President biden, 202 7488000. Support President Trump, 202 7488001. Atyou are undecided, call us 202 7488002. When it comes to specific issues, some of those being lifted by ash listed by editorials in battleground listed by editorials in battleground States Election cycles always run at fever pitch, the highest states stakes nature of this election means that tempers will temperatures will be running high. Enjoyed this long weekend before the madness. Voting is aof concern out of the Gainesville Sun in florida. They had this in a recent editorial starting with cutbacks ordered by louis dejoy slowed Postal Service deliveries raising concerns mailin ballots would beelayed. Delayed. For the primary Volusia County supervisor of elections lisa lewis repeatedly called a Postal Service regional hub for her county on election day offering to pick up any ballots awaiting delivery. Despite being assured that no ballots were there her office received more than 1500 ballots after the deadline, some postmarked august 17. You guys cannot start processing until election day. It took a long time to get some results during your primary. It should we be prepared for our thanksgiving into the michigan results to be coming together . We should be prepared for this to be closer to an election week than on election day. We will not have a full accounting of all our ballots on election night. We already know that. We have asked the legislature to make changes to the laws, they have not acted for reasons i do not completely understand but that said we are increasing calculators, capacity to more securely and efficiently count ballots and we are laser focused on accuracy. If it takes extra days to make sure we have a full and accurate counting, that is what it will take. We will be transparent through the whole process so that every citizen knows how many more ballots we have to get through. Are you concerned people may take the delay in getting all the results in michigan to a phony winter . . A phony winner to the but that is just disinformation we are seeing during this election cycle. We will counter that with truth and accuracy. This is where the work is still happening and we will continue to keep the public updated and being a source of the clear facts and data. Everyill be important of for every secretary of state this year. Those issues may be some that you share. Maybe this election cycle that is about the candidates. Be there are other specific issues that you would like to be brought to light maybe there are other specific issues that you would like to be brought to light. If you are a supporter of Vice President biden, 202 7488000. If you support President Trump, 202 7488001. 202 are undecided, 7488002. If you are supporting someone 202 7488003. Topicn mccollum ads the topics of civil order to the list. When it comes to you can corneliusbring in alexandria, louisiana starts us off as a supporter of President Trump. Inc. You for calling. Happy neighbor day. Thank you for calling. Happy labor day. Caller i enjoy you when you are pedro. The show, i left the Democratic Party because of some of the things they have. My thing with trump and pentz, i have seen what he has done for black people. Hbcu. Funding hsbc you he needs to be reelected. Nothis election thing, i do believe in mailin ballots. I believe you should go in there and though yourself. You should not have mailin ballots. I can tell you one incident they sent out checks to everybody. My child has been dead for years and they sent her a check. We got to know that night. Have a blessed labor day. From that was cornelius illinois. Brian is next. Caller good morning. I think one of the top issues is china. We have got to get our economy again. G started our relationship with communist china has been horribly mismanaged by both republicans and democrats. This theory where we let our is this is migrate to china and to then import products back to the u. S. , it has killed the american working class and enriched to china. And now they are spending all sorts of money on their military. Now right wing conservatives want to spend money on our military to offset the chinese plus cyberspace, Computer Security issues. We need to look at how we relate to china. Four times larger than us in terms of population. They work hard to educate their populace in math and science. We need to get on the ball. Host the New York Times this morning, it is a long piece, but they have a story taking a look at joe bidens history with china and various policies between him and to that country. The New York Times is where you can find it. Rutland, vermont, a supporter of President Trump. Buter i support trump, basically i think he is doing the best job anyone can do in his position. I am going to vote for him. To issues,it comes what is your top issued this election cycle . Issue this election cycle . Caller it is getting rid of this virus whatever it is and getting law order back into our great country. I would like to see our country come back into order and us getting to like h heather better than we have the last six wee each other better than have the last six months. Host lets go to glenn in pennsylvania. One of those pell grant states. Battleground states. See harris andto biden start in the battleground state. Go ahead, caller. Caller i want to see miss har ris and mr. Biden campaign in the battleground state. We need the Electoral College vote. That is where mr. Trump targeted and that is where we should target. The battleground state. Host are you suggesting they are not doing enough in the battleground states . Caller yes, i want to see them campaign more in the about around states. No one has been to florida yet. In arizona. We need them to start going to florida and arizona. That is how mr. Trump when. That is how mr. Trump win. Host you made your point, caller. Mike pence is expected to travel on wednesday to pennsylvania to focus in that state, one of those battleground states as the color mentioned, including mentioned,the caller including arizona. That is a sampling of peoples top issues this election cycle. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris, it is 202 7488000. If you support job President Trump, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, you can l asset 202 7488002 call us at, 202 7488002. Social media is available to you too. Keep contact is if you go to our website at cspan. Org, you can find events there, but we have archived video of most of the people in this race talking about their various issues over the years. Lets hear from greg in california who is undecided at this point in azusa. Caller hello. Host what is your top issue . I am kind of undecided because our elections have become the same all the time. We either have to vote for the bad guy or somebody worse. That is the only choice they seem to ever give us. A politician who in 47 years has done nothing or a big mouth. Should startcans getting tired of having so few choices for somebody to run this place. Host if it is not those two people for you, who is it for you . Caller anybody else. I will throw a vote in one of those slots. I am sure there are more people running for president than they talk about. Ast have you considered specific candidate or what that candidate has to bring to the table to earn your vote . Caller no, i have not seen a ballot yet. Host so you are going to make that decision on election day . Anybody, i will but trump. Host we will go to chris in washington state, a supporter of President Trump. Caller good morning. Anybody but trump . I guess they have to hear about more about what he has to offer. Host about what . Caller i thought i agreed with part of what he said, but what the American People need, if they watched congress and see how many times democrats violate house rules and how every politician talks bad about each other. Host as a supporter of a President Trump and your specific issue, what is it . Caller it is the fact that he can have a red house of representatives and a red senate. Host so it is the house you are talking about. ,aller if it were politicians they all do this with each other. We do not need a new breed of politician. We need to hold them accountable. Aboutour you concerned the senate going over into democrat oh, he has left us. Some of the samplings of people you will hear from. If you are on the line, stay on the line. We will focus on battleground states during the course of this discussion. Joining us to talk about the state of the battleground state in North Carolina is the chief of wral. Remind people where the state went four years ago and compare that to the state of play today. In 2016, President Trump won the state by 2. 5 . Remember, North Carolina has voted republican in every president ial election, with did except the exception 2008. Ma in we would expected trump to be in the lead here. In the past to the polls have given biden a little bit of a margin here, but as we get closer to election time, those polls are narrowing so it is getting closer to a dead heat here. Host we will see the president traveling there this week. Have we seen joe biden though there . Guest not yet. The Trump Campaign has spent a lot of time here. He spent time in wilmington. We had eric trump his son and charlotte and cut this coming week we will have another stop by President Trump in winstonsalem. This is one of the states he should be about to carry pretty easily, but it is a big chunk of electoral votes so they cannot afford to lose it this election. Host talk about those areas of the state that do well for joe biden, that do well for President Trump. Where do those gentlemen need to campaign to get those voters who are not already with them . Guest the key point is the suburbs. Our rural areas are premier early red, our urban areas are primarily blue with small exceptions. You see plenty of Campaign Signs for republican candidates, for President Trump. The battleground is the suburbs, which are extensive around charlotte and raleigh. These are areas that voted for President Trump in 2016. A lot of suburban women voters turned out for trump in 2016. Host where is your state and how are they accommodating those who are concerned about voting in person on election day . Guest on friday, that was the first day we mailed out our absentee ballots. North carolina is a no excuse absentee state so anyone who wants to vote by mail or early can do that. You just have to request a ballot by mail. So far our requests are seven times ahead of where they are were in 20 16. In North Carolina, normally you see 4 to 5 of the voters voting by mail. This year it could be as high as 30 , 35 . You can track your ballot via a website on the state elections board. That is some of what they have done this year but obviously there is a lot of concern about whether we will come up with enough poll workers for election day because many of our poll workers are at risk for coronavirus. They are encouraging people to consider voting by mail as a way to cut down minds at the pole locations. Poll locations. Host two officials there have thereence do officials have confidence in their ability to manage mailin ballots . Guest they do. They say they feel like they can handle this. They are doing everything they can to make sure they are getting everything out early and make sure people send to things back early so they dont have a landslide of ballots coming in on election day and a couple days after. In North Carolina, garb pallet ok even your ballot is if it shows up three days after election day so long as it is postmarked by election day. Host you also have a closely watched senate race going on in the u. S. Senate. Talk about the candidates involved. Are thehe candidates senator who is up against cal cunningham. Had anningham has troubled relationship i would say with the Republican Base because sometimes he has come out against President Trumps initiatives and turned around and voted in favor, not voted to block them. He has kind of been on his heels trying to get back into the senate in 2020. Cal cunningham has had the money of the party behind him. Are seeing this as one of the seats they can potentially take back and flip the senate. He is running ahead of tillis a little bit. Those numbers are getting closer as we get closer to election day. Host we will show people at home some of the ads that are running in the senate race. [video clip] me short to be order cook. Instead of college, i went to at night,my agree worked my way up to partner at ibm. North carolina ands are working paychecktopaycheck. My name is tom tillis and my job is fighting for your job into that is exactly what i will do. The struggles i am hearing about from folks are almost hard to believe. We are being tested as a country but i have always run into the fight. After 9 11, i volunteered, serving with troops in iraq and afghanistan. At times like these, i will work with both parties when they are right and to stand up to my own party when they are wrong. Working together, i know we can beat this. Host you have probably heard those ads and others. Are those similar themes the candidates are talking about . Of the amount of outside, thirdparty money coming onto this race, there was a massive send in on the last spending on massive the last race here. Senator tom tellis before he went to the u. S. Senate was speaker of the house in the state legislature and one of the achievements he considers his key achievement