I have the biggest rallies ive ever had and we have covid. People are saying, whatever, leave us alone, theyre tired of it. People are tired of hearing fauci and all these idiots, these people, these people that have gotten it wrong. Fauci is a nice guy, hes been here for 500 years. He called every one of them wrong. And yet we keep them. Every time he goes on television theres always a bomb. But theres a bigger bomb if you fire him. Fauci is a disaster. This as the total number of coronavirus cases are on the rise nationwide and dr. Fauci revealed he was expecting the outbreak at the white house. Were you surprised that President Trump got sick . Absolutely not. I was worried that he was going to get sick when i saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people and almost nobody wearing a mask. When i saw that on tv, i said oh, my goodness. Meantime senator Kamala Harris is on her way to an event in jacksonville, florida, just days after 100 one of her colleagues mocked her name and sparked a fund raising surge for his democratic opponent. Were going to speak to Democratic Senate candidate jon ossoff in a few minutes from now, but we want to begin in arizona where President Trump is campaigning today and joining me from that trump rally in prescott, arizona. Nbcs vaughn hill hard. Also with me reporter for the Washington PostAshley Parker and republican strategist and Senior Adviser to the Lincoln Project susan dell percepersio. The president set to speak any minute now. Tell us what youre seeing in terms of messaging and what hes expected to say as we head into this final twoweek stretch. Air force one landed into phoenix and now the president is route via marine one to prescott, about 85 miles north of phoenix. The reason he is here because when you look back to 2016, yapapi county a rural part of the state, a place that went by a twotoone margin for him and the president is losing among independent voters, losing among suburban voters. When talking about arizona, 75 of the electorate lives in the greater tucson and phoenix area, the suburban areas, and why this campaign is now shifting today its focus up here to northern arizona, needing to jouice thei turnout in areas like this. Senator Martha Mcsally who is struggling against democrat mark kelly will be joining the president. I asked mcsally at an event if she regretted standing by this president over her last four years, not only did she lose her 2018 bid but on the brink of losing the second seat and she believes she had spoken up against the president when she needed to. Yet the Arizona Republican party of today is different than the one john mccain oversaw 12 years ago. Prescott is where he held his final Campaign Event as president the night before his 2018 election. This is a different place. Thousands of folks that have turned out. Voters say they frankly dont believes the polling, that they are not being properly accounted for. That question is with those deficits in maricopa county, can President Trump make up those margins. Those deficits among the rural voters here in heavily support of him. I was going to say. We should note we saw miss mcsally on the tarmac with the president , she was wearing a mask, he was not. The president appeared to be in a bad mood when he spoke to reporters a few minutes ago, attacking dr. Fauci. Is anyone within the campaign worried this will all backfire in the final two weeks of the election . Of course theyre worried. A number of people in the campaign and president s orbit are worried and they can articulate a closing message they think could be potentially successful going after joe biden on some policy issues like taxes, Foreign Policy and making the argument that if you reelect trump the economy will improve and covid will get better. Whether or not thats true is a different question but thats the Closing ArgumentTrump Campaign aides generally would like to see. Thats not the argument the president is making at all. You just showed him talking to reporters in a bad mood, airing personal gripes and grievances and there was a Campaign Call earlier this morning where the president was there to rally supporters, the campaign invited a number of reporters to listen in. On that call it wasnt the scripted Closing Argument they would want to see. It was him going off on dr. Fauci and the scientists and getting angry, nitpicking with stories he didnt like and that again is not a traditional successful Closing Argument or the one this president making with 15 days left. Do you think it called anyones nerves down . It may have calmed the president s nerves down to sort of get that off his chest, thats often the role that rallies play too, but the campaign knows what their internal polling looks like and what voters want to hear and what will help the president close that deficit with suburban women, senior voters, cut the margins a little bit in a way that could help him with hispanics and black voters and that is not the message that will do it. Let me play for you a sound bite. Heres how mark meadows described it earlier today. The Senate Republicans have been very