voter registration as a whole, the number of republicans outnumber the number of registered democrats, expect the number of republicans to turn in those early ballots to increase. but i want to hear from two democratic volunteers, urban and sabrina, for the first time volunteering this week, and i met them yesterday at the urging of their son. listen to our conversation. >> my son, he actually had to work today, but he asked us to come out and volunteer. >> the community giving back to the community, i think it's important. >> i'm all for getting out there, getting the voices out there, getting the word out there. >> s

i was reading a story earlier this week, in a local tucson paper about border concerts being held to repudiate the racism and bigotry of people being held at the border. this is a state where you have six, seven, 8% of the early voters and people trying to be first time voters. arizona is a sign of how far republicanism has failed in maintaining its control and what was not just a red place, but also fiercely independent voters. that is what used to have in colorado and nevada. these are people that are look don't tread on me. that is the big mistake that trump has had. but if we're looking forward, we have no idea how this election goes but the idea, if we go back to the lincoln rothecproject, le clear, if lindsey graham keeps his job, he will hug him the first time he gets into office. >> that is such a good -- carrying his golf bag next. >> he'll be carrying his golf bag next and saying i always liked joe biden. that is what he's going to do. but there is a number of republicans who have always leaned into this and they will say, you know what, the only reason why trumpism failed

he's been in erie, pennsylvania, tucson, carson city, nevada and i believe going to florida after that. biden this week did go to durham, north carolina but juan, he's had four days basically by the time this debate gets started to prepare. so should you expect his performance to be really good? >> sure. i mean, he did fine last time. there's arguments that he said he could have done better, could have been more reresponsesive even though trump was constantly trying to disrupt him. i think that if we see president trump go down the hunter biden think hole there, i think that joe biden would be wise to understand a trump is trying to disrupt him, get limb to stutter or lose a train of thought, something like that, dan that. so for him, it's like you know what? just say this is ridiculous, this is not worthy of conversation or what the american people want to hear. that will be a big winner. he let trump go down that hole. he shouldn't. for trump, the emphasis is again to dominate the stage and to somehow demonstrate that joe biden isn't the man that the american people can see that he's

yesterday he was in prescott, tucson, today pennsylvania, tomorrow in north carolina. and joe biden look, the whole thing is he has a lid on this and it's crunch time, right? remember the criticism hillary clinton got in 2016 for not going to some of the battleground states. what do you make of this strategy? >> i make that joe biden is -- charlie, i love you. you couldn't be more wrong about my party and candidate. joe biden has been out there. joe biden is taking a few days to prepare for the debate on thursday which i think is essential, quite frankly. this is going to be the last debate. this is it before the election. speaking of most of the country has already made up their mind and millions of people have already voted. so when -- there were two things here, they're very different races, joe biden doesn't want crowds of people with a covid-19 pandemic. he wants people wearing masks. he wants people social distancing. i'm not saying the president doesn't. when you look at his crowds i'm not seeing a lot of masks and not seeing social distancing. also when preside

the warm -- tucson. the president should be here in about an hour. now, lou, this original rally was scheduled for october 6th but had to be canceled when the president contracted coronavirus, covid-19. now, back in prescott just a little bit north of phoenix, the president hit several topics at his rally today at noon pacific time and focused on many issues, but notably the economy. this is where president trump continues to believe he can outshine former vice president joe biden. now, the president won arizona's 11 electoral votes in 2016, but he is down now according to the real clear politics average, trailing about 3 points behind. listen here. >> you don't have events like in that you come in second in arizona, okay? you don't do that. [cheers and applause] let's leave them. good-bye, you 25,40,000, whatever the hell -- good-bye, everybody, oh, we're in second place in arizona. i don't think so. no, we're in first place in arizona. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: arizona republican senator martha mcsally fighting for her political life. she'

