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I dont normally provide the hill Center Introduction for these events. I pulled drink tonight in part because charlie cook is a man i have known and loved since we briefly were colleagues in a Political Campaign in pennsylvania in 1980. Before he launched the political report. Thelie has prospered on desperate wish of political junkies to know the future. Unlike a lot of prognosticators out there, charlie and his team theirly based prognostications on research and on their political instincts that have been acquired from years in the political trenches. It is a delight to have him back. He was here before with bill press. Bill press, i think you all know and love. Without further ado, please welcome bill press and charlie cook. [applause] phones, turn off your cell phones, please. Thank you. Charlie good evening. Thank you, john. It is great to see you all and it is great to welcome our friends from cspan around the world tonight to the health center. Stiffw we have some competition tonight because it is a playoff game for the nats. Go nats. The game does not start until 8 00 p. M. We promise to have you out in time to get home and watch the game. I want you to know that charlie cook made the ultimate sacrifice tonight. He has tickets to the game. He gave them to his son so he could join us. [applause] small price to pay. We thank you for that. That weted to mention have a couple of exciting. Rograms coming up senator Sherrod Brown joins us november 19 and susan rice, former National Security adviser, on january 14. As john mentioned, there is no better place for political junkies to go what is going on than the Cook Political Report. Charlie cook, the editor, the founder, publisher, and theyve been very good to the hill center, by the way. Charlie was here a few years ago. Jennifer duffy and david, who covers the senate and the house, theyve been here with us. , we are in the0 middle of it. This is a good time to have charlie cook back and he generously agreed to come with us. Good to see you and thank you for coming back. Charlie my pleasure. Bill you and i talked about this evening, it was as if some weeks ago. Something big has happened since then. Looming over the political landscape. Way,t to get it out of the the impeachment inquiry. Ont impact will this have the 2020 campaign . First let me say john knows, 1980 was an interesting experience for me. I learned actually i did know something about politics and i should never be a manager. It was a real educational experience. It steered me the right way. It is a pleasure to be here. We talked earlier about, lets not let this thing focus on impeachment because there is an election. Im glad we are approaching it this way. Everybody has an opinion. , if i were adont democrat, i would not do this. Ofe lived here through two them. I was in college during the nixon impeachment and the clinton impeachment. Forget what the president is alleged to have said or done. Forget whether he deserves it or not. It sucks all of the oxygen out of the room. Im an independent. If i were a democrat, i would bit of energy to be focused on winning the election and not on this, regardless of what the merits may be. Having a focus on the election and impeachment are somewhat contradictory. Ideaot sure how great an it is to say for the president to have a victory to be acquitted by the senate. I was tried by the senate and acquitted. I was found innocent. The charges were false. Anybody doubt that is what he would say . The chances of there being 20 republican senators joining the 47 democrats, they are nonexistent. Whatever the evidence, its not going to happen. There is no tolerance for any dissent of the president. Flake, markjeff sanford, there isnt any. If i were them, i would not do it. Whatever. And this segues into the impact on the president himself bill let me jump in. Here,of you who have been charlie and i have 30 minutes. We need more time than that but we will hold it to 30 minutes. Democratsmean for they ought to get this done fast , before the end of the year . And then leave time for other issues . Is, the the thing speaker was correct the first this is nothe said what democrats ought to be doing. Im not convinced she has changed her mind, to be honest. After all this ukraine stuff started, there was no point in digging in her heels. It was going to go to another level whether she was on board or not. I do find it interesting somehow the judiciary committee, this has moved away from them, which suggests maybe it is not, it is more of an inquiry and we already had that going on. Im not sure whether things have changed. Bill maybe they are trusting adam schiff more. Now that they have started down that road, would you agree the sooner they get to a vote, without rushing, the better . Charlie the vote in the senate will be where Mitch Mcconnell decides. I would not do it. Bill lets go to joe biden. Do you believe in the primary this helps joe biden or hurts him because of all these rumors . Charlie i dont think it is helpful. I dont know if we know whether it is going to hurt him or not. Forget justification or anything, we saw Hillary Clinton turned into crooked hillary. We are now seeing an effort to turn Vice President biden into crooked joe. There are people who have known joe biden for a billion years, as i have. If somebody wanted me to make a case against joe biden being the nominee, i could throw out a few reasons. Crooked joe, i dont think there is a crooked bone in his body. That is not who he is. Any suggestiond he did anything inappropriate. His son may have taken on a business deal he should not have. Anyway. The thing is the Biden Campaign made a mistake when they allowed