Theres a reason it has hit america worse than any other advanced nation. Its because of trumps failure to take it seriously from the start. Six months into this pandemic, more than 5. 2 million americans have gotten the disease. Nearly 167,000 have lost their lives. On wednesday, another 1400 deaths were reported nationwide. The highest number weve seen in weeks. And yet when the president was asked about Kamala Harris accusing him of making things worse, heres what President Trump had to say. I think thats probably one of the reasons she was a terrible candidate and was forced to leave the race because she got her facts wrong. Shes very bad on facts. Very weak on facts. When you look at the job weve done compared to others, weve done a great job. My goodness. All right. Weve not done a great job but what we do have is all the angles covered here. Ali vitali in wilmington, delaware, carol lee at the white house. This rollout is now complete. They raised a ton of dough online. Tell us a
Inperson classes. This as his administration struggles to get on any message against the biden harris ticket or a consistent one. This morning, the president tweeted a thinly veiled dog whistle claiming suburban housewives. Unquote, will vote for him, because under president biden, lowincome housing would invade their neighborhood. Not sure why any of those have to do with Kamala Harris pick. Well begin in delaware. Joining me from wilmington ahead of the big Biden Harris Campaign event is our own nbc news correspondent mike memoli. Mike, i know were fighting a little bit of weather here, but i believe we have you up and running. So oh, it looks like we were a little bit we were a little bit concerned that we were going to lose mikes shot, and lo and behold, weather did us in there. Lets move very quickly here in the last few weeks, politico reported on a swipe at senator harris from former senator chris dodd, who is leading the biden vetting process. And the Associated Press reports t
Rates that some states are seeing. Remember, dr. Fauci told us on new day that rising positivity is a potential sign of Serious Problems on the horizon. Also this morning, it is clear that President Trump is trying to suppress your right to vote. Mr. Trump continues to spread lies about mailin voting after admitting hes opposed to giving the Postal Service more money because it would help people vote by mail during a pandemic. The Postal Office said they can handle the ballots. By the way, the president has requested mailin ballots in florida for their election. That happens this week. And 24 hours after Kamala Harris was announced as the Vice President pick, President Trump was spouting birther theories about her just as he did president obama. Dr. Jodie odom, she is a doctor of Infectious Diseases at university of alabama in birmingham. I want to play the sound where dr. Fauci told the country bluntly, bottom line, hes not happy. Listen. Unless we all pull together to get that down a
Action and tonight a Democratic National Convention Like you have never seen before, the party looking to try to ramp up support with virtual speeches, and with no crowds in milwaukee. This as a new poll out this morning trump cnn shows that bidens lead is tightening. Next hour, the president heads for Campaign Events in minnesota and wisconsin, were watching for any comments ahead of that. Lets begin at the white house with john harwood. John, there are many headlines. I do think that the cnn poll is really interesting that you now have the president within four points of joe biden. It has narrowed and right in line with the margin of error. Do we know why . Reporter not clear why. Other polls have shown a somewhat larger biden lead. If you average all the polls together we show that joe bidens got a lead of roughly eight points in the polling aggregates. But joe bidens got a consistent lead and thats one of the reasons why weve got this battle over mailin balloting, and the integrity
Months into the pandemic. And breaking news from the white house, an historic break through agreement between the United Arab Emirates and israel, made possible by israel for now giving up its plan to annex large areas of the palestinian west bank. Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation on a broad range of areas. This is a truly historic moment. Not since the israeljordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made towards peace in the middle east. And we begin today with nbc White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost kristen welker, nbcs mike memoli covering the Biden Campaign, Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Kristen, the president is hitting senator harris hard and fighting any if ynew funding foe post office. Bring us up to date. Thats right, a lot of people woke up this morning to those comments by President Trump real