Three Virus Outbreaks in Minnesota Tied to Trump Campaign Events

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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White House to hold a large swearing-in event for Amy Coney Barrett amid new Pence team outbreak with at least five staffers testing positive. Republican senators are split on attending the event after last months super spreader event in the Rose Garden. Biden campaign to add stops in Iowa, Georgia, & Texas in final week of campaign to try and expand the electoral map while Trump visits states he won in 2016. Biden says: Trump is the “worst possible person” to lead during this pandemic. More than 60 million Americans have cast early ballots so far, already topping the total of early votes in the 2016 election. Biden ramps up his ground game to compete with Trump in North Carolina. Black voters in states across U.S. heading to the polls at much higher rates than four years ago. White House adviser Jared Kushner is under fire for saying black Americans have to “want to be successful”. Minnesota is experiencing a record number of hospitalizations today. Erin talks with a lawmaker about his father-in-law who denied the virus and died from it. Trump baselessly suggests doctors are misreporting virus deaths to get more money. The Supreme court rejected the Democrats’ attempt to extend the Wisconsin mail-in voting deadline. 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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0:31.5	Out front next, President Trump about to host a big in-person swearing-in event for Amy Coney-Barritt
0:36.2	amid a second White House outbreak. Remember the last Amy Coney-Barrid amid a second White House outbreak.
0:38.3	Remember the last Amy Coney-Barritt event at the White House?
0:41.2	The one Fauci called a super spreader?
0:43.5	Plus Joe Biden going to Georgia tomorrow and Iowa this week.
0:46.9	Kamala Harris going to Texas.
0:49.2	What does that tell us about the race to 270?
0:52.0	And Jared Kushner's revealing statement about black
0:54.5	Americans' desire for success. Let's go out front.
1:00.0	And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. Outfront tonight, the breaking news.
1:03.3	Amid a second White House coronavirus outbreak, the president preparing right now to hold a swearing-in
1:08.2	ceremony for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a major in-person event on the White House lawn.
1:13.2	Now, Barrett is expected to be confirmed by the Senate for the Supreme Court any minute now. We are watching that for you this hour.
1:18.5	And then the president will host her swearing in. And we have just gotten word that for the first time, the first time this White House will enforce the basic
1:29.5	rules of wearing masks and social distancing. Something the president has never before enforced
1:34.7	at the White House, including, of course, at the last big event for Amy Coney-Barrant, the one Dr.
1:39.4	Fauci called a super spreader where at least 12 people, including the president of the United
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