all of their eggs to be put in the electability basket. That works well as long as you are perceived to be the most delectable. Whole, basket develops a you dont have a lot left. If i were them, i would say this is about experience. I look around this field and i see some amazingly talented people and probably one or two that are going to be president someday. Right now with where the country is, you need experience to undo x, y, and z. Ive got more than the rest of the field combined. And by the way, i am the most delectable. Delectable. It gets stripped away. If there is not a lot there in terms of your case, anything that makes you look less electable, it is not just ideology. There are many aspects of it. Advantagesf the many to being a subscriber to be Cook Political Report, you get things like this that i got 10 minutes ago. Things we trust. Charlie tuesday treats. Bill i want to ask about some of the things you trust. These are based on poles. Why should we trust any poll . Do you . Isrlie first of all there an urban legend out there. The polls were wrong in 2016. Which ones are you talking about . Polls that showed the average of all the major that had Hillary Clinton ahead by three points . What do those measure . The popular vote. What did she win by . 2. 1 percentage points. As fact is, this is about close as this gets. It is closer than it had been in 2012 when the National Polls were suggesting a closer race between obama and romney. Basically 40 states went the way we thought. Seven we knew or were going to be close. They were close. There were three where everything was wrong. Michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. We could spend two hours talking about those three. That is and it was statelevel polling. Polls are commodities. People think one is good as another. That is like one car is as good as another. That is not true. There are polls you look at , the telephonels ones. I think online is more problematic. Ne well ore do badly. , fox news,ne polls nbc wall street journal is one of my favorites, these polls are very highquality. They are very expensive. I think they are trustworthy. Some of the universities do a nice job. Some dont. The thing is, there are some , you polls out there that will never see me quote certain polls because i think they are flawed and i wont do it. Sometimes i give a hard time to journalist friends of mine whose site polls they know are lousy. Bill the first thing you trust, s Approval Rating, 44 disapprove. 53 , do you trust it . A 44 was approved. The thing about President Trumps Approval Rating, i hear people say either this time is different. They are really going to drop now. This is the straw that broke the camels back. We have a barn full of straw. [laughter] things that were supposed to be, this time is different. The other thing, people say, why dont the president s numbers fall . For something to fall, theyve got to rise first. You are looking at a president that had the narrowest trading range of any president. We are at 354 Major National his jobve tested Approval Rating. One, with higher disapproval then approval. Thats never happened. Was the first fox news in february 2017, the president approve. 47 disapprove. Upsidether one has been down. Normally in the first three years of president , theres maybe a 20 point gap between the peak, which is their honeymoon, and their trough, where they have some bad stuff happened. There is variation that is there. For President Trump, that has not been the case. In best job Approval Rating gallup was 46 . The worst was 35 . Fox news is a 10 point range. Happen, his things numbers hardly go up. Bad things happen, they dont tend to go down. It is a product of the hyper partisanship and the tribalism we have now. Theres one group of people, there is nothing he could do that is wrong. Another group, there is nothing he could do that is right. That is three quarters of the electorate. Has the president who never been above 50 , is he in trouble for reelection . Charlie yeah, yeah. Onthis is just a referendum trump, thats it, its very hard to see how he wins the popular vote and the Electoral College as well. Its like the story about the woman who was asked, how is your husband . And she says compared to what. [laughter] democrat, you wanted to be a referendum. If it is a choice, a choice between trump and white, or who. A democratic socialism . Is it the squad . Between . S a choice if i were a democrat, i would not want it to be a choice. I would want a referendum. Bill the second thing, you go to the democratic primary quoting the latest poll, looking at spending. Elizabeth warren, 27 . Joe biden 25 . Bernie sanders 16 . Kamala harris 3 . Elizabeth warren. The momentum. That is the thing is the only one that has shown her in first place. It closing upave a lot. It is closing. The thing is, she has momentum. I watched her several times in iowa and once in new hampshire. , i saw saying anything two of the best president ial stump speeches ive seen in my career. They were good. Whether nominating her is a good idea or bad idea for democrats is another question. , as if somebody had the best clinical speech in coach onbest speaking the planet working with her. It was smooth as silk. Shes operating as a candidate on a level higher than any other candidate. And her campaign is higher than any other democrat. Is she going to win the nomination . We dont know. Lots of polls show it closing. That is the only one that has it ahead. You blown away by joe bidens Campaign Speeches . I was talking to one of the networks, these young reporters that are following fulltime. Its funny, by the time these campaigns get going, they know word for word the candidates speech. If one word is different, one sentence is different, therir ears perk up. Two joe bidens. Teleprompter joe and nonteleprompter joe. Joe, youprompter doe never know where that is going. I thought it was like bird hunting. Theyve got the caller and where give an electric jolt to the dog to get their attention. Bidens staff should put one around his ankle. I wase starts going, driving the Pacific Coast highway one time, you nudge him back over. [laughter] is, everybodyhing has assets and liabilities. For biden, hes got more restience than the entire of the field put together. Age a liability . Heck yeah. All of these candidates have liability. To joeas it boiled down biden and Elizabeth Warren . Charlie i think bernie is fading. I think so. Andsee Bernie Sanders now it is almost word for word for word the same speech as four years ago. This is version 1. 