Meanwhile in texas, a caravan of Trump Supporters tried to run a Biden Campaign bus off the road. One truck swerved into a car full of Biden Campaign workers. Trump responded by tweeting, i love texas. Joe biden condemned the political intimidation. Mr. Biden we have never had anything like this. At least we have never had a president who thinks it is a good thing. Amy plus, we will go to the key battleground state of florida to speak with haitianamerican writer Edwidge Dandicat to talk a milliona quarter of u. S. Born children born in the u. S. Could be separated from their parents should trump win reelection and terminates temporary protected status for migrants. We will also speak to a 13yearold u. S. Born girl who is the daughter of tps recipients from haiti. Can make au vote, difference in what happens to me and all those other children. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. One day ahead of election day, over 94 Million People have already cast their ballots more than two thirds of the total number of ballots cast in 2016. In graham, north carolina, Police Arrested eight people and unleashed pepper spray on a peaceful get out the vote rally in march which plan to end at an early voting site. The participant started at a black church and stopped at a Confederate Monument opposite the county courthouse to honor george floyd and black lives before lawenforcement officers in riot gear attempted to clear them out. Officers then started deploying pepper spray on a crowd that included Young Children and elderly people. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Rights Groups condemned the police action. Well have more on this after headlines with the events organizer reverend greg drumwright. The Texas Supreme Court on sunday denied a republican request to invalidate nearly 127,000 drivethru votes cast in Harris County. Harris county set up 10 drivethru polling sites for early voting which ended friday and election day to make voting easier and safer for texans during the pandemic. However, the outcome of the case is still not guaranteed as the republican plaintiffs also filed suit in federal court, which is set to hear the case this morning. One of the plaintiffs is steven hotze, a coronavirus and qanon conspiracy theorist who said the deep state could have been the ones that orchestrated this whole viral problem with the virus. During the Racial Justice uprising this summer, hotze told Texas Governor greg abbott in a voicemail he should order the National Guard to kill protesters. He said shoot to kill the sons of [b leeps] thats the only way you restore order. Kill em. This is joe speaking at a socially distanced drivein rally in philadelphia on sunday. Mr. Biden this is the most important election of our lifetimes. We have to vote like we never did before. Every day. Every day is an reminder of how high the stakes are, how far the other side will gold to try to suppress go to try to suppress the turnout. Amy axios is reporting trump plans to declare a premature victory tuesday night if he is ahead of joe biden in early returns. Election forecasters say vote counting after election day will likely favor biden particularly in pennsylvania even if trump holds a lead on holds an early lead. Trump denied the reports sunday but told reporters he opposed counting ballots after election day. Pres. Trump i think it is a terrible thing when people when states are allowed to tabulate ballots for long period of time after the election is over. Amy trump also suggested he expects to win any election cases that land before the Supreme Court. This is trump at a packed Campaign Rally in pennsylvania saturday. Pres. Trump if we win on tuesday thank you very much, Supreme Court shortly thereafter. Amy on sunday, Senior Trump Campaign advisor jason miller came under fire for suggesting democrats could attempt to steal the election by counting ballots after election day. Miller spoke with abc news. If used week with many smart democrats, they believe President Trump will be ahead on Election Night, probably getting 280 electoral and then they will try to steal her back after the election. We believe we will be over 290 electoral votes on Election Night. So no matter what can of hygienes or lawsons they try to test lawsuits they try to pull off, we will have enough votes to get President Trump reelected. Amy the fbi is investigating after motorists with trump 2020 flags surrounded and harassed a Biden Campaign bus driving down a texas highway. Trump defended the drivers on twitter saying, these patriots did nothing wrong and that the fbi should instead investigate antifa. Meanwhile, hundreds of Trump Supporters blocked traffic on a new jersey highway and the mario cuomo bridge in new york sunday. Coronavirus cases in the United States topped 9. 