vocal in terms of their lack of support. There are some in the senate that would support it. Whether theres enough votes to get to the 60 vote threshold thats up to leader mcconnell. Seems like mark meadows is shifting blame already trying to pin this one on Mitch Mcconnell saying he cant get the support of the rest of the republican senators. Whats happening here . To put up a bill to get to 60 votes and it may have to be a compromise. Its that easy. At the end of the day this is a failure of the president an thats what the president does. He blames others for things he cant get done and mark meadows is just an extension of that. He had this responsibility to keep us safe. Ayman, when i think about where we were from april to today, what has the federal government done to really help us . What has President Trump done . How is he acting differently to make our country safer, to make us be able to live longer lives an keep our family members safe and sound . Hes done nothing. Thats whats starting to resonate with voters. He is not able to take us through this recovery or even plan for a National Recovery once we do get a vaccine. Thats what were seeing in the polls. And as far as what mark meadows or anyone else says, they just obey the president and if they dont, they dont have a job. Ashley, speaking of what the president and the Covid Task Force have been doing, your paper reports that dr. Deborah birx asked Vice President mike pence to remove controversial dr. Scott atlas from the Covid Task Force. Is atlas continued presence there a sign that the scientist, the respected scientists have been sidelined . Its absolutely a sign of that. Scott atlas is someone who sort of again the respected as you put it Public Health officials, doctors, scientists do not find his presence or his theories helpful. This is someone who the post reported, the white house denied, and the white house confirmed in any number of ways, scott atlas promoting herd immunity. It is one you see the president increasingly moving towards privately and publicly and not what Public Health officials want to see. Scott atlas is not a doctor who has any expertise in this area, but his presence means he is playing an outsized role. Susan the question becomes, weve already seen a lot of down ballot republicans facing all kinds of problems, but if theyre closing out with this message that we heard there from ashley and dr. Scott atlas, which is to not follow the advice of the doctors and scientists how problematic is that for those vulnerable down ballot republicans . Its the whole ball game. At the end of the day, people look at their family members and see if theyre learning remotely or not, seeing if they have if grand parents can visit for thanksgiving. These are signs that the virus still exists and you can be infkted by it. Martha mcsally is doing so bad that she needs trump voters to help her. Shes trailing so much behind where President Trump is. All right. Susan, ashley, vaughn, thank you to all three of you for starting us off this hour. Georgia republican senator david purdue facing backlash for appearing to mock the name of Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris. Into. The most insidious thing that joe biden and Chuck Schumer are trying to promote, joe biden, kamala, i dont know, whatever purdues Campaign Called it a simple mispronunciation, but critics pointed out the racist overtones of the comments there. Purdues democratic opponent jon ossoff raise over 1. 8 million from at least 42,000 donors off of that viral moment. Earlier this year purdue was criticized for releasing an ad that exaggerated ossoffs nose who is jewish. The Campaign Said it was an accident. Joining me now is democratic candidate for senate in georgia, mr. Ossoff, thank you for joining us. Real clear politics shows you and senator perdue neck and neck. How are you feeling how this race is going and do you think this incident we just played will swing undecided voters if there are any left in your state in your direction . Well, it reveals how out of touch senator per due. Here we are in the midst of a tragedy when we need unifying leadership. Hes acting like a schoolyard bully making jokes about heritage of his political adversaries. Its so out of touch with the kind of leadership that the people of my state tee serve and need. When so many lives have been up ended, so man lives have been lost, so many people are just longing for normalcy, competence an honest leadership that puts Public Health ahead of cheap politics and this is the best that my opponent has, this is why his campaign is in freefall. Its desperate and its pathetic. How are you feeling abouts the state of the race right now . Well, georgia is the most competitive state in the country. Thats why Mitch Mcconnell has spent more money attacking me than any other Democratic Senate candidate in america. Remember Stacey Abrams only lost here by 55,000 votes two years ago. Weve registered 800,000 new voters since then. Georgia becomes younger and more diverse by the day. Georgians are demanding change because what were getting from the federal