Earlier this week. Chatss is part two of our with the chairs for those of you who tuned in monday night. We had the Democratic NationalCommittee Chair and tonight we are excited to continue the conversation with the republican National Committee chair. I think this is the chairwomans second time with us at gu politics, the less time on campus and we are looking forward to the next time being back on campus as well. About where tonight the Campaign Stands for campaign 2020. Its primarily against the backdrop of this global pandemic. Heres how the conversation will go we will start with the first part of the evening with the chair and i having a conversation. About halfway through, we will invite students to join into that conversation with their questions. Participatingare on zoom, you will see at the bottom of your screen, the q a button, not the chat button to leave your question. Someone from our team will get back to you and thats where you should look at your chat. They will get back to you to let you know when your time is up and then we will invite you to ask your question so make sure at that point that you are camera friendly, camera ready. We will make you famous. Feel free to begin to populate your questions now. Lets get the conversation started. Thanks for coming back to gu politics. Thanks for having me and thank you for that nice introduction and i wish i were there with you in person and hopefully, we can do that next year. We will look forward to it. Chatted in onee of these discussions was, i in the, it was early administration, very early into your tenure as chair and a lot has changed and a lot has happened since then, obviously. Now, a lot of what we talked about then was how you are all preparing for the president s reelection. We are in the middle of a campaign now and now you know who the opponent is. Could you take a couple of minutes to help frame the race for us from your perspective . How are you guys looking at the race . Obviously, weve been preparing since we met last time. From a party perspective, so much of what we do is raising the money in advance, putting the grand cayman place, registering voters, getting staff on the ground and getting ready for the ultimate voter turnout on election day. Head startve had a and raised lots of money and had the ability to work with the Trump Campaign and we are in 23 states already and we have about one million volunteers. We are in a good position. Different with the band with we have in a things we can do with data and digitalgistration and in the fundraising limits we the, we build the road to candidate can drive on it. That road takes years and years to build. We are in the best place we have ever been heading into this election. In the middle of this virus, its hard to run a campaign. Americans are just trying to see us get through this crisis. As we come out of this, you will see more and more how the campaign shapes up. , the choice night was laid out as the dnc saw it between the president and the former vice president. What is that choice as you see it . The president built an economy that was in such great shape as we headed into this unforeseen crisis. 500 thousand jobs, manufacturing jobs, this is a president that meekly understood as a candidate the threat that china posed in terms of taking on our supply chain. So much of our manufacturing has left the country. He said early on its National Security issue that we no longer have manufacturing the country. What happens if something happens if we cannot manufacture in this country . Many americans see that with the ventilators and calling on the private sector to build these things. There is the importance and vitality of our manufacturing being strong and recognizing we cannot just offload everything to china. Said he builtdent a great economy. He said i got a set of a tough spot and i can do it again. I think thats a real contrast with biden. Also some of the economic policies that put us in a tough place that the president had to deal with. The many things that the pandemic has forced political operations to deal with and adjust his messaging. That youat the fact and the Trump Campaign have been very aggressive, promoting his economic record and there is some evidence in the polling that the American People gave him a net positive on the handling of the economy. Now, you have seen all the economic gains, not just of his administration, but the obama administration, pretty much wiped out. Anxiety around Public Health as well as where the economy is. You alluded to it a little bit. Im wondering what the message is, particularly as we start to see in polling, as we start to see trust in the president s approach on this stuff on a downward trajectory. How do you address that, how do you get people to see him as the leader you want to see him as. Seeing,olling we are even against joe biden head to head, trusting the president on the economy is where they trust him. They wreck knives that we were in strong shape and they recognize this crisis and pandemic was something the president had no control over and we have literally had to shut our whole economy shutter our whole economy. Its not like there was mismanagement that led to this. It was a pandemic that hit the whole globe, all 50 states declaring emergency, we have never seen anything like this. We go to the American People and say not only did he build up ones through deregulation, whatng taxes, recognizing would stimulate the economy, energy independence, the things he has done, being tough on china and say we will not have these trade deficits, better trade deals those are things that made a robust economy and he will be better suited to bring his back when we come out of this. When it comes to the virus, thank the polling has been all over the place. We have seen high approval through this crisis for him. In put the pieces together of the steps he took and talking