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Coming up on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning, we'll take your calls and comments live.
And we'll look at key issues and races to watch in the final days of Campaign 2024 with David Wasserman, Senior Editor at the Cook Political Report.
Washington Journal starts now.
It's the Washington Journal for the first day of November.
It's four days until Election Day with both Vice President Harris and former President Trump charting out the last battleground states they will visit in the lead up to next Tuesday.
As always, stay close to c-span.org and the free C-SPAN video app for the latest stops from the candidates and their running mates.
Tell us your thoughts on the current state of campaign 2024.
You can call us on the following lines.
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The candidates are going to spend the next several days in this lead up to Tuesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel highlighting two events by both candidates in the same state.
This is from the Journal Sentinel this morning saying the vice president on Friday evening will hold a rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center.
That's according to an event posting by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Former President Trump will be holding a competing rally Friday evening just six miles away at the FISERP Forum.
You'll remember that's the site of the Republican National Convention as both candidates make a final push in the battleground states ahead of Tuesday's election.
When it comes to some weekend events that you keep track of, the Raleigh News and Observer this morning highlighting the fact that former President Trump will spend the weekend through North Carolina, including a stop in the Charlotte area.
The candidate will hold a rally in Gastonia on Saturday as campaign announced.
That was on Wednesday.
The event will be held at noon at the Gastonium Municipal Airport according to the campaign's announcement.
Mr. Trump, who rallied supporters in Rocky Mount recently, is also scheduled to hold a rally in Greensboro Saturday night.
And then when it comes to Vice President Harris, she'll be traveling to that battleground state of Pennsylvania.
The headline saying that it's on Monday night that Vice President Harris will hold an election in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
If you've seen the movie Rocky, you already know the visual that she'll hold that event at.
And that's according to the Philadelphia Inquirer as well.
Again, you can call us about the current state of the race, 202748-8000.
If you support the Harris Walls ticket, 202-748-8001.
If you support the Trump Vance ticket, if perhaps at this stage you are going to support neither candidate or you're undecided at this time, 202-748-8002.
And text us at 202-748-8003.
As always, stay close to our website at c-span.org and our free video app at C-SPAN now.
That's where you'll find the archive of all the events that we're taking in.
Again, the app you can do on the fly as far as you're out and about and you want to catch events there too.
Those are options that you can do as you keep track of campaign 2024.
Deborah in North Carolina, a supporter of Kamala Harris.
You are up first this morning.
Go ahead.
Good morning.
Yes, I'm supporting the Harris-Waltz ticket.
I think that people really need to take a look, hard look at Donald Trump and understand that our democracy is at stake.
And I'm scared because I have great nieces and nephews who will be growing up in a country where things are going to be different for them.
I'm 67 years old.
I've seen quite a bit.
And the fact that Mr. Trump has this affinity to disrespect women and to just scream that he wants to make sure that women are kind of held under the thumb of men, that's one of the reasons why I voted for Harris and Wallace.
Okay.
From James, James is in Maine on our line for those who support the Trump fans ticket.
James from Holden, Maine.
Hello.
Yes.
Hello.
Yeah, it took me a long time to decide who I was going to vote for.
I sometimes vote Democratic and sometimes I vote Republican.
I'm a registered Republican.
But this year, I was having a really hard time with it.
And I'm subscribed to some Democratic magazines, and they use a lot of scare tactics about Trump.
I listened to Republican radio, and the Republican radio people kind of made me think maybe Trump was the better choice.
But I had a really tough time with this one.
So thank you.
Okay.
James there in Massachusetts.
Both of those calls mentioning this idea of anxiety or fear about this election.
It's a recent poll by the Associated Press and Newark saying Americans are interested, frustrated, and anxious about this upcoming election.
Here's the results saying the majority of adults feeling interested and frustrated and anxious saying that the percentage of adults for those who feel excited about the election, 61% saying that doesn't describe them this time around versus 36% saying it does describe them.
When it comes to interested in the election, 24% saying that doesn't describe them.
75% saying that that does describe them.
When it comes to being asked if they were frustrated about this election, 69% of those saying that's a sentiment they feel this time around versus 29%.
And then anxious.
Again, that same number.
69% of those respondents saying that they were anxious about this election.
It describes them.
28% saying that doesn't describe them, this election cycle.
Again, that's from the Associated Press.
You can see that there.
Frederick in New York, a supporter of the Harris-Walls ticket.
Hello.
Saying that doesn't describe them.
75% saying.
Paula, you're on.
Go ahead, Frederick.
Being asked if they were frustrated about this election.
Frederick, like I said, you're going to have to turn down your television.
Again, for those waiting, if you wouldn't mind turning down that television and not depending on that feedback, it makes the conversation go a lot smoother.
Andrew in Latrobe, Pennsylvania says neither candidate he's supporting.
Go ahead.
Hey, how's it going?
My question is, you know, for normal people just working their jobs when they see a lot of these political events and rallies, it's very foreign to them.
It's a little bit weird.
Sometimes it's awkward.
I've noticed that the candidates are starting to move into new media, doing podcasts, doing the sort of things that people consume on a more regular basis, especially young people.
I've also heard, and I'd like to know if this is true, that the Trump Vance ticket is getting a lot more views and a lot more traction on that new media.
And I'm wondering why is that?
What's going on?
Well, you're saying at this point you're supporting neither candidate.
Is that the case?
Or are you undecided?
Oh, okay.
Tell us why you're undecided.
I'm undecided because, you know, I don't think that there's a complete answer that's been given from either campaign yet.
And I like to wait until we finish the campaign before I decide.
Why do you mean a complete answer?
What I mean is, you know, it takes the full campaign to kind of let the discussion play out on a lot of these issues.
So you'll make that decision, you think, by Monday night?
By Tuesday morning.
By Tuesday morning.
Okay.
Andrew there in Pennsylvania, giving us his thoughts on when he'll make his decision.
Also, the sources of news media, new media.
You've seen stories about the various podcasts that both candidates have been appearing on recently.
Not only the main candidates at the top of the ticket, they are vice presidential running mates as well.
Again, you can factor that into the mix as we hear from Janice.
Janice in Tennessee, supporter of Vice President Harris.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi, Your Honor.
Good morning.
I just heard Wallace is the only ticket because who wants Trump in there?
You know what he done before?
What is he going to do again?
Worse.
I mean, he's already put women down, you know.
What's next?
Or vote and rise?
Okay.
Janice there in Tennessee giving us their thoughts this morning.
If you go to Real Clear Politics, they have that section of the site where they average polls out to see or try to determine where the favor is going this time around.
When it comes to that averaging of polls, they list the polls there.
But when you take those and average them out, it's former President Trump with a 0.3% advantage at this point of the contest.
When it comes to those battleground states, the average aggregate for the former president is 0.9%.
Taking a look at the specific states, Arizona, with Mr. Trump with a 2.4% advantage, a 0.9% advantage in Nevada.
Vice President Harris with advantages in Wisconsin and Michigan both, 0.3% in Wisconsin, 0.8% in Michigan.
And then former President Trump with that 0.3% advantage in Pennsylvania, an advantage in North Carolina and in Georgia as well at this stage.
Again, these are the aggregates of various polls that are taken.
You can take a look at what makes that up and at the Real Clear Politics site if you want to look at that.
Joanne in Massachusetts, you're next, a supporter of former President Trump.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I just want to say I don't know how Harris can go on TV and say that Trump is unstable.
She's unstable.
All she talks about is nothing.
And that's what I think of her.
She talks nothing about the policies.
She has all Biden's policies.
And I also want to say, how can she put her head on the pillow at night and think of all the people that have been killed at the border?
She never talks about the border.
She's unfit to be president.
And that's how I feel.
I'm really disgusted with her.
Joanne, there in Massachusetts, for our line for people who are voting for neither candidate or perhaps they're undecided at this time from Pennsylvania.
Again, one of those battleground states a lot of people are watching these days.
We'll hear from Gary in Ardmore.
Hello.
Hi, Pedro.
I'm leaning a little bit towards Kamla Harris on a number of factors.
First was that statement made about Puerto Ricans that was in bad taste.
Whoever that guy was did that.
And, you know, we still have four days, so I guarantee you that a lot of Latino and Puerto Rican voters are going to change their minds.
Number one, and he also made a statement that was on CNN this morning where he said that he will sit Lynn Cheney on the Liz Cheney across from me and put a 50-barrel gun or something like that.
And that's going to really anger Dick Cheney, who's going to rally more Republicans towards Kamla Harris.
And really, I'm kind of leaning towards that, towards Harrison Wallstick.
And probably by Sunday, I should be able to make up my mind.
Thank you.
That's Gary there in Pennsylvania, former President Trump in Phoenix, and statements made that the caller had referenced.
Here's the AP headline.
Trump says Liz Cheney might not be such a, quote, war hawk if she had guns pointed at her.
Again, that full event available at C-SPAN, but here's the portion from yesterday.
And I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb.
She's a radical war hawk.
Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay?
Let's see how she feels about it.
You know, when the guns are trained on her face.
You know, they're all warhawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, Will, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.
But she's a stupid person.
And I used to have, I'd have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people.
So whether it's her, whether it's sick, I was surprised a little bit with Dick Cheney.
I didn't know him at all.
I only had essentially the one or two phone calls, and it was only a call saying, thank you very much for doing that for Scooter Libby.
That was nice.
And Scooter Libby, by the way, was beyond, he couldn't believe that it happened.
Nobody would do it.
They should have done that for him years before.
But I was a little surprised because I actually thought that Dick Cheney would go with me over his daughter, and he didn't.
And you know what?
I understand it.
It's your daughter, and you go.
But she's a bad person.
Those are the comments from yesterday regarding Liz Cheney from former President Trump.
Liz Cheney herself posting on X in a response saying, this is how dictators destroy free nations.
They threaten those who speak against them with death.
We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.
Again, those are the comments and thoughts from Liz Cheney from yesterday in reaction there.
Let's hear from Massachusetts, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
This is Jerry in Massachusetts.
Good morning.
Good morning.
There's so many things on issues that are going on, but a lot of the issues that are against Trump are phenomenal.
He led an insurrection against our country.
He shouldn't even be able to run as president, and they're allowing him to run.
He has six bankruptcies.
People say he's good business.
He's had six bankruptcies.
He's defrauded the country.
And they say they still hold him an upstanding character.
He's the worst character I've ever seen.
And for people to downplay what Harris has done, she has done a lot all through her life.
And she stands up for a lot of American people.
And for anyone that thinks they're a patriot or anyone that thinks they're able to hold on to the sanctity of the United States, they should look really close to Trump.
Remember Billy Bush and his comments that Bush made, I mean, Trump made on that statements that he made.
Those weren't added to the onslaught of rhetoric that goes against him.
And people listening to Republican stations, they don't get that.
Okay.
They don't get that over and again.
Okay, Joe in Ohio, supporter of neither candidate or undecided line.
Go ahead.
Yeah, hey, this is Joe.
And I just, I got a deal where I got a ballot absentee ballot.
And the problem was that there were three of us, three couples that got absentee ballots, and only half of them got their ballots.
And so I called down to the board, and they sent me another ballot, and I still haven't gotten it.
And the other two got their ballots because I come down to Florida for the winner.
I'm just wondering if that's going to be a problem with the election this year.
A supporter of former President Trump in California, Rancho Santa Margarita.
This is Rory.
Hello.
Good morning.
I'm for Trump because I can make money off of him, and that gives me more freedom with a job.
And as for the Democrats, I don't believe in them in any way they do stuff.
I also believe that when he's elected, there will be riots.
In fact, it doesn't matter who wins.
There's going to be riots.
They're boarding up DC right now.
They expect it.
So I would say this: we're going to go through trouble.
We'll get through it.
We'll get through to the other side.
And that should do it.
Rory there in California giving us his thoughts on campaign 2024.
This is where the vice president was yesterday, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas.
A joint appearance, the vice president there, but also the actress and singer J-Lo there as well, the former vice president, when talking and addressing supporters.
Here's a bit from that event in Las Vegas yesterday.
We all know who Donald Trump is.
This is not someone who is thinking about how to make your life better.
This is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and is out for unchecked power.
And look, in less than 90 days, it's either going to be him or me in the Oval Office.
And this is part of what we're fighting for, because we have the image of what it could be.
It won't be, but what it could be if he was elected.
If he were re-elected on day one, Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list.
When I am elected, I will walk in with a to-do list on behalf of you.
On behalf of you.
Again, that event available at our website at c-span.org, our free video app at C-SPANNOW.
Margaret in Kansas, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
You're next up.
Hello.
Good morning.
I was very shocked to hear the news this morning that somebody who's a felon and somebody that is calling for the murder of somebody can be running for president.
So I like Harris.
I like that she's focusing on health care and prices, and she's standing up to a dictator.
And how do we have somebody that's threatening the life of people running for president?
Really, I don't understand.
Thank you.
Supporter of former President Trump.
This is Bradley in West Virginia.
Yeah, good morning, C-SPAN.
Yeah, it's kind of early here, raining.
When I turned 75, September the 10th, I changed from Democrat to Republican.
And I hated to do it, but the Democrats just got so out of line, just like the lady that was just on there talking about Trump going to shoot Cheney.
I did not see that way.
I seen that Cheney had a gun in her hand, and there were seven guns pointed at her, and he was trying to make a point about how brave she would be if she was in battle.
That's in war.
That's in war.
And, you know, it's sad.
I've got another thing.
How is the government going to pay for all these border runners, is what I call them, and not raise taxes?
Where's the money coming from?
You're going to write blank checks and they bounce?
You know, you've got to have the money to do this.
And like Twitter guy, if that's what he wants to do, you know, giving awards out or something, you know, that's fine, but they blow that out of proportion.
They blowed, actually, they blowed the portion out of Biden saying that everybody was garbage.
It's a shame that the politicians cannot have better voices again than other politicians, no matter whether it's a Democrat or Republican.
They got to run their mouth, diarrhea of the mouth.
You know, it's pitiful.
Okay.
Let's hear from Marshall.
Marshall in Illinois, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Hello.
Hi.
Good morning, America.
Thank you for taking my call, and thank you for this wonderful service that you provide all of us.
I can't think of any other channel out there that allows us to do this.
I think it's important that we all hear from each other.
When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s in school, I recall that we constantly would hear how in our history classes we would be blaming the German people saying, how could you let Hitler come to power?
How could you be so blind to it?
And we were constantly reminded of that, and the German people have had to apologize for it for decades.
And I feel like this is our Hitler moment.
And all the writing is on the wall about this man.
And I just ask my fellow Americans: look in the mirror.
