Biden and Trump blitz battleground states with Election Day two days away

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

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With Election Day just two days away, both Pres. Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are hitting the campaign trail hard while encouraging people to get out and vote. More than 93 million ballots have already been cast. A source tells CNN the Trump campaign is prepared to declare victory even if many ballots haven’t been counted yet. The President says that’s not true. David Axelrod is a former Senior Adviser to President Obama and a CNN Senior Political Commentator. He tells Anderson Cooper why he’d much rather be Biden than Trump right now. Plus, internal documents show postal service officials are pushing workers “to get every ballot possible to officials” on Election Day. In Michigan, one of the battleground state, ballots must be arrive by 8pm on Election Day in order for them to count. Jocelyn Benson, the Michigan Secretary of State, joins AC360 and says she’s “confident we’re doing everything we can to ensure that every ballot does get in by the deadline.” Airdate: November 1, 2020 Guests: David Axelrod Jocelyn Benson To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening. If the next 36 hours until election morning look anything like today and
0:05.1	they almost certainly will, will buckle up today. And it's not over yet. Seeing the
0:09.1	president all over the map five campaign stops today. Joe Biden starting a final two
0:13.5	day blitz in Pennsylvania. Kamala Harris in Georgia and North Carolina. Trump supporters
0:19.0	swarming the highways. The mail slowing down just when democracy needs it most. A big
0:24.1	court ruling on nearly 127,000 ballots in Texas. And another big court fight on the
0:29.5	same issue tomorrow. All that plus new polling tonight in some key swing states to show
0:34.4	a tightening raise the impact of 93 million early votes. Soaring COVID numbers and late
0:39.5	new reporting that the Trump campaign is prepared to declare victory on election night.
0:43.8	If the president is closed to 270 electoral votes, whether or not the president has actually
0:48.1	won them. Again, there's a lot going on. It is still unfolding as we speak. In a moment
0:53.1	with Joe Biden had to say of the idea of a pre-victory declaration from the president
0:58.5	but first Jim Acosta in room Georgia where the president is expected shortly. Jim, you
1:02.6	got some reporting about what the president's plan is for election night and also the president's
1:06.4	response to that reporting. That's right Anderson. What the president and his team are
1:13.3	planning to do is watch that electoral map very closely on election night and they plan
1:17.9	to be very aggressive. I talked to a Trump campaign advisor earlier today who said if
1:21.9	the president is on the verge of clenching the 270 electoral votes needed to win the
1:26.6	election, that it is possible if it looks like the election won't be resolved on election
1:30.9	night that they might declare victory. That's a big might at this point. It hasn't been
1:34.5	determined 100% that the president or his campaign will actually do that. Now the president
1:39.4	was just talking reporters a short while ago. He said that's not the case. We're not
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