Hey, good evening.

In any other presidential election year, we begin right now by saying we're just a

week away from election day.

This time, it's more accurate to say we're now a week away from the end of election season.

More than 60 million Americans have already gone to the polls in early voting or filled

out mail-in ballots.

That's about one in three registered voters.

So in that respect, this is already like no other election anyone has ever seen.

As always, of course, the candidates are running mates, are crisscrossing a map, and we'll

talk about what their destinations tonight say about how they view their electoral destiny

by Joe Biden, for example, made two stops today in the normally reliable red state of Georgia.

You know, there aren't a lot of pundits who would have guessed four years ago that the

Democratic candidate for president of 2020 would be campaigning in Georgia on the final

week of the election.

Or that we'd have such competitive Senate races in Georgia.

But we do because something's happening here in Georgia and across America.

We'll talk more shortly about the significance of what he said when it comes to those Senate

races there and in neighboring South Carolina.

Also about the Obama effect, the former president taking aim as he did at President Trump

today in Florida, a more traditional battleground state in Georgia, and far more crucial to both

the sides.

If he had been focused on COVID from the beginning, cases wouldn't be reaching new record

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