President biden, 202 7488000. Support President Trump, 202 7488001. Atyou are undecided, call us 202 7488002. When it comes to specific issues, some of those being lifted by ash listed by editorials in battleground listed by editorials in battleground States Election cycles always run at fever pitch, the highest states stakes nature of this election means that tempers will temperatures will be running high. Enjoyed this long weekend before the madness. Voting is aof concern out of the Gainesville Sun in florida. They had this in a recent editorial starting with cutbacks ordered by louis dejoy slowed Postal Service deliveries raising concerns mailin ballots would beelayed. Delayed. For the primary Volusia County supervisor of elections lisa lewis repeatedly called a Postal Service regional hub for her county on election day offering to pick up any ballots awaiting delivery. Despite being assured that no ballots were there her office received more than 1500 ballots after the deadline, some postmarked august 17. You guys cannot start processing until election day. It took a long time to get some results during your primary. It should we be prepared for our thanksgiving into the michigan results to be coming together . We should be prepared for this to be closer to an election week than on election day. We will not have a full accounting of all our ballots on election night. We already know that. We have asked the legislature to make changes to the laws, they have not acted for reasons i do not completely understand but that said we are increasing calculators, capacity to more securely and efficiently count ballots and we are laser focused on accuracy. If it takes extra days to make sure we have a full and accurate counting, that is what it will take. We will be transparent through the whole process so that every citizen knows how many more ballots we have to get through. Are you concerned people may take the delay in getting all the results in michigan to a phony winter . . A phony winner to the but that is just disinformation we are seeing during this election cycle. We will counter that with truth and accuracy. This is where the work is still happening and we will continue to keep the public updated and being a source of the clear facts and data. Everyill be important of for every secretary of state this year. Those issues may be some that you share. Maybe this election cycle that is about the candidates. Be there are other specific issues that you would like to be brought to light maybe there are other specific issues that you would like to be brought to light. If you are a supporter of Vice President biden, 202 7488000. If you support President Trump, 202 7488001. 202 are undecided, 7488002. If you are supporting someone 202 7488003. Topicn mccollum ads the topics of civil order to the list. When it comes to you can corneliusbring in alexandria, louisiana starts us off as a supporter of President Trump. Inc. You for calling. Happy neighbor day. Thank you for calling. Happy labor day. Caller i enjoy you when you are pedro. The show, i left the Democratic Party because of some of the things they have. My thing with trump and pentz, i have seen what he has done for black people. Hbcu. Funding hsbc you he needs to be reelected. Nothis election thing, i do believe in mailin ballots. I believe you should go in there and though yourself. You should not have mailin ballots. I can tell you one incident they sent out checks to everybody. My child has been dead for years and they sent her a check. We got to know that night. Have a blessed labor day. From that was cornelius illinois. Brian is next. Caller good morning. I think one of the top issues is china. We have got to get our economy again. G started our relationship with communist china has been horribly mismanaged by both republicans and democrats. This theory where we let our is this is migrate to china and to then import products back to the u. S. , it has killed the american working class and enriched to china. And now they are spending all sorts of money on their military. Now right wing conservatives want to spend money on our military to offset the chinese plus cyberspace, Computer Security issues. We need to look at how we relate to china. Four times larger than us in terms of population. They work hard to educate their populace in math and science. We need to get on the ball. Host the New York Times this morning, it is a long piece, but they have a story taking a look at joe bidens history with china and various policies between him and to that country. The New York Times is where you can find it. Rutland, vermont, a supporter of President Trump. Buter i support trump, basically i think he is doing the best job anyone can do in his position. I am going to vote for him. To issues,it comes what is your top issued this election cycle . Issue this election cycle . Caller it is getting rid of this virus whatever it is and getting law order back into our great country. I would like to see our country come back into order and us getting to like h heather better than we have the last six wee each other better than have the last six months. Host lets go to glenn in pennsylvania. One of those pell grant states. Battleground states. See harris andto biden start in the battleground state. Go ahead, caller. Caller i want to see miss har ris and mr. Biden campaign in the battleground state. We need the Electoral College vote. That is where mr. Trump targeted and that is where we should target. The battleground state. Host are you suggesting they are not doing enough in the battleground states . Caller yes, i want to see them campaign more in the about around states. No one has been to florida yet. In arizona. We need them to start going to florida and arizona. That is how mr. Trump when. That is how mr. Trump win. Host you made your point, caller. Mike pence is expected to travel on wednesday to pennsylvania to focus in that state, one of those battleground states as the color mentioned, including mentioned,the caller including arizona. That is a sampling of peoples top issues this election cycle. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris, it is 202 7488000. If you support job President Trump, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, you can l asset 202 7488002 call us at, 202 7488002. Social media is available to you too. Keep contact is if you go to our website at cspan. Org, you can find events there, but we have archived video of most of the people in this race talking about their various issues over the years. Lets hear from greg in california who is undecided at this point in azusa. Caller hello. Host what is your top issue . I am kind of undecided because our elections have become the same all the time. We either have to vote for the bad guy or somebody worse. That is the only choice they seem to ever give us. A politician who in 47 years has done nothing or a big mouth. Should startcans getting tired of having so few choices for somebody to run this place. Host if it is not those two people for you, who is it for you . Caller anybody else. I will throw a vote in one of those slots. I am sure there are more people running for president than they talk about. Ast have you considered specific candidate or what that candidate has to bring to the table to earn your vote . Caller no, i have not seen a ballot yet. Host so you are going to make that decision on election day . Anybody, i will but trump. Host we will go to chris in washington state, a supporter of President Trump. Caller good morning. Anybody but trump . I guess they have to hear about more about what he has to offer. Host about what . Caller i thought i agreed with part of what he said, but what the American People need, if they watched congress and see how many times democrats violate house rules and how every politician talks bad about each other. Host as a supporter of a President Trump and your specific issue, what is it . Caller it is the fact that he can have a red house of representatives and a red senate. Host so it is the house you are talking about. ,aller if it were politicians they all do this with each other. We do not need a new breed of politician. We need to hold them accountable. Aboutour you concerned the senate going over into democrat oh, he has left us. Some of the samplings of people you will hear from. If you are on the line, stay on the line. We will focus on battleground states during the course of this discussion. Joining us to talk about the state of the battleground state in North Carolina is the chief of wral. Remind people where the state went four years ago and compare that to the state of play today. In 2016, President Trump won the state by 2. 5 . Remember, North Carolina has voted republican in every president ial election, with did except the exception 2008. Ma in we would expected trump to be in the lead here. In the past to the polls have given biden a little bit of a margin here, but as we get closer to election time, those polls are narrowing so it is getting closer to a dead heat here. Host we will see the president traveling there this week. Have we seen joe biden though there . Guest not yet. The Trump Campaign has spent a lot of time here. He spent time in wilmington. We had eric trump his son and charlotte and cut this coming week we will have another stop by President Trump in winstonsalem. This is one of the states he should be about to carry pretty easily, but it is a big chunk of electoral votes so they cannot afford to lose it this election. Host talk about those areas of the state that do well for joe biden, that do well for President Trump. Where do those gentlemen need to campaign to get those voters who are not already with them . Guest the key point is the suburbs. Our rural areas are premier early red, our urban areas are primarily blue with small exceptions. You see plenty of Campaign Signs for republican candidates, for President Trump. The battleground is the suburbs, which are extensive around charlotte and raleigh. These are areas that voted for President Trump in 2016. A lot of suburban women voters turned out for trump in 2016. Host where is your state and how are they accommodating those who are concerned about voting in person on election day . Guest on friday, that was the first day we mailed out our absentee ballots. North carolina is a no excuse absentee state so anyone who wants to vote by mail or early can do that. You just have to request a ballot by mail. So far our requests are seven times ahead of where they are were in 20 16. In North Carolina, normally you see 4 to 5 of the voters voting by mail. This year it could be as high as 30 , 35 . You can track your ballot via a website on the state elections board. That is some of what they have done this year but obviously there is a lot of concern about whether we will come up with enough poll workers for election day because many of our poll workers are at risk for coronavirus. They are encouraging people to consider voting by mail as a way to cut down minds at the pole locations. Poll locations. Host two officials there have thereence do officials have confidence in their ability to manage mailin ballots . Guest they do. They say they feel like they can handle this. They are doing everything they can to make sure they are getting everything out early and make sure people send to things back early so they dont have a landslide of ballots coming in on election day and a couple days after. In North Carolina, garb