This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Beautiful shot to start the day. Good morning to you. Looking at san francisco, listen, weve got 16 days now left until the 2020 election day. 22 Million People have already cast their votes. Yeah. Today former Vice President joe bidens trying to lock in a lead in North Carolina. Thats a state President Trump won in 2016. And President Trump is trying to close the gap in nevada. He lost that state the first time around. The latest National Poll has joe biden in front. His campaign manager, however, says do not get complacent. Cnns Sarah Westwood is at the white house. We know President Trumps waking up in nevada this morning. Again, he lost that state in 2016. What do we know about his strategy and what well see today. Reporter good morning. Yeah, that state is one that the president lost by under three points in 2016, and its perhaps a sign that the campaign is trying to preserve alternative paths to 270 electoral votes for the president if he has hopes of winning reelection. Hes also been spending some time in states that he won handily in 2016 like georgia and florida. And also with his packed schedule hitting states that he won by just a hair in 2016 and that he is perhaps hoping to try to turn his way again. Like wisconsin and michigan, those are the two states that we saw him campaigning in yesterday despite the fact that coronavirus cases in both states are on the rise, and local officials have warned about holding such large gatherings in both of those states. Now while he was in michigan, the president went after the democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, for keeping schools and facilities closed as the state battles coronavirus. The comments raised eyebrows because the fbi foiled a plot to kidnap that governor, governor whitner, and the president weeks later is going after her there. Governor whitmer responded quickly on twitter. I want to read the response, she said, this is exactly the rhetoric that put me, my family, and other government officials lives in danger while we try to save the lives of our fellow americans. It has to stop. And interestingly, one of the aides to the governor, her deputy digital director, also responded on twitter saying that violent rhetoric is directed toward the governor every time the president goes after her like this in a rally. She wrote, i am the governors deputy digital director. I see everything that is said about and to her on line. Every single time the president does this at a rally, the violent rhetoric escalates on social media. It has to stop. It just has to. We expect the president to maintain a very demanding schedule like this during this final sprint to election day. Sarah, we also on twitter saw the white house adviser, dr. Scott atlas, really the only member of the task force we see in the white house, pushing this false narrative that masks do not work in trying to control the spread of the coronavirus. Whats going on here . Reporter yeah, dr. Atlas posted on twitter undermining the confidence in the effectiveness of masks, questioning whether they are effective in preventing the spread of coronavirus. That goes directly against the advice from trumps own administration from his cdc that people should be Wearing Masks when theyre in public settings, when theyre around people who are not members of their household. That tweet was flagged and subsequently removed by twitter for violating the rules, spreading disinformation about masks. Again it just fits a pattern. For Many Trump Administration officials offering conflicting and often just wrong information about coronavirus leading to public confusion and sometimes the greater spread of the virus continuing in this country. All right. Sarah westwood at the white house. Thank you. Former Vice President joe biden in North Carolina as we said today. President trump won that state in 2016. But the Biden Campaigns strategy wants to lock in voters in those key states. Lets go to Jason Carroll good morning. Jason has the latest for us. Jason . Reporter well, as expected, the campaign putting much. Its time, resources, and energy into battleground states, and states where theyre doing early inperson voting, theyre seeing some of those same images coming out of places such as North Carolina. For his part, Vice President joe biden will be in during ham, North Carolina, today, speaking to voters, telling them to be patient and to get out there and vote. Senator Kamala Harris will be doing the same in florida on monday. Shell be making two stops there. Biden not out on the campaign trail on saturday. Neither was harris. Biden met with advisers from his campaign on saturday. Harris, for her part, a couple of people in her orbit tested positive for covid19. Oug out of an abundance of caution they physically kept her off the trail until she tested negative on saturday. Looking ahead, biden will be in North Carolina today. You have senator harris in florida. Shell be there on monday. Jill biden will be in pennsylvania on monday. She will will be in michigan on tuesday, jill biden. Wednesday is the big day. That is the day that former president barack obama will be out there