about the fact that he was able to harness the private sector in a way that has allowed us to surpass every other country, thats allowed us to make sure that not one person who needed a ventilator has not been able to have one in this country. You are seeing a flattening of the curve because it took the whole of america. He has done it with governors. Democrat governors, republican governors across the board and thats the bipartisanship you need to see in a crisis. Thats something in the americans want to see from their leader. For the audience, full disclosure come i think most of them know im a former spokesman for a National Party committee on the other side. Yes. I fully understand that trying to get everyone in your party on the same message is like herding cats. Its not easy thing to do. I wantcontext of this, particulart this but on the issue of reopening, youve got some republican governors pumping the brakes a little bit more aggressively than the president is in terms of wanting the messaging around reopening the economy. As the rnc chair, how does that impact your job . Maybe there is a little bit of division in the ranks there. I think it aligns with what our party stands for which is states rights and the 10th amendment and the president recognizing that there isnt a onesizefitsall solution to this. When he laid out the three phases to opening, he said it will be different not just statebystate but county by county. Wayne county michigan is one of the hardest hit counties but thats different than Ottawa County or others on the western side of my stay. Having the ability to work with state and local leaders and saying you will make the determination based on what you are seeing on the ground, what you see in terms of new cases, flattening the curve, we trust you to implement these guidelines that we are setting forward at the federal level but you are closer to the problem. You will be the ones to alternately determine how to open this up. I think you are seeing a wide variety of responses to that of different governors but they are all in different situations and we will have a chance of the country seeing whats working and whats not. There may be places where we have to pull back or states can say they are ready to open. I think the president recognizes there is no onesizefitsall and it will be done statebystate in line with what our party stands for. Lets move to some of the more mechanics of your job. Politics is a people business. Knocking on doors, talking face to face, gathering in large rallies or big phone bank rooms and all of that had to shut down. Do you, as a National Party, how have you adjusted to sort of trying to maintain the sense of community and personal connection in a socially isolated world . Different people within the rnc adjust differently. I am a social person and i love people and i love campaigning. Its been hard to be so isolated and some of our folks at the rnc love it. They say i get to not interact with people. He quickly recognized we had to shift our strategy. So much of what we built was built on doorknocking and the way you change a voters mind most often is most affected by talking to them facetoface and having that conversation with your neighbor or friend or somebody you go to church with or to school with. Having to shut that down, we looked into a virtual operation within 24 hours. Our director map that out and we had a day of action plan to knock doors across the country. When states compete its fun and we had a virtual day of action and we reached one million voters on that first day so that is exceptionally successful. We have added 300,000 new volunteers. Isrything we are doing through zoom or microsoft meetings or skype. We are connecting all over the place. I think its important that we have those connections. So they arehome responding and they want to talk more. Its an interesting change in a shift that i dont feel we lost any ground. But i am looking forward to getting back to knocking doors. I hope we get to that place where we can interact with each other socially. For someone not as familiar with some of this as you and i are, wrap your head around knocking on the door. How do you transition that to digital . What is the equivalent to knocking on a door in the neighborhood . Because of the rallies and how much data we gather at the rallies and much data we have, we knew our nonregistered voters and where they were and we know where the swing voters are so im knocking on your zoom instead of your door. Saying, hey, initially the messaging was all about coronavirus. We wanted to ask if they were doing ok because thats where the whole country was. We wanted to make it more of a check in. Not really a political message. It really wasnt political. I have shared this a couple of times, i hooked up with a woman surely who could not leave her home. She was elderly and her husband was a veteran with parkinsons. Shended up finding out needed groceries and he ended up getting the groceries and those of things one of the volunteers would make a call and we would mow peoples lawns. Those of the types of things we have seen through these connections and more relationships being built. With people answering their phones, before we were so busy, now people are connecting in a different way than the door knock. It is very impactful. All of my former colleagues in politics, as we were making this transition to genital to digital, i said i would hate to be a fundraiser in this environment. Thats the last thing on peoples minds. Everyone is worried about their health, their livelihood, the stock market, who will write these big checks . Apparently, a lot of your donors are because you just had a record month. Talk about how you are doing that . A lot of our months started off early because we shut down i remember because it was like march 12 the whole world changed. I was sick but i was getting a