newsroom. this morning early voting location are open across the country and preliminary election data is already showing more than 17.5 million americans have cast their ballots so far. with ten days to go before election day, candidates are bringing out big-name surrogates in their final push for votes. president biden and former president obama are on the campaign trail for democrats in key states. over the next week, former president trump also holding rallies in support of republican candidates across four states. the infusion of political star power is underscoring just how many of these key races are neck-and-neck. in georgia, the senate race between democrat raphael warnock and herschel walker has some in the democratic leadership concerned. here is senate majority leader chuck schumer caught on a hot mic talking about that race. going downhill in georgia. that race in georgia crucial to the democrats chances of holding on to their 50/50 majority in congress. i
Rubio said he wants to make america better. Just how does he plan to do it. We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them. [applause] marco rubio that is why tonight for inspired by the promise of our future, i announced my candidacy for the president of the united states. All lowercase logo how did he do. Unfortunate is it evokes memories of the illfated state other union response, he did good. He did well. A very good speaker. It was not his best speech. He was not at the top of his game. He is a better speaker than a lot of people. He stuck to the biography and do not lay out much policy. Kind of a reformed conservative. Well talk about that more and told his story. Solid b . It was a better speech than written. He started off nervous bring it is more than good enough to continue the momentum as a guy who is having the best 2015 on the republican candidates. Scott walker has taken a fuse steps back. Ted cruz did as well or better. So you have
It looks like a campaign is going pretty well, actually. And today, some folks focus less on the video and on her road trip to iowa. In a sign that she may be purse may be serious about it more personal campaign, she hopped in a van named skippy. We are all talking about it. She is in a scooby doo decorated bus, by her own admission. This was her idea we are told. The Campaign Said it was hillarys idea to travel 1000 miles in a threevan convoy, and that the scooby nickname is hers and entirely. John all Things Considered with a hillary campaign, the van, the plan, the woman, mark, how do you think things are going . Mark i would say pretty good. Given how her Campaign Staff was holding their breath, worried that it might be bad most he i think its gone pretty well. People like the video mostly. Your trip some people are mocking it. Its going pretty well. We just learned she just stopped at a chipotle. John i want to know what she ordered there. Mark not the pork, because there is a por
Bipartisan event highlighting fellowship and faith, but all the more awkward as pelosi was sitting on the dais with the president at that very moment. Watch. I dont like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that thats not so. So how will Speaker Pelosi respond now . We will soon find out. Shes going to be holding a press conference speaking with reporters any moment. Well bring that to you when she begins. Lets start off, though, get to the white house, Kaitlan Collins is there. So what is going to if thats the preview of what we heard from the president just now, what were about to hear from him in a few minutes, what is this going to look like today . Reporter people should brace themselves for the new remarks because aides have said this is essentially a president who felt restrained over the last several weeks and now today at noon is his chance to hit back at this. They expected he
Recent data suggests that the virus is far more widespread than initially believed which means its far less lethal. That should impact our Public Policy response. Dont misunderstand, the virus has proven deadly. As of this moment, more than 65,000 have died in the united states, due to the pandemic. But the fatality rate is determined by dividing the number who died by the total infected. The larger that denominator, the lower the rate. You might remember dr. Jeremy foust, an instructor at Harvard Medical School who was my guest here seven weeks ago. Dr. Foust suggested that the diamond princess cruise ship. 13 of the infected passengers and crew died. A fatality rate of 1. 8 . One half of the w. H. O. Estimate. But dr. Foust points out there were four times the number of people over 70 on board the ship. So the ageadjusted fatality rate would be around 0. 4 . As he wrote a few weeks ago for slate, this all suggests that covid19 is a relatively benign disease for most young people and