was preventing the state from expanding medicaid. That was key with Republican Voters but with the pandemic going on, that is a debate that has been reopened. North carolina is one of only 12 states, including a lot of red ones that have not accepted medicaid expansion. That is turning out to be a key issue in the Gubernatorial Race and in the senatorial race as well i expect. Several reporters will be joining us this money. Lara leslie, thank you for setting that up for us. You will hear more over the course of the day but we will hear mainly from you as far as top issues you have. Pennsylvania, a supporter of joe biden. Thank you for waiting. No ahead. Go ahead. Caller great topic. Before i address what the issue is, one issue, which i do not support is this idiotic law order issue. My wife and i have been locked down since midmarch. What, we are afraid of what is happening in portland, oregon . Are the brown and black cords going to come to my suburbs . They are already here and do they are already all hardworking, lawabiding citizens. Second of all, the big issue is Affordable Health care. It is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. It is what we needed during a pandemic. We need a public option. Host do you think joe biden will go that far . Go incrementally, reduce the medicare age, and effective make medicare the public option, but at least it is a start. Host lets go to larry in montrose, virginia, supporter of others. Thank you for calling. Caller good morning. Nice tie, by the way. Supporting thee Green Party CandidateHowie Hawkins and Angela Walker in november. Hopefully i will get a mailin ballot in a few days and turn that in. Memorial to a a lien of the left who died this morning. What is said that Howie Hawkins campaigns on that captures your attention . Guest caller about everything the republicans and democrats want. Free college this and that. Overe, planet, and peace profit. That is why i support them. This Howie Hawkins was on program a few months ago and if you want to hear that, go to our website on cspan. Org. , aplattsburgh, new york supporter of it President Trump. This is nick. Hello. Caller i would like to Say Something about joe biden. I was watching the Chris Wallace a show last night. I have been wondering how come joe evaded the vietnam war. It was stated on that show that joe biden received five deferments during the vietnam war because of an asthma condition. I would like to know does he still have asthma or was he just a draft dodger . Host President Trump received deferments as well. Caller i realize that. What i am saying is bidens disparaging trump for the same reason that he got his deferments. Host is at the top issue you have this cycle or is there another issue you are considering concerned about this cycle. Caller law order. Host nick in plattsburgh, new york. This is from twitter. See more like to inclusion of the thirdparty candidates in National Debates. From bakersfield, california says my biggest concern is that everyone can my top issue is making sure that everyone votes and that every vote is counted. Alliances, science, education, the list goes on. My top fours issues are the appointment of new Supreme Court justices, preserving the payroll tax, covid19 mitigation, and election integrity. We have gone a halfhour and we will continue until 10 00 hearing from you on your issues. Social media is available to you as well as texting. Reach us the best way you can to discuss your issue. York, ang island, new supporter of joe biden. Yes, you are on. Caller you can find me on twitter. Com. Diversitymultione. I am totally disabled. I am blind. It trump and obama did nothing for me. To get a job. Ning they never gave me any hope. There was nothing. Host what do you think joe biden will do differently than president obama yucca caller he will enforce the rules on the books and essay you have to go and give ash than president obama . President caller he will enforce the rules on the books and say you have to go and give a guy a job. Delaware, alvin is in bridgeville, and undecided voter. Caller i say undecided but i am pretty sure what way i am leaning. My topic of issue this morning is jobs and the way joe biden filled back, is better. From what i understand build back better. From what i understand, the government does not create jobs, the private sector does. Build back better are empty words. What is he going to build . How president obama and Vice President biden the lead up in no time . It is not the governments bellied up in no time . It is not the governments job to create jobs. Open up the economy, let people go back to work. Those who want to invest and create jobs will do so. Host it sounds like you are pretty convinced as far as a candidate rather than undecided. Caller i meant to say that to the young lady on the call. Host we will have to ask you the viewer, if you can help us, pick the line that best represents you. If you are undecided, be truly undecided. If you are a supporter of joe biden, that is the case too. We will try to get as many of those people in over the course of the three hours. We will show you some more ads too. Here are some more recent ads from the campaigns of joe biden and President Trump. [video clip] this is a movement. I am telling you, they are not going to stop and they should not. These people are tearing out my a Third Straight night, Portland Police declared a riot. The vast majority of protesters are peaceful. 59 officers injured and 37 people arrested. A 1ll de blasio announced billion cut to the nypd. This has been declared a riot. You wont be safe in joe bidens america. [laughter] we will go to new jersey, a supporter of President Trump. Rose, hi. I amr one of the reasons supporting President Trump is i cannot tolerate what is going on in congress anymore. I hope we can Flip Congress because they act like a bunch of petty schoolkids wasting money and do not accomplishing the job they are there to do. President trump supports the troops. My grandson is in the air force. The ads they are sending out saying he doesnt when he has shown by his leadership that he does . I just cannot tolerate the petty democrats anymore. Host when you talk about flipping, you mean the house side . Caller i would like to see the house flip, yes. Pelosi maxine waters, nancy pelosi, all they want to do is waste taxpayer money on investigations that dont change anything in our government. Bidens family has accepted all kinds of money from china. Host when it comes to the house, do you have confidence that the house will flip or stay the same . Caller i am praying that it flips. I do not know, but i hope that it does soon because pelosi is just so twofaced. Host bonnie in alexandria, minnesota, good morning. Caller good morning. For me, it is all about health and Climate Change. Biden wille that joe protect health care. Host how so . Mean, he has had experience with obama you know. Maybe they are obama care was not the best for everybody, but care was notama the best for everybody. Host do you think the approach there are a couple of different ideas for approaches. One way to be modifying the current state of the Affordable Care act. Which do you feel more comfortable with . Caller probably modifying obamacare. Host lets go to indiana then. Mary is in crown point, a supporter of President Trump. Hi. Caller good morning. And with trump in office, i feel safe. Trump 100 and on sending in the National Guard to these troubled cities. That trump gets reelected because he is the only one that will stand against china. So please, i hope everyone votes for trump. Againsten you say stand china, what does that mean and what do you think he is going to do differently than he has already done to china . Caller if he stands against china and that they keep their products there are put tariffs their products coming in, i am for the wall. I have traveled to europe and there is not one country that is free like ours is. We have to have our passports, we have to have our luggage inspected. That is not the case with the United States. They pride themselves on being free. Us where wegetting want to go and we want to go where it is safe. Host ok. That is mary in crown point, indiana. Next upper rose hill, north airline. Betty North Carolina. Betty lives there, a supporter of joe biden. Caller i feel more protected with biden. This country is in a world of mass with the looting and all. Biden did say he did not believe in writing and it and stuff. G and lootingiotin and shootingting and stuff. Please do not cut me off yet. Many down realize every do not realize every time he does not want to hear something they have to say, he fires them. Corrupted. Is if trump does not like what a person says, he fires them. Host kathy is up next from st. Martin bill, louisiana st. Martin bill, louise st. Martinville, louisiana. I support trump and the main reason why i do is because the bill of rights is in jeopardy. Mediang the propaganda that tells you not to believe your lying eyes is something every american needs to start doing, believing there lying eyes. What their lying eyes. What they are saying are peaceful protests are not peaceful protests. This country is falling apart. Host when you say the beloved rights is in jeopardy, what do you mean . If me a spit ash the bill of ofhts is in the bill rights is in jeopardy, what do you mean . Give me a specific example. Caller if you have a trump sticker on your car, you will get a key. There is no reason for america to resort to things like that. That is onlythink in certain sectors of the u. S. That that is the case . Caller it is so widespread you could not do it anywhere. In texas, they have had such an influx of people leaving the Democratic State of california, but they have come to texas to change it. Why would they want to do that . It does not make sense to me. Host that is kathy in louisiana calling us in support of President Trump. She brought up the topic of texas. In the commentary section of the Washington Times this morning, Michael Mckenna says texas should be one of those places trump should be paying attention to. Trump one texas and texas. Ared to won that outcome masked and uncomfortable reality for republicans. Texas has become competitive. In 2018, senator ted cruz won his election race with beta 215,000ourke by about votes out of more than 8 million cast. There may be as many as one million more hispanic voters in texas then there where in were in 2016. If two thirds of hispanic voters hispanics voting in texas a vote for democrats and 2020, the gop may be in for some in 2020, theg gop may be in for some tough sledding. Our next caller is a supporter of joe biden. Caller i am very concerned about the job situation. I think joe biden and a harris new dealod plan about about those type of jobs. I think everyone is so concerned about trump and his path personality. Trump is a liar. He lies every day. Building new jobs is what we need to do. Have of our factory jobs gone overseas. They are being replaced by robotics. We could Start Building things highways,dges, Different Things like that. That will put on he into the economy and will put people back to work. That ist have a country built on services, on waitresses and restaurants and stores. We need to be really building stuff. That develops good jobs and that puts money back into the economy. When people put money back in the economy and people are paying taxes, that pays off the debt into Different Things like that. Host youre saying infrastructure drops into the Green New Deal is the way to go with that . That is your opinion . Caller that is my opinion because all of this oil is old stuff. We need to be doing things, technology, all those type of things. They can be here in the u. S. And they cannot be taken out of country. Host new castle, pennsylvania, a supporter of President Trump. We will hear from robert. Caller that lady was totally wrong. From our pharmaceuticals, Start Building all are so stuff here and if china does not conform, block them out and we will come ahead later on down the road. We will recover. Crazy all the stuff people have been putting out there. They are not screening fair. I say i am republican and people will scream at you and act crazy. Host so when it comes to china though, what makes you think trump will go as far as you want to go . Caller trump is already working on it. That is why the other side is working so hard against him. To people who watch cnn need start watching another channel. My uncle is a diehard democrat and we cannot get him to understand it is not the Democrat Party that it used to be. He is so against it. I try to tell him you are a crisp i try to tell him you are a christian man, you cannot vote democrat. Every time we talk, he flies off the handle. New that is robert in castle, pennsylvania. The Vice President will be in harrisburg today talking to the aflcio on labor issues. Vice president pence will come later this week on wednesday to pennsylvania, pennsylvania one of those battleground states that we will focus on it and the program. ,rom colin, santa rosa california, a supporter of joe biden. Caller hi, pedro. I will give a shot here. Bidenton fairly is joe clearly is the candidate to go for. My issue is we need to get america back on track to restoring its status in the world. Andato, in terms of nato european area or developing asian sphere and in spite of china, we need to be in asia, we need