Up with. With coronavirus patients. The 20yearold austrian macedonian citizen was shot dead by police after he gunned down four innocent people. Live from paris. Thank you very much for being with us. We are focused firmly on events in the United States. Donald trump versus joe biden. There is so much more than a case of republican versus democrat. There is more than a political philosophy at stake. From squad for years at the white house have seen major changes in outrages. Supporters call it reform. Will the people vote for more of this . Joe biden points to trumps mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic but points also to the divisions across the country. Cases of White Police Officers killing black people. Trumps failure to condemn racist white nationalists. The future of the u. S. At stake. We have correspondence across all the states to bring you the latest news and analysis. In california, in phoenix, in miami, in washington, in philadelphia, in new york. Lets start there. Good evening to you. What is the mood like in new york . We have had reports of security concerns. Are people saying where you are . What are people saying where you are . People are very anxious. They are also hopeful. The majority of new yorkers want to seed donald trump out of the white house. Have come out in droves to vote. They have come out in droves to vote. 3. 6 million have voted either by mailin ballot or they voted in early voting. There have been a lot of people turning out today. Voting stations around the city in harlem and now i am down here at Madison Square garden, which has been cvertednto a huge polling station. There has been a steady stream of people here in the vast majority of them say they want to see an end to Donald Trumps time in the white house. They are hoping that we will get results today on election day in the evening that will show that joe biden has w, but they are also very anxis because not all of the boats will be counted this tuesday. They are afraid that donald trump will try to steal the election and pmaturely announce he has won when the ballots have not all been counted or cast doubt on the integrity of some of those mailin ballot. There is a lot of angst and concern here in new york city. As you can see behind me, the bank behind me has been boarded up. There is plywood being put up around shops in the city on the main avenues. Macys has been boarded u because there are fears they could there could be protest as the results come out. Depending on what donald trump says. Protest feared. Donald trump says he has i think it is his point of view a special relationship with new york city. Most do not share that point of view. There are still some Trump Supporters among the president s entourage in what he calls his hometown. Yes, there are. In new york city, they are mainly in staten island. He has a staunch base their of bluecollar workers who support him. Also people working in law enforcement. Police officers, firefhters, they tend to vote for trump as well. They seem to be continuing to support him. On the whole, new york city really is blue and so is new york state. There are also some republicans who hold their noses and vote many of them, they might like they might not like to admit it inublic but they do it for tax purposes. They believehey will pay less taxes under donald trump. We fully expect new york to go to biden. Surely they will not pay as little tax as donald trump is paying. Our correspondent is there smiling as ever in new york city. We will be with jessica throughout the evening as we cover every twist and turn in this u. S. President ial election. Lets bring you the latest covid19 figures. Showing you the crisis is far from over for americans. 33 and have thousand new cases this tuesday. 480 more people have died. New york city was one of the first and worst hit places at the start of the pandemic. A place donald trump calls home. This will reign will remain one of the lasting images of the 2020 campaign. Donald trump arriving in a Military Hospital in washington. Little more than a month before the president ial election. The day before, the american president acquired positive for covid19 him of putting his health firmly under the microscope. This was something that happened and it has happened to millions of people all over the world and im fighting for them. A few days later, the president made his return to the white house with great pomp and ceremony. Despite spending time in hospital, since the beginning of the crisis, the american president has minimized the threat of the pandemic. From comparing covid to the flu or floating the use of bleach as a cure, his management of the crisis has been criticized from all sides. Two days before he tested positive, the republican candidate even made fun of jode biden for wearing a mask. I do not wear masks like him. He could be speaking to hundred feet away and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. The Democratic Candidates stance has been completed for. Masks the matter. The only thing i heard is one of the tweet saying do not be concerned about all this. There is a lot to be concerned about. The former Vice President wants americans to be freely tested while also creating 100,000 dical positions. Symbolic differences have been most noticeable in the way they conduct their rallies. While donald trump has not hesitated to gather thousands of tightly packed unmatched supporters, joe