Leading trump. Biden in wisconsin leading the president by 17 points in this poll, 5740. And joining me now, nbc News White House correspondent Peter Alexander will be here in a moment, but first, Steve Kornacki joining me. Steve corn aackee kornacki, lets take a look at the big board and what you think of the poll in wisconsin. Thats the biggest margin by far weve seen out of wisconsin. Weve seen joe biden consistently ahead in wisconsin. The states in gray, every one of them was a trump state in 2016. Every one of them, to some degree, the president is in trouble in the polling right now. But the two states, and this has been a consistent story this fall, that stand out, where trumps polling has been the weakest against joe biden, are michigan and wisconsin. And that abc Washington Post poll today, whether thats an outlier, a little farther out there than reality, its consistent with biden being ahead in that state and ahead in those two states more than the others. Look at this, if
Know, especially in those key battleground states that could very well decide this election. Today both campaigns zeroing in on the state of arizona. It comes at an increasingly urgent moment for our country in this pandemic. According to the nbc news medical unit, there is not one state in the nation where the number of covid19 cases is dropping. Lets get right to our reporters on the ground. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is in maricopa county, arizona, ahead of President Trumps visit today. Ali vitali is following the Biden Campaign from wilmington, delaware. Our guy Steve Kornacki at his trusty big board standing by. Vaughn, lets start with you on the ground in arizona. President trump making a number of Campaign Stops there today as he contends with the reality of more Coronavirus Infections nationwide. What are we expecting to see and hear from the president today . Exactly, craig. Six days out. This is not the backdrop the president wanted to be running on. Early 2020 he was running on th
Shattering 72 million americans who have done so already. For his part, President Trump is again gathering thousands of people without social distancing and no mask enforcement, this time in arizona. It is his fourth rally across four different states in the last 24 hours. The president s controversial comments about the virus at a rally in february exactly eight months ago today captures the exact same spirit of what he is saying now. The democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. This is their new hoax. Right now, its covid, covid, covid, no matter what happens. Covid, covid. On november 4th, youll hear its getting better. Its getting better. You watch. No, no, theyre doing heavy covid because they want to scare people. All right, joining us now is the speaker of the house, democrat, congresswoman nancy pelosi of california. Madam speaker, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate your time. We have a lot of ground i would like to cover. Let me begin with the subject of coronav
White houses claim that mr. Trump ended the pandemic. Biden called that an insult to every american who lost a loved one to the virus. As we close in on november 3rd were tracking the crucial path to 270 electoral votes. More than 74 million americans have already voted. Thats more than half the total vote in 2016. Despite the surge in early voting, we still might not necessarily have all the final results this time next week. All of this as the coronavirus rages out of control across much of the country. The death toll in the u. S. Now stands at more than 227,000. New cases, hospitalizations are also on the way up. Positivity rate also surging. Lets begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, youre on the road with the president in arizona, a state he won in 2016. Now it has emerged as a real battleground. Reporter thats right, wolf, hes really on defense here. But the president just took the stage here in the phoenix area a few moments ago and as wev
Fraud. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. 250,000 americans dead of the coronavirus, the United States crossing that grim milestone tonight, and Admiral Brett Giroir is sounding the alarm. Hospitalizations are going up 25 week over week, deaths are going up by 25 week over week, and this is not going in the right direction. We are at an absolutely critical dangerous point. Im going to speak to admiral giroir in a moment. He is sounding the alarm. Hospitalizations are at a record. More than 76,000 americans tonight are in the hospital because of coronavirus and deaths are surging. 1,700 americans died of the virus just yesterday. Tonight, the nations Largest School district, new york city, is again closing schools indefinitely. And yet, President Trump is actively handicapping americas response to the pandemic. Trumps health and Human Services secretary, alex azar, saying today that his agency will not work with joe bidens team until the gsa the General Services administra