After that, we hear from joe budden supporters. Reportcook Political Editor charlie cook looks at key races around the country. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on this monday, november 2. It is election eve. We want to hear separately this morning from supporters of President Donald Trump, then former Vice President joe biden. We begin with those backing President Trump. Here are your numbers to call. Trump supporters only for this first hour. Later, we will focus on joe biden. Here are the numbers. In eastern and central time zones, 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. If you like to send us a text, 202 7488003. cspanwj is our twitter handle. You can also post a comment on facebook. Again, and pain 2020 come up Trump Supporters only for this first hour of the washington journal. Here is the Washington Post front page. Trump and biden make their closing pitches. Ae president targets based in flurry of rallies and the sun of scranton hones in on pennsylvania. Thishave several images on front page. One is a 19yearold signing her ballot in milwaukee. Can see a vehicle at a rally in allentown, pennsylvania. Also, trump backers attending an event in michigan. The headline says come amid huge challenges, a historic will says, amid huge challenges, a historic will to vote. More than 93 million had voted by sunday, casting their ballots early or by mail in record numbers in virtually every state in the nation. Masksf millions will don and warm clothes to vote the oldfashioned way in person on in many day despite and cases because of the isolation and obstacles of this unusual year. Here is President Trump speaking at a rally in hickory, North Carolina yesterday, attacking joe biden for his recent comments about the pandemic. [video clip] my opponent is promising a long, dark winter. . . Did anybody see the debate . I am sure nobody watched it. He did not do well. He says you could have a long, dark winter. Anybody likes that. Lets watch biden on television. He says we are going to have a long, dark winter. How inspiring that is. He said that and i am saying we are going to deliver the greatest american comeback in history. That is what we are doing. We are way ahead of schedule. This election is a choice between a biden depression and a boom like you have never seen before. It is a choice between a biden lockdown he wants to lock it down. Lets lock it down. Lets look it down. By the way, tell your governors to open up North Carolina. It is time. Ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Ity will probably announce on november 4. We are going to open up now. They thought our numbers would not be so good. They thought by keeping states like pennsylvania, North Carolina, michigan how about her . Her husband is the only one in the whole state. They thought numbers would yet we had 33. 1, the highest in the history of our country. You have to go back to 1952. That was half of what we did. Forward and will have shortly, within a couple weeks, a safe vaccine. Hate when i say it, the fake news, but we are rounding the corner. On top of that, we have vaccines pfizer, johnson johnson, moderna. They are right there. We will have them launched, and our military is going to do it. With ouring to start seniors, especially our seniors with asthma problems, with heart, with diabetes. It is going to speed up the process. It does work. Here i am. Host President Trump in a chilly hickory, North Carolina yesterday. John is calling from georgia. Caller good morning. Host tell us why you support President Trump. What has he done to earn your vote . Caller i think he enjoys the office. It has been so long since we not had a president who has aged the first four years. I do hope we can avoid a situation like we had in 2000 with gore and bush because that would bring in the Supreme Court , whose integrity is already in question. It is a pity that our longstanding institutions are being eroded for political purposes, and it is just a shame. This man enjoys the office. Host did you vote for the president and 2016 . Did you vote for the president four years ago . Caller i did. Host you mention policies. He put forthcies that had success that make you want to continue to support him . Policy is thein military. We have to have a strong itary if use going to have if we are going to have peace in this world. We are the leader of the free world. Ofre needs to be a slogan peace through strength. Speakroosevelt said softly but carry a big stick. We do not have to use it, but we do not want to get into position where we go to war with the army we have. Host thank you for calling in. , another trump supporter, south carolina. Tell us your views about the president. What has he done for you . Caller he has done more good for this nation in four years than many have done before him. Donald trump, what he has done for the prosperity of this nation and to protect this ,ation from very real enemies compare it to the accomplishments of joe biden, who has been for congress in congress for over 40 years. What has biden done . Be president. Donald trump has done more, and he is the best person in my view , and im not the only one, to keep this nation safe, prosperous, and free. Host moving on to steve, san jose, california. Thank you for getting up early. You are a supporter of the president. Tell us why and why you think he deserves a second term. Caller i was totally shocked when trump initially took office in that the democrats would attempt a coup by the russia hoax. After 2. 5, three years of telling us that the evidence was there, they ended up not using it in the impeachment. We have a Marxist Democratic Party that scares the hella out hell out of me and should every american. Once they get into power, they will do things to secure that power like every marxist government does indefinitely. I am talking about doing away with the senate filibuster, making d. C. A state and puerto rico a state. They would like to do away with the Electoral College, though that will take a lot of effort. Host let me jump in. Your vote, based on what you said, is that a vote against putting the democrats in power or is it more a vote for the president and who he is and what he stands for . Caller it is a vote for the president because he kept all his promises, more promises kept than any other president i know of. They were all beneficial to the United States. You will not give me enough time to list all the major ones, that i think republicans at least know what they are. Military, getting nato to pay his fair share, stopping north korea from being a threat to the United States, back intousinesses the United States, renegotiating trade deals, bringing the lowest history tot in u. S. Blacks, hispanics, women, young people. Proposes,h what he will never achieve those goals in unemployment. It is going to be a bait and switch. We are going to possibly elect him, but he will not stay in office. He will quickly be moved out of office or retire. That is a shame. We possibly could end up with a marxist, communist government. It is going to be a shame once you get that kind of government. A shame. Once you get that kind of government, you are stuck with it. Host bill in connecticut send this text. Weak and feckless to be president. He is the blank tile and scrabble. Trump is at least a force for forward movement. We have to open up and live. We have a clip on the lot cliff on the line. Caller good morning, cspan. News story on project exposinghere they were these drivethru voting tents in texas. All these fake drivers licenses were laid out on these tables and tents and people would drive in. They would take their picture, put their picture on the drivers license. They would fill out ballots. The Supreme Court of texas denied the gop bid to throughout said it wasthey tried and tested. This is an example of the kind of malfeasance in this election. Host we did hear that news in the last couple days. Your calling as a trump supporter. Get to the president specifically. Tripur calling as a supporter. Get to the president specifically. As a trumpre calling supporter get to the president specifically. Did you vote for him . Caller i did not. I would have. Host what have you seen in these four years that make you want makes you want to vote for him . Caller i have already voted for him. Host what are the reasons . What is it about President Trump . Caller every caller before me has stole my thunder. What is happening right now, ladies and gentlemen, we are in the middle of a coup. This is a globalist coup. They are trying to take down every western nation by locking people away because of this fake pandemic. The virus israel. The pandemic is a hoax. This is what the new world order real. Virus is the pandemic is a hoax. This is what the new world order is using. Host if joe biden wins, will you accept the results . No. Er hell, this election is rigged. This is all a hoax. This is new world order, communist takeover of the entire western world. The voice there of cliff in essex, maryland. We are hearing from Trump Supporters only for this first hour of the washington journal. At 8 00 eastern, we will hear supporters of former Vice President joe biden, the democratic nominee for president. Thep this hour, bite in second hour. One of the earlier callers mentioned the law and order message from the president. Closing trump the ads airing nationwide focusing on that message. [video clip] while americas cities burned cannot joe biden and Kamala Harris fanned the flames, supporting bail funds that let rioters and criminals out of jail. Silence speaks loudly. He does not have our backs. President trump will keep america safe. If you support the police,,. I am donald j. Trump, and i approve this message. Host we have seven, may be more, live events today on this final day of campaigning before election day. Two will feature President Trump himself. One is in pennsylvania outside scranton, the hometown of joe biden. It is one of five scheduled events for the president on the last day before election day. 2 15 inerage around pennsylvania. Later in the evening, the president will hold a campaign michigan grand rapids, tonight. You can watch it here on this network, same place where he ended his Campaign Last time around. We have tom in oklahoma, another trump supporter. Talk to us about President Trump and why he deserves a second term. Caller it all comes down to picking the lesser people of two. Four years ago, when he was running for president , nobody thought he was going to win. Everybody thought hillary was going to win. There was a silent majority of independent voters, silent group, whatever you want to call them, that came out and voted for trump. Last minute. Is going to is what happen again because we are picking the lesser of two evils. Trump has done some significant things to push this country forward. There are a lot of things i still disagree with, such as giving corporations tax breaks for bringing dollars back to the u. S. When they should never have left in the first place. Should be forced to come back. Other things with taxes i do not agree with on him, but cannot like i said earlier, he sticks to more traditional values. Gun rights. Ofen has held a position power for 47 years and i guess it was delaware where he was in power for the longest time. He got rid of a lot of peoples jobs. You do not hear from anybody in that state much at all. Why we are note, hearing much from anybody in that state. Host heres a tweet from someone identifying themselves as pigpen. President trump remains an outsider. I like that. Democrats offer no alternative. And have gone off the rails hate america and what it stands for. Ohio sent us a text. He says, trump acts instead of talking everything to death. Gotn ran before and never more than a few percent of the vote. Now he is senile. He is an agent of change . Taking calls from Trump Supporters only for this first hour of the program. Lets get to another, jane from pennsylvania. I am a trump supporter. He is antiabortion and biden is not. I am catholic. I believe the left is using religion as a guys to push a marxist agenda. To push a marxist agenda. Catholics accept everyone. Our religion is based on holy son, andfather, spirit. Systemic racism is a manmade agenda to divide us. They are indoctrinating children with this. Theory, i am highly opposed to it. This is not what catholics stand for. , one is for everyone nation under god, and divisible. Host what part indivisible. Host what part of pennsylvania . Caller lehigh valley, bethlehem area. Host what you make of the fact that pennsylvania is among the biggest battleground states in the election this year . Why do you think that is . Caller i do not know, but i am a trump supporter. I believe it is going to turn red. I do not trust anything going on in pennsylvania. Look at philadelphia. They have everyone locked down. The courts are not even open. There was an earlier caller who said the west has been taken over. It has. This marxist agenda has been infiltrating everywhere, our universities, our schools, our political system. You cannot do anything today without politics. Kids cannot even trickortreat without politics. Our countrye taking back. I am praying that pennsylvania wakes up and turns red. President trump winning pelvic pennsylvania in 2016, less than 1 of the vote. Joe biden will be in pennsylvania today, one of the many life events we will have. Here are some of the images from the papers around the country. Usa today has this shot of election workers taking ballots from a dropbox in oregon. Down aera can come little to where the Washington Times has a couple photos. Trump,int out president regularly waiting in long lines to hear him speak at boisterous rallies. The Washington Times shows the President Trump rally there but quieter biden drawing crowds that practice social distancing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. That is the way the Washington Times is putting things as well. Here is the front page of the New York Times in florida. The last day of early voting yesterday saw long lines in lake worth, florida. We go to lloyd