test march 14. T likely turned out negative air march. Fuel on the major fundraising side, we dont have events right now in the present is not interested in in that. He is focused it on the country and not talking about how to fund raise and it would not be appropriate anyway. Kimberly is doing the smaller dollar fundraising for the campaign. A strong digital operation. When i became chair, we had 11 million emails. We made a tough decision that we spend millions of dollars expanding our email list so we to 30. From 11 we are almost 40 now between emails and sms and that has become a fuel for engine and that has been incredibly strong as well as our mail fundraising. Calls on the major site or just check inside. I have not been asking for donations at this point because are laying off employees are losing their company or they have loved ones were sick and its just not the right time for me. So much of the political mystique around this president are the rallies. The guy lives for them. Anyone would say thats evident. Thathances of there being sort of level of in person gatherings anytime soon is pretty remote. Interesting as a political operative is those rallies are important, nuts is because of the messaging, not just because of the energy but its a great place to get a lot of data. You dont have any of that now. How is that impacting the campaign or making you think differently about what you do next . Clearly, we have had a lot of rallies. We have been collecting a lot of data. Thebiden just got nomination and is prevented from getting that data and having those rallies so that headstart is helping us. I hope we get to a place where we can have rallies again. Meetings,virtual zoom we will get to virtual fundraising, those are ways to connect and we will do whats right for the times. As we are opening up, we will also see more and more innovation and we will get to a place. We are already seeing more testing at 5 million. I have talked to people that sit in a couple of months, i will have a huge amount of tests available. There are things happening simultaneously as we open up on the medical front so i think it will put us in a better place but we will see. This is all wait and see because we dont know so we will adjust accordingly. Which brings us to the ultimate rally, the convention at the end of august. Dnc was supposed to go five or six weeks before the rnc in mid july and now they have pushed it back to late august so its the week right before yours is scheduled. Talk about what you are thinking and whatd a convention you do if you cannot move what we have always known them to look like. We are both planning a traditional convention. Ours is at the end of august. Cancel,it too long to we will see where we are. By the end of june early july, we will make a determination if there is something that has changed on the ground. Ready hoping to be fully to hold that convention in august. Its critical to nominate our candidate. Its hard to run a convention. The speeches, the money you have to raise, the combination of people coming into the city of charlotte which has been a great city to work with. We are excited to host this. If we have to switch to a different kind convention, it would be easier. The buildout doesnt begin until july anyway so we will be looking at the circumstances at the end of june and july. Thats when you expect to make a determination. It sounds like you can wait until the first of august. Then you can see where things stand in the middle of all this. We have may and july and we can see how we come out. Are startings that to open. I think we will have a lot of them a lot more information we have now and is no need to make a decision right now. An inpersonve convention based on our bylaws so we will not have a virtual convention. Have you given thought to what that looks like under different scenarios . In june, if because we come to that place, we will have enough time to shift that if we need to. This, last question on the state of North Carolina says its not ready to have largescale gatherings and if they say that, the president believes otherwise. How do you navigate that . To ask al of you question like that. People want to know. First of all, it needs to be a partnership and if the state of North Carolina is in the position that says we cannot all the convention, that means they are canceling every other convention in Downtown Charlotte and thats coming to the state. As weant to open as much do so we are confident and feel good that we will all be in unison as this decision is made. I totally agree. [no audio] would think North Carolina would want more than just hosting the convention. Lost a lot of revenue, these cities so they want to have it open. Just trying to make news here. We are forging ahead, no canceling of the convention, thats the news. We will move soon to the student questions themselves. Time, students, you can put in your question on theq a tab. One of the big issues that has come up reason lee recently as to how the crisis is affecting politics is how its affecting voting, not just the campaigns but how people are examplend no better than wisconsins primary couple weeks ago. Fight over big whether or not the in person primary should move forward. Rnc and dnc have been equally aggressive in their positions on how to move forward with voting and the role of a by mail. Both parties have been using the same phrase Election Integrity, which i find fascinating because you are in different places on this. Maybe you can share your position. Absolutely, every state has a combination for absentee voting, or military personnel, people who are elderly, her people who cannot every single state has that. The we have challenged and dnc went into wisconsin and started a lawsuit and we join the lawsuit and when they said take away the requirement for voter identification. Thats what got us engaged. Then they said we