campaigning for biden. Hes going to be doing that in philadelphia and and a number of democrats are saying if theres one surrogate that you want out there stumping for you, that would be the one. Jason carroll, thank you so much. Lets talk about where we are in this race. 16 days now left until the election day. 15 of the total ballots cast for president in 2016 have already been cast. More than 22 million ballots is what have been cast across 45 states and the District Of Columbia thus far to this date. This is according to a survey of ballot data by cnn, edison research, and catalyst. We cathedral to teneed to we to tell you catalyst provides data and analytics to academics and nonprofit advocacy organizations. The information coming from 27 states that report Party Affiliation so that democrats are leading the way with more than 5. 4 million ballots cast so far. Republicans have cast more than 2. 4 million votes there. Keep in mind, the polling shows democrats prefer voting early or by mail. Republicans prefer to vote on election day. We also have to say that although these are democrats who cast their ballots doesnt mean that they necessarily are guaranteed to vote for the candidate. Right. Among 36 states reporting ballots cast by gender, more than 7. 3 million men have voted, outpaced by the nearly 9 million women who have cast bolts. Mark preston, senior analyst, talking about. That women are a key part of this, we know. Good to see you. Good morning. I want to listen here to a woman in florida that jeff zeleny spoke with. She voted for President Trump in 2016. Heres what she says today. Hes so dishonest, and the worst is that whenever he is caught in a lie, hee blames it n somebody else. Its always somebody else. Lets listen to President Trump last night in wisconsin. Actually, this was in michigan. I apologize. Listen to what he had to say, specifically to women. Im suburban women, youre supposed to love trump. Suburban women, they should like me more than anybody here tonight because i ended [ cheers ] the regulation that destroyed your neighborhood, i ended the regulation that brought crime to the suburbs. And youre going to live the american dream, and thats what youre going to do. I ask you to do me a favor suburban women, will you please like me . [ cheers ] please. All right. He was referring he was talking about destroying your neighborhood, he was talking about his interpretation of obamaera fair housing rules and lowincome housing. But i want to i want to check that, mark, with you. He also was using or did not stop the crowd from yelling lock her up, which we had heard. That was for the michigan governor. Last time it was for Hillary Clinton. We also have heard him talk about Savannah Guthrie and how she conducted herself, that she was very angry. We heard something similar in 2016 from him about megan kelley in a debate. He needs these womens votes, and im curious because this illustrates this consistent derogatory view of strong women. What is the calculus in his mind, in his campaign, that the language hes using is going to benefit him . Now, thats entirely unfair for you to think that i could actually get in the mind of donald trump. Sorry. Look, im only kidding. Look, lets go back to several years ago right before he became president. He stood on a debate stage in really a hollowed political place for republicans, the Ronald Reagan library. Sat on a debate stage and turned around and made a derogatory comment about the looks of one of his republican contenders, you know, carly fiorina, that he was challenging. Donald trump lives in a bygone era. I often think is he running a campaign from like 1954 . Is this a campaign that would that would perhaps work in a way that it is not working now if it was 50 years ago . And perhaps that is true. You know, if you listen to the tone of how he asked for their support last night, it was very condescending. And its a tone that is not going to work very well, i think, at this point with suburban women. And we are seeing that play out in the polls. Specifically why did they support him last time . If you look at last time, Hillary Clinton was a very polarizing figure. You know, there are a lot of people who didnt like her personally. They also didnt like about how the fact that her husband had served two terms, she had served her adult life in government, and that there was this idea that she was entitled to become the next president. Thats all gone now. Wee seen what has happened with covid19, we have seen the incompetence of what happens when people are dying when our government is not taking care of them. So theres also this report that the Biden Campaign manager, general mally dylan, in a memo that i think is going out today says that we need to Campaign Like were trailing even though the majority of the polls show that theyre double digits ahead of President Trump. Some will argue it seems like 2016. The polls said one thing, and Election Night said another. Is that the contention, that people will vote for him and they just wont admit it . Is that a contention thats still val Identity Theft a sizable scale valid on a sizable scale, or is that what bidens concerned about . Yeah. Not only