It is 11 00 a. M. Out east. Today both candidates are focusing on canada. Donald trump are campaigning 240 miles apart from each other in california. Policy wise they might as well be on opposite ends of the planet. You can see it on the lefthand side of your screen. The president has been brags that the pandemic is almost over and the economy is roaring back. While biden has consistently warned that the pandemic is still raging and our recovery under donald trump is uncertain. You would not be able to tell, but the coronavirus surge is here. Cases are climbing in nearly every region of the country included in states that the president needs to win. Perhaps that is why if polling is our guide the president s reelection message is not exactly sticking. According to a brand new poll, he is holding a late among voters. And any minute were expecting new polls out of four swing states. Were going to get those in just a moment. Lets get right to it right now. Joining me now from florida is monica alba. Also nbc news correspondent mike memoli. And new york sometimes chief white house correspondent. Another day, another rally, another one of the scenes where people are not socially distanced. Theyre not Wearing Masks mostly. Were here in tampa just outside of an nfl state yum. Stadium. I have never seen one with so few masks. This is a defiant crowd saying even if the campaign is encouraging you to wear the face coverings they simply didnt want to. Melania trump was not wearing a mask when she arrived. Their message is we battled it, survived it, were fine, and you can, too. They also talk their their son testing positive. Thats part of what she is discussing right now it is mu harder to dismiss it for people here. He will be speaking about the economy and gdp numbers. Touting that right off of the top, and making a pitch to latino voters. We have seen more support here in some recent polling for the incumbent president. That is because the Trump Campaign and the Republican National compete poured millions into that effort in the United States. All of that will be part of the message today as the president discusses a new American Dream plan in battleground florida. They could be a potentially big deal while eating away at any republican support among seniors. It is also a big deal. I know the president says that he got the virus, the first lady got the virus. Steve, we just got new polls including one out of the state of florida that has joe biden in the lead. I believe it is 4543. Again these are very were talking about what monica just mentioned, peeling away any votes is going to be a big deal. There is a new poll, they should a threepoint advantage for biden. So five, four, and three. The nbc one is right in the middle there. Each showing very small, very narrow leading for joe biden in florida. What is behind that, what goes into the biden lead, youre talking about this, two groups of seniors. Powering across the finish line in 2016. From the summer into the fall, joe biden leading by seven among seniors in florida. That is a major shift. The reason it is still a close race in florida despite sha shift away is there is another shift that appears to be afoot. This is a telemundo poll. That is a big shift. More specifically they break it down here. It is cuban american voters. You think of south florida, miamidade, look at the advantage that trump built there. That is not an advantage that trump had in 2015. There is a longstanding advantage in florida. It goes back decades, trump did not really benefit from it in 2016. So he is growing his support there. You see around puerto rican voters. That adds up to what they always seem to find a couple points in favor of the poll getting here. I dont think either side really knows what will happen on election day. Underscoring what monica alba said at the top. Lets go through the numbers we just got in. It is 4542 in florida. In pennsylvania biden 5144 . In ohio, biden 48 to 43 . Also in iowa, trump 47 to biden 46 . You have biden in three of the four states. A lot of, honestly a lot of room for joe biden to run away with it. If these polls are correct, and again i say if the polls are kreblgt. Lets get to the president speaking in tampa. But you have to get out and vote. We are creating the greatest red wave in the history of our country. It has been amazing. I want to get some introductions and introductory things out. We have to talk about what is going on in our country with the big tech, the power of big tech, theyre incredible. I heard about it for a long time, the power big tech, sir, big tech is against you, their tremendously powerful, you cant beat them then we had the election and we won. 94 of the stories about us is negative. Think of it, think of it, 64 of the sorries about sleepy joe are positive. How do you have a positive story about this guy. This is between a choice this is historic prosperity. And record job growth and joe bidens plan is to deliver punishing lock downs. He is going to lock you down. You have a great governor. Did he speak too long today or not . No . I watched him on the plane. I said look there is rod. They have the little thing in the box. I said oh, look, there is ron, he is speaking. He looked like he was up there a long time. He is a great governor and a great guy. They want to give you massive tax hikes. I have been with politics essentially all of my life, only this side of it for a few years. We have done well, havent we . A senator came in and said sir, an older guy, nice guy, a pro. A total pro. He said i have been in nine races and i won seven of them and now im a senator and i said senator i have been in one race, i won one, now we want to win two. It was the presidency. We took them all by surprise, didnt we in we took them by surprise. Theyre still trying to recover. And you will have a crippling depression the likes of which you have never seen if sleepy joe becomes your president. And your 401ks, throw them out the window. You know what will happen . And you know our stock market as a big head wind. The head wind is if he wins and youre doing good. You see the number today . 