And if you're thinking of voting for him, is that really, it's not really a reflection of him, Donald Trump, it's a reflection of you.
Do you hold those values?
Is that truly who you are?
Because if that's who you are, that really saddens me that you are a fellow American.
And that's all I have to say.
I thank you very much for this opportunity.
We'll hear next from Marilyn.
This is Ed on our line for supporting neither candidate or undecided at this point.
Ed, go ahead.
Good morning.
I'm sorry that I'm going to be the one to tell all the C-SPAM listeners.
The biggest news story this year is that two scientific journals have given a date for the triggering and the end of the Gulf Stream.
It's going to be this century, 2050 and 2056.
It's going to end this century with a 90% confidence interval.
And how does that relate to campaign 2024?
The Democrats, they want, they're trying, and the Republicans won't use science.
You can't use science and abortion and not use science on climate change.
You're saying that at this point you're voting for neither candidate or you're undecided at this point.
Why is that?
Because the Democrats, they're right, but they can't explain it.
They can't talk and communicate.
The Republicans are combining church and state.
And the Democrats, apparently, they can't explain that, or they can't say that's wrong.
They don't want to tell people how to do religion, which I understand.
But Jesus says don't combine church and state.
Give unto Caesar what is his, give unto God what is his.
The First Amendment is the establishment clause.
Okay.
Okay, that's Ed Baer in Maryland.
This is from the Associated Press this morning regarding the White House transcript and the garbage comments from President Biden.
They report, as of yesterday, the transcript that was released by White House, the press office rendered the quote with an apostrophe reading supporters with an apostrophe rather than supporters without one, which aids that pointed to Biden criticizing Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian at the Madison Square Garden rally, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.
The change was made after the press office, quote, conferred with the president according to an internal email from the head of the stenographer's office that was obtained by the Associated Press.
The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
The supervisor in the email called the press office's handling of the matter, quote, a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the stenography and press offices.
Going on to say, if there's a difference in interpretation, the press office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently, the supervisor wrote.
Adding our stenography office transcript related to our distro, which includes the National Archives, is now different than the version edited and released to the public by the press office staff.
There's more there in that Associated Press story.
You can find it online at AP.org.
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A supporter of Vice President Harris in Minnesota.
This is Volcker.
Hello.
Morning.
Yeah.
I liked what the caller from Illinois said about Germany.
How did it get that far?
I grew up in Germany.
And to me, a big sign of an autocrat is they know it all and don't take no advice, don't apologize.
They think themselves to effect.
And people around him and loyalty is a one-way street.
Only expecting loyalty, but don't give it back.
And normally I call independent, but in this case, it's important.
And Harris Waltz, good luck to us.
Thanks.
Okay, Sherry in Indiana, a supporter of former President Trump.
Hello.
Hi.
Gosh, I don't even know where to start.
I support and I truly believe that President Trump is what our country needs now.
The caller from Illinois that we need to open our eyes.
And I think he's right on a certain part of that, only because the media for eight years, the media and the Democrats have been brainwashing America that President Trump is bad.
I think that was obvious from the call from the lady.
I think she was from Virginia or Georgia earlier, who said that he doesn't like women, that he's always putting women down.
And that's not true.
He had the most women in his administration more than any other Democrat or Republican in history.
So it's not true.
So people are getting too much of what they believe from the media and from the Democrat Party.
And hey, it's not like politicians and the media would never lie to us, right?
Even Pedro, I was disappointed when the guy called in and said that President Trump led an insurrection.
Nobody has been charged with insurrection.
And I wish that's probably why people don't trust the media is because you don't call it out when you see it.
I mean, I know everybody has their opinions and you have to let them have their opinions heard.
But at the same time, I've heard on C-SPAN before people being corrected, hey, that's not true.
That's not true.
But it seems to never be the case when it's on the other side.
I hope people can really, really soul search.
I try to watch, the only thing I watch on Fox News is the five.
And then I switch over to News Nation and I catch Cuomo and I catch CNN to try to make sure I can have all sides of the story.
And I encourage everybody to do that.
Okay.
Ryan is next.
Ryan on our undecided line in Massachusetts.
Good morning.
Yeah, I was undecided until I heard your last caller talk about how Trump was a fascist.
The reality is Trump governed like Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy by cutting taxes, deregulating, and supporting the military.
Fascism is the definition of a government that uses the military to control the people.
So I don't know what the hell the Democrats are talking about.
Caller, it sounds like you were decided before you called this program.
I was decided after I heard your radical caller call in and call Trump a fascist when he's not.
Okay, that's Ryan there in Massachusetts.
Again, you can call in.
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Ohio is next, a supporter of the former president.
This is Rich and Marion.
Yeah.
Well, we're an election coming up.
After 9-11, people said never, ever, ever, just 20 people coming to our country would ever do that again.
Well, we have an open border and we have people coming in from China, Russia, North Korea, on what building they're going to go after.
We have someone that wide opened the border, just closed the damn border, someone who wants to close it.
We have generals sitting there trying to figure out what to do, just close the border.
Where were they on 9-11?
And now we know what's coming at us, and people are not closing the border.
That's why Trump's going to be the right person to put in here.
And maybe we won't lose two or three buildings again and see people dying.
Have a good day.
Rich in Ohio.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports this morning when it comes to election results next week for their state at least, saying that results in Georgia will come in faster than ever after the polls close on Tuesday night, giving the nation an early look at which way a critical swing state is leaning.
Soon after 8 o'clock in the evening, early and absentee votes for president, roughly three-quarters of all votes, will be posted online and broadcast across the world.
The election day results will pour in, likely finishing before midnight.
The rapid results are required by a new state law that calls for all early votes and most absentee votes to be reported within an hour of polls closing.
Legislators mandated the early results reporting to help address suspicions about ballots being counted in the dead of night, giving rise to the kind of conspiracy theories seen during the 2020 election.
This adding that this year, Georgia is poised to be one of the quickest counting states in the nation.
But that doesn't necessarily mean voters will know whether the vice president or the former president will win on election night.
That's the Atlanta Journal Constitution, if you want to see that story there.
Let's hear from Ohio.
This is Sarah, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Hello.
Yes, hi.
Good morning, America.
I'm supporting Harris when I go and vote on November 5th.
There was a professional economist on MSNBC this morning, and she's supporting Harris.
I didn't listen completely at what she had to say, so I had to tune in to C-SPAN.
And I want to comment on the economy that Biden was given, and he's a Democrat.
He worked his way out of the terrible pandemic that we had.
And I'm not dissupporting him because I'm a Democrat.
I feel that the Democrats always hand over a good economy to the Republican, and they run it every time.
And that was explained by Barack Obama because he said he handed a good economy to President Trump, and he messed it up.
So now we're digging our way out of a pandemic and a rotten economy that he couldn't handle.
He couldn't handle the pandemic either.
So, yes, I'm going to vote and stay with Democrats.
Okay, Massachusetts is next.
A supporter of former President Trump will hear from Dan.
Go ahead.
Hi, thank you for having me on.
I think this morning, I mean, I see it every single day, but this morning really hits home as far as why the American public are so up in arms and so on one side or another.
And the reason is this: Trump talked about Liz Cheney because she's a warmonger and she likes to go to wars.
He was putting into perspective how would she feel if she was the one being at war, right?
That's exactly what he said talking to Tucker Carlson.
But you have this morning on programs like Morning Joke, where they have seven, they have professors, you know, everyone the left would want to listen to for facts.
Every single one of them stating that Donald Trump wanted to kill Liz Cheney, and that's what he was going to do.
And Pedro, you sat there when a caller said the same thing, and you said nothing.
Can you, do you have a comprehension problem?
Something this important, and you have the media and the public being misled, saying Trump wants to kill Liz Cheney.
That's unacceptable.
Okay.
Completely unacceptable.
All right.
Dwight, next in California.
Either neither supporting a candidate or supporting neither candidate or undecided at this stage.
Dwight, hello.
Good morning, Pedro.
Good morning, Washington Journal.
Yes, Pedro, I'm not supporting any of the candidates.
I haven't voted for a presidential candidate since Barack Obama.
And I have no clue where they even give us these choices of what we have to choose from.
It's utterly ridiculous.
I have voted already.
I voted absentee here in California.
We had a lot of things.
We have a lot of things going on here, especially on the down ballots that we have going on and school boards, trustees, city council, etc.
Things in Washington, D.C., Pedro, in my opinion.
You know, it's too much money involved in this stuff.
And I'm listening to the right side.
I'm listening to the left.
And everybody's correct on one side and everybody's wrong on the other side.
In America, we're just doing all this internal fighting and it doesn't make any sense.
And one last thing, Pedro.
I hear people talk about policy all the time.
We are under the rule of law.
A president can set a policy anytime he wants to.
If it's not law, then the next president that comes can change it.
So until the legislators, Congress and the Senate, get together and pass laws, nothing's going to change.
Okay.
Okay.
Dwight there in California giving us his thoughts.
Again, you can continue on the phone lines, sending us texts, posting on our social media sites.
The caller mentioned down ballot issues when it comes to this year's election.
One of those issues, school choice.
USA Today reporting that it's on the ballot in three states saying that the ballot items in Colorado and Kentucky propose adding language supporting school choice to their state's constitutions, but neither lays out specifics for a statewide program, saying that if the Colorado and Kentucky measures passed, the states would join at least 29 states in the District of Columbia, which already have some form of school choice language on the book, according to Education Week.
It also highlights in Nebraska a measure to aim to repeal a $10 million school voucher program.
Its state legislature passed this year, putting that decision in the hands of voters.
Again, USA Today is where you'll find that story when it comes to those down ballot and initiative issues on ballots across the United States.
In Virginia, this is John, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Hello.
Good morning, Brian.
I just want to, I am shocked that the previous caller that's accusing you while you don't respond.
This guy is thinking they know everything.
They don't know what the hell they're talking about.
They listen to Foxy.
But the reason I call is the reality is dictators, they make first time, one-time mistake.
Next time, they don't make a mistake.
Donald Trump, he made a mistake first time, he become a president.
Next time, he's not going to make a mistake.
I grew up what the dictator can do to you.
The issue is not about whether Donald Trump should be a president or not.
The president has some kind of dignity that he runs with the country.
Donald Trump doesn't have that.
Insulting a woman day in and day out, it's not policy.
And I'm sick of talking about those people who are calling and think that Donald Trump, what he did against females, is acceptable.
If you have a wife and you have daughters, think about one minute.
If someone talks to your daughter that way, you have to understand one thing.
America, you don't know what you have.
Believe me, you don't know what you have, the freedom that you have.
You think this freedom comes easy.
It did not.
Okay, David up next in Maryland, a supporter of former President Trump.
Hello.
Yes, thanks for taking my call this morning, Pedro.
I'm totally a Trump fan.
You know, when Trump was in there, the economy was great.
You know, our borders were secure.
And, you know, the last guy talking about, you know, that nonsense, that was totally ridiculous.
Anybody that's a Kamala supporter, they're totally asida and total idiots.
I mean, that was, you know, what she is doing to this country.
She's going to make our country, you know, a communist country.
She is anti-God, anti-America.
And we don't need that.
We're not running for that, even in the year 2024.
You know, we still need our values we have in God, family, and country.
And Trump is, you know, he's a great guy.
He done, you know, when he was in there four years, eight years ago, he done a wonderful job.
And he's going to continue doing a wonderful job.
I mean, Kamala is nothing but a liar.
Thanks for taking my call.
Another David, this one from Florida, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
You're next.
Yeah.
You know, from Pensacola, Florida.
You're on.
Go ahead.
You know, I want to ask all of the Trump supporters, where were they at when Cubans flocked to Florida in South Florida and stole blacks jobs?
No, Trump is a racist toward blacks like Obama.
And he was out there and called saying that Obama was not born in the United States of America.
He's a racist as all get out.
And he is just like Adolf Hitler.
And I don't, and I'm a moderate Republican, and I'm voting for Kamala Harris.
And I already voted for Kamala Harris.
And these far-right-wing radical Republicans are nothing but garbage.
Okay, Ray in Tennessee, supporter of former President Trump.
You're next.
Hello.
Hello.
Yes.
I just, my comment is that the Republican Party is a common sense party's bottom line.
I'm an 80-year-old man, a Vietnam vet, and I'm sitting in my living room watching the Wheel of Fortune.
And they're sending people to Hanoi for a vacation.
And then that's the same thing with the young men in Afghanistan.
They're going to do the same thing.
Donald Trump wants a strong military so we do not have to go in these foreign wars and lose American people.
That is common sense, basic knowledge.
And if the Democrats can't understand it, they're paranoid people.
Thank you.
Ray in Tennessee there.
Politico reporting as of last evening that with four days until the election, the clock is ticking for Donald Trump to engage Nikki Haley on the campaign trail if he even wants to at all.
Haley, the last Republican candidate to drop out during the primaries, has said that she remains on standby for the Trump campaign.
She has put her name on fundraising and has spoken favorably of her former political rival on the media and the main stage at the Republican National Convention.
But at a time when Mr. Trump is lagging with women and Democrats have been courting so-called Haley voters, Republicans who cast a protest ballot for her in GOP primaries after she dropped out, Mr. Trump has so far chosen not to schedule any appearances with his former U.N. ambassador in the final strength.
This story adding that the Trump and Haley teams have remained in contact about appearing together, according to campaign officials.
A spokesperson for Haley did not return a request for comment, but this adding that the former president's been largely dismissive of the idea.
Yando in California, a supporter of former President Trump talking about campaign 2024.
You're next.
Good morning.
Hello.
Good morning, Pedro.
I'm calling in support of Donald Trump.
I voted for him the first time, and also because this country will be able to see the Grover Cleveland effect in our lifetime.
Also, the fact that he got shot a couple months ago, he's still confident.
You don't see him running around with a bulletproof vest or overly paranoid.
He's more visible.
You see him going to work every day, talking about his policies.
I'm an idol black male, and I also feel like a lot of blacks can relate to him for two reasons.
One, I'm a felon.
He is a felon.
And also, he has children for multiple women.
And nobody is perfect in this world.
The only thing that's perfect is the spelling of the word.
And if I was running his campaign, it would say Donald Trump, America's choice, America's answer.
Thank you for allowing me to speak this morning.
Ohio next, this is from Richard, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Go ahead.
Good morning, America.
I support Harris and Wallace.
I've already voted early.
Things work real well in Ohio.
I am curious, where is Donnie Jr., Eric, Ivanka, and Jared?
Were they asked to stay away, or maybe they don't support the old man?
