For republicans, 202 7488001 and for independent voters, 202 7488002. Joining us now is the chair of the Florida Republican party. Thank you for being with us. Thanks so much for having me on. Steve the message from the president tonight, what was it . What was he telling his face, and he was and was he trying to band is based. Plex trying to expand his face . First of all, it was great to be out on the road. And i think his last line, the best is yet to come. What he can do with the economy, he is focused on having a strong resurgence in getting people back to work, because people want to be a good provider for their family. I think the president can deliver once again he talked about the forgotten man. I think that will be a central because at the end of the day, who is out there working for all those American Workers out there . Whether it be unfair trade deals, regulatory changes, the president has gone to bat over and over for the american worker. And i think that is going to lead him to victory once again. Rightly or wrongly, one of the storylines tomorrow is going to be crowd size. The chair of the Trump Campaign indicated there would be an overflow rally. That was canceled because only a few dozen people were on hand, and the campaigns that over one Million People signed up. As you saw tonight, the arena was full, but not sold out. What you saw tonight was a younger crowd than we see at some rallies. We still have to deal with the issue of the virus. Some people thought it was safer to stay home, but no worries. Part of the deal with these rallies is reaching the millions of people that are watching on tv at their homes. From the safety of their homes. The president is not going to stop these rallies. This is the first in three months. I expect him to have many more. And like some of the earlier speakers in the night, this is the trump train and how he gets his message across. There is nothing the president does better than communicating directly with american voters. Maybe it wasnt a completely packed crowd, but it is a lot better than what joe biden is talking to with no audience from his basement. About actually having this first kickoff event and getting things started to get. And the convention, moving it from jacksonville, florida, how are you dealing with that coming just two months from now . Joe we are so excited here in florida. 30 days ago, it wasnt even imaginable. And then all of a sudden the North Carolina governor was giving the rnc troubles. We are so fortunate, when it came down to was the local dealership. The local leadership. The rnc, credit goes to then, but the mayor of jacksonville aw, and of course florida is battleground state, must win, we have america is number one governor, probably the smartest governor in the country, and jacksonville, florida overall did extremely well with covid19. Because the governor is so smart, he used a datadriven, measured,proached, stepbystep approach as we went into the virus, the shutdown. And as we are pulling out, he is doing the same thing, relying on data on an hourbyhour basis. We are fortunate to have him. He is going to end up being the real winner here. But this is a crisis, not only the health but the economy as well. The governor knows that. A touristdriven economy, and this convention is going to be a huge shot in the arm for florida, specifically northeast florida. Room,erved 10,000 hotel got that done with statewide and local cooperation, working with the rnc. The governors committed to having a safe and secure event and we are firing on all cylinders. It normally takes two years to plan and we are planning it in 75 days, but we are going to make it count and make sure people know florida is open for business. And cspan will have live, gaveltogavel coverage of both thention, Business Convention in North Carolina and the proceedings in jacksonville, florida. As at to ask about Florida State that tim russert said up famously into thousands, it is florida, florida, florida. 2016, four point 6 million votes for donald trump, 4. 5 lien votes for hillary clinton. Why has this state consistently been so tight between democrats and republicans, such a battleground state . Joe florida is a melting pot of america. We have almost four or five different states, if you were to break us up. It is very expensive to run year. That is what florida should be first in voting, because we are so reflective of america. We cant win the white house without winning florida, but we are firing on all cylinders, even during the shutdown. First time you had the Republican National committee, the Republican National committee and the Republican Party all working in conjunction within 24 hours of shut down, we are charged with all digital operations, we have 130 staffers on the ground. Cochair of the Trump Campaign, we had 62 people at the very peak. Because we have had a captive audience at home, we went out and recruited tens of thousands of volunteers. That is why we are shattering records. We have millions of dollars in the bank, the leadership, resources, the manpower we need. Our home state candidate is donald trump. This is going to come down to the wire. We know that if the election was today, people would go out of their way, but this is not a persuasion election. This is about voter turnout, and that is how we really do well here in florida. We have a firstclass operation and are going to make sure we are here for the president here we deliver for the president here. Rs is a floridae state senator and chair of the Florida Republican party. Know what us from washington, d. C. How much of the rally did you watch . I watched most of the rally in the content of what the president was saying was not surprising for the most part. I have watched most of his rallies, but the larger thing to think about was that the president was getting out of the white house for the first time in