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As expected, it is going to be a battleground blitz for President Donald Trump and joe biden it will indeed. The president will hold rallies in four key states, north carolina, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin while joe biden is focusing his efforts on ohio and pennsylvania take a look here is the final national nbc news wall street journal poll. Biden is holding a 10point lead 52 to 42 which is a onepoint drop taken from the same poll a week ago we are about to debut a new poll from the allimportant battleground states that will determine the next president. Chuck todd is going to break it down in the studio, but we start with White House Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning, peter. Reporter President Donald Trump wrapping up his last rally early this morning in florida. The president and his allies drawing confidence not from the polls that show him trailing but from the size of his crowds. To know whats happening in this race, you have to watch where it is happening the president making five stops, ending in grand Rapids Michigan late tonight, the same place he closed out his campaign four years ago. Part of his closing argument, a swipe at dr. Anthony fauci and an effort to count legal because ballots after election day. President donald trump finishing a frenzy push in Battle Ground florida. What great victory we had get out there and vote reporter despite covid infections and deaths surging, the president continues to say that the vivus almost gone. I say its, its rounding the turn the crowd shouting fire fauci. Fire fauci, fire fauci. The president s reply. Dont tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election i appreciate the suggestion. Reporter it comes after fauci told the Washington Post about the pandemic the Biden Campaign is taking it seriously from a Public Health perspective, while President Donald Trumps focus is the economy and reopening the country. Earlier trying to shore up support in georgia, a state he won handily in 2016, now its a tossup. The president arguing the race should be called on election day. We should know the result of the election on november 3rd thats the way its been and thats the way it should be. Reporter but thats not true and never has been President Donald Trump saying he challenge the results if he loses. Were going to go in the night of as soon as that elections over, were going in with our lawyers reporter falsely saying ballots counted after tuesday are illegitimate its a terrible thing when people are or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over reporter the Pennsylvania Attorney general tweeting late sunday fact check our e leg shuns are over when all of the votes are counted. And referring to previous legal victories over republicans adding, but if your lawyers want to try us, wed be happy to defeat new court one more time also this morning, the fbi telling nbc news its investigating after Trump Supporters surrounded a Biden Campaign bus in texas on saturday a Biden Campaign official said a vehicle tried to run the bus off the road the president overnight tweeting these patriots did nothing wrong, saying his supporters were being helpful, not threatening. You see the way our people were protecting his bus. Reporter and it is not just texas, the Trump Supporters took to the streets in droves over the weekend, blocking traffic on several major roadways, maga hats, first flooding new jerseys garden state parkway, backing up traffic for miles, several hundred more vehicles blocking the mario cuomo bridge in new york before state troopers there moved traffic along and here at the white house crews will begin putting up what they call a nonscaleable fence that secures the streets that surround the white house. Its really disturbing, peter. Thank you very much. Joe biden will also spend this last full day of campaigning in key Battle Grounds. An 11th hour stop in ohio and several events in pennsylvania Kristen Welker is in philly for us this morning. Hey, kristen, good morning hey, hoda, good morning to you. In this final sprint, joe biden and Kamala Harris will barnstorm all four corners of this state democrats lost here in 2016 and now they are fighting to win it back for biden, a son of scranton, this fight is also personal. Joe biden closing out his campaign in Battle Ground pennsylvania in a fiery address last night urging voters in philadelphia to turn out in force. In two days we can put an end to a presidency that has divided this nation. Reporter earlier sunday the former Vice President aiming to rally critical africanamerican voters add iing to the polls event. Reporter and biden responding that he plans to claim victory, even if the votes arent all in. The votes in pennsylvania likely wont be known on tuesday. By law, they cannot start counting its millions of ballots until election day the states secretary of state urging patience. I expect an overwhelming of ballots of mailin ball lots as well as inperson ballots will be counted within a matter of weeks. Reporter the Biden Campaign looking to boost turnout in a state the president won by only 34,000 votes in 2016. Joe biden will win the ballot by about 4 , and win the philadelphia suburbs by a much greater margin than hillary did and he will hold the margin of the loss we had in rural pennsylvania than in 2016. In the suburbs of philadelphia, voters are mixed i switched parties us that i feel like a lot of the things they said were going to get done they didnt even start on those issues reporter why President Donald Trump i feel like hes doing a great job and we still need him in office. Reporter some democrats are privately worried that biden has not been visible enough in other key swing states. Others say that he has been all hands on deck noting that president obama made the case for joe biden in michigan. Joe biden is my brother i love joe biden reporter democrats are going to flood the state today his brother will be in georgia and Kamala Harris has multiple stops here in pennsylvania, including this evening a big one with john legend. Joe biden will make a stop in cleveland, ohio, three stops right here in pennsylvania, capping out his evening in pittsburgh with lady gaga. Savannah lets take a closer look at where things stand and with new polls from the battleground states, we have the moderator of meet the press chuck todd with us. And you have spent the last four years with everyone else poll obsessed. Everyone is poll obsessed right there with you youve got a new poll from the Battle Grounds lets put it up on