This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. 34 days until election day and were following multiple breaking news stories that could impact how you cast your votes. President trump refusing again today to condemn White Supremacists. Trump also using the debate to try to sow doubt about the integrity of the election. Also tonight, 26 states reporting an uptick in covid19 cases. The midwest now overtaking the south as the region with the highest number of new cases in this country. Lets get right to it noun. Cnns john harwood is our White House Correspondent and cnn Political Correspondent mj lee, they both join us. Hello to both of you. John, the president again claiming victory tonight for his debate performance, but thats not how his team is describing it. What can you tell us . Well, privately, trump aides understand that he did poorly last night. Publicly, they understand it. Chris christie was one of his debate advisers and was on Television Last night saying he was too hot. All the polls sh
Thousands of american workers. More on that when i talk to Garrett Haake on capitol hill in a moment but i want to start with nbcs peter alexander. Hes at the white house and ali vitali also in d. C. Peter, President Trump full steam ahead on the rally front. Big rallies all weekend. That is his jam. Any worries from fallout from tuesdays debate or hes just going to keep churning ahead and hoping to move the news cycle . The president does seem unfazed but his allies are worried with him trailing in the polls to attract those undecided voters, he squandered that opportunity, even repelled some of those undecideds. If the white house and campaign, as our team has been reporting, was quiet and in shock, one of the real challenges for this president is its another two weeks before the next debate between him and the former Vice President joe biden. Any chance for a course correction. Has to wait. He has to marinade in a lot of those bad headlines until that. And that puts pressure on the
Lets get right to it noun. Cnns john harwood is our White House Correspondent and cnn Political Correspondent mj lee, they both join us. Hello to both of you. John, the president again claiming victory tonight for his debate performance, but thats not how his team is describing it. What can you tell us . Well, privately, trump aides understand that he did poorly last night. Publicly, they understand it. Chris christie was one of his debate advisers and was on Television Last night saying he was too hot. All the polls show that it was an unsuccessful night for the president. Whatever he may think in his own head and whatever he may say in his rallies, and it was costly for him because he doesnt have much time in the election. Hes substantially behind. His numbers have, if anything, gotten worse in recent days. Nationally and in the key battleground states. You were talking to amy harrison a few minutes ago. He had a poll out today that showed him essentially tied with joe biden in south
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Security will be in order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Free and Fair Elections are the bedrock of our democracy. As we learned just over 18 months ago, democracy is not something we can take for granted. We must defend it fiercely and protect the institutions that uphold it. So i commend chairman thompson a for allowing this hearing. When i was first eligible to vote in two 1006 election officers were in the process of replacing of the structure. Social media was new and largely a way for Young College kids to connect it our adversaries had not figured out how to weaponize our freedom of speech or technological ingenuity and use it against us. The notion that an armed crowd would descend upon the United States Capitol Building and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power would have been be on anyones wildest imagination. And harassing Election Officials or alter an election result was something relegated to dev