In our democratic process. Lets begin by taking a look at the mornings headlines, though. As we count down to november 3rd, the Washington Post reports Police Departments everywhere are bracing for civil unrest on election day. Quote, while Law Enforcement agencies routinely plan for elections, Officials Say this years preparations are unusually extensive, because of the sheer levels of anxiety and toxicity across the country with fears that a modern American Election could give way to potential violence. Overnight, word of yet another spread of coronavirus among white house staffers. Vice president mike pence releasing a statement saying that his chief, marc short, quote, began quarantine, end quote, after testing positive for the virus. Nbc news learning that pence senior political adviser marty opst also tested positive. He was at the debate on october 7th posing maskless with him and after the event. According to pences office, he still plans to travel right here to North Carolina today for previously scheduled events. North carolina, like many other states, is experiencing a spike. This, of course, as the deadly virus spreads across americas heartland. The New York Times reports a harrowing third surge of covid19 leading to a singleday record on friday. In kansas, doctors already dealing with effects of positivity rates that have jumped by 20 in the last week alone are preparing for whats to come. We do expect that the number of cases in this wave will continue to increase. And of course, thats concerning. Hospital beds tend to sort of correlate with the population size. If there are a large number of infections for every 100,000 people in a state, its likely that those infections will result in hospitalizations and those hospitalizations will challenge the capacity of the Health Care Delivery system. Out on the campaign trail, trump continues to downplay the effects of covid19 on the american public, continuing his false and dangerous story that we are rounding the corner when it comes to the pandemic. All while infection rates reach alltime highs. And if you think this sounds like a desperate candidate who believes that he and his party is losing, youre probably right. According to the Washington Post, trump confided in a group of private donors that it would be difficult for the gop to maintain control of the senate, in part because trump says he doesnt like some of them. An attendee of the nashville fundraiser told the post that trump told donors, quote, i dont think the senate is tough. I think the senate is tough, actually. The senate is very tough. There are a couple of senators i cant really get involved in. I just cant do it. You lose your soul if you do. I cant help some of them. I dont want to help some of them, end quote. Of the 23 seats currently held by republicans that are up for reelection, nine have a legitimate chance of turning democratic. Two of the most hotly contested races in the entire nation are right here in the carolinas. In North Carolina, the challenger, Democratic State senator Cal Cunningham is currently holding a solid sixpoint margin over republican incumbent senator, thom tillis. The latest poll comes after tillis was diagnosed with covid19 in early october. It also comes following the revelation that cunningham was involved in an extramarital affair. Strangely, neither incident seems to have had a major impact in this particular race. In the South Carolina senate race, that could be a major upset in the making. Democrat Jamie Harrison has shot to stardom and looking to overtake longtime republican senator Lindsey Graham for the seat that was one held by strom thurmo thurmond. The most recent polling shows that harrison has flipped the script in a period of less than a month, after trailing graham by a little over six months two weeks ago, harrison now has a twopoint lead in the latest poll. That is within the margin of error. As part of his efforts to unseat graham, harrison has shattered the fundraising record, become the first in American History to pass the 100 million mark for fundraising and spending in early october. Harrison says hes willing to work across the aisle to get things done in the gridlock of washington. Hes made a name for himself as a relatable father and a husband who rose out of poverty, went to the ivy league and came back home with aspirations for public service. Joining me now is Jamie Harrison, the democratic challenger for Lindsey Grahams South Carolina senate seat. Mr. Harrison is the former chairman of the South Carolina democratic party. Jamie, good to see you again. I think it must be five or six weeks ago you and i were talking. Its still a pretty uphill battle for you, it still is, but youve raised a lot of money and your opponent is calling for an investigation into where all of this money is coming from. So save him the trouble, jamie, tell us, wheres all the money coming from . Its coming from the people, ali. Its good seeing you. Listen, its the grandmas, the grandpas, the aunts, the uncles, who are just tired of Lindsey Graham playing washington political games. And theyre ready for somebody to bring hope back to communities in South Carolina and across the country. Listen, Lindsey Graham is a rubber stamp. You see the urgency that he had this week to get a