to be in europe, we need to be engaged with a longterm strategy, along game strategy long game strategy. Trump has not shown interest in that type of move and Global Affairs at all. It is over. With biden and harris as a true experience, ifice am sorry to say, it is a slamdunk for them to get us back on track with global policymaking and get back engaged for real with the other nations in the western world. California, a supporter of joe biden. Select the lines that best represent you. Senator harris will be and 4 50 todayoday 4 00, for an event they are. If you want to watch that, watch on cspan. Org. Our free radio app is available to you too. An undecided voter from arkansas, this is ike. Good morning. Caller i lived in california until i got my car stolen. I just heard somebody say they were for the wall. Extra thing here. Senators sent a girl on a wildhorse chase and had digital penetration with her. If it someone could inform me or cue that up for me, i could take saw anasier, but i article in the argan i sent a letter to the can sagas set saying compared to arkansas gazette saying that host the allegations he is for joe in budden. Is referencing against joe biden. Catherine is calling. Hampshire. M from new i am independent but i will be voting for trump. The question is not for me top issue, top issues. Voters go toefore the polls that they read kurt neguts patrice host what you mean by that . Caller you need to read it. Host give us a snapshot. Why is it important to read . Caller it is important because each person needs to think about how they are going to vote and the issues and so forth. Ishave to this pandemic just a prelude to how we will future of coming trillions on the debt and Climate Change and so forth. We need to know how we will get together and handle these things and it is not he been political. Yes, all things people need a wee plate special, but do want humans living at their lowest level or do we become our best dreams . Do we make our wishes come true . Host it sounds like the coronavirus is the top issue for you. Caller no, it is one of many issues. We have all kinds of issues. The coronavirus is just the first of what we will have to handle and we better get smart and think and take some time because it is not just about this year. We will have things for years. Host got you catherine in new hampshire. During the course of the morning, we will hear from you and talk about battleground states. Joining us from florida to talk about the state of florida is our caputo come up mark pluto. Guest how are you . Host i am well. Guest where does that state stand and compare that to where trump was four years ago . Guest host where does the state stand and compare that where trump was four years ago . Guest he is doing marginally worse. Margin ofat mayor error is important to look at when you look at florida polls. The president got support in 2016. Guest for the president and three timeswho ran before he cracked 50 ash 50 blowe a 50 can be a out here. Things are always very close. Rick scott one senator by winning his race by less than a quarter point. I would not be surprised to see a close result like that here. If one candidate wins by more than two, i will be very surprised. Host they showed the number of republicans and registered democrats, but then there is this section called no party affiliation. Are independents. They are new folks, sometimes people from other countries, they are not accustomed to our political system or they are people who show about the Drivers License Office and dont register for a party. It is a mix and mumble and a jumble of the voters. It makes and gate gauging how an election will go based on Voter Registration tricky. Same thing with ballot returns. Track and realtime absentee ballots and early voting as it occurs the month before election day, but there is always that large npa vote. Host what is the infrastructure like to handle mailin ballots and what is the confidence of the elected parties in the state in that process . Guest two potentially loaded questions. This being florida, we have had things go wrong here, but that being said we have good experience with running close elections and elections where there is a significant by mail component. Those can get tabulated into the system before election day. We have been to this rodeo before and therefore we should based on our experience be able to come up with a pretty good result around 10 00 p. M. , assuming the race is not really close. Again, this is florida so the race could be really close. Host as far as an person voting, what are people thinking will actually in person voting, what are people thinking will actually happen in a. Guest we will actually happen in the state . Guest there is early in person voting and then there is at the height of the pandemic, precincts will be closed. Some people are being evicted or are leaving their residences so there will be a big residency issue. That is one of the reasons democrats is telling people to vote early. If you can vote early, vote early. If you have to cast an absentee ballot to, do that. One of the reasons you are hearing the Party Message that , urban is denser areas happen to be where more democrats live. Host as far as messaging, we will show viewers some of the ads currently playing in florida. We will talk about them on the others. [video clip] may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. Joe biden understands the sacred duty of it being commanderinchief. He has been in the situation room. Gear inbeau served a iraq. He will protect american values. Year in iraq. He will protect american values. Means biden says that Small Businesses and to seniors pay higher taxes. That means it is the biggest tax increase in history. That means 11 million Illegal Immigrants competing for american jobs, eligible for Free Health Care and medicare. America cannot afford joe biden. You have probably seen and heard those ads and others. Talk about the messaging name in florida. Guest normally the guy who is advertising positively is winning and the guy who is advertising negatively is losing. Biden is advertising positively and trump is advertising gettable he. Tax is a four letter word, so that will probably have some saliency. I am not sure about the amnesty attack against joe biden. There are a group of hardcore conservatives that dont like million this is the state where marco rubio led have 2013 to comprehensive Immigration Reform bill that pulls pretty well. It has a cookiecutter approach. Joe bidens is warm and fuzzy. Working. S to be will it work on election day daca the smartest and dumbest thing said in politics on election day . The smartest and dumbest thing said in politics is we will have. O wait until election day i cannot hear you. Host can you hear me now . We will try one more time. We will try guest i still cannot hear you. Host we will leave it there and see if we cannot reestablish our connection. Mar caputoc. You can see more of his reading online. He is part of our series of battleground states. He was talking about the state of florida and the status there. I believe connection problems will leave it at that but we thank you, mr. Caputo. Inc. You for giving us some of your time this morning. Thank you for giving us some of your time this morning. Eight battleground states is what we will focus on this morning trade we have focused on North Carolina and florida. Then we will hear from you. You can, send a tell us your top issue for campaign 2020. Call us and tell us your top issue for campaign 2020. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. If you support trump, 202 7488001. Undecided, 202 7488002. At 202 lso text us 7488003. Betty lives in florida, a supporter of joe biden and palmetto. What is the top issue for you this cycle . Name is betty mitchell. I am 88 years old. I did not know you had to wait 30 days before you could come back to the call center to talk this is the main thing about it. I was thinking, the other day, i came under old, i president kennedy. I amin and started from florida. We have a lot of lowincome communities. Can you hear me . Host yes, go ahead. Kennedywhen president was the president before he died, he started out black communities in florida have a lot of low income communities. He had three houses built to house the vista workers. When he got killed. He brought all of us together. Fieldught us out of the and had little businesses we could work in and stuff. Host how does that apply to joe biden . Caller that is what im getting at. I thought for sure Vice President biden would do like he did. Stop sendingnedy people to the electric chair. He ran exactly by the constitution. Do not send american citizens to most of whenchair he freed the slaves, he said we would get acres of land and a mule. We did not get any of that. Host again, how does that apply to the Vice President . Caller the Vice President is a lowkey person. To worke he is going with these communities. That is what we need, somebody that is going to start with the lower communities. I not think we will have all this race and violence in the streets. I am 80 years old. Jerry in new go to jersey, supporter President Trump. Caller good morning. First of all, the thing that really i am very worried about is the debate. I noticed nobody is talking about it and everyone is encouraging everybody to early vote, but i think the debates are going to be extremely important. Event to see if biden shows up. What will happen if he doesnt show up . I dont think he will be able to handle the debate. I think it will make a big difference. The people will see if he can handle trump. He wont be able to handle china. He wont be able to handle russia. Everybody better Pay Attention because that is very important to this country. Host the Vice President has said he plans to show up in tose debate and plans participate. Caller ok, lets see. Its very important. I am not competent he is going to show up confident he is going to show up. I am glad he is out there because the more he is out there fs he makes. He cannot put a sentence together. Even the reporters dont want to ask him hard questions because they know he cant do it. What is going to happen in the debate . Host what convinces you he is not going to show up . Caller he is going to have to answer a lot of questions. You will have to answer about his past. The eight years he was with obama, with the middle east i promise you, i am waiting to see if even knows the countries. Lets see. Host ok. That is jerry in new jersey. Those debates and moderators, including steve scully, announced last week. The debates, by the way, the commission behind the debates, that is debates. Org. If you want to go to the website about the commission, you can check that out at debates. Org. A supporter of joe biden in colorado, this is terry. Caller good morning. How are you . Harris,t joe biden and and the reason is morals. Donald trump has no morals. His morals are for him only. What he has done with america is just disgraceful. I have never seen anything like this growing up. Host that makes what makes joe biden moral . Caller he is more caring. He cares more about the people that himself. Trump is for trump only and he will throw anybody under the bus that he can. Host when you say the Vice President cares for people, give me an example. What would you point to as an example . Caller just the way he interacts with people when he talks to the people. Programs he is trying to put into place for low income people. One thing is, though, the medicare for all is not cheap. I am on medicare. I paid 300 a month out of a low , part of itknow with my Social Security. Or would youd you not want to see the Vice President pursue that . Caller i would like to see him pursue Cheaper Health Care for seniors, especially, and low income people. Host ok. Terry. E biden, orres a little profiling profile in the Washington Post this morning, looking about that site in the past week besides the advice the Vice President has heard from backers like Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Debbie Dingell of michigan, both of whom to made it more attention to their state, two strains competed for prominence. Some worried that joe biden has been talking too much about protest against this treatment against black americans potentially alienating white voters. Then after a new ad on wednesday, some advisors are complaining it should not have relied so heavily on images of destroy downtown buildings and clashes in the street. The actions ofm police. Trumps, meanwhile, has delighted in forcing joe biden to spend money on defending his position on the protests. After struggling to ship the Campaign Conversation away. There is more at the Washington Post if you want to read it. Caller hello. How are you . I am supporting joe biden for the simple fact that my family goes back generations of military, from the world war ii all the way down to the baker massacre, basically. I would never support somebody who dodged the draft five times. I would support a man whose son was in the military, who served this country willingly, who put their life on the line and does not think of our troops as losers and suckers. Host Vice President biden himself has received deferment. Caller lets just put it like this. I would trust bidens word over trump any day because theres nothing that would even possibly convince me that trump would be better for this