Supporters largely disregarded social distancing and mask wearing. Tonight the president will be in miami for an nbc town hall. Meanwhile the Biden Campaign is prepping for their own town hall at the same time in philadelphia with abc just as it is showing how marketedly different bidens response to the virus has been. Bidens running mate, senator Kamala Harris canceled her events through sunday after her communications chief tested positive along with a nonstaffed flight crew member. Harris has not been in close contact as the cdc defines it to either, but is being abundantly cautious. 50 of the public disapproves for the way the white house has handled the pandemic. Poles are tightening slightly. A new poll has biden up by 11. That is the same lead that Hillary Clinton had at this time in 2016. To be short, there are stark differences between 2016 and now, but the Biden Campaign says theyre not taking any lead for granted. There is a lot to discuss with only 19 days until people go to the polls officially. Joining me now from North Carolina is monica alba. Ali vitali, steve kornacki, and also with me is a former rnc chairman michael steele. Everybody, welcome. Monica i want to start with you. The president is bleeding seniors. He is bleeding suburban women. That is in part because of his response to the coronavirus. The images that were seeing behind him. He is working on that ability to win back the voters. It certainly doesnt appear to be that way, katy. If we look at the recent polls and im keeping my voice down only slightly. At a trump rally, as you know, the president continues to speak over my shoulder, but a very good indication here is what we just heard from the president on the virus. He continues to dismiss it, it seems at every opportunity that he has. He just called out people in the crowd necessarily Wearing Masks pointing out there are studies that show that even if you wear a mask you can contract the virus and then slamming dr. Anthony fauci. Someone he has been locked in a fierce battle with, especially in the last week they say he took his words out of context. He expressed a lot of outrage. The a the ad with dr. Fauci continues to run. Thousands are packed shoulder to shoulder with inconsistent mask usage, and the president continues to tout his own experience with the virus as something to show people that it should not dominate their life. We have to point out here were in North Carolina. A critical battleground state. A police where coronavirus cases are on the rise. Just today they saw the largest single day increase in cases since the first case was detected in the state back in march. That is really going to be a very parallel story line with the president as he continues this Campaign Blitz openly flouting the health and safety guidelines even as these numbers rise up. You see folks like the Biden Campaign and democrats taking a cautious approach. That is not at all the case here. Theyre going to as many cases to talk to as many people as possible regardless of those spikes in cases, katy. Hoping the force of his personality propels voters to the polls. Also lets point out it is a swing state but also a hard state for now. For now senator tom tillis, to win reelection in. He is fating a uphill battle n his reelection fight. Ali vitale, a top staffer went on twitter to talk about what twitter propels which is that biden has this and the election will be a land sloolandslide, w this warning . Effectively it was the campaign manage ere saying they thought the race would be choicer than people on twitter say it is. So today is really a mixed bag of news if youre the Biden Campaign. On one hand you have that bad news about someone in Kamala Harriss orbit testing positive. You know a night and her communication director have tested positive. That is causing harriss team to say theyre pressing pause through sunday on her campaigning in person throughout the campaign trail but they say she will be working from home and campaigning virtually making clear she will not be quarantining partly because she has been taking safety issues. She has what would call if i as close kangt with the people that have tested positive in the 48 hours before their positive test result. So a pause there for Kamala Harris. Today is a day where the Biden Campaign is seeing another poll. Our wall street journal poll with a continued double digit lead and a massive fundraising haul. 388 million for the month of september. More than 400 million cash on hand into the last few weeks of the election. Just to break that down the Biden Campaign could shell out 20 million a day between now and election day on ads and getting their message out there. That is an advantage that the Trump Campaign is not talking about. You know well from our coverage of them if they have the numbers, or good news on their side, they will probably be talking about that. So for the biden team, how will they use all of that money. Part of it might go to down ballot races, statewide parties, but their Campaign Manager also saying theyre staying on offense keeping it on the airwaves and making sure that socie voters know where and how to vote. They are sure they would be bragging about it. Michael, part of the concern, the caution among some democrats comes from some of the New York Times reporting and i want to read it to you. Im sorry, wrong one. Listen to this. Four of the six states that trump won by fewer than five points in 2016 allow voters to register by party. In recent months there have been substantially more republicans added