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Bay Area political events: Compassion for poor people, Obama book club Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: SUNDAY Compassion for poor: A virtual gathering to reflect on the need for compassion and activism for poor and homeless people. Hosted by the National Union of the Homeless and the Freedom Church of the Poor at the Kairos Center. 3:30 p.m. More information is here. WEDNESDAY Obama book club: Reading and discussion of former President Barack Obama’s book “A Promised Land,” with Sam K...

Which democratic turn out is higher than anything you saw in 2012 or 2008. that's organization. >> reporter: what are you worried about? >> i worry about everything. i have to. >> reporter: more specifically? >> i'm not going to share specifically what i worry about. >> let's talk quickly in the last 30 seconds about ohio. talk to the democratic and republican party chair. they say it is dead even. what are you watching here? >> early vote. where it's coming from. how does it compare to past cycles and the two campaigns, if they are doing a good job, will look to see if the people who are voti...

Jansing who is getting exclusive behind-the-scenes access here n including a rare interview with white house political director david simas. >> reporter: he really seems -- i don't want to say confident. he's the first person to tell you he's always nervous and looking at what can go wrong. he's the guy who was with the president before he came out on stage who is going back to washington with him on air force one. he's the one who does the deep dive into this. he sees the value of what we heard today from the president which was an escalation of attacks against donald trump. at one point almo...

Particularly the things he's said about women. so i asked david simas about this. i have learned that the president actually watched the first lady's speech while riding in his limousine known as the beast. here's what he told me. what was his reaction to the speech which is blowing up on social media? >> complete pride. what you heard the first lady talk about yesterday wasn't politics. >> reporter: i heard he was fist pumping. >> those are state secrets. i can't get into that. >> reporter: what you are looking at here is the stage where the president spoke a short time ago. simas said it is ...

What we have seen a little bit of and you know because you follow this closely. we saw it last night in manchester. we saw it with the president today. as we are following his speech and i was talking to david simas. he really starts riffing when he starts talking about donald trump. for them this is about something bigger. in the start it was about getting hillary clinton elected, preserving the legacy against an onslaught of republicans. now they feel there is something else at stake here. you are hearing it in the messaging. david simas told me they will be out there a couple times a week u...