And in regards to Vance from Ohio, which I am from, I have never heard of Vance until he showed up on the scene.
He called Trump Hitler, and Trump thinks he has a cool beard.
So that's why he's going to be running with him as vice president.
And my last saying is, God and Trump, they just plain don't go together.
Senator Vance was in North Carolina yesterday, a stop at High Point University in a town hall forum with younger voters, and then also spoke about what the next election, at least to him, means for younger voters.
Here are his thoughts from yesterday.
I think younger voters, in some ways, have the most to lose or the most to gain from getting this election either right or wrong.
Because, you know, one of the things that worries me when I hear Kamala Harris speak is I hear a person who doesn't have strong or sincere views about what she actually wants to do.
Set to the side any policy disagreement you might have with Kamala Harris, and I have a lot.
And set to the side, by the way, policy disagreements you might have with a person like Barack Obama.
And I have a lot there.
What I would say for Barack Obama, but I would not say for Kamala Harris, is that he actually has beliefs and thoughts in his head for how he wants to govern the United States of America.
And I hate to say that, I don't think you can say this about Kamala Harris.
Now, the problem there is that that person becomes an empty vessel for whatever the prevailing ideas that are governing in Washington, D.C. are.
And what are the prevailing ideas that are governing in Washington, D.C. that affect young people disproportionately?
Number one, that we should use our young people as cannon fodder for foreign military misadventures that are frankly going to get a lot of your peers killed unless we have a smarter foreign policy.
I think you guys have a lot to lose because we are on the precipice of many broad regional wars, potentially even a world war.
Do you want a person like Kamala Harris negotiating in private rooms with people like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, or do you want a guy like Donald Trump actually sticking up for the United States of America?
I think the answer to that question is obvious.
The second prevailing idea in Washington, D.C., is that we should let in millions upon millions of illegal immigrants who compete against young Americans for important jobs, who undercut the wages of American workers.
And it's American workers of every color, every background.
But we have to recognize that when you let in millions upon millions of illegal aliens, it really severely undercuts the wages of people, especially people who are entering the workforce, which is true of every person in this room.
Again, that's available at the website at the app.
Let's hear from Deborah in Maryland, an undecided voter.
Hello.
Good morning, C-SPAN.
I appreciate hearing the views from my fellow Americans.
Typically, I vote on policy and the policies of the candidates.
This is whether I'm voting for Senate or president.
And I really believe that climate change is one of the major issues of our time.
I am now going to my school.
I'm a school teacher.
And never in my life have I seen 80-degree temperatures on a Halloween.
And one of the important things that the president does is he allows different people to control branches of government that affect all of us, like the EPA, FDA, Department of Housing.
And if we really don't get our climate change policy under control and try to meet the standards of the international standards for what we have to do, our world is going to change for our children and our grandchildren.
So that the idea of a white Christmas or any of these things is going to be a thing of the past.
And one of the reasons why that is so important is though, even though we have a lot of movement, we think because of migrants coming in or immigrants coming in, it will completely change our way of life if we don't get climate change under control.
And he, the president, he or she is going to control the outcome of the EPA, in particular, for the next four years.
It's so critical that we have someone that understands the science of what is happening.
Thank you.
In Mississippi, a supporter of the vice president.
This is Tracy.
Hello.
Good morning.
Hi, Your Hon. Yes.
I have one question.
I want to ask a question to America.
How are y'all voting for Trump with all these charges against him?
And he has not done nothing in the last four years that he was in office.
And I think the government system is messed up for letting him be on the ballot as a president, running for president.
And I am voting for Kamala Harris and Walls.
And thank you.
Okay, Tracy in Mississippi, Governor Walls in Bucks County, Pennsylvania yesterday.
Campaign stopped there talking about economic policy.
Here's a portion from yesterday.
Under Kamala Harris, Pennsylvania created over 560,000 jobs, including 28,000 men.
And she sat on the mall the other day and spoke and looked like a president and talked about unifying this country.
And she laid out a list of what we're going to do going forward.
Because she told you on that day, and you know she will do it, she's going to go into the White House with a to-do list, not an enemy's list.
Starts with lowering costs for families and putting more money back in your pocket.
That is the priority every single day.
For starters, we'll enact the first ever federal price gouging ban on groceries.
Now, so everybody, I hear people say, well, what's that about?
Here's a couple examples of price gouging.
We got a hurricane coming.
They're telling you to get the heck out of Florida and airline tickets went through the roof.
That's not capitalism.
That's not free market.
That's unethical taking care of.
That's price gouging.
Just so no.
And oh, grocery prices are up.
Well, guess what?
Our farmers, my farmers in Minnesota, when grocery prices were lower, they were getting about four bucks a bushel for corn.
Now grocery prices are really high and farmers are getting about four bucks a bushel for corn.
You get it?
That's price gouging.
37 states, Democrats and Republicans, have laws in that.
She'll do that.
And then we'll focus the tax cuts on the middle class.
100 million Americans.
The single best tax cut that you make that reduces childhood poverty in a rate unseen is a child tax credit.
We propose $6,000 for the first year of that child slack to America.
A lot of events leading up to next Tuesday to give you a rundown of what to expect today as part of our campaign 2024 coverage.
It will continue with the Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance in Portage, Michigan.
You can see that at 1 o'clock this afternoon on the platforms there at 3.30 this afternoon.
The governor, Governor Walls, who you just heard from, will be in Flint, Michigan.
And then later on, former President Trump expected to speak in supporters in Warren, Michigan.
All that up for today.
And then Governor Walls on C-SPAN 2, you can see him in Detroit as they continue making their case up to Election Day, JD Vance in Selma, North Carolina, later on in the afternoon on C-SPAN 2.
And then tonight in Wisconsin, which we told you about 7 o'clock, this is Kamala Harris in Little Chute, Wisconsin there.
You can follow along on the main channels, C-SPANS 1 and 2, our app, our video app, C-SPAN now, and as part of our coverage there.
Rachel in North Carolina, a supporter of former President Trump.
Hello.
Yes.
Hi, good morning.
My name is Rachel.
I'm from Monroe, North Carolina.
Just God bless you all today.
I hope that you all are praying about the right choices to make for this campaign.
The only thing that I can say is that Ms. Harris, Vice President Harris, I got a phone call yesterday from her campaign saying that at our polls on Tuesday, there would be a party.
And that's the clarity in what I have with what she has set forth.
We had the hurricane in the mountains in pushing all of this electric vehicle stuff.
People would have been down without vehicles at that point.
Yes, there should be regulations on climate contrainment change and stuff.
But you have to think outside the box sometimes.
The only thing that I have a definite on what she has proposed and sat before us is that she'll sit down at the table and we're having a party at our polls.
So let's pray about this election and everybody have a blessed day.
Oregon in Beaverton, this is Sharon, supporter of Vice President Harris.
Hi there.
Hi.
I just have a couple of points.
And the first one is, it's always brought up, were you better four years ago?
Well, we weren't.
Four years ago, we were locked in our homes.
You couldn't buy toilet paper.
People were dying by the hundreds of thousands.
We were being told to drink bleach.
I'm a lot better now.
I can go out.
I can buy stuff, et cetera.
Also, let's look back at his track record.
The two big things he did, the big tax cut that by far helped the top 1%, which I'm not.
I'm a retired person.
It didn't help me at all.
The second thing he did was the tariffs, which he had to spend millions of dollars to prop up the farmers because they lost their Chinese and their, et cetera, their outlets to sell their products.
That didn't help us.
And it raised prices.
Now, he's talking about big tariffs again.
Haven't we learned from the last time when somebody does something and it doesn't work, why are you applauding it now?
Even the Wall Street Journal says that his economic plan is far worse.
That's the Wall Street Journal, a Republican paper.
Okay.
Okay.
Thomas is next in Maryland on our Undecided line.
Hello.
Yeah, you know, I'm roughly undecided.
I look at what folks are saying about the Democratic Party and how they've been soft on border security issues, and I take that in consideration.
I also look at the economy.
People are like, oh, you know, inflation is high.
I take that into consideration.
I also take into consideration that job unemployment is at a historical low.
I also look at, as a former, as a veteran myself, I look at really the consideration of former Trump staff.
I think about Vice President Mike, former Vice President Mike Pence.
He said Trump is unfit to lead.
I look at James Mattis and John Kelly.
These individuals are not far-left individuals.
These are conservative Christian individuals.
So as a former military member, you know, even if I think sometimes, maybe Trump hasn't, maybe he has a decent economic plan, even though he doesn't talk about it, or he says he's going to increase tariffs, which I think is not a great idea.
I also look at what these individuals have said, and I'm like, okay, your former chief of staff and Secretary of Defense think that you're unfit to lead.
have to take that into serious consideration when making a decision.
Okay.
So that's it.
One more call.
This will be from Allie in New York, supporter of former President Trump.
Hello.
Hey, I'm calling from Albany, New York.
I voted for Trump as soon as we were able to.
The Democratic Party is controlled by George Soros, who wants an open society.
He wants wide open borders.
And he's the Democrats' biggest donor.
If you vote for Camilla Harris, they will keep the borders wide open.
We have like 20 million here already that invaded our country.
We're spending hundreds of billions of our tax dollars supporting these people, and we'll be supporting them for decades if we don't deport them.
Hundreds of billions and more dollars will be spent on them.
And they will keep the borders wide open.
They will not shut them if Camilla gets in.
If you want that, you vote for Camilla.
That's Allie in New York finishing off this hour of calls.
Thanks to those of you who participated.
We've been concentrating on top of the ticket largely during this hour.
But however, the House and the Senate will be determined on who controls which body.
Joining us next to talk about that Cook political report, senior editor David Wasserman.
We'll take a look at some of those key races to watch as part of our campaign 2024 coverage.
We'll have that discussion when Washington Journal continues.
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This week, the election of 1980, in a landslide victory, Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, winning 489 electoral votes and 44 states.
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Washington Journal continues.
We welcome back to the program David Wasserman of Cook Political Report.
He serves as their senior editor and elections analyst here to talk about those House and races, the other things connected to campaign 2024.
Hello there.
Hey, it's not as if we lack for material this morning.
What holds your attention most from here on to Tuesday?
So we have a fascinating race at all levels.
The House is especially fascinating, always has been to me, but we've got a situation where Democrats might have a better shot in the House.
Certainly they have a better shot than in the Senate, but their chances in the House have arguably improved a little bit in the last few weeks and months, even as the presidential race has gotten even tighter and we've seen Kamala Harris's lead narrow.
And there are three reasons why Democrats have an opportunity to flip control of the chamber.
Right now, there are 221 Republican seats, 214 Democratic seats.
So Democrats need to pick up a net of four to make Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker rather than Mike Johnson.
And there are a couple of reasons why they have a decent chance to get there.
The first is that the House is being fought on friendlier terrain for Democrats than the Senate or possibly the Electoral College.
You know, we've got 16 Republicans running for re-election in districts that voted for Joe Biden four years ago.
There are only five Democrats running for re-election in districts that voted for Donald Trump.
And most of those Democrats and Trump districts have decent brands heading into Election Day.
Some could be tough to beat.
The 16 Republicans, most of them are in two blue states where Democrats underperformed in the 2022 midterms, California and New York.
The second reason is you've got a decent number of check and balance voters out there who dislike both presidential candidates.
They don't want either party going too far in the next Congress.
And the dynamic in 2016 and 2020 was a lot of these voters, particularly suburban independents and especially women, they didn't like Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, but they were open to voting for a more normal Republican down ballot.
And Republicans actually had pretty good years in those elections.
But this year, voters are very conflicted about their expectations of who's going to win.
And to the extent a lot of those same voters want a check or an insurance policy on Trump going too far, they're opting for a Democrat down ballot.
We're noticing a handful of key races where Democrats are outperforming Harris in polling.
And then the third reason is that House Republicans have been a mess for the last two years.
It took them 15 votes to elect a speaker last January.
It took just eight Republicans to overthrow that speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
And we've seen downstream fundraising consequences of that leadership turmoil.
Democrats have clobbered Republicans at the candidate fundraising level.
It's a disparity unlike anything we've seen in a long time.
And the median Democratic incumbent, as of the beginning of October, in a competitive race, had three times as much money raised as the median Republican challenger, $6.3 million to $2.2 million, whereas the median Democratic challenger had raised just as much money as the median Republican incumbent.
What that means is that a lot of Democrats are going to be controlling the narrative or have controlled it in the final weeks of the campaign.
And so with that in mind, if you want to ask our guests questions about what is expected when it comes to the House, races, Senate races, top of the ticket to 202748-8000 for Democrats, 202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202-748-8002 for Independents.
And you can always text us at 202748-8003.
If that, everything you said boils down to specific races that kind of illustrate what you're just talking about, where would you look to first?
Well, when we add up all the seats that at least lean to Democrats, we get 205 districts.
When we add up all the seats that at least lean towards the Republicans, we get 208 districts.
And then we have these 22 toss-ups in the middle.
Our House editor, Aaron Covey, has an excellent overview of all of this up this morning at cookpolitical.com.
We just moved several race ratings, six in Democrats' favor, two in Republicans' favor.
We see several Republican incumbents, including Anthony Diesposito on Long Island, Brandon Williams in Syracuse, Don Bacon in Omaha, Nebraska, as slight underdogs for reelection.
There's also a number of other vulnerable Republicans who are polling even at best.
People like John Duarte in California's Central Valley or Laurie Chavez-DeReamer in suburban Portland and Bend, Oregon.
But then the insurance policy for Republicans is open seats.
Republicans don't have really any vulnerable open seats to defend, whereas Democrats have four vulnerable open seats.
Two of those are in Michigan.
And one of the seats we moved this morning is Alyssa Slotkin's open seat in Lansing.
This is the seat that Democrat Alyssa Slotkin's leaving to run for Senate.
We believe Republican Tom Barrett might be entering Election Day with a slight advantage over Democrat Curtis Hurtel.
And so that is the reason why Republicans might still be ever so slight favorites for control of the chamber.
If you had those 22 toss-ups break evenly down the middle, Republicans would end up at 219 to 216 for Democrats, which is even narrower than the majority that they have now.
What we know from history, though, it's likely that most of those toss-ups will break one direction.
Another open seat, if I'm right, Colorado's third district.
Tell us what's going on with that.
That's right.
This is the seat where Republican Lauren Bobert left to run in a much redder district on the opposite end of Colorado.
And the Democrat in this race, Adam Frisch, who came within 546 votes of beating her in 22, really never stopped running.
And he's raised over $14 million for this House race, in part because for much of the cycle, he was running against Bobert, who is probably the best fundraiser that Democrats have ever had.
