in partnership with the iowa broadcasters association and the iowa newspaper association, we were able to leverage special programs and pricing to deliver public service announcements through iowa's local newspapers, radio stations and television channels. keeping important messages front and center. and i enlisted the help of some familiar iowans who are uniquely qualified to help carry the message from former governor and u.s. secretary of ag, tom vill sack, who also knows firsthand the importance of bringing iowaaans together for the common good. the c.e.o. of uihc. and an iowa nurse, each who have front line -- a front line perspective of how the virus is impacting our state and understand better than most why it's so important that every iowan does their part. dan gable, legendary iowa wrestling coach, olympic gold medalist and recipient -- recent recipient of the presidential medal of freedom. dan knows what it takes to win, even in some of the most challenging situations. and carson king, a role model for doing the right thing for the greater good and the incredible difference t

find a food pantry here in central iowa. no one should be hungry at the holidays. if you have the wherewithal, please help us feed your neighbors in need. iowans help iowans in times of crisis. thatthanksgiving, i know , i willatefulness mention that i am especially grateful to our fellow iowans for helping and i'm so proud to be in ioan. thank you. thank you,ds: michelle. i greatly appreciate all you have done to the food bank of iowa and all that has been done by food banks and pantries across the state to ensure food security for iowans throughout this year and to the many people and organizations that michelle highlighted. thank you for stepping up and helping. like so many others, thanksgiving is a time for reflection on the many blessings the year has brought. this year, it can be challenging to look beyond the struggles we have all endured. no one has been untouched by the pandemic. for some, the burden has been far heavier to carry. especially those who are grieving the loss of a loved one this holiday season. my hea

we don't have to worry about iowa. we don't have to worry about iowa. but you have places, minnesota, you saw that. we had 25 you thousand people that wanted -- 25,000 people that wanted to be there and the attorney general -- i will say one thing about him. he was the first one i think or just about, him and one other person, on day one he said you know that trump -- this is four years ago. you know that trump is going to win, don't you? they said what do you mean? he said trump is going to win. so in one way he can't be so stupid, right? but the attorney general and the governor of minnesota said, no, we can only allow 250 people. we the 25,000 people that wanted to go. so i went there and they thought that i would cancel, you know for 250 people. because we're drawing 25, 30, 40,000 people to every rally. so they figured i would cancel. i said no, we're not going to cancel in minnesota. minnesota hasn't been won by a republican since 1972 and we're going to win minnesota because of that. [ cheering and applause ] >> and you know, it got actually -- h

nobody is going to do for iowa what i did for iowa. when we win michigan wins. win pennsylvania. win ohio. win wisconsin. four more years in that very beautiful white house. jillian: good morning, welcome back. president trump pulling off a marathon of battleground rally as election day nears but will it be enough to tip the scales in the swing states? here to break it down is campaign strategist john thomas. good to see you this morning. >> good to be with you. jillian: let's pull up the swing states, specifically six of these. let's start off this conversation in florida where at this point, john, it's anyone's game, right? >> yeah, florida is historically tight, jillian. nobody wins this by a landslide. both campaigns are not taking the state for granted. trump is pulling out all the stops. his key strength is the ability to drive big rallies which drives media coverage and his message. jillian: let's go to georgia where joe biden has the lead just by a slim margin as you can see. but they are breaking records here in georgia for early voter turnout. 39 -- excuse me, 3.9 milli

cori coffin is in live in dubuque, iowa. good morning to you. the president is heading to iowa. this new poll from the des moines register, the gold standard, they say, is going to bolster his campaign. what do we expect from him today? >> i feel like the trump campaign is going to be feeling good after this poll has come out with a couple days left. he's trying to cement his lead here in the state of iowa now. he won it by nine points in 2016. six electoral votes up for grab here. he is holding the rally at 1:00 p.m. biden coming out to iowa, as well, holding a drive-in rally in des moines. a stark contrast from the president's tightly-packed, in-person rallies, where hundreds of people usually attend and usually rare mask wearing. that's coming and this event is coming as the state is battling another coronavirus spike. one-third of counties in iowa experiencing a positivity rate of more than 15% right now. that's indicative of much of the midwest, as well, kendis. what we're seeing is a lot of these states are reporting extra early voting and extra mail-in voting because of t