33. 1 gdp. The biggest in the history of our country by almost triple, right . Almost triple. This is the greatest, up 33. 1 . So the president talking about gdp, were going to talk to Austin Goldsby bat llater in hour about the gdp. What we need to do to continue the trajectory that were on. Remember that congress has not passed another stimulus even though millions of americans are in dire need. Again that is donald trump in tampa. Usually the crowd behind him at these rallies, the campaign has been relatively successful at getting the crowd behind him to put on masks even though the rest of the crowds are generally not wearing them. It seems like here in tampa pay did not have any squesz that. Almost no masks within that crowd and they are packed very closely together. Joe bide listen n will be speak florida. Well go to that, and in the meantime we have the next best thing. We have mike memoli covering it for us. You can see from the way that joe biden is campaigning. Absolutely, katy. Im hearing the cheering and youre pointing out a lot of folks not Wearing Masks at the trump rally. Here it is a drive in rally for biden. You have been to a lot of campaign events, i have been to my fair share as well. I heard an announcement at this one which is please remain in your vehicles. If you cant touch your car youre too far from it. Welcome to campaigning during a global pandemic. This is what the Biden Campaign is encouraging here. If even there is no mask mandate, even if they have not followed other blue states, the Biden Campaign is doing everything they can do be safe and have their supporters and the local community be safe. As far as the message were seeing for joe biden as he makes his fourth trip to florida since the democratic convention, the second most of california, you come to south florida, miamidade to the south here or broward where we are today. And you try to run up the score. You get as many votes as you can and you go up the corridor to where bide listen be later. You try to win the counties along that interstate in order to have a form will for victory. Theyre feeling as they see in our new polls like theyre in a drivers seat at the moment, but theyre very closely watching these early vote numbers as well. Broward county today could surpass the 50 mark. They are encouraging as they did in the preprogram here if you have not already voted, dont put them into the mail. That is the concern on the biden team. They feel confident that if everyone can vote they can win, and that is a big question this year as well. Will everyone be able to safely vote and have their vote counted, katy. He is saying there will be a giant red wave, but he is musing about him potentially losing and riding off into the sunset. He did this in 2016 saying if you dont vote for me im never coming back here. It looks like with the polling not on the president s side theyre coming to rely on fighting this out in the courts if they need to or if they can. Talk to me about what youre hearing and what the expec expectations are. The president has very little time to change the dynamic if he can. It is more than 70 Million People that have already voted. More than half of last years turnout already voted. They are not open to persuasion at this point. Theyre not open to argumenting, rallies, news events, or october surprises. Its almost as if were on election day around 2 00 p. M. Where half or more have gone to the polls and youre only talking about a smaller audience of people into there is less time for the president so do anything to win over anybody. What he can do is find ways of counting, or not counting certain votes to facility the ods. They make the argument that some of the late counting, some of the rules are open to fraud. There is no real evidence of that. They will try to use the courts to limit the scope of the ballots that are tilted by biden. Theyre more likely to vote in absentee form in some fashion or another. This is clearly a matter of math. You want to limit the number of ballots counted in any way that you possibly can. Your paper has done a lot of reporting about what Trump Campaign is doing in a number of states already to start contesting what is happening at the polls already. What is happening with mail in ballots, what is happening at drop boxes around the country. I find this interesting in in 2016 when i was on the road and trump was running head first into controversy, and instead of being gentle, running into the sexism of it, the allegations of sexual assault, running into the idea that gold star families were not patriots because they didnt support him. I understood that strategy because i was talking to people on the ground and i could get a sense of what they thought of it. Right now im having a hard time understanding the strategy to continue holding these rallies in the middle of a pandemic with people not socially distanced. People not Wearing Masks, putting peoples lives in danger the other day in nebraska. Forcing them to walk three miles back to their car in the frigid cold. Seven people hauled off in ambulances. The images of what is happening and the aftermath of what is happening there with the spread of the coronavirus, it doesnt make sense to me for a campaign. It also doesnt make sense as the leader of a country to want to put americans lives at risk. The president tried repeatedly to change the subject of the campaign. He tried to make it about law and order. Joe bidens incapacity. He tried to change the subject, and it keeps coming back to coronavirus. Not just because of the media but because there are people getting sick and dieing. He says its not a big deal, theyre over stretching it, over