country, considering the last three years that he has destroyed at. Host youre referencing the story that recently appeared in the atlantic. You believe it on its face . Caller i believe every word of it. Bidens has maybe, what, sacrificed his life had he died in the world of the dashboard that he went to, that would been a hero. He came home and successfully lived his life. He did not teach children from Cancer Patients out of money. He did not i could go on for days. Host how do you treat the topic of unidentified sources . Yourr i believe you get sources from everywhere. You have to be able to be resourceful. You get it from newscasters, broadcasters, from the internet you get it everywhere. But the basic fact and the basic human decency that some commanderinchief would denigrate our military to the point of calling them losers and suckers and worry about his hair versus being at the side of a 100 year tradition, that to me said everything he needed to say about this country. He dont work for us, he works for russia. Host that is julie in washington state. Fort worth texas, we will hear next from dean. For taking myyou call. I am a trump supporter. I think he is doing a great job creating jobs and fighting this pandemic. He is doing the best that anybody could do. As far as the atlantic, the article is a total bogus. I listened to a report this morning. There were 10 people denying the accusations. They were giving their names. They were not anonymous. Host where did you hear that story . Caller actually, it was on the internet. Host where did you find it on the internet . Caller i think it was foxbusiness. Host dean in fort worth, texas, trump. Of you can call the numbers, send us a text, post on social media, too. We will continue that through 10 00 this morning. Oning the process, so focus battleground states. Next, meridian, connecticut, supporter of joe biden. Caller [no audio] time. One more. E will go to oklahoma this is david supporter of President Trump. You got it right. Big bidenis a supporter. We dont talk about politics a lot. Me [indiscernible] i watched the ad. I never heard him mention i am worried about losing my benefits that trump got for me. Here. A doctor i dont have to drive to ardmore. The v. A. Pays for everything. I dont have to go to Oklahoma City to get tests, about 110 miles away. Host ok. [indiscernible] im just wondering what is going to happen . Host why do you think joe biden would change the amount of benefits you are currently getting . Caller it is not the amount of benefits, it is just the way my benefits the way i am able to get them. I dont have to go to the v. A. The v. A. Pays for my stuff, but i can use a regular doctor here locally. Host what makes you think that would change under a biden presidency . Caller why wouldnt it . He has never mentioned anything about it. There is no out of about it there is no talk about it. He just hasnt shown any concern on that deal. That is my main deal. Keep my health care the way it is right now. Host david in oklahoma talking about health care issues. Particularly, he is a veteran. A supporter of joe biden, steve, go ahead. Caller good morning. My comment is trump is using putins playbook to scare suburban women. You look on the tv, you see the pandemic, see the protesters. This is on trumps watch. My biggest concern is that trump is not going to accept the Election Results and he will start parting every tom, did come and hurry to get back at the american voter. That is my comment for today. Host pensacola, florida, supporter of President Trump. Linda is next. Caller when they talk about trump, he wants to stop the writing. It is all these different businesses. It doesnt matter your skin color, their businesses are being destroyed and trump wants to go in and stop at. They dont want him and it goes from one city to another. I think biden will it the whole country burned down. He is not going to go centers in light trump once too. He is not going to send in troops like trump wants to. Poster what convinces you of that . Caller i havent heard anything. Website, ae Campaign Statement on some of those events taking place across the United States, too. Caller but what is he going to do . Is he going to march with them or send troops in like trump wants to and the democrats wont let them . Host ok, linda, pensacola, florida, supporter of President Trump. A laterhington post story, back to the postmaster general, the issue that you saw with him during the dutch a couple of ago with a male in mailin voting, saying you can read that in the Washington Post. Other story saying theyre interested in hearings on that topic. You can find that straight in various sources this morning. A supporter of joe biden from pittsburgh. David, hello. Caller good morning. How are you . There so many issues it is tough to pick one, but one of the phenomenons i have observed is what has happened within two groups. The Republican Party and the white evangelicals. The republican there is a divide between people who seem to have had their predation of their principles degradation of their principles and support trump and those principal republicans that have held on to the principles and said, this is throwntable and have their support to joe biden. I think that is a huge issue and an important issue. Within the white evangelical community, i dont get the moral or spiritual degradation of so many white evangelicals. This cognitive dissonance between the doctrines of their faith and their blindside they turn to donald trump blind eye they turn to donald trump. The issue of health care. Republicans have been firing blanks when it comes even worse. They have obstructed the progress the aca needed to make it a better plan. I think bidens plan does sort of improve that. Hopefully, the principal republicans will come on board and help make it a better plan. Host how should the Vice President make it a better plan . Somer they should look at of the flaws. There were some essential benefit issues with what was covered. The other issue was the inability to use costeffectiveness in establishing what is a covered benefit or not. They have got to go back to the mandate. Is spreading the risk over a large pool. Everyone has to be in. So they have to put the mandates back in to get everybody in the pool, otherwise, the price keeps going up because it is higher risk group. Those kinds of things, they need to work on those things. There are many, many others. Host that is david in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. South carolina is next, supporter of President Trump. Thing . Isnt caller id a i did not have to tell your lady where i was or anything. Pedro, good morning. Let me just throw out first of all, i did not vote for President Trump the last time around. I voted libertarian. Primarily because i knew South Carolina was going to go to trump no matter what. I felt like if i lived in ohio where i used to, i would have held my nose and voted for him. But i would crawl over burning coals to vote for the man this time. President trump has either fulfilled or tried to fulfill every promise he made during the last election cycle. The only reason he hasnt gotten more done is because of the complete and utter obstruction that has been going on to the Democratic Party. They have done everything lie, cheat, steal, everything they could possibly do to stop the man from making any headway. The russia thing, the cavanaugh thing, the impeachment income and on and on and on, lie after lie after lie. Schiff, what a horrible person. Host the top issue that the president has achieved, what is the top of the list . I think it is putting us back into position where america is attempting to be a right and righteous nation that is about americans. I will use the people were nationalist. A nationalist spirit he is trying to instill. While i was here waiting to get what the young lady suggested about half an hour ago. It was quick and easy. The basic premise is in 2082, we living in a world where everyone and everything is equal. Those people who had superior appearances, looks, intellect, physical abilities, etc. , roll handicapped by the government in such a way that they could not exceed or did not look as attractive all for the purpose that everybody was equal. Phil. That isphi referencing another persons call. And you can do that. If you are on the line, hold on for just a bit as we focus on the battleground state of ohio. That conversation, Jeremy Pelzer of cleveland. Com. Good morning, sir. Guest happy labor day. In 2016 of the vote that the president received, where do you think he is that now . In ohio, i think the president still has a very strong base of support. Nearly nineby Percentage Points in 2016. Right now he is probably still the favorite to win ohio and in 2020 as well. Pull show President Trump joe biden are pretty close within a margin of error. At the same time, it is the president s state to lose, definitely. Host talking about some word, we saw him reach out to bluecollar workers, to the suburban areas last time around talking about the issue of jobs, manufacturing, trade. Are those the same messages this time around . Guest absolutely. A more recent issue now of line order, law and order. Everyone from Richard Nixon to ronald reagan. It remains to be seen how exactly it is going to affect donald trump. The suburbs are going to be a key battleground here in ohio as in the rest of the country. There are some of these issues that President Trump is looking to focus on. That land squarely in the suburban what suburban issues traditionally care about. Host if there is a certain area that provides a snapshot of how either candidate does, what would you point them to . Guest i think youre going to have to look at the area around akron, youngstown, northeast ohio. The election in ohio shall he comes down to how Many Democrats vote for the democratic nominee. If you can get a strong turnout in northeastern ohio cleveland, of course, but also akron and the youngstown area, if you can get enough democratic votes, that is how democrats win in ohio. We are going to be looking at turnout not only in cleveland, but also some of these other democratic strongholds. If joe biden does well there on election nights, you will probably win ohio. Host how would you parse how both campaigns are doing . Repeat . Ould you host as far as both candidates, how many visits are they making to the state . Far he hasbiden so yet to visit as the nominee. Anald trump was here at fundraiser and toward manufacturing plant. Not nearly as many businesses as when donald trump almost seemed to be a resident of ohio. I think there is a lot of campaign left. We will probably see these candidates sooner or later. Host according to the ohio secretary of state, in 2018 for the midterms, a million registered voters. Talk about the number of voters registered this time around and what does that suggest about the candidates or at least, the success of the candidate . Course,ell, of everything is up in the air with a segment significant amount of people voting by mail. How many voters will take the time to request an absentee ballot and send it in and how many of them are going to think about turning up on election day . There is a lot of unknown. That is one of the reasons why it is tough to count these polls because if you dont know how many people are going to vote, it kind of throws these polls in limbo as well. Right now theres a place and democrats and even state House Republicans of whether to save send postagepaid ballots. Democrats say the secretary of state can do it. Legislative larose seems to say, im going to try couple of things to do it but i really would like legislative approval for it. But they wont let me do it. The when it comes to mailing process, how confident is the state and able to take in these ballots, tabulate them, those kinds of issues . Guest i think youll have the same problems. Youll have the same problems anywhere else. We have a system not designed to in ohio, a lot of those responsibilities are on county boards of election. We have 88 counties. Each board is up to them to tag like the votes and send them a the votes and send them into the secretary of states office. On election night, will have a lot especially smaller counties, be under a lot of stress to biblical counties votes in a reasonable amount of time. Host jermaine pelzer, were going to show the folks at home what the ohio secretary of state said when it comes to the ability to counties and then we will come back to you. Test[video clip] to change thebill day the electors meet. Essentially because he says, look, states may need more time. They may need more time to certify and dont it is an artificial date. You can ship that around. Would you like more time . Chuck, were certainly having our ash planning on having our Electoral College me december 14. We count the ballots on election night. We always report the unofficial tabulation. We know over the next 10 days, as long as the ballots are legally cast, they can continue be received. The numbers are never the final. That will be as we rely more on absentee ballots. Were even changing the way the reporting is on a website to make it clear there could be tens or hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots. One of our teammate serving overseas or maybe ohio and have procrastinated, as long as the balance are legally cast, they deserved to be cast. Election night, we will give a snapshot of those results but the final tabulation is what really matters. Host Jeremy Pelzer, police confidence from the secretary of state concerning the process. Are you there . Guest im having trouble hearing you. Host you are from the secretary of state, is expressing confidence. Do you have anything to add . Guest [indiscernible] i believe he was responding to sident trump hashat is true, larose spoken out against that. Differentwhole questions about what you can or cannot do and whether these are being circulated by the president or they just going around social media. There are a lot of things up in the air. I dont think i want to be frank larose right now because he has to put out all these fires about, oh, i can just show up on election day and not wear or i to test twice to try the system. There are a lot of Different Things disinformation come into journal or not, thrown around. Host Jeremy Pelzer from cleveland. Com. You can read his work there any covers campaign 2020. Thank you for your time today. Happy labor day to you. Guest thank you. To you, too. Calls, melvinyour in fort lauderdale, florida, supporter of joe biden. Thank you for waiting. Caller thank you. First of all, i want to thank you for basically trying to put a stop to these people calling in on the wrong line, especially the republicans. Somebody used to be because i know with [indiscernible] 1979. G since i am glad to see youre trying to get back on that. The next thing, the main reason with biden and harris, i wanted to draw down on something hes talking about his stance with china. 