U. S. Economy unprecedented move secretary of state pompeo in israel, making a controversial visit to settlements in the occupied west bank these are impressive times. Reporter r. Plus, how the new work from home culture is pressing many people to take a permanent vacation. Announcer live from nbc global heads, the fact, the news with shepard smith. Good evening. The coquid predictions are all coming true, more people are sick, hospitalized and dying than ever before 252,290 americans killed like 849 11s, double the american death toll in the first world war. Doctors and scientists warn that every day ahead will likely be morse. More of everything will shut down, bringing business failures, jobs lost, and no relief from congress in the works. Our lives will be up ended in ways we can foresee and in others we cannot yet imagine says one Missouri Health director you will meet live tonight, we can keep up. Its an uncontrolled spread. Warnings and more warnings what else can we try amber e
8002. U are unsure, 202748 you can text us at 2027488903. On twitter it is cspan. Wj. And facebook. It is republicans only for that question. We will open it up tomorrow for democrats only in our first hour of the program as well. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. One of those former supporters and fox opinion commentator opinion writer in the wall street journal. Bases his peace. The headline, this election result will not be overturned. Occasionally change margins in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands. It has been an unsettling year, at deadly virus claimed almost a quarter million lives, a lockdown demolished personal routines and left us gasping for normality, a sudden deep depression snatched newfound prosperity for families, so why not finish out with a miscast election as the finale . Trump is that mr. Pursuing legal challenges in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, nevada, and there will be an automatic recount in georgia given bidens. 29 lead.
This year because of the covid pandemic do we have any real baseline to understand what is going on with the electorate going into this election . I think this election will be unlike anything we have seen in the past. Its hard to know if there is a good corollary. At this point we are seeing far more early and absentee voting then we saw in 2016. Its really off the charts. That looks atart early and in person voting and how it has trended over the past couple of years. People can see from watching it that the trend has been for more voting by absentee or mailin ballots then by in person on election day. What is happening in the thinking about conduct of elections that has led to this and celebrating this trend this year . Its been a trend about 20 years in the making. Ever since colorado and Washington State made it easy for their voters to vote by mail we have seen that once voters have that option they like that option. In a pandemic voting by mail is a good and safe option. In addi
Richmond city hall on october 12th. After the online tracking system showed their ballots were not received, many of them reached out to local election officials, trigger an investigation. We have identified about 40 people who said they dropped their ballot off that day, and we have not yet received it. We have called and emailed each one of them. Many of them most of them actually weve already reissued them a second ballot so they can have the opportunity to vote. The assistant registrar of voters says its possible there are more missing ballots. However, he says 84 other ballots dropped off at that same ballot box in richmond the same day were received. He says it does not appear the box was tampered with. Instead they suspect its a handling error. Today several concerned voters who had planned to use the Richmond City hall drop box drove their ballots to the registrar of Voters Office in martinez instead. Lets get to the campaign trail. Tonight the focus is florida. President trump
And possibilities of things that could happen if theres uncertainty about the outcome. They are bob bauer a distinguished scholar at nyu school of law now on leave as a Senior Adviser to the biden president ial campaign and Benjamin Ginsberg an election attorney in the cnn commentator. I like to recognize some of our special guest today the ambassadors of singapore sweden new zealand and the european union. Id also like to recognize our sponsors our Title Sponsor bank of america of the Greater Washington d. C. Area larry, thank you very and are sponsors terry women senior partner and also its like to recognize siemens usa ceo. Thank you for your leader sponsorship. Sponsors onrporate the screen and the like to thank them as well for their support we have a few Upcoming Events as some of you know about already but let me just remind you on november the 18th at 10 00 a. M. We will have that bandwidth alex of course he who is the chairman and ceo of Johnson Johnson. As you probably know J