eight while, getting out all the momentum he wanted to put on the campaign trail. But a lot of what i saw on twitter was talking about how the arena wasnt full. Area. S going to be a big i dont know how biden is following social distancing, and have any people trump can fit into this area regardless of safety. I think that is going to be the bidentrump back and forth, bigger than tulsa being the first rally trump has done in a while. Thank you for the call. Joe, how do you take that storyline and spin it differently. Was the Trump Campaign giving to High Expectations giving too High Expectations . Joe if you have ever been to a trump rally, this is a 68 hour type of event. You go there, park at mile away, walk up there, wait in line, go through security, wait a couple the president tonight spoke for almost two hours. You may not show up, but at the end of the day for us it was a win. The president for the first time in three months got out there. I think people have wanted to go see him, got into the arena, and people are fired up. Our base is fired up. The speakers before the president were great, the Vice President did well. The president does message of optimism, and this was not just for people within the arena. There are many at home, hundreds of thousands, i know specifically people like josh taylor, i know they sit there at their homes and they watch these over and over again, no matter where they are. And it is those means of people that they are targeting. And then they talk about it with their friends, and that is when the message spreads through social media and other platforms. So tulsa was a big win, and the maid . That, media may go with but the alternative is joe biden in his basement talking to no one. Steve cable news channels including cnn and m s nbc msnbc chose not to carry the speech live. Your reaction . Im surprised they have any journalistic integrity left. It is unfortunate. They dont want to cover it because they know this is out the president bypasses them to get his message to the American People. Our is about the vision president has, and what he is going to do for our future. Bidenternative is joe spending two and a half months in his basement and the first time he came out today, probably as a result of what is going to happen in oklahoma. But the big news today is it is the first time in three months the president had one of these events. And although it wasnt completely packed walltowall, there was enough people there to where, and enough people watching on tv, to make it a huge success. Steve steve joins us from national city, california, republican line. Go ahead, please. I think president bush, sorry, President Trump, hit it out of the park. He was just incredible. He nailed everything i needed to hear, and he really just was narrative,ture, with with his stories, the scen the sentiments of the average man. What i want to encourage people to do is to vote their voting is a because sacred, private act. And what is happening right now is that the democrat states are starting to do all this mailin ,oting for the general public as well as ballot harvesting. This makes it a social lacked in which people can be shamed social act in which people can be shamed into voting against the consciousness against the ience. And that is dangerous. That is my only concern. I think trump is going to win in a landslide. And my only concern is the fraudulent if they are willing to tear down statues and burned cities, who nipper o serra, thenipero founder of california, there are fascists attacking the country right now, and this is an International Marxist effort to tear down this country. And we need to protect our constitution. This is for all the marbles. Steve thanks for the call. We will get a response. S. Airman gruter deal d was a big tonight was a big deal. In florida, we have done a great job with the florida gop. Democrats yesterday tested their efforts and kind of outpaced us with mailin ballots, but we agree with the president on mailin ballots. Supervisors in florida at the county level, they came out with a statement saying florida could not do a vote by mail ballot overall. But we encourage people that feel more comfortable in florida, if they want to vote absentee, go ahead. The great thing about florida is that we want to make it as easy as possible to vote, but hard to cheat. Because ofan outlier the election controversy of 2000. Bush, theorn gore versus controversy of 2000 . We have had supertight races that let us to tighten some of these laws. We are going through a lawsuit right now, leftwing groups trying to throw out protections we have, because we want to make sure it is as easy as possible to vote and as hard as possible to cheat. One citizen, one vote. Believer in florida and having fair elections, and the integrity of the system will hold up and we will be ok in terms of vote by mail in florida. Steve mark is next, joining us from new jersey. Good evening, mark. Good evening. I watched the speech and think it is ironic that your guest tonight is talking about other states, and making it all seem they areyptic, when doing just fine there. Normally they always only talk about states rights and down they seem so concerned about all these other places we all know about the voting fraud in florida before, so we will be watching florida very carefully this time. Thent to ask your guest, president often mentions the stock market and it is no secret the main reason the market is up is because the fed is bailing everything out. National huge, growing debt, which we never hear republicans talking about paying down. And when obama was president , that is all we heard about. Why are these guys not concerned and not even mentioning the National Debt now, and touting the stock market as this great thing, when the only reason it is up is the fed bailouts backed by the Treasury Department . Steve thank