will leave the election open for six days so we pushed back on that. As governors change election dates, we dont get involved with that. We dont subscribe to pulling off safeguards are things they did maintain Election Integrity like the id portion of the wisconsin law. Thats where we got involved. You hear nancy pelosi and Many Democrats say we should nationalize male voting and made it and make it across the country. I really think that would leave a lot of problems. Have done a lot to safeguard their elections. Colorado has ballot tracing and they have signature requirements of theyve thought about it and put it together in a way that works for the state and took years and years to implement. I dont think National Mail in voting would work if you dont have states with voting integrity in front of them already. Some of the arguments on the one, siding, number especially in this moment, we should not be putting states in a position or our citizens in a position where they have to choose between Public Health and their constitutional right to vote. We need to make it easier, we need to expand the number of opportunities and mechanisms the its not pushing for 100 male voting. Theould just be one of options every voter has available to them. Whats your response to that . There are real differences. Many of the lawsuits in new mexico, they wanted to just send ballots, not absentee request ones. I struggle with just sending ballasted voters like in 112 ornia, they had registration, 1. 5 million more people registered to vote because they had not cleaned up their voter role. If youve moved out of the state. Of 1. 5t like the idea million ballots out there not knowing its going to the person intended. In nevada, they do something called inactive voters. An inactive voter when the post office says to the state that the person has moved away in the mail that person if they still live there, we will label you an inactive voter and they dont get a response. There are two hunt of 50,000 of those voters in nevada. Dnc or the danker for the Democratic Party said we want to melt policies to all the inactive voters. I dont think bella should just go out. I have a concern about election when there are extra ballots in california and nevada. Read but as west got ready to log onto this, down in south florida coming number of counties have decided that they will send absentee ballots to their voters now in order to give them that opportunity. Ballots or ballot requests . Thats a good question. The news does not make the distinction and i think thats where the difference is. I dont mind people being sent absentee ballot request forms. We are not in lawsuits with those. I am struggling with just sending out ballots especially to people especially to states who have not audited their voter rolls. Is to make sure people who have moved away are getting there ballot. I think thats a reasonable stance. Most americans want that and if you look at colorado and washington, they do exactly that. They do mail in voting and they have said we audited and we make sure we have ballot tracing, signatures and they have put a lot of safeguards in place and they have done it at the state level. I dont think a nationally imposed mailing process is ething that will cause its going to cause a lot of angst for a lot of voters across the country. A lot of republicans including the president have raised concerns or have alleged that there is widespread voter fraud associated with mail in voting. Not everyone but a few have made a more political argument. Democrats pushed back and says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Talk about that a little bit. I think there is an opportunity for voter fraud if you have 1. 5 million ballots being sent in california to voters who know and no longer live there. Thats a concern. The president obviously once everybody who is able to vote to vote and anybody who should not be able to vote should not vote stop we got to balance the safeguards which is part of Election Integrity. The president has not said lets get rid of the absentee valid. Absentee ballot. They say lets keep it at the state level. Every state has the absence has the absentee option and let the voters have confidence in the process. Its uncertain right now so why would we want to dismantle our confidence in the election process heading into this important election . Youve more questions for and i may sprinkle them throughout but lets get to the students. As i each of you, tell those who you are, we are your zooming in from and what school you are and class on that good stuff and try to keep your questions in the form of a question. Up, is daniel. Are you with us . Great. Thank you for being here and speaking to us. I am from new york city and im a freshman in college. My question to you is what do you think will be the largest change in the president s reelection strategy due to the pandemic . We have a beastly scene that with the rallies not happening how went is focused on get the country working again and keep people safe and healthy that he is not thinking about the campaign. We are dealing with not really having a candidate right now in some ways. Joe biden is campaigning. Thats a little bit of a difference. Now we have a president versus a candidate so it limits the time and changes the message. To see this is the thing the president ran on and these are the things hed did like better trade deals, we had a robust economy, recognizing we need to bring manufacturing back to this country. I many issues he ran on, he delivered so we can take that to the public during this crisis. Its a little bit of a challenge not to have a candidate right now out campaigning. I think he shouldnt be campaigning but it does change the landscape. Thank you for the question. What is your surrogate operation now . Do you have folks trying to step or ishis absence everybody pulling back . We are