in jonesville, virginia. Thank you for taking my call. Host what is your level of enthusiasm for President Trump . Caller if youre talking about between one and 100, i am 100. Is good when he has done a good job. Jobs, he has really brought jobs here. He stopped china whenever they was bringing the virus. China stopped us on account of the economy was beating them. I think he is going to work more on china if he gets reelected, on stopping them from trying to take us over with the military. Military up and our army. He is at work and not hitting the bunk. He has done a good job. He loves his country. He wants to work more for us. That is why i support him, and i think he is doing a good job. Host thanks for calling in. From california, another early riser. Morning and thank you for cspan. I watch every morning. I support President Trump because he did what he said he was going to do, and he has done more than he said he was going to do. I was leaning left when i got out of vietnam. My liberty and freedoms very close to my heart. I supported our president , obama, his first run. I helped raise over 55,000. I did not help him with a dime his second run because he was home to bring our soldiers from foreign wars. He did not do it. He was going to stop the patriot act and get rid of it. He did not do it. I love this president. The man does what he says he is going to do. I served in vietnam and all these people say you never served. He is serving now. He has put his whole family and fortune up for this country because he loves it. He loves it like i love it. God bless america. I am not gloating, but there is a big red wave coming on the third. Int lets hear from janet North Carolina, one of the key battleground states. Tell us about your support of President Trump. Did you vote for him four years ago . Caller definitely. I am for him 100 . He is the best president we have had since eisenhower. Caller what has he done host what has he done that makes you say that . Caller what hasnt he done . He does not take any money for being president. He took it on because he loves this country. If biden gets an, we will have a Great Depression. Mr. Trump has closed the borders. He has tried to keep people out of here who are illegal. He has built up the military, our economy. He has done everything exactly right. I love that man. I would vote for him 100 times if i could. Host would you accept the results if you loses . Caller no, i will not. Host what does that mean . What would you do or say . What is not accepting it mean to you . Caller i probably cannot do anything about it, but mentally i will never accept it. I know we are heading for a Great Depression if he gets in, just like we had when obama was in. Obama did nothing for this country. Neither will biden. Ado not want this to be communist country. I do not want socialist medicine. I am 91 years old. I need my medicare. I do not want everyone on medicare. I do not want illegals getting my Social Security. If biden gets in, it will be a disgrace to our country. We will soon be living under communism. They want to control everything, and he will not be in office long. He is just a front end that lady will take over and it will be a disaster and that lady will take over and it will be a disaster. Host several callers this mentioning the president. This is from last wednesday. Kept,aid out promises promises partially accomplished, promises not yet realized. Promises kept. According to usa today, tax cuts, conservative judges, deregulation, leaving the paris climate accords, and moving the Israeli Embassy to jerusalem. Partlyromises accomplished, they wrote renegotiating trade deals, building a border wall and having mexico pay for it, defeating isis. Part three, trump promises not yet realized, bringing back coal and steel, replacing the Affordable Care act, revitalizing the manufacturing sector, reducing the national debt. His is according to usa today many callers were talking about the promises that have been capped. Has thisstreet journal opinion piece on the Trump Presidency amount which we will get to and just a sec, as soon as i can call it up. Lets go to a call first and i will bring it up as soon as it pops up on the computer. Good morning. Forgot one. You forgot energy independence. On we do not have to depend saudi arabia no more. Are you still there . Host we are. Caller i am sorry. One thing thatd we have known but a lot people have not. The democrats will never be in power. Hearing joe biden say this and barack obama. What did they inherit in 2008 . Before you say anything, let me remind you. We had an election in 2006. Nancy pelosi became the first woman speaker of the house on the promise that they was going to keep george w. Bush from andging in foreign wars ruining the economy. They failed terribly on ruining the economy. Just like the china virus, i think it was done intentionally. Like other callers have said, for power. Handemocrats are hand in with the news media. Your ex people was just fired. Was it steve . We found out he was an ally of biden. As many times as i talked to him on that program, i could figure that out. We are here to fight for the soul of this nation against marxist communists who want to control everything in our life. Obamabiden did not do nothing. When they first came into office, they put what they were going to do. They was going to rebuild this , our shovel ready jobs that were not so shallow ready. Obama spent 11 trillion. Where did that money go . There has been 14 billion spent in this last election. Michael bloomberg could give every single poor american in this country 1 million for what he spent to get joe biden elected. Just to clarify, mr. Scully was suspended from his position. We have addressed the issue several times. There is a statement from steve and the network at our website, cspan. Org. Referendum is the wall street journal editorial. I want to point out the last part of the editorial. The trump referendum has called for results but its chaotic governance may cost him a second term. For write the best argument electing President Trump is as a grade on the Democratic Party that is increasingly radical. A gop senate could also be that grade, though the senate may depend on how well mr. Trump does. This election even harder on the handicapped. Voters who want a centrist president should slit their ticket. Lose, themp does calls the cause will not be weak republicans. Joe biden and the democrats could not make President Trump the fourth president to be fired after a single term. Only mr. Trump could do that. Michael in new york city. Trump supporter. Tell us why. Caller i called the wrong number. Host your supporting biden . You are supporting biden . Caller no, im calling from the east. Trump is not people. , he has beens talking about normal life. Trump is not evil. At the rallies, he has been talking about normal life. Can you hear me . This is driving me crazy. Study that eight found she was involved in, they figured out the spanish flu and wearing those masks could give you pneumonia and make you sick. From daniel and stanford, texas. What you see in the president . Promises made, promises kept. He said he was going to get the embassy moved. He did it is first year in office. Where themerica democrats seem like they hate america. They try to turn us into a communist country, socialist country. Do notamericans and we want to be anything but americans. States has to go to napoleonic law to keep our freedom, ok. Trump has done more for the inted states in his term office than they have done in the last 50 years. Just think about all the past 50 years. They have just been spending and wasting. Thanks for calling this morning. Many live events today on cspan, including the first lady lady in huntersville, North Carolina today. Live coverage here on cspan at 4 00 p. M. Eastern time. Here is a short piece of President Trump speaking at that rally in hickory, North Carolina yesterday, making that appeal to black american voters. [video clip] after years of rebuilding foreign countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. For 47 years, the democrats viciously and brutally attacked you know what we are talking about because it was led by a man named joe biden. Black americans they attacked, decimated the black middle class and cold young black men super predators. To every black american, i am tuesday. U to vote on send a message on tuesday. Pete the corrupt democrat establishment. Thank you. Thank you very much. Tremendous support. Just so you understand, those cameras are all blazing. We are doing so well. One of the great things that has happened is our africanamerican vote,our black community is way up. They are all saying, wow. Everybodyll saying back there is saying wow. That is amazing. That is what is happening in florida. That is what is happening here. That is what is happening all over. Chance your one and only to show Sleepy Joe Biden what you think of his decisions to attack, insult. I am fighting for you. If you look at what we have done , criminal justice reform,rison reform, opportunity historically black colleges and universities come a long term funding. Every year, they had to come back and ask for funding. I said, we have to get you longterm funding. We got them more money than they wanted. They needed it. Host President Trump appealing to the blackfoot in North Carolina. Florida tate in North Carolina. The biden state florida. To move the needle, according to a washington journal poll. Mr. Trump leads among latino voters. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won 66 of the latino vote. Back to your calls come up supporters only. Joe biden supporters, call in about 25 minutes. Good morning. Caller alexandria, louisiana. Virginia. Host that is my bad. Caller that is all right. Host we are glad to hear from you. Lover i love cspan and i coasttocoast. You are the top shows i listen to for my news. I am an africanamerican. I love this country. I left the Democratic Party because of all the lies they have done and stuff like that. Trump, just like you were playing that clip, he has fully funded historically black colleges with criminal justice reform. You cannot ask for anything more. President obama never did do it and biden never did do it. Host when did you switch over and become a supporter of the president . 2016, when he came down the escalator. I joined the Republican Party, but i was supporting ben carson. And trump ut after crews light on him and stuff, the Cruise Campaign said he was getting out of the race, trump picked up ben carson and said this is wrong, what Ted Cruz Campaign did with you. Racist,at man was not that he loves black folks. Herschel walker and just a bunch of other people. Wayne, which is from louisiana, and ice cube, the platinum plan. All this stuff that he hates. Lacks was biden i cannot do nothing with it, but trump accepted it and said he is going to push along with it. That is why im supporting trump. A lot of africanamericans, a lot of democrats, they are going to be surprised, especially males. And the mexicans. They like a macho man, and that is what trump is. Biden hides and lies. Prayis why i hope and biden loses. I pray trump wins. Host of your africanamerican friends, are many of them democrats . If so, what are your conversations like with them . Buter they are democrats it is surprisingly they do not believe the lies about trump being a racist. He has excepted the platinum plan from ice cube accepted the platinum plan from ice cube. The only reason he is voting for biden is because of harris, because she is black. That is the only reason he said he could vote for biden, because of harris. A lot africanamericans are going to vote for biden only because of harris. The other africanamericans that are democrats, they are going to be especially males most females going to be voting because of harris. On to brownsville, texas. Good morning. What is your level of enthusiasm for President Trump and his reelection . Caller i am a latino from the border, and im highly enthusiastic for President Trump. Host how come . Caller let me tell you. I was 18 when i first voted for trump. I was originally a Bernie Sanders supporter. I got offended with the Democratic Party telling me how to vote and that i should not trust this man, especially his views on immigration. Than two miles from the border. Hight to school my school was less than a mile from the border. Problems immigration that need to be fixed. That is not why i am enthusiastic for trump. What he has done for this country is he has given hope to the middleclass, to the people in pennsylvania, to the people in michigan. Revived the american dream. Especially in parts like our jobsere we left. No president has done that since ronald reagan. One of the reasons why i think is because he is so genuine with the people. He loves the people. He knows the people love him. He has the genuine charisma of reagan. He has the law and order message of president nixon. , like he personally has shown in the middle east, that he has the Foreign Policy skills like president eisenhower. Combine all those achievements and many more that he does not get credit for, plus the fact that he has gotten attacked by i haveocrats, i know gotten galvanized over the years. My support for him has only grown stronger. California,ed to where john is waiting to speak. