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The race. Those are three regions to Pay Attention to on election night. Host jamie is a political reporter joining us f washing. Host joining us from miami is sam gill, the chief Program Officer and president for the Knight Foundation. A new study on who are the nonvoters. What did you learn . Sam thanks for having me. I am looking forward to the chance to talk to your audience. We commissioned the study because, if you actually count the people who did not vote in the last president ial election that would be the top vote getter, not vote is the top vote getter. We wanted to understand, if s...

Good morning. Please welcome to the stage politico editor at large peter canellos. [applause] good morning and welcome. Im peter canellos, Political Editor at large. Id like to thank you all for joining todays event, americas biggest voting bloc, nonvoters. Thanks to those watching via live stream. As a 202020 Campaign Ramps up both democrats and republicans are working very hard to rally the base. Theyre also trying to win over swing voters, but i think we all know especially we will see today that by far the largest bloc of voters out there come when hundred million voters voting ages of tho...

Let me i have the pleasure of introducing mike, i certainly want to acknowledge again our commissioner, adrian garcia, who is doing an outstanding job. Give it up again to commissioner garcia. Look, i want to thank you for allowing me to be your mayor, number one. Let me thank you. And let me say to you, whats important for mayors, getting things done. Because whats important to you is what happens at your home, on your street, in your community, in your city. And Mike Bloomberg was mayor of noverbingt for 12 years. Of new york city for 12 years. For 12 years. Then what we know as mayors, you ...

Civic act. We found a few things that were important and some of them surprised me. The first thing we found was that the nonvoters really flitter rates our caricature of those who are not engaged. They represent all walks of life in this country, people from every background and people of diverse interests and ideological ideas. It is not just one kind of person. There are things that unify nonvoters. These are folks that have less faith in the system. They have less confidence in the outcome of elections. They are more likely to think the system has been rigged. Matter,ion really does we tak...

Vote block of voters out there, 100 million voters are those who do not go to the polls thati cannot say enough the balance of power in the United States rests in those voters. Nonvoters span every demographic, every racial demographic, age, education. Have iwe are going to hope a very enlightening Panel Discussion discussing with Party Leaders themselves how they plan to appeal to this group and get some of these people to go to the polls. We will also discuss the interesting results of the night study that is being released today. We have all been anticipating for a long time. I want to enco...