And state coronavirus response. Former Trump AdministrationEconomic AdvisorCasey Mulligan on President Trumps economic record heading into the final days of campaign 2020. Is the washington journal for wednesday, october 21, less than two weeks until election day. President trump campaigns in gastonia, Kamala Harris in asheville, North Carolina today. President barack obama campaigning in philadelphia. We invite you to answer this question. What is motivating you to vote this year . Perhaps it is an issue you are passionate about, you do not like the other candidate, maybe it is due to who you think will handle the pandemic better. Heres how you can let us know this our what is motivating you to vote. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump and mike pence. 202 7488000 if you support joe biden and Kamala Harris. Areare decided undecided or supporting another candidate, 202 7488002. cspanwj. Cial media pew in august, it was the organization that took a poll on those issues important to voters making their decisions. The economy was at the top of that list. Care, supremealth court appointments, the coronavirus outbreak, crime, Foreign Policy, gun policy, race and ethnic inequality, immigration, Climate Change, and abortion. If you want to see that list, go to pew. Maybe it is one of those things on that list motivating you to vote this year, or perhaps other things, too. Those issues addressed on our facebook page. Going to thehe is polls because of republican corruption. Joe bowman says, the democrats. This is beth hodges talking about issues of health care and economy. Chuck says it is common decency. James fuller on her facebook republicans are motivating me not to vote. Those of the swath of issues there as far as voting is concerned. You can add yours to the mix. Facebook, twitter available. You can text us. Phone lines available too. We will start with a supporter of President Trump in britain wanted, california brentwood, california. This is todd. Go ahead. Caller i am excited about trumps impressive accomplishments, energy independence. That is a whole new world for us. His accomplishment in the areas choice, thede, v. A. Wall, usmca, nato paris accord, carbon emissions. We lead the world in carbon emissions. Isis, reform, solemani, ending wars. You have joe and ms. Harris, open borders, medicare for illegals. How about that combination . Open borders and medicare for illegals. Green new deal, lateterm abortion, court packing, ending the filibuster. Host ok. There is a list. Support for others from clairsville, ohio, we will hear from john. You are on. What is motivating you this year . Caller what is motivating me is to vote against both of these 2 candidates, because main two candidates, because i utterly i have so many things i disagree with both of them on that i voted for Howie Hawkins. The main thing on trump is the coronavirus. I thought he handled it horrible. On the biden thing is this story. Biden i think we lose either way. I did consider voting for both of them just to vote against the other one. First i considered voting for trump to vote against biden, then biden against trump. They are both horrible and Social Security. Host john, just to let you know, saturday, on this program, we will feature both of those candidates, or at least one of them, Howie Hawkins. The green Party President ial candidate. Be joined at 9 00 by libertarian candidate jo jordgensen. A supporter of joe biden from detroit. We will hear from gary. ,aller good morning pedro and greetings yet again for motown. And theulus bill stimulus bill, getting a hold of me, coronavirus, and, for the biggie of the mall, the bane of every White Conservative is racial justice. I am sure the people on the republican line will slam me for it. Certainly the white people on the republican do hate black people and that is all i have to say. How will biden change the issue should he become president . Caller i do not believe in defunding the police, but i do support reforming not only Law Enforcement, but the feckless court system that keeps letting racist Killer Police officers get away with it. Host what would you like to see joe biden do on that front . Caller well, three things. I hope you give me enough time to suggest them. Replace internal affairs with a Police Review board of civilian oversight. Thend, to either reform grand jury system, and if it cannot be reformed, then it should be abolished. Finally, as a mandatory part of police training, a racial sensitivity course for every white male who wants to become a route outnly way to potential racists in their ranks. T out potential racists and their ranks. Host that is gary. We will hear from mark in louisiana, a supporter of President Trump. By. Hi. Caller i love your show. Youre a good guy. I am supporting trump, because he can get the economy going andst, and i americans deserve a better economy. With biden, higher gas prices. Great deals. That will not help africanamericans. Africanamericans, hispanics. My dad picked crops with black americans. They picked each others crops. This is the south deep south. If he ever talked bad to an africanamerican, his mom would have lit his rear up and he would have remembered it for the rest of his life. I am voting for trump. You have the media, the democrats in congress. If you have biden, there are no safeguards. The media is all in for this guy. They will not even report on what he did when he was Vice President. That is who you want in office . No safeguards, none at all . You need to vote trump in. I am not for trump the way he talks and acts sometimes, but his policies. He says what he does. He helped hispanics, africanamericans. He will help them again. Zachary,t is mark in louisiana talking about his motivations for voting for President Trump. We are going to be joined by Casey Mulligan, the former chief economist at the council of economic advisers for the Trump Administration talking about the president s record economically in campaign 2020. Poll has a latest look. The democratic challenger reading the republican incumbent by 2. 