2019,ople know since trump and his organization has got the traditional 35 additional trademark agreements with china. This sokes this ove ridiculous, when he started dealing with china, which was several years ago, he lived in the heart of the Garment District from United States, manhattan, new york. So why all of the sender nice and his staff to get made . So why all of a sudden did he send his staff to china to get made . Is he ever brought any of the businesses he is given to china . So what host howlett differ from this president . Caller he is not going to have things made over there. What joe biden will do, hell have honest talks you can believe what he said, not like trump is talking about the border wall that the president of china agreed to pay for it and then didnt and that trump got embarrassed. Trump just uses peoples name. Just like with the thing about the pandemic. Talking about how good china was doing. The next week, talking about how bad it was. You never get an opportunity to find out what the other side is saying, he is just talking host when it comes to joe biden, if he is going to talk with china, what is the end result . What do you think the talk will produce . Upler i hope when they come with better agreements. We already have ways to deal with china. We find out what theyre using our particular trade and our products, where theyre actually going out and selling them. Of course they can also take actionsd biden got taken against china for this misuse of trademarks and everything else. War or anything. You have to use the legal system in place. Florida,t is melvin in supportive joe biden. We will hear from a supporter President Trump from georgia. Frederick, hi. Caller i have a couple of things to scroll down here. Favored trade nation with obama. The previous caller was talking about biden was going to do everything for america. Companies are about money. They want to invest where they can make the most, so they go where it is cheapest. With trumps tax plan, he brought business back to america. People were investing in america. I see all kinds of hotels being rebuilt. He had all kinds of records for , health and under obama care went from 400 deductible to 4000. Biden in there, too. You can see all of the building going on. You see the infrastructure. I went through jacksonville, florida, and i see all of the road were going on. That is federal tax dollars. I just dont think with the biden supporters im hearing are really in touch with a lot of the issues in the right way and what theyre saying is incorrect in a lot of ways, especially when biden and obama had most favored trade nations that they may china. Host ok, frederick in georgia. Lets go to gloria in mississippi. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am four things. I am africanamerican woman. Im a veteran. I live in the suburbs. I have a 22yearold son. I am most afraid that my 22yearold son cant go to walmart to get a gallon of milk and bread without ring stopped by the police and harassed. That is what i most frightened of. Donald trump is chaotic. He did nothing but cause chaos and confusion. He doesnt recognize my race of people. It is his america. I dont feel safe in his america. Donald trump sits in that office. He is president. This is on his watch, not joes watch. The reason they are protesting we all have to keep remembering and no one is for destroying anyones business. No one is for destroying any neighborhoods. But i am for peaceful protests. Biden has made that very clear. A donald trump once to act tough and try to frighten people. I live in suburbia. Nowadays that has become a cold word that people only think why people live in suburbia. Like people live in suburbia as well. Host gloria, when it comes to the large issue of race issues, what changes under joe biden . Said, acknowledge it exists. This countries had systematic racism since the inception of this country. Acknowledge that. Once you acknowledge a problem, will be able to fix the problem. Come to the table. Had meaningful dialect. Dont just say, oh, no, it does not exist. It does exist. Host so you think the previous president express these issues as well and more things fixed under his administration . Caller well, with obama, his hands was a little tired because he was the first africanamerican president. I think he try to do a little something. I remember the louis gates incident where you had the beer gate at the white house. He try to do something but i think his hands was tied because he did not want to appear he was favoring one side over the other. He always tried to come down in the middle. A simply not acknowledge whole group of people exist is crazy to me. Apologize, thank you for calling. Victoria, florida, supporter of trump. Caller my Biggest Issue is to stop the bidensanders 110 page task force playbook. It is basically a playbook to abolish our constitution and replace it with the commonest, marxist regime at the cost of trains of dollars based on confiscation and redistribution of wealth within our energy independence, destroy the family structure, are suburbs, destroy our freedoms of education, religion, Small Businesses, and some protection. Host give me a specific from this playbook. What do you mean by that . Caller the playbook is in different sections and you have to read the entire playbook. I challenge everyone supporting by to read it. Each section is basically broken down into the environment host give me a specific from it. Caller well im a basically a lot of talk about redistribution of wealth. There is talk about how they suburbs, givehe citizenship to immigrants and complete funding for housing, education, medical care, everything. It focuses it is a climbing nest marxist doctrine. Marxist a communist doctrine. I am familiar with marxism. I studied it. Host are you there . A supporter of joe biden. Caller i just want to say trump is basically a con man. He claims credit for anything he sees is successful and he will never take responsibility for the things that he has done done and the things he has wrong like the pandemic. His response has been egregious. Like the national debt. People keep saying he is great on the economy, but he has spent money to the point where our deficit is out of control. Where all of the republican deficit hawks that prevented obama from passing any legislation because of the deficit . Host does the Democratic House take responsibility for that as well, at least partially . Caller i think to some degree they are both responsible. However, the republicans stopped everything that obama tried to do expanding health care, the public option in the name of the deficit. I just also want to mention that trump has taken responsibility for the National Guard. But the governors are the ones who dispatch the National Guard. Theeeps referencing National Guard. The governor of minneapolis in the National Guard. He is taking credit for something you didnt do. I forgot the name of the law. The insurrection act. That is not something he did. He keeps taking credit. Even with veterans, veterans choice. That was a low put in place by president obama. Yet President Trump is taking credit. You people naming things that trump is saying that he did but he did not do. He is such a liar. Until people open their eyes i mean, even prolife, democratic president s, the abortion rate has gone down under them because they give Young Women Health care and knowledge and information and choices. The rate of abortion has declined. So those folks were talking about prolife and they cant wear a mask to protect their neighbors or they dont support reform of police so we can keep all americans safe this isnt helpingotecting or not good cops, this is about stopping those few bad cops that are doing bad things. Host you mentioned the governors and some of these days. Should they be doing more for these hotspots across the United States . Caller i think they should. But that is part of what our president does to rally and talk to the governors to make sure that americans are say. But when you have somebody who is divisive, who will not take responsibility for those things theyre not doing wrong for creating these hotspots with his words he is the leader. He is the leader of the country. Host to the governors take responsibility for what is going on . You said when it comes to the National Guard, it is the governors who make these decisions. Caller portlands governor should called in the National Guard. I do believe that, yes. Supporter ofvania, joe biden. Youve heard a lot of issues talked about during the course. We will continue talking about the issues that are most important to you when it comes to campaign 2020. First, we will focus on wisconsin. Joining us for that conversation from the milwaukee journal sentinel, mr. Gilford. Happy labor day. You wrote a recent piece talking about the selection and framing it as a National Debate on several fronts. In you read a rate those talked about how it relates to this year . When joe biden came to kenosha, we had an intersection, debate over race in policing and protests in a state that was at the very epicenter of this election. All of these things have come together at one moment in time and in one place. Wisconsin was decided by a fraction in 2016, and now we have but Vice President ial candidates come to wisconsin today. We have had the democratic ticket, after being criticized for not coming to this state combat the moment this is basically the only battleground state they have campaign in outside of joe bidens home region. Host the winning with 47 back in 2016. The president winning with 47 percent back in 2016. If that is correct. We will try one more time. Craig gilbert, are you there . We will continue on with calls. We will try to sort that conversation with Craig Gilbert out of the milwaukee journal sentinel, joining us to talk about that battleground state. We will get him back in a second. Liz in South Carolina, supporter of joe biden. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am for biden and harris because i believe that the us and them rhetoric were getting from the president and the fear and hate, what happened to us making deals and coming together . We are not doing that right now. And i believe put between the two, it is going to be biden and harris that can do that. Host how so . Caller because they have basically looked at the situations that are going on right now with the riots, for example. Yes, we are Peaceful Protesters but we also have rioters and they have both condoned the peaceful riots, but are totally against the riots. Peaceful protest is fine. Riots are not. Host if joe biden were the president and these riots were continuing or these protests were continuing, what should he do . Caller basically come the same thing the other caller was talking about. With the governors. Have the governors bring in National Guard. He doesnt want to have to use act to donsurrection this because it should be the states that perform these acts. If he has to come if it comes down to it, yes, he would have to enact 1807. That is why i dont understand why President Trump talks about law and order. He can easily do this if you wanted to, but he is not. It is an election year. He is afraid of not getting reelected. In my opinion. Host lynn, North Carolina. We visited that is a battleground state earlier on in their program. She is a supporter of joe biden. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Carolinaved in north for about a total of 20 years. I have seen both sides. Christian people are good people. We look at them like they are not, but we have to understand this is the bible belt. Pastors. En to their they are godfearing people. Saying the book is about abortion. Is about abortion. That is why people are voting brand. Theyre looking at nothing else but the way they feel about god. Biden has to speak to these christian supporters. It is so important. To let them know that joe biden is a good christian man. He cares about us. He cares about the riots. He cares about our soldiers. That is what we have to do in North Carolina in order to win this election. This election is an election for the United States of america. Without us winning this election, were going to handed over to the russians. Host lynn in North Carolina joining us talking about her support for joe biden. We will try Craig Gilbert. Can you hear me ok . Guest i can hear you now. Host image in both Vice President ial candidates will be there today, but what does it look like for both sides . There the wisconsin maps, are a lot of pieces. We are seeing Kamala Harris coming to milwaukee. The issue for democrats is turnout. Turnout is really soft in 2016. Alert clinton won the city overwhelmingly but the winning margin was about 20,000 votes smaller than Barack Obamas in 2012. Her losing margin statewide was 23,000 votes. You conceal important turnout in milwaukee is to democrats. Yep a suburban belt outside milwaukee, socalled dashboard donald trump underperformed in 2016, despite winning overall statewide. It is important for republicans to bring those numbers back to their historical levels. They have seen a lot of erosion the last two cycles. Were donald trump won wisconsin was in these areas outside the milwaukee and madison media markets in northern wisconsin, central wisconsin, western wisconsin, green bay area particularly among Rural Counties and small towns. He had historic margins in that part of the state. Yes to try to replicate what was a very unusual to strictly unusual performance, and that may be his biggest challenge because some of these robing areas in wisconsin are swinging and some do have a history of voting democratic. The cross is a great example where Vice President pence is today. Host i was going ask about certain areas of the state within counties. What are places to watch for, at least things you are watching for . Guest theres this fascinating part of wisconsin called the driftless area, and your logical a geological area. Rolling hills and twisting river valleys, kind of in the lower lefthand corner of the state near the upper Mississippi River. White counties that have been voting democratic for president cycle after cycle after cycle. Counties inthese 2000. In 20 s 16, theywung. They are purple, slightly blue counties but they swung hard for donald trump. They did swing back a fair amount in the 2018 midterm so this is an area whether there are not attentive people but it is swinging. In a tight race, those margins can really matter. Host you talked about senator. Arris visit today you can watch it on cspan later today. Compare the Biden Campaign strategy for wisconsin to what we saw audrey years ago and how much more aggressive are they going to be in the state . Guest there really is no comparison. Wisconsin was for democrats, the most notorious example of neglect were not only did Hillary Clinton not visit wisconsin during the general election campaign, for probably more importantly, they just did not mount a serious field effort. They did not mount a serious advertising effort. They really did not go up on the air in any serious way until the last week or two of the campaign, kind of out of desperation when it was too late. Stay for the Biden Campaign in the ad wars. The green bay media market, it would be number one or two or three or four in the country in terms of the number of ads people are seeing. Still getting some criticism until joe biden finally came here for not visiting wisconsin obviously, did not visit during the national convention, which was in milwaukee. But now clearly, they have come out of the out of the conventions. Both members of the democratic ticket are staging events and have staged events in wisconsin. So they are going all out. Simplest know their path to win is to when the three socalled flu law states that they have been winning until 2016 socalled blue law states that they have been winning until 2016. Host what is the Ground Campaign for both . Guest republicans have continued to do some of the traditional facetoface campaigning. Were aggressive in terms of the travel schedule, but they continue to do so talking on doors. And democrats have gone basically fully digital. They are not going to peoples doors and trying to talk to people facetoface. Theyre trying to reach them by phone, reach them virtually. E pursuinggns ar Different Ground strategy even though they are pouring resources into the state, even though the state is at the top of their target list, theyre doing things a little differently. That will be Something Interesting to watch. Host when it comes to the election process itself, how is the state preparing particularly for those who want to vote in person on election day versus mailin voting and the like . Guest the best news for election administration, wisconsin has already had two pandemic elections. One was in april and one was in may. Congressional districts people have had practice. Wisconsin is a state where you can vote absentee, either in person early or by mail, without an excuse. Traditionally, male absentee was about 5 of the vote. That just zoomed overnight to about two thirds of the vote in april. We dont know. , 40 , 50 . 30 we know from opinion polling, people who vote absentee by mail are biden voters according to the pullers. And in person or more overwhelmingly trump voters. You have another split, which is how people are voting, and theres a little bit of a partisan line there. Theres a lot to question about the mail. Lots of questions about how it will affect the timing of the count on election day. So cities are scrambling and communities are scrambled to accommodate both a significant number of people voting in person on election day but also to accommodate a much higher mail votingentee than in the past. Host Craig Gilbert talking about the state of wisconsin, his role as a battleground state , part of the look we are taking today at those battleground states. Mr. Gilbert, thank you for your time, thank you for working through technical issues. Happy labor day. Dewaynego to mississippi, supporter President Trump. Thank you for waiting. Go ahead. Caller thank you, pedro, for allowing me to come on. Thank you for challenging me the biden supporters in their statement. At a couple of things i wanted to say. The reason why im voting for trump is he does what he says. Another media tries to change what he says. This is one thing that he said, he believes in immigration but he believes in legal immigration. He doesnt believe in abortion. He wants to stop that. Biden is for that. These are the things that i choose to vote for trump four. I thank you for challenging folks when they talk about when i vote for biden and trump is a liar, well, what did he lie about . , would to challenge anybody biden has been in politics for years. Tell me what he has done in 40 years, three things that he has done in 40 years. They cant do it. Host let me ask you this, you mention those things that are issues for you. You probably heard about Coronavirus Response as far as the president s handling of that. Does that become a factor for you . Caller yes, sir. But if you want to blaine trump, why cant we blame cuomo for sending Covid Patients to these Old Folks Home and they get it all up north . What about the deaths that we are calculating and you want to throw it on trump . Just like you said, those governors have a responsibility . Do they have any responsibility . Lets be honest. Leah doubt. You have governors one caller said, what we want to do is win by and get in there he is going to talk to the governors and asked them to bring in the National Guard. Trump has asked that for the last four months. And Everybody Knows that. Host showing support for President Trump was that massachusetts is next. Another supporter President Trump. Margaret, go ahead. Caller i watched the horrors in california. Oregon, it seems like it is all forgotten now. I have never seen anything like the democrats the way they insulted that man. Host youre still on. Go ahead. Caller do you want me to repeat . I watch the fires and everything in washington, oregon, california, author the west. Alter the west. I cant believe anybody who is a democrat would want to be one. They shot me. Everything that has been done has been forgotten. Nothing has been said about it. It is all these people talking about things. They were going to bring the country down. Host margaret in massachusetts. So we have gone about two hours talking about your top issue for campaign 2020. You have heard a lot of those expressed to me previous two hours. You can do so in this final hour by phone, by social media, by other text us if you want. If you support Vice President , trump,nator harris, cspa and for other candidates, their party candidates. F you want, you can text us you can post on twitter, facebook. Donald from alexandria virginia, supporter of joe biden starting us off on this third hour. Good morning, donald. Go head. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Opened with the wall street journal had any article that pfizer, johnson johnson, and moderna are joining together to put out a statement about the efficacy and the safety of the are the vaccine they are working on. ,he only reason they did that as is my speculation, right before that, trump had come out and stated the vaccine was going to be ready in november. Cdc had come out to announce to the people they are going to administer to prepare for that. The reason thet Drug Companies did this is because the blowback from the public and the Science Community has been so strong that they felt it was necessary to reassure the public that they were going to take all steps necessary to make sure it was safe and effective. What that the magnitude of that is the president has undermined two of the most trusted agencies in the federal government, the cdc and the fda. The public isat faced now with a question as to whether or not a vaccination that is going to be inserted into 300 million american arms is safe. Ais is a vaccine to stop pandemic that is inflicting the United States and the world. I cant imagine anything worse. Out, if a vaccine comes either this year or next year, will you take it . If i feelwill take it that it is safe. If not, i will wait and go to canada if i have to. You say when you feel it is safe, what determines that for you . Caller therein lies the problem. Agencies responsible for validating it for the american public, we dont know if it is going to be safe. Host that is donald and now exaggerate, virginia. Speaking of vaccines, this out u. K. E u. K. Saying the Health Secretary matt hancock set a cover vaccine what most likely be available in the first. W months of 2021 hasock said the government already started production of the uks government initial order of 31 million doses of the vaccine being developed by the pharmaceutical giant astrazeneca in collaboration with university of oxford. We have 30 million doses already contracted. They are starting to manufacture those doses already. Through,proval come and it is not certain, but it is looking up come a should that come through than we are ready to rollout. According to the office of the u. K. Health secretary. Steve is next from indiana. A supporter of joe biden. Hello. Caller hello. There is one thing that a lot of people are not thinking about. Medicare,urity, Social Security disability. In, he hasts back already said he is going to do away with bike attacks. That is where we get our Social Security money and stuff. If he get to 90 does away with 2023, Social Security is going to be completely broke. The disability will be broke year. Do . Are we all going to not have Social Security payments, and that is what i live on. Host some have reported those cuts and the effects youre talking about could happen if those are made permanent, not temporary. Caller he said he is going to make it permanent. At the first of the year, if he gets reelected. Host where did you hear that . Caller on tv. He said he was going to ifolutely make it permanent he gets reelected. Host when it comes if that is the issue, how do you think joe biden, or, what convinces you about joe biden and how he will handle Social Security . Party ishe democratic the one who put Social Security in. They are not going to do away with it. They would like to add more to it. People socialism, socialism there is no such thing as socialism that they are talking about. That is ridiculous. That is steve in noblesville, indiana talking about Social Security. Francisco,an undecided, hello. Caller how are you . Host i am well. Caller my issues the violence and anger that seems to be exploding with President Trump. Undecided, now i am decided listening to the calls that im going to go for joe. Host why is that . Were you a supporter of joe biden before you called . Caller i was debating. Ive been watching them both. I am a supporter of joe biden, i am now. I tried to give trump a chance but he lies all the time. It is unbelievable. Too many people call in to stick up for some but he who does not care about us. Host ivanka calling about joe biden. Some previous colors about Social Security, this is tony rom President Trump pledged saturday to pursue a permanent cut to defend Social Security and medicare if he wins reelection. Politicalaccomplish gambit has some see as a political headache for the future. The president unexpectedly amid the pandemic. It is not absolving her bills outright. The president said he would seek to waive that waive what people owed in august, if i am victorious on november the third, i plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. Im going to become all permanent. That is the reporting as of early august when it comes to the topic of Social Security. In connecticut, a supporter of joe biden. Simone, hello. Caller hello. I will be supporting the bidenharris ticket. For many ideological and policy reasons. But, i would like all voters to consider one thing, it is irresponsible for any country to elect a Climate Change denier for its leader. Host is that the top issue for you . Caller that is. It is absolutely a top issue. Week seeing week to the Trump Administration dismantling any kind of environmental protection, any progress we have made toward Climate Change diminish and. Did munition host peter in st. Louis, missouri. A supporter of President Trump. Actually, i do not support trump or biden. Host i will stop you there only because we have a line for those who are undecided. If that is you, try to call back before the program ends in an hour. Again, we have this we have lines for those who support trump, biden, those who are undecided, and those who support thirdparty candidates. If you can try to call back, we will take you one. Dan in pennsylvania. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am supporting President Trump because i believe in supporting performance. Whenten to the gentleman he ran for president. He has made good on a lot of the things he said he was going to do. Backwards into a Democratic Administration with a gentleman that has been there 40 years and really has not done a lot. Right now, i believe we need a , maybe an ad hominem type of situation that people do not like his demeanor or tone, but in reality he is able to handle real dealmaking. He is going to handle china. With commercials there hey, the chinese arent bad people. With a virus that has come, we dont want to go back over there and be cutting deals when in reality, mr. Trump has brought work back to this country. Money tot up tax schools and institutions. Certainly the black immunity. He has sent people out to protect our cities. Host as far as the top issue for you before the election of last time, you said you looked at performance issues. How has he achieved that . Citizen,s an american black, white, asian, whoever, the great experiment is that we put our people to work. Wetect our peaceful protect our people first and try to get along with the International Situation means everybody has to pull their own weight. President trump in the best of his ability, and certainly with the negativity of the press is a strong individual. Joseph,an in st. Missouri. A supporter of joe biden. I lived in every city when trump was there. New jersey, new york, el paso, texas. He built his building in new york in soho with nothing but immigrant labor. In new jersey, he shafted every businessman that worked and they all went broke. People from philadelphia, the cabinetmakers, the piano makers, everything. In el paso, to but those children in cages the way he didnt take them from their did and the way he to take them from their families, we are the pariah of every nation. No european nation looks honest with favor after what we have , pooro the children children who came here. And he is still doing it. There are still over 500 children that have not been united with their children. Top issue andthe how does joe biden achieve those issues . I do not night think joe biden would have taken the children away from their parents. I think joe biden is honest. I do not think joe biden would use i do not think joe biden ever would have ever done what he has done to the kurds in syria. These people helped us. Brother has been there. They were our helpers, our translators and everything. The military is furious about what he did with the kurds and let the turks kill them and run them out of their homes. Host that is jean in missouri. Up as topic she brought far as cages, youll go back to the Democratic National convention, that was one of the accordinghelle obama, to the associated press, the president on. She is right the president pollys the president s policy separated children from families in ways that had not been done before. What she did not say with the cages were built and used during her Husbands Administration to hold migrants temporarily. There is more of that topic that has been disclosed quite a bit over the years. If you want to read it at the associated press, you can do so. When you talk about battleground states, one of the states, the commonwealth that technically comes up is that of pennsylvania. Really in ralphs from the pittsburgh post pittsburgh gazette. Good morning. Caller thanks for having me. Like anything else, why is pennsylvania a battleground state . Guest pennsylvania is a battleground state for a number of reasons. Before trump was elected, this was a typically Democratic State. Donald trump outperformed in just about every single county beside the two liberal spots in the state philadelphia and pittsburgh. The swing part of this state is the suburbs. You have got to remember that before 2016 this was a different state. As you can see from the last week of visits and attention, this is going to get a lot of money and a lot of attention. Host the president or Vice President is going to be in harrisburg. Is therey, mike pence in the middle of the week. Talk about ground strategies, visits by the campaigns, what is the expectation . Guest the expectation is a little up in the air. I think it is about as split as it could possibly be. Here,den is going to be and donald trump friday in shanksville pennsylvania to commemorate the 9 11 attacks could 9 11 attacks. Eric trump is going to be here. Last week, joe biden made that huge speech here in pittsburgh. For his rallyme in latrobe. It is all hands on deck. Even more so then you saw in 2016 when there was not as much in the lead up. We are seeing several visits oh week, lots of money and lots of advertising. Host we probably hear the topic of coronavirus being a top issue , maybe some are concerned about the protests, how do those appeal as far as areas of concern for pennsylvanians . What are top issues for pennsylvania . Guest you hit the nail on the head. Covid19 is a gigantic issue here. Democratic governor who has fought with Republican Legislature and they have landed on both sides of the issue when it comes to trump and biden. Have hade protests, we a largely Peaceful Movement here in pittsburgh. Sort of at odds with the democratic mayor. There a lot of political play. Also, a huge issue you hear over and over again is the idea of fracking. Joe biden and donald trump have been in an advertisement war. At saw donald trump poke fun joe biden thursday. Joe biden saying his position on fracking is mischaracterized. There is a lot of drilling here in western pennsylvania, a lot of down ballot candidates are taking up that mantle. You hit the nail on the head with the first two issues. Host strongholds for both men, and areas where they will probably be reaching out to as far as people who have not decided on either of them. Guest great question, and one i think theyre both try to figure out. One thing you heard from democrats is we need to have a 67 county strategy because Hillary Clinton did not visit maybe three fourths of counties here. If they could just trim away at the public in margin trump built in 2016, maybe they can have enough to win back the state. Hillary clinton did very well in Allegheny County and philadelphia, better than barack obama in 2012. Chipping away at the rural voters in the middle of the state, also the suburbs are extremely important. Host the secretary of state, as far as republicans about 3. 3 million, maybe 4 million registered democrats. Theres this other category of 1. 2 million. Guest you would be correct. Is a lot of people in suburban areas around pittsburgh and philadelphia. That has been an extremely high focus for both campaigns. I think they largely did come out to vote in 2016. It was pretty much the exact category youre seeing now. It depends on where they live. Host we should have started with this, as far as polling, what does pulling suggest . How much are you paying attention to it . Guest it is tough. Clinton, even here in pennsylvania was supposed to win by a large margin. Outust had a big hole come big poll came out that should that thought joe bidens lead narrow. He lost a lot of key demographics including man, people over 60, and it was troubling for sure. There was a lot of spending from the biden camp on this, but it certainly seems to be a narrowing race. We just do not know. Host for election day itself, lets talk about those who do not want to go vote in person on election day. What are the options available to them . Guest there is an extremely for kick into advertisement mailin voting. Pennsylvania is the center for the litigation surrounding mailin voting. This is where the Trump Campaign sued originally, the federal court in pittsburgh. You had the Democratic Party countersuit, now the states Supreme Court is taking up the democratic litigation. They are going to decide whether or not there are ballots drop boxes the day of the election and before. Ther or not postmarked ballots that are summative before the polls close can be counted. This is the center of the universe here in terms of vote by mail. It is still an option that a lot of people are going to use. It is a matter of which counties are able to handle that, which at this point, there are shortages among poll workers staffing. It is a concern. Host i think you hinted at it. The governor himself is trying to work with the legislature on these issues. Guest he was trying, the republican controlled house just passed a bill last week that sort of took the trump position and knocked off a lot of items on Donald Trumps wishlist list in federal court in pittsburgh. It certainly leaves out the postmark issue, which is important for the governor and democrats. But, it does make some concessions. I think they are both pressured to come a little bit closer. I think it is ultimately going to end up being decided in the state Supreme Court. Host there were stories over the last days about the in person voting portion, the availability of poll workers. Is that an issue in the commonwealth . Guest it is huge. During the primary election, they were experiencing about 1 5 of the poll workers they usually manage in a regular year. In some counties it is going to be worse, especially Rural Counties. They are amp and recruitment efforts, but they are going to need a lot of help and a lot of money from the state. Money is something that has not come down, period, from the state legislature or federal government to assist in these programs. It is an issue to keep an eye on. You talked about the polling that was taking place, you will hear the Vice President talking about that from scranton. How does that play to those within the commonwealth . Guest any time you go to any of these events, you hear somebody say that joe biden is the third senator from pennsylvania. I do not know how well it does here the western part of the state. I think he is definitely experiencing a home bump, per se. In the eastern part of the state, he was the kid. He would cross state lines an and work in dcn come back. He did his rollcall vote from scranton, pennsylvania. I think it is important. I do not know how much it is known here in the western part of the state. Host from here on out to election day, what are things you are watching for . Guest i am looking at the legal battle in the Supreme Court. When the president came here, he went on an eight minute rant about how you should go to the polls. There is a lot of confusion in pennsylvania. Thats a lot of fear discount could take a long time, especially here in a state that could end up one way or another. How these battles play out in court and how the rhetorical battles play out i think is compelling moving forward. Julian routhrouth with the pittsburgh gazette. Part of our look at battleground states. Thanks for joining us. Guest thank you for having me. Kevin, as go to supporter of joe biden in maryland. Thanks for waiting. Caller hi pedro. Thank you for cspan. I am for joe biden. I do not like the way he treats our troops. He is a liar. Justause of source because a source is undisclosed does not me and the reporter does not know who that is. Ook what he did to vindman he fired vindman for telling the truth. The man cant be trusted. I am for joe biden all the way. Host what is your top issue for this Campaign Season . Guest caller the son of a gun, his primary goal right now is confusion. Because the voters to be worried about voting. Night, he is going to declare victory, and he aint gonna leave the white house. That is my worry. Alabama, we hear from robin who is undecided. Caller thank you for having me. My top issue is education. Education for my grandkids. I want my kids to be educated. On who should be president , i do not know. Trump dropped the ball on the pandemic. I think his vanity got the best of him. I dont think you can trust anybody in government. I think it is the government against the American People. The other 435 cock suckers . Host lets go to tennessee. Caller thank you for taking michael. Thank you for taking my call. I support donald trump because he is honest. [indiscernible] it is funny he has got a itical ad talking about Thebiden Administration is one that put that in the atlantic. Donald trump has kept his word. Every promise he has made, he has tried to keep an office in the last couple of years. Host when you say the Biden Administration put that in the atlantic, what do you mean . Look how close that was. It was out the same day the dashcam out. The came out. That is dirty politics. Host that is cal in tennessee. The ad that features assertions from the atlantic magazine. Heres the ad from the Vice President followed by a recent add by donald trump. [video clip] this is a movement, i am telling you. They are not going to stop, and they should not. [indiscernible] Portland Police declared a riot. The vast majority of protesters are peaceful. 