you, mark. We will get a response. Feel sorry for you, because this crisis is not just a health crisis, it is an economic crisis as well. The president is doing everything to make sure the American People survive. This is not easy. We have businesses shutting down. We have high unemployment. You have to prop up the economy. But what we have seen from this he renegotiated unfair trade practices, he is bringing businesses to america, empowering the american worker, he has cut more regulations than any president in the history of america and a result and as a result, real wages grow, unemployment for hispanic americans is at the lowest went in 50 years, the economy was booming before this pandemic came into play. And we know that as a business the guy that signs the back of a paycheck, we know he can come through for us once again. I have been talking about florida all night. We are resilient, we have hurricanes and shutdowns all the time but floridians are going to come together, as will americans, and as soon as we escape this virus and the nightmare cast over this country, we are going to come back stronger than ever. And once we reelect the president once again, this is what the president said tonight, we will go back to the strongest economy this country has ever seen, and next year we may see the biggest boom. Criticize any federal bailout program, which a lot of the money is going to cities and Unemployed People out there, is preposterous. I am very happy with the job the president is doing and he needs to continue doing whatever he can to make sure americans survive this. Steve but there has been an uptick in coronavirus cases in florida. Does that concern you politically . Joe no. If you look at the numbers, the average age of people getting the virus now is 37. We know where most deaths occur, and this is where our governor hit a home run. , leftwingnning governors were pushing covid19 patients into Nursing Homes. Our governor shut Nursing Homes down, possibly saving thousands of lives. We know if you have underlying conditions and are a certain agent do get exposed to covid, you are much more likely to get it. To hittingme close our capacity of hospital beds and ventilators, and everybody that has needed one has received one. To get it,nt anybody but until we get a virus, people are going to continue to get the virus. The best thing you can do is protect yourself, where the mask , follow the guidelines, but we cant shut down the country and top our economy tank. We have to get this economy moving. The country needs it, the world needs it, this is the new normal uptickhink some of this is from the protesters that have been out there without masks on, completely disregarding the social guidelines, and you are seeing a direct result of that and that is probably why you are seeing such a younger age being tested and testing positive with this virus. Caller is from springdale, arkansas. Arthur, good evening. Did you watch all the rally tonight . I did. Steve go ahead with your question. Jeffrey, you are on the air from mississippi. Go ahead. I watched the whole rally. Steve you are on the year. I watched the whole rally. Job. Ught trump did a great i feel like he had a great message. We have toicans, stand up and cannot let lawlessness and these things take place with people rioting and we have to stand up. And history is history. It is not a metric of, you tear something down because you dont agree with it. I heard senator tim kaine say that the United States created slavery. Is a perfectaine example of people not understanding history. Toneed to do more educating understand whatever history is all about. But i think President Trump is doing a great job. We need to stand for him and we need to stand for america. Steve jeffrey, thanks. Joe, your response. Message, we, great do have to stand up for america. In a crisis, this is why we are resilient, because we come together as a country regardless of political affiliation. We can survive this end hopefully become stronger as a result. Have the smartest mind around the world working 24 7 to address this, either with some type of vaccine, there is a medication, we already saw that one medication proved last week that it cuts it down, the death rate by 13 . Tongs are going to continue get better. We are in a new normal, but america is the greatest country in the history of the world. Our economy, the American Dream is alive and well in the president is going to continue to be the one that helps people lift themselves up to go after that dream and really guarantee the equality of opportunity for everyone to get a fair shot in america. Steve our next caller is from fort worth, texas. David, good evening. Thank you. Is that, what we we are saying things are better at we are going to work on our economy harder. And i agree with all that, but what we are doing wrong is, instead of letting down our garden protecting ourselves against coronavirus, we need to wrap it up and get tougher, and show what we are doing. And hopefully, all the other people will do the same. Because what we are doing by Wearing Masks and other things we are doing in terms of social distancing and select that is that we are trying to protect the other people. That is mainly what we are doing with that. So they need to show us the same regard. And ie to be in happened to be in an area of higher risk, so i am very conscious of that. But i wear my mask every time i am in a public area, and i consistently try to stay six feet away. That is almost impossible most of the time, but i do everything i can to make that work. Steve david, thanks. R , do you think this really sent a mixed message, they did get about masks, but most people didnt wear them . And dr. Anthony Fauci Anthony fauci and dr. Deborah birx recommended not to do it tonight. Joe you cant have a double standard. This isnt the first time we have been out. Comfortable,l