Trump, Biden crisscross critical Midwest battleground states; U.S. coronavirus cases surpass 9 million; Biden blitzes upper Midwest in quest to rebuild “blue wall”; 85 million ballots already cast nationwide;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Multiple states report record high daily COVID-19 cases; Donald Trump Jr. claims COVID death numbers are “almost nothing” on day U.S. reports nearly 1K deaths; Trump holding 17 rallies in final four days of race; Biden: “We cannot afford four more years of Donald Trump”; Influential model predicts 2,250 Americans will die daily by mid-January; Person in California tests positive for COVID-19 and the flu; Current GOP Rep asks: What happened to his party?; Biden, Harris to barnstorm Pennsylvania on Sunday & Monday; Biden campaigning in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin today; Biden makes pitch to undecided Iowa voters: We welcome “Democrats, Republicans & independents”; Trump, Biden lay out drastically different plans on immigration, border wall, citizenship; Trump vows to cap refugees admitted at record low of 15,000; Biden sets target at 125,000; Biden pledges to expand Dreamers program, Supreme Court stopped Trump from ending it; Trump promises to build 400+ miles of border wall, Biden says wall construction will stop; CDC Director: Flu transmission “extremely low” due to COVID-19 prevention measures; Early voting in Texas surpasses total turnout in 2016; Minnesota Gov urges voters to drop ballots off in person after court moves up deadline to election day; Thousands of Pennsylvania voters complain of absentee ballots missing, not delivered yet by mail; Philadelphia DA: “I’ve got a jail cell” for those who intimidate voters; Mail-in voting may delay results well after election night; Voters in crucial battlegrounds say virus is top election issue; SC woman dies from COVID-19, weeks after virus killed daughter; 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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0:00.0	Welcome to the second hour of the lead. I'm Jake Taperody minute. President Trump will hold his second of three rallies today in the final four days until election day here in the United States. The spread of coronavirus is also simultaneously reaching the worst levels ever in the US.
0:16.2	Moments ago, the US just crossed 9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, 9 million.
0:21.8	It took 14 days to reach this milestone, the shortest amount
0:25.2	of time the U.S. has ever saddled a million cases. Plus, there are more than 229,000 deaths in the US.
0:33.6	229,000, both of these are the highest rates in the world
0:37.0	of coronavirus infection and coronavirus deaths,
0:39.7	according to official numbers.
0:40.8	And yet, President Trump and his allies want to pretend
0:43.9	that this pandemic is going away that it is not a huge crisis throughout the country.
0:48.0	Just last night President Trump's son Donald Jr. shared a cruel and frankly disgusting claim, a false claim that almost no one in the
0:56.2	U.S. is dying from coronavirus.
0:58.0	I went through the CDC data because I kept hearing about new infections but I like, well, why aren't they talking about this?
1:05.0	Oh, because the number is almost nothing.
1:07.0	The number is almost nothing.
1:10.0	Almost nothing.
1:11.0	Almost nothing.
1:12.0	Well, you can tell that to the families who lost 971 loved ones just yesterday.
1:19.0	The same day that Donald Trump Jr. said that.
1:22.0	971.
1:23.4	Or you can talk to the families of the more than 229,000 Americans
1:27.3	who have died so far this pandemic.
1:29.2	Those lives are not almost nothing,
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