that. Forwe g forget the stock market is doing well now. As well as we are seeing these terrible unemployment numbers, we are seeing people die, our loved ones die, we all know someone sweat equiconnected to disease. The stock market is doing well. If youre doing well and still have a job and the stock markets doing well, then thats a concern right now if youre a democrat. And specifically, joe biden got two pieces of good news. He got that hes continuing to be ahead in the polls, and he has a huge cash advantage over donald trump. Except you dont want your supporters to know that. You want your supporters to know that youre against the ropes or want them to think youre against the ropes. Otherwise, complacency will lead to defeat. I think theyre very, very, very cognizant of that as they look at what happened in 2016. So how do you think thats going to shape what we see that week, in this last debate . First of all aol well talk about both sides, but what is the one takeaway you think each of the candidates needs to leave the American Voter with once that debate is over . Lets start with Vice President biden. I think he has to show that he has energy and that he has focus and that he has command. The empathy will come through. I think joe biden could do well if he makes no mistakes. Donald trump, on the other hand, i think that he has to show empathy, he has to show that hes in control. We havent seen him show any of that in this campaign, let alone in this presidency. I dont necessarily think hes going to take that advice. It is going to be quite a show, though, i think, this last debate. All right. Mark preston, we are so grateful to have your expertise and your thoughts this morning. Thank you for waking up early for us on a weekend. Hey, thanks for having me. Always. Thanks. So the conversation continues on state of the union. Lara trump, chris coons, jb pritzker and Fareed Zakaria coming up on cnn. Still to come, there are two places in the u. S. Where covid19 cases are trending in the right direction. Just two states. Health experts are warning that the surge has the potential to get far worse. Also, comedian seth rogen tells cnn whats getting him through the pandemic. I smoke weed from the second i wake up, whatever you need to do to get through the day, as long as its not hurting other people, do what you got to do. Quitting smoking is hard. Like, quitting every monday hard. Quitting feels so big. So try making it smaller, and youll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette. A livcustomizeper iquickbooks for me. Starting small can lead to something big. Okay, youre all set up. 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As the coronavirus surges across the country, there are just two states, just two, that are trending in the right direction right now. Missouri and vermont. They recorded above 10 improvement in the average number of cases over the past week. Cases in connecticut and florida have increased by 50 or more. Cnn correspondent Paolo Sandoval joins us now from new york with the latest. This map is starting to look like what we saw in april and may and then again in july and august. Were seeing the what some people are calling the third peak. Reporter we tracked these numbers every day. The experts do, as well. Just to give you a better sense of how the Current Situation is looking like across the country right now, consider that back in midseptember the average daily new covid case county was about 34,000. Now, show being a 60 increase according to officials. That number is 55,000. Experts saying that fall surge that theyve been talking about, its certainly under way. Ill be honest that im extremely worried. Epidemiologists have been predicting a fall spike for a long time. People are starting to move indoors, starting to be lax on social distancing. Now youre seeing spread everywhere. Youre going to see many multiplefold the number of cases unanimous we s cases th the spring. Reporter ten states break covid19 record. In Minnesota Public HealthOfficials Say theyve so far traced at least 20 cases of the virus back to rallies held by the president last month or to related events. This is so heartbreaking because it was predictable and inevitable that when you have people congregating not Wearing Masks, not doing physical distancing, not using hand sanitizer, those are the perfect conditions in which you get the spread of the coronavirus from one person to another. They quickly become superspreader events. Reporter new mexico is reporting a 101 increase in covid19 hospitalizations so far this month. And in new york, calm calm cand said there would be an increase as cooler weather drives people inside. Dr. Fauci warned that we may get to 100,000 cases, and i suspect that we will. Because were not doing anything to mitigate this, right. I also worry that, you know, what we see today is increasing in cases. And they continue to increase. What we see two weeks from now is escalating deaths. Reporter on the vaccine front, pfizer now says it wont seek emergency vaccine authorization before election day but hopes to later in november. Maybe by the end of november well know whether any of the three vaccines that are in