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am voting for President Trump. I would like to talk about something nobody talks about, the fact that so many people are voting. The huge voter turnout is a direct result of President Trump energizing the American People. We are all tuned into politics now because trump has been so transparent. All his tweets, everything. We are all involved now and the voter turnout is going to be massive. It is a direct result of President Trump. I wanted to say a couple things. The latinos are natural republicans because they save their money. They are family oriented. Democratsrealize the are going to tax away all their money and they have the abortion issue, i think the latino vote is going to be significant. Community, latino and they are hardworking people. They do not want their money taken away by taxes. I like the energy independence. We do not need the middle east anymore. All the power they had over us they do not have anymore. I told my sun who wanted to be a democrat here and he is a millennial. I said, you are 38 years old. Your entire life, there has been problems in the middle east. Your entire life. In threeave trump and years there is peace. There is no war. We are pulling people home. His entire life, he has known war. Becausere having peace of the energy independence. My final point would be why i like him. The wall. Like about what i the wall is it is passive. You do not have people shooting guns across the border. The other thing is it is a onetime expense. You pay for the wall and it is good for 50 years. You do not pay every year for the wall. It is a onetime expense over 50 years. That is the most inexpensive and safest way to protect our borders. John mentioning the voter enthusiasm. Usa today says enthusiasm outpaces recent votes. Experts anticipate engagement up 62 for the first time in many years. They say at least 93 Million People have voted already, two thirds of the total votes counted in 2016. We can go on and take another call as we look at this about participation. In two thousand eight, it was 61. 65 . This article says it could be 62 or higher. We can go down the list and look at recent voter turnout numbers as we hear from lanita in alabama. Caller good morning. How are you . First, i want to say how many people do we know that could stand up under what President Trump has stood up under over the last 3. 5 years . It is unreal. Next, i want to say biden says we are going to have a dark winter. To all the christians and nonchristians, god is not a god of darkness. God is a god of light. President trump has stood up for israel. He stands up against abortion. He loves law and order, and he loves us. Are rippings children from their mothers arms. That is them talking out of both sides of their mouths. Because what is the difference of ripping children from their parents, which we do not know parents. E childrens it is been proven they werent. What is the difference in ripping them from whoever is holding them and ripping them from the mothers womb, even killing them after they are born . Murder is murder. It is murder either way you go about it. Host another 15 minutes or so of your calls, supporters of President Donald Trump on this day before the election. We will hear from supporters of biden coming up. Ads,is one of the trump called strengthen america. [video clip] strength, it is a word we have heard a lot this year. Strength of the American People, of the american worker, of the american family. We have seen grit, determination, optimism, hope. We took the virus head on and now we are getting back to normal life. The second shift, the dance lessons, and friday night football. Some want to tear us down. They do not believe in americas promise. Their ideas would kill jobs and drag down our economy. We will never give up on america, not now, not ever. Faith a time to renew our might restore our safety, rebuild our economy, to keep winning. Have faced our toughest challenge and we are overcoming like we always do. We believe in america. I am donald j. Trump and i approve this message. I am a fulltime trump supporter. We have to have him back in there again at reelection because he does stand up for our police, our military, our border patrol, which the democrats vilifying. Blackill not condemn lives matter violence and they will not condemn antiviolence. Antifa violence. All these big cities are boarding up their cities. They will rob and loot these cities . It is the left and democrats and joe biden supporters. Nobody on the left will condemn that. Going toafraid that is be there voting bloc. Host the hill follows up a story that developed over the weekend. Trump isine says signaling election challenges that first said the president would come out early and declare victory. He said sunday that he denied he would declare premature victory in the election but signaled republicans would mount legal challenges to prevent ballots from being counted after election day. It is a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after an election. It is a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long time after the election is over because it can only lead to one thing. He made the comments after landing in North Carolina. He was responding to a question heut an axios report that plans to declare victory prematurely. Drawn john in arlington, virginia. Did not decidey until last night. It was either vote for trump or do not vote for anybody. Biden made the mistake. He claims he is reaching out. He wants to bring people together. To abolish theng hyde amendment. For prolife people, that is a redline. Worker,est and catholic their taxes are going to be used for abortions. I do not think people understood what that was about except some of us did. That is a redline and bite and flipping it off like that really just showed a complete and sensitivity. There are a lot of prolife people of the Democratic Party to that issue. For what trump has done, he has kept the peace. We have not had a war. We had wars under bush, under clinton, under obama that we got into. Kosovo, iraq. He has took us out of that kind of stuff. Issue, he pushed that down to guatemala. Which has really caravans and things like that. People coming to this country that want to be immigrants go through the regular process and do all the paperwork. They should. That should be occurring. Host you lead out a lot of issues as to why you support the president , but you said you only came to that realization yesterday. What was it about yesterday . Why did it take you to this point as opposed to earlier . Mcmullen inted for 2016 because the conservatives had a choice then. I voted for somebody i wanted to vote for. Againstto vote somebody. The choice between two evils mentality. In this case, you almost had to. Trump has all kinds of faults. The next guys will do that. Done enoughhe has and tried for stabilization. I think he deserves another shot. I would love to see if you one that he reached out a little and brought people, particularly with this covid19 business, and some of the other areas where there is unrest, and i think he could do it. A nonideological mentality. There are dangers. North korea is dangerous. Solid missiles, that is a first strike capability i know they are working towards. Faceve problems we have to , but he has kept us out of wars, which is more than all these guys there supposed to be no would alstom Foreign Policy can say for previous president s. Host thanks for calling from arlington, virginia, laying out your thoughts this morning. That brings us to one other clip from last night at a rally in florida. He suggested to the crowd that he may fire dr. Anthony fauci my director of National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] we are going to have a safe vaccine that ends the pandemic. It drives them crazy. It is rounding the curve. News is want in the covid, covid, covid. Heres what happens. November 4, you will not hear much about it. You will not hear too much about it. [chanting fire fauci] do not tell anybody, but let me wait until a little after the election. Appreciate it. He has been wrong on a lot. He is a nice man. He has been wrong on a lot. Do not under any circumstances wear a mask, he said. Close to do not china, he said. He said later that President Trump saved tens of thousands of lives because i close early. Closed early. Host the president there in florida yesterday. This headline. Only 24 of Trump Supporters view the coronavirus outbreak as an important issue. Trump supporters, judy has been hanging on in washington. Good morning. Tell us about your support for President Trump. How strong is it . How enthusiastic are you about the president . Caller i back him 100 . He has done more for our country than any president in the United States ever has. He does not even take a paycheck. He has been hit from every angle from the left just horrible stuff. Texas for their actions the other day for escorting bidens trailer out of the state. He has kept us out of war. He has gotten rid of the obamacare. I am 72 years old. I work full time. There is no such thing as anything free. Somebody has to pay for it. The democrats pushing this everything is going to be for free is idiocy. He is a great man. He has stamina way beyond belief. I am beginning to wonder if he is actually human. President and he has made promises. He has kept promises. I like his immigration rules. I have no problem with people coming here, but not coming over and wanting a free ride. They need to do it right. Then they are welcome. Celia, massachusetts. Good morning. I have a comment about this election. I have a bad feeling. I think the democrats are going to steal this election. I have a very bad feeling because all they are doing is putting trump down and down. They are going to do something bad. Believe me, they are going to do something bad. Host why do you support the president . Caller i like everything he did. He is a patriotic man. The democrats, they do not love this country. They love themselves. I am not from this country, but i love this country. I am 70 years old now. Love for this country than people who grew up here. They burned the flax. About the republicans. Democrats are people. Biden, obama and mr. They tell a lot of lies to the people just to be elected. Has trouble with blacks and whites. He is the one that started the trouble. Last caller on our Trump Supporters line this morning. Coming up here in the east and later we will be joined by political report editor charlie cook for his analysis on election 2020. Coming up in a moment, we will turn our phone lines over to joe biden supporters only. Why are you supporting the former Vice President for president . Give us a call on our regional lines, eastern and central lines only, biden supporters only. 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That policymakers really should look at the whole picture. Announcer Research Scientist Daniel Wisner, tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on the communicators. On cspan2. Announcer youre watching cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. Washington journal continues. Host we are going to flip the page and hear from joe biden supporters. We will leave the phone lines on the bottom of the screen. One full hour for joe biden supporters. We will hear from the candidate in a moment, but lets get a call from betty from waukegan, illinois. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am a biden supported. I am 81 years old, born and raised in greenville, south carolina. Bidenson i support because he is a true christian. He goes to church. Donald trump, when you turn the bible upside down anyway. Biden, he i vote for dont divide the country. He trying to bring the country together. Grandkids,ght for my my great grandkids. When you see kids who do not come toward you, something is wrong. Kids know a good person. My little fouryearold greatgranddaughter, she tells me rainy, do not forget your mask. That is why i like joe biden. He is a true christian. I do not think we have ever had a president where we had three first ladys. God bless america. Thanks for accepting my call. Host betty from waukegan. Thank you. Biden leads trump by 10 points in polls. This is nbc news wall street journal. One of the many polls out there. Connie is from zephyrhills, florida. Caller hello. Biden in voted for florida because he is not trump. He is not a cult leader. He does not use brainwashing tactics on his followers. Those who called in the first hour need to get their heads examined. They are either senile or stupid. Trump himself said he could go in the middle of 5th avenue n shoot somebody and they would not care because they are dumb. Your vote is ak, vote against trump. Is there anything about joe biden youre voting for . Is there a policy, personality characteristic, anything there . Caller i think joe biden, although he has made a lot of mistakes in his career, he has voted for things as a senator i do not agree with, he is a decent human being. Trump is not. Host all right. Ronnie, calling from georgia. Caller [indiscernible] thanks for taking my call. Time, i have never seen the state of this country as it is now. We are taking this country back 50 years. We have to have leadership. We do not have leadership with this president. You can call it what you want come but this guy is not a leader. A leader brings people together. Not a divider. He is dividing this country. He is talking about bringing jobs i want people to take five minutes to see how many jobs he has brought back into their community. He is talking about taking away preexisting. The we see this guy selling people koolaid and they cant see it. As a veteran, he is not getting the military where it needs to be. He is not focused on ground troops. He is focused on big ships where the people with the big dollars can make money. Host you mentioned leadership, what do you see in joe biden that speaks to leadership . Thatr what i see is a guy knows that if you do not bring all races of people together, this country will fall. It will come into a dictatorship. We dont need that. Thats what we have now with 45 up there. He is dividing the people. He said he is for the blacks, no he is not. He is using that to get minority votes. If you cant see this, there is something wrong with you. Chaos,is country goes to theyhat voter fraud are part of this chaos that is going to for example, yesterday when that bus was coming through texas, instead of forsaying this is not right my constituency to do, we should allow everyone to vote their opinion. When trumps bus came through georgia, we listened. We did not try to block it. He said this was ok. Please wake up before it is too late. Host lets hear from the former Vice President in his own words yesterday. He held one of those drive and rallies in philadelphia two days before election day. He talked to the crowd about his roots in pennsylvania. [video clip] been doingi have this a while. One of the reasons i got elected in the first place in delaware was because of folks in pennsylvania. Pennsylvaniadia in , all of the media in delaware for the first 25 years of my career was philadelphia television. There was no delaware television. Happy having the moniker as pennsylvanias third senator. Phied the silly girl lly girl. Ive got my eagles jacket on. Honking]s i will never forget what president kennedy said when he promised we would go to the moon. Mightd words that colleagues used to kid me for repeating. He said we are doing it because we are americans. We refuse to postpone. I refused to postpone the incredible opportunities available to the American People. I refuse to postpone what we can do. There is nothing beyond the capacity of the United States of america. Nothing. There is no limit to americas future. The blinders have been taken off. The only thing that can take america apart is america itself, and that is what trump has been trying to do from the beginning. Dividing america based on race, religion, gender, national origin. It is wrong. It is not who we are. This is not who we are. Everybody knows who donald trump is. Lets keep showing him who we are. [honking] i mean this, it is not Just Campaign rhetoric. We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction. Truth overlies, truth over lies. It is time to stand up and take back our democracy. We can do this. We are better than this. We are better than what we have been. We can be our best. This is the United States of america. Host joe biden in philadelphia. He will hold a rally in pittsburgh today. He will be with his wife dr. Jill biden. 