Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber and Kamala Harris is delivering her closing

argument tonight. You will see it on MS NBC a special address at the same site

where Donald Trump gave his final speech urging on the failed but now convicted

January 6 coup plot. Now Geraldo Rivera I can tell you also joins us to discuss

his big news endorsing Kamala Harris and his reaction to the racism at that Trump MSG rally.

We begin right now though with the numbers. We're seven days out.

44 states are now holding the early in-person voting.

That is a big part of the race.

I'm going to get through that in a moment because we now have a whole week

for people in those states to vote in person and early vote overall is surging over 50 million people have

cast their ballots. Let me say that again. You see it on your screen. Think

about that. Think about if you've lived through a couple rounds of elections, how that is more than ever usually

vote this early because of the changes we've lived through.

So if you want to compare it to 2020 as I've been doing on these nights as we go through this.

That is about a third, 32% of all the votes cast in 2020,

which was the highest turnout in a century.

So there are early clues people are enthused. Whether we beat those

20-20 numbers, we won't know yet, but this is hard data different than those

polls I've told you about. There's some form of early voting now available

everywhere, all 50 states.

It is a tie with one week to go in the swing states.

And we haven't reported anything other than a tie in these nightly reports that I do for you

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