later stage phasethree trials the Astrazeneca Oxford vaccine, the moderna vaccine, and the pfizer biotech mrna vaccines, whether are working and are safe. And once we get that signal, then we can start to begin releasing it to the public possibly through emergency use authorizations. Reporter here in new york, the concern continues to be certain pockets here in new york city that authorities are certainly looking at. Yesterday the governor announcing their fall approach. The socalled microcluster strategy. As opposed to looking at counties that have been affected or even neighborhoods, theyre going to be looking at specific blocks that are seeing large covid numbers. Those certain blocks would have to implement certain strategies here and measures to bring those numbers down. The goal here is to try to limit some service the effects for some other regions that are perhaps not seeing such high covid numbers. All righty. Good to know. Paolo sandoval, thank you. Italy is struggling to contain the spread of the virus. It just registered a new record high in daily cases. The number of deaths, though, is still low. Cnn Senior Correspondent ben wedeman is outside a covid testing facility in naples. We understand that they doing shifting in terms. What theyre going to do to try to keep the numbers back down again. This was a country hit so hard before. How are the people that live there dealing with the reality that they may see the worst of it yet again . Reporter yes, well, the government here is taking measures to try to limit the spread. For instance, here in naples, in the region theyve closed schools and the universities earlier this week. Restaurants are supposed to close their doors at 9 00 p. M. We were in a restaurant at 9 00 p. M. Yesterday, and there were still people going in. So implementation is still a work in progress so to speak. But certainly here in naples, there does seem to be a real effort to try, for instance, to increase testing. Now here at this hospital, we have been outside for a few hours. Theyre testing about 1,000 people a day, seven days a week. Its a fairly quick process. Its free. And italia who tend to be italians who tend to be critical when criticism is warranted, most of the people seem happy with how the process is being condu conducted. If you look at the numbers, even though, yes, were definitely in a second wave here, yesterday almost 11,000 new cases were recorded which is getting near to double the height of the the numbers we saw at the height of the pandemic. If you look more closely at the numbers, theres a difference. I mean, for instance, the testing is now five times higher than it was before. And the deaths are just 1 20 of what they were back in march. So even though if you look at the number of new cases there might be reason for worry, people seem to feel that the government has learned lessons from the pandemic earlier this year. And therefore, theres not the sense of gloom and doom that seem to weigh so heavily on italy earlier this year. Understood. Well see how much of whats happening in europe will happen here in the u. S. 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Unlike joe, she doesnt need notes. That was President Trump in michigan yesterday talking about his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barretts, performance during a Senate Confirmation hearing. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says he plans to put barretts nomination on the senate floor this friday. Cnns been looking into it. Reporter barring any surprises, judge Amy Coney Barrett is going to be voted out of the Senate Judiciary committee by thursday. That sets the stage for the entire senate to vote on her confirmation by the end of this month. Thats remarkably fast. Just a little over a month since Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg passed away. The democrats dont have tools in their toolbox to stop this. Already some are saying that if they win the election, if the senate is taken by the democrats, there might be some move to change the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Keep in mind the constitution doesnt set the number of justices. In history weve seen six, seven, but since 1869 its been set at nine. And remember that president roosevelt, he tried to change the number in 1937, and that wasnt very successful. So if she does get confirmed, almost immediately she would have to deal with a real flurry of Voting Rights petitions were seeing before the Supreme Court. And if we had a situation like we had back in 2000 during bush v. Gore where the Supreme Court was called on to decide the election, shed be sitting on the bench. And most critically, a week after the election, the courts going to take up the Affordable Care act. The Trump Administration is asking for the entire law to be invalidated. She would also be sitting to vote on that. During her hearings, she didnt say a lot about her record. But we know that she has had very conservative opinions in the past. So its going to be a big week coming up. We will object it for you all week long. Also tonight, check out an all new episode of first ladies. 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