iowa has seen a huge spike of new cases since early november. hospitals are strained after no mask mandate for months. iowa governor kim reynolds reversed course starting to require masks indoors. mayor bob scott of sioux city, iowa said it should have happened years ago. we don't have that many beds left. with that we welcome to the broadcast the aforementioned bob scott, the mayor of the great city of sioux city, iowa and welcome back to the broadcast a pediatric physician and research scholar at earth institute, happens to be the founding director of columbia's national center for disaster preparedness. welcome to you both. mr. mayor, i am happy to say that i spent a lot of time in your great town. a friend of mine was the great sioux city, iowa broadcaster, bill turner who we lost this past summer at the age of 90. i am happy to tell you i enjoyed sioux city, iowa over the years. having established that, what are you looking at tonight concerning your case rate and concerning available icu beds, and concerning mask wearing? >> well, i visite

however, a new poll in iowa in the des moines register shows the president leading in iowa by seven points. we have a team of analysts following this each hour for you. we begin with joe biden who is holding two campaign events today, part of his final push to win pennsylvania's electoral votes. jeff, with another welcome to you on this broadcast, what does the biden campaign have in store for us these last couple days? >> reporter: it's great to be with you, alex, two days before election day. joe biden, as you mentioned, is making a final push here in the all-important battleground state of pennsylvania. as you know, this is where he launched his campaign last spring. and today and tomorrow both he, kamala harris and the candidates' spouses are going to barnstorm the state. he has two events here including this drive-in rally at a black church in philadelphia, and as you can see over my shoulder, some of the cars are starting to show up. the fact that it's raining here, it's pretty fortuitous that people are staying in their cars. this has been the safe way that joe biden is doing this,

cnn's miguel marquez is live in iowa with us for more. what are you seeing? >> reporter: look, this is the case across the entire state. think of places like this as a river feeding this massive river of cases and hospitalizations. if it keeps going at the way it's going we will be at a situation where a broad swath of the country the health care system will be filled to the brim. butch hanson, 84 years old, diagnosed with covid-19 last week. >> we're going to get a cat scan of your chest. you've got some junk in your chest so you probably have a little pneumonia but i want to make sure you don't have a blood clot in your lung. >> reporter: today he is back in the emergency room. why did you come in today? >> that i had a rough time with that phlegm last night. that's all i did, cough up that phlegm. i thought, well, it's either covid or something else, let's find out what it is. >> reporter: hanson a retired farmer says he's been careful. but may have picked it up from a family member. regional health services of howard county in cresco iowa, it's the hospit

i'm going to do the opposite when i'm a united states senator for iowa. >> iowa our officials are expecting record turnout in this election and say we should have results by the end of tonight. dana? >> dana: we will be paying attention to all of your reporting, thank you. let's bring in karl rove, we just start with the senate and we just talked about north carolina and iowa, but other places people are watching for the senate in arizona and others, so give us your take on where the senate control could end up. >> 51-49 but i can't tell you which party has 51 and which has 49. a lot of these races are run a knife's edge. you mention three of them and you've got montana, colorado, to races in georgia and then of course the race in maine and the winners of those contests are going to heavily depend upon who wins their stay in the presidential race. we've gone in an era in which 97% of the time, the winner of the senate race is the same party as the presidential candidate that wins that states are trump has to win all of those states and be close enough in maine that susan collins can run ahe

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this is in dubuque, iowa. we are awaiting the president to come off the plane and greet his supporters there for the second of five different rally events the president has today in five different states. of course we're monitoring these different events. joe biden is stumping in pennsylvania today. meantime there's an unexpected embattle going on in georgia, a state that democrats would love to flip. it could be within striking distance for the biden campaign. just a few points separate the two candidates, based on our polling average. that's why kamala harris is campaigning there today. grammy winning rapper common is with us now. his new album came out on friday. common, it's great to have you here. i know a lot of people care about what you have to say. you've been listening to so many people trying to ramp up enthusiasm. i want to start there in georgia, a state that hasn't gone blue since 1992. do you think democrats can flip that state this year? >> i do. thank you for having me. georgia was energized.