8 50 eastern at time tonight. This rally at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. Of all of these clips we are showing and speeches happening, you can watch all of them in their entirety at our website cspan. Org any time. Pennsylvania making news in the New York Times. Key swingof the states. Campaigns see pennsylvania as crucial to victory. Esther trump appears more competitive here than two other key northern states. Path to theclear White House Run through pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has more Electoral College votes, 20, than any other traditional battleground except florida. Mr. Trump won the state by less than one percentage point in 2016. We should point out the vote may take several days to count. The wall street journal reminds writes, butlvert quit because state law prevents counties from processing mailin ballots until election day on several counties have indicated they wont stop wont start counting until after election day. The way the law is set up means it could take days. Mary from martin s, california. In the formere Vice President . Caller i am a 91yearold woman and i am concerned about Social Security. I depend on that. I am afraid if donald trump gets back in power, he is going to discontinue the payroll tax which support Social Security. In three years come our Social Security will be bankrupt forever. That is what i am concerned about. Host have you always voted democrat . Caller yes. Host you think biden will be able to work with congress effectively on that issue . Caller absolutely. Biden is compassionate. He cares about people. Donald trump does not care about the elderly. He wants to get rid of us because we voted against them. Host jeffrey in auburn, new york. Supportusiastic is your for mr. Biden . Caller good morning. 100 . Veteran, i have never pulled the lever for a republican. Unopposed, irun would under vote. I will give you a few reasons. I think the imperial presidency is ridiculous. I would like to quote the wizard of id comic strip, the jester says to the king the peasants are revolting. Response, yes, they discussed me too. Response to the poor and black lives matter, they discussed him too. Where should i start . The Supreme Court. Seven catholics. Two jewish members. Getting closer to establishing a National Religion of catholicism through the back door of appointing two more Supreme Court justices that are catholic . We will have 100 Justice Department belonging to catholics. In closing, i am a democrat. Socialist ifme a you like. I really wanted to call in yesterday on the does religion matter . I would say to my religious republican brethren, jesus was a socialist. He said render unto caesar what is caesars. The rich hate the poor so much. Disciples, sell everything you have then give the money to the poor and follow me. Conclusion, he said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. I guess trump thinks he is going to build a bigger needle. Host jeffrey from auburn, new york. Tweets, this person biden helpedr, get aca coverage for preexisting conditions which helped a lot of republicans. Biden has passed bills that have helped blue and red. The second greatest economic recovery america has ever seen. He can also have a conversation with educated adults and does not humiliate america. He can talk intelligently. He has empathy. He understand how government works. He is a praying man and is willing to listen the voters. The main reason is that he is not racist. We have lilo from california. Good morning. Caller good morning. Trump denying the covid virus and this mismanagement of it is terrible. It has cost lives. Is behavior at his rallies deplorable. Ask based on that, what is it about joe biden and his experience or what he has been saying that leaves you to think he will manage the virus effectively . Caller you could just see. He sets a good example. He wears a mask. He does not have future crowds. Huge crowds. T have he sits that she sets a good example of what we need to do he sets a good example of what we need to do to conquer this virus. Host you were going to Say Something else . The donald trump things donald trump has done in the past, him having power is very important to him. Feel like he humiliates people. Like in puerto rico after the hurricane, he was tossing paper towels to the crowd. Veryught that was a demeaning thing to do. , he saidttesville there were good people on both sides. When all of that happened. He continually calls people names, which is a very infantile thing to do. Not something anyone with i just cant understand that. Host thank you for calling. Where vicki is calling. What do you see in joe biden . Caller good morning. This, see in joe biden is i see a man of integrity. I see a man that has compassion. I see a man that is a leader. I see a man that has been in office for 47 years doing something. If he had not been doing anything, no one would continue to vote for him. For eight years walked with president obama. Experience,idens that made obama a better president. I see a man that walks by faith. I see a man who is catholic, but he is going to be the president for everyone. I see a man who looks beyond just one religion but sees all religion. When he looks at the camera and says this election is about you, not us. It is about the little people. The working man. Came throughho death of his son. Hish of his children and first wife, yet he still stands. Says you knowat what, the woman he selected awkward,him a little yet he looked beyond that. That is what jesus does. Host let me jump in. You mentioned president obama. What impact do you think his presence on the campaign trail is making . Caller it is making a great impact. Obama, whenident you see him he is downtoearth. Something,bama said it is not about black, it is not about white, it is not about asian, it is not about latino, it is not about any of that. It is about america. We are all one. I live in texas. Had i been writing a had i , i would have been afraid because of the way they attacked that bus. When the president of the united , he plays a manipulative game. I want to say one thing about the black man who called on the republican line, black women do not want to black women want a man with integrity. Black women want a man that can live a life that is free. People grab and women by they private area. [indiscernible] if he chose her and obama chose biden, we are on the right track. Host thank you for calling from houston. For this hour, 40 more minutes of biden supporters only. We did the same thing for Trump Supporters in our first hour today. Lets take a look at florida. Appealingbiden ad directly to the villages retirement community. [video clip] being here is a blessing. This is disneyland for adults. We work hard and made a lot of sacrifices for our retirement and for the country. Trump has been wrong about covid from the beginning. He has failed in every possible way. I trust joe biden to get the virus under control because he has experienced. The last thing people want in their golden years is uncertainty. I have been a republican for most of my years. This is the most important election of my life. We have golf cart parades. Everyone decorates their golf cart with biden science. I am pride i am proud to carry the name biden on my cart. Primarilylages are republican, but there are a lot more democrats. Lets get joe biden in the white house. Biden is our guy. I am riding with biden. Host back to your calls. Sharon from minnesota, welcome. Caller good morning. Thank you. To thatreat big amen wonderful woman from texas. She said it all. I want to continue and say we cannot continue to allow the brain dead to lead the brainless. Oreel sorry for all of these unable to think for themselves. This is why am voting for joe biden. He is not a racist. He has never openly bragged about sexually assaulting women. He has never openly bright that he would like to have sex with his daughter. He has never claimed he would shoot somebody in the face. He has always said he would care for every Single Person in the United States, not just the red states. Tomorrow morning, i will be a very proud voter for joe biden for decency, unity, and to say no to trumps fascist agenda. Host thank you for calling. Do would in atlanta. How enthusiastic are you for joe biden . Choose joeefinitely biden. I want to say to the two callers prior to me, i thought they spoke very eloquently. The reason i am more enthusiastic about voting for biden, which are related did, he seems to take the pandemic more serious and seems to have a pragmatic National Plan to help mitigate the spread of coronavirus. The fact that he seems to give credence to science, epidemiology, and to experts, that is very meaningful. More he seems to have a humanistic approach to health care that would make it more affordable to more americans, including medicare for all. Ofo, he is a proponent making College Tuition free to College Students for families making less than 100,000. Showdition, he seems to sensitivity to moving in the direction to promoting a more livable minimum wage for american workers. Saying would conclude by he also shows more sensitivity, in my assessment, to problems of Police Brutality and issues related to what i would call the legitimate needs and social aspirations of black people. A United States of america, not a divided states of america. Working for all americans and that is an example of exemplary leadership. In conclusion, a think it is somewhat straight up disingenuous propaganda to characterize mr. Biden as a socialist or a communist who would make the United States communist country. It just does not happen like that. Is as much a capitalist as trump. Puttinghe is more about a resolution to the pandemic over the economy and making sure that americans are healthy and not open up the economy prematurely and put americans at risk. I think he is more stable, humane, and he will put the country in a battle a better direction. Wood inhat was de atlanta. Noton facebook rights, every other word of his mouth is a lie. He believes the covid virus is real and has a plan to attack it. Hisic character says basic character. Bobby writes, biden cares. Trumps divisiveness must go. Kevin is hanging on in windsor, connecticut. Caller good morning. Trump was handed a good economy. U. S. He first time in history when the president is on the world stage standing next to putin and he takes putins word over u. S. Intelligence, there is something wrong with this guy. We have got our allies laughing at our president. That does not look good. Intelligence dont brief congress. For the first time in american history, when there is a protest in washington, d. C. , where does our president go . A bunker. I cant believe Trump Supporters are backing this guy. Standing next to putin on the world stage. That is my comment. Host kevin in windsor, connecticut. , bidensgton post allies jockeying for potential jobs. Just to let you know what some people are thinking. There were other stories over the weekend that suggested he may want to find a way to tell some of the sitting Democratic Senators that he wants them to stay in the senate so they can get a legislative agenda accomplished. I bring that up because a lot of senators are on the list for potential cabinet seekers. Florida maytimes, hinge on the enthusiasm of black votes. Four years after President Trump carried florida by just over one point, no other single battleground poses quite the impediment to his reelection is americas largest swing state. Polls show joseph biden with a modest lead. No group of voters may be as vital to mr. Bidens success as africanamericans. The complicated political patchwork that is difficult for democrats to capture an impossible for them to win if there is ebb and enthusiasm among black voters. Yearss what happened four ago when only 65 of black voters 65 of black voters cast ballots. Where blacks represent even a quarter of the population, Hillary Clinton shared the vote decline from what president barack obama had garnered four years earlier. That is in the New York Times. Wels, colorado. Your calling. Good morning. I am not supporting biden, i am supporting the polls. Host what he mean . Haser the only good pole an American Flag on it. Stupid election, take all of that money and give it to the United States of america. Have a good day. Eva from daly city, california. Caller i vote