Supreme Court justice in. But he hasnt had that same type of urgency to pass another covid relief bill. In South Carolina, 750,000 people have lost their jobs, 400,000 have lost their health care. 3,500 have lost their lives. And i wish that our senator would take that more seriously than he does playing the washington political games. But thats the reason why hes in trouble right now, here, ali. And thats the reason why hes asking mike pence to come down here in the seventh hour, to campaign for him, a week before the election. Its the reason why Mitch Mcconnell is pouring 20 million in the last two weeks into South Carolina. Hes in trouble. And we have momentum here in South Carolina. Thats why folks should join us at jamieharrison. Com. Jamie, two days ago you tweeted, South Carolina is the Senate Battleground that no one saw coming. Its not often that you find your part of history in the making, but thats exactly the case for all of you who have believed since the beginning, lets finish the job. Talk to me about the history you feel like youre making. Lets understand the history of the seat and the state that were running in. This was the seat of john c. Calhoun. It was the seat of strom thurmond. This was the seat of a man called ben pitchfork tillman, who was a governor of South Carolina, but also a United States senator. And when he was in the senate, he would go to the floor of the u. S. Senate and talk joyfully about the lynching of black folks. You know, in South Carolina, we were the gateway of enslaved people coming into this country, almost 40 of africans came to this country enslaved through the port of charleston. South carolina was the very first state to secede from the union because of the issue of slavery. On november 3rd, we can make history here in South Carolina. We can usher in what i call the new south. Because South Carolina, when i win, will become the very first state in this great union of ours that will have two africanamerican senators serving at the same time. We can make that history on november 3rd. Exactly right. That will be something. Let me ask you about what has to happen now. Its not just a matter of the polling, as weve seen across the country. We know that generally speaking, only 55 of americans vote in president ial elections. Were hoping that all of this turnout means that more than that number will vote this time around. But for you, its going to be as much turnout as it is what the polls are showing. Yeah, the turnout is really important, but the energy and the momentum you know, Lindsey Graham just had a few rallies the other day, and you could fit all of the people at his rallies probably in the phone booth. I just had a rally yesterday, and we filled a High School Parking lot with cars and so many folks energized because this is a new movement to close the book on the old south and write a brandnew book called the new south. So im very, very excited about the prospects of actually having somebody in d. C. Whos going to roll up their sleeves and work on behalf of the people of South Carolina. Jamie harrison, good to see you. Thanks for taking time to talk with us. Jamie harrison is the democrat candidate for South CarolinaSenate Running against Lindsey Graham. Thank you, sir. Meanwhile, weve got brandnew polling moments ago showing the president ial race in texas is shaping up in an interesting fashion. This is a survey from the dallas morning news. And it shows joe biden with a threepoint lead over donald trump in the lone star state. 4845 . Again, right within the margin of error, but joe biden leading. This lead does the margin of error is 3 . It speaks volumes, because we are talking about texas, historically, one of the reddest states in the United States. I want to welcome karine jeanpierre, campaign chief of staff to Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris and a Senior Adviser to the Biden Campaign. Kari karine, good to see you. Thank you for being with us. I want to talk about you and Kamala Harris and the campaign. But lets just for a second talk about texas. I want to be clear, its within the margin of error, but to see a president ial race in texas where a democrat is leading a republican is something that has not been seen in this country for a very long time. It is something we have not seen in this country for a long time, ali. And youre absolutely right. And hello to you. Look, heres the thing. Im going just cut to the chase here. The only way that we have a good night, that democrats, our campaign has a good night on Election Night is if we all go out and vote. Thats it, period. We all have to go out and vote. And that is our focus as a campaign. If you im going to tell folks right now, please make a plan if you havent voted, go to iowavote. Com, vote early if you can. Be safe, mail in your ballot. If youve already done that, join us and send texts and make phone calls. This is where we are, ali. We are nine days out. And election day isnt actually on november 3rd. Really, everyone is voting right now. Everyone is voting right now. Everyone is voting until november 3rd. And that is what matters. And also, ali, i think if you look at what we saw yesterday, from our campaign, you saw joe biden in pennsylvania, you saw Kamala Harris in ohio, you saw we saw president