exaggerating it. He is playing to the people that are existed from the virus and the pandemic. You cant browbeat a disease into going away. You cant humiliate it on twitter. It will still be there. He decided, i think, to run into the issue, as you say, by denying a big problem, condensing some of his voters that want to believe him because theyre tired of it, too. We have polling that we can put on the screen about hour seriously people are taking the virus. Maybe we will get that up before i have to say my goodbyes. Mike memoli, peter baker, i guess well come back to that later. Sticking with florida, seniors there handing donald trump a victory in 2016. This time around in the middle of a raging pandemic things are different. He turned around and said dont let this dominate your life, this is nothing, bologna. I still have symptoms from this. Could the president s response to the virus sink his changes in florida to win again . While he is on the campaign trail today, expect the president to tout news that the gdp grew at record pace in the Third Quarter. Losing 100 and gaining back 60 is sort of good news but not as good at what the president says it is. What the economy needs now to continue that growth. First the u. S. Just set a new record for confirmed covid19 cases in a single day. Were going to go to debra burke who was slammed for having the worst mask usage she has seen in the entire United States. Things not going well out there. S things not going well out there. 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The virus is now spreading at its fastest rate since the start of the pandemic. Some states are experiencing spikes so bad theyre over whelming hospitals in the west, midwest, and the south. Joining me now from illinois, cal perry. And also dr. Ribeaux. Were also still waiting on joe biden and were going to go to him when he starts speaking. A new daily record in the state of indiana. He will be deploying into elderly homes where the situation is out of control. We have had 30,000 plus cases. Doctors and front line heros are trying to get people to take care of the social distancing iss measures. We have been trying to keep in touch with the doctors, theyre filing video tie ris for us. Here is a little bit of that. As much as we expected an increase in the winter months as people are coming inside and socializing in closer proximity to each other, it is hard to see it again this soon. Things are definitely starting to pick up here. It feels like a riding tide, so to say. And with flu season here i can only help that with the Lessons Learned from covid can serve as a levee against what looks like a upcoming wave. I find myself being fear and an anxiety. It is fear that people are so over we overwhelmed by what we have done that we just give up. There is an obviously friction here. The major did not want to shut down restaurants. She said go aide go to restaurants. There are mayors in illinois that say they will not enforce these rules. Chicago is a city where the schools are still in remote learning. Kids are not going to schools, and bars and restaurants are not open and it is creating a lot of friction here in the city today. It makes me nervous to think about sitting inside. I want to talk to you about what youre sighing in your state in north dakota. When we talked to you when the show started, its not just about hospital beds in your state. Tell us what else is of concern. I think our Positivity Rate has become a concern for us. As you talk about a number of cases we have been very aggressive in our testing measures. We see the Positivity Rate begin to go up. As we look across our state we have had this discussion multiple times. We have been slow to the table for our personal responsibility. And the fact that covid was slow getting to us. And maybe i think people got comfortable and hopeful that it would miss us. I think we turned the corner in our states. All of the major cities have mask mandates in place. You have the highest number of daily covid cases per capita in the United States and this is according to the most recent White House Task force. Also as part of her tour of the entire country in an effort to see how things are going, she said that in north dakota, and im going to read her words. We were in your stores and your restaurants and in your hotels. This is the least use of masks that we have seen in retail establishments of any place that we have been. She had been to 40 states at this point. There is not only evidence that masks work, but evidence that mask utilized as a Public Health mitigation effort work. You know, there is not a statewide mask mandate but you just mentioned there are a lot of cities in north dakota now requiring it. Are people paying attention . Are they listening . Were starting to. You know if you go back two weeks our utilization of masks have gone up dramatically. Probably not where we want them to be. We encourage every to wear their masks. I think people didnt take it serious enough as we ramped were at a spot now where i think it as become real for us. And not just about hospital beds but the staff. It is important to keep everyone safe if you want the hospitals to function at the level they need to function. Dr. , thank you so much. Coming up, both President Trump and joe biden are going after seniors today. More on the pivotal role for that voting block playing into this years election. The president is calling the gdp growth the biggest and the best in the country. They talk about where it is were going to have an expert explain it and talk about what we need to continue on the path toward recovery. We need to continue on the path toward recovery. Also promised joe biden is speaking . Coconut cove, florida. A lot of these families didnt have to lose anybody. And as long as friends, i appreciate it. We have to send them both back to the house of representatives. Were going to i