Of the crisis is, quote, an insult to those suffering and to those who have lost loved ones to covid19. We are following the candidates path to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win. As of this hour a record 74 million early ballots have been cast. That is more than half of all the ballots cast back in the 2016 election. Despite that, at this time next week we still may not necessarily know all of the results. There is also breaking pandemic news we are following. The coronavirus death toll now in the United States has topped 227,000 people as the country faces more than 8. 8 million confirmed cases. As the map shows, new infections are on the rise in almost the entire country right now. Only one state is seeing a decreasing trend as the positive iterate and hospitalizations are surging nationwide. Lets begin our coverage this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta who is on the campaign trail with the president in arizona right now. Jim, the president very mu
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