also abiding by the guidelines. We have been holding training. Kimberly and don jr. Have done that. Its been going on but not the level it would beautiful was campaign. The first two weeks, it was shellshocked for everybody. Hope andre starting to hopefully we get to a place where the curve is flattening so we can come pain. That will mean that our country is feeling and that will be good for the longterm and the election is not going away. We have will have to inevitably get to that point. Thank you for taking the time to speak with us. Looking back in the past four years, what are the most in the forget ways what are the most significant ways that he has shape the economy looking forward, what do you think the republican field will look like . The michiganr of Republican Party before i became chair of the rnc. The one thing that President Trump did for our party that i hadnt seen izzy brought in a whole new constituency into our party. These are workingclass americans, especially in Macomb County in my state who felt Like Washington didnt care about them and politicians didnt care about them, their wages had stagnated and they were hardworking americans and before, they would have been labeled the reagan democrats. They really flip for President Trump. On top of the traditional republicans he had, he brought out a whole slew of people who had previously been democrats [no audio] the party is more in line with working class. The four, it wasnt that way so he brought in our party significantly on that those to there is a whole host of people running in 2024 for present on the republic dish on the republican side. There its starting to shape up you start to really feel that but everything is in midnovember. Thing about a good 2020 2024. You reference your time as chair of the Michigan State party. Partiesfaring these days . They have a different job than the National Party and different challenges. How was the pandemic affecting them . I have a passion for state parties, being eight former state party chair. Its good because i can know if that state parties doing their job. We started a Growth Program for state fund raising. We have seen that ramp up. They are doing very well. We are transferring money to our battleground state parties to keep those operations up and running. Get inf the news we battleground states are through our regional communication people and their partnerships. I feel the state party is as robust as ever and if they are not, i will im sure you will not have to wait to get a call. And, i remember remember, students, tell us who you are, your year, your major, and where you are zooming in from. Match. Thank you for taking the time to speak with us. Im a grad student studying with a masters in public policy. Im my question is similar to the one before but focused on policies. President trump introduced a lot of allis he changes that are departures from traditional gop stances, like changes to the freetrade policies and increasing in deficit spending. Im curious how you think changes like these affect the longterm policy on this presidency. I get asked that question a lot, which is has the president fundamentally transformed the Republican Party a policy standpoint . I disagree with that in a lot of ways, because if you look at the judges, i think that was one of the things people were concerned about, who is he going to a point to the supreme court. They have been rule of law judges, conservative on the second amendment, prolife, on deregulation, energy independence. They haver issue, aligned with republicans. Where you see the differences trade. In hindsight, people look back and say boy was he right to be tough on china. E hadnt been tough on china we had this 500 billion deficit and allowing our country to engage in trade deals that are not beneficial, that have not been renegotiated like nafta for decades and decades that clearly needed to be revamped. He was not necessarily against trade. He said we should have fair trade. I think that is part of freetrade, is that we should be fair and should not have this imbalance. We went into more of a bilateral situation like ppp. I think it benefited our country overall, and i think it will be something you will see a difference in our party. We have two parties in this country but we have independence independents as well as green. For the most part, two parties. You cant agree and disagree that she can agree and disagree and have departures, but as reagan said, if you agree with me 80 of the time, you are friend my friend, not my enemy. You dont have to be with me 100 . Things you want to change, help us become a better party. I think that is one of the things the president has done, expand into different areas where our party has not before. I hope that answers your question. Sorry. Thanks for the question, matt. Next is brady. Hi, brady. Good evening. Thank you so much for sitting with us. Im a sophomore at new york state. Republican, what steps do you see in the future of the Publican Party and what options do you see for them to become more competitive . A republican in new york, yay. Im passionate about this. I was passionate about it. Our party has not gone into community that has not heard our message. With this president , what he has done is loan forgiveness, but he has done with criminal Justice Reform and the first setback. There are so many things we can count. On top of the Latino Community and africanamerican community, there are so many things we can talk about. Werei was in michigan, we there all your all yearround. Its not like we set up before an election and say shell out before the election. That is not how it works. Having breakfast with the pastors and the vends, and being part of the community longterm, after three years of being in detroit, it was a different circumstance. People said there are the republicans or there is the chair. It makes us a better