biden has chosen to speak in fro of a small number of supporters. Lets get the analysis and bring in our first guest of the evening. A medical doctor and Health Policy leader and serves as the executive director of the American Public health association, the nations oldest and Largest Organization of Public Health professionals. Good evening to you. Would you describe the handling of the covid19 pandemic in the u. S. As a catastrophe . Whave bee strugglingince it began. Itas been a real challen in terms of trying to get everyone to do e kind of Public Health measures we want them to do. Wear a mask, wash their hands and keep their distance. Go ahead. Yeah, and we struggled to get people to do the basic Public Health measures we want folks to do. Washing their hands, keeping their distance. Wearing a mask has been a challenge. We have not had the unified leadership we would like. Hopefully that will change soon. Would you check would you say the root cause of the problem has been donald trump . Leadership has been a challenge. There has note there is no doubt about that. President trump has in terms of his leadership style. Its not the kind of thing i as an emergency doctor would have been supporting. In terms of what should be done, in terms of what could be done, we cannot send the clock back. Cases are still increasing and people are still living their lives. What needs to be done in your view . We need to have a unified voice. We need to trust science. We need to speak fnkly to the American People and tell them what is going on and solicit their support for the kinds of there. Health measures tt are a vacciny soon we will also have when we have that vaccine, we need toake sure people understand what it is and how to protect themselves by getting the vaccine and that is going to require a really strong voice d i am ping that we will get that kind of strong voice in the future. Can i talk a little bit broader about the Health Situation . Clearly we have worked out where we stand on covid19 and the current situation. The other issue of course that is discussed in this trump versus biden election is happens to things like Affordable Care act Affordable Health care . Clearly trump committed to getting rid of what had been put in place before bidens approach. From your perspective, what is the best case, worst Case Scenario for the average american . Hopefully, our government in the future will support a system with everyone in and nobody out. We are looking forward to when this election is over that weekend really build support that we can early build support for the Affordable Care act. Expand coverage to every american. George benjamin of the American Public health association. Thank you for sparing your time with us. Thank you for your analysis. I trust you voted and we will wait and see how the election turns out. We are hearing the importance of Health Policy and good leadership in the white house on that very issue, especially the issue of covid19. There are two elections running simultaneously. The president ial one of course. But there is also the senate. Democrats could gain control of the u. S. Senate in this election. They will need to flip three seats. The Vice President would be the tiebreaker in the senate if there was a home vote is how you would best. Describe it control of the senate is important because it would determine how much trump or biden can accomplish over the next four years. Heres a look at some of the key contests. In maine, republican incumbent Susan Collins is up against democrat sarah gideon. Collins has served in the senate for 23 years and is considered the most liberal republican senator in part because of her prochoice stance on abortion. She angered Many Democrats in her state when she confirmed Supreme CourtJustice Brett kavanaugh amid allegations against him of Sexual Assault and voted against impeaching donald trump. Her opponent is sarah gideon, the speaker of the maine house of representatives. Filled by anger against collins, in the first week of her campaign, the 48yearold raised 1 million. In South Carolina, a republican incumbent Lindsey Graham is up against Jamie Harrison. Lindsey graham is seeking a fourth term. As head of the judiciary committee, he has led the republican push to confirm three of president trumps nominees to the Supreme Court. During the 2016 primaries, he called trump a xenophobic racist but has since become one of the president s staunchest allies. As chairman of the South CarolinaDemocratic Party, Jamie Harrison was one was the first africanamerican to hold that role, growing up on food stamps and pubc housing. He says his humble upbringing would make him an important and underrepresented voice in the senate. In north carolina, the races between tom tellis and Cal Cunningham shared tellis is running for a second term but is consider the underdog in the race. Tellis recently contracted the coronavirus and was criticized for not wearing a mask at a many attendees iluding Donald Trump Tested positive for the virus. Cal cunningham is a former state senator and military officer. His campaign was recently rocked by allegations of an extramarital affair. In georgia, two seats are up for grabs. In one of the races, republican incumbent david perdue is up against john also appeared david perdue is a former businessman. He recently sparked controversy at a trump rally and he made fun of Vice President ial candidate, harris candidate Kamala