to the rolls. This is thomas reminding us there is a lot of republicans out there. There is a flood of ballots, do not count out the in person candidates. We note the vote there that steve has talked about knows those voters are there those that decide at the last minute that theyre going to go with the president here. The one thing that the Biden Campaign has to focus on, is to make sure that they get the vote that they know they got out and that they shore up the vote they think they have, work whatever they can on the edges, on the margins. So they have a good Voter Registration efforts. This is, on a good day, a 50 50 race. On a bad day a 55 45 race for trump. He is still the incumbent. Regardless of how you may feel about him, there are one or two people that feel opposite and you have to account for that. They want to warn against that complacency where people just assumed that Hillary Clinton would win. At least some voters, and they didnt need to go kas their ballot. At the same time, steve, were seeing long lines showing voter enthusia enthusiasm. You have been paying really close attention to the poll numbers. Joe biden is currently the same lead that Hillary Clinton had, but there are differences. This is where the polling is right now, this week in 2016 they had an 11 point Hillary Clinton lead, what was this week in 2016 . It was the low point for donald trump and that entire fall campaign. The access Hollywood Tape cape out a few days earlier. This week in polling was that low point. 11 points behind in that poll. You note that Hillary Clinton in that poll four acquires ago was at 48. She got 48 of the vote nationally. Biden is at 53 right now. Over 50 in this poll, several points over. So that is a higher starting point than Hillary Clinton had four years ago. We can show you trumps Approval Rating right now, is a little better, 44 , than his standing against biden. If you had a Trump Campaign, one place might be folks who say they approve of the job he is doing as president , but say theyre not going to vote for him right now. That could tick him into the mid 40s. Take a look at this. What is behind that biden lead. Breaking down that race. This looks like 2016. P 0 of the elector rate is white. This is difference than in 2016. Trump won by 15, 16, 17 points. Biden right now is not winning the white vote, but he is in four points. That is an enormous shimft. There is a key difference here has well. White college and noncollege. This is two different groups of nonvoters. And again this lead that biden has right now, nearly 20 points among white voters with a college degree, this is a group that has been trending democratic for awhile. This number says that exploded in the last couple years. A 20 point margin for the democrats in this group. Anything like that for biden if he gets that on election day. That is at a level that we have not seen before. There is also Senior Citizens in is also a group that again, biden leading by ten, it has been 20 years if has basically been one generation since the democrats won the senior vote. Here is biden leading trump by ten in our poll right now nap is consistent with what we have seen in other polls. A change from 2016. You know, donald trump trying to win those voters back, talking about, talking to seniors directly. Saying that he is one of them. But at the same time he put out a twitter image showing joe biden in an old persons home so trying to win back seniors and alsz also insulting seniors, with it doesnt make sense. Everybody, thank you so much. Still ahead, as youtube and facebook move to ban qanon content, and americans are voting at record levels. You have seen the imans. Were going to go to where long lines and long waits have done little to deter voters. What is going on here . 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The situation is getting particularly bad in wisconsin where officials announced a Record Number of hospitalizat n hospitalizatio hospitalizations. The nurse there from wisconsin. The director of columbia university. Im going to start with you. Wisconsin has seen a surge. A surge is seeing one right now, it is also a pivotal swing state, the two issues coming to a head in a matter of weeks. When youre talking to people out there what are they attributing this to and what is your reaction to seeing this urge. Lets start with what doctors and local officials are are saying. And now theyre that was not a record, and that was not far off from the record that was set the day before. You mentioned a Record Number of hospitalizations, more than 1,000 people here in wisconsin are here in the hospital fighting this virus. You see the line of people coming in to get tested at this facility in milwaukee. Look at video of where the line starts. I had conversations with them from a distance to see how they feel about the spice. In the beginning, i didnt believe it because i didnt know what toilet had to do with the virus. As time went on i realized that its no joke. Now i want to emphasize there, i was very far away from those people. We used a zoom feature on the camera, but you could hear what they had to say. The state did open up an alternate care facility here in the state of wisconsin to alleviate some of the pressure on hospitals. Youre seeing the struggle here. They blocked the order and they put restrigss on restaurants and bars, and they say despite any restrictions, theyre pleading with people to take measures for themselves to stay home and help stop the spread. Katie . Chuck, im not your mom, but i am a