2027488000 on the eastern and central time zones. In the mountain pacific regions, 2027488001. You can also send a text to 2027488003. On twitter, we are at at cspan wj. Biden supporters only this first hour. We did republicans only yesterday at the same time. Your thoughts on how joe biden will govern. Should he align himself with moderate or progressives. Again, 2027488000, eastern and central, 2027488001, mounted and pacific. This is the reporting of the Arizona Republic this morning biden increases lead, ending trumps hopes that continuing what count would put state in his column. Seemingly every National News organization that had not already called arizona for president elect joe biden nbc, cnn, New York Times and it. Washington post called fox news and the Associated Press had already called arizona for biden last week but at that point President Trump had a chance albeit slim to pull ahead of his democratic challenger. Biden needs trump with a margin greater than the estimated number of ballots remaining to arizona. D in the thursday evening results from about 4000 Maricopa County ballots went 53 for biden and 43 for trump. It hadnt changed much, the map was already called for arizona by the associated dress. That is the data by the Associated Press. That is the data we use for cspan. Quoting from the Washington Post turning arizona blue is a huge achievement fro for biden. Since 1998, only bill clinton has won the mother state. After saturday nights announcement that he went over the top electoral votes, joe biden said this about his governing mandate for the election. Pres. Biden i said at the outset i wanted to represent what looks like america. We have done that. For all those of you who voted for President Trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. I have lost a couple of times myself. But now, lets give each other a chance. [cheers and applause] away the harsht rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to and to makegain, progress come that we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are americans. They are americans. [cheers and applause] the bible tells us, to everything there is a season, a time to build, a time to reap and a time to so, and a time to heal. This is the time to heal in america. [applause] [cars honking] , whatis campaign is over is the will of the people . What is our mandate . I believe it is this america has called upon us to marshall the forces of decency, the forces of fairness, to marshal the forces of science and the forces of hope in the great battles of our time. The battle of control of the virus. The battle to build prosperity. The battle to secure your familys health care. The battle to achieve Racial Justice and root out systemic racism in this country. [cheers and applause] planetbattle to save our by getting climate under control. [cheers and applause] decency,e to restore defend democracy, and give everybody in this country a fair shot. That is all there asking for. A fair shot. Host president elect joe biden from saturday night. Our first hour of biden supporters only how should he govern . The line is 2027488000 for those of you in the easterncentral time zone, 2027488001 for mountain pacific. Headline today, joe biden is forging ahead. s teamsidentelect gets briefing. Our first caller, go ahead. Caller good morning. The question of how president elect biden should govern, i think applies to not only himself but also to our members of congress. We have to stop the namecalling. Bothve to demonstrate that democrats and republicans are willing to Work Together, and that is also the responsibility of the republicans because of the level of distrust for both the government and elected officials that this point in time. It might be a good idea to establish a group to investigate and to make recommendations to ensure that our electoral votes are counted properly. And to encourage and to demonstrate, to actually demonstrate on the part of the president and members of congress that they are willing to Work Together in terms of , and not in terms of retaining power. This is what concerns the American People. It is not so much for example the aca that is at issue, its the way that it was passed. People in this country want to see their elected officials working together in terms of compromise. Dominates and ignores the other party, you have a vast majority of people in this country that feel disenfranchised do joe biden is wellsuited to that, to bringing over members of the other side, the republicans . Caller people have free will, and it is the responsibility of disagreeing parties to be willing to come together. Maureents hear from next in redwood city, california, how should joe biden and his administration govern . Caller your last caller talked about unity. I am going to talk more about policy. Havenk joe biden should everything as jobs, jobs, jobs, and the economy. Then he can pick progressive policies to bring internet and rapid wrap jobs around that and satisfy both sides of the aisle. That which hedoes has been talking about, i think he will be successful. Host more rain, thank you you. En, thank the headline on the Washington Times progressive leaders in Congress Urge presumptive president elect joe biden to go big and go bold with the liberal agenda next year despite pushback from more moderate members of the party. Quote, your instincts are there, but lets get things done and lead on the issues, from the progressive caucus cochair you know what to do but lets seize this moment and lead with bold ideas. On the first day of the progressive strategy summit, the cochair, representative Pramila Jayapal in washington outlined priorities for the but administration. The list includes dismantling President Trumps orders on daca, implementing a federal 