3 points in a four way president ial poll of likely voters, registering the libertarian candidate with 2. 3 and Howie Hawkins with one with the. 9 . Flipped to a new low watermark. The president s numbers have gone the other way, to a high watermark. That is investors business daily. Maryland, amantown, supporter of joe biden, go ahead. Caller hi, pedro. Thank you for allowing us to speak. I am personally voting for joe biden because i believe he has the ability to restore our standing. I think he can bring us together in this country as well. I dont understand those who continue to undermine trumps behaviors and his rhetoric and his divisive tactics he has done to basically divide us against one another in political parties. They support him because his policies. Think thersonally i policies he has, we will not execute moreacy to policies the way we are going now. I think joe biden has the that we areake sure personally concerned about social justice, climate control. Those are things he can enact and we will still have a democracy for him to do so. Host you start off by saying standing in the global community. What does that mean and why is it important . Caller it is important because we have allies who are willing to support us and work with us on a global scheme. No country is standing by themselves. Donald trump, for him to take us out of all of these agreements, nafta, he is making us weaker peoplee vulnerable so can come in and re and wreak havoc. The only person he wants to listen to is him. Host ok. That is tammy in germantown, maryland calling us. You can continue calling us as well about what is motivating you to vote. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump, 202 7488000 if you support joe biden, 202 7488002 if you are undecided or support another candidate. We will get an update now on what is going on on capitol hill in regards to talks between democrats and republicans on another round of Coronavirus Relief. Joining us, mike liles of the hill. Good morning. Guest good morning. Thank you for having me. Host we have heard of these deadlines. Continuing deadlines. There are three different iscks we are on now, but it harder to determine if they are converging, diverging, moving in parallel, or going off the rails. You mentioned the house talks and nancytary mnuchin pelosi. They talked yesterday. They will talk again today. They are claiming progress, but it seems to be very incremental and they have not been able to announce a deal. Speaker pelosi set a deadline yesterday to come to some broad terms of an agreement, the contours of a deal, that might allow another stimulus package to get to trumps desk before the november 3 election, and today she seems to indicate that they met that threshold after talking to mnuchin. But there are differences that remain and it is unclear that they can iron those out by the end of the week, which is pull deadline. Ker pelosis with that in mind, let me show you a little bit. You mentioned the senate. Senator mcconnell on the senate floor talking about whether he the for deal for a vote on the senate floor. [video clip] i want to clarify something. Getancy pelosi and mnuchin considerent, you will bringing it to the floor . Sen. Mcconnell yes. Youas the president asked to move forward on that or to support it and get your members to support it . Sen. Mcconnell we would have to see what it was first. If a deal is announced, it will have to be written, and people will have a chance to take a look at it. Then it will have to clear the house. If all of that occurs, of course we would consider it in the senate. , that is whatlis the majority leader had to say. What is behind that . Guest something very important is behind that, and that while mcconnell is saying publicly he would bring something to the floor, it is important he said at some point. He would not bring something to the floor before the election. Number one. The second big thing yesterday was republicans have a weekly lunch. They had that around noon yesterday. Mcconnell told the republican conference that he has been pushing the white house not to cut a deal with pelosi and the democrats. Isdoes not think pelosi negotiating in good faith. He thinks she is stringing them along. There is also a lot of republican distrust in the treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, who has cut deals with Speaker Pelosi in earlier rounds in march, and there was a lot of grumbling on the republican side that mnuchin had given away the store. She was able to claim victory and the republicans had nothing to take home. So all those things considered, there are a lot of balls in the air, but as we get closer to november 3, the prospects for getting a deal just seem to be dimmer and dimmer and mcconnells comments yesterday in private not in public, but in private highlight how much work they will have to do to get this done. Trump of course is saying i will bring mcconnell along. He has been on the sidelines of this debate for the entire time. It seems like he is getting a little bit desperate and is now demanding a bill even bigger than Nancy Pelosis wants. He is the wildcard. Certainly mcconnell does not want an internal republican fight ahead of the election. He does not want trump tweeting at Senate Republicans bring this to the floor, 2 trillion. All of these are factors paired will have to see how this plays out. , thank you foris your time and updating us this morning. You can find the story at thehill. Com. Back to our question