Record 74+ Million Early Ballots Cast 6 Days Before Election

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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More than 74 million voters have cast their early ballots with only 6 days to go until the presidential election. That number represents more than half of the total number of votes cast in the 2016 Presidential Election. Covid-19 cases are steadily rising in the United States. On Wednesday, the death toll rose to more than 227,000 people, along with 8.8 million cases. Dr. Anthony Fauci says, a coronavirus vaccine will not be available until January 2021 at the “earliest”. Despite the rise in cases, the White House lists ending the pandemic as one of the Trump administration’s accomplishments. The White House made the claim in a press release Wednesday. President Trump is fighting to hold on to Arizona, a key battleground state and a Covid-19 hot spot. Wednesday. Many of his supporters weren’t wearing masks or social distancing. Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden is attacking the President's record on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. While campaigning in his home state of Delaware Wednesday, he said in part, the White House's claim that Mr. Trump ended the pandemic was an "insult to every American who lost a loved one to the virus... " National Polls still show Biden in the lead. 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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1:16.9	days to go until the final ballots are cast. President Trump is in Arizona right
1:21.8	now fighting to hold on to the state he won four years ago, a state that's now reeling from a surge of new coronavirus cases.
1:29.0	Meanwhile, his rival Joe Biden in his home state of Delaware today he's slamming the Trump team
1:34.7	for a White House claim that the president's accomplishments include ending
1:38.5	the pandemic. Biden says Mr. Trump's handling of the crisis is, quote,
1:43.0	an insult to those suffering and to those who's lost loved ones to COVID.
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