mom, i would have said the same thing to you. Part of the issue here is that a judge blocks the order tore limit ka passty. We have seen a lot of out door dining. Things are moving indoors. How much is that going to contribute to the rising case number. The fact of the mat sere that were expecting a massive increase in load and hospitalizations and probably fatalities. It is inexplicable to me why a judge would shut down an order like that from the governor. It is really, really important. It is getting weirder and weirder. People have a case of pandemic fatig fatigue. But they have to take this seriously. This is a dead ly decide that i about to get worse. What they want to do is unacceptable. Part of this harkens back to absolutely inconsistent messages coming from the federal government and donald trump in particular. The consequence of this down stream is this confusion of what needs to be done. And people have to take this seriously. We want to get back to normal. Normal, there is people who say they are still having family over to their house, or thinking that the smaller groups are potentially saver. What advice would you give about who it is save to gather with . It is really not safe to gather with many people at all. No matter whether or not theyre close family or not. There is an illusion that if there is cloelgs family members or a big family gathering, that it is fine to have everybody there, but it is not. We should not gather in large groups this fall. I would really think about our thanksgiving plans and other holiday plans. And you know there is no way that were going to get this under control if people are not paying attention here. We have this in the family as well. We normally do a very large family thanksgiving. Were not doing it this year. That is a bummer. You have cute grand kids dr. Renletter. And is the qanon Conspiracy Theory gaining momentum . Do you believe in an idea that there is a ring of democrats who support pedophilia, child trafficking. I dont believe its just democrats, i believe its republicans, too. I mean, you know, judges, Police Officers. 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This was the scene in durham, North Carolina just before sunrise this morning. They arrived at 4 00 a. M. To cast their vote. That enthusiasm matches what they have seen nationwide this week. There is longing lines and longer waits as voters show up in person instead of voting by mail. More than 17 Million People have already voted and with less than three weeks to go and more states set to provide early veeting. It is the first time in u. S. History. Joining me now is blayne alex za za ander. Were seeing incredible enthusiasm in some people are saying it is a ballot to dmast line. Casey,ly tell you your nightmare was the reality for a number of georgia voters on monday. That was the day that we saw the record turnout here in the state. And we saw long lines to go along with it. I spoke with voters that spent four hours in line waiting to cast their ballot. The good news today is that the wait times have decreates across the board. One reason is in large part because of places like this. This is typically the stadium that hosts the nba team the hawks. Now it is the largest early voting location. 20 30 2 machines, and they have been able to process voters in 20 minutes or less. That is what they seat here. They are trying to make this election not resemble what they saw in june. They were waiting for hours to cast a ballot. So what has changed from then to now. They say one of the key Social Security going to be early voting. I think it will be the november action plans to get people in. Were always early voters . Yes. Yes, its best to get in and get out. If there is problems with the machines they can fix it and you can make sure your ballot is always cast. So you vote early to make sure there is enough time to troubleshoot . Yes. So this is day four of early voting just in the first two days alone 140,000 people came out early. That is ahead of the Record Number of people. They say it is crucial that people cast their votes november 3rd. There is also a lot of distrust of the system. Especially in this special election or the primary this year but what we also saw in 2018 in georgia. In particular precincts, high populated zones, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Texas has become a case study in the partisan fight over expanded voting access. Last hour a Texas State Court ruled that the governor cannot limb the ballot drop off locations after he attempts to restrict the number to one per county. And then a judge tossed a last minute lawsuit challenging two efforts to expand voting access during the pandemic. They targeted two programs, drive through voting, a new Program Available to all voters at Ten Voting Centers throughout the county, and curb side that is only available to those with disability and mobility issues. The second intuit was there for days. Joining me. Now that the way of the governor. Is there going to be more ball lot drop off locations . To be totally frank with you, were making sure the single location that duo have is adom dating for voters. We expanded the capacity for that voting location. We know this should not stand. A county like Harris County which is the size of rhode island should not be limited to a single one into that is wrong and were continuing to fight it. I didnt realize it was the side of a small state. Are you not allowed to put up more drop off boxes . Is there a stay that says nothing can happen until it goes all