Coronavirus cases surge in every battleground. It did not have to be this way.
The Daily 202's Big Idea
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🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily |
| 0:06.5 | 202 for Friday, October 30th. In today's news, President Trump and Joe |
| 0:11.8 | Biden both held rallies in Tampa on |
| 0:13.7 | Thursday. Today each will go to Minnesota. Both campaigns seek to shore up support |
| 0:18.9 | from Latino voters and Trump takes gray wolves off the endangered species list, putting them in danger of going extinct. |
| 0:27.5 | But first, the big idea. |
| 0:32.0 | Nearly 90,000. But first, the big idea. |
| 0:39.6 | Nearly 90,000 new coronavirus infections were reported in the United States on Thursday, an all-time high, and 103 of our fellow Americans died from the contagion. |
| 0:46.7 | Meanwhile, President Trump said again on the campaign trail that we've turned the corner |
| 0:50.1 | and it's going away. |
| 0:51.6 | Donald Trump Jr. said on Fox News last night that these numbers are quote, |
| 0:55.0 | almost nothing because we've gotten control of this. |
| 0:59.0 | Tell that to the 1,063 families who lost a loved one yesterday. the one |
| 1:03.4 | yesterday. |
| 1:04.4 | The trumps are telling you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. |
| 1:08.4 | It is their final most essential command. |
| 1:11.2 | But this closing argument is just so breathtakingly at odds with the facts on the ground. |
| 1:17.1 | Cases are surging in every presidential battleground state. In the 13 states deemed competitive |
| 1:22.0 | by the Cook Political Report, |
| 1:23.4 | the weekly average of new cases reported daily |
| 1:27.0 | has jumped 45% over the past two weeks, |
| 1:29.6 | from about 20,000 new cases a day |
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