pallet ok even your ballot is if it shows up three days after election day so long as it is postmarked by election day. Host you also have a closely watched senate race going on in the u. S. Senate. Talk about the candidates involved. Are thehe candidates senator who is up against cal cunningham. Had anningham has troubled relationship i would say with the Republican Base because sometimes he has come out against President Trumps initiatives and turned around and voted in favor, not voted to block them. He has kind of been on his heels trying to get back into the senate in 2020. Cal cunningham has had the money of the party behind him. Are seeing this as one of the seats they can potentially take back and flip the senate. He is running ahead of tillis a little bit. Those numbers are getting closer as we get closer to election day. Host we will show people at home some of the ads that are running in the senate race. [video clip] me short to be order cook. Instead of college, i went to at night,my agree worked my way up to partner at ibm. North carolina ands are working paychecktopaycheck. My name is tom tillis and my job is fighting for your job into that is exactly what i will do. The struggles i am hearing about from folks are almost hard to believe. We are being tested as a country but i have always run into the fight. After 9 11, i volunteered, serving with troops in iraq and afghanistan. At times like these, i will work with both parties when they are right and to stand up to my own party when they are wrong. Working together, i know we can beat this. Host you have probably heard those ads and others. Are those similar themes the candidates are talking about . Of the amount of outside, thirdparty money coming onto this race, there was a massive send in on the last spending on massive the last race here. Senator tom tellis before he went to the u. S. Senate was speaker of the house in the state legislature and one of the achievements he considers his key achievement was preventing the state from expanding medicaid. That was key with Republican Voters but with the pandemic going on, that is a debate that has been reopened. North carolina is one of only 12 states, including a lot of red ones that have not accepted medicaid expansion. That is turning out to be a key issue in the Gubernatorial Race and in the senatorial race as well i expect. Several reporters will be joining us this money. Lara leslie, thank you for setting that up for us. You will hear more over the course of the day but we will hear mainly from you as far as top issues you have. Pennsylvania, a supporter of joe biden. Thank you for waiting. No ahead. Go ahead. Caller great topic. Before i address what the issue is, one issue, which i do not support is this idiotic law order issue. My wife and i have been locked down since midmarch. What, we are afraid of what is happening in portland, oregon . Are the brown and black cords going to come to my suburbs . They are already here and do they are already all hardworking, lawabiding citizens. Second of all, the big issue is Affordable Health care. It is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. It is what we needed during a pandemic. We need a public option. Host do you think joe biden will go that far . Go incrementally, reduce the medicare age, and effective make medicare the public option, but at least it is a start. Host lets go to larry in montrose, virginia, supporter of others. Thank you for calling. Caller good morning. Nice tie, by the way. Supporting thee Green Party CandidateHowie Hawkins and Angela Walker in november. Hopefully i will get a mailin ballot in a few days and turn that in. Memorial to a a lien of the left who died this morning. What is said that Howie Hawkins campaigns on that captures your attention . Guest caller about everything the republicans and democrats want. Free college this and that. Overe, planet, and peace profit. That is why i support them. This Howie Hawkins was on program a few months ago and if you want to hear that, go to our website on cspan. Org. , aplattsburgh, new york supporter of it President Trump. This is nick. Hello. Caller i would like to Say Something about joe biden. I was watching the Chris Wallace a show last night. I have been wondering how come joe evaded the vietnam war. It was stated on that show that joe biden received five deferments during the vietnam war because of an asthma condition. I would like to know does he still have asthma or was he just a draft dodger . Host President Trump received deferments as well. Caller i realize that. What i am saying is bidens disparaging trump for the same reason that he got his deferments. Host is at the top issue you have this cycle or is there another issue you are considering concerned about this cycle. Caller law order. Host nick in plattsburgh, new york. This is from twitter. See more like to inclusion of the thirdparty candidates in National Debates. From bakersfield, california says my biggest concern is that everyone can my top issue is making sure that everyone votes and that every vote is counted. Alliances, science, education, the list goes on. My top fours issues are the appointment of new Supreme Court justices, preserving the payroll tax, covid19 mitigation, and election integrity. We have gone a halfhour and we will continue until 10 00 hearing from you on your issues. Social media is available to you as well as texting. Reach us the best way you can to discuss your issue. York, ang island, new supporter of joe biden. Yes, you are on. Caller you can find me on twitter. Com. Diversitymultione. I am totally disabled. I am blind. It trump and obama did nothing for me. To get a job. Ning they never gave me any hope. There was nothing. Host what do you thi