like so many presidential flux this one started in the great state of iowa. described asnly be an act of blatant pandering -- by the way, i love the state of iowa -- these turkeys sought to run the support of iowans by naming themselves corn and cob. they will retire under the care of skilled veterinarians that i was state university, -- iowa state university, tremendous university. once there, people will be able to visit them and learn about poultry science, veterinary noblene, and the american tradition of farming. we love our farmers, i'll tell you. [applause] pres. trump: and we hope and we note it is going to happen that happy,d cob have a long, and memorable life wa this urination commemorates this year our nation commemorates the anniversary of the programs landing on plymouth rock--pilgrims landing on plymouth rock. they endured a dangerous winter. many were sick, most were starving, and all were praying for america. from our earliest days come america has always been the story of perseverance and triumph, determination and strength. a time that is v

iowa vots responded by majority at the iowa state house under a repubcan administration led byovernor kim reynolds. dung his six years here in the united states senate, roger jepsen sidified his pro-life, he was a fiscal conservative. he flexed steadfast support for the military, and he word to put money back in the taxpayers' pockets. in 1981, he voted to end the bracket creep by indexing for inflation across-the-board tax cuts. an outspoken advocate for rural america, roger jepsen fout to boost the economic recovery acro the farm bill. he championedarm exports, expanded lending and tax relief for farmers. he was chairman of the joint economic committeend served on the senate agriculture and armed services committee. after losin his bid for reelection in 1984, president reagan nominated roger jepn to serve as chairman of the national credit union administration where he served from the years 1985 to 1993. although he and hisife dee retired to floda, scott county was what he considere his home. roger and dee devoted considerable time and efforto end religious persecution and promote r

about 1500 across iowa, going up everywhere. small towns and big cities in iowa all across the board. what's happening is the entire system is starting to fill up. we're doing a story you'll see later today, lots of cases coming in, they can't care, don't have the resources, nurses, the ability, don't have the stuff to take care of the most critically ill, so they move them to other hospitals, bigger hospitals. now when they call them, they say no room at the inn. it is harder and harder to move those patients. that's going to be the biggest problem here. the entire system is starting to back up. brianna? >> that's when we see the problems, start to see the problems there. thank you so much for telling us what's going on in iowa. >> reporter: you bet. >>> a republican lawmaker in michigan tells president trump to admit that he lost. he is going to join me live. plus, the republican in charge of georgia elections says senator lindsey graham of south carolina suggested that he throw out legal votes. and now critics are calling tha

same with iowa, he iowa today,uge tur huge turn out, in arizona, this helping martha, tom and tony. it is not a coincidence as he does rallies that numbers go up for the candidates, including john james in michigan. michigan. sean: ronna, you get tens of thousands of people at rallies, you surveying them. you are finding massive percentages of people attends president's rallies, that did not vote in 2016. how do you interpret that? >> not only, that huge number of democrats are coming out, we know who they are, then we can chase their vote, it shows how president has broadens our party. in the countr the cun -- countyt was a democrat party, 74% of people at that rally today have not rote voted yet, we'll have n elect shielection day surge, whs great for our candidates, a large portion of portion of georgia rally, i think that 30% have not voted yet. our voters are pulling their votes forward. sean: lindsey last word, how is it breaking tuesday? >> break in our way big time. donald trump the jame brown of politics, hardest working man i have seen. the rallies helped me, last 10 days

