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Anderson Cooper 360

Harris & Trump Deliver Contrasting Closing Pitches

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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With just four days left, both candidates are in Wisconsin tonight; a so-called Blue Wall state that is critical for both campaigns. CNN’s John King has the latest polling. Plus, the Supreme Court on Friday left in place a Pennsylvania court ruling that is expected to expand backup options for voters whose ballots are rejected for technical reasons, in a defeat for Republicans in the crucial battleground state. Elie Honig explains what this is all about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 360, new polling, some of the last before the election on where the race stands and how it might change over the next four days.

0:07.8

Also, Liz Cheney and Vice President Harris respond to what the former president said about Cheney last night,

0:12.6

and the former president's follow up to CNN's question about it today.

0:16.6

Plus, Trump says vaccine falsehood promoter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have a, quote, big role in health care if he's elected.

0:23.9

What role would that be? And apparently, it may include vaccines. Good evening. Thanks for joining us.

0:29.7

With just four days to go, the two candidates are both in Wisconsin tonight. Vice President Harris just wrapped up her second of three events in the state today in the ten of Little Shoot just outside.

0:39.3

She's heading to a Milwaukee suburb shortly.

0:42.3

The former president, June in Milwaukee at the top of the next hour, the same venue where

0:45.3

he accepted the Republican nomination this summer, Wisconsin and the other so-called

0:49.3

Blue Wall states, critical for both campaigns, which is why we're starting out with new

0:53.3

polling from Marist and CNN's John King to walk us through it. So, John, what does the new polling from the

0:58.1

Blue Wall State show? Anderson, remember those blue wall states. Trump won him in 2016. He was

1:04.1

president. Joe Biden flipped him back in 2020. He's president. So let's look at the new polling,

1:08.5

and I'm going to do it in the context of our map that shows the path to 270 electoral votes. Let's look first at the new Marist polls you just mentioned.

1:15.4

And if you're a Democrat tonight, you're looking at this and you're happy. I'll add the caveat.

1:18.5

It's just one poll. So be careful. But look at this in the end. Harris at 50 to 48 in Pennsylvania,

1:23.7

51 to 48 in Michigan, 50 to 48 in Wisconsin. No clear leader within the margin of error, but significantly, Harris had 50% or more in all of those polls. Donald Trump about where he was in 2016 and 2020. He is consistent across these states and over the campaign. So just one poll, but if you're a Democrat, you think maybe we're closing strong. So let's average him out. Let's be safe. This is the best way to do it is you take, as we do in our CNN Polo Poles, the last five reputable polls in each of these states. And you have no clear leader, a dead heat in Pennsylvania, maybe a slight Harris edge, but again, 49 to 46 and then 49 to 46 in Wisconsin. So if you're Kamala Harris, nothing is easy, Anderson, but you're seeing these polls.

2:02.0

Our CNN polls this week had her ahead with Pennsylvania tie ahead and the other two. Marist

2:06.2

has her ahead in those other two, Wisconsin, Michigan, and a tie here. If you're the vice president

2:10.2

and you hold that lead you've had in Wisconsin for some time, even though it's narrow, you hold that

2:14.2

lead you've had in Michigan for some time, even though it's narrow, and you can somehow win here where I am, which is very close in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, those three states, with all the other likely and solid Democratic states would get the Vice President of the United States to 270, and she would be the next president.

2:29.3

Not easy, not done, but that is her easiest path in this recent polling does show it's more than a viable

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