for biden. He will keep democracy alive. Trump governs like a dictator. Because of antry dictatorship. I never felt scared in this country 52 years. Now, i am scared to talk to cspan. Dogs after us. He barks like a dog. He lies. To make us feel scared. God bless america and god keep democracy alive in america. Host let me ask, should joe biden get elected, what would you like to see him tackle first . Keep democracy alive. I know he is going to take care of health, which is important. Electedwhen trump got that if you dont give health to everybody we are going to have an epidemic and it is going to reach even trump. That happened. We have to think about our relationship with other countries. Other countries laugh with us makend they feel how we america to be. They feel sorry for us. Biden will take care of everybody. Trump will take care of his people. He talks about economy. When someone is having five bankruptcies when he is a businessman and was asked before he was running why you have five bankruptcies . He said the system give me the right. That is why i am going to be elected, to correct it. We have more bankruptcies now than ever. System prove he uses the just for his own benefits. People,family, for rich those are the people that got help from the stock market because they have the money and they manipulate. Now we all lost what we gained. And howhow i see trump i see biden. Biden will not lie to us. He will say straight, be careful of the virus. Be careful of everything. He lies to benefit himself. That is what i have to say. Biden has character. I was brought up to believe character is important in everybodys life. He doesnt have a character. He never respect woman. He believes woman is a piece of meat. He gets the money and he can enjoy it any time he feels like. Host thank you for calling. We want to get other viewpoints in. Peace. Er, the soul of the nation. That is why lynn is voting for biden. One man speaks of unity, the other speaks of division. The current occupant calls for his opponent to be jailed, biden calls for help. Barack obama in support of joe biden. Later today, he will hold a rally for joe biden in miami florida. You can watch that at 6 00 ortern here on cspan live, the cspan radio app, or cspan. Org. Harrisening, kamala holds a Campaign Rally in philadelphia. You can watch that at 8 00 eastern here on cspan. A busy day and a lot of Campaign Events. Here is more from joe biden. Rally inis drive and philadelphia yesterday. Here he attacks President Trump on his rhetoric. [video clip] joe biden the power to change this country is literally in your hands. I do not care how hard donald trump tries, there is nothing he is going to do to stop this nation from voting, no matter what. [car horns honking] joe biden when americans vote, america will be heard. I believe the message is going to be loud and clear, it is time for donald trump 2pac his bags and go home it is time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. [car horns honking] it is time to breathe life back into this nation. We are tired of the tweets, failure, irresponsibility. We have got a lot of work to do. If i am elected president , we are going to do it and we are going to start on the very first day. Are going to act [car horns honking] we are going to act to get covid under control. It is almost criminal the way he has handled it. On day one of my presidency, i will put in action a plan i have been talking about for months. Masking, social distancing, testing, tracing. A plan for a full, Fair Distribution of therapeutics and a vaccine when we get one. A plan to address the disproportionate way this virus has been devastating the black community. [car horns honking] folks, every single day we are seeing race based disparities in every aspect of this virus. Higher infection rates, lower access to testing, harder time quarantining safely, lower access to quality treatment, tragically higher mortality rates. Three times as many africanamericans are dying as white americans. [car horns honking] 100 black americans excuse me, one in 1000 black americans have died from covid19. If we do not change between now and january, it is estimated one in 500 by the end of this pandemic. Mass casualty event in the black amenity. It is totally unnecessary. Totally uncalled for. Host joe biden from yesterday. Also sent a tweet, as president , i will protect and build on obamacare by giving americans the choice of a new public option, lowering premiums, lowering the cost of prescription drugs. Greg is in denver, colorado. Caller good morning. Before i get into my comments, i would like to tap on something Vice President biden said. Day, if somebody gave it somebody else hiv they were arrested. President knowingly getting people infected and he is responsible for it. I think that is disgusting. Peoplenever seen so many trying to stop people from voting in my life. It is amazing that the Republican Party come of their whole effort is to suppress the , not have votes counted, [no audio] bidenwhat is it about joe you see that makes you think he should be president . Caller i have a few elderly next door neighbors. A lot of them have underlying medical conditions. We have a is absurd president who wants to take Health Care Away from people while he has watched over 230,000 americans die, 9 million americans get sick and he thinks everything is ok. We see the trump family on full display with don jr. , eric and his wife mocking people with disabilities, just like President Trump did prior to his election. We have don jr. Calling out to have people block traffic. His family is on full display. It is something mary trump warned us about. Lady, sheis a smart knows this family. Display, thefull trump family as a family of liars, cheaters, opportunists, they expect everybody to pay for their mistakes just like we see them pocketing taxpayer money. The president was charging the taxpayers three dollars for a glass of water at maralago. Advantage. Is take there are monsters. Host speaking about both joe biden and President Trump. Of calls froms joe biden supporters. Trust joe biden to bring us back from devastating economic losses. I trust them to represent all people, not just his supporters. This text from springfield, this america is not a place i have lived in for 62 years. It is time to bring decency, honesty and compassion back to the white house. Not to mention confidence. Bronson is an playbook, colorado. Caller good morning, america. Veteranietnam disabled born in mexico. I am more patriotic than 99 of the soldiers. The only ones more patriotic than me are the ones pushing daisies. I am a graduate of university. I am an activist. I speak on a denver radio station. I voted against donald trump. Hes got seven bankruptcies. Took hundreds of investors to the cleaners. He is bankrupting the country. He minimized the pandemic. Look up on the internet. June hart covered the coronavirus in 1964. This virus has been around since 1964 and nobody took the decency , the intelligence to develop a vaccine. We store millions of gallons of wine every year and we never theght about storing vaccine for future use. Host let me jump in. What do you see in joe biden and the people who may be working with him that gives you confidence about the handling of the pandemic moving forward . That though hoping there are no guarantees i am hoping he is going to be better. Im going to tell you what joe biden is not. Host ok. Insult does not he is a draft dodger. He is a racist. From parentsildren to send them a message. No minorities in his cabinet. Minorities murdered by dirty racist cops and he does not care. Host thank you for your thoughts. Usa today talks about younger voters. Young and progressive voters are biden,t settling for they are going all in. A story from the usa today. At first glance it looks like a typical Joe Biden Campaign is settled. Written the candidate who ran on a centrist platform was not the first, or even the second choice for many progressive voters. Bernie sanders garnered a large following after his president ial run, and Elizabeth Warren carried that mantle. After warren and sanders left the campaign, it became clear to 19yearold Samuel Weinberg he needed to do something to drum up support for a candidate he was not initially thrilled to back. You do not have to be head over heels in love with a candidate in order to vote for them, said weinberg. Founder and executive director of the seattle for biden organization. You really have to write now choose the better of the two options. We think joe biden is a very good option, given the circumstances. One explanation there of the level of enthusiasm for joe biden. That is an usa today. Final biden ad focusing on Voting Rights in North Carolina. [video clip] every american citizen must have an equal right to vote. My name is i was born the Great Depression. Spentearly childhood was working on the farm. We do not have a lot growing up. What we did have was family and love. The firstther became black licensed plumber in eastern North Carolina. When Martin Luther king started marching, that is when we were able to vote for the first time. They put a sticker on me. I wore that sticker until it wore out. I believe the country is ready for new direction. We are in a battle for the soul of america. A do not want to live through the era my grandfather lived through. I want to live in a country for all people. I am joe biden and i approve this message. Host here is one more call. Another call for joe biden. Mary in milton, washington im sorry milton, wisconsin. Caller i am voting for joe biden. Is too full of himself. This covid he said is turning the corner. It is getting worse. More people are dying. He wont listen to experts. Doctor, orp is not a scientist or anything. Order, we law and dont even know what is going on with his taxes. Host you are one of many calls this our who say they are voting for biden, and then they Start Talking negative about President Trump. We understand that, but is your vote is vote for biden, or against trump . Can you look at it that simple . Caller it is a vote for biden. I am hoping for something better. For thebetter outcome country . Caller yes. Host how would you describe your enthusiasm for joe biden himself . Caller he is more compassionate. He listens to people. I just want something different. I have had enough of what we have had. Host what do you see in your home state of wisconsin, a traditional battleground state, what are you hearing from friends and neighbors . Caller most of them are voting for biden also. Host any concerns about joe bidens age . Some have made a point of his age and ability to lead in his 70s. Caller now. No. Trump is not young either. Host anything else . Caller no, that was all. Thank you very much. Host thank you for calling. Heres a text from mark in westwood, new jersey, i voted for biden because we need renewable energy, Affordable Health care, and i need a president who will protect me from pandemics and preserve Social Security and medicare. Trump will do none of those things. He is a miserable failure. We will continue to take calls from joe biden supporters. Tell us why you are supporting the former Vice President. Give us detail on how you are thinking. If you are just joining, we did this for an hour with Trump Supporters from 7 00 to 8 00. In 12 minutes, we will talk to charlie cook and get his final take on the election of 2020. We go to frank in bayside, new york. Caller good morning. Host tell us about joe biden and your support. What do you see . Caller decency. I see a man that is not blind. He is willing to look and see the problems going on. He is willing to work with scientists. In my 60 years, i have never seen an election where stores , afraid ofoarded up the outcome. I have never seen that in my life. Seen 1968 when they had the riots, but that was over one concrete issue, the war. S was because they just these people that are Trump Supporters are blind. I do not see what they say. This man has done nothing. Like i tell my friends and relatives, if you have got a leak in the wall you call a plumber. If youve got sparks coming out of your wall, you call an electrician. When you need a mentor, when you need a man to run the country, you need a politician. Host host do you continue do you consider yourself moderate . Progressive . Caller moderate. I am open to change at all. Change and all. Not you dont like i think he is not a politician. I do not think he knows how to sit down and write a bill to send to congress. Butcould fact checked that, has he ever sent a bill to congress . Imply that joe biden would have a better chance of success in congress with what he wants to accomplish . Caller absolutely. He has been there. Thing, just like you have an age limit for the presidency, you should be voted in to a lower office before you could even be considered to run for president. Host if republicans keep the senate, youve got a Democratic House, democratic president if biden wins, then Mitch Mcconnell remains in charge of the senate, what do you see in that dynamic echo caller what do you see in that dynamic . Inler biden will be better getting the parties to agree and negotiate. Worked with a lot of for years. I think he could actually get things done. Host ok. Thank you for calling. Stephanie is another selfdescribed moderate, i am a moderate voter and independent thinker. Mark in san diego, california. Another biden supporter. Caller how are you doing . Host good. Tell us about your support. Caller it is not so much support for him as it is exhaustion from donald trump. Had some thoughts about crimes against humanity. Theyve got enough evidence. The woodward interview, trump was hiding things that could have saved lives. I think they have enough evidence on him to prove a lot as far as is ignorance and lack to the health of the american public. Theyve got him on tax evasion. I think trump wants to stay in to protect himself from legal prosecution on these issues. I think america has had enough of donald trump. It is not a reality show anymore. I think we will have a more levelheaded presidency should we be led by biden. Host what about the concerns for joe biden as president . Caller at this point, a think anything is better than what we have. Host simply put. Barbara infrom concord, california. Tell us about your level of support for joe biden. 