taking the stage and tucson, arizona donald trump made his final pitch to supporters. >> nobody has ever done what we have done. there is no administration that has accomplished what we have accomplished in the first 3 and a half years. >> reporter: the president made two stops in arizona, a state he won in 2016. now that is uncertain, he is trailing joe biden in several polls come his first stop, prescott, north of phoenix. >> a vote for republican is a vote for safe communities, great jobs and limitless future for all americans. and this is such an important state. if we win this state we win it all. and i happen to love the state. >> the president did not mention that arizona covid-19 cases are on the rise instead telling supporters people are getting covid-19 the key. joe biden is also making a heavy play for arizona visiting earlier. >> 122,000 jobs in arizona still haven't come back. 9 times more arizonans are on unemployment each week than before the crisis it. >> according to the bureau of labor statistics biden was off by 20,000. approximately 10401000 jobs still have not return

in prescott, and then tucson. tomorrow the president will be back on the east coast for the rally in pennsylvania and so far since making a speedy recovery from covid-19, in addition to what we already mentioned, this president has had rallies in sanford, florida, johnston pennsylvania, des moines, iowa, greenville, north carolina, also outside of orlando and florida, macon, georgia. northern minnesota and janesville, wisconsin. it's safe to say donald trump is working hard, crisscrossing the country at a rapid pace. meanwhile, his geriatric, weak, strugglingitively opponent is noticeably missing trin action. there should now alarm every american. this has never happened in the history of presidential politics where one guy spends the entire campaign 15 days out of an election decided to take a four-day vacation after he only worked one day and then had another day off. joe biden is not crisscrossing the country. he's not campaigning. he barely is hosting any events at all. earlier today his campaign tweeted "joe

this is live in tucson joe biden off the campaign trail entirely his campaign says preparing for the final presidential debate that's scheduled for this thursday senator kamala harris made a swing from florida with spots in orlando and jacksonville she's rallying on the first day of in person voting in florida here is a look where the candidates have been over the last few weeks biden and harris made a total of two dozen stops with most of them in pennsylvania that's how important it is to them president trump and vice president pence tallied 27 tops with their most in florida without a win there, the president's road to re-election, says his campaign, is much tougher. here is a look at how much the campaigns are spending on television ads in some key battlegrounds. the top one is florida and they dropped a lot of cash. earlier today during a cal with his campaign staff, president trump admitted that he had doubts weeks ago about his chances of winning but he says now he believes he'll win arizona, pennsylvania and michigan despite trailing in the polls. >> this is all i'm telling yo

mp now flying to a rally in tucson, arizona. he is actually there now. yes he is. look at that. you're looking at a live shot from the scene there. the president jam packed with rallies every day through election day. "real clear politics." they do an average of nine national polls, showing a dead heat in battleground areas and states. 30 million already voted. the election is just over two weeks away. tonight we welcome white house chief of staff mark meadows, david webb, sol wisenberg. also with us tonight congressman doug collins and filmmaker that started out on her new film supporting democrats on the southern border agreeing with democrats but this registered democrat changed her mind when she found out the truth. she now says illegal immigration is wrong. she says it must be stopped. she says it puts illegal immigrants at risk of crimes by human traffickers and drug traffickers and puts americans at risk. votes this week on supreme court nominee amy coney barrett, coronavirus aid and twitter ceo jack dorsey to testify about censorship of conservatives and censorship of ne

he was in prescott earlier this is live in tucson joe biden off the campaign trail entirely, his campaign says preparing for the final debate kamala harris made a swing through battleground florida she's rallies voters there on the first day of in-person voting there here's a look where the candidates have been over the past few weeks biden and harris have made two dozens stops president trump and vice president pence -- without a win there in florida, the road to reelection is much tougher here's how much they're spending in some key battlegrounds see here the top one is florida they have dropped a lot of cash. earlier today during a call with his campaign staff, president trump admitted he had doubts weeks ago about his chances of winning, but he says now he'll win arizona, pennsylvania and michigan, despite trailing in the polls. >> this is all i'm telling you we're going to win i wouldn't have said that two, three weeks ago. i'm going to arizona today for two rallies. those two rallies will put arizona away. >> in that same call, the president attacked dr. fauci, called him a disaster