government right now is a disgrace. Our senator has failed us and we have a lot of momentum in georgia right now. Lets talk about some of that change. If you are electd to the senate, obviously one big question you would be posed with right away is whether or not you would support adding justices to the Supreme Court. Whats your position on that, if, in fact, joe biden does win with and you are elected, would you support him in expanding the size of the Supreme Court . I dont support expanding the court because we dont like the policies of recently confirmed justice, but i have great grave concerns about judge barretts positions on row v. Wade, Affordable Care act, here we are in the middle of the pandemic and politics are still carrying water for the insurance industry, still trying to repeal conditions for preexisting conditions and the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the aca a few days after this election. This is why the Senate Matters and i need help to overcome this Voter Suppression that were seeing in georgia with black voters made to wait six, ten hours to vote. Visit electjon. Com to make sure every voice is heard. The Supreme Court set to take up the issue after election day, if the a c a is struck down, do you think democrats can examine to an agreement on a replacement plan . Well, the good news is this, even though the Supreme Court will begin to hear oral arguments in november they likely will not rule until next may or june. This is why its important we have a Democratic Senate so the legislative response will protect health of families here in georgia and across the country. This is about corruption in washington. The reason politicians like my opponent are still pushing to repeal protections for preexisting conditions even in the middle of a pandemic is because they are bought and paid for by insurance and Drug Companies who want to make more money denying care to people who are already sick. We need to win the United States senate, win his race in georgia to elect Public Servants who will put the health of our families ahead of the profits of the insurance industry. Because georgia is such a contested state as you mentioned, how concerned are you about the integrity of the vote and the outcome of the vote given what were seeing play out in some other states . Well, im very concerned by Voter Suppression in georgia. This is the front line in the struggle for Voting Rights. I got my start around Public Service in government working for congressman john lewis 55 years ago. He had his skull fractured marching across the Edmund Pettus bridge for Voting Rights and still black americans in the south are being is enfranchised by politicians who abuse their power to suppress the vote. This is why we need help here in georgia. We have the public will, we have the numbers to win these races, but we need support to protect ballot access. Im asking everyone to visit electjon. Com and help us power our voter protections. Georgias democratic nominee for president jon ossoff. We invited senator perdue to join us today and did to the get a response. We are 15 days until election day and more than 25 Million People have cast their ballots. With that number expected to grow, after the break, we are live in battleground florida with a look at how day one of early voting is going in a state trump narrowly won. Much more from dr. Anthony fauci, what he has to say about the antiscience rhetoric about the vu that President Trump continues to push. Youre watching msnbc. 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Right now democratic Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris just arrived if jacksonville, florida, for a Campaign Event. In person early voting kicked off in that state today. There have been already some long lines in several places including in lee county where voters waited outside in the rain to cast their ballot. Joining me from Fort Lauderdale is kerry sanders. Good to have you with us. What have you heard from the voters lightning ning up there . Theres a lot of excitement and people showing up and when you show up at a polling location and in florida you have to stand 150 feet away because they dont want any influences on voters, some things can unfold in front of you you dont expect and here is one of them. Her name is julia and im going to stand back and let you see the sign that she has and ill read it, im only 106 years old and i vote. Julia doesnt speak english but im it going to talk to her in spanish and do instant translation. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Its a great honor to meet you. Whats the reason you came here today . [ speaking Foreign Language ] she wants to change everything. She said. What message do you have for young people . [ speaking Foreign Language ] there you go. If you dont understand it you should probably get it from her face that the young people should come out and vote. Shes enjoying a good laugh. Getting ready to vote. I mean come on, ayman, 106 years old, look at that. Statistically interesting because one in ten eligible young voters between the age of 18 and