100 on him. I am a diehard moderate democrat. If it wasnt biden, bernie, warren, i would have been voting for them. Ive got people registered to vote who never voted. This man has got to go. This country is going to hell. The german who just spoke, he is right. Arep and his cronies killing us. This is worse than hitlers. He should do something about this disease. Wake up, people. We dont need this no more. It is time to get our country back with some respect and class. Host what will be the first thing you want to do . Caller pull this country together and get democrats and republicans to the table and talk. This is ridiculous. Host thank you, barbara. Caller i dont get it, he is nothing but a blowhard. Host lets look at a text from vicki in texas, biden will keep and restore protections trump is rolling back like restoring the air restore clean water and , bring back Consumer Protection agencies, education, health care, unite the people protect the land, all of which trump attacking and rolling back. In terms of the president s schedule, we mentioned the event he and his supporters will be out. Superstars lady gaga and john legend will join joe biden and Kamala Harris for their final events on the trail today. Gaga is expected to appear at a drivein with the nominee and joe biden in pittsburgh. We will his we will have that live for you at it 50 p. M. Kamalagend will join harris in philadelphia. Barnstorming the keystone state the day before the election. No stretcher to politics, lady gaga has been active on social media encouraging followers to cast ballots. Biden on thejoined campaign to raise awareness about sexual assault. Candidates, but some top headliners in entertainment. Willie in georgia. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you . Host i am well. Caller this is the day before one of the most electrifying days in the United States. I am a fullblooded democrat. Joe biden is just with this country needs. When he called this and we need peace. Definitely my whole family, my son is retired lieutenant of the United States navy. I am prouder that he served his country. My son is not a sucker and a loser, he is a defender of the United States of america. I am thrilled and happy this morning because we are on the president lecting a that is going to bring harmony and common sense to american values. Democracy is on the ballot today. Unions around the country are on the ballot. Color, people in general is on the ballot. America is on the ballot right now. Liesve been fed a bunch of the last administration. Biden believe that joe and Kamala Harris is going to bring to the United States of america that we so desperately need. Host all right. Lets hear from betty. One last call. Green bay, wisconsin. Caller hi. Thank you for taking my call. Trumpeally upset me about was that he called the veterans losers. I just cant believe people that would vote for him. Today they also feel the same way . That our veterans are losers . It is terrible. It really is. Goes, the first thing he will take care of is the virus. Try to get it under control. If he fires dr. Fauci and put some puts someone else the other thing is the 545 children theye looking for cant find. The thing is this, they say obama did that. Yet, he had people together. He never separated the children. The way trump did. It is terrible. Tear children away from their families . That was a main thing. I just wanted to tell you that biden is he has decency. This is what we dont have as far as that goes. Trump says, i never said i am sorry to god. Its like everything is right betty. Thank you for calling. At studyfinds. Org, over half of americans believe november 3 will be the most stressful day of their lives. This comes from a one poll survey on the health of adults. 67 wanting the year to be over now. They go on to say that the study andals millennials at 61 members of gen x, 68 , or feeling the strain more than anyone else. One third of baby boomers feel the same way about election day tomorrow. One hour left in this election eve edition of the washington journal. One hour left. We will be joined by charlie cook of the Cook Political Report. He is the editor and publisher there. Plus more of your questions. We will be right back. Tomorrow is election day, november 3. Stay with us to learn who voters select to lead the country as president and which parties will control congress. Coveragetridge starts at 9 00 p. M. Eastern and continues on the washington journal. Join the conversation, share your experience, and hear from candidates. Watch live on cspan and cspan. Org or listen live on the cspan radio app. Election night on cspan, your place for an and filtered view of politics. Tonight, on the communicators, a Research Scientist on security and privacy issues with artificial intelligence. The problem is that trying to is alate encryption quick fix. It will not really help because concerted criminal activity is always going to find ways to hide their communication one way or the other, and it leaves the rest of us in a more vulnerable state, so i am concerned that policymakers really should look at the whole picture when making this choice. M. I. T. Research scientist Daniel Weisner tonight at 00 p. M. Eastern on the communicators on cspan two. Youru are watching cspan, unfiltered view of government, created by americas Cable Companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Washington journal continues. Host charlie cook on your screen, editor and publisher of the Cook Political Report. Thank you for joining us one last time before election day tomorrow. Why dont we start with your final prediction for the Electoral College, the race for the presidency. What do you see . Guest we will see Vice President biden winning. Wise,d say popular vote maybe 53 40 4 . In terms of Electoral College, i think he is going over 300 electoral votes, but i am not quite sure how much farther past that. It sort of depends on does he get six out of six or five out of six of the key six battlegrounds. And then there is the next 4 georgia, iowa, ohio, texas. I will go with north of 300. Host what do you see in those numbers that gets us to the point we are at in the prediction you are making . Electionssidential with no incumbent, those are choice elections, where people are waiting pros and cons. But that is not what these are. If you have an incumbent running, it is a referendum. It is up or down. Do you want to extend the present contract or not . If you have a president that has never been above 50 percent in gallupor national poll, or nbcwall street journal, any of those, and the president ial job rating is the best predictor of how president s go. For historic purposes, use gallup. We have had five president s in the postwar era that had the final gallup job Approval Rating of 50 . On. W you had two less than 40 . Both lost. And you had george w. Bush in the middle. 38 averaget trump, for your first year. 40 for your second, 42 for your third year, 41 for your whole presidency. With numbers like that, you do not get reelected. And this is before the coronavirus hit. Understand the betting markets. I do not understand people they not, thatthat do refused to, that look at this election through the lens of 2016 when there is virtually nothing in common. Host charlie cook will be here to take your calls. I want to get the lines on the bottom of the screen first. We are talking about campaign 2020. If you are supporting the Biden Harrison ticket, call this number, 202 7488000. If you support the trump president ial ticket, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, 202 7488002, and explain why you might be undecided. A couple more questions while we wait for those calls to come up. An cook, what do you see as early signed tomorrow night that would be a good one for biden or for trump in terms of states . Watchingat i will be unfortunately, the three political Tipping Point states, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, they will be reporting so late that i think we will have a good idea of who the president is long before they are decided. I will be watching texas. Four years ago, that was called at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. If the president is winning by 5 more in taxes, that would be a hopeful sign for his supporters, but if he is only winning by 1 or 2 , that would worry me if i were a trump person. And if the president loses texas, then it is over. He has a series of about five states, hurdles he has to get over, before he can get to michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. Florida,xas, georgia, ohio. And he only has a lead of a point or two in any of these states if that. In terms of being able to see the writing on the wall, i do not think this will be a terribly late night. Host you are recently at the six. Com about faulty assumptions on which the Trump Campaign rested. What are you saying here . Guest there are a number of things that the trump folks thought would happen that didnt. And because of that, we are in a very different place. They thought the economy would just continue to be roaring along all the way through the reelection. Instead we had that little detour with the coronavirus. Second, that the coronavirus would not be bad or would be gone quickly so that the economy could come back. I am not saying that the economy is a headwind facing the president like you might normally if you had a downturn during an election, but it is a loss of a tailwind. The main reason to support him would have been, i think, the strong economy. You take that out from under him, you remove that tailwind, and it is kind of hard to offset some of his other problems. I think they thought they would that Vice President biden would mess up in the debates. I started hearing as far back as march Trump Supporters saying he is senile, he has dementia. I was thinking, gosh, the guy i watched campaigning in iowa did not. The guy i watched in the debates did not. You know. It is just a series of things. And money, that they would be able to continue to raise money at the pace and at the inclined that they were back in the late spring and over the summer. You know, you have an incumbent republican president of the United States getting outspent and outraised. Just as a metric, never in our lives have we had a republican president who is having problems raising money as this campaign has over the last couple months. Just using that as a nonpulling metric, something is amiss. Metric, something is amiss. Host we are speaking to charlie cook of the Cook Political Report. We are looking at electoral ratings. 290 electoral votes solid for the biden ticket. This point for the trumppentz ticket. We will see how this conversation plays itself out. The Cook Political Report also has an updated look at the house totals. First call. Pompano beach, south florida. You are a biden supporter. Good morning. Morning, mr. Cook. How are you, sir . My question is basically this. I am a strong biden supporter. Pertaining tohelp philadelphia and especially here in florida because we are looking to see if that would victory to claim especially on the economy and the corona . How would that help them to declare victory . Vice President Biden has all 20 of Hillary Clintons up, so literally all he needs is michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, the state Hillary Clinton lost by. 8 or less. But since they will not decide in 2016, i would go by ap calls. Pennsylvania was not called until 135 time in the morning eastern. 1 35 in the morning eastern. So i am looking at these earlier states on the way and these are big states. It could bee the one that will tell us who the next president of the United States is because florida reports really quickly. They have cleaned up their act a lot since 2000. If the president comes up short in florida, then, you know, the night is over and the same thing as and ohio and i would kind of say that in georgia. Because biden is going to start off with the 232. Big three, michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, i think michigan and wisconsin, biden is in really good shape. Think, you know, i do not people keep talking about a contested election. I think the contested elections will be in the senate, where there will be legal handtohand combat over a bunch of these senate seats when we get past november 3. Host lets get alan in on the conversation. He is in fulton, mississippi. Hello. Caller thank you for taking my call. I would like to make a comment, if i may. Host please do. Caller i am a supporter of President Trump. And i am totally against biden for this reason. Smoking gun hanging over his taking 3his son and 1 of a contract million a year salary. Thisbi has not acted on for some unknown reason. If this proves to be true and the people who have got all the evidence is putin, the other oil company where his board,ked, or sat on the and also china. If this man, biden, is elected, compromised by three of the biggest countries in the world. Host thank you, alan. Charlie cook, one of the viewpoints there a trump supporter. My job is not to take sides. I suggest the caller look from some more objective sources and not sources that are slanted one way or the other where a publication has a clear preference because i counted numerous factual errors in what he said. My job is not to play fact checker, but i think a lot of times people, both on the left and the right, live in ideological silos and get their news from very ideological sources that sometimes play fast and loose with the truth and it is a problem on the left and on the right. And people have gotten away from having sort of the common way we get information. That is kind of one of the problems with massive social distancing. A good chunk of the American People have just severed their relationship with what i would call normal media, nonliberal, nonconservative, just sort of they dont listen. And as a result, it may be them do not take some things as seriously as they should, like coronavirus and masks and social distancing because they stopped watching cbs. They do not get time or newsweek. They go for a confirmation of views they already have. A trusted news source used to be walter concha right walter conkrite. Ht host what about the reliability of polls . One viewer, mickey from los writes onlyhts two organizations correctly predicted trumps victory. What is your opinion of those two polls methodology . And more broadly, the National Polls were wrong last time. I know that usc poll. I do not know the other poll, but the usc poll was the most off poll in 2016. They had donald trump winning the popular vote by 5 or 6 , which is about as often as you could possibly get. The fact is, the average, the poll average, if you went on real clear politics on the morning of the election, you would have seen Hillary Clinton at 47 and donald trump at 44 . And when all the votes were counted, she went to 48 and he went to 46 . That is at. A two point spread. That is not very one point off is not very wrong. Now, people conflated the popular vote with the Electoral College and they just assumed that if somebody was going to win the popular vote that they would win the Electoral College, which often times, usually, is right, but these things have become kind of unhinged a little , not as insync as they used to be, where we have a lot of close elections. 