1. It has not of off. You take out Hillary Clinton and you throwing trump. It is basically the same. With sanders and warren, what not michael this is do caucus liberalism. It is more he we long populism. Populism the whole system is totally screwed up and weve got to blow it up. Its about big change. And to me the choice the democrats have is to go big or go home. Big is big, bold, exciting, risky, like Elizabeth Warren. Something that is familiar, something that is comfortable. Something that is safe, joe biden. For anybody else, they will have to elbow their way in. I have not seen anybody able to do that. Biden, thereng on have been three trajectories for biden. Goes on to win the nomination. The second one, he fades. The third one, biden collapses. , somethingething happens and he goes down. Three, its two and matters, when does that happen . If it happens early on while there are centerleft alternatives, or late in the process where it is just biden and warren. If that does happen, when does it happen . The centerleft establishment friendly alternatives, they are on borderline life support right now. Why, watch this carefully. Right now, technically it is a three way race. We kind of know which direction burning is going bernie is going. Right now there is no momentum for any of the other candidates. Look overall at the political landscape, has it changed since 2016 . Particularly in the heartland. You mentioned the key states. Michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. Do you detect a change . Can we read a change . Charlie we have seen some change. We have to think about, what did happen in 2016 . Why did it happen . What were the proportions . How much was about donald trump . How much was about Hillary Clinton . What was that about . Clinton, shetary and her husband have always been polarizing. She had 25 years of accumulated baggage. Whether justified or not is for somebody else to decide. It was interesting watching them, until the me too movement arrived, it was like he had a teflon coating. Stuff did not seem to stick to him. Teflon, secretary clinton had velcro. Whether it should or not, it did. Theory, and i go with a lot of data, but this is my own instinct, i think there were a lot of voters that were never going to vote for donald trump. It wasnt going to happen. They were not excited about Hillary Clinton. They were going to do it. Nose they would hold their. One month out, the billy bush tape comes out. Suddenly the election is over. Theres no way trump can win. Theres no way clinton could lose. The republican speaker of the house suggests may be the nominee should step aside. This is over. Suddenly there was intensity among the trump people where a lot of them did not think he was going to win. There was so much ambivalence on this other side, anybody that was not excited about Hillary Clinton got a pass. They did not have to. They did not have to do anything they did not want to. She was going to win anyway. Old016, to remember the gomer pyle show, surprise, surprise, surprise. I dont think it was about lying to pollsters. It was more there was so much ambivalence on one side and they did not think they needed to vote. They didnt. Bill particularly in which again in michigan and wisconsin in pennsylvania. Charlie three states in the northeast and states that have. Ad manufacturing that has been a tough sector. There are lots of things going on. If you are going to put together a list of all the states in the of the, these are three states with the most restrictive early voting in the country. Virtually all the votes in those states were cast on election day. You look at these other states, most of them, people had been voting for weeks. Does that change . I dont know. It suggests it is more than coincidental. Of the three, the Clinton Campaign did not target them. They thought they were fine. First democratic nominee since 1972 two not set foot in the state of wisconsin. Two friends from michigan who warned me about michigan. Watch out. She may not have this. Did charlie listen . No. [laughter] there were these warning signals. You dont know which ones to Pay Attention to. People areand more also looking, is it realistic, at texas . Six republican members of congress have announced they are retiring. Some people read they know texas or maybemoving purple even light blue. Is getting less republican. Texas is becoming a purple state. Several of these people, there is not a chance they could lose. They were safe. I think part of it was a reflection of an expectation republicans are not going to get a majority anytime soon. Ins like, being a minority the house kind of sucks. Particularly if you have been term limited out of being a committee or subcommittee chair or ranking member. It is changing. A lot of people recognize the growing minority population. The big thing is the suburbs. You have people from other parts of the country moving into texas and they are not voting like texans. It is becoming a purple state. 