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60 Minutes

11/1/2020: Ask Ohio, Arizona Counts, The First Outbreak

60 Minutes

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Four years after Ohio picked Donald Trump by 8 percentage points, Scott Pelley returns to find a state, and families, divided. In an election year where it's unclear when the winner will be declared, John Dickerson goes to Arizona, where early votes have been counted for two weeks. As the first known U.S. outbreak of COVID-19 wreaked havoc on a nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington, the executive in charge of the facility says efforts to care for residents were slowed by a federal investigation. Bill Whitaker reports on this week's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How many of you intend to vote for President Trump?

0:10.0

And how many of you intend to vote for Mr. Biden?

0:15.0

Who will win the election?

0:17.0

We look to Ohio, as every winning president has since 1964.

0:23.0

President Trump won handily here four years ago, but today, we found Ohio a house divided.

0:30.6

I'm going to vote for President Trump.

0:32.6

And Sandra?

0:33.4

I'm going to vote for Vice President Biden.

0:37.4

This is an important election. Arizona is in the spotlight in a way that we have. I'm going to vote for Vice President Biden.

0:43.4

This is an important election. Arizona is in the spotlight in a way that we haven't been in previous election years.

0:49.4

With the election just two days away, we visit the usually reliable red state of Arizona,

0:52.9

where they've been tabulating early votes here for almost two weeks.

0:54.8

Millions of them have already been processed. So on Tuesday evening, if you want an early read about the future of the presidency,

1:02.1

just look west. This facility was ground zero. 60 minutes has been allowed inside America's first known COVID hotspot.

1:14.1

It was the end of February when the world turned its attention from China and Europe

1:18.8

to a five-star skilled nursing facility in a Seattle suburb where residents were getting sick

1:25.4

and dying at an alarming rate.

1:27.8

I felt like I was standing on the beach looking at a big tidal wave coming out of us.

1:34.2

I'm Leslie Stahl.

1:36.0

I'm Bill Whitaker.

1:37.3

I'm Anderson Cooper.

1:38.5

I'm John Dickerson.

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