more like jeffrey does, wearing a mask and following social guidelines, that is what they should do. This is america. You have the freedom to do so. We should encourage people to follow those guidelines as much as possible and provide opportunities with mask and everything with mask send everything, but at this point of the virus, if you are a certain agent dont have certain conditions, even if you contract the virus, you are pretty much going to be ok. This is a new normal. People will continue to get the virus until we get the vaccine or the cure. That is the new normal. But we cant turn everything off and think that we could survive as a country by shutting everything down every time there is a spike. As long as we have ventilators and icu beds and as long as we are at capacity, that is winning in america. Im glad people came together tonight, and from what i saw at the rally from watching it was that some people did have masks on. Those are concerns and anybody else watching a home, if you are concerned about other people and yourself, you should always wear that mask and make sure you stay six feet away, and dont go into crowds larger than 50. And im sure local government officials across the country are doing the right thing. Steve we welcome our cspan radio audience. Ers at talking to joe grut his home in sarasota, florida, he is a state senator and former cochair of the Trump Campaign in 2016 and today serves as chair of the Florida Republican party. Our caller is calling from canton, ohio, and young the democrats line. Good evening. I heard President Trump it feel like he has done a wonderful job. We as christians and conservative democrats, there are still conservative democrats out here in america, and we need to get behind trump and we need to work hard to get trump back also need to work on republicans in congress. We need to go after tim ryan come and him out of office. Any republican, any conservative we can come and get them in office to help President Trump, because our country is in trouble. The left is trying to take us down. Joe biden is trying to hurt us. Joe biden needs to go home and retire and leave happy. We need trump. We need my pants and winning republicans from top to bottom all the way, in washington and every statehouse. And we need to get back to the lord. We need to put jesus first and alive. And we as christians need to start taking a stand and stand up for what is right instead of the left taking us down. Steve thanks for the call. From another swing state, ohio. , as someone who understands the politics of the sunshine state, what areas will determine a good night on november 3 . What will you be looking for . Joe look at jacksonville where the convention is going, one of the larger counties in the country. It tends to vote republican. It has gone back and forth, but we have the convention coming, and a win for trump in the devol area would be a sign he is doing well. This is not a race on persuasion. People know where they are. The last caller basically said we need to elect more republicans. I am on the ballot as well. This is not a down ballot race. This is the president and the republican ticket, and biden hiding in his basement. Ae democrats are running as team top to bottom and it is going to be very little persuasion. What it is going to come down to is which campaign is getting its voters to turn out. And when you look at voter fornsity, voter intensity the republicans on the president is through the roof. Do better with africanamericans than any republican president has done probably over the last 100 years. We are really excited about that. And when you get to a certain level, this race is over. Florida will deliver the 29 electoral votes for the president at that will be the catapult back to victory for another four years in the white house. We are excited to hear in florida, excited about the theention, excited he is home state, the president s home state is florida, and we will work around the clock and leave no stone unturned and are going to work like a machine until we make that happen in november. Marc we talked to caputo, who covers politics and told us the winner of florida will win the general election. Eve agree . Joe yes, i do. 29 electoral votes, the largest swing state. President. Love the he comes here all the time. Let me tell you why we will be winning. Besides our grassroots machine that we have built at the rnc and with the Trump Campaign, we have americas favorite governor in ron desantis, loved by him most all sides and has done an incredible job with covid19. And like hurricanes and other national disasters, florida is resilient, we are going to come back super strong and all that will propel the president to the 29 electoral votes and he will go on to win four more years in the white house. Gruters, thank you for staying with us. He is joining us from his home florida,ga, sarasota, former cochair of the Trump Campaign 2016 a chair of the Florida Republican party, thinks are joining us. Steve our coverage continues. Speech will be airing overnight with the president , also Vice President mike pence bok center in tulsa. But first, campaign ads now on the air in key battleground states, and an antiTrump Campaign at from the lincoln group. We will show you that. Our coverage continues on this saturday evening. 