2024 beforeill be it is legitimately purple. That is where the math changes for republicans. Its going to be close right now. I dont think it switches. Election, the 2018 ad governorship in two out of the three. Loses reelection in wisconsin. Epublicans lost the seat democrats go 30 in u. S. Senate races. You total of the votes for the u. S. Senate, what was a grand total of 78,000 votes in those states combined, it was like 1. 3 billion in the governors races. 1. 2 million in the senate. I forget how many hundreds of thousands of votes in the congressional races. Whatever was going on in those states in 2016 did not appear to be happening in 2018. The president s job Approval Rating in those states, not good. Abouti do want to talk every seat in the house is up and the senate leadership. Kevinre any chance mccarthy is going to be the next speaker of the house . Charlie any chance. It wouldodds are take something cataclysmic for democrats to lose their majority. Ht now we are looking at yeah. The senate is bill what are the key states that could swing it . Democrats need four . Charlie three if they win the white house. Four if they dont. Chanceso is, first. If i had to make up a number, i would say 35 of the democrats get a majority in the senate. The thing is these elections, if you told me, if god told me today President Trump is going to get reelected. Thats the only information i know. Democratic chances of winning the senate back would be between 0 and 5 . If god told me he was going to lose, i would say it is 5050. We are seeing these races nationalized. 2016, the first election since we began electing u. S. Senators that every race went exactly the ine way the state was going the president ial. 100 . 2018, 79 of the u. S. Senate races were with the same direction, the same party won as two years earlier. Right now 88 out of 100 senators are representing states that voted for their party in the election. These cases where the state tends to go this way and the senator goes that is not happening. , think democrats could win there are three seats well, let me back up. I think democrats need to knock off four republican seats. Doug jones in alabama, that is awfully hard. In a president ial year, president ial turnout. Im not sure he could beat roy moore. Anyway, i think democrats are going to have to gross 42 net three. You could look at colorado, cory gardner. Very tough race. The third one i would put Susan Collins in maine. I think shes going to have a race as tough as those two. And then the fourth would be north carolina. One of the georgia seats. Democrats dont need a way to pick up two or three. To get to four or five, they need a good sized wave. What they need is a way of comparable to 2018. In thing is what happened 2018 is the suburbs were on fire. College education suburban 2018. Were on fire in if they are on fire next november like they were last november, suddenly the suburbs around charlotte, the research triangle, around atlanta, suddenly those become very winnable races. They need a wave to get a majority. They dont need a wave to pick up a couple of seats. Bill you did not mention kentucky. [laughter] charlie you know. Watching amy mcgraths was a lot of fun. What was so fascinating about last year was it wasnt so much people that had worked their way up the political ladder that were doing well. It was people that had compelling personal narratives. Time not career politicians. The thing is, the state of kentucky is harder than the district she lost. The kinds ofo, places where democrats are doing better are places with big suburban populations. The places not so much our states where lower urban suburban populations like kentucky. Possible. S i dont expect to see mcconnell lose. It is important to realize what happened in that election, where democrats got their majority was in the suburbs of atlanta, dallas, houston, kansas city, oklahoma city, richmond, winning 11 out of the 12 districts in new jersey. Picking up four in orange county, california. Squad districts. It was suburban districts that went from red to blue. If there is a republican, democrat majority in the senate, it will be because of the suburbs more than anything else. Does the africanamerican vote get more engaged than it was . It was obvious Hillary Clinton was not going to get the same africanamerican vote the first africanamerican president got. Latinoss an assumption and women, the first woman nominee, given some of the things donald trump had said, that would make it up. Did not happen. Bill we have exceeded our limit. One more question. Charlie, when did you start the Cook Political Report . Charlie 1984. Bill a lot of people feel politics is broken. It is too divisive. Too much hate and ugliness. Are you still a believer . Have you given up on politics . Is it broken . Can we fix it . Charlie i wish we did not do this one. Ever since i was a freshman in college, ive been working, ive worked on campaigns, on capitol hill. Worked as a poster. Intarted the newsletter 1984. My entire adult life has been watching and loving capitol hill and politics. This really is broken. It is really broken. Disheartening to see what is happening. Is when i gothing on College Campuses and tomorrow im spending the day at the naval academy. One of the Cardinal Rules when talking to students is dont bum them out about politics. [laughter] it is hard to put a happy face on what is happening. You think about during president clintons administration, we thought things were acrimonious, partisan. Those are the good old days. Things have progressively gotten more acrimonious. Whether you can blame