Physically voting. The streets are lined with a lot of his supporters. A lot of people are here, not all of them Wearing Masks, but many of them gathered here to see him early vote. This is a busy day for him. Hes continuing a blitz through battleground states. After this, hes heading to ohio and wisconsin. He is trailing in the polls to joe biden, so he does need to shore up support there. The early voting is as much a symbolic gesture as anything else. As you know, President Trump has been encouraging his supporters not to vote by mail necessarily. Hes been undermining confidence in the Voting System and really encouraging people to vote in person. This is a highprofile way for him to demonstrate he believes its safe. Thats what hes been trying to convince people to do and he is casting his vote presumably for himself. Certainly, presumably. Sarah, we know that he spoke yesterday at Campaign Rallies in the villages and pensacola. We hear people yelling behind you. Are all of those pe
The campaign trail today with serious questions still remaining about his health. With the time line of his infection still murky, trump told his supporters sunday hes tested quote totally negative for the virus, but yet neither he nor his doctor have provided evidence to back that up. Instead hes misrepresenting his chances of reinfection and underplaying the risk of spreading covid to anyone else. Listen to this. Its like im immune, i can go way out of a basement to which i would have done anyway, and which i did, because you have to run a country. You have to get out of the basement, and it looks like im immune for, i dont know, maybe a long time. Maybe a short time. It could be a lifetime. Nobody really knows, but im immune, so the president is in very good shape. Today the president stages his first rally since being diagnosed in the coronavirus hot spot state of florida. We get more now from White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Good morning, laura and boris, President Trump
I think hes quarantined, yeah, hes going to be fine, but hes quarantine. The Vice President and his wife have both tested negative, but as the leader of the task force, you would expect pence to follow cdc guidelines and selfquarantine as a precaution. Yet, with nine days before the election, hes doing the opposite. Today pence will be holding a rally in north carolina, a state already seen a new spike in its own cases. Again President Trump downplaying the surge. Do you know why we have cases so much . Because thats all we do is test. If we cut or testing down in half, they would say well, they wouldnt say that, but cases would go down. We are coming around, rounding the turn, we have the vaccines, everything. Even without the vaccines rounding the turn. Seeing level not yet seen. Now a stunning admission mark meadows said, quote, we are not going to control the pandemic. Heres much more from that interview from this mornings state of the union with jake tapper. Mark, thanks so much.
Welcome to our viewers in the United States, canada, and around the world. We start with breaking news. New cases of covid19 are escalating so rapidly in the United States that the office of the u. S. Vice president has been directly affected. Two senior aides to mike pence have tested positive in recent days. Pences office revealed the chief of staff mark short has began quarantine and the Vice President and second lady tested negative. And cnn learned another senior pence adviser tested positive recently. Its not clear exactly when. The record spikes in recent days paint an ominous threat more than 167,000 new cases in just the past two days. If julys surge was a category three, whats looming could be a category five. At the polls with barely one week until the election, trump and pence cant afford to let up. In wisconsin the president falsely blamed the nations high death toll on a flawed counting system. If somebody has a really bad heart and theyre close to death, even if theyre n
The grave of his son beau, that is how he started off the day, and now hes just flown into an area near scranton where apparently he has brought i think he said two of his grandchildren. 100 Million People have already cast their ballots before the polls opened today. That is a record. Right now polls are opening in six more states, you can see them there, long lines, voters are standing in lines at polling locations across the nation. This is the scene at one polling site in philadelphia. Theres certainly anxiety, theres excitement, theres uncertainty with the nation auto divided and the coronavirus pandemic surging, it is one of the most critical developments in our nations history. We could see President Trump head to the rnc annex offices in virginia this morning. Joe biden is spending part of his day in pennsylvania he has just arrived there now to make a final pitch to voters. We have correspondents in positions to bring you the latest. Polls in florida opened a short time ago, t