party. It makes us a better party when we are representing when we are in the communities, hearing from the people. Dont alwayst we represent. It is up to the party to be in these communities longterm. We talk about skilled trade all the time. Everyone talks about this. We have to ramp it up. I was at an event in detroit, and one woman raised her hand and talked about Skilled Trades. We cant get to the jobs because getting a drivers license in michigan and insurance in michigan and a drivers training in michigan is too expensive. And we dont have public transport. You talked about Skilled Trades all the time, have you heard anyone say this . No, i havent. It is not just about how do we get your vote. It is about how we represent you better. We opened our office is here for the first time ever, and we will continue to expand our footprint in every community longterm. We may not win these communities, but we will not just keep feeding ground and say we do not care because we do care. We are a party that represents everybody. Sorry, i had to rant. Thank you, brady. We have just about 10 minutes left, so i know you have a hard make surewant to we get in a couple more. Ryan is up next. Evening, chairwoman. Thank you for speaking with us today. I am a sophomore, and my question actually goes off of the story you just told. 11 different Gubernatorial Race is going on in 2020 and the other situations governors are dealing with across the nation, how do you, the president , and rnc expect to support those races, going forward, with the pandemic . That is a great question you have different committees, republic or Republic Governors Association that deals rnc governors, and then the is allencompassing, so when we support these, we fill out the grounding and we are the tap tactical arm of the party. We are trying to figure out how to get registered voters, and turning out voters for the whole ballot on the ticket. We may not be in everything the one of those races, but we are there in conjunction with the president , senate race, or house races, working together to turn out the vote. That is how we will support these governors. Governors are critical. I see it in my state. Opinions,fferences of but it is so critical we have republican governors, and that is something that will be focused that we will be focusing on. We have a goal to win back the house. Those are things that we will be focusing on in tandem with our sister community. We have concern on both sides of the aisle from some of the down ballot races. Would you go further down the ballot with state legislative candidates, there is no oxygen right now for their message to get out. Even given everything that is happening. How much of that is a concern . I have heard that concern from joe biden. [laughter] just kidding. I had to do that. Im sorry. Things coming out of 2018 where we had a huge differential with democrats, which has been a at the state level is where as well where they can raise created winrad. It will allow candidates a platform to create a conduit ore if maybe there senator their congressional delegation, or other candidates so that can they can piggyback off of each other and raise more money. It has been hard for these candidates. Incumbents are being favored because they are able to get on tv and deal with the issue. Theyre having more of an opportunity to speak with their voters and they are having a harder time getting that same airtime. Ok, alexander. Thank you for having me. See moreon is, do you into this election cycle, and if so, which states . I know you are from michigan, so you are part of what used to be the glue all. From my standpoint, because of the early fundraising we have had, we have had record fundraising. Reported 212 million in the First Quarter and over 200 million cash on hand. That has given us an advantage. Plus, we are already in 23 states. That has given us an advantage to expand the map, but not in a superficial way. In a meaningful way. President lost New Hampshire by 3000 votes, so there are states in play that werent. We will compete there, and if we expand the map and our opponent does not have the same time to build their infrastructure you cannot just build a volunteer base and staff in a day. These are things that take monthend months, and time interviewing, putting grounding together, getting the right people who can deal with the the voteairs and get and understand the differences. These are things instrumental in turning out the vote. If you are losing by 10 points, i dont care what infrastructure you are putting in place, there is something wrong with the candidate or message. So democrats think their best shot of pushing trump states their direction is michigan, wisconsin, and they add arizona. Yes. You are looking at nevada, New Hampshire, and you said minnesota . Yes. I would agree. There are a lot of battleground states. There will be a lot. I suspected, given what is happening in the world, the dynamics will continue to shift. Javon, welcome back. Hello. Hi, chairwoman. I have been noticing i watch thepresident s task force, daily briefings. The question i have, has that served as kind of a substitute for maybe has rallies . I think the president has performed well and i think a lot of republicans can agree he has done well for the American People. I wonder if there is any success correlated with press briefings and information for the American People . I hear that, is this the new rally . I dont think of it that way. I like the rally because we are talking about the campaign. This is the president trying to give information to people in real time are really afraid. Ishave a country that suffering right now. Ive had friends who have passed away from this virus, friends who have lost their jobs, friends who will lose their businesses. It is a frightening time for our country. To have the president stand up with the scientists and say here is