redistricting, you can blame it on the different media structure. You can blame it on the sorting out. You use to conservative moderate democrats that were the ballast. You have liberal moderate republicans that cap to the Republican Party from going. There was an overlapping. There is no overlapping now. Zero. The parties are more ideological cohesive. As a result, they are becoming more ideological and primaries are getting further out there. The kinds of people that build consensus, that compromise, that the system is based on, those people are generally not winning primaries. They are the first people over the side. For the life of me, i dont know why members of the house, why they want their party to win the presidency. When most members of the house lose reelection, it is when their party has the presidency. Usually a Midterm Election. They get blown away. The wave comes in. They are washed out to sea. Some lose, not that many. I am troubled. You say, what could fix this . Side hopes at some have the right kind of leader, either party comes up to unify the country and leads us as weve had at other points in american history. That is my optimistic side. Foressimistic side thinks, this system, for us to get somer, we may have to have truly horrific event occur that electroshock therapy on the body politic. To me 9 11 may have been the event that could have brought the country together and heal these wounds. I dont blame either side exclusively. What happened . The controversy. Should we invade iraq . Apart wider than it was before. Get a really great leader and that leads us out of this at some point. Republican or democrat. I dont care. I fear it may be some horrible event that jolts us into behaving the way we are supposed to behave. Bill we preferred the hopeful outcome. Nobody knows politics better than charlie cook. [applause] we have two microphones. It is very important you wait until you have the microphone and speak close so we can hear you and please stand. Given there are doubts about is died i joe biden, this person on the radar . Mcauliffe, a previous guest. Charlie terry mcauliffe, ive since 1982. Uliffe i was skeptical he could win a governors race. He did. I was curious about whether he would be a good governor. He did. He took a look at this i dont think anybody knew is getting in this thing. We will see people leaving, not people coming in. Capable people, Michael Bennet and they both got in the race late. They had good reasons. Senator bennett had some health issues. Bullet had a legislative session in montana he needed. To be honest, i think the window closed before they got in. I think it is way too late for anybody. People think michelle obama. Its too late for anybody. It is. Certainly not until november. What we have, it is going to be one of these. You will see a halfdozen people drop out the next three weeks, four weeks. After may the next debate. It gets harder. Debates,are not in the you are off the screen. Bill question over here. Your cogent for discussion. Ive learned a lot. You have answered my questions except this one. Fromt to take us away president ial politics. Will you tell us how you learned of amy walter . And how she tractor came to your organization . Charlie wow. I am proud of our whole team. We have some talented people. Directorhe political of the womens campaign fund. Jennifer duffy, who is still with us, and elizabeth was the house editor at the time. We went over to meet with people from alabama, wyoming, going race by race. I had not met her before. She was this impressive young woman. I just made a mental note and once we had an opening, she was the only one we interviewed. 6, 8 yearsh us for and left us for a while. And then came back and has been with us since 2013. She is amazingly talented. Really bright. Wonderful person. Jennifer duffy does send it governors. Shes been doing, you know, first got and senate races in 1986. She has forgotten more than anybody else knows about u. S. Senate races. David wasserman, who is 30 years younger than i am, he wasnt born when i started the newsletter. Damn smart. Ive got five incredibly talented people working for me. Im very lucky. It was my idea. I belted. Im basking in the glory of people that are smarter than i am. Bill and the website is . Charlie cookpolitical. Com. Bill and dont forget my new podcast. Pod andhe bill press you are in. Be sure to subscribe. You can give us a five star review. That always help. Charlie give the review and then listen to it. [laughter] ways we are so many communicate with each other now. Manyve social media and so factors. My question is, how do you cs in of, justs in terms using the media we have. Charlie you are asking somebody that is 65 years old to speculate about technology. Im trailing. Im the wrong person to ask. I think social media has been very good and very bad. We learn a lot. Its been destructive. As has the internet overall. , news is notle curated anymore. Believeody wants to there is a pizza parlor on connecticut avenue that is a child sex ring, they can read it and believe it. Its like, wow. It is good and it is bad. Im the wrong person. Ask somebody on the other cited 40 back question. Bill more and more people get their political news online rather than the morning paper. Withie people, like balanced diet. A dont go one direction or one food group. With things that are more likely to be right. If you read the wall street journal, read the new york times. Watch news hour. The three network broadcasting, you know what, in a Perfect World everybody would be watching the pbs newshour every night. That is not the world we live in. It is a little highbrow. I would settle for just watching one of the three broadcast networks for 30 