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With the economy in shambles at more than 26 million americans out of work. The worst economy in decades. Trump bailed out wall street, but not main street. Millions ofon, americans will apply for unemployment. Many are giving up hope. Many worry a loved one wont survive covid19. In america,rning and under the leadership of donald trump, our country is weaker and sicker importer sicker and poorer, and now americans are asking, if we have another four years like this, will there even be in america . The Lincoln Project is responsible for the content of this advertising. Steve those are just some of the ads now on the air from the biting and Trump Campaigns and thirdparty organizations. Biden and from the biden and Trump Campaigns and thirdparty organizations. The president is now en route back to washington after his rally. Our phone lines are open, 202 7488000 the line for democrats, 202 7488001 for republicans, and for independent voters, 202 7488002. Joining us is the chair of the Michigan Democratic party who served as press secretary to the virginia Democratic Party and the bill Clinton Campaign of 1992 and state democratic director for barack obama in 2012. Give us a sense of michigan and why it is again a battles a battleground state. The road to the white house runs through michigan. The world, i think was shocked we didnt win michigan, and we have vowed since make a difference and do a different program. Program here a that is about turning out votes all over the state and making sure we turn the state louvered joe biden and democrats up and will win foret we joe biden and that will be the beginning of the wave of getting joe biden elected in november. It is important to think about us as a collective of states along with our friends in wisconsin, pennsylvania, so important these states turn it around this time. And we are all prepared and working hard. In 2016, 1 ofgin the closest states for donald trump and hillary clinton. She lost by just over 10,000 votes. Lets take a look back. What happened . 10,704 votes, about four votes per precinct. Wettribute that to something couldve controlled better, our ground game. We have committed to organizing better in all our counties. We woke up the day after our election that we needed to build up a Grassroots Organizing Program in all counties, and that is what we have done. We have a Terrific Team now, one hundred 30 staff strong, working hard to talk to volunteers and voters and get this job done for joe biden and the rest of the tickets. When you say ground game, we talked to the chair of the Florida Republican party, this is not an election of persuadables, this is about getting your voters to the polls. Eight is absolutely our job as a party to get our voters out. I dont need them necessarily to go to the polls, we have a Global Pandemic and we want people to vote from their homes. We are encouraging people to vote by mail. Our clerk has mailed everyone an absentee ballot application so that they can fill it out and we are asking them to click both boxes so they get a ballot for the august primary and the ballot for the november election. It is important to get those ballots and vote from the safety of their homes, at their kitchen tables with their families, rather than risking their health by going to the polls. Look at returns on tuesday, november 3, what part of the state will determine a good night or that night for the democrats . Ora 83 county strategy, but most will be paying attention to detroit and the counties outside the city, oakland county, macomb county, and another county folks are taking a good look at. We have seen terrific gains on the west side of the state for democrats. 2018 was a good year and we have made terrific progress there. We are going to watch the whole state and i think folks will be excited to see the numbers in michigan in november. Steve how hard is the statement hit in terms of the economy by the pandemic . Lavora it is bad. Particularly the way covid hit it city of detroit made tough on our business is because it is not safe for folks to be open. Our governor has done a terrific job leading us through this. She has a terrific plan for reopening in phases and folks are not just beginning to get back up into the world, and some businesses are opening carefully and slowly and smartly, but it has been toth. The Unemployment Rate has skyrocketed. The number of folks that apply for benefits has gotten so high, and it is devastating the communities and devastating the state. Our federal government has have aus and because we terrific democratic governor in michigan, we are going to weather this storm together. Lavora barnes is chair of the Michigan Democratic party. Bobby joins us from york city put good evening. A i want to actually ask question of the previous guest, but i can ask it now. How can anyone justify calling trump the law order president , with the number of convictions and guilty pleas that have come from just his own administration . Lavora bob become a great question. This president has shown himself to be corrupt and surrounds himself with corrupt individuals. He certainly has no right to call himself the law order president. And his version of lined order is to tamp down protests, to gas folks so he can walk to a church to do a photo op. Not law order at all, just danger. A lot of danger for folks in this country. Steve we go to washington, michael, good evening. I disagree asl, far as trump is concerned. And american citizens are getting tired of the misrepresentation from the anythingd not caring that would bet and not airing anything that would benefit us. Same thing with democrats in congress that are not voting on relief bills to help the citizens, the american citizens continuey need it, and to get their pay and dont want to give to the American People and have all this excess steve i think we lost the caller. Do you want to respond . You thingsnds like republicans need to do more to give republicans to citizens in response to the pandemic at the economic crisis. And i agree with that, yes. Steve laura is joining us from richmond, virginia. Spent some s time in politics. I watched the trump rally tonight and he was bragging. That is not new. He does that all the time, besides rage tweeting, about how high the stock market is. It is through the roof. Well, i wonder why . 