15 minimum wage, rejoining the Paris Climate Accords, and canceling a large portion of student debt. Next up is brenda in antioch, california. Caller yes. I think that he needs to govern from the center of the Democratic Party. When he was running, one of the groups that came out strong for him, and he acknowledged it, was black america. So within that, i have to tell you that out there, one of the reasons that Bernie Sanders did not win was that everybody is not there yet to the farleft, that is not what everybody in the Democratic Party wants to do. So i think he has to govern and listen to everybody. Likelyto do what is more to be able to pass. And he has to be pragmatic about it. I know everyone is not going to get what they want, and i want a president who is not going to worry about giving everybody what they want, that is going to be worried about doing things that could actually happen. Timet want a lot of wasted and fights that are going nowhere. I do think that i agree with the previous callers, they need to learn to get along with republicans. I am one of those people that have always said at, th republicans are not the enemy, they are people like us, even though they there are crazies and extremists on both sides, and i was scared [beep]less by trump, his jim jones mentality and the way i saw people behaving, that scared a lot of people and that is probably one of the reasons he lost. I just really hope that he will stick to what he said those announcements, those things he said he was going to do, and that he gets the best possible legislation on those things and weedst too buried in the and get nothing done. Host lets hear from philip in orlando, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. Acknowledgment as to what he can look forward to. Be frank about it, first of all, i would hope to see some major changes in recent relations. In race relations. Think they thing i for thet has to do American People are the dire issues related to the climate and how that is going to affect us. Maybe he can build a platform of providing Job Opportunities toward the development of projects that can help reducing the carbon that in the atmosphere, which is heating up the planet, heating up the oceans, giving us the extreme weather. I am very concerned about that. In addition to hiding the issue about the pandemic. I truly believe we are living in a time where the climate has really changed everything that we probably would have been thinking about doing in our normal life patterns, and we have the issue of have to prepare seriously. If we dont have environment and habitat for building, how are we going to succeed in all these other things . Host do you think joe biden as president , he has made clear that the pandemic is his number one priority, do you think in any way his efforts to nationalize the planning of the pandemic effort, making it his number one priority, will in any way diminish his goals of rejoining the Harris Climate accords, or addressing Climate Change . Issues you and other callers have raised. Will that delay his action, acting on other issues . Caller i believe he needs to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords as soon as possible to give an indication of his awareness about the seriousness of the problem and to take the lead. America should be able to take the lead and create the kind of technology that is necessary. We can do this, but we need all of us we need a unifier. In my book i wrote, we are subdivided, but it is going to take something of this type of magnitude to bring people together. Host you said in your book you what is the name of your book . Caller run in my shoes. A journey to understanding the beginning of how races and began in this country racism again in this country. Why it began and it continues to succeed. We have got to tackle both of them. I am in i am an africanamerican. I love this country. I was born in alexandria, virginia, the product of an experiment to racially integrate the school. I came away with some positive feelings about race relations. But then gradually i saw things really go downhill. Ealousy and negativity it began, i believe it was in the bush administration, and is just continue to grow. So we need to tackle those things. We need to recognize that i it is a problem. Host one more question for you, phillip, wended the book come out . Caller the third edition came out after obama. Host thanks for calling in this morning. We will plug the book there. Thanks to our producer for offending the image of the front page. Florida. Florida. Philip in steve in indianapolis, go ahead with your comment. Caller i think when of the previous callers did touch biden, he ist going to have to try to implement. Obviously the pandemic is the elephant in the room. It will be hard to move forward economically in any other way without trying to tackle that, make some headway on that. But i just want to comment on, it is going to be one of the toughest jobs of any president ever. Youve got trump, that wont even have anything at all to do with help, the transition at all, he cant accept any of his defeat, and all the other republicans sitting back complacent, not helping whatsoever. Biden has always worked across the aisle with his counterparts, but it seems like this is a different environment than he is probably normally used to so he will have his work cut out for him. It is a different climate with these republicans nowadays. I assume hell have to play a lot of hardball with these guys. You have trumpism. How in the world can 70 million, over 70 million americans vote for what trump has stood for, which is the most antiamerican person i have ever seen in my life that held any public office. It is just a terrible time right now. Trump has caused most of it. Host