i'm also announcing today that $14 million of cares funding will be allocated to iowa's long-term care facilities to assist with the increased costs related to testing and staffing. like our hospitals is important if we also provide assistance to long-term care facilities at this time and that every iowa and continues to do their part to protect our health care workforce. also as positive cases have increased so has the caseload for investigations conducted by public health departments whether at the state level or locally. the volume of cases at this time require additional resources and as we announced earlier this week we are working to increase our case investigation resources. in the meantime it's important that iowans are prepared in case they are someone in their family tests positive. today i've asked to help inform iowans about what they need to do if a member of their immediate household tests positive for covid-19. >> thank you governor and i want to talk a little bit about to traditional public health activities that we do for a variety of diseases and have done for a long

staany states pa the price for in action is iowa. where they say the health care system in the state is going to crash. i'm going to talk to a melt official there. >>> first, hope on the heels of all of the bad news that we have here. what do we know about a second vaccine? we'll be right back. w out a secd vaccine? we'll be right back. [ engine rumbling ] ♪ [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] ♪ uh, you know there's a 30-minute limit, right? tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. >>> welcome back, everyone. there is more good news in the development of a vaccine. moderna says they have reached phase 3 of their trials. they say their vaccine is more than 93% effective. the first 20 million doses could be rolled out as soon as next month. >> i hope it means that we're going to beat this thing sooner rather than later. the truth is there is still a lot of work to get there. there it is an important milestone. we know we can protect it against covid-19. we now need to manufacture those doses,

iowa gives them a seven day advance. speaking of iowa, real clear politics average shows president trump leading biden by 1.5 points. 31 counties in 2016 for the president. to hold on his got to win again. garrett tenney has a measure of iowa and he is live in dubuque and joins us from there. >> bill, those 31 counties are going to be the ones to watch tomorrow night. if president trump is able to repeat and most of those counties, the level of support or even surpass it, what he saw in 2016, he has a good shot at winning the state. we are into butte county which is one of those historically blue counties -- dubuque county. turn out here and across the state is expected to be the biggest factor in the election. it could be independent voters who decide the race. about a third of iowa's voters are registered independents and over the past month there's been a huge swing in that group going from joe biden to president trump who now has a 14-point lead among those voters in "the des moines register"'s iowa poll. sean schrei

a record this is an inside look at the university of iowa hospital in iowa city where covid patient jamie humes had been on advanced life support for 30 days. >> i would say the hardest part was being on all those machines. so many wires, so many tubes. >> reporter: she is in her 40s with no underlying medical conditions. >> i fought a physical and emotional battle but my family fought a huge emotional battle. >> reporter: earlier this year, iowa' governor dismissed mask mandates as feel-good measures. this week she reversed course >> when you're in an indoor public space and unable to social distance for 15 minutes or longer, masks are required to be worn. >> reporter: still some health care workers say the new restrictions don't go far enough. >> i'm worried that a partial mask mandate is a little bit too little too late. and so, you know, i just wish it was more. >> reporter: this was the moment when jamie humes was able to go outside and feel the sun for the first time in months. >> nobody's invincible i took precautions did everything i thought was right. wore a mask in public. did a

to the people of iowa, i am honored to serve you again for six more years. for this leadership team and for my republican conference, thank you so much for electing me as vice chair of the republican conference. it is a tremendous opportunity for me to take those stories i get. i am so proud of the 99 county tour that i do every year, that chuck grassley has done for 40 years, to gather those stories from iowa and take their opportunities and voices and lay it out with the members of this leadership team to make sure they are represented here to the best of my ability in the united states senate. you will recognize the only female member of the leadership team, it is an honor to project a conservative woman's voice onto the stage and recognizing this may have been the gop year for our women. an additionalding voice for them as we continue to move through this next term. so grateful to the people of iowa and members of my conference for putting their trust and confidence in me as vice chair. thank you. >> it's a real honor to get elected to do this job. i am

in iowa. democratic candidates stand between them, what, $350 million in those states? carolina, biden got 43.5% of the vote. the number of candidates on either side that ran one or two points behind his 30 small. kelly ended up being two points behind biden. , ran four points ahead but that was from 40-44%. i think it is really hard now to win senate races that go the other way for president. obviously not possible. in '08 we had six senate candidate that won in states be the other way. i think it was one in '20. i think in the off year there is more opportunity to separate. even in the house, less time, charlie, it was, what, 28 split districts?lit house leah: it was 24. ron: 23 republicans and four or trumpemocrats in districts. it will probably be somewhere in the low number again and this has consequences for governing. if you are joe biden and you are trying to get senators to vote for you in a state that just voted for donald trump, good luck. it is not easy. ist is why the system becom

