For ballots, the supreme kurkts lous absentee ballot extensions in pennsylvania and North Carolina. Republicans vow to keep fighting now that Amy Coney Barrett is Justice Barrett on the court. Welcome to thursday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. Nearly 80 million ballots have all right been cast. Think about that. Theres already been 77 million vote s cast through at least ths morning. With election day fast approaching, both candidates are scheduled to hold dueling rallies in florida. Well dour best to dip into these events as they get under way. Florida the mega battleground state. Could be the most important state on the map. It could decide the president ial race or be the early canary in the coal mine for trump on Election Night. According to our new nbc news marist poll of likely voters in florida, its close. Biden up four points, well within the 4. 4 margin of error. Just moments ago, another poll from monmouth university. It gave biden a fivepoint edge. They have a ver
Pitfalls for the future of Voting Rights when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. All right. We are officially two weeks from the end of voting in the 2020 election. We dont say election day anymore because voters across the country are already mailing in ballots and heading to the polls. Today was the first day of inperson early voting in the battleground state of wisconsin. You could tell from that footage it was chilly, and yet we saw long lines at busy polling places. Were also just 48 hours from the final big set piece event of the campaign, the last president ial debate, which will go on with a rule change. The candidates microphones will be muted while their opponent gives an initial twominute answer to each topic. Of course they made that necessary change because the president is so compulsively antisocial that he cannot abide by just the normal give and take of conversation in debate. The debate this thursday is hugely important for President T
Trump does not hold an edge on any of the most pressing issues at stake in the election, leaving him with little room for a political recovery absent a calamitous misstep by biden in the coming days. Some of the poll numbers on issues include a 12point advantage for joe biden on coronavirus. A sixpoint advantage for joe biden on choosing the next Supreme Court justice. And a sixpoint edadvantage on w and order. Trump staked his presidency on a miscalculation that voters would share his dark view of law and order and just wouldnt notice that its donald trump who is encouraging felony voter fraud in North Carolina, commuting the sentences of convicted felons and ignoring u. S. Intelligence about bounties being placed on the heads of american soldiers. That conduct coupled with the crippling effects of the pandemic on the economy has left trump with zero structural advantages in this race. With 14 days until voting ends, anything can always happen, but millions of americans have already v
You could tell from that footage it was chilly, and yet we saw long lines at busy polling places. Were also just 48 hours from the final big set piece event of the campaign, the last president ial debate, which will go on with a rule change. The candidates microphones will be muted while their opponent gives an initial twominute answer to each topic. Of course they made that necessary change because the president is so compulsively antisocial that he cannot abide by just the normal give and take of conversation in debate. The debate this thursday is hugely important for President Trump because when youre as far down in the polls as he appears to be, it is a chance to change the trajectory. That said, it is also, of course, a serious risk because we saw what happened last time. Im not here to call out his lies. Everybody knows hes a liar. But you agree no, youre the liar. I want to make sure you graduated last in your class, not first in your class. Oh, god. Mr. President , can you let
Hello again. Thank you for joining us. We begin this hour with growing pressure on President Trump to come to grips with his reelection defeat. That pressure coming from his own family members, a sort tells cnn Melania Trump has advised her husband to accept the loss. Cnn has also learned that Senior Adviser and soninlaw jared has kushner approached him to but he continues to falsely claim in all caps the election was somehow rigged against him. Meantime both the president and preside president elect are facing a intensifying pandemic. A new record was set, the Third Straight day of more than 120,000 cases. Globally the pandemic has surpassed another grim miletone. More than 50 million infections and counting. In his victory speech last might president elect joe biden pledged to name a new Coronavirus Task force by tomorrow, biden making it clear that the pandemic will be his top priority when he takes office january 20th. Our work begins with getting covid under control. We cannot rep