Trump & Biden Hold Dueling Rallies in Florida in Final Sprint

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Biden tells rally crowd: “if Florida goes blue, its over. 80+million ballots have already been cast so far representing more than a third of registered voters. US tops 228,000 Covid deaths, nears 9 million cases as no state is trending in the right direction. Trump cancels rally in North Carolina due to weather. White House Chief of Staff Meadows deflects question on why the administration isn’t following its own pandemic guidelines, talks about sanitizer instead. Dr. Birx cedes White House turf to Atlas, travels instead to spread her public health message. Record economic growth last quarter, but US still hard hit by pandemic. Obama to join Biden on trail for campaign’s final weekend. Supreme Court allows extension for mail-in ballots in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Two people in Michigan charged for involvement in white supremacist group. Two people who attended Trump rally in North Carolina test positive for coronavirus. Dr. Fauci warns, “whole lot of pain” in coming months. White House task force warns of “unrelenting, broad community spread of virus in midwest, upper midwest and west. 13 states reporting record numbers of hospitalizations. US averaging 74,000 new cases per day. Former FDA chief warns US might see 100,000+ new infections per day within a week or two. 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	This is CNN breaking news.
0:09.6	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.3	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:14.2	We're following breaking news with just five days to go.
0:17.3	President Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden,
0:19.6	are both campaigning in the battleground state
0:22.4	that could make or break the election for them.
0:24.9	We're talking about Florida.
0:26.3	Biden going so far as the tell a rally crowd today and I'm quoting him now if Florida
0:30.9	goes blue it's over. This hour will take a closer look at how that
0:35.4	state plays into the path to 270 electoral votes. Meanwhile a record 80 million
0:41.9	early ballots have already been cast.
0:44.0	That's more than one third of all registered voters in the United States.
0:48.0	That heavy early turnout due in part of the coronavirus pandemic which as of now has claimed more than
0:55.1	228,000 American lives and the country is nearing 9 million confirmed cases as
1:01.4	the map shows not a single state is trending in the
1:04.8	right direction right now. Let's get straight to the campaign trail. Our White
1:08.6	House correspondent Caitlin Collins is in North Carolina for us that Caitlin the president was planning to hold a
1:14.7	major campaign rally in Fayetteville tonight but what happened?
1:18.6	Well Wolf they just postponed it until Monday because the last remnants of that hurricane
1:25.3	that hit the Gulf Coast overnight are making their way up here through North Carolina right now,
1:29.6	but he is still going to come to Fort Bragg right here behind me in a few moments and of course
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