the screen. These are the states that ultimately are likely to decide the election one of our Lessons Learned from four years ago, dont stop polling. We stopped polling before the election, the saturday before the election and this time, we have not stopped polling until tonight before. And so we unveiled this one on meet the press. Five points in the battleground is within the margin the president s job rating is 47 . His number is at 46 and i keep bringing this up, because ultimately this job rating is going to be if ballot number. So what his job rating is tomorrow, and when we see the exit polls, it is all going to be within a point, and that is what we are staring at and that means that every one of the battleground states are going to be extraordinarily close tomorrow, and even if they are moving within one direction. Quickly, our National Poll showed a tenpoint spread. Lets go to the map. What are the paths theres one basic path here that is there we go. This is what were staring at from over the weekend. We got news out of the iowa that seems to be leaning red. News from the Trump Campaign that says they dont feel good about wisconsin and michigan ohio, were going to go ahead and assume trump hangs on to that and were going to give him texas. So this to me is what were staring at here, basically a fivestate race left as can you see the good news for joe biden is he just needs one and it would hit him at 270, arizona, would do it, florida would do it, georgia would do it, north carolina, maybe holds on to that by the way i have a theory of this, this sunbelt state, the evangelical white women are the one group of women who have not softened on the president. Look what this does. This puts this right here. This is the nightmare. Joe biden does not want us if this is what were waiting for, its going to be a long month. Not a long night, not a long week, but a long month this is why the Biden Campaign, theyre very confident, they think they can win this without having to wait for pennsylvania. As you can see, if were waiting for pennsylvania, its lawsuitpaloosa thats the issue, because the polls show biden is within five, but it is within the margin of error. Well, it is one place where the republican ticket did well with party registration, and the other state being in florida, and so there is a lot of thought that election day vote, and more than half of the vote is going to be tomorrow, and this is all a turnout game, and there are a lot of questions that i have, and when you are playing a turnout game like this, and the president , and he is relying on the lek shun delection day votew does picking a fight with fauci on the last day or the new jersey turnpike that has insurance on the voters do in the last 24 hours. Democrats have leaned in to having the vote banked early the president waiting for election day this is the nightmare scenario for the country good luck. Good luck youll be there its with me. Tomorrow is going to be a long one. Nbcnews. Com 2020, complete coverage starts tomorrow as america heads to the polls, well start here on today and well be on through the night, our special election coverage starts at 7 p. M. Eastern 4 00 pacific right here on nbc. As we have just heard the pandemic is a major issue for both president ial campaigns and for voters. Over the weekend, a majority of states across the country set alarming new covid records. Gabe gutierrez joins us from milwaukee, wisconsin, and hey, gabe, good morning. Reporter good morning. Over the weekend wisconsin broke its daily record for new covid cases and over the past week the Positivity Rate here in the state is staggering, nearly 30 . As its testing lines grow it is scary reporter wisconsin has seen more than 2,000 covid deaths october its deadliest round yet. I you made rounds in the hospital earlier today and saw patient after patient on ventilators. This is not a hoax. Reporter a global record, in one day nearly a thousand americans died does it upset you when people try and downplay this virus . Yes, it does. I would say come follow us for a 12hour shift and you will see that there are people out there that are hurting, families that are devastated reporter new yorks government announced new requirements that many travelers to the state must get tested within days of arriving or be forced to quarantine authorities shut down two massive halloween parties there over the weekend across the country, a West Hollywood street party had been cancelled but revellers showed up anyway. To and in salem, massachusetts, some trickortreaters defied orders to stay away. If you take the proper precautions, youll be away. Reporter now doctors are worried about families gathering in large groups during thanksgiving and here in wisconsin. About 85 of covid hospital beds here are full. Dangerous numbers gabe gutierrez, thank you. 7 dln 7 15, and lets get a check of the weather, mr. Roker. Good morning, guys. Transitioning to a little bit more than fall right now 62 Million People under wind advisories with those wind gusts, now that folks are getting back on planes, look for airplane delays from buffalo, boston, buffalo to washington and indianapolis. Behind that front, 28 Million People from dallas to roanoke under frost advisories and freeze warnings. Look at some of these morning temperatures with their wind chills right now it fees like 27 in boston, 35 in d. C. , 19 in indianapolis, 22 in des moines with the cold air coming across the waters over the great lakes, we have snow qualls. We could see upwards to 8 inches but anywhere from 1 to 3 inches from Central New York all the way into northern new england. Well take a look at your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds vo command hooks are easy to apply and remove cleanly so you can go all out this holiday. Command. Do. No harm. Good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Lets take a look at our high temperatures for today. Its going to be well above normal as we reach into the upper 70s in San Francisco. 80s in oakland. 84 in san jose. And up to 88 degrees in morgan hill as well as some mid80s in parts of the inland east bay. As we go through the forecast we are going to see our temperatures remaining in the 80s throughout the week up until friday when well have a big cooldown coming our way. And that is your latest weather. Love what youve done with the place. This election make does this election make our butts look fat. Reports that Prince Williams battled the virus. In secret in the past few months. Keir will have a live report from london in. 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