40 arch 23, it is up over since march 23, it is up over 40 . And why is that . Because he took trillions of our tax dollars to bailout the largest corporations in the world. These corporations bought back over four point 5 billion of their own stock in the past few years, but they couldnt save enough for a month or two downturn . Taxpayerse american having to bail them out . Laura, thanks for the call. You can sense the frustration and anger in her voice. Hear it a lot, because we have a president and administration who as used crisis in this country to enrich themselves and enrich them friends enrich their friends. It has to stop. The way we stop it is to elect joe biden and democrats in november. It has to stop. Everywhere i go, everyone i talk to on my zoom calls, i hear it everywhere. We are tired. We have been struggling for years under this president. It is time for change and we are going to make that change in november. Reaction towas your minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar essentially withdrawing her name from consideration, saying that the former Vice President needs to select an africanamerican woman on the ticket . Avora senator klobuchar was a brilliant candidate. Im so glad she was in the race to run for president. I understand everything she said when she decided to pull her name out of contention for Vice President. Joe biden is going to choose someone for his Vice President , already said it is going to be a woman, and he is going to need someone standing with him shoulder to shoulder, because the problem he has to fix are going to require a team effort and he needs to surround himself with folks with whom he can work and collaborate and lean on, and i look forward to hearing who he chooses. Steve if you were making the selection, who would be on your list . I wont give you any names, but i will tell you this. I would choose someone with whom i could truly partner, thinking of the way obama and joe biden were partners. This is a big job, being president , and no one should go into it thinking they can do it all themselves. The Vice President and anyone thinking about choosing a Vice President to run with them should choose someone with whom they could partner, with whom the trust of the nation can go into they can pass the reins to if they have to. We will go next to pasadena, texas, thank you for waiting. You are on the air. What i wanted to say was , i have always voted democratic, but also my father fores as a Police Officer over 30 years, and retired as a Police Officer. I am on the fence with all this stuff. I listened to the rally today, and i am real upset. And you couldnt watch it on thre watch it watched, and i hadnt youalls newscast before, and i and i feltble thing, like, on the fence. Maybe he is really someone that could kind of protect us, but the whole time i have always been biden, so im kind of confused. Im trying to figure out what kind of advice you would offer that are kind of sitting back, seeing all this get theirrying to mind together and figure everything out, you know . Lavora i appreciate your support of democrats through the years. One of the things you are doing and folks will continue to do is listen and learn. To watch theou Vice President and listen to what he has to say, listen to how he has talked about what is going on right now in this country. There is a thoughtfulness there. There is a concern for American Safety and american growth, and for American Protection that i dont hear in the current president , and i think you will hear if you listen to Vice President died in. There is a difference Vice President biden. There is a difference between wagging your figure in protecting people from a made up mop that you say is coming for folks, and somewhat that has truly thought through what it means to protect the nation from all the issues, from covid to racism to just anger and despair. If you listen to what joe biden has to say, you will understand there is a big difference between what he says and the rhetoric you are hearing from the current administration. Openyour ears and hearts as you listen to Vice President biden speak. Steve hopefully you will watch cspan as a place to give you unfiltered coverage of the process. Did you want to follow up, did the chair of the Michigan Democratic party convince you . I guess i have always listened to cnn. I was trying to find the rally live and stumbled upon your channel, and you all had it you hadctly afterwards, the call for whatever. Something just told me to call and i was like, let me give it a try. [laughter] im glad i did. Steve we are glad you did. Thank you. I cant believe somebody actually answered. And really shows that you actually listen to your listeners. A lot of people dont do that, so kudos to you all, and thank you for listening to my question nor my concerns and all that. Thank you, becky. Steve lavora, do you want to follow up . There is all kinds of terrific information about programs the Vice President has put forward in the work of Vice President has already done, on to website, and to continue use sources like cspan, where you can get more of an unfiltered view of this, rather than the filtered views of the networks, often. Steve we are hearing from the president s critics who are going after the Vice President for not holding rallies, basically doing Virtual Events from the basement. What advice would you give the Biden Campaign . At one point does this have to turn into above normal campaign during this pandemic . Question we is a are dealing with all across the country. Our organizers are asking the same question, at what point can we go back to the canvassing we are doing in the summer in michigan. They are doing phone calls and text messaging and virtual town Hall Meetings and that sort of thing for safety reasons, because of this virus. I would say to the Vice President to continue to listen to Public Health officials, continue to listen to