Professor mcdonald, morning you describe 2020 election as a story of triumph and tragedy. Explain. Well, we have to recognize that the 2020 election had the highest turnout, the most number of people that predicted. Since 1900. I mean, thats quite an accomplishment in the midst of a pandemic. So Election Officials managed almost an Impossible Task of delivering an election and allowing american democracy to continue even while the pandemic was raging across the country. So thats triumph. And its the triumph of election. And we have to give them a lot of credit and acknowledged their contributions to running the elections and the voters because they turned at rates that had not been seen in american elections. Thats the triumph side of it. The the the the downside is that there were some people who unnecessarily died and because we did not full mail balloting in the 2020 election and unfortunately there were those forces that tried to undermine our confidence in our democracy and they l
Weekends on cspan2 are an intellectual feast, every saturday American History tv documents another story and on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books. Funding for cspan and more including spark light. Host and joining us on booktv is mark skousen who is an author but hes also the founder of freedomfest. Mr. Skousen, were sitting here in the mirage hotel in vegas. Whats going on here . Guest this is unique. Intellectual feast in the entertainment capital of the world, and i remember mayor goodman saying, oh, you have the most unique conference here, everyone else is just kind of plot and plan so on. But we actually have great sessions on philosophy, history, science and technology, healthy living, economics, politics, music, dance. I mean, its kind of a renaissance gathering if you will. And we even have a financial conference. We have the anthem film festival. We started for the first time the libertarian comedy show with john cleese and his daughter is performing
Florida and also the author of this book from pandemic to insurrection voting in the 2020 us president election. Professor mcdonald, morning you describe 2020 election as a story of triumph and tragedy. Explain. Well, we have to recognize that the 2020 election had the highest turnout, the most number of people that predicted. Since 1900. I mean, thats quite an accomplishment in the midst of a pandemic. So Election Officials managed almost an Impossible Task of delivering an election and allowing american democracy to continue even while the pandemic was raging across the country. So thats triumph. And its the triumph of election. And we have to give them a lot of credit and acknowledged their contributions to running the elections and the voters because they turned at rates that had not been seen in american elections. Thats the triumph side of it. The the the the downside is that there were some people who unnecessarily died and because we did not full mail balloting in the 2020 elec
Michael mcdonald is with us this morning. Hes a Political Science professor at the versity of florida and also the author of this book from pandemic to insurrection voting in the 2020 us president election. Professor mcdonald, morning you describe 2020 election as a story of triumph and tragedy. Explain. Well, we have to recognize that the 2020 election had the highest turnout, the most number of people that predicted. Since 1900. I mean, thats quite an accomplishment in the midst of a pandemic. So Election Officials managed almost an Impossible Task of delivering an election and allowing american democracy to continue even while the pandemic was raging across the country. So thats triumph. And its the triumph of election. And we have to give them a lot of credit and acknowledged their contributions to running the elections and the voters because they turned at rates that had not been seen in american elections. Thats the triumph side of it. The the the the downside is that there were
Yes, dan, this evening, Police Telling me that longtime commissioner greg chew feels relieved knowing that someone is behind bars after he was attacked on the streets last week. 70 yearold former San Francisco commissioner greg chew outside the most goni center in San Francisco last week who had been assaulted and pushed to the ground to suffered nonlifethreatening injuries. Sunday Police Arrested 34 yearold San Francisco resident derek carr. Be your be charged with battery, aggravated assault and elder abuse. Police now trying to find a motive behind the attack. Investigators will be attempting to interview the suspect and see if they can determine whether or not race or bias was a factor in the attack sunday Community Leaders also held a rally to defeat and asian elders as attacks against asians have soared over the past year. Others who live in the most goni center speaking out about crime in the neighborhood. I get scared sometimes which i never used to have this feeling. That may