Harris name. At just 33 years old, democrat jon ossoff is a former instigative journalist who narrowly won a congressional race in 2017. Lets get more of this and go straight to washington, d. C. Live to our correspondent who has been watching every twist and turn of the political shenanigans over the past four years. A very good evening to you tonight. Lets start with that battle for the senate. Tell us how you see that when turning out. That one turning out. If you look at all of the races that are possible toss ups, it does not give a certain type of lead to the democrats for an advantage to the democrats. You look at those seats as you mentioned, they need three seats if the former Vice President joe biden is elected. Four if donald trump remains in office. Accoing to the recent polls, there are apparently 12 seats in the country that are seen as very likely tourn, that are not republican incumbents. Of those, there are some that look very favorable to the democrats. Others that are real toss ups. Some of the boast the most vulnerable republicans are arizona, colorado, iowa and maine. Those are the four we should be lookg at most closely. As we heard, there are other seats that could still bring some Election Night surprises. Im tang especlly of georgia where there are those two races combined and there have been a lot of late scandals and issues. Overall, this is something joe biden has been focusing on because you have seen these rallies taking place in states where the senate race was close an where democrats could gain a seat. Use all joe biden and his surrogates, to Barack Obama Barack obama, harris barack mentioned. Ala harris, all calling people to not only vote joe biden but vote down the ballot further senator and their representative and not to forget how important it is that the senate hold control for the democrats. Lets look back at the president ial campaign. You have reported on every step of it for us. We continue to thank you for that. I know the night is young for you and it will continue for a long time. We have the 12 hour special, a voyage of programming for the u. S. President ial election. Lets take a look back at a very divisive and at times bitter campaign. It has been a Divisive Campaign because this country is extremely divided and has been ever since Donald Trump Took Office and has probably gotten more and more divided over the years, but it is also a campaign that was completely upended by the coronavirus. If you look back at early february when the democratic primary started, the coronavirus was still a faraway thing and we did not really think about it. All of a sudden, the campaign was upended. Joe biden won the nomination for the democrats and there was no campaigning, no rallies, no in person events. Finally, we returned to the campaigning. We saw a different campaigning strategy from joe biden and donald trump. Donald trump dismissing all of the Public Health precautions for coronavirus by holding these packed rallies with thousands of mask less supporters where joe biden was focusing on small events, socially distant or drivein rallies. The messaging was also contrasted. Well joe biden from the getgo said he was the candidate of unity, unity within the Democratic Party and unity as a whole for the country saying he would not be just a democratic president. He would be the president of the United States of america. Donald trumps messaging was quite different. He spoke to his base. His goal all along has been to motivate his base and motivated by lashing out at democrats. Lashing out at the left. Lashing out at the liberals and the blue states. You have different messaging, different strategies, different types of campaigning. We are finally there for the election day, Election Night. It is still pretty divided. People are waiting anxiously to figure out what the four years coming holds. I know you have a very reliable supply of caffeine on hand. Black coffee will keep you going. We discussed that 24 hours ago. I know the next 24 hours for you are going to be extremely busy and we will be coming back to talk with you. Thank you very much indeed. Lets turn now to business. Who better to join us then kaylee echo investors around the world are watching this election closely. How did the markets fare this election . Pretty strong days for work pretty strong gains for wall street. The dow was up 550 pointat the closing bell. Gains of just under 2 . Historically, u. S. Stocks do fare fairly well on election day. Wall street is up 40 since donald trump was elected four years ago. Lightly stronger growth than under the average president ial administration. We saw the ager european indices closing higher. Gains of around 2. 