science and medicine as we make this decision. It is not safe to have thousands of people in a room together, without, on gloved end being socially distant. What we saw tonight was dangerous. It was like a petri dish in that room. I cant imagine asking anyone i know to go into her room like that. We are not ready as a nation. Folks need to take time to let this virus and figure out if maybe we can get a vaccine or get some testing, because we dont have enough testing all over the country yet. Theard the president use term slow down the testing, probably to reduce the number of folks being tested positive. Arere not gather it we not ready for large gatherings like that. Havec Health Officials made that clear. I urge everyone to just wait until we are. Us fromynn is joining parker, colorado, you are on the air with the chair of the Michigan Democratic party. Trump isk president one of the best president s ever in our country. The reason he got elected is because he is a patriot. He is not owned by the government. America. Ents and the false pandemic that you guys have created is ridiculous. No . Steve why do you call it a false pandemic . Because. Tell me what happened to influenza . 80,000 people died last year from influenza. How many people died this year from the suppose it pandemic in covid19, the false pandemic, and the co and the false numbers that were presented, the death rate . Lavora the numbers dont feel false to me. I am to the city of detroit, where so many people that i know end, acquainted with have died of this virus. It doesnt feel false when people you know have passed away. Almost 120,000 people have passed away from this virus. To call it false, i dont understand how. It is real. It is out there. People continue to die from it every day and if we are not careful in terms of social distancing on mask wearing, the numbers going to go up rather than down. Our goal, our governor in michigan said flatten this curve and make it stop going up. And people will stop dying. Is fromur next collar miami, good evening. I am happy to talk to you. I have got to say this. 5 have been listening now for on,nutes, waiting to get and fortunately i stuck on the line because i was almost ready to hang up because i am getting some of these calls. And i am definitely an antitrump person. And almost him everything he says, i disagree with. When i do listen to some of the it iss he deals with, basically the same thing he says whenever he is in the rose garden talking about angst. Desk talking about things talking about things. And the things that are coming out of his mouth are false basically. And i wonder what koolaid the republicans are drinking, because they are all in the same boat. I can understand why some voted for him and 2016 because he was saying things he was going to do that they may have felt were going to be beneficial. I was very disappointed when he was elected, but i can understand why they would have voted for him. They didnt like hillary for whatever reason, i thought she was great, but many people didnt appreciate what she was doing and voted for him. But he hasnt done one thing to help the United States. Every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie. He was talking about at the rally tonight, he keeps on repeating the same lies, same falsehoods over and over, and people actually believe him, which is just embarrassing to people are so ridiculous that they believe the words that come out of his mouth. This lady who was just on talking about the false pandemic. That is ridiculous. Electronic, just she had wrong numbers. 37 thousand people died of influenza last year, and that is a big difference between 37000 and 120,000. And that 120,000 is going to go up, especially from the fact the president doesnt wear a face back because face mask because he doesnt think he should and doesnt want to. And the fact he doesnt do it in the fact the cdc only recommends you do it, they dont require you wear a face mask, so people dont wear face masks. Thanks for being patient. Thanks for staying on the line. We are glad to hear from you. He expresses quite well the sentiments of Many Americans. Weve put up with three years of lies, three years of a president who will speak falsehoods that continued right up until the inauguration, and he has continued to lie right up until now. Most americans now i think see through it, recognize it for what it is and will all speak up loudly at the ballot box in november. Its time to turn this man out and replace him with some civility in the form of joe biden. Final question what will the Democratic Convention in milwaukee look like . What are you hearing . Im waiting to hear our democratic National Committee folks are working hard to come up with a safe, smart way for us to hold this convention. I want to make sure that we can kick off the Fall Campaign aggressively and with enthusiasm for the Vice President but safely so we can figure out what makes the most sense in terms of virtual or in person or some combination thereof, and i trust they will figure this out and let us know as soon as they have it all nailed down. Im excited. Weve got a good group of delegates. The chair of the Michigan Democratic party, thanks for staying up late on a saturday evening. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. A reminder we will continue to cover the campaign, part of our 2020 coverage. Tomorrow morning, more of your calls and reaction to the president s speech. We will also be joined by john dickerson, out with his new book on the american presidency and in partnership with american 70tory tv, we look back at years since the start of the korean war. All of our coverage is available on the web at cspan. Org. Up next, a rear of the president s speech in tulsa, oklahoma tonight. He spoke for an hour and 15 minutes. He was preceded by mike pence. [proud to be an american by plays]enwood