Keynote speaker at the Democratic National convention joins us to talk about campaign 2020. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Host good morning, its monday, september 14, 2020, meaning there are just now if the days until election date. This morning we begin by hearing from just those voters who will be casting ballots for the first time this election cycle. Whether you are newly eligible or just newly engaged after never voting in the past, we want to hear from you this morning. Firsttime voters only, give us a call, let us know which issues are driving your choices this election cycle. Supporters of joe biden, the number is 202 7488000. Firsttime voters supporting President Trump, 202 7488001. If you are a firsttime voter who is undecided or supports someone else, 202 7488002. Send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. You can go ahead and start calling in now. Firsttime mode firsttime voters only for this first segment. The sense of the universe of potential callers we are looking for this morning, this from the exit polling going back to the 2016 president ial race. Back then some 10 of voters said that the 2016 election was their first time voting, Hillary Clinton winning amongst that group. 57 to 38 . Firsttime voters often overlap with Younger Voters. Hillary clinton wending winning in that category, 18 to 24yearolds, by 22 points in 2016. Moving ahead to the midterm elections of 2018, the number of firsttime voters dropped significantly. This from the pew research center, their survey of voters and 2018 found just 3 of selfreported voters and 2018 said that they were voting for the first time ever. Among those that cast their ballots for Democratic Candidates for the house in 2018, 4 were firsttime voters. Just 2 of Republican Voters said it was the first time voting in 2018. This morning we want to hear from firsttime voters in the 2020 election. Give us a call this morning, again, if you support joe biden and you are a firsttime voter, 202 7488000 is the number. If you support President Trump and you are a firsttime voter, 202 7488001. Undecided or if you support another candidate, 202 7488002. One headline to show you on this topic, its one that the news organizations are paying attention to, this category of voter. This from the pbs newshour, their recent story from earlier this month, our country is in a state of emergency, firsttime voters reflect on why they are voting in 2020. We will go through more of that story and some of those firsttime voters there, their story and what they talk about in that column. Heres just one of the individuals that they interviewed, jeffrey, 23 out of new york, he said i only plan on voting in state and local elections because i dont feel comfortable with the major tickets. I oppose social views of the Democratic Party, especially on abortion, but as a catholic i dont believe i can morally support President Trump either, given his aggressive Foreign Policy and remarks towards Foreign Countries and the general scandal that surrounds him as a person. T one of the people person. Just one of the people interviewed in that story about why they are voting in 2020. Carl is up first out of kansas city, missouri. On the line for those supporting joe biden. Carl, good morning. Pretty close, im to the guy you just talked to. The thing that swings my vote is trump pulling the money out of the World Health Organization. To me thats crazy, ok . Thats all i have to say. Host why havent you voted in the past . Why will this be your first time . Caller you know what . I just, i wasnt a hillary supporter and i wasnt a trump supporter. Host were you ever a previous president supporter . Do you mind if i ask how old you are . Caller im, im a veteran, but i dont, i mind my own business and stay to myself. Host can you think that generally includes voting as well . Caller well, yeah, give me something to vote for. Are you voting this time, voting against something as opposed to voting for something . Caller theres a lot of things about trump and his policies that i actually like, but overall the guy is nuts. Pulling the money out of the World Health Organization during a pandemic . Thats, thats the dealbreaker for me. Call,thank you for the carl. Firsttime voters only. Those who plan to vote for the first time in election 2020. Ray is out of illinois on the undecided line. Ray, why are you voting this time and why havent you voted in the past . Caller i havent voted in the past because mostly the United States has been doing really good. This time . I would like to see some debates before i make up my mind. Host what do you want to see in the debates . What do the candidates need to say to get your undecided firsttime vote . Caller it depends upon what the moderators asked them . Host what do you want them to ask . One of the moderators is our steve scully, i can pass along any suggestions for a question. Questionsrdhitting about policies. Who stands where. Host whats an example of that that you would ask. Ask . Ok, law order, immigration, judges. Its just a list. Host thank you for the call alum out of illinois. Larry, rockwell, on the line for those supporting just joe biden. Supporting joe biden. Why will this be your first time voting . I just turned 65 and i never cared about it one way or the other. His personality, hes a nasty person. All that you hear about them is that hes just a nasty, despicable person. Host larry, when did you start feeling this way . When did you start getting engaged in politics and having these feelings about the president . Well, its just, you know, since hes become president , i didnt know how he was before. When he became president , since then, ive learned the kind of person he is. Larry out of rockwell, North Carolina. President trump on the campaign trail this weekend, holding a series of rallies on saturday and sunday. This is the president from last night in las vegas, nevada, talking about joe biden, calling him unfit to hold office. [video clip] joe is bad and bit primetime. The reason i can talk so badly about it is he had me standing over the graves of our Fallen Heroes in an ad. Nobody lovesand the military more. Look what ive done for them. 2. 