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in pleasantville, iowa, so much of the rhythm of life is set by the season. then bringing in the harvest. corn and soy mostly so that june morning in 2015, dawned with no particular omens, shirley carter and her husband started their day as they always did with coffee at the general store. >> they went to coffee every morni morning. that was a ritual. after coffee, they bounced back down the gravel road to home. bill dropped off shirley at the top of the driveway. >> i let her out of the u pickup and she said i think i'll finish my coffee before i chore. i said, honey, i'll see you between 11:00 and 11:30. >> you never know, do you? >> you don't. >> bill led off to sell a load of corn about an hour away. by 11:00 a.m., he republicamemb being a few miles from home when he got call from his daughter. >> she said, dad, mom's dead. jason found her. >> jason, bill's son, had called 911. this is what he said. >> my mom, my mom is laying here on the floor. she's dead. i don't know what happened. >> bill got to the house. ran from his truck, passing son jason on the

and you're right, i mean, and in iowa, remember, i don't think he's even conceded that he lost the iowa caucus to ted cruz -- >> in '16, yeah. >> -- back in 2016, when he was first running for the republican primary nomination. and this is something that, clearly, you know, for him, he has spent the entirety of his presidency attacking the media. and he's been pretty transparent about why he does that. he says, well, the reason i do that is because, that way, when they say something i don't like, no one will believe them. and that's the question here that i think history is also going to reflect on -- how much damage was done to trust in our systems, in our institutions, in our elections, during this period when an outgoing president was trying to do everything he could to convince his supporters that the results couldn't be trusted. >> hugh hewitt, your listeners, they don't -- maybe they don't want to believe the facts that are on the ground. do you feel like you confront your listeners enough that don't want to believe the facts, or do you think you could do more? >> every day i talk

of iowa. that is insane. and greenfield -- steve: in a race like that, because you were doing that, what happened? you have $150 million in iowa, enough to run a presidential campaign and a one state. what do you do with all the money? you cannot buy that much television, you cannot spend that much money, right? todd: you can't. we raised a bunch of money, the campaign that came in at the very end, and i called our buyer and they were only able to spend a fraction of what we wanted to spend. i do not think that -- it's easy to say in retrospect that the democrats did not get their money's worth in iowa, but i do not think it is quite that simple. but just the sheer volume of spending this cycle, and i say this as a media consultant but , it truly was obscene. point -- media consultants do not usually say that. todd: we do not make money if you are not able to spend it. doug: i know. >> jamie harrison, his campaign by the end was running 5000 points of television in a market each week. now 1400

iowa could but i think iowa is going to tilt trump. georgia, we're waiting on atlanta, i'm not ready to classify that. look what it comes down to. the paths have narrowed for everybody. we were look at a close election. this feels a little like 2004 meets 1976, for those of you thinking about presidential elections. both of them were close races, both of them were races that took us a longtime to call. >> michigan may not come in until wednesday night or thursday, according to the text i just got from democrats there. >> okay, so it's all over but the counting. the counting could take awhile. >> roll up our sleeves. we're getting close to midnight, maybe the coat comes off, roll up the sleeves. maybe get the pencils out, a lot of adding to do. >> after midnight chuck gets loose so watch out. kristen welker at biden headquarters, how are they feeling? >> reporter: well, they are certainly watching a couple of these states quite closely. i think one is arizona. one person close to the campaign telling me they feel encouraged by arizona.