5 . Broadly speaking, Donald Trumps probusiness stance would probably boost markets in the short term if he is reelected. We could see a lot of market volatility if there is a dispute over the results are any kind of unrest in the days and weeks to come. A drawn out struggle both for the white house and both houses of congress would also delay further efforts to try to reach a deal on another round of financial stimulus for american households and businesses. All of them struggling to make ends meet as the number of front of ours infections continues to rise. You have been taking a look at the economic promises made by the two candidates. Lets start th one of the areas where they differ most, taxes. Very different views. Donald trump wants to build on the cornerstones of his administration. The tax cuts and jobs act of 2017, which reduced individual tax rates for almost all americans. The Corporate Tax rate was slashed from 35 to 21 . Those measures are due to expire in 2025. The president would like to extend it if he is reelected, roughly doubling the lost government revenue. Economic activity revoked by tax cuts. His campaign has put of the idea of reducing a tax on Capital Gains, which is applied to things like stock market and real estate investments. Joe biden would undo a lot of the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans and biggest corporations. He would raise that Corporate Tax rate to 28 . His Campaign Says the middle class would not be affected by his program. It is one of the areas that we have heard middleclass voters are worried about what might come if he is elected. He would like to double Capital Gains taxes for the top earners. I am might i might be being partisan. It is interesting he has such detailed tax plans but he is not paying taxes. Most of the tax proposals from the trump side are incorporated into the budget released earlier this year. The president and white house has had to put forward detailed plans. What about some of the other spending or savings that are going to be put forward . There are a lot of issues to be dealt with for whoever takes office. Both donald trump and joe biden support Infrastructure Spending bills of over a trillion dollars. It is one of the few areas that has bipartisan support in the u. S. Biden supports doubling the memo wage to 15 per hour. Trump said he would consider doing so if he is reelected. Trump would continue his policy of tariffs, especially targeting china. The trade war he has waged has pushed the trade deficit between the superpowers down. Joe biden has fewer concrete proposals so for on trade. He said issues like intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfers do need to be addressed with beijing. He favors International Cooperation over unilateral tariffs. When it comes to student debt, trump wants to replace four income the linked programs. Biden has called for more debt forgiveness. Biden wants to cancel some 10,000 per student. The candidates are almost diametrically opposed when it comes to climate change. Donald trump has rolled back a lot of environmental protections. Bidens Campaign Said is it would that it would spend 2 trillion. That is the gap between the two u. S. Candidates. The policies so different and diametrically opposed. Thank you for giving us that business outline. Lets bring us the covid latest. It is not good news. 854 deaths from covid19 recorded here in the past 24 hours. This is the highest number since the record said on april 15. That was the height of the first wave of covid19 to have the country. Nearly 3000 icu beds occupied by covid cases. Hospitals around the country are at saturation point. The measures the french government has enforced are not showing any reduction in cases. 1. 5 million cases over 36,000 of those in the past 24 hours. The government Still Believes the workplace is not the most likely place to catch the virus. Office, factory or construction site. Most employees in france work in close proximity to others. According to frances labor minister, the Coronavirus Infection is not a big work not a big risk at the workplace. I want to be very clear. We are not contracting the virus at work. Since the beginning of september when Wearing Masks he came mandatory in shared workspaces, fewer than 1 of infections happened at work. In a recent report, Frances NationalHealth Agency found 10,478 cases of covid19 were linked to company clusters. That is less than 1 of the total cases reported in france. Cluster numbers do not tell the whole story because coronavirus transmission is difficult to trace. More than 90 of infections have not been linked to a specific place. Therefore, it is impossible to deduce the total number of cases linked to businesses. In these uncertain circumstances, it is better to prioritize working from home. First, it protects the person who is working from home and also the people who have to go out by lessening the number of contacts. Under frances current log down, working from home is mandatory for everyone who is able to. One of the many restrictions able to we strickens aiming to stop the virus from spreading. Next, it has emerged the gunman who killed four innocent people in vienna had fooled the authorities into believing he had rejected jihad. This news is an embarrassment to the austrian police. The 20 euros gunman was shot dead by police after the killings on monday night. The Islamic State group is trying to claim the attack. Right police dispersed opposition supporters outside the ivory coast opposition leaders home. The opposition boycotted the election, claiming he was seeking a third mandatend i was agait the constitution. And that was against the gaza duchenne. Next the constitution. Live from paris, our election coverage continues. We take a very short break but do stay with us. 11 03 20 11 03 20 [captioning made possible by democracy now ] amy from new york, this is democracy now pres. Trump remember what i said four years ago, i am your voice and we will make America Great again. America has heard, the message should be loud and clear, it is time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. Amy it is election day but already history has been made