And so now he's running against a more conventional Republican, an attorney named Jeff Heard from Grand Junction.
And if this race had played out in 2022, it never would have been that close.
But because Frisch has been able to have such a fundraising head start on Heard, Frisch has the communication advantage, particularly on the expensive Denver airwaves, in the closing month of the race.
And that's kept it somewhat close.
We still believe the Republican herd has an advantage here.
You mentioned Representative Don Bacon, not an unknown quantity in Congress, but what makes his race really tight this time around?
This is a very unique district because Nebraska's second district is in the national spotlight.
Nebraska's one of just two states that allocate its electoral votes by congressional district.
And this Omaha seat has been trending blue for some time.
And polls show that Kamala Harris is a very clear favorite over Donald Trump to carry the one electoral vote from this district.
And that undertow could drag Republican Congressman Don Bacon under.
Now, he has been a survivor.
He has been there since 2016.
He's won the seat even as Joe Biden was carrying the district in 2020.
This time around, he has the same opponent as in 2022, Democratic State Senator Tony Vargas.
And this has been a high-dollar race with Democrats accusing Bacon of getting closer to Trump and the MAGA wing of the party for endorsing a rule change in Nebraska that would have converted the state's electoral votes to winner-take-all.
That was highly controversial in Omaha.
But Bacon is emphasizing his bipartisan credentials.
He actually has an ad featuring the widow of his Democratic predecessor, Brad Ashford, endorsing his reelection campaign and hitting the Democrat as excessively partisan.
Dave Walzerman with us always.
A lot of information there when it comes to these down ballot races.
Again, call the line that best represents you.
We'll start with Beverly.
She's in Wyoming, Democrats line.
You're on with our guests.
Good morning.
Yeah, I was just wondering why they don't have Democrat ballots, our candidates in Wyoming.
And maybe if they had diversity, they might have a free election.
But it's going to be so hard for these Republicans to get a good base because they're all backstabbing each other.
And the ones that are the rhinos, well, I hope they win.
Okay, Beverly in Wyoming.
Wyoming's a state where the orientation of that at-large district was really decided by Liz Cheney's reelection race in the Republican primary a couple years ago when she lost to Harriet Hagman.
That moved the seat essentially from one that was a Trump skeptic Republican seat, to say the least, to a MAGA-held seat.
And what we're noticing in a lot of Republican open seats, and there are 23 Republicans who opted not to seek reelection this year, is the direction that the Republicans are headed overall depends a lot on who comes through these primaries.
And there are a number of open seats where candidates allied with Trump ended up prevailing.
People like Brandon Gill in Texas's 26th district.
But there are also a number of districts where we saw more conventional conservatives who would have fit in the party in the pre-Trump era prevailed.
People like Julie Fedorczak in North Dakota.
So it's going to be a mixed bag of incoming Republicans in the next Congress.
In North Carolina, James is there.
Republican line.
Go ahead.
Morning, fellas.
It reminded me when you were getting so excited about how much the Democrats have outraised the Republicans.
I was wondering if you care or if you thought about all the money that people like George Soros that hate our country and is really a bad guy that funds the Democrat Party and in these deep blue states where they throw bricks through windows and burn their cities down and stuff like that during 2020.
And as a matter of fact, this morning I saw on the ticker thing at the bottom of the TV that Speaker Johnson has come out and saying that there are serious issues with the Democrat Party taking money from our adversaries, which, you know, the Democrat people are good people.
My neighbors are good people, the Democrats.
But the party does not give a damn about America, and they'll take money from anybody.
Mr. Wasserman, money comes in from a lot of these races, from outside sources.
Talk that in general, sort of where the money's coming from, especially some of those races where it's being focused on.
Yeah, and look, there are boogeymen on both sides here.
Republicans love to point out the Soros family.
Democrats are increasingly taking aim at the spending that Elon Musk has injected into the super PAC realm in 2024.
And yet there's a much broader array of donors that are funding super PACs that are spending hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars on races at all levels.
And those PACs have less of a punch than the hard dollars that candidates spend because candidates who are raising funds that are subject to limits have access to better advertising rates than super PACs.
And yet one thing we noticed early on in the kind of reset of the presidential race when Kamala Harris was nominated after Joe Biden withdrew from the race is that Democrats leading super PAC, a group called Future Forward, which is going to spend upwards of $600 million on this year's campaign.
And don't get me wrong, they're comparably well-funded pro-Trump super PACs.
But they took the gamble of launching a really early reintroduction, a barrage of ads, reintroducing Kamala Harris as a change agent, which is something that's very hard to do when you're talking about the sitting vice president.
But it was very effective in turning her image around from negative 16, where it had been for much of the spring and much of the past couple years, to net neutral.
Now that we're finally seeing Trump's ads take their toll in Battleground States, we've seen Kamala Harris's favorability come back down from plus one to maybe minus two.
And that is an important difference between what we saw in August and September versus what we're seeing now in October.
One of those races you highlight in Minnesota, the 2nd District of Minnesota.
This is Representative Angie Craig versus Joe Turab, if I'm saying it correctly.
T-Rab, yep.
T-Rab, yeah.
Go ahead.
So this is a seat where Republicans were hoping to give a Democratic incumbent a tough race in the Minneapolis suburbs.
What we're seeing in the polling there is that the presidential race is tighter than it was in 2020.
So Joe Biden carried this district by seven points in 2020.
It wouldn't be surprising if Kamala Harris only won it by four or five.
But we're also seeing the Democrat Angie Craig win comfortably or lead comfortably in the polls over T-Rab, who's a former federal prosecutor and also comes from a family of Sudanese heritage.
And yet this is a prime example of where Republicans have not been able to match Democrats dollar for dollar.
Craig has raised $7.4 million this cycle to T-Rab's $2.6 million.
And so she's had a real communication advantage in portraying herself as a bipartisan problem solver and her opponent as part and parcel of Trump and the MAGA wing.
From what I've been reading, a lot of the races that the ones you don't mention specifically, but I think you did mention it in the introduction, is the 4th District of New York.
That's out of Long Island, if I'm correct.
That's Anthony DiEsposito.
That's right.
And this is a race that has been rocked by late scandal and revelations of Diaz Bosito apparently putting his mistress and his fiancé's child on his congressional payroll.
Now, Long Island has probably a higher tolerance threshold for patronage politics than most parts of the country.
And yet the Democrat running against him, Laura Gillen, who fell three and a half points short in 2022, she's waged a much more aggressive campaign this time to get out in front of some of the Republican attacks that she's soft on law and order issues.
And we expect there to be a higher non-white turnout in 2024 than there was in the midterms.
This is a district that's almost half non-white, particularly in the five towns area of Nassau County.
So if there is a more normal Democratic turnout in those kinds of places in districts in and around New York City and also LA and California Central Valley, then Democrats would have a better chance of taking back the House.
Let's hear from Ron.
Ron joins us from Iowa.
Democrats line for David Wasserman.
I'd like to hear Mr. Wasserman's take on the congressional race in the 1st District of Southeast Iowa between Marionette Miller-Meeks and Christina Bohannan.
I'll hang up and take his answer offline.
It's a fantastic question because this is one of the races that we're watching closely.
And Marionette Miller-Meeks ran for this seat or a previous version of it three times before finally getting elected.
And even though this district will likely vote for Trump, it voted for Trump by about three points four years ago, voters have not really warmed up to the Republican incumbent, Marionette Miller-Meeks.
And she only won her first term by six votes in the closest House race of the nation in 2020.
She won re-election more comfortably two years ago.
But the Democrat here, Christina Bohannon, is running a much more aggressive race this time, particularly on the abortion issue.
And Marionette Miller-Meeks got a primary challenge from a religious conservative candidate who attacked her from the right.
And that really dented her favorability with Republican voters.
What we're seeing in the polls now is that she's having a real problem consolidating her own base heading into the general election, which is giving the Democrat Bohannan an unusual opportunity.
I wouldn't have guessed at the beginning of the year that this race would find its way to our toss-up column, but we are seeing polls that show it either tied or even Bohannon with a small lead.
And if Miller-Meeks ends up winning, it'll only be because Trump's performance pushed her across the finish line.
Moshe from Brooklyn, New York, Republican line.
Hi.
Hi, how are you, Dave?
I was wondering, how do you look at polling?
Like you interview people, like, what's your particular low?
Like, when you decide to move things in a tassel, we have to give us more details exactly how you conduct how you conduct interviews.
I mean, pollings.
Well, to be clear, except for a series of swing state polls that we did in conjunction with a Democratic and Republican polling firm, we're not polling these districts.
And there's a lot of public data about the presidential race and a lot of coverage of how precarious polls are these days given low response rates.
And it's true that pollsters are having a harder time reaching voters and they're having to weight their samples in ways that adjust for how they think the electorate will look at the end of the day.
And those assumptions may or may not prove correct.
So all polls are subject to error, and that's always been the case.
But the vast majority of data that we're seeing is data that the parties have compiled privately.
And the reason why partisan polls taken by the parties can often be better than a lot of the public surveys or of higher quality is that that's what the parties are using to make investment decisions as to where they're going to allocate their resources across a wide array of battleground districts.
And in some cases, the party's polls paint a similar picture of what's going on.
In others, Democrats and Republicans have a very different notion of where races stand.
And so what we're doing is we're trying to see how everything lines up and making our best estimate of where these races stand.
But there are always a few surprises on election night.
On election night, you are known to say, I've seen enough.
When is that moment for you in some of these cases when you're analyzing data?
When is the moment when you make that conclusion?
Well, there's not a hard and fast rule, and I don't have a secret sauce.
My approach is actually more straightforward than a lot of people think.
I'm taking a look at the data that's coming in at the county, at the precinct level, and assessing whether the trailing candidate has a reasonable path to overtaking the leader or not.
And if you've watched these races long enough, you know that there are clear patterns across demographic groups, across geography, that can give you a pretty good idea of how races are shaping up early on election night.
Now, I'll actually be part of a larger team on Tuesday, as I have been in every major election since 2008.
I'll be a consultant for the NBC News Decision Desk as we size up races at all levels.
And the challenge with a presidential year, especially, is that there's so much data coming at you at once that if I were trying to do it myself, there's too much to cover and it's possible to make mistakes.
And so I prefer to be part of a larger team to evaluate what's going on and communicate it to our on-air talent.
We've been talking about down ballot.
What's your sense of where we are at top of ticket?
So this has been the closest presidential race in the polling that I've covered in my 17 years at the Cook Political Report.
We've got seven states that are basically tied or within a point or two points.
And that begs the question, who the heck are these 3 to 5% of people in polls who still haven't made up their minds after everything we've seen the past 10 years?
And in our research, what we have found is that these undecided or unsure or soft voters, they're disproportionately younger.
They skew a little bit more female and a little bit more non-white than the rest of the electorate.
And in theory, that should give Kamala Harris more upside.
Except we also know that these voters are less college educated than the rest of the electorate.
They're overwhelmingly independents who dislike both parties.
And they also have dim views of the candidates.
And when we took our last survey in the Battleground States, what we found was that 68% of them agree with the statement that Kamala Harris is too liberal to serve effectively as president.
70% of them view Trump as too erratic and out of control to serve effectively as president.
But these voters more than others are cost of living and pocketbook voters.
And by 55 to 26 in our last survey several weeks ago, they trusted Trump more than Harris to get inflation under control.
So she's had to try and neutralize that edge through her ads.
Now, what's the final week of this election been about?
We haven't had really any bombshell national news stories.
And so it's been about things like Madison Square Garden and Trump's final rally, which is another unforced error.
And then if there's something that you can always count on close to Election Day, it's Joe Biden committing some type of gaffe.
And Republicans believe that his comment or his verbal miscue has energized their base.
But in the end, it's tough to see either Harris or Trump winning without carrying the state of Pennsylvania.
It is not only the largest electoral college prize of those seven states, but it's also consistently been the closest state in the polls.
And Joe Biden only won Pennsylvania by a point in 2020.
Kamala Harris lacks many of the familial ties that Biden had to the state.
He grew up in Scranton.
He was practically a senator from the Philly suburbs for close to 40 years.
And she lacks some of the union endorsements that he had, whether it was the Teamsters or the International Association of Firefighters.
Those things matter in more blue-collar parts of the state, such as Lower Bucks County, where it wasn't any accident that Trump went to a McDonald's and slung french fries during his visit several years ago.
So in the end, you know, Pennsylvania is a state where if Democrats fall short by a tiny margin, a lot of them will be wishing that Harris had picked Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate rather than Governor Tim Walz.
If Trump falls short by a narrow margin, then Democrats' performance with women will be the reason.
As far as the blue wall states, so to speak, at this stage, what's the possibility that the vice president will claim those states?
So if you squint closely enough at the polling, her best states, but not by more than a point, have been Michigan and Wisconsin.
And Pennsylvania's been a hair closer.
And then Trump has had an edge in many of those Sunbelt states by a point, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina.
But in Wisconsin and Michigan, Democrats are really counting on blue-collar women who are pro-choice to stick with Harris over Trump.
And it's clear why Democrats have sought to frame this election around the Dobbs decision and reproductive rights, because it's an issue where, especially in those Great Lakes battlegrounds, Democrats have the issue advantage.
The question is whether enough of those swing voters really do see Trump as an extremist on the issue or an unacceptable risk to take.
After all, he has frustrated a number of Christian conservatives by refusing to endorse a national abortion ban.
And even though Democrats dispute this, he says he wants to preserve access to IVF and Mifford-Pristone, which is actually a message that allows him to kind of check the box on that issue and frustrate Democrats.
We continue on with our guest, David Wasserman of Cook Political Report.
Let's hear from Alan in North Carolina, Republican line.
Good morning.
Good morning, Pedro.
Wave.
Good morning, David.
I've got a Senate question, and then I have a House question at the end.
I'm from North Carolina, so I think our senators are intact.
I think you have a six-year term, so what business.
Anywho, there's four states I was wanting to ask you about your opinion on.
Pennsylvania, I think, with McCormick.
Tester in Montana.
And I forget the guy's name in Nevada.
He's an Army veteran that was injured in Afghanistan.
And then Ted Cruz in Texas.
How do you see those races?
And then my final question, I'll take it offline.
I live in Catawba County in North Carolina.
I think Patrick McHenry has decided not to run again, and I'm wondering when his term runs out.
And I'll take my question offline.
Yeah, a great series of questions from Hickory, North Carolina there.
So Pat Harrigan is the Republican who is likely to succeed, virtually guaranteed to succeed Patrick McHenry in that safe Republican district.
One thing Republicans did in North Carolina was they redrew the congressional boundaries before this year's election.