the radio iowa network and michael eric dyson of vanderbelt, "reckoning with race in america." president trump, folks, is still insisting he won the election, however, which he did not and joe biden did not win 80 million votes. he has. and that the election was marred by massive fraud. it was not. he put to rest the idea he would not leave the white house on january 20th. listen. >> if the electoral college does elect president elect joe biden, are you not going to leave this building? >> certainly i will. certainly i will. you know that. but i think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of january. >> kay henderson, you're the one not stuck with the rest of us coastal elites and i guess michael eric dyson gets to be in longer a coastal elite when he heads to vanderbelt from georgetown. literally geographic middle of the country, what do the americans hear when the president complains about this election? >> not everyone is hearing that, number one. number two, in terms of a concession, in the state of iowa, jim lose light foot has still not con

make them tough in iowa. back to you. >>> well, u.s. senator chuck grassley is the latest member of congress to test positive for the coronavirus. the 87-year-old chairman of the senate finance committee announced the test result on his twitter tuesday. grassley is the most senior republican in the senate. he spoke on the senate floor monday and attended a meeting. he is the second republican senator in a week to self-isolate after possible exposure to the virus. three members of the house of representatives have tested positive or are self-isolating. >>> meanwhile, a covid relief bill is stalled in congress even as cases soar nationwide. and unemployment programs are set to expire at the end of december, which could affect more than 13 million americans. >>> well, the u.s. has just issued an emergency use authorization for the first covid-19 self-testing kit that can provide rapid results at home. the kit is produced by lucera and requires a prescription. the test allows users to swab themselves, to collect a nasal sample. that sample

illinois, wisconsin and parts of iowa crowds. biden and his camp did do a final campaign stop in iowa as well this last week holding a drive-in rally. in stark contrast with the thousands of packed in crowds you get from the president's in-person events like this with very few masks, and as you mentioned this spike in coronavirus cases is hard hit in iowa as well. >> a third experiencing a positivity rate of more than 15%. we're really seeing the number of in-person and absentee voting reflected in the number of those ballots coming in being reflected because of the pandemic much more than we saw in 2016. in fact, up by 65%. and i also want to quickly mention the tight senate race, joni ernst versus her democratic challenger showing joni ernst up by four points with a 3.4% margin of error. just a couple days ahead of the election and it would appear the main two republican candidates in the state are up. >> all of that said in the early voting charts we had while were you speaking, the democrats are up 46% to 33%. they have a lit

president trump ready to speak at a rally in iowa, and joe biden gearing up for a souls to the polls event in philadelphia. good day, everyone. welcome to weekend's with alex witt with just two days to go until election day, here is what is happening out there. >> let's get to some breaking news in a toss up state. the texas supreme court blocked a republican lawsuit. the tossing of ballots from drive through sites in houston. more than 100,000 votes would have impacted mainly minority voters, and now a sprint to the finish line. both candidates wasting to full-time on the campaign trail. today biden is focusing all of his efforts in pennsylvania while kamala harris stumps in georgia and north carolina. >> we are better than this. we deserve better than this. we want a president who understands that regardless where you live, your race, your gender, your age, the language your grandmother speaks, that we all have so much more in common than what separates us. america knows we need a leader like joe biden who understands the importance of bringing folks together who understand that th

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. >> reporter: up in iowa yesterday, an old-time high death toll. today there is finally a partial mask mandate. >> i think your workers across iowa gave a collective sigh of relief. >> yet no mask rule inside dakota despite heavy cases. he was airlifted to minnesota. >> when they flew me over here, i literally did not know if i would see the next day. >> reporter: he did, but not many more. john died 13 days after being in the hospital. >> i want people to care enough about their neighbors, their family, that they wear a mask. >> reporter: now, every week the cdc puts out a sort of status report. the language has been getting more and more ominous. the latest version of this report speaks of an aggressive unrelenting, expanding spread across the country. it says the situation is not improving. it's deteriorating, and this report calls the current mitigation efforts inadequate. brooke? >> our thoughts with john's family. nick watt, thank you so much. for the big picture, look at what's stake in this country. let's continue the conversation. with me