of the way through the courts. As high up as it will go . As of now the fifth circuit has issued an injunction that requires us to have a single location. The litigation that youre speaking of just came through moments ago and were working with our legal team. We want voters to know that you have over 120 voting locations across Harris County. Triple the number, more than ever before. And were excited that over 300,000 voters are have cast their votes here in Harris County that is more than the entire state of georgia who you just covered a moment ago. Referee there is also drive through, curb side, talk to me about the ways that voters can drop off their ballots. Were giving every voter an opportunity to cast their ballots. Were thrilled that so many voters regardless of their party are comes out to cast their ballots and have their votes heard this november. Do you anticipate a swing in texas. Is texas turning blue potentially in this election from what you have seen so far in terms of enthusiasm . Texas is the little battleground state in this country and now with 38 votes on the line the stakes are high. There is no reason that we should not expect so many voters to be excited right now. Well wait and well count those votes on election day and well see who wins. We will do that indeed. Chris collins, thank you. Were going to go inside of the dark money operation that is helping conservativing capture the courts including the Supreme Court. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent to push friendly judges and favorable rulings. But right after a very quick break, a special report on how the qanon theory is spreading through facebook and taking hold where you might at least expect. D where you might at least expect. When their windshield got a chip. They drove to safelite for a sameday repair. And with their insurance, it was no cost to them. Woman really . Tech thats service you can trust. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Go go go on a real vacation. Visit go rving. Com or your nearest rv dealer. Here . Nah. Introducing the all new chevy trailblazer. Here . Nope. Here. When the middle of nowhere, is somewhere. The all new chevy trailblazer. Making lifes journey, just better. Than Rheumatoid Arthritis. When considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz. 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They are removing more Conspiracy Theory content to justify real world violence. It comes after they announced they would move pages, facebook groups, and others. An nbc News Analysis found activity increased tenfold, auc often times in places you would not expect. In the battle for pennsylvania pittsburgh is key. Voters here could tip the state. A 29yearold mom of two, spending weekends on the soccer sidelines. Tell me about life as a mom. Its busy. When covid hit her waitressing hours were cut back. I will have like 230 different notifications. Most mornings she spends about 20 minutes reading in. I have a group on facebook that they like post different articles. Her feed is filled with links to pages and pages of unsubstantiated qanon theories. Explain to me who q is. I believe it is like a group of several people that were either in the military intelligence or the dumps. And they will teal you about the deep underground military bases. Theyre worldwide. Its crazy to think about because not everyone really knows. One spokesperson says while there are a few, its not true that they are all over the world or that some people dont know about them. Some beliefs are more extreme and completely false. Do you believe in the ring of democrats who support pedophilia, child trafficking . I dont believe it is just democrats, i believe it is republicans, too. You know judges, Police Officers people in government. People involved in our government, involved in child trafficking. Chloe broke down talking about photos she has seen discussed in q forums. I want to know what they are about. It is about the kids. And it is bad. She believes President Trump is the hero in this story. Do you believe he is stopping child trafficking rings . Pedophile rings . Yes, i do. Is there anything you could hear in the media or from friends that would dissuade you from the beliefs . No, there is just too much evidence. When were living in turbulent times, people look to conspiracy theories to provide simple explanations for complicated world events. This professor has been researching qanon for a year. Getting involved in something that purports to help women is very afeeling for women. Chloe first through q through her friend, john pope. So we decided to talk to john. A week and a half after losting his job he found qanon and now spends 13 hours a day online. Weve all been lied to. About everything. He believes in a rain of conspiracy theories. A cult, titanic, and thinks that q may be jfk junior. Something in my heart tells me yes. I believe he could unite this country together. Except that he died in a plane crash that he was piloting. Referee li. Like i said, i believe in this, it would not have been possible if it wasnt for jfk. How many of your friends do you think are in q, also . A lot. Do you feel like this is your family now . Yes, absolutely. I dont think theyre stupid or gullible or any of the other stereotypes. I think they generally reject mass media. They reject a lot of things that you and i might think of as true. But what this mean Social Security that were starting to see a real skism in this country between what people in this country think of as true. And that worries me. That was case snow reporting. The professor thinks that facebooks move to crack down on large qanon pages will make it harder to come across conspiracies. Theyre not looking at every individual profile. Facebook tells us theyre working on ways to stop individual posts and you tube is making changes now and it is different to stop the spread of false information especially since q supporters are moving towards other social media platforms. One with less rules and fewer regulations. As confirmation hearings for judge Amy Coney Barrett come to a close, well look at outside forces in the form of dark money groups that manipulated the entire process. 