one of the fallout from the election for democrats has been the loss of democratic members in the house. Likely their smallest governing majority in the house since the 1990s. The day after the election, they had a conference call. The headline about that centrist House Democrats out that liberal colleagues, blame farleft views were costing the party seat. One of those was abigail spanberger, democrat from virginia. This is audio from the conference call. We went to talk about Funding Social Services and ensuring engagement and talk about what we are for. We need to not ever use the word socialist or socialism ever again, because what people think it doesnt matter, it does matter. In my background, coming from the cia, the first thing to do is always dig into everything you did write and everything you did wrong. If we are classifying tuesday as a success from a congressional standpoint, we need to [beep] be torn apart in 2022. Host that was congresswoman spanberger, democrat from virginia. This is from the New York Post this morning, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez defended her support for defund the Police Thursday night after an election season in which republicans weaponize the mantra to paint democratic opponents as anticop and soft on crime. Democratic leaders complained about two issues closely associated with aoc, defunding the police and socialism as contributing to the losses last week. Including the Staten Island congressional race. That race was called last night. Colorado springs, this is douglas. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I guess my Biggest Issue i would have to say is, pretty much like everyone has been saying more or less is basically breaking down this dividing line of conquering and basically being able to reunite the u. S. More or less like the last few callers were talking about, i believe us joining the Paris Climate Accord would basically be one of the best things we could do. However, i believe that if we dont knock down this wall of misinformation, we cant even isle athe tha all. When people hear the word defund the police, they think it means to get rid of the police when really it means to reduce the funding they get overall. I believe in coming together as a country. If we cant communicate on the simple issues and even understand what the other side is extra talking about, then how do we get to that issue in the beginning . Host this first hour biden supporters only, how should the president elect govern . 2027488000 in the easterncentral time zones. 2027488001 mountain and pacific. Next caller, good morning. Caller in this mornings New York Times opinion, there is a piece by woman saying, Vice President , highrisk move me to tears. Imagine what the impact can be when a woman of color is president. This analysis, which is known as identity politics, i think it has been proven by renowned political scientist thomas theguson, in his book investment theory of party competition. He shows the best way to predict how a candidate will govern is by looking at who fund them. If their major funder is the Financial Services industry, he shows politicians will and have in the past and not policies enact policies that are good for the financial industry. I think he rightly cast the medias focus on identity and character as opposed to funding as misguided. My suggestion is the media publishes abuse that focus less on politicians ethnic origins and more on who funds them. This is a better indicator and i think it will better inform readers and listeners on what to expect in the Biden Administration. Host thank you. George in pittsburgh, hello. Caller hello. I think biden should govern based on labor. Right now, because our past president governed based on the rich, giving them all the advantages of Social Security and stuff, labor has always taken a loss. He needs to concentrate on reparations, because black people have never had an opportunity, even after they have been freed, as soon as they was freed, they started the black codes against them. Their self interest in their ability to create wealth, they never had that opportunity. That is based on labor. God gave everybody the ability to work in order to create wellbeing. We will never correct america if ignore the black person in this country. So it is all about labor. Host george, what specific policies do you think about it administration, along with the 170th congress to address 117th congress could address in terms of addressing past inequities . Caller one policy is house bill 40 needs to be passed so we can start looking at it, for real, start looking at giving blacks right now that people are on the trajectory to not be able to. Reate wealth host what would house bill 40 do . Caller it would get america to people. Vesting in black during obamas time there were people working on libya to get them to start investing in black businesses, and what happened, the United States bombed them. That is messed up. Host take a look at the reaction on twitter. It text, a guy from new york said this after 2010i think, it is best hope is to do what he can with executive orders and hope for a Different Congress in 2022. Renee in virginia bipartisanship be nice it must be a twoway street. It is pointless for biden to reach his hand across the aisle if republicans just want to amputate it. Begin with a plan to handle Serious Problems and do what the country needs most bob in missouri says that. How should he govern, just by asking himself how can i heal and reconcile this country . This one says, over 70 Million People voted for joe biden. This included a coalition of diverse members of our society. He must never forget what and who put them there. It is time to work for the people. Front page of the Washington Times, their headl