They gerrymandered them in their favor, which is going to net them at least three seats and possibly fourth, depending on the outcome in the first district held by Democrat Don Davis in northeastern North Carolina.
But that's somewhat offset by new district boundaries in Louisiana and Alabama, where the Supreme Court interpreted the Voting Rights Act in a way that led to the creation of new black majority seats.
So on the Senate, my colleague Jessica Taylor, our Senate editor, has a fantastic overview of the state of play in the Senate that just went live on our website, cookpolitical.com, in the last hour.
But on those specific races, Montana is the one that is really the fulcrum of the Senate.
Republicans are guaranteed to pick up West Virginia, which gets them from 49 to 50 seats.
But if they were to win Montana by beating Democrat John Tester, that would likely get them an absolute majority of 51, which would guarantee them the majority regardless of who wins the White House.
And John Tester has run a race that is hard to criticize.
He's run a really aggressive reelection race that has highlighted his ties, his roots in the state, and tried to contrast them against Republican Tim Sheehy, who only moved to the state in 2014.
And the final Democratic Hail Mary in this race, as they've seen Tester slide behind Sheehy in the polls, is ads featuring a Navy SEAL who served with Sheehy,
alleging that Sheehy lied about where he got a bullet wound when he said he got it in Afghanistan when both this Navy SEAL and a Glacier National Park ranger allege that he received that bullet wound by shooting himself in the arm in Glacier National Park.
Nonetheless, Sheehy still maintains a lead in the polls, and we have that in our lean Republican column.
And then in Nevada, we have a race between Democrat Jackie Rosen, the incumbent, and then Republican Army veteran Sam Brown.
Here's a case where money has made a big difference because Brown, who has a heroic war story to tell, emerged from the Republican primary in June, broke.
And Jackie Rosen had a massive spending advantage on the airwaves for the first couple months of the general election.
She highlighted his position on abortion.
He had previously run for office in Texas.
And that allowed her to establish a lead that looks like it's going to hold even as the state remains pretty much tied at the presidential level.
And then in Pennsylvania, this is a race where we just moved the seat to the toss-up column from lean Democrats.
Senator Bob Casey, the Democrat incumbent, might still have a minuscule lead over Republican David McCormick, but Republicans have made a late ad push and have had the spending advantage even as Democrats have tried to cast McCormick as a carpetbagger.
And then sampling of Pennsylvania ads to show our viewers.
I'm Bob Casey, and I approve this message.
Intimidation and retaliation.
Reports made it clear that under Dave McCormick, the world's largest hedge fund was a dangerous place for women to work.
They were groped, sexually harassed, or worse.
But instead of protecting his female employees, McCormick protected his profits, threatening one woman if she ever spoke up.
She'd be sued for the rest of her life.
Another was reminded he had the power to destroy her.
That's ugly.
That's Dave McCormick.
Nine o'clock.
It's about to happen.
Every night under Biden, the Border Patrol processes 6,000 illegal migrants here on our southern border.
That's 8 million since Biden took office.
Plus, the ones who got away.
Joe Biden and Bob Casey give these illegals all kinds of benefits, and you pay for it.
It's not fair.
Biden and Bob Casey are too weak to stop it.
So we have to stop them.
I'm Dave McCormick, and I approve this message.
And there's a samples of the ads there.
That's right.
And you're seeing David McCormick kind of co-opt a lot of Trump's message.
And the question is, can he match Trump's performance in regions of the state where there are still a lot of Union Democrats, where Casey's name still means something because his dad was governor.
He's been in that Senate seat since 2006.
He's been in statewide office longer than that.
And so the dynamic in the Great Lakes battlegrounds, not just Pennsylvania, but Wisconsin, Michigan as well, we're seeing Democratic Senate candidates outperform Harris by just a little bit.
And that could prove decisive.
It could keep these states in Democrats' column in the Senate and prevent Republicans from winning a big majority.
And then the other state that has been interesting late is Texas.
And Senator Ted Cruz, he took that ill-fated 2021 trip to Cancun.
That's coming up in Democrats' attack ads.
Democrat Colin Allred has waged a really well-funded campaign, but Texas is still a very difficult state for Democrats to win.
And Cruz is raising a lot more money this time than he did six years ago when he came within two and a half points of losing to Beta O'Rourke.
Additionally, Democrats are not performing quite well enough with Hispanic voters, particularly in South Texas, to have an even shot at winning this seat.
Democrats need everything to go right for them to win Texas.
They haven't done it since 1994.
And yet, Trump's inroads with culturally conservative Hispanic voters has not only kept the state a clear Trump favorite, but also has helped Cruz.
Let's hear from John.
John is on our line for Republicans.
He's from New Jersey for David Wasserman of Cook Political Report.
Go ahead.
Hey, what's going on, guys?
And thanks, Dave, for all the hard work.
I really appreciate it.
My question for you is, you know, in 2016 and 2020, you know, with the polls not being so close, especially on the state level, and now with the polls being so close where they are going in, you know, four days from election, can you see any state like a Virginia or a New Hampshire where Trump could potentially outperform the polls?
And I'm not necessarily saying win the state, but instead of that six or seven point margin, it could be, you know, a two or three point margin, and that kind of indicates where election night will go as well.
I'll hang up and listen.
Thank you again.
Great question.
Look, if Donald Trump came close to winning Virginia or New Hampshire or won those states, it would be a tectonic break from everything we've been told by polls in this cycle, which is that Kamala Harris has gained ground relative to Biden in 2020 with white college graduates who make up big shares of the vote in Virginia and New Hampshire.
Now, Donald Trump has made inroads with black and Hispanic voters, particularly men, particularly younger voters and those who identify as independents rather than Democrats.
And so that explains why he has made progress in polls in Sunbelt states, where those voters are more numerous, and why we've seen Harris and before her, Biden, doing relatively better in those Great Lakes battlegrounds.
Now, early on election night, I will be watching Virginia, but for a different reason.
We've got two House races there that are going to tell us something about how the night's going.
Republican Jen Kiggins, who's running for reelection in the 2nd district in Virginia Beach, and then the open seat in the 7th district, where Democrat Abigail Spanberger is leaving to run for governor.
And in the second district, we view Kiggins as the narrow favorite over Democrat Missy Cotter-Smazel.
That is a race where if Democrats somehow eke out a win, that would portend a rough night for Republicans in the House.
And then in the 7th district, we have that in our toss-up column.
So either side has a good chance to win.
Democrat Eugene Vinman, who he and his brother are famous whistleblowers from the first Trump impeachment, he's raised absolutely stunning amount of money, but he's also got a tough Republican opponent in retired Green Beret, Derek Anderson.
This is a seat that Democrats ought to be able to keep in their column, but if the Republicans flip it, that would portend possibly a good night for Republicans' chances of holding the House.
This is Dawn.
Dawn is in Maryland, Democrats line.
Good morning.
Yes, I have a question for Mr. Wasserman on the race in Pennsylvania, the House race in Pennsylvania with Perry.
And he's running against a woman who was a former anchor on a local TV station.
And I just wondered what is the status of that race.
Thank you very much.
And I'll take my answer off the air.
Yeah, so this is a rare case where you have a Freedom Caucus leader on the Republican side who is running for reelection in a swing district.
And Scott Perry has had some close calls before.
And this seat is a part of Pennsylvania where Democrats believe that they are gaining ground.
It's Harrisburg and its suburbs, particularly those West Shore Harrisburg suburbs in Cumberland County.
You also have the city of York in the district.
You have Hershey, where there's a medical center.
So it's attracting a lot of professional workers who are more sympathetic to Democrats, or at least not Trump's type of Republicans.
And Scott Perry's cell phone was seized by the FBI in the aftermath of January 6th for his alleged role in coming up with ways for Trump to overturn the election.
That was really a motivating force for Janelle Stelson, who is the longtime former WGAL ABC affiliate anchor in Harrisburg and Lancaster, to run.
But what's interesting is that you're not seeing her message center on January 6th in the closing months.
She has outraised Perry significantly, but she is pointing out Perry's more iconoclastic votes in the House against spending bills as evidence that he is out of the mainstream, such as votes against bills that would have funded first responders.
Now, Perry is actually wearing his reputation as a rabble-rouser as a badge of honor in this race.
He says, I didn't go to Congress to make friends.
I went to Congress to serve you.
And so that's his appeal to independent voters.
You know, the polling has been very, very tight.
Stelson appears to be doing just a hair better than Harris in this district.
The seat voted for Trump by just four points four years ago.
And so it's going to come down to the wire.
But if Perry does hold on this cycle and Trump wins the White House, he'll be very vulnerable again in 2026.
From New Jersey, Independent Live, Andrew, hi.
Hello, can you?
You're on.
Go ahead.
Good morning.
Can you hear me?
You're on.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
Mr. Wasserman, I go on opensecrets.org probably about five times a week.
I'm addicted to that site because they follow dark money.
They follow where this bondage are trying to determine where this campaign money is coming from.
Because correct me if I'm wrong, if a nonprofit is donating to a campaign, do they have to disclose where this money's coming from?
That's my question.
So if we're talking about an actual campaign for House or Senate, they have to disclose all the donors who have contributed more than $200 to their campaign.
And that's all listed on FEC reports.
But if you're talking about a super PAC, there are much murkier disclosure rules, and it can be harder to trace the origin of those funds.
And these days, it is hard to win a congressional seat unless you have outside help from a well-funded super PAC that can accept dark money or soft money.
There are a few cases every year where you do truly have a mom-and-pop campaign that doesn't have a big super PAC ally or millions of dollars and still wins.
An example of that was actually Tim Walz when he won his congressional seat in Minnesota in 2006.
But the caller is correct.
It can be harder to trace where this money is coming from.
And there are, for example, cryptocurrency-funded groups that are big spenders in this year's campaigns.
I don't know that their ads are especially effective because keep in mind a lot of these new players in the space have limited experience when it comes to persuading and turning out voters or knowing the messages that will actually move votes in particular districts, but we'll see.
David Wasserman, not only do you look at races, you recently released the best counties to watch for this election.
What was the importance of this, do you think?
So I'm trying to give viewers at home a rough guide of how we're sizing up election night as we see these results flying at us.
And there are a couple of bellwether counties that are worth watching for clues on election night in the presidential race.
We're probably going to get some of our first meaningful results in Georgia and North Carolina, where most of the votes are typically counted within a few hours.
And I'll be watching Baldwin County, Georgia.
Now, most everyone is focused on the Atlanta Metro, and that's where about three-fifths of the state's votes are.
But the reason Democrats have been able to do well in Georgia in federal races lately is not just that they've made huge strides in Atlanta's suburbs, but also that they've been able to hold ground in rural Georgia and small town Georgia in places that are losing some black population.
An example of that is Milledgeville, Georgia, which has two colleges in it.
It is about 41% black.
It's a county, Baldwin County voted for both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden by about a point.
But if Trump were to carry it this time, that would indicate that Harris is experiencing some erosion in either black turnout or support among young and minority voters.
If Harris does keep that county in her column, then that would be a good sign for her chances of Metro Atlanta overpowering the Republican rural reaches of the state.
In North Carolina, I'm going to be watching Caberris County outside Charlotte.
This is a place that has seen a lot of growth in voters who are moving out of Charlotte, a lot of added diversity relative to 10 years ago.
Trump won it by 20 points in 2016.
He only won it by nine in 2016.
I think Harris has to keep Trump's margin under five points in Cabarris County to have a good chance of flipping North Carolina.
And then I'll also be watching Nash County, which is outside of the research triangle, but it's a middle-income, very racially mixed part of the state.
And that has been within 1,000 votes in every presidential election since 2004.
Democrats, Joe Biden carried it by just about 100 votes last time around.
If Harris keeps that county in her column, that would be a good sign for her.
That's also part of that first congressional district that is in our toss-up column for House between Democrat Don Davis and Republican Lori Buchout.
That's going to be another one of our earliest House indicators.
The 13 best counties to watch for outcome clues on election night.
That's part of the analysis that Dave Wazerman does for Cook Political Report.
Stephen in Arizona, thanks for waiting.
Republican line, you're next.
Yes, can I talk about the 2020 election and the integrity?
My question is, if Biden was ahead in those five states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, I think Fox is ready to call Trump the winner in most of those.
If Biden was ahead in those states and then they stopped counting, and the problem with not counting, I mean, in the 1860s, they counted.
In 1900, they counted.
But for the first time in our history, five states didn't, we couldn't get the results.
With Trump way ahead in all those states.
And if that was reversed, if Biden was ahead by a lot and they stopped counting and Trump ended up winning every one of those states, I think the Democrats would have been infuriated because it does show possibility of something wrong with the election.
So if they stopped counting again, I would think of every suspect because we're in the 21st century now.
Okay.
And I mean, if they can count back in 1824 and 1860, and all of a sudden in 2020, they stopped counting.
I know they used COVID as an excuse.
Okay.
Got the point, Stephen.
Thank you.
Well, the caller appears to be misguided.
There was no order to stop counting ballots when a certain candidate was ahead in 2020.
The ballot counting and canvassing process simply took longer than it did in the past because there was a deluge of votes that were cast by mail.
This 2020 election was held during a pandemic, and so there was a spike in absentee voting.
And there were laws in some states that allowed for the pre canvassing, pre-tabulation of ballots so that those early and advanced absentee votes were their totals were able to be reported by the time the polls closed.
That's always been the practice in Florida, in Georgia, in Texas.
And yet the delay that we saw in those upper battleground states in 2020 was partially by Republicans' design.
They prevented laws from passing in those states that would have allowed for county election officials to tabulate ballots on Election Day or beforehand so that they were ready to be reported at the time the polls closed.
And as a result, it took many hours to count those ballots.
And it created the illusion that Trump was initially ahead when in reality, the most pro-Democratic votes of those who had regarded the pandemic most seriously and cast their ballots by mail had yet to be tallied.
Every state has procedures to ensure that votes are only counted once and counted accurately.
And yes, elections are subject to some very small degree of human error.
We did see a case reported in Michigan this week involving a foreign national, a non-citizen, who successfully registered and cast a ballot in Michigan on the same day.
And yet there's absolutely zero evidence of fraud occurring at a widespread scale, enough to tip elections one way or the other.
Let's hear from Zame in Maryland, Democrats line.
Good morning, David.
Question for you.
The poll numbers that you're reporting on, do they include the recent comments about Puerto Rico being garbage?
There are a lot of Puerto Rican celebrities and podcasters that are urging Puerto Ricans, millions of them across the United States, to vote for Harris.
