Final push before Election Day and President Trump is still looking to big rallies to turn out his base, while Joe Biden leads in national polls. Over 93 million people have already voted early and the focus is going to be on the states' ability to count millions of mail-in ballots in quick enough fashion to get a result. Ginger Gibson, deputy Washington digital editor at NBC News, joins us for what to look out for as election night approaches.

Next, still getting tons of emails and texts with calls to vote from people and organizations you don't know anything about? There is a whole voter data economy, where candidates, parties, and nonprofits collect, buy. and use a ton of information to target you. In some cases they have over 3,000 data points such as income, debt, family, ethnicity and so much more that is used to send you online ads, mailers, and those pesky texts. Geoffrey Fowler, tech columnist at the Washington Post, tells us how they get all your information.

Finally, one of the numbers that public health experts have not been able to get a handle on, is exactly how many people have recovered from COVID-19. There is no agreed upon standard definition for a coronavirus recovery, so each state counts it a different way and some don't even track the number at all. Sarah Toy, health and science reporter at the WSJ, joins us for joins us for how many people we think have recovered and why experts think that number is way off.

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