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Barrett to the Supreme Court, with National Turn it National JournalSenate Reporter. Maryellen klaas, and then Michael Binder. Journal is next. With eight days to go until election day 2020, congas begins with a stalemate over Economic Relief and a response to the coronavirus pandemic and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the support. The senate has a rare weekend session to move forward on the nomination and democrats are holding the senate in session through tonight, into this morning. You can see live pictures of the senate floor right now. Heres how we are dividing the lines. Republican ....
Florida really is a microcosm of the nation. As florida goes, the nation goes. Four years ago, donald trump one foot up by 113,000 votes in a state of more than 10 million voters. He carried that narrow victory to the white house across the nation. Statea is a divided politically. We have diversity, diverse ethnic diverse in ethnic ways, economically as well as demographically. Voters,ters, younger byple who are divided democratic and republican. As florida goes, the nation will go. We have seen voting problems in the states. Is the state ready . I think the state is ready. It is remarkable because we have ago withcy of 20 years recounts and florida has we crafted and updated its voting systems that the state is very prepared for what we are seeing is kind of a record surge in early voting turnout and that is bit it has been going smoothly. What changes were made . Guest for one thing, we have for it a statewide standard the standard for recounts. Each county does not independently dec ....
[cheering and applause] hey buddy, how are you . [indiscernible conversations] in addition to that, i dont speak spanish. [indiscernible conversations] [cheering] welcome to delaware. Mr. Biden ill tell you what, man. You guys have done one heck of a job. The numbers they gave me are almost hard to believe. Knocking on 250,000 doors. And that youve gotten more volunteers, more people engaged. Hows the feel out there . Its great. Mr. Biden for real. Ill tell you what. You are doing more than your civic duty. Congresswoman knows that. She gave me a passport to come into the district. [laughter] i spoke to the congresswoman before i came in. By the way, we made it finally. We appreciate you. Mr. Biden ill tell you what, man. Look, i will say a few things for the press in a little bit. But the fact of the matter is, this president s chief of staff, he just acknowledged they have given up. All these super spreaders going on. I wish i could shake each one of your hands and thank you personal ....
Chinese virus, china has more than quadruple the population of the United States, china did also go first, china is the place where the virus was first recognized, last year, they had this soaring epidemic in china, they have been contending with it for months already. But weve got double their number of cases. And rising. U. S. Deaths are now doubling roughly every three days. Nearly 3,000 americans have already been killed by this virus. Dr. Tony fauci, the nations leading Infectious Disease expert is now saying bluntly we should expect 100,000 to 200,000 americans to be killed by this virus. It was just a month ago that the president was saying weve got 15 cases, and its going to go down to zero case, were doing such a great job with this. Were now at 160,000 cases and climbing. 3,000 americans dead. The governments own experts telling us to brace for 100,000 to 200,000 ....