5 trillion. Have mehe ad they saying horrible things in front of other people. Nobody would have put up with that. Its called disinformation. They make up a total lie, they put it out there, they do ads. Once he did that i said now, look, its ok, its ok, another gloves are off. I can say that this man is totally unfit to be president. Up here, hes totally unfit. He cant be your president. Ive gotten to know president xi of china. Ive gotten to know president putin of russia. By the way, getting along with them is good. Although china, i must tell you, i have a real problem with china. What they did with us. Never forget, we made a great trade deal, the ink wasnt dry when the plague came in from china. They stopped it from going into china but they didnt stop it from going into our country, europe, and the rest of the world. They could have done that. See, i deal with all these people and they dont have the kind of mental problem that sleepy joe has. They are very sharp. Kim jongun, kim jongun doesnt know about the problems that joe has. We need sharp people. Im sorry, joe is not qualified for the position. Host President Trump, last night at his indoor rally in nevada. Talking to firsttime voters this morning only. You can call in on phone lines for those firsttime voters who support joe biden. 202 7488000. Firsttime voters that support President Trump, 202 7488001. For those who are undecided or support others, 202 7488002 is that number. In the clip you saw the speak several times about ads put up by the Biden Campaign. About adsfrom npr played during nfl games yesterday. As millions tuned in for this live event, they are getting a dose of president ial politics on commercial breaks. Thursday night when the people turned in tuned in to watch the chiefs defeat the texans, ae biden was there with campaign ad and they dont come cheap. There will be a mix of ads all season, the Biden Campaign confirming they have already reserved a run of at least one ad nationally during each nfl game between now and election and those of prebookings at up to 25 million. That story and npr. Heres the one minute at the story was referring to that came out last week from the Biden Campaign. [video clip] this is our chance to put the darkness of the last four years behind us. To end the anger, the insults, the division and start fresh in america. We can stop focusing on a president who thinks it is all about him and start focusing on whats best for us. We need to get control over the virus. Donald trump failed. Joe biden will get it done. We need to help working families. Joe bidens plan rewards work and makes the wealthy and corporations play their pay their fair share. We need the next steps in health care. Joe biden will lower premiums, reducing drug costs while protecting those with preexisting conditions. We need to take on Climate Change while protecting Social Security and medicare. We have had four years of a president that brings out the worst in america. Its time that we had a president that brings out the best. Im joe biden and i approve this message. Ads, from theof Washington Post, Mike Bloomberg planning to spend 100 million in the state of florida to help. Lect joe biden this after news reports that trump considered spending 100 million of his own money in the final weeks of the campaign. The bloomberg advisors spoke to us for the story on how to make good for an earlier promise. Bloomberg narrowed his focus on to florida, saying it was the best use of his money. Voting starts september 24 in florida host we are talking to firsttime voters only in this segment of washington journal today. Phone lines split up as they have been through the campaign trump, supporting supporting joe biden, and the undecided. This is greg on the line for those who support President Trump. Vote for didnt you the president in 2016 and why are you supporting him this time . Because i moved before. Understand why the democrats are moaning about people not Wearing Masks and then they say that how come we are getting a virus . It is not trumps fault that the people are not Wearing Masks, you know . They are told to wear their masks. Like pelosi did over at that hair salon. I dontthing is understand why biden doesnt, you know, he didnt have any remarks about the riots. He just calls them, you know, peaceful protests. They are not. He didnt mention that at all during the democratic convention. Know,just wondered, you they are just blaming trump for everything. They are blaming trump for the hurricanes coming through. They blame him for everything. Thats just my comment. You feel like you are more engaged in politics than you work . Why didnt you vote in the past . And iecause i felt host what . Caller i wasnt sure about trump at the time and i didnt like hillary. I just figured i would see what happened. Host what about elections before 2016 . Caller i just wasnt as interested in the politics as i am now. But i personally think that trump needs to get back in because of biden gets in, this country is really going to go down the tubes. More do you think youre motivated for donald trump or are you more motivated to vote against joe biden . Caller motivated to go for trump. Greg, illinois. Who supportoters joe biden, adam, good morning to you. Why havent you voted in the past and why are you voting this time . Caller how are you doing today . Host