Countdown to Election Day Amid Surging Coronavirus Cases

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🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Chris discusses Joe Biden and President Trump's focus on battleground states in the last week of the 2020 election and an impending third wave of coronavirus cases with David Gregory and Howard Dean. Then, Chris goes one on one with Harry Enten on the record amount of pre-election votes cast. Chris wraps up the show with the father of Walter Wallace Jr., the man fatally shot in front of his family in Philadelphia. 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	Exciting understatement of the year.
0:03.2	Facts could appreciate it.
0:04.6	I'm Chris Cuomo, welcome to Prime Time.
0:06.7	One more week.
0:08.9	Today, this is the last Tuesday we have.
0:12.5	That's anything resembling normal.
0:15.1	The next Tuesday we have, we will be entering the vote counting crucible.
0:20.5	The big question, will we know who won next Tuesday?
0:25.6	Maybe not.
0:26.6	Why?
0:27.4	Different states have different rules for counting ballots, even among the swing states
0:31.4	actually, especially among them.
0:34.0	But the elephant in the room, the biggest factor influencing the ability to vote, and potentially
0:39.3	the choice of candidate is the pandemic.
0:43.3	Many key states are getting hit worse than ever, just when the ability to move around safely
0:50.2	matters most.
0:51.6	Florida.
0:52.6	More than 4,000 new cases there just today.
0:55.3	The president said, oh yeah, it was a spike, but it went away.
0:58.1	No, it's gotten worse.
0:59.9	Michigan.
1:01.1	Wisconsin, where Trump just went stumping tonight, Wisconsin hospitals are completely overwhelmed.
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