he has not done that well in any iowa polling we've seen this fall. that's a "des moines register" poll. let's just show you what this would mean when it comes to that battle for 270. just to give you a sense of this map two days before the election. if this polling we're seeing, just showing you, is on to something, let's say, for instance, iowa, if trump were two get iowa, that's a small gain for him in the electoral college there. demographically, though, you're talking about blue-collar rural white voters, midwest. how about ohio, that's another state that like iowa swung dramatically toward trump in 2016. if, and this is a big if, but if there is that late movement in iowa, that polling is suggesting, could that be happening in ohio, too, enough to give that to the president? let's put that red right now to give you a sense of the scenario. let's say what if the late polling in florida is vigt thri abc/"washington post" poll, and trump gets florida so, if what happens what are the implications for the electoral college map? again, the first place

the president in dubuque, iowa, it gets you the eastern side of iowa and also the south western quarter of minnesota. the president winning dubuque county by a single point over hillary clinton in 2016. things are looking better in iowa, let's put the des moines registered poll. those are good numbers for the president to have two days before the election. even though millions of votes have already been cast. the president in dubuque saying a short time ago saying he's looking in the interest of iowa whereas joe biden looking for the special interest. listen here. >> i'm the candidate of farmers, factory works, police officers, hard-working people, law-abiding patriots and every race, religion, color and creed and if i don't sound like a typical washington politician, that's because i'm not a politician. jon: now, on the subject of race county mission, the president reaching out to african-american voters, the president nationwide with the support of 14% of african-american voters. that's almost doubled what he got back in 2016 and would be a very good indicator, neil, going forward int

so if we play this out a little bit and just -- iowa -- if iowa were to go to trump, again, it's six electoral votes so it doesn't move that dramatically but the first state i actually think of if that des moines register poll is right i think of ohio because ohio is one that also swung big, trump won it by eight points after obama had carried it. if that dynamic is actually what's happening in iowa, it's one poll, by the way, but if it is and trump then holds on to ohio, which has also been close and then you say, okay, florida, you saw that abc "washington post" poll, very competitive but big electoral prize, if trump got that, okay, he's put a few pieces together here, you see his electoral vote count rising, then the question really does center on thee threes states, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. these two, wisconsin, michigan have been trump's weakest in the polling. you continue to see. and then pennsylvania, again, we've got two new polls in pennsylvania putting it at six an seven there for joe biden. minnesota kind of enters to me the discussion a little bit after that b

president trump is now headed to iowa as he's barn-storming 5 different states today with fewer than 48 hours to go until election day. welcome to a sunday edition of outnumbered overtime. i'm harris faulkner. the president a short time ago, we showed it to you on fox news during outnumbered. he was speaking to supporters in a very chilly detroit suburb. a little bit of snow on the president. a day after joe biden and former president obama made their first joint appearance together on the amp cane -- campaign trail. they were at a rally in michigan. along with michigan and iowa, the president will be campaigning in north carolina, georgia, florida. former vice president biden holding two events today in philadelphia. in michigan today president trump said americans face a stark choice in this election when it comes to issues such as the economy. >> joe biden will shut down your economy, raise taxes and 4 trillion-dollar tax increase, the only politician i've ever seen who said we will raise your taxes. we will not frack. he said that for a year and when he cames to philadelphia, oh,

one thing that really struck me about today is that donald trump is going to iowa iowa what is a medium sized state that should be in the republican camp if donald trump had to go to iowa today that tells you that he's a little bit wary right joe biden spent a lot of time in pennsylvania as you pointed out 20 electoral votes very very close race in 2016 the polls now look better for biden significantly better provided that it is for clinton a few days out 4 years ago so it may not be as close as we've seen that we think but he's going to state that he has to win and trump spent some time today in the state that he should have already wrapped up now he's going to michigan at the end of as you pointed out and that is legitimately a swing state but it's a state where he's down $5.00 to $10.00 points i think we need to be careful the states where these candidates are going are the states where we would expect them in any kind of a race but the data we're seeing and even if we wanted through our fear of our concerns about 2016 in the poll being inaccurate which they were not entirely inaccur