2 million as scientists warn the virus is spreading at a faster rate than before and hospitals will be pushed beyond capacity. On friday, nearly 100,000 new cases were reported the highest single day number of cases recorded for any country. A Stanford University study found trump rallies between june 20 and september 30 may have led to over 700 covid19 deaths and 30,000 cases. Trump has repeatedly discouraged and mocked mask wearing, while continuing to hold events with tightly packed crowds, with minimal mask wearing, in coronavirus hotspots. At a rally in florida sunday, trump suggested he could fire top Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci after the election. Fire fauci fire fauci fauci pres. Trump code tell anybody, but wait until a little after the election. Amy this comes after the Washington Post reported fauci said the pandemic would only get worse and that joe bidens campaign is taking seriously from a Public Health perspective, while trump is prioritizing reopening the country. In immigration news, an investigation by reveal and the Los Angeles Times shows both the obama and Trump Administrations detained tens of thousands of Migrant Children for longer periods of time than previously known. The report reveals over 25,000 Migrant Children were detained for more than 100 days in the past six years. Nearly 1000 children were in shelters for more than a year. In related news, the New York Times reports the u. S. Has been deporting unaccompanied children from Central America and other countries to mexico, violating a diplomatic agreement that requires the u. S. To deport them to their home countries, where they may be able to reunite with their family. In poland, an estimated 150,000 people rallied in warsaw friday to protest against a Court Decision banning nearly all forms of abortion. The protests were the biggest since the Solidarity Movement of the 1980s. I am a woman. , mother. I am a mother. Im here for my daughter so she lives in better times. And with the best for her and for everyone to i think it is important for everyone who lives in poland. Amy in ivory coast, at least 12 people were killed during protests saturday as voters headed to the polls. Antigovernment protests intensified in the weeks leading up to the election as opponents say president Alassane Ouattaras bid for a third term is a violation of the constitutional twoterm limit. As early results show ouattara in a commanding lead, opposition leaders are calling for a civilian transition from his government. Al jazeera reports at least 30 people were killed in preelection violence. In hong kong, authorities have arrested eight opposition politicians over their roles in resisting a controversial new security law that gives china sweeping powers over hong kong. The eight were part of contentious parliamentary hearings last may where they opposed a bill that critics say criminalizes free speech and protests and erases any autonomy hong kong once held. This is wu chiwai, chair of hong kongs democratic party. I think this is completely unacceptable. Using grammage charges to suppress the oppositions voice in the Legislative Council meeting. Amy meanwhile, calls are growing for china to release 12 activists arrested at sea in august after they allegedly tried to reach taiwan from hong kong by boat. Lawyers hired by families of the 12 prisoners say theyve been harassed by chinese authorities and have not had any access to their clnts. In the philippines, at least 16 people died and one million were evacuated as super typhoon goni, the worlds strongest typhoon this year, ripped through the island of luzon sunday. Goni is the 18th typhoon to hit the philippines in 2020. Climate change is causing more intense and more frequent tropical storms in the philippines, with mass deforestation, mining and intensive farming further compounding the deadly effects of extremeeather. In turkey, rescue woers are continuing to search for survivors in the western city of izmir after a 7. 0 magnitude rthquakeit the aegean sea friday, killing at least 79 people in turkey and two people in greece. Nearly 1000 people were injured and at least 20 buildings destroyed. And the veteran middle east reporter and author robert fisk has died in dublin at the age of 74 after a suspected stroke. Fisk spent decades writing for the british newspaper the independent, where he covered the iranian revolution, civil wars in algeria, the balkans, lebanon and syria, u. S. Sanctions against iraq, and the u. S. Led invasion in 2003. Fisk wrote extensively about the soviet and u. S. Invasions of afghanistan and interviewed Osama Bin Laden three times in the 1990s one of the few western journalists to do so. This is robert fisk speaking on democracy now in 2008, just one month ahead of the president ial election. We should be talking about phrases like justice for the people of the middle east. If you have justice, can build democracy on it and then we can withdrawal all of these soldiers. Where promising people packages of human rights about supermarket shelves and arriving with our horses and our swords and apache helicopters and tanks. The only feature and the middle east is to withdrawal all of our military forces and have serious political, social, religious cultural relations with these people. It is not our land. Amy robert fisk died at the age of in dublin. