Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Monday, November 2nd. In today's news, Joe Biden focuses on Pennsylvania while President Trump hits five states

on Sunday.

Trump supporters grow more aggressive with presidential encouragement, and record numbers of

new COVID cases didn't stop way too many

Halloween parties. But first, the big idea.

Trump's victory in 2016 But first, the big idea.

Trump's victory in 2016 unleashed gleeful joy among Americans who voted for him

and stunned the larger group that voted for Hillary Clinton. The trauma of that night has hung over the party ever since.

Many Democrats say they will not allow themselves to become too optimistic this year,

even with some promising signs for Biden who's in a much better

position than Clinton was.

So many are afraid they could be wrong again.

And the Biden campaign is happy that their backers are not getting overconfident. That said, polls is historic leap. The California senator could be voted the nation's first

female vice president this week. She would achieve that without ever making

pinky promises to tell little girls they could be president the way Elizabeth

Warren did during her campaign.

Harris, as a candidate in the primaries and as Biden's running mate,

does not have a gender-conscious slogan like Clinton's I'm with her,

and she didn't center her campaign's message around women's equality like Kirsten Jillerbrand did.

But in her own quieter way, Chelsea James reports that Harris has embraced her presence on

the cusp of history.

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