minutes each night. That would be better than going these getting into ideological silos where we are all doing up this intensity and where people are just getting one side. It does not matter which side. That is not healthy. Diversify your media diet. In thisst a footnote, weeks new yorker, toward the back in the book reviews, theres an excellent article about social media and making the point that initially people thought the printing press, it was so great. It printed nothing but really good stuff. That is not true. They thought social media will be like that. Nothing but good stuff. A lot of good stuff, a lot of bad stuff. They are realizing, what are we going to do about this . Is,lie the troubling thing there are some really bright people that are in congress, in politics, some really good people. We are not getting the caliber of people running for office we got when i started the newsletter in 1984. Theres some good people. We are not getting the thing person came tong me and said im thinking about running for office someday. Before you do that, ask yourself, go into a room by yourself with a legal pad and yearnd write down year by every year you have been alive and everything you did that year you would not want on the front page of a newspaper or a tv at set about you. Then take a good look at it before you burn it or shred it. Because it is going to come what we are getting, people have lives orave lived no had no shame. But wean exaggeration, are missing out on a lot of really talented people. That troubles me a lot. Even when really good people do get elected, sometimes the whatm doesnt let them do they know is the right thing. Mean, this is the breaking the Cardinal Rule about bumming people out about politics. There are i hope somebody does something, but it is a dangerous spiral in american politics. All of the fault is not just on one side. There is plenty of blame to go around. Announcer yes, maam . Election, could you comment on Voter Suppression and gerrymandering . The secondt me do one first. A magic wand and do one thing for our political process and it would be redistricting reform. Is more corrosive than campaignfinance. And both sides are guilty. One decade one side does it more than another, depending on who had the opportunity to do that, but the joke is we have gone from voters picking their elected officials to elected officials picking their voters. It is creating these districts that will not produce anybody that would be open to consensus or compromise, that sort of thing, so that is the one thing if i could do one thing, that would be it. Courtou know, the supreme seems to have other views. I guessthink that some states are doing it that have valid initiatives, but legislatures do not voluntarily give up power. That is a general rule. So that is the one thing i would do. What was the other thing, the first part you said . Voter suppression. Voter suppression. To me coming you get a drivers license if you were born here, you turn 18, you should be a voter, period. All right commit a horrible felony and you are out until seeingon, ok, but we are fights to keep people off the voter rolls and there is no reason why they should be on them. I think it is very, very unfortunate. Again, we have do the ends justify the means . I, if you are a College Student and live in a state eight or nine months of the year, you ought to be able to know, it isbut, you all kinds of things. Poohpoohedime, i Voter Suppression. It is not the only problem in this country, but it is a bigger problem than i thought it was. Someo wonder how people sleep at night. For one finale question before the next takeover. Yes, maam . Could you comment on whether you think that young people in this country appreciate how dangerous our political dysfunction is at this point . They clearly understand Climate Change, but do they understand change like we have been discussing . The, you know, i Voter Participation rate for young people ok, yes, did more young people vote in the 2018 Midterm Election than in history . Yes, but that was a really low bar. [laughter] , if were goingke to see the highs turn up for young people in the Midterm Election, and if 10 of them vote, yet come would be the highest i am being facetious. 1972, guys are getting shipped off to vietnam, drafted and sent off, and young people didnt vote then. That was the first year that 18yearolds had the right to vote, and the Participation Rate for 18, 19, 20 was low. It has always been, and sadly, i think it is until people until you may buy a home, had kids and a stake in the community, worried about property values. You know where you would likely be living for the next few years. It is when people have a stake in the community, that is when they start voting in bigger numbers, and so it is not claiming this generation. They are behaving the same way their parents and their grandparents did when they were 18, 19, 20, and it is unfortunate. Now click Something LikeClimate Change galvanize them and get them to vote in big numbers . You know, i hope so, i hope so, but you could say at some point latinos will start voting in big numbers. Hadnt happened yet, you know . Gosh, we are discouraging people. [laughter] this is horrible. Charlie, it is going to get better. Thank you for coming out and having me here. What an amazing place this, and cspan is awesome. It has opened up a window for everyone else to see for good and for bed what is going on out there. So we thank you for coming to the hill center. Charlie, thank you so much. 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If the president is making commitments or asking for things from foreign leaders that dont go to the National Interest that is the claim on the table