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. We begin todays show in the battleground state of north carolina. On saturday, police in Alamance County pepper sprayed Peaceful Protesters taking part in a getoutthevote rally. The rally began at a local black church and was scheduled to end at an early voting site in the city of graham, which is located in between durham and greensboro. During the rally, participants stopped near a Confederate Monument and paused in the street for eight minutes and 46 seconds to remember george floyd, who was killed by police in minneapolis in may. Floyds niece was scheduled to speak but did not get a chance. Moments later, the police some dressed in riot gr began pepper spraying the crowd which included children as young as three years old. One elderly woman in a wheelchair appeared to have a seizure after being exposed to the pepper spray. Medic medi amy Democratic Congressional candidate Scott Huffman recorded this moments later in his car. I am Scott Huffman and im running for congress. My eyes are full of pepper spray because we were peacefully demonstrating, exercising our First Amendment rights with black lives matter. What i have witnessed is what is happening all over america. This is wrong. To showhould be allowed up, to exercise their rights to vote. Were all taxpayers. The police work for us, yet spray, witnessed pepper chemical weapons been sprayed on my fellow americans. Amy was the last day of early saturday voting in north carolina, but the march never made it to the polling site. At least eight people were arrested during the rally, including the march organizer, the reverend greg drumwright, who joins us now from greensboro. He is lead organizer of justice 4 the next generation coalition. Reverend greg drumwright, welcome to democracy now can you take us through saturday . What happened . Good morning to all o your viewers and certainly to you and thank you for having us. Saturday, in some instances, is still a blur. We still have people recovering from those tear gas and pepper spray attached. We started the morning really knowing that there was going to be some form of a materialized andrt to quell our success to quiet our voices, even though we prayed intently and we met several times over with local authorities there asking them not to bring militia force to our march. As you and i know now, that was not the case. Amy so explain. What were the purpose of just what the purpose of your rally was, where you went, and when the police moved in and attacked you. We lead there after marching for about three quarters of a mile on the north side of main street just before the Court Allowed e we were we were in full cooperation with our agreement with authorities. Once we got to north main street in front of the Confederate Monument, we knelt eight minutes, 46 seconds, as you have uplifted, in honor of George Floyds family. I need to say George Floyds family, four members of the family, was there with us on the front line. After eight minutes and 46 seconds, we got up and began to prepare for our rally. And just as the Graham Police department uplifted in the press conference yesterday, at the nine minute mark, they began to release pepper spray and tear gas upon our marchers. They stated we were not moving fast enough out of the roadway most of dont know if you know arithmetic well enough to discern that is only 14 seconds for hundreds of people to remove themselves peacefully on to the sidewalks. Amy so tell us who the sheriff is and then tell us what happened next once the Police Tear Gassed and pepper sprayed you. Were they wearing riot gear . We seen all types of Tactical Force dressings and gear. Cole,itioned chief kristi who was in charge of this. Sheriff Terry Johnsons department, his deputies were working in concert with chief kristi cole and the Graham Police department. We begged them not to bring militia force. We begged them across several letters, stating when this type of Police Presence gets involved , black and brown people end up in jail. And so we started our riot with people already being injured, people already being hassled and detained by local police authories sily because they would not get on to the sidewalks after they escorted us in the streets, fasten a. Again, 14 seconds to make Something Like that happen with a crowd of hundreds of people. Amy the Graham Police department held a News Conference sunday to answer questions about the pepperspraying of marchers at saturdays event. This is lt. Daniel sisk. Cooks we wanted them to have a successful event. They were under the same under sin we were when we thought that the event started that they were not authorized to keep theoad close for new extended period of time, the road closure was temporary. We had rd closures up to the courthouse. We gave the order to clear the road. That is cleared only deployed to get them out of the roadway. Amy that was the tenant daniel sisk. Im looking at a flyer distributed by your Organization Justice 4 the next generation that says on saturday, october 31, participants will be marching from waymans chapel ame to a court square rally at the Confederate Monument and on to elm street poll. So talk about that and point. You had hundreds of people, many were going to vote yes. We believed many were going to vote. We believed others were waiting for us to get to the elm street poll to vote in concert with us. The truth of the matter is, we really dont know what those numbers would have looked alike because of this Police Brutality. We never made it to the polls. Therefore, we believe that this interaction, this interference from local authorities has created obstruct our marchers from not only lifting up our First Amendment rights to alsost, to speak outbut our rights to vote. This interaction from the police most certainl