New CNN poll: Biden leads among early voters while Trump leads among those who will vote on Election Day; Kushner in April: Trump taking U.S. “back from the doctors”; Trump vs. Biden on pandemic policy: where do they stand?; 74 million+ ballots cast so far, over half of all 2016 votes
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s approval rating sits at 42% in new CNN poll; Trump makes last-minute cross-country push for votes; WH touts “ending” pandemic as cases, hospitalizations soar; WH calls Miles Taylor, “Anonymous” author, a “low-level disgruntled former staffer”; Biden: Trump’s handling of pandemic “an insult” to those suffering; Trump, Biden campaigns target key states in final days; Giroir: “cases are going up. It’s not just a function of testing”; South Dakota gov: my people are “happy”, “free” without a mandate on masks; Ex-Homeland Security official Miles Taylor was anonymous author of 2018 NYT op-ed warning of Trump presidency; Voters met with hours-long lines at polling sites across the U.S.; Some Pennsylvania counties will count mail-in ballots last; Michigan AG, Secy. of State file emergency appeal on court decision preventing a ban on firearms at polls; Fmr Trump campaign official speaks out in support of Biden; ; Fmr Trump campaign official speaks out in support of Biden
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| 0:00.0 | And we have some more breaking news for you now in our 2020 lead the final |
| 0:04.8 | CNN national poll on the Trump-Biden race just six days out from election day. |
| 0:09.8 | It's one of the last key indicators of where the race stands during this critical final sprint. |
| 0:14.6 | CNN political director David Challion joins me now with the polls. |
| 0:17.0 | And David, obviously you and I talk about all this all the time. |
| 0:20.4 | Our system is not a national popular vote system it's state by state so |
| 0:24.9 | tell us what this poll shows and what that might mean for the race it's such an |
| 0:29.2 | important reminder Jake it is that battle state by state for 270 electoral votes but this final |
| 0:34.7 | pre-election national poll does show us the mood of the country and shows us |
| 0:39.1 | some specific trends that we're seeing so take a look at that overall horse race number. We show |
| 0:44.9 | a 12 point margin here for Joe Biden. 54% for Joe Biden, 42% for Donald Trump |
| 0:51.3 | among likely voters nationally. |
| 0:53.0 | And I want to show you, since so many people are voting early |
| 0:56.0 | and we ask that in this poll, how that breaks by the method of vote. |
| 1:00.0 | You see here, those have already voted split 64% to 34% Biden versus Trump. Those who say |
| 1:06.8 | they're going to vote prior to Tuesday still, again, big Biden category, 63% to 33%. |
| 1:14.4 | What you see in this last line here |
| 1:16.5 | will vote on election day. |
| 1:17.9 | That's a Trump Advantage group. |
| 1:19.7 | 59% Trump to 36% Biden. That shows you Donald Trump's path to re-election |
| 1:25.8 | is turning out a massive electorate on Tuesday |
| 1:30.6 | because Tuesday's election day in-person voters are much more inclined to be |
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