Also, comment on the Maryland Senate race between Olsa Brooke and Hogan.
And Harris is going to win.
Thank you.
Zame in Maryland.
Well, I don't regard the Maryland Senate race as particularly competitive anymore.
And, you know, Larry Hogan would have needed a couple things to happen to have a chance at winning this race.
It's likely that he would have needed a different opponent.
Had David Trone, a congressman who had spent a lot of his own money, more than 60 million, trying to win the Democratic primary and alienated many black voters in the process, had he won the primary, this could be a very different race.
But Democrat Angela Olso Brooks, the Prince George's County executive, is likely to win by double digits.
Maryland is twice as blue as Montana is red.
And so it's very, very hard for even a well-liked Republican like Larry Hogan to be competitive for federal office.
And my colleague Jessica Taylor has a good overview of that race.
But then with respect to the polls that we're seeing on Hispanic voters, the short answer is no.
We don't have enough national polls to capture reaction to the MSG rally, particularly among a small subset of voters.
Puerto Rican voters do make up a substantial share of the vote in Pennsylvania.
And yet when we look at our most recent national crosstab average, we have a national polling average at cookpolitical.com that estimates the support levels among particular groups.
Kamala Harris was leading Hispanic voters 54 to 41 in our most recent cross-tab average.
That's down 11 points from the 24-point margin that exit polls said Joe Biden won Hispanic and Latino voters by in 2020.
So the comments that the comedian at the Trump rally made are a godsend for Harris in the sense that they have the potential to motivate a group where she's been struggling to match past Democratic performance.
And now that we are seeing a number of celebrity validators come out against Trump and for Harris, spurred on by what was said about floating garbage, we have no way of knowing at this point the extent of the effect, but it could meaningfully help Harris in key states, whether it's Pennsylvania, Nevada, or Arizona.
Mike in Ohio, Independent Line.
Hi there.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you for C-SPAN.
Yes, I am, I recently turned 71 about a week ago.
And I think if I can make a football analogy with politics, most politics is between the 40-yard lines.
I think of myself as being on the 45-yard line, just left out center.
I used to be much further left when I was a younger kid when I went to Kent State back in 1971.
I was in the class of 71 in high school, and I just now turned 71.
My congresswoman is Amelia Sykes in the 13th district.
She's an African-American.
She was born and raised at Akron.
And the Republicans, her opponent is a guy named Kevin Cocklin.
They are doing to her what they did to Obama, claiming she's not really from, well, she was born and raised in Akron, but she lived in Columbus.
She voted in Columbus.
They're trying to say that because she voted in Columbus, that she should be able to run for office at Akron.
I can't believe that.
It's like what they did to Obama back in 2008.
I don't agree with her on every issue, nor do I agree with Kamara Harris on every issue.
But for the first time in my life, I voted for two African-American women, and I hope that they both win.
And the reason why I vote for them, not because they're black, not because they're a woman, but because I believe they both have more patriotism and their little figure than their opponents do in the whole body.
Okay, that's Mike there in Ohio.
You know, this is a really interesting race in Ohio's 13th district because if you just go by the math of the district, this is a seat that Biden only won by three points last time.
It's got a substantial blue-collar share.
Only about 13% of the district's vote is black.
And there is a black freshman Democrat named Amelia Sykes who comes from a prominent Akron political family.
A lot of people don't know this, but you don't necessarily have to be registered to vote or a resident of the district in which you're running to serve as a member of Congress.
Republicans are questioning her residency.
She claims she lives in Akron.
She's in a relationship with an office holder from the Columbus area.
And so she has actually been able to establish a lead over Republican Kevin Coughlin because she has clobbered him in fundraising.
And her ads portray her as a bipartisan member of Congress who's attuned to local concerns.
They're also a little bit unique because they show her performing gymnastics and kind of appeal to a lighter side or a more relatable side than most politicians.
Whereas the Republican Coughlin, he first got elected to office in 1996.
Even a lot of Republican consultants acknowledge that he's been around the block.
He's been out of the game for a while.
And we view Sykes as the slight favorite heading into Election Day.
The Senate race in Ohio is also very tight.
And Democrat Sherrod Brown is going to need a big margin out of Akron, Canton, Lorain, the places that he used to represent in the House if he's going to hold his seat against Republican Bernie Moreno.
We don't have time to deep dive into it, but you've been tracking voters that you've described as highly engaged, less engaged, and newly registered.
How do they factor into this race coming up?
Yeah, there is a new divide in politics, and we're seeing politics turn on how attuned and how engaged voters are with the Democratic process.
Democrats have a growing advantage among the most civic-minded voters who always show up not just in presidential years, but also in every midterm and primary and school board election.
And our final poll of 2024 showed Kamala Harris with a four-point lead among those 100% voters.
Where Trump is getting his mojo is from people who are on the lower engagement end of the spectrum.
And this is true across demographic groups.
He's consistently doing better with the lower engagement voters ahead by seven in our last poll among anyone who was less than perfect.
Kamala Harris has drawn even or even taken a lead with new registrants according to our surveys.
And so that has been a difference from where Biden was earlier in the year when he was really struggling with young voters and struggling to motivate a lot of young people to register to vote.
So, you know, it's cliché to say it'll all come down to turnout.
If there's a much higher turnout, then maybe that is better for Trump because you have more of those peripherally engaged people.
If turnout declines a little bit from 2020, maybe that's better for Kamala Harris, but we won't know until the poll's close.
In your analysis of things, how much does early voting and the numbers that we're seeing in early voting track to determining who wins and who loses?
Yeah, you know, there are a lot of board analysts out there right now who don't have many numbers to go on.
And so the totals of who's voting early tend to fill that gap and that need for a lot of people.
And yet they don't really tell us that much about who has a better chance to win.
Because even if we know the number of people who have voted early in each jurisdiction, we don't know how those people are voting.
And we don't know who's going to show up and vote on Election Day.
And in Georgia right now, for example, there's evidence that Republicans are getting a really strong early vote in very pro-Trump counties, whereas there's been lower black participation in early voting.
That doesn't tell you that Trump's going to win Georgia.
It means that Democrats probably have a little bit more work to do to turn out their vote on Election Day.
And the reverse could be true when it comes to mail-in voting in Pennsylvania.
David Wasserman with Cook Political Report.
He serves as the senior editor and elections analyst here to analyze what's to expect for next Tuesday.
As always, sir, thank you for your time.
It's an honor.
Thank you.
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The last job creation report coming out just before the election, this is CNBC saying job creation in October slowed to its weakest pace since the late 2020 as the impact of storms in the Southeast and a significant labor impact dented hiring plans.
Non-farm payrolls increased by 12,000 for the month.
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Let's hear from Nelson.
This is from Marilyn.
Nelson, good morning.
Go ahead.
Good morning, Pedro.
Thank you for taking my call.
Initially, I was calling to ask a question for David, but I just want to say I'm going to be voting for Kamala Harris.
And here's the reason why I'm voting for Kamala Harris.
Donald Trump hates, he's brought chaos, total chaos.
He denigrates our generals.
Look how he talks about General Mattis, General Kelly.
Look how he talks about MacMaster and all those folks.
We did a survey.
If you add all those four generals, they've served 154 years in the military, if you accumulate me.
And you know how many years Donald Trump served in the military?
Zero years.
So that's a big issue for me.
And that's why I'm voting for Kamala Harris.
And another thing, Donald Trump keeps talking about the border, the border.
He was president for four years.
He didn't do anything about the border.
So what makes him think we're going to believe him this time?
We don't believe him.
He's still not going to do anything about the border.
So let's hear from Van.
Van is a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Go ahead.
Yes.
Thank you for taking my call.
What is me with the Republicans and the news outlets that support Trump?
They listen and believe everything he says, his name calling, his degeneration of all women and everything else.
But you let President Biden make one mistake and make a statement because of what that Madison Square Garden comedian said.
And they're all over him and Vice President Harris.
Nobody can control what another person says.
They blaming her for what somebody else says, but they never take responsibility for what Donald Trump and JD Vance say themselves concerning migrants and Americans.
Now they want to put Liz Chang in front of a fire squad.
And that's okay.
That's my point.
Okay, let's hear from a supporter of former President Trump Albert in New Jersey.
Go ahead.
How are you doing, Pedro?
Good morning.
I just was going to vote today for President Trump.
And I wanted to ask Mr. Washman a question.
Maybe you might know the answer.
2020 day in Pennsylvania, they let them votes come in after Election Day.
It was supposed to be closed, November 5th, at 8 o'clock, 8 p.m.
And they late votes came in, and Trump was ahead, I remember.
And then two or three days later, he lost Pennsylvania.
Are they going to close the polls?
Do you know anything about 8 o'clock, November 5th, this election coming up?
All these polls are going to be closed?
Are they going to take votes in later after they're not supposed to, when they're not supposed to?
I don't have an answer for that.
I apologize.
Let's go to George in Pennsylvania, a supporter of former President Trump.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I'm really thinking that Donald Trump, man, is my best bet for my business.
See, I grow and sell marijuana.
Let's go to George in Pennsylvania.
Okay, that's George there in Pennsylvania.
Whoever wins the next election on Tuesday, one of the things that will be determined from that is the federal court system and how that's impacted.
That's a focus of a story in the New York Times this morning saying that it's voters that will set the course of that, saying when voters pick the next president, they'll also be choosing between two visions of the federal judiciary.
Federal judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and almost all will serve for life, shaping American law for generations.
Today, around half of all federal judges were nominated by one of the two most recent presidents.
A New York Times analysis of their choice has found stark differences among their ideology, demographics, and prior experience that could emerge again after November.
The next president will very likely take office with roughly 40 vacancies to fill.
Many more openings can be expected over the next four years because of deaths, retirements, and resignations.
And successfully filling those vacancies will largely depend on control of the Senate.
Again, that's in the New York Times.
We will hear from Sherry.
Sherry in Dallas, Texas, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Go ahead.
Yes, sir.
Good morning.
I'm voting for Harris and Wallace and all the Democrats up and down the ballot for our freedom and our Constitution.
If people take out the time to read the Republicans Project 2025, you will know that it's there to attack everybody.
And I mean everybody.
Women, men, children, the elderly, the military.
It's awful.
Go read Project 2025.
The Republican Plans is horrible for a miracle.
Thank you.
John in Florida, Undecided Line.
You're next up.
Yes, sir.
My name is John.
I was a professional.
I have a serious issue with both the candidates as far as Social Security.
I worked for the Postal Service, a letter carrier, for 35 years.
I get a very good pension, but I also worked other jobs paying into Social Security.
And when I turned, I'm 70 years old, living in Florida now, trying to enjoy life.
I worked my whole life in Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut.
The jobs I worked were at Yale University custodian to raise a family.
And when I turned 65, five years ago, I knew what was coming.
I applied for Social Security, and I was entitled to $1,180 a month.
But because Ronald Reagan and his windfall elimination provision states that you, postal employees, and railroad employees, this is not only for me, it's for hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of other postal and railroad employees.
We cannot double dip.
So what does that all mean for this election coming up?
I'd like to know which candidate I hear that Kamala is against Social Security.
And like I said, I was entitled to $1,180.
I get $143 a month instead of $1,180 because we can only collect 10% of what we're supposed to.
Okay, that's John in Florida.
I invite you, John, to go to our website at c-span.org.
By the way, if you want to see what the candidates are saying on topics of Social Security, a lot of videos there.
You can type the search word in the box there and see if any of the candidates and what they referenced when it comes to Social Security and the future of Social Security.
All that available to you there at our website at c-span.org.
Supporter of Vice President Harris.
This is in Texas.
Ray, go ahead.
Hi.
My name's Ray and I'm from Houston, Texas, Sugarland, right outside of Houston.
I support, of course, Camel Harris and her efforts to continue the good work of Joe Biden, who's done a terrific job as president, working as a bipartisan, as he always has for 50 years.
She's had a great learning experience over three and a half years now, from working as vice president, from traveling the world, from working with our allies, to strengthening our economy, to doing things right, as Joe Biden always has, to do them with integrity, to do them with what's in the best interest of all of us.
My father was a Reagan Democrat.
I know a lot of conservatives and a lot of Republicans that I consider friends.
I consider all of us to be in this together.
I also consider foreign policy to be very important.
I think Ukraine and the 40 million people that depend on our support there that are fighting the good fight for their own freedom that don't ask us, any of us, to go fight for them, just to support them in their effort to be free.
I think she'll continue that.
And I think Donald Trump has shown he's the Russian sympathizer.
If anything, he's not for Ukraine.
Okay, let's hear from another Texan.
This is John in Texas, Undecided Line.
John in Texas, hello.
One more time for John in Dime Box, Texas.
Hello.
Let's hear from Jim, Jim in Idaho, a supporter of former President Trump.
Hi.
Good morning.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm voting for Trump Vance because of border policy, energy policy, safety and law enforcement policy, economic policy.
The foreign Iran is a big problem, and that was all funded by the Biden and Obama administration.
It continues to be funded by the Biden administration now.
I trust in Vance and Trump, and I don't know what Harris really stands for.
Thank you for taking my call.
Jim in Idaho, one of the features of last night's rally with Kamala Harris was comments from the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, particularly made about those recent comments made about Puerto Rico at that Madison Square Garden event.
Here are comments from Jennifer Lopez.
At Madison Square Garden, he reminded us who he really is and how he really feels.
It wasn't just Puerto Ricans that were offended that day.
Okay?
It was every Latino in this country.
humanity and anyone of decent character look you you look you I'm a lover You guys know that about me.
I'm a lover.
I am not a fighter.
I am not here to trash anyone or bring them down.
I know what that can feel like, and I wouldn't do it to my worst enemy, or even when facing the biggest adversary I think America has internally ever had.
But over Kamala Harris's entire career, she has proven us to us who she is.
She has shown up for us every day, for the people.
And it's time for us to show up for her.
It's time for us.
For us to all answer, presente.
I am an American woman.
I am the daughter of Juana Lupe Rodriguez and David Lopez, a proud daughter and son of Puerto Rico.
I am Puerto Rican.
Soybori Cua Carajo.
And yes, I was born here, and we are Americans.
I am a mother.
I am a mother.
I am a sister.
I am an actor and an entertainer.
And I like Hollywood endings.
I like when the good guy, or in this case, the good girl, wins.
And with an understanding of our past and a faith in our future, I will be casting my ballot for Kamala Harris for President of the United States.
Proudly.
You can see those full comments, that rally at our website and our app.
Let's hear from a voter who's voting for neither.
This is Rose in Tennessee.
Hi.
Hello.