1948, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1992 they were all close, but they went in the same direction. Even in 2000, when al gore did when the popular vote, but only did whennd george bush the Electoral College by votes in florida. People just looked at that and thought this is a once in the century statistical fluke. We knew it happened in 1876 and but we only went 112 years before it happened, but it was the closest thing to a tie election as you could get. 2004 was close, but the popular and electoral went the same way. Not quite as close in 2000 and 2012, but what we have now is, in the case of Hillary Clinton, when you are winning california by a 4. 3 million vote margin, that means that 4. 3 million are wastedotes because they do not get you electoral votes. In in new york state and illinois. Theersely, republicans, states they went by big margins buy big margins are smaller and mediumsized states. The fact is that a democrat needs to win the National Popular vote by 3 or 4 before they can be comfortable. But the National Polls were not off much at all. I do not consider one point off. And 47 states went pretty much the way we thought. If you had gotten up on election day and looked at cook political. Com, we had 40 states solidly went for clinton or trump. We had two states that were tossups. We were wrong on three. Those were where the polls were wrong. And with the professional group, the society of pollsters, looked at it and rain that by the files. Underid find a systemic sampling of whites with less than a Fouryear College degree and oversampling of whites with. And most of the time, that would not have made a whole lot of difference, but this time it did. Ofald trump got the support all kinds of people, but his Strongest Group absolutely was whites with less than a Fouryear College degree, particularly white men. Anything that under samples them at all would affect. ,o they started weighting adjusting, by educational status, and the polls in 2018 are fine. One last thing. I know i have talked to long. Too long. There is this assumption that if there is a polling error, it will going trump go in trumps favor. It could go either way. Turnout is high. I think every Demographic Group will go up. But if you have white, suburban, College Educated women turnout in higher numbers than they might otherwise, you could have a polling error go in the other way and these may be understating joe biden. Solid, bestw, the methodological polls are showing biden ahead by 8, 9, 10 points, and they fixed the problem in 2016. People need to be more cognizant of the Electoral College and how that works in individual states and not rely solely on the popular vote. Host we have carol on the line from norwich, new york. A biden supporter. Hello. Caller good morning. I would like to switch the focus from the president ial race to the 22nd congressional district, two candidatesen there. You have consistently rated that is a tossup, and i would like to ask you just a comment in general about that race and mentionke a minute and the libertarian that is also in that race. Andi have a second question that relates to about two years ago, i called in when you are on and you were reading senator mccains book. I ask you about the then new book about political alignment. You said it was the next book you are going to read that was on your bedstand to read. I would like to ask you what you thought about that book and kind of his what i considered to be pretty rigorous analysis of the electoral the electorate. One thing i took away from it was the number of partisans who do not so much love their own candidate but hate the opponent in the other party, and i think that was pretty well demonstrated the last hour, the number of democrats who, when asked about how they voted, why they are for biden, talked about how much they despised trump. Host carol, think you for calling. Charlie cook. Guest i know David Wasserman, our house editor, was on the show, a week or so ago. We have the 22nd district of new tossup. Ed as a it is a state that has got a six percentage point tilt towards republicans in president ial it, but the catch is means it votes six points more republican than the average district around the country. The thing is, we are seeing a about 6, 7,2016 of 8 points, where you just sort of subtract from a republican where fromwere in 2016 or President Trump where he was in 2016 in these places and you will get basically where things were in 2018 and where things look like they may be headed right now. We have that as a tossup race because the district has a natural tilt towards republicans, but, given the environment, it kind of evens it back up. It is one of the few democratic tossups we have. I do not think, in the year like unlikely to see Democratic House incumbents lose this year, just as in 2010 and in 2014 you did not see republican incumbents losing, where voters were sort of punishing democrats in those two Midterm Elections. This has the feel of a Midterm Election, but it is in a president ial year, and more importantly, a year that ends in zero, which means the census is this year. They recut the lines for the next decade. House members on the ballot this year, they are the ones that will be involved in drying the maps drawing the maps. This is a huge race. Abramowitzs book, and he is a friend of mine, and we are in the same emailed chain multiple times a day, i think his idea of negative partisanship is dead on. The sort of vitriolic hatred of leaders of the other party. If you just think of the last few president s, the anger and the hate that a lot of republicans had for bill clinton inmed unprecedented at least our lifetimes. Among democrats, then, towards gorge george w. Bush. Fromit went the other way, republicans towards obama, and now it has gone the other way, from democrats towards trump. Just kind of wonder escalating levels of hostility toward the other party and it is not healthy for the process. I think alan is right. Host is ruth for charlie cook. Good morning to you, ruth. Caller good morning. I have two statements before i talk about the polls. Donald trump in charlottesville. He did say there are good people , but i disavow the kkk and white supremacists. Bidens, as good as he is he the kkkle, in the 70s right up until the day he walked into the white house as Vice President , when he said, oh my, i couldnt believe it. Smart ands actually he is clean. That is what he thought about black people. In the polls, i think trump will win. Wins because trump i do not want to be a socialist country. Host all right, ruth. Charlie cook, any reaction . Guest some of the facts, i am not familiar with those and cannot really comment. I was not really following as closely as i would like to have been able to. Again, my job is not defending either candidate were side. Or side candidate or side. Each party has factions or wings. Hadhe republican side, you the tea party over here and the establishment over here. The tea party evolved into the trump base over time. In the democratic side, you have two factions. You have 40 or so who are extremely progressive. Sanders, bernie Elizabeth Warren, aoc and the squad, all of that, and they want big, major, systemic change, Something Like what the caller was describing. You have the other 60 that is not so much that way. And that is where biden came from, you know, spent his career in, and the reason he is the democratic nominee is the party chose not to go the other way. Remember, Bernie Sanders was on the cusp of winning the democratic nomination on super tuesday, and that is when the more establishment wing of the Democratic Party said, oh my gosh, we will nominate bernie and he will lose. And thats not a good thing and out they shut ,loombergs and klobuchars basically push them out to clear the deck for joe biden. Maybeiked him but they thought he was old and accidentprone and were disinclined to nominate him, but they were doing that because he is not in the wing i think the caller was describing just as a lot of other republicans are not necessarily in the trump wing. But there are factions in each party. But, you know, i would know more put biden in the farleft faction of the Democratic Party than i would put mitt romney in the far right part of the Republican Party. Fetish not where they are. That is just not where they are. Host lets turn to the senate and the battle for that legislative body. Charlie, you wrote, a little more than a week ago, suddenly, is Anything Possible in the senate races . See shaping up after tomorrow . Atst people tend to look the senate in a binary way. Either republicans hold the senate or democrats pick it up. I would look at it differently. Can holdepublicans their losses down to a c or two 52, thatan go to 51 or is what they are dreaming about. They are sort of resigned that they will have a net loss of a seat or two. On the other side of the break him, if democrats pick up three 0 and and it is 505 biden wins, harris breaks ties. With relatively centrist democrats having a lot of leverage of what is coming to the senate. On the other hand, the bigger the number goes i mean, there is one democratic seagoing republican, alabama. And the other democratic see that is in jeopardy at all is michigan, gary peters, and it is not close. I do not think it will go. But you have republican seats teetering on the knifes edge and a three of them have been behind for a good while and are likely to lose. And six more that are really close. Iowa, really close. Montana, really close. Both of the georgias are really close. You could see democrats picking up only a seat or two all the way to democrats picking up a net gain of seven or eight seats. I mean, it is a real wide range here, and it depends on which way the tossups. And we know from history that the races that are a toss at the very end never just split down the middle. And on average, 70 break when way or the other break one way or the other. Voting red or blue. If they are in the mood to punish republicans, it could be an ugly night for republicans. If it is like 2014, it is an ugly night for democrats. A bad year for republicans. I have only seen one wave president ial year and i have only seen one in my life, 1980, ragancarter. Win over carter was 10 points and the more reliable polls are showing this race at 10 points. Host hello, alan. Welcome to the program. Thank you for taking my call. I am a longtime watcher and i believe this is the best show on television. I also want to put in a plug for your book the president s. I highly recommend everyone get a copy of that and read it. I think it is more a referendum on president s have done, who are the good ones, who are the bad ones. All the best president s, in my opinion, were all liberal. Reagan, andd ronald personally, i thought he was a terrible president. But i also thought that most of the president s we have had have been the worst. So i disagree with the listing. Host do you have a question for mr. Cook . I thought every president who was a businessman rates among the worst. Mckinley, harding, coolidge, hoover, george w. Bush. That was my thing against trump. He is a businessman. The government is not a business. Host thanks. Lets hear from dj in hampton, virginia. A supporter of President Trump. Caller good morning. I have a question and a comment. What i would like to know they keep saying so Many Democrats percentage and so many ublicans percent should republicans percentage have already voted. Isnt it a secret . How do they know . Guest some states do not have Party Registration at all. Some states do. Marilyn does, virginia does not. When you vote by mail, some states cannot tell. They are not looking. They cannot tell how you voted, but by just scanning the barcode, they can know whether this was a ballot sent to a democrat or sent to republican, and they keep account. There is a website, u. S. Electionsproject. A professor atd, the university of florida, and you can count hourbyhour how many boats have already been cast. Votes have already been cast. In about a dozen states, you can the democrats and republicans, not how they voted, but whether that ballot was returned by a democrat or a republican. You can figure some things out, because 90 of republicans will vote for trump and 90 of democrats will vote for biden, but at the same time i would not go projecting these vote totals because some of these are people who were going to vote anyway, they just voted early. I would not get too excited. In states with Party Registration, some states do track which votes have gone out and which ones have come back even without opening the envelope or whatever. They just scan the outside, the barcpde. Barcode. Diego,lizabeth from san a biden supporter. Good morning. Caller i would like to comment on an earlier callers perspective that people are more against trump than for biden. I would like to say that i really think that one of the biggest factors in this election is trump and his divisiveness. Has justlienated alienated half of america from the first moment that he gave his inaugural speech. As a blue state person, he has never come across as a president of all the people and it goes back to lincolns wonderful observation, i house divided against itself cannot stand. