The wall is here. Rup. Reporter new and old. Yes. Reporter and theyre still here. Theyre still here, theyre coming across. Garrett and later. Bond, james bond. Garrett remembering sean connery, the actor who put the double o in cool. Now, about that honeymoon. This is the cbs weekend news. Garrett good evening, everyone. Im Major Garrett in new york. Happy halloween. The last weekend of a president ial campaign is typically a frenzied spectacle with candidates blitzing as many battleground states as possible, but this is hardly an ordinary election. Americans are in the grip of a deadly pandemic. Local hospitals across the country are straining to meet the moment. Infections are spreading fast. Friday smashed a daily record for new infections in the yut, more than 99,000 reported. Today, President Trump makes four stops in pennsylvania, joe biden in two in michigan. On sunday, the president rallies in five states. Mr. Biden holds two rallies, both of them in pennsylvania. These two cla
Tuesday night. By aggressive they mean declaring victory before he hits the threshold of 270 electoral votes. Apparently they think gets close is enough even though it is not. And even though potentially millions of ballots could still have not been counted. The president at the moment calls the reports false. And speaking of false, there was a lot of that at the president s rallies sunday. He repeated the false claim that only votes counted november 3rd are valid. The Supreme Court gave them more time, more time. So, what does this mean . Does this mean we go and we wait so its not november 3rd . Its going to be much later than that . No, no. We should know the result of the election on november 3rd, the evening of november 3rd. Thats the way its been and thats the way it should be. Whats going on in this country . Whats going on . That is simply not true. Its also not possible and its really never been true. As for joe biden, hes making it clear that he knows his path to victory runs
With joe bidens longtime colleague harry reid for his take on the race. The former Vice President began his day in dpe. At a church the burial place of his son beau who made his father promise him on his dath bed he would stay in public life. Biden went on to visit his childhood home in pennsylvania where he signed the living wait a minute wall. From this house to the white house with the grace of god. President trump made a rare trip to his campaign hazard kwaeters in virginia. Capping off a set of grievancefilled rallies and interviews. Have you written an acceptance speech . No, im not thinking about concession speech or acceptance speech yet. Hopefully well be doing only one of those two. Winning is easy. Losing is never easy. Not for me its not. Regardless of what happens, the president is set to host hundreds at the white house tonight. This as dr. Debra birx of the Coronavirus Task force warns against gathering in a report that was dated yesterday. That was obtained by the washi
Lot of americans who need it most. On sunday, another 172,000 people were diagnosed with the disease here in the united states. That is just shy of the record we saw last week. Case numbers are rising in basically every state in the nation. The positivity in states like wyoming, south dakota and iowa are all over 50 . And as we have been telling you, the federal government is doing next to nothing. So one by one, cities and states are forced to take matters into their own hands to try to bring these numbers down. On monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he was ramping up restrictions, hitting the socalled emergency brake on the states reopening. New rules were also announced in the cities of philadelphia and kansas city. And two republican governors are now taking steps to curb the virus as well. Oklahomas kevin stitt who faced serious backlash after tweeting a picture of his family at a packed restaurant in march now adding restrictions for bars and restaurants there. And iowa
We had a tremendous, uh, landslide Electoral College victory, like people havent seen in a long time. Not only did we win the election. We had an Electoral College landslide. Okay . It was a landslide. We had an Electoral College as you know, congressman, we had a landslide. 306223. We had a landslide. They lost an election and they lost it big. It was really a landslide from the Electoral College standpoint. He only got upset about it after the results were classification 306223. It got bigger and bigger and bigger and wilder and wilder. It was 306223, thats a lot. This was an excuse for the democrats who lost an election, who actually got their ass kicked. 306223. Thats a pretty good shellacin. Its a shellacin, its an asskickin, fair enough. And now you received it. Remember, he also got worked by clinton in the popular vote. But the margin there, over 2 million votes, was actually competitive compared to the historic 5 million vote advantage that president elect joe biden has as of