You do not have to choose between the two awful, terrible choices, both of which support occult Freemasonry, the Chabad Giantists, and Jesuits, which are a renegade sect of the Catholic Church.
You do not have to pick the least egregious, as they've told you to do, for seven election cycles.
Pick any of the outliers, any of them, and break up the uniparty that protected Epstein Tito Island, groomed Diddy to be a predator, and funded gain of function to make a bioweapon for the population.
Both sides are evil.
They both work for a small oligarchy who hate women, abuse children, and are out to destroy humanity.
Go ahead.
Linda in Wisconsin, a supporter of former President Trump.
Good morning.
Yes, this is Linda.
The joke that was told by the comedian at the Trump rally was he was somebody that Trump did not know.
He did not approve this comedian.
He did not make that statement.
So you can't be responsible for everything said by everybody.
Also on the abortion issue, Trump said he would not sign, not sign a national abortion ban.
He's also for IVF.
It's a state issue.
So if all the ladies in the state would like it to go a certain way, I believe they should go and talk to their state legislatures.
I think we could come up with a reasonable amount.
You cannot get the Democrats to say there would be any cutoff date regarding abortions.
I think there could be a 16-week abortion cutoff date.
You could also have all the things that you say not for abort, you know, for rape or incest, the life and health of the mother.
All those could be included on a state ballot.
So I'm just hoping that the ladies out there would start talking to their state legislatures and that Trump would not sign a national abortion ban.
Okay.
In Minnesota, CJ, this is CJ from Minneapolis, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Good morning.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, I think that Kamala Harris deserves a chance.
But I don't know that once she wins, I wonder if the Senate is going to sabotage her like they did Obama and block everything she tries to do.
That's my concern.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
CJ, you're there in Minneapolis.
A couple of stories taking a look at the topic of transitions, particularly on the side of former President Trump.
This is the Wall Street Journal.
Meet the head hunter-in-chief for the former president.
Howard Luttnick is his name.
He's 63 years old.
He's MAGA's top emissary on Wall Street, a place where some executives have embraced former President Donald Trump's tax policies, but they're leery of the tone of his rallies.
Trump, a longtime friend, appointed Luttnick co-chair of his transition team in August.
His mandate is to compile short list of candidates for jobs ranging from attorney general to deputy solicitor for water resources.
The story also saying that in an interview with the paper in his office, he said that the second Trump administration will look different than the first.
His team isn't interested in people such as former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis or former chief of staff John Kelly, who both worked in the first Trump administration and had their own ideas about how to do their jobs and eventually publicly condemned their former boss.
Rather, Lucknick said that hires will be loyal to the president, the policies of the president.
And that's quoted.
That's in the Wall Street Journal if you want to read that there.
When it comes to the other transition aspect, the Washington Post picking that up.
This is the headline, the former president testing Congress's bid to fix presidential transitions, saying if there's no apparent winner within five days of the election, every federal agency will be required on November 11th to open its doors to both Trump and Vice President Harris's campaigns so they can simultaneously begin the sprint to install a new administration.
Each department is already working to find office space, ideally on separate floors for the two campaigns, and preparing two sets of career staffers to brief them.
This story adding that the former president's team's working out of a Manhattan office and inside the Willard Hotel in Washington, betting candidates for some of the roughly 4,000 political jobs he needs to quickly fill if he wins, including by evaluating whether the nominees will be significantly sufficiently loyal to the president, according to campaign officials.
So there's more there when it comes to talk of transitions in the papers this morning.
Let's hear from Wisconsin.
This is where John is, a supporter of the former president.
Hello.
Good morning, Pedro.
Thanks for taking my call.
I want to bring to light the double standard as far as what the previous Wisconsin callers said, as far as the Puerto Rican statement made by a comedian.
I just verified and heard a clip of Julia Louis Dreyfus, who spoke at the DNC convention in Chicago in episode four of VEEP.
She walked in and she said, it smells like Puerto Rico in here.
How come no one's bringing that up?
And a second question I have is about the edit of the transcript of Joe Biden, where the apostrophe in the word supporters is.
Apparently, there's some major ethics violations right now currently going on inside the White House as far as it comes to changing legal government document transcripts to fit a narrative in which Joe Biden called myself and every other Trump supporter garbage.
Those are my two statements, and I thank you very much for taking my call.
Supporter of the Vice President, this is Rita in Maryland.
Good morning.
I'm Rita in Capitol Heights, Maryland.
I would like to send gratitude and my support for Kamala Hurricane's staff.
May God bless you on that special day in Jesus' name.
Amen.
A supporter of neither candidate from Vermont.
This is Barbara.
Hi.
So I wasn't going to vote because I, you know, climate change is one thing and the Democrats, I'm not really sure.
So anyway, yesterday I was watching, well, I was on Twitter and I heard there were two representatives.
One was a woman, one was a man, the guy from Nebraska.
I think his name was Bacon.
And they were talking about, this is kind of like opening up my eyes a little bit, how the Inflation Reduction Act actually is spending $3 million under the names of climate, but it's actually come to groups that are for defunding the police, closing prisons.
So it's kind of like they're against the United States.
So that opens up my eyes.
Now, I tried Googling it, couldn't find it, but I put it in my archives and Twitter.
And so I'm concerned that the Democrat Party is open borders.
So it's out there, but it's hard to find.
Oh, Barbara, you're breaking up there.
Apologies for that.
Let's hear from Michael.
Michael in Texas, supporter of former President Trump.
Go ahead.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm just believing President Trump, that he's got the knowledge and the experience to maybe pull this country out.
Voting for Kamala Harris would just be insanity.
That's the definition of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting something else is the definition of sanity.
She's been there four years.
It's never done anything.
Her and Biden destroyed the border, the economy.
And what people don't realize is this debt, this national debt is fixing to destroy this country.
And if something doesn't change, we're going to be in deep trouble.
I always ask people what's going to happen when they can't borrow any more money to give away.
Then what's going to happen?
Let's just say, go, Trump.
Go, Trump.
Go, Trump.
Thank you for letting me speak.
From Temple Hills, Maryland, supporter of neither candidate.
This is Jay.
Hi.
Good morning, Pedro.
Hey, Pedro, real quick, there's a small group of avid C-SPAN watchers.
We call ourselves the crazy 88s.
And we have given rankings to some of the hosts.
John is the most friendliest, and we have ranked you as the most improved.
At one point, you didn't show any emotions, no smile, no laughter, but you have improved that.
I mean, you know, so congratulations on that.
Now, as far as the candidates go, what a choice.
We have to pick between a 34-count felony, felon, and a war-mongering, genocidal administration with Biden-Hurris.
I know that C-SPAN, y'all don't give as many updates on what's going on in Gaza with the genocide and with the Biden-Hurris administration breaking federal law, the Leahy Act, and Biden going after censorship for U.S. citizens.
You don't talk about it.
You know, issues that you want to cover, you are unbiased on issues you choose to cover, but you don't choose to cover some of the issues.
Well, I'll break agreement with you there only because when it comes to the events of Israel, Gaza, and otherwise, we've spent quite a bit of time on this program over the many weeks leading up to the election and even some during the election talking about these issues.
You can go to our website to find it out.
You can go to our access to find it out, but I'll let you finish.
Go ahead.
Okay, last thing.
Is there any plans to have either Jill Stein?
Well, I know Jill Stein has been on twice.
What about Dr. Cornell West?
Any plans for having him back on?
We've had him a couple of times leading up to the election.
I don't see that being in the plans only because it's the closest of election day.
But as always, you can hear their interviews of both of those that you've mentioned.
We've been on several times.
If you go to our website at c-span.org, they've both been featured on this program.
You can find their interviews and you can see what they have to say in the issues that they believe in.
A supporter of Vice President Harris, this is Jack in Pennsylvania.
Go ahead.
How are you doing, Pedro?
Listen, there's three categories of the Trump voter.
There's the ultra-rich who, if they get nothing else, they don't care about any women's rights or any health care for people that don't have that.
If they get their tax break, they're fine with that.
The second group are bigots and racists that they're not going to vote for anybody that's not a white, rich Republican.
And the third are just the uninformed people who tune into the five and think that they're getting real news.
I appreciate publications like you guys that try to be unbiased and just put people out there.
But you got Donald Trump who thinks he can just go out and insult people.
And like he's attacked every group out there.
And there's 500,000 Puerto Ricans that live in Pennsylvania.
And it's going to come down to us.
And it's going to be a landslide.
So I'll just sit back and watch.
Okay.
A supporter of former President Trump.
This is from Kentucky.
We'll hear from Susan.
Hi.
Good morning.
I'm sorry.
I have a little bit of a cold, but I went to Kroger to get some Fritos.
$5.
Hamburger is up to $5 a pound.
I cannot afford her.
And she seems very phony.
She sucks up to the trans people now.
And she sucks up to the women that want abortions.
I will never vote for anyone that is for abortions.
I am for babies' rights.
She slept allegedly with the man in California that promoted her to do really good jobs.
And she just seems so phony to me.
And I haven't heard anything she's done in the four years that she's been vice president.
Nothing.
But now all of a sudden, she supposedly has done all these wonderful things.
Okay.
I can't afford her and I don't care for her.
Okay, that's Kentuckian calling in.
Again, about a half hour to go.
If you want to participate in this four days up until Election Day, we've been showing you the phone lines.
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One of the things that we had a chance to do leading up to Election Day was talk to a representative of the Associated Press, David Scott.
He talked about how the AP tracks races and the process they go through to declaring winners on election night.
Here's part of that interview.
The thing that we're looking to do is just answer one question: Can the trailing candidates catch the leader?
And at the point at which we've determined, based on our look at the vote count and our analysis of the vote count, our analysis of our election survey, AP Vote Cast, when we're interviewing more than 100,000 voters as they cast their ballots, our analysis of the advanced vote, registration statistics, basically all of the data that's available to us with the vote count being at the heart of it, when we've determined that data makes it very clear that the trailing candidates can't catch the leader, that's when we're able to declare a winner.
How do you sort through all that data?
That is a lot of data to sort through in a timely manner to make a call.
Yeah, so at the Associated Press, we'll be declaring winners in about 4,800 elections this November.
And that assumes none of those go to a runoff, which, of course, some of them will in Georgia and Louisiana and the other states where there are runoffs.
And so it is a tremendous amount of data.
And we do it with a tremendous team.
It's a big team.
So our decision team at AP, 60 people, several of whom are full-time focused on elections.
So they're always working on this all of the time.
But under that is the team that's generating that data.
So we'll have totality across the Associated Press, about 5,000 people on the night of the general election who are working to collect the vote, count the vote, quality check it, analyze it, publish it, and then ultimately declare winners.
Why and how is it that the Associated Press can call a race right after polls close in that state?
Well, it's very rare that we would do that.
It's only in a small number of states where that's possible.
And it's because we can look at the data from past elections.
We can understand the electoral history of a state.
We can look at registration statistics.
We can look at the advanced vote statistics.
And then we can look at results from our survey.
And if all of those things line up to show that once again, a candidate will have a commanding win in a state, we're able to declare a winner as soon as polls close.
But it's only in a small number of places where that's possible.
When do you think you will hold off on calling a race?
Or what would be the circumstances?
When we're not certain.
And that's our standard.
We aim for our standard is 100% accuracy.
So if we are not certain that there is without a shadow of a doubt that the trailing candidates can't catch the leader, then we hold off.
And if we think it's possible that the race could flip, that those trailing candidates have a path to victory, as small as it might be, as long as that path to victory exists, we can't say who's won yet.
How many people make the final decision?
Well, for the race for the president, it's a big team.
So we start with a race caller who's looking at the race in a state very closely, very focused on a single state.
They then work with an analyst who's looking at several states.
If they both agree, then the decision goes up to a decision editor who reviews all of their work, and then all three of them need to agree that the race is ready to be called.
And then when we get into a battleground state or a state that we think is going to be particularly close or a state that might ultimately lead a candidate to reach 270 electoral votes, then myself, our Washington Bureau Chief, and our executive editor, we all come into that conversation as well.
But in reality, it's not nearly as linear as that.
We're a big team.
We're all together on election night.
We're all looking at the data.
And all of us have to agree that a race is ready to be called before we can declare a winner.
Let's hear from Callie.
Callie in Arkansas, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Good morning.
Hi, good morning.
Hi, Your Honor.
Yes, my comment is: I can't understand why and how that someone's running for president and his VP running mate.
Why do they call people illegal aliens?
I don't understand it.
That should show people right there that you don't have no respect for yourself or the people that you want to head off.
And I don't understand it.
And I don't have no respect for him.
He's always talking about people they call Kamala Kamala.
She's not an ape or something.
So that's disrespectful right there.
But now, for Trump, what did somebody say about his toupee he be wearing?
Because when the incident happened with him, his toupee almost came off and showed his ball spot.
Angel in South Carolina on our undecided line.
Hi there.
Hi, how are you?
I noticed that Keevin has something against weak women, and in fact, they're not.
And Kim Walls has a little bit of a mannerism also.
They should look at themselves and see why they feel like that about women.
Maybe they're a women's part or they're part of a feminine's feelings.
It came out unexpectedly.
What do you think?
I'll just read you the response from Mark Cuban.
He put out a response from his interview with View and then followed up with a response on X saying this.
When I said this during the interview, I didn't get it out exactly the way I thought I did.
So I apologize to anyone who felt slighted or upset by my response.
As I said, it wasn't about Trump voters, supporters, or employees, current or former.
And I set myself up with a six-second sound bite.
No excuses.
Can't nail every interview.
My skin is thick enough.
What bothers me, though, is that so many of the comments or media in support of or against me has some level of insult attached to it, not just here, but everywhere.
I'm not blaming anyone.
We are where we are.
Here's hoping that changes a little bit, at least in a week, and goes on from there.
And that's the response from Mark Cuban after comments made on the View.
Let's hear from Albuquerque, New Mexico, a supporter of former President Trump.
This is James.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
You know, I say this, you without sin throw the first stone.
And, you know, the Democrats get on the air here.
There was a gentleman, I think, from Pennsylvania.
He said, you know, that Trump and his supporters insult everybody.
Well, he was doing it on his call.
He was insulting Trump supporters and Trump.
And another thing is that Trump was president for four years, and all the things that the media and the Democrats are saying that Trump's going to put people in jail and on and on.
He never did that in his four years.
Look, and I tell a lot of people, look, everybody has a personality on both sides.
Don't vote on personality.
You got to vote on policy.
What's good for the United States?
What's good for the individual?
And I just don't understand it.
I want to make one last comment on the abortion issue.
This is how it could be settled very easily in the states.
The states have it in their hands.