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Host asking you about the pending very large turnout. Based on that last call, is it a turn out to remove a president from office . A turnout to keep him in office . To what do you attribute the high, high numbers, maybe alltime numbers . Guest i would say it is both. It is Something Like we had in the Midterm Election two years where the trump base came out in enormous numbers and the antitrump base came out in enormous numbers, which is why we had the highest turnout for a Midterm Election since 1914. Im sorry yeah, 1914. I was not distracted. I was trying to look up a callersto the question about voting for or against because that is a question that the mbc wall street journal poll has been asking for a while and it should be right here. Well. Im sorry. Ask me Something Else while i am looking for this. Host why dont we take a call while you are looking for that and we can get back to both of your points . Trumperidian, idaho, supporter. Good morning. Caller i am 73 years old. The first time i have voted for a republican. Host how come . Caller i was disappointed in the way the Democratic Party actually acted with trump. I thought they were very childish. I do not believe that he was given a chance. He was put down from day one. And the news media, i believe, was very angry with him because he exposed many of the stations as far as fake news. Host pat, how do you think the president has performed in these four years . Caller i think he has done a great job. The best that he can. He has a lot of battles that he has been fighting. His personality i am not voting for his personality. I am voting for what he has done. The economy was fine when he took office. He just made it a little bit better. So if it is not broken, why fix it . Host do you have a question for charlie cook while we have him here . He willi am hoping that well,ue on doing especially in the battle states. I cannot believe i think. I dont know. I guess i do not really have a question. I have not really thought about a question for mr. Cook. Host thank you for calling. That is probably enough for mr. Cook to respond to. Your earlier question about what is driving turnout. I believe you are looking for a poll question. Caller this is a question guest this is a question from a recent wall street journal poll. Did you vote in the last election because you like President Trump . Lets see. Voted for trump because you liked his policies, 23 . Because you did not like clinton, 16 . Did not vote for trump because you did not like his policies, and voted for clinton because he liked her policies. I think this is more voting against than normal. Toward President Trump, both positive and negative, are driving turnout. Peoplee got a lot of that have very strong emotions about the president , both positive and negative. It is what it is. Your charlie cook, colleague David Wasserman has the final ratings for the u. S. House. Cook is saying that the democrats are poised to expand majority by 10 to 15 seats. Tell us more. Guest we started this cycle expecting first of all, david is our house editor and he is the expert on individual house races and collectively. I used to do it. When i was first part of this newsletter, i did everything in the old days and used to have a granular knowledge of districts. And less so now, because im doing more big picture macro stuff. Normally, if a party lost 40 seats in the house in one election, they would get some back. Thater the challenger was was successful just did not work butor the dynamics change, normally you would expect that republicans would be picking up seats after a 40 seat loss. Said, thingsas i are getting more parliamentary. You either like President Trump or not and that is coloring how you are voting for congress and areeverything else, so we so this is more reflecting it really is a referendum, up or down on him, where joe biden is almost beside the point to a certain extent, which is sort of normal because people are making a judgment primarily about our president. I was talking about the house of representatives, i am sorry. The political environment started going from republicans pick up 10 seats or so, but short of the 17 they need for control, and it kind of moved back towards well, you know, republicans could gain five seats, democrats could gain 10, andadually zero to they just moved it up to one notch beyond that right now getting are just in small town rural america, republicans are doing fine. They really are. Be. Er than normal, may but in suburban america, ones with a lot of collegeeducated suburbs, it is really ugly and that is where republicans lost a bunch of seats and where they still have some that are very vulnerable. And if you looked on cookpolitical. Com and go to charts and then house, you can see our ratings, but they have evolved a lot over the last year for races getting iffier republicans than where we thought it was a year and a half ago. It is a lot of movement. We are talking to lots of strategists, officials, campaign operatives, pollsters in both parties about what is going on in individual races and all of that kind of percolates up through our estimate where david does an assessment of each individual house race on what it is likely to do based on what is going on there and then it is collectively brought in and put in a basic model. So that is where we are. We just moved it this morning. Host North Carolina come our next caller, abiding supporter. North carolina, our next caller. A biden supporter. Kent. I have been following jeb bush hadnt been governor yet. An ability to brand or does he have posters . Pollsters . When he said in 2016 that he just shoot somebody, is it an ability to get lucky when he made that statement . Has he always had people that have done polls for him and given him i mean, even calling the news fake news, you know, he can say things like that, and his base still agrees with him. I just wondered if he is getting that from polling information or if it is just his ability to bring it. There,ent, while youre what do you see happening in this North Carolina sending rate senate race between tellis and cunningham . I think tillis had lost until this latest add. This may be the first time i will be voting for a democrat. Despite the scandal. It will be the first time i voted the first time. Kasich in 2016 and i just could not vote for hillary or trump, but i think cunningham by a slimit out margin. Host mr. Cook. Guest this is one of the races that has been a premier senate race for the last year, year and a half. Martha arizona with sally make sally, tillis in North Carolina, maine, were vulnerable republican seats. It is not as much him as the president s weighing him down. To me, the fact that cunningham had been five or six points ahead, Something Like that, and then he had this sex scandal, and it moved it about a point or two, which normally you might expect it to kill a candidacy, but it did not. Isaac the reason is people are not voting for him because i think the reason is people are not voting for him because of him or his character, they are just voting blue. Just as in other years, people are voting red. Is the incumbent is mattering less and less and less in these senate and house races. Ron brownstein, a former colleague of mine, who writes or the atlantic and cnn, writes to say that the name on the jersey does not matter anymore, just the color, and i think that is exactly right. Question, i first think a lot of this i mean, yes, President Trump has a pollster. Yes, he has political advisors. Some are good, some are ok, whatever, but i think he operates off his instincts more than any politician i have ever seen. This is just sort of his gut feeling. You have to say, whether you like him or not, it is pretty remarkable for somebody that a real estate billionaire, lives on the 67th floor of a tower was able to see, understand, and tap into this sort of fear, anger, and frustration of workingclass people and people that live out in small town, rural america. I think that is off his gut. I think that was before he ever had a pollster. His instincts were to do this. I think he uses consultants just to sort of implement or finetune things a little bit, but he works off his own instinct or than anybody else i have ever seen, but i think his statement that he could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and his supporters would stay with him, i mean, i think it is basically true. I mean, his supporters are rocksolid. So thatot 40 or 42 or will be with him no matter what. On the other psych, there is about 45 , close to 50 , that will vote against him no matter what. That leaves this tiny group in like the economy and gave him full credit for the questions,t had some misgivings, doubts, feelings about his character of or whether he could trust what he says, but as long as the economy was good, it was holding those things in check. Once he lost the economy, then these other considerations became more influential and it is why he is having such a hard time winning any swing voters at and has he is rocksolid enthusiastic supporters of his base. Host lets go to one of the other states, a very interesting state, it is georgia. Forsyth, georgia, where we have al, a trump supporter. Go ahead please. You are on with charlie cook. Two or three years, the president was on an Investigation Called russian hoax, which turned out to be a hoax. That may have something to do with his campaign as of now, but as far as anything else, the president has been doing a great job. I am a supporter. The economy was shut down to save lives. That is why people lost jobs. I would like to get your opinion. Before you get off, who are you supporting in the Georgia Special election, loeffler, collins, etc. . Going withm senator loeffler because she was picked by the governor, brian kemp, and she is a big supporter of the president and his policies. That is what i am looking at. I am looking at policies, not anything else. The policies of the president that worked. We are coming back on the super economy and i think we will be in great shape as americans in the next year. Host thank you, al. Guest my job is not to defend or attack anybody, but i would suggest that the caller look at some of the statements by the current and previous directors of National Intelligence and the fbi. There are a lot of authorities that are not necessarily saying that it did influence the outcome of the election, but what they are saying is that there was unquestionably a russian attempt to influence our election, and part of it was it may or may not have been to help or hurt one candidate or another, even though prudent has long despised Hillary Clinton though putin has long despised Hillary Clinton, but to undermine our democratic process and shake it up. They were trying to destabilize us. So there is not really any question within the Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community that there was at least an attempt by russians to do these things. Went,ffect, how far it that is more subject to interpretation. Host charlie cook, we have one more time for a call we have time for one more call. We have to get over to the house. Lets hear from debbie first. Abide in supporter. A biden supporter. Caller thank you. Charlie said all the things that trump tapped into, the workingclass anger, but what he did not list was that bigoted racist vote. I am here in flint, michigan, where we are 5050 black and white. It goes back and forth every ensus, but we are 5050, and i cannot tell you how many people that are still offended we elected a black president. And a lot of the anger trump tapped into was the anger. There is a famous picture of when barack obama was doing his estate of the union, his first union, andhe there are republican senators with arms crossed and gals on their face scowls on their face. That is what we are dealing with. The attitude. A terrific book, identity crisis, by three political scientists about the role of identity in politics and how it played in the 2016 election. I saidw, the thing is, one thing about being able to tap into bluecollar anger. The caller raised other issues relating to raise, but there is a relating to race, but there is a feeling that when one person or group gets an are an opportunity, that must have been taken away from someone else. People see these new rising groups and people coming in, various minority groups, whatever, getting opportunities they have never had before, and they think these opportunities must have been taken away from me. There is a fair amount of that going on, but this is going to be an amazing election. I personally do not think it will be a late night. Maybe not will have declaration, but a decent idea early on where it is headed. I think the senate and how far it is going, it could go for days and days, but i just encourage everyone, no matter which side youre are on, go vote. Host we hope you enjoy the rest of your day. Stay with cspan for plenty of live coverage of various Campaign Events throughout the day, well into the evening. We will be back tomorrow for another edition. We take you to the floor of the u. S. House of representatives now. They have a pro forma session. That means a prayer, pledge of allegiance, and usually they go out right after that. That is part of the constitutional requirement the house has. They are out of session right now as is the senate until after the election. Here is the pro
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