Coronavirus doover, he would not do differently. Predicts the return to normal is just around the normal. Its ending. Normal life, thats all we want. You know what we want . Normal life. Normal life will finally resume. Next year will be the greatest economic year in the history of our country. Yes, we all want normal. But judge by the numbers normal is not where we are. Two horrifying covid peaks behind us, were right now staring at a third. Tuesday the highest single day total for tuesday since the end of july. The daily average just below 60,000. This hour there are zero states trending in the right direction. Zero. Deaths ticked up on tuesday as well. 933 american lives lost to the coronavirus yesterday. The pattern to the pandemic is death lags cases, which makes it likely yesterdays cases are a blip. Dr. Fauci said americans need to prepare for a trying winter. Unfortunately we plateaued again to about 40 to 50,000 cases a day. As were getting into the cooler weather, were gettin
Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. David plouffe is a member of a really tiny club. Its the kind of club that begins with the adjective living. The number of living, successful, democratic president ial Campaign Managers. Its a very tiny group. And thats why im always taking notes when he speaks. Thats why hes joining us tonight because its just a week left and, you know, there is a certain nervousness out there. You know whos great at dealing with that . David plouffe. I watched him do it twice as a president ial Campaign Manager. Yes. And so hes here. Hes here to bring a kind of calm, professional look at whats ahead. That no drama obama energy brought forward to 2020. We could all use a little taste of that. Thats what we need. We need a little less drama. Thank you, rachel. Well, the final week of the president ial campaign has come down to a contest between a candidate who has a plan to control the coronavirus pande
Republicans are in a panic. Suburban women, will you please like me . I saved your neighborhood. Okay . How many of you have been unable to hug your grand kids the last seven months . Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To our vur es, thank you for theiring your sunday. The numbers tell the coronavirus is surging across america nmpl more than 57,000 new infections reported saturday. More than a half million new u. S. Cases added in just the past ten days. The trend line is up and ominous. The president of the United States wants you to ignore the numbers. To ignore the facts. Vaccines are coming soon, the therapeutics and the cure. Were a winner. On the excess mortality, and what weve done has been amazing. We have done an amazing job. Were rounding the corner. Even without the vaccine, were rounding the corner. Well see it. Joe bidens 2020 bet is that you can handle the truth. Hes living in a dream world. He keeps telling us that this virus is going to disappear like america. My
In our democratic process. Lets begin by taking a look at the mornings headlines, though. As we count down to november 3rd, the Washington Post reports Police Departments everywhere are bracing for civil unrest on election day. Quote, while Law Enforcement agencies routinely plan for elections, Officials Say this years preparations are unusually extensive, because of the sheer levels of anxiety and toxicity across the country with fears that a modern American Election could give way to potential violence. Overnight, word of yet another spread of coronavirus among white house staffers. Vice president mike pence releasing a statement saying that his chief, marc short, quote, began quarantine, end quote, after testing positive for the virus. Nbc news learning that pence senior political adviser marty opst also tested positive. He was at the debate on october 7th posing maskless with him and after the event. According to pences office, he still plans to travel right here to North Carolina
And he talks about dont worry, its all going to be over soon. Come on. Theres not another serious scientist in the world who think its going to be over soon. I said were learning to live with it. We have no choice. We cant lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. Biden condemning the Trump Administrations Coronavirus Response and looked straight to camera, speaking directly to voters impacted by the pandemic. You folks at home will have an empty chair at the Kitchen Table this morning, that man or wife going to bed tonight and reaching over to try to touch, out of habit, where their wife or husband was is gone. Learning to live with it, come on. Were dying with it. The president continued to paint himself as a washington outsider. And biden as a career politician, the democratic nominee aimed to depict trump as a failed first term president. Theres a reason hes bringing up all this malarkey. Theres a reason for it. He doesnt want to talk about the substantiative issues. Its not a