they make them tough in iowa. >> thanks, miguel. >>> u.s. airlines are actually saying they're bracing for their busiest week since the start of the pandemic. that's despite cdc officials begging americans not to travel right now. so still some airports are packed. the transportation and security administration screened more than 1 million travelers on friday alone. this man, pete, has more from reagan international airport. >> reporter: the cdc says people should not travel for thanksgiving. but what's so interesting is it has not stopped people at reagan national airport, who tell me that they feel safe enough to fly. aaa estimates about 50 million people will travel for the holiday. but that's only a 10% drop compared to last year. airlines are still adding flights to their schedules and insist flying right now is safe. but they underscore it's a very personal decision, one that passengers here tell me they did not take lightly. >> i feel like i have taken enough measures to protect myself and my family. >> i understand the ricks that i'm

miguel in iowa with more. >> this is iowa county. cases like this, not huge, like a rivuletifieding into a river not only iowa but entire country here and health care system across that entire swath is starting to fell to the brim. that's what officials here are really concerned about. we went to see howard county regional health services. this has everything. it's a big county with a small population. this does a little bit of everything. ambulance service, hospice care, health department, the hospital, of course. they have rearranged everything for covid. they did it in march. they didn't really need it but now it's on. now they are seeing cases. when they were seeing two and three and four a day, now they are seeing 20 and 25 cases a day. they have 19 beds in total. they have three or four with covid patients if need be. they cannot treat the worst of the worst here. they have to move them up to rochester, minnesota, other places. that's becoming more difficult. it used to be easy to get them there. those places are now filling up

the average positivity rate in iowa is now around 50%. >> it's tough every day. we worry about capacity we worry about the surges we worry about what we're going to do. >> reporter: dr. james law is three years out of residency. >> in march we heard about this scary virus and hadn't seen much of it in rural iowa until a few months ago. >> reporter: the cdc reports current death rates of people with covid are more than double in the rural areas. across the country at least 17 rural hospitals have closed in 2020. covid restrictions this year meant the loss of elective surgeries and routine care shutting off their economic lifeline. >> it's been an emotional roller coaster for our staff. clinicians as you know are hard as nails but even a nail bends. >> reporter: earlier this month thi hospital ordered its first ventilator, it is expected to arrive next week. lester >> we know those folks are working as hard as they can gabe, thank you. >>> overseas secretary of state mike pompeo stepped into controversy visiting the disputed west bank and golan heights, firmly taki

in a few moments we'll be going out to iowa a that there's warnings they will be running out of icu beds. we'll have a report from cedar rapids. thank you. arthel? arthel: meanwhile, president trump with another defiant tweet on the election this morning just hours after he appeared to admit defeat for the first time. all of this as his administration continues to stonewall president-elect joe biden's transition into the white house. we have fox team coverage on this. jacqui heinrich is live in wilmington, delaware, with the president-elect. but first, we go to david spunt live at the white house. hi, david. >> reporter: good afternoon. president trump not at the white house, he's golfing at his northern virginia club. but at this pointless still refusing to concede, however, via twitter in classic president trump mode, he tweeted this morning and came awfully close to conceding when referring to president-elect joe biden. want to read this tweet, he wrote, quote: he won because the election was rigged, no vote watchers or observers allowed, vote tabulated by radical left, privately-owne

in iowa, they are great at corn. there isn't a lettuce industry in iowa. as we think about how we distribute access to healthy, nutritious fruits and vegetables, i see this being critical. >> their lettuce is shipped in from us. they could grow lettuce in one of your farms. >> that's right. >> talk to me about the robots. what are the robots specifically doing? >> we think about our robots the way you would think about a tractor in a field. they are there to assist the farmers, to multiply the force of our people, of our farmers. we have operators that sit there and run those machines day in, day out. they help process hundreds or thousands of plants in an hour as opposed to doing it by hand. they are a way for us to improve the quality of the work for the folks in the farm. they are also a great way for us to improve the quality of the product. if you think about this repeatable process where everything gets handled the same and we can control the output and make sure the product is really high quality every time, that is why robotics are important to us.