where we are on antibody testing, here we are on ppe, here we are on ventilators. I think it is critical. The question and answers after the fact does turn political, and it will get that way. The president is willing to take to take questions, but in terms on what our commander is doing in a time of crisis when people need to be calm and reassured, and have the facts, i think it is so important he is getting on tv every day. But, they are not rallies. We can copeys through a really difficult time our country is facing. Really, we all come together. I want the president to be successful, and i want my governor to be successful. She is not a republican. I want her to succeed more than anyone. I want every state to open and be healthy. I am not looking for anyone to fail based on partisanship. This is a time where we should all be rooting for every politician, and hoping they have the best resources and information as they are navigating this totally difficult time for our country. We are just about out of time, so i want to wrap up with one last question, the same last question i asked tom perez the other night. Is the time of year when College Students build a lot of anxiety. What is my summer internship going to be, if im graduating, what is my first job . Most years, my office hours are full of students that want to work on a campaign and dont know how to do it. This year, the anxiety level for those wanting to get involved in politics is much higher. Students who come in and say i want to get involved but dont know how. What would you say to those young people that want to get involved in a Republican Campaign this year, wherever it it wherever it is on the ticket, as to how they can get involved and how they can have an impact on politics against this backdrop. I think that is a great question, and i feel for your angst, because my brother, who is in college, much younger than me, just lost his internship, and i have a junior in high school who is thinking, how is this going to affect my College Applications when the standardized tests are gone . There is a lot of angst for you guys. Thank you for what you do. I also want to give a shout out to the teachers. I think about my kids teachers who are with their own kids, dealing with them at home, navigating that, and teaching my kids at home, because i do not have the capacity. Although i may seem brilliant, im still appreciative of the teachers and Virtual School going on. I always say this, no matter what level it is, find a candidate you believe in, and to find a way to get involved with them in the virtual way. On the gop website, there is a volunteer to. Tv li, a trump they releadership training. Victory leadership training. We teach people how to get engaged, but learn the mechanics, get involved, and get passionate. There are a lot of ways to get involved, virtually, and you will learn skills that maybe you would not have expected but will be beneficial along the way, because i think most of us i dont know about students i didnt know about students before all of this. Got in politics young my mom was taking me to campaigns, but i first the experience i had being involved in that campaign and sharing the strategy firsthand, and dealing with all of the things a candidate has to deal with, and seeing the emotion of her team as she did not win that race, but we became a family. When you believe in a candidate, and it can change your world. These people make a difference, they impact our lives with the decisions they make. Learn about it, get involved, and run for office, because we need good people to run for office. Amen to that. We have bipartisan agreement on that point. Thank you for coming back to the institute of politics and public service. We will look forward to the next time being in person. Yes. To all of you that tuned in, thank you for spending part of your evening with us. We have one more event this semester before finals. Chairomeone that the knows very well. Next tuesday, we will host a conversation with senator mitt romney no way mitt romney. No way. About American Leadership during a crisis. Thatll be the last event of the semester, but even we will all be living on zoom anyway, i wanted you all to know it is final. We will be back with a full summer of programming as well. On behalf of the institute of politics of public service, georgetown, thank you, madam chair, and thanks to all of you. Thank you. Ralph northam holds a News Conference this afternoon on the coronavirus cases in his state, live at 2 00 eastern area after that, a briefing with phil murphy. We will have live coverage from trenton at 3 00 p. M. Online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Has changed since cspan begin 41 years ago, but our mission continues. To provide an unfiltered view of government, and already this year, we brought you primary election coverage, the president ial impeachment process, and the federal response to the coronavirus. You can watch all of the Public Affairs programming on television, online mama or on our free radio app. Be part of the National Conversation through cspans Washington Journal Program or through our social media. Cspan, created by private industry. Americas Cable Television company as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. President trump leads the White House Corona Task force briefing this afternoon, scheduled to start at 5 00 eastern. You can watch it live on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen with the free cspan radio app. A, chris are on q christy on his book arnade. It was a saturday morning and it was empty because all of the semis were gone in the industrialpoint area. Immediately, her intelligence came through, and we spoke or about an hour, half an hour or so. She told me her life, which is like a cliche of everything wrong that can happen to somebody. 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