doing well. Caller first, im piece. Im a scientist that works for nasa. I came to this country when i was 20. I studied engineering and i have my bachelors degree in aerospace engineering. Im doing my phd in cybersecurity. , myreason im not happy graduation and my masters degree , my parents are from west africa. My school gave me some paperwork , my parents was supposed to come down to attend my graduation. Down and obviously said we and going to give yall a visa because trump say you guys have a travel ban, cant come to this country. Trump policynder sucks. If you talk about america, you talk about immigrants. We all came from somewhere. And going toudent school to work for the u. S. , just to bring my parents and attend my graduation, it was no way. Ban. L for what reason . Host is this the first election you are legally allowed to vote in question mark caller yes, yes, im a u. S. Citizen. Me trump has got to go. He has a policy, i totally disagree. His immigration policy is bad, his economy is bad. Host what do you believe joe biden will do when it comes to immigration in this country . Caller the immigration policy under joe biden and obama was pretty good. My parents was coming back and forth to visit me all the time. We dont have any problems. It was pretty good. Since trump came into power, they cant come visit. Host what year did you become a citizen, adam . Caller 2017. Host for your parents ever able to see you become a citizen . Were they there to see you become a citizen . Caller yes. Yes. They came down here all the time, all the time. Its wrong. This is david out of ashburn, virginia, on the line for firsttime voters that support donald trump. Why are you voting for them this time and why didnt you vote 2016 . Caller i didnt care too much. I think it doesnt matter who will be president. Why do you think that, david . Think they will take care of our country, i did not think, they will take care of our country. But now i change my opinion. Wants to think trump have Good Relationship with russia and some people, you know, on very top levels, they dont want this and this is crazy because it russia is a nuclear power. You dont want to have a nuclear war, we should have Good Relationship with russia. Its crazy, you know, to bring the world closer to nuclear war. Only crazy people can do this. How do you feel about the intelligence agencies finding that russia is trying to actively interfere in the election again . What does that due to our relationship with them . Caller i dont know, you know . Its crazy to go to the same hose two times. Dont think russia is crazy people. You know, its crazy to say that. Top, theye on the want bad relationship with russia. So you know, this is the crazy thing. We should have a Good Relationship. A nuclear war would be the end of the world. You should stop this madness. Thats why im for trump. I dont like his other issues, but on this issue i think he is 100 right. Host that was david out of ashburn. This is linda, North Carolina, firsttime voters that support joe biden. Linda, good morning. Why havent you voted in the past and why are you voting this time . Caller i voting this time because its probably the most important election either. I didnt vote in the past, im 73, i think. I was living in puerto rico, born in new york. Mood to puerto rico and i was 20 and you cannot vote for u. S. Everything if you live in puerto rico. So, now im back and im in North Carolina and i can vote. Host when did you start supporting joe biden . Caller i always liked him. Long ago, when he was like the going for a two state solution in israel. He was always the only one who even remotely had the nerve to say anything in favor of the town the palestinians, i like that. Scrap the cap,ed the only hope for Social Security. Before you go, what did you do in puerto rico and why did you come back . Caller i came back in two days before Hurricane Maria not even knowing there would be a hurricane. I hadnt been very mobile, you know . Its been difficult being disabled. Host what kind of work that you do in puerto rico . Caller i had a building in old san juan, beautiful, romantic as hell, it really is a gorgeous place, cobblestones, gas lights, you know . [laughter] me forever to save up for the building. And i fell in love with my grandson and wanted to spend time. Host i hope you are getting lots of time with your grandson. Like amid theen coronavirus pandemic . What sort of restrictions is your family and lamenting . Caller everything. The rest of it goes on. I dont go out anyway, i dont get around well. Son, exposed to everything, North Carolina is really trump land where we are in the customers dont wear masks, you know . The people that work there have to, but than the customers come in and they dont have a mask and they just set it down on the bar. Host whereabouts are you . Caller wilmington. Jackson and the other big one on the ocean. Im in surf city. Yep. Host thank you so much for the call. Firsttime voters only is who we are talking to in this segment of the washington journal. On 7 30, to give you Situational Awareness here, the senate last week, you were watching them last week on cspan two, the houses also back in as Congress Gets ready for its fall sprint. A few weeks of legislative activity before adjourning again ahead of the elections in october. They will be out and they will be out through election day and then we will see what happens in a lameduck session. One of the key issues for congress to deal with is whats going to happen with the potential next Coronavirus Relief legislation. We will talk more about that in ae next segment, congressional reporter from bloomberg will be joining us. It was a subject of conversation for the sunday shows yesterday. Val demings in florida was talking about th