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The Senate Judiciary commit will vote on Amy Coney Barrett. If youre watching it today like i was, democrats and republicans got into a twohour debate that was fascinating, and calm, about the merits of this vote. Democrats claim it is being rushed to help the president in an election year. The republicans say no, this is just the process. Sheldon white house used his 30 minutes of time to question barrett, but instead shined a shotlight on the groups he says are pulling the strings. Groups the string. Conservative groups using dark money to control the levers of the Supreme Court process. Heres whitehouse describing what the public does not see. What is the scheme here . Let me start with this one. Theres big anonymous money behind various lanes of activ activity. One is through the level of the Federalist Society managed by leonard leo and its taken over the selection of judicial nominees. How do we know that . Trump has said so over and over again. His white House Counsel said so. We have anonymous funders running something called the Judicial Crisis Network which is run by carrie severino. Its doing campaign ads for judicial nominees. It going a single 17 million donation in gorsuch process. It got another 17 million to support Justice Kavanaugh. Somebody spend 34 million to influence the Supreme Court. Tell me thats good. Then you have groups funded by dark money with a different role. They bring cases to the court by these legal groups many of those who ask to lose below so they can get quickly to the court. Joining me now is Jay Michaelson who has written about the role of dark money. Thanks for joining us. The point that Sheldon Whitehouse was trying to make although shes said she made no commitment to anybody about how shell rule, the groups that have vetted her, the way she got on this list that was handed to president , by groups have done that vetting process. They know how shes going to rule on any individual case. Am i reading that wrong . Thats absolutely right. The vetting process lasts for decades. The Federalist Society is a law school to lawyer to judicial pipeline. Jacob soboroff and i did a swamp series about dark money and the way it influences congress. Something we didnt get into is the way it influences Supreme Court judges and federal court judges. Talk to me about the Federalist Society and the judicial crisis watch and what their goals are and who they influence. Just looking at the magnitude, this is one organization, the Federalist Society, upon judge barretts confirmation have placed five justices on the Supreme Court. They came through the same network, same vetting process. They were put forward by the same people. This isnt a Conspiracy Theory. Its happening in the open. They dont deny any of it. We dont know who is paying for this. We dont know what their ultimate aims are. We can intuit them based on the corporate angle. The impact has been enormous. President trump has put 56 Appellate Court judges on the bench, 48 have come through the Federalist Society. Who is leonard leo, the man behind the Federalist Society . Formerly. We reported this in 2018. There are a lot of operatives in d. C. He has been remarkably successful raising over 250 million in dark money in a fiveyear period. We dont know how much hes raised since 2017 which is the last tax return we have. This is someone who has had a particular hard right religious fundamentalist virsion of how te courts should operate. Hes got a number of different activities im grateful for senator whitehouse painting this picture. It may have looked crazy with the poster board, but he was only describing part of it. Leonard leo basically has invested 30 million into George Mason University law school now named after antonin scalia. Hes created Shell Companies to give donations to the trump inauguration. Hes in a lot of different lanes of which senator whitehouse explained three. These organizations look like there are many different organizations, but theyre all coming from the same pot of dark money funneled through the same people. Right after whitehouse spoke senator cruz spoke saying this is not just a republican thing. This is going on with democratic nominees as well. This is whitehouse being a kettle whatever the saying is. Is there a comparative group . Dont ask me to think of phrases on the fly on live television. Ill embarrass myself. Is there a comparison between liberal dark money groups and republican dark money groups . Liberals wish there was a comparison. There are liberal equivalents. Demand justice. Theyre tiny. Theyre one tenth the size. They dont have nearly the reach or impact. They dont have these sister organizations acting like the Human Resources department of the Trump Administration filling all these vacancies. Theres no comparison. 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