A good thursday morning. Craig melvin here. Right now we are just 19 days out from our traditional election day. Theres a new curveball for the Biden Campaign this morning. Two individuals involved in the campaign have tested positive for coronavirus including a Top Communications aide to senator Kamala Harris. What it means for the campaign and the candidate in just a moment. Right now we also have our eyes on the white house. Thats because 30 minutes from now, roughly, President Trump expected to leave for North Carolina. Early inperson voting starts in North Carolina today. The campaign spree coming hours before President Trump and joe biden are set to hold dueling town halls in places that should have been the second president ial debate. As we enter the home stretch, every minute matters. A new nbc news wall street journal poll shows biden up ten points, 53 to 42. Lets start with our reporters following the campaigns this morning. Ali vitali is in philadelphia ahead of jids town h
While two senators threatened to filibuster that if there is no vote on the covid relief payouts, senator Bernie Sanders on the floor just last hour. Watch. Working families need help now. Not next year, but right now. The house did the right thing. I congratulate them. Now it is time for the senate to step up to the plate and do what the working families of this country overwhelmingly want us to do. Julie some republicans worry about the cost of boosting those checks, but others like Georges David perdue are backing the president. It helps get our lives back to normal. With the president tries to do is make sure we get this done. He doesnt trust there might be another step in another couple months. He wants to get this done now. Julie rich edsons lives in west palm beach, florida, with the latest on this one. Hey, rich. Good afternoon, julie. From here in florida and the president is pressuring Congressional Republicans more than triple those covid payment checks, 2,000, and also to m
Book tv continues of diana furchtgottroth. She looks it up on the screen Jobs Initiative and argues that it hurts the economy. This is about 40 minutes. And Howard Hughes for research at the Manhattan Institute. Thank you for joining us. The question of whether and how governments, particularly the federal government direct tax dollars to industries was a discussion last night president ial debate and is becoming an ongoing theme in the campaign. The term on which the finance and industries have also been the focus of intense debate, but probably the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana furchtgottroth of the manhattan to senior fellow and speaker this afternoon focuses and are tightly regulating to disaster, have green jobs policies are damaging americas economy. In fact, she subjects the assumptions and policies which led to such elevated as of now bankrupt seller paid no manufacture as well as the electric car Battery Manufacturer to a withering analysis, which w
Republican nomination square off on a national stage. The last before tuesdays New Hampshire primary. But the first since the iowa caucuses, shifted and reshuffled the field of contenders. In some ways, it was like watching them debate for the very first time. Gone was the undercard of low polling also rans. We bid farewell to dropouts rand paul, mike huckabee, and rick santorum, and other low pollers still in it to win it, Carly Fiorina and jim gilmore didnt make the cut for the stamg. But making saturday nights debate a prime time to reorder the politics of the 2016 race. And that seems to be precisely what happened at the gop governors came out swinging from the opening bell and unrelentingly pursued the senators, the doctors, and reality tv hosts throughout the night. For anybody who is here tonight, if i get elect eed president , head out tomorrow and buy a seat belt because theres going to be so much happening in the first 100 days, its going to make your head spin, and were goin
It is not gods plan that i be president in 2016, or maybe ever. My campaign is suspended. Only one campaign has beaten donald trump over and over and over again. Not once, not twice, not three times, but nine times, all across the country. We started this campaign at 3 in the national polls. We have come a long way. I have to thank the people of the great state of ohio. I love you is all i can say. Here is where things stand right now. Missouri still too close to call with cruz and trump locked in a tight battle. And donald trump declaring victory in the winner take all state of florida with a wide margin over rubio. John kasich beating trump to take his first win of the primary season in his home state of ohio. But trump came out on top in both illinois, and North Carolina. With ted cruz coming in second in both of those states. So the current delegate count is trump 621, cruz 396, and kasich 138. And for the democrats, missouri also too close to call. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sande