obama in florida. And there couldnt be more of a contrast, because what they did is they laid out what a Biden Harris Campaign administration would look like when it comes to fighting coronavirus, when it comes to making sure that we listen, that joe biden is going to listen to the experts, listening to science, because he believes in science. And so this is what we need to continue to do. Thats the message that were going to continue to push, the leadership and how do we make sure we do not have another four years of donald trump. Karine jeanpierre, donald trump is playing this whole routine that the coronavirus thing is a media push and well stop talking about it after november 3rd, which is kind of interesting to suggest that the media stops talking about anything, because if anything, we can carry stories on long after theyre over. But hes sort of suggesting its a hoax and its not important and people have fatigue from it. But weve got 225,000 people dead. Weve got more than 80,000 new people who were infected on friday. How do you counter the idea that, yes, im also fatigued. I dont want to wear a mask. I dont want to live with this thing. But it is around us and it is a deathly matter. Yeah, it is disturbing to hear that from donald trump, when you have, like you mentioned, more than 220,000 people in this country who have died of coronavirus. And because of his mismanagement of the virus, we have now spiraled into this economic crisis. And people are losing their jobs. Theyre losing their jobs, because this president refuses to do his job. And so we just have to continue to make that contrast. And its very clear, its very clear whats going on, because youve just got to look all around. Joe biden has this he says this thing which really resonates with people when he talks when he does his speech, which is, look around the table. Theres someone whos missing. Theres an empty chair at your dining room table tonight. And that is what the American People are dealing with. Theyre dealing with losing loved ones. Theyre dealing with losing their jobs. Theyre dealing with having to be in a virtual reality. And people are dying. And theres no there is no one at the top who is actually being a leader. And that is what were talking about. Were talking about leadership that is so needed in the white house, because donald trump refuses to do his job. And he lies about it and then, as you know, ali, he is right now, his administration is in the courts, trying to take away health care. Trying to take away aca from tense of millions of people. Youre not supposed to be taking away health care while were in a pandemic. Youre supposed to be expanding health care, making it more affordable. Giving people options, which is what joe biden is going to do as president of the United States. And this is where we are as a country, nine days out. Folks have to go out and vote. Everything is on and everything at stake is on the ballot. Like you said, this is the most sequential election of our lifetime. And you are a good campaigner for joe biden, but let us not forget your boss, the historic Vice President ial nominee, Kamala Harris. Karine, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. Karine jeanpierre is the campaign chief of staff to the Vice President ial democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, the historic Vice President ial nominee, Kamala Harris, and a Senior Adviser to the Biden Campaign. Hey, weve got breaking news that could have a major affect on the campaign trail just nine days before election day. The number of people in Vice President mike pences orbit who have tested positive for covid19 has now grown to four. Nbc news has learned that two more of pences aides have now been diagnosed in recent days, in addition to his chief of staff, marc short, and his senior political adviser, marty opst. Pence will likely not quarantine and if all goes according to plan, he will be here in North Carolina later today. Remember, mike pence is the chair of the White House Coronavirus task force. All right enter sandman. The Biden Campaign calling in the closer to rally lastminute enthusiasm before election day. Its president obama like you have never seen him before. First, though, with pine days to go, i asked North Carolina voters what advice they would give to candidates theyre supporting. Heres republican pratik bakta and democrat. Theres a reason people elected you the first time. And that is they didnt want a career politician running the United States of measuring. They want someone whos business oriented, will give economic prosperity, create new jobs, bring new jobs, revitalize america. And i believe hes done that, continue to do what youre doing. You have a lot of sport behind you. And North Carolina will be behind you. Let everyone know whether you vote for him or not, that he will be there for you, he will listen to your issues, and that if he is elected president on november 3rd, that he will take care of all of us. And be a president for the United States of america. A pree United States of america music hi, im dorothy hamill. Even as i look toward 65, one thing hasnt changed i still love getting on the ice. Which means i need to stay healthy. Now, as im thinking about selecting a medicare plan, i know i want one that h