I truly believe this is what will solve it.
Those people that choose to have an abortion, tax them only.
Because don't tax me.
Don't charge me.
Don't take money out of my pocket because I'm pro-life.
So I think that would be a very simple way to solve it is, okay, if you're for abortion, okay, well, then tax those people and take it out of their pocket, but don't take it out of mine.
Okay, James in New Mexico there.
The Washington Post takes a look at the possibility, if former President Trump wins another term in office, of the role that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might play in that administration.
This is a series of people writing that saying that Kennedy, Mr. Kennedy, has been privately meeting with Trump transition officials to help draw up an agenda for a new administration, which could involve the longtime anti-vaccine activists taking a role as White House czar rather than attempting to win Senate confirmation to lead an agency, the people said.
Kennedy and his advisors have also been drafting 30, 60, and 90-day plans for what they would like to accomplish after Donald Trump is inaugurated.
According to one person familiar with the process, quote, the president had asked me to clean up corruption and conflicts at the agencies and end the chronic disease epidemic.
Mr. Kennedy said in an interview Wednesday he wants measurable results in two years and to return those agencies to their long traditions of gold standard evidence-based science and medicine.
The story adding that Trump advisors say that nothing will be firmly decided until after the election.
In Virginia, rest in Virginia, Mike on our undecided line, you're next up.
Go ahead.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm going to respond to one lady talking about $5 hamburger and $2.
President don't control prices.
And if we try to control it, they will call him a communist.
Anyway, so I was undecided until yesterday.
I heard Senator Sanders on the basis of the issue of the Gaza human rights.
If you don't stand for human rights, you don't stand for Isaac.
So I wasn't going to support, I never supported the Republican and never will, but I wasn't going to support Harris.
But Sanders said yesterday, if she wins, he will work with her to stop the war in Gaza and Lebanon and establish a Palestinian state.
And for that reason, I hope I can trust Senator Sanders to continue and do this.
Otherwise, I will never vote again.
Okay, let's hear from Joanne.
Joanne's in Florida, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Hello.
Good morning.
I just wanted to say I'm so happy we have Harris fighting for all Americans.
And I'm so disappointed that so many Americans have been conned by a con man and made to hate America, Americans, and our government.
And I pray and I hope to the universe that everybody gets out and votes for Harris, for our freedom and democracy, and do away with Project 25 and Trump.
He belongs in jail and we all know it.
I'm a victim of rape and he is 100% a sexual predator found to be a sexual predator in a court of law.
34 felonies.
He is unfit to be our president.
Thank you for listening.
North Carolina next, the former of support, former President Trump.
This is Jenny.
Go ahead.
Hey.
Well, before I get started, I just wanted to say maybe you or another news media outlet can say that Beyoncé has been paid $11 million to perform.
She didn't perform.
She just spoke and read a paper.
Swordsnaker got $8 million.
I wonder how much J-Lo got yesterday for just speaking.
And maybe you can mention what she has done for Puerto Rico because she's getting millions to read off of a paper and talk about Puerto Ricans, but what has she done?
But anyway, that's neither here nor there.
Maybe somebody could come up with how much money Harris is paying where people think they're getting a concert and they're just getting speeches.
But anyway, I just want to say too, I'm listening to all these people and everybody's torn.
But with Elon Musk and JFK and Vance, this is going to be a team made in heaven.
And I'm just for Trump.
I'm voting for religious freedom.
You Christians out there, you're voting for God.
You're not voting for Trump.
You people that don't like Trump, you can like or dislike anybody you want, but you really need to look at the picture of what Trump is going to accomplish.
We are going into socialism.
I'm listening to some of these people talking about records.
She has been in for four years.
What is she fixing?
She's fixing her own damage.
I don't understand.
Okay.
That's Jenny there.
Here is what to expect on our networks today in these final days of campaigning.
When it comes to campaign 2024, you can see all of these events on our main channel, C-SPAN, our app, C-SPANNow, C-SPAN.org as well.
Senator Vance will be in Portage, Michigan.
That event at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
Vice President Harris in Janesville, Wisconsin.
That will be later on this afternoon at 3.30.
About an hour after that, at 4.30, Donald Trump, former President Trump in Warren, Michigan.
That's the events on C-SPAN 1 to watch out for.
Now on our sister network, C-SPAN 2, Governor Walls in Detroit.
You can see that at 12.45 this afternoon.
Later on in the afternoon, around 4.30, Senator Vance in Selma, North Carolina.
And then at 10 o'clock tonight, Kamala Harris in Milwaukee.
And you can see that event all at C-SPAN 2.
Again, the free video app and the.org as well.
It's part of our coverage of Campaign 2024 and these days leading up to Election Day.
Four days left.
We're asking your thoughts on these four days leading up to it.
Let's hear from Joe next in Maryland.
He's on our line for those who are undecided.
Joe, hello.
Good morning, Pedro.
Thank you for your dedication to trying to be a fair man.
You do a great job.
And yeah, maybe you do have a lean, but what person doesn't have a heart?
And that said, I think you lean both ways.
I think you do all that stuff, brother.
And I apologize talking about you, but you've been critiqued, you've been this, you've been that.
And I'm just blessed you're there all the time.
And I, uh, you know, that said, me and my family appreciate you.
My wife and kids, they hate me listening to see fan all day, but you know what?
They know it's a blessing.
So that's it.
I want to talk about the election.
Everybody's, you know, I hear my people, and they're not my, I'm their, you know, I'm their worker, you're not my people.
But I live in D.C. my whole life.
I'm 55 and I have four daughters and a wife.
And my parents are deceased.
My mother died in a veteran's home.
People kept turning her oxygen off.
This is what we found out.
And that said, people say Trump's this and Harris is that.
And if you like Trump, you're this.
And if you like Harris, you're that.
Well, I have one thing to say.
I've been in D.C. my whole life, and I'm actually, I want to be in politics, but people think you're the worst thing on earth when you say that.
I don't even want the money.
There's something called NWO.
And Pedro, you would admit you've heard George Bush say New World Order, right?
George Bush said that a lot of times, right?
You said that, so go ahead and finish your thought.
Yep, George Bush has said it a hundred times.
I've heard Kamala Harris say the new world order.
I've heard Trump say the new world order.
I've had all these, I've heard the Rockefellers preach about the New World Order.
You know, I don't know what the New World Order is, but they all talk about it.
My prediction is real quick: Paris wins.
Trump does his job, gets the whole world ruckused up, and we pay in the middle divide.
It's like, do you like the Washington Commanders or do you like the Dallas Cowboys?
You got to pick a side all the time.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Let's hear from Janet.
Janet in Texas, supporter of former President Trump.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
I have three things that concern me about Kamala Harris.
The first, the mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, who was her boyfriend, got her elected as San Francisco District Attorney because the current DA at that time, Karen Torres, was pursuing illegal cases against his friends, donors, and him.
They pulled their money.
When they got her elected, the cases were dropped.
I'm also concerned about the article by Poll Surprise Michael Regenerous, who said Harris did not prosecute the Catholic priest who molested all those children after she left.
They had to have a special law to get those kids reimbursed.
I am concerned that she will, like she accuses Trump, follow the billionaires and do what she's told.
And again, we will have inflation because all that M2 money supply will be out there and they'll have to print money again.
That causes inflation.
Thank you very much for your time.
Here is Helen.
Helen's in North Carolina, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Go ahead, you're next.
Okay, good morning.
I'm voting for Vice President Kamala Harris because of the health care Democratic policy.
When my son graduated from college in 2009, he did not have Medicaca.
But with the Affordable Care Act, which is Obamacare, my son, he was able to get Medicaca on my health care policy up to the age of 26.
And I also, one of the policies that I like with Vice President Kamala Harris is that she will provide in-home Medicare.
My family, we just recently had to take my mom out of a low-performing nursing home.
And things aren't right now.
She's at home now.
So that's my comment.
There was back and forth a couple of days ago when the House Speaker Mike Johnson was making critical comments about the state of Obamacare promising reforms if the former president wins.
He was on Fox Business yesterday clarifying those comments, talking about what the future of the Affordable Care Act could be like if Republicans do win.
Here's a short portion from yesterday.
I was at one of these events in Pennsylvania a few days ago, and a question came up about Obamacare, and I answered it very specifically.
I said the ACA, unfortunately, is deeply ingrained in our health care system now.
Do we need further improvements?
Absolutely.
We need to expand quality of care, access to care, and obviously lower the cost of health care.
And I started talking about that.
Well, they took a clip out of context and said that I said we were promising to repeal Obamacare.
That's just not what I said.
It's actually the opposite of that.
And so that's just another example of what they have nothing to run on.
They have no policies of their own in the Harris campaign and the Democrats running for House and Senate.
And so they're spinning our words and they're attacking Donald Trump.
That's our entire campaign.
Here is Eddie from Richmond, Texas, supporter of neither candidate.
Good morning.
Good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
Actually, I just wanted to ask my fellow Americans to think about the fact that we just really need a new reform of Congress and a reform of the Senate.
What I see is a very corrupt government.
And because, and the people who go there to represent us eventually go and represent themselves because they are waiting for the next check from special interest lobbyists.
Those are the things that they are doing.
They're getting paid by those people for their votes, not us.
They're supposed to be representing us, the people, and that's not happening.
And I just want us to think about that and how we as Americans can just come together and try to take back or reform our government.
Because right now, all of everything is being bought and paid for, either side, both sides, by masses amounts of money.
And that's really how things are being done or not getting done.
And I just really want us to think about that.
It doesn't matter which side you support.
That's not the point.
The point is what is getting done on behalf of everyone and not very much.
Thank you.
From Dubuque, Iowa, this is Kathy, supporter of Vice President Harris.
Go ahead.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
I guess before I say anything else, I just want to say I am a public educator, and I am really just concerned at the inability for lots of Americans at this point to analyze their news sources and determine what is fact and what is, I guess, is not, what is persuasive or polarized or propaganda.
So that's a concern of mine.
I guess I am voting for Vice President Harris.
I feel like she does represent a more moderate form of ideal, more moderate ideas than Donald Trump does.
And I also just feel like money, I agree with the last caller of money, does need to be taken out of Senate and out of the House of Representatives.
People are making that a career, and it was never intended to be that.
Think that we do need to have some term limits that would help because the president can't do this alone.
It really is, you know, all the branches working together.
And when they're taking money and making a career out of it and looking out for number one instead of the people, then that becomes a problem.
So I really do feel like the Harris Walls tickets is the only way forward.
Okay, let's hear from Dave in Ohio, a supporter of the former president.
Go ahead.
Thank you, Pedro.
It has bothered me for four years why Harrison Biden opened the border.
What rational reason is there to do that?
Well, it's become obvious that is to import 10 or 20 million voters for the long term.
Now, the second thing is they wanted to destroy anything Trump.
So they destroyed the catch and release.
They destroyed the wall.
And in this way, they were able to quickly change the country for the worse, in my opinion.
Now, remember, Harris said on tape, on television, on a talk show during the riots in Portland and Seattle, these people will not stop and they should not stop burning buildings and destroying cities.
I think she is a reincarnation of Angela Davis.
Look her up.
Okay, Dave, there in Ohio.
Let's, in case you missed it, we have the opportunity this week to hear from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the head of that agency, Jan Easterly, talking about protections when it comes to elections, particularly when it comes to cybersecurity issues.
Here's a portion of that interview that took place earlier this week.
The threat environment has never been more complex.
There are serious cyber threats, ransomware, denial of service, so you can't get to websites.
There's very serious physical threats to election officials.
And there is a range of very serious threats from our foreign adversaries, from Russia, from Iran, from China.
They're using different tactics, but they are focused on two main goals: to undermine American trust in our democracy and our confidence in elections, and to sow partisan discord, basically pitting Americans against each other.
And so we are focused on the full range.
We've been working with election officials since the beginning of this cycle to provide physical assessments.
We've done nearly 1,200 for physical security, 700 for cybersecurity.
We've done nearly 200 exercises to work with election officials on the full range of scenarios where you could have incidents or disruptions.
And we've done hundreds of trainings to help election officials reduce risk to election systems and processes.
I do want Americans to understand that despite this threat environment, as I said, no matter who you vote for, you can have confidence that your vote will be counted as cast.
And why am I saying that?
Well, a few things.
So to prevent digital interference, voting machines are not connected to the internet.
Really important to understand that.
To prevent digital manipulation, over 97% paper ballots.
And to guarantee near zero human manipulation, there are multiple, multiple layers of safeguards, physical security, cybersecurity, pre-election testing of equipment, post-election auditing to ensure that election infrastructure is safe from compromise.
And the last thing that Americans should understand is every state runs elections differently.
Different equipment, different processes.
The saying goes, if you've seen one state selection, you've seen one state's election.
And that diverse and decentralized nature of our election infrastructure is actually a great strength because it means it's not possible for a bad actor to tamper with or try and manipulate our voting systems in a way where you can have an impact on the outcome of the presidential election.
Certainly not without being detected.
There's a lot more to that interview.
And if you want to see it, you can go to our website at c-span.org for that full interview that took place.
It's a couple of calls in there, too, about the security of elections from that agency.
Again, c-span.org is where you find it.
Monica in South Carolina, a supporter of Vice President Harris.
Go ahead.
Yes, good morning, Pedro.
I was, you know, I listen to C-SPAN often.
I don't, it's my first time calling.
I just want to say, you know, several people called about not having an issue his last presidential election that he didn't, you know, that he didn't do a lot of the things that they say that he would do this time.
Well, the last time that he was in office for four years, there were a lot of stops.
Jeff Sessions was there as his Attorney General, and then he went on to the second Attorney General, and they told him that the things that he had wanted to do, he could not do.
Well, this time, he has a lot of people who will be there to not stop him.
So therefore, all of the things that he says that he's going to do about retribution, he's going to do.
Okay, one more call.
This is from Tamman, Illinois, a supporter of former President Trump.
Go ahead.
Good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
I want to talk about the money that's coming into these campaigns.
And a lot of that money is coming from the George Soros.
I consider our current administration a George Soros administration.
People don't realize the amount of money that he's spending to get his district attorneys elected throughout the country.
He's also bought 200 radio stations recently in this country.
And I think that there's a lot of funding to these illegal aliens that's coming from that money source.
The one lady asked why people call them illegal aliens.
I believe it's stated that way in the United States Constitution.
And that's really what I want people to start realizing what's going on with this money coming into the country that way from that source.
I believe he's trying to destroy the country.
And thank you for taking my call.
Okay, Tim from Illinois, finishing off our calls for this program.
Thanks to all of you who participated.
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