about what is motivating you to vote. Tonydecided voter, this is from phoenix, arizona. Go ahead. Caller you guys do a great job. I have been listening for years. Fantastic. I appreciate it. I am undecided, but i am leaning thirdparty, just because i kind of think it seems like things are so divided, our country, it is a case of divide and conquer the people. I think we are in a serious situation where everybody is so balkanized, there is no dialogue at the state level. There is no dialogue in washington. So i do not know what you could change, but it seems like a classic case of like, just, you know, i would like to call it an basese because we have all over the world. We are exerting power over the globe. It seems like another empire crumbling in on itself. Either theg towards libertarian or the green party just like a hail mary pass. That is basically host you can join us saturday morning for conversations and interviews with both of those candidates on our washington journal program. In illinois, wayne is a supporter of President Trump. Good morning to you. Caller trump, four years ago he was the underdog. Then he turns around and wins. That scared the Democratic Party. Way andwhats her wayr her her way in the amount of money she wents to spend. I am all for the ppp and the Small Business program, to keep them going, to keep employees on the rolls so they can draw. 300 a week, each week for unemployment, it seems like a pretty good deal, if not 600, but they are getting 300 over what they get from the state. States are still part of america. They are still part of our country. And we need to support them. And we need to learn to try to get together in bipartisanship with each others parties so that we can move ahead and get this problem behind us instead of malingering around like a festering sore. Host wayne. Teresa, athis is supporter of joe biden. I am a native american, ponca. The peace nobody is bringing up is the fact that the host nations we are the host nation, and we have been underrepresented for decades. The reason i am supporting biden harris is because biden is giving the native American Community a seat at the table. And if we get a certain act demolished by the Trump Administration, that will be devastating to the Health Service of the native American Community. The coronavirus as decimated many tribal nations. Has decimated many tribal nations. These things are very dear to me. Our health. Everything else is secondary. Host teresa in tulsa. We will go to arkansas. A supporter of President Trump, this is alan. Caller if you would allow me a brief criticism about cspan at the end of the call, but i am certainly supporting President Trump for reelection. Retiredou that as a. Merican history teacher argument. , i joined a debate team to recover the skill on some will. Never understood why a could not win an argument with my high with my brother. I have a lot of academic credentials and some other interesting engineering credentials that i could discuss at length and would be happy to put my academic credentials up againstanyone voting the president , or some of these other claims for academic credentials that people like to reference. Host so what is motivating you particularly . Caller when he first announced for office i noticed him during the years, in his career, and he had the reputation everyone recognizes that he has. I a history teacher, noticingy appreciated the broken families that have so ill affected students the last generation, wey cause these problems that exist in our country today. The loose behavior we had in the 70s that brought about social changes that we are looking at the terrible results of. The drug use that we brought in during the 70s, the abortion we brought in to cover up our loose behavior during the 70s and other Lifestyle Changes we thought were all just fine, no problem, but we brought all these problems into our country. It did not exist when i was going through high school and others listening who graduated during the 60s know that is true. Host and how does that factor into your motivation for voting for the president . Iller President Trump, respected the fact that his family loves him. He had such integrity within his family. I know there are the divorce issues and so on, but his family loves him. I thought that would be such a of how a family loves each other. And the rest of it. The fact that he did not drink alcohol i thought would be another great example for the country. Host ok, call her, what is your other caller, what is the other thing you want to bring to the table . Caller i wanted to draw a point to make. Next month is our 400th anniversary of the founding of our country, the pilgrims founding of our country. T620 as the founding, not 1619. Founding, not 1619. Slavery was illegal in massachusetts. Host we will leave you there. A supporter of joe biden in tennessee. Hello. Caller i am for biden and harris. The last caller got his history wrong. I want nancy pelosi to stick with this 600. Do not turn around and given to republicans. Give in to republicans. Y are sitting there with but Mitch Mcconnell and Lindsey Graham do not want to help the american people. Joe biden and Kamala Harris are for the american people. Trump lied about the coronavirus. He knew about this. He lied and people died because of this man. How can people promote someone like that . Backare trying to take us to what it used to be. Joe biden is for everyone. Republicans, democrats, and independents. Tennesseecaller from talking about motivating factors. This is our texter this morning, lee in florida, saying i am motivated to vote because i am fearful that democrats will continue to divide this country and limit our freedom. Plus they will take away school choice. Motivated byi am the fact that if