59 officers injured, 37 arrested. New york city mayor bill de blasio announcing a proposed cut of 1 billion from the new York City Police department. To completelyg dismantle the Minneapolis Police department. Be safe in joe bidens america. Host this is jeannie from lexington, texas. A supporter of joe biden. Guest caller i was calling in response to the man who thinks trump has not lied. If you look up on google, you will find factchecks, and wikipedia. He has lied over 20,000 times since being in office. Has lied 23. 8 times per day since covid was first announced. Host what is your top issue for this election . That i am worried this classic fascism the way he is trying to manipulate the votingand cast down our and democracy will not stand. Done he ishas just so against democracy. Do not know if you will read the book by Jason Stanley from yale university. How fascism works. It is point on point with what trump is doing. Host michael from watertown, new york. Hello. Caller hello. Host goahead. Caller im sorry. My family has known President Trump by accident. We bumped into them several times going back to the 1980s. We knew him as a celebrity. Them, hee we bump into didnt know who i was but he was always gracious and give us autographs. He was always a very gracious person. I am also an iraqi that. I served in 2007. An iraq vet. Closelyed donald trump for several years. This accusation by atlantic magazine is rubbish. If this thing happened this bombshell story happened in 2018, why did they wait until two months before the election to report it . Unnamed sources. President trump is one of the best supporters the military ever had. Also, i am a retired Law Enforcement officer. I served 17 years. Gun. E never drawn my i have never hit anybody. I have pepper spray to fear, and i have wrestled a few to the ground, but i have never severely harmed anyone. Let me tell you, when you are dealing with a violent felon, especially when you find out they have active felony warrants , and they have a gun, knife or some sort of extremely dangerous weapon you didnt know about, it is an adrenaline rush and you have to make slick sect splitsecond decisions. To blame these officers like that and to portray these people , showe violent convicts their Junior High School photos and to absolutely no Investigative Journalism on these people, just take them at face value from what the familys value is wrong. Host that is michael in watertown, new york. Halfhour left until we stop the program. You can call in. If you want to talk about your top issue when it comes to to campaign 2020 on this labor day. The campaign will definitely pick up from here on out through november. 202 7488000 if you support Vice President biden and senator harris. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump and Vice President mike pence. If you are undecided, or support other candidates, call 202 7488002. At 202 ext us 7488003, and post on social media as well. The president on his social media site this morning. Marks into get high our handling of coronavirus. Especially when compared to whether countries and areas of the world. Vaccines are coming and fast. That is from the president s twitter. Actuallyto joe david in san antonio, texas. Supporter of President Trump. Caller i support mr. Trump. Veteran whowas a pain from this disease called aplastic anemia. To was going broke tried keep yourself alive. She was using blood from outside to treat it. Until President Trump got in and took care the vets and revised the v. A. To where would work efficiently, my daughter was spending a lot of her own money trying to stay alive. Now the veterans have taken over that responsibility and she gets it done for nothing, as she should. Also, i know mr. Trump is a who was a very good businessman who had ups and downs. He has learned everything in life through business. He has lost and he has won. He has been through it all and now he is serving this country with all of that knowledge in his head. Host upper marble, maryland. Gloria, good morning. Caller good morning. I am turning down my noise here. Host thank you. Caller god bless you, cspan. Be an 82yearold blind black individual. I am a fully ordained minister. Activistcial justice brought into the struggle by the a teenagermett till, bludgeoned to death and thrown in the Mississippi River for purportedly whistling at a white woman. To comment on what i vulgar, one of the most divisively planned events in recent memory. It is the republican convention. Racism is to whoe you new left six motherless children driving black people to the polls in mississippi to vote. Burned wonderful demonstration of dedicated dynamic. Something that is a bucket of rocks in the white house knows nothing about listen america, god is on your side. Need America Great again . Count the bodies. Don has done is made hate. Host we saw several africanamericans support the president during the rnc. What was your response to that . They eat more oreos than i have. [laughter] look, you can get anybody to say anything. They gave him a pass on impeachable violations. How about that . Host aside from that caller the republican senator . Host you saw them coming out in various aspects for the president did that have any sway with you . What was your specific reaction to that . Caller what are you asking . Host we saw africanamericans support the president. I want to see exactly what you thought about that. Caller i thought about that. I think it is unfortunate to see the train headed over a bridge to nowhere. That is all i felt about anyone. If the people checked their facts put a fact came out with an article indicating he has only told the truth 16 percent of the time he has been in office. That was about a month ago. No one who lives that much can be trusted. Host we will leave it there. Robert, a supporter of President Trump. Been sitting here watching all of this stuff and everything good everything. I dont understand how they claim trump lies so much when everything he done, he done it. Host such as what . Caller they say President Trump lies on all this stuff and everything. He ate lying on nothing. He done everything he can do. How is biden going to get the medicine ready and everything . [indiscernible] i dont understand how nobody says trump lied and biden and them down. Host biden and them dont. Host ed in oakland. Caller good morning. I will support President Trump, especially if he is going to appoint another two Supreme Court justices. The of education where we can go to the best schools without having to be rejected. Host how do you think that is going to happen if other Supreme Court justices end up on the court . Why do you think one is going to equate to the other . Caller it is not equating with each other. There are two Different Things i support the president on. Host outcome ok. Oh, ok. When it comes to education, what do you want to see the president do . Caller i live in oakland, california. Oakland has good parts and bad parts. And the bad parts, the schools are abysmal. The literacy is really bad. When you go on the other side of oakland, the schools are blueribbon. Coleman from windsor mill, maryland. A supporter of joe biden. Caller good morning. Biden versusng joe donald trump. In everyump has lied single thing he has addressed. He the issue of anarchy, there is no anarchy in america. I am driving here in maryland, nobody is stopping me. Nobody is bombing my car, nobody is bombing my house. He just made this up to scare the white women voters and all of the white men to think black people are coming into their neighborhoods to destroy their homes and destroy their wealth and all of that. Police porting the we cant live without the police, but we also need to address the fact that Police Shooting innocent people for no reason. It is not justified. As a president , he needs to bring the country together. Than putting fire integrating the country. Host what convinces you joe biden will do that . I havee biden lived in america for 20 years. He was a president , very good man. To bringow we worked the economy back in 2008 that republicans destroyed . He was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee for years. He was not weak on crime. [indiscernible] the crime bill was to make black people to go to jail, now all of a sudden we want to say joe biden is going to make times hard . That is a lie. You cant tell me joe biden that you can tell me joe biden is old and he is going to be liberal, i can agree. But you say this man is not a good man, or he is not going to be strong on judiciary or against crime . That is a lie from the Republican Party. Host lets go to howard in new york. A supporter of joe biden. Caller i just want to say the greatest president we have ever had was a republican. The 1850s telling us that a house divided cannot stand. That was lincoln. He saw the civil war coming. Joe biden can unite the country. When he made it to the senate, he was 29 years old. Since 1972, this man has been serving the country. The only break he took was the last three years because he left the set to be baracks Vice President. You dont serve a country for 50 years, half a century, without understanding that the country evolves and changes. He has evolved and he has changed. He was the Vice President to the first black president that he is going to be president to the first black Vice President. Host aside from his length in office, what has he done that you think is going to bring people together . Caller what he has done is not only symbolic, but there is a reason he was baracks Vice President. He was supported by the South Carolina congressman. Theres a reason why black people supported him in the primaries. Host give me a specific. The way he can do it is his knowledge of the country. He was in the senate when the country was racist. He has been in the country when the country has tried to be unracist. He has seen it all and he is try to the right direction. He is not perfect. He started off where we do not support, but he sees the light and he evolves. That is what good people do. Host that is howard in locust valley, new york. Campaign 2020. Or we will take a look at more calls and listen to more calls before the end of this program. For those of you on hold, hold on a few but its more if you do not mind as we talk about another battleground state, arizona. Is Dylan Rosenblatt with the arizona capital times. He serves as their political reporter. Good morning. Mr. Rosenblatt, are you there . Guest good morning, thank you. Host this time around, arizona as a battleground state, not something we typically here. Why is it this time around . Guest they have not voted for a democrat since 1996 when bill clinton was on the ticket. Before then, even longer. Current trends over the last election cycles have shown democrats have more through zs and. They have been turning out to the polls more. They have been minimizing the gap between republican turnout, and in 2018, democrats picked up a bunch of seats statewide and in the legislative. Host the president won the state back in 2016. 11 electoral votes. Talk a little about where the president stands today. How much are you paying attention to polling . Guest polling will show bidens commanding a small lead over President Trump. I have been looking deep into what polls specifically mean, especially in arizona when it is now being viewed as about around. There are 11 electoral votes here. A lot of people expect arizona to be the one that could decide the presidency. Know if i still see biden as being up, in my view. It is going to be a close election of matter what. 3. 5 only won by about over Hillary Clinton in 2016. It is going to be even closer in 2020. It is going to come down to arizonas biggest county, Maricopa County, which could decide this entire election. Host tell us about that. What should we be watching for . Guest Maricopa County typically votes republican. Until 2018, they started to flip. There are 200,000 voters that chose republican governor doug ducey and also voted for democratic senator 200,000 voters ended up deciding how cinema beat mcnally. She won by less. We are going to see trends this time around where we see another senate race, mark mcnally who is pointed to the john mccain seat when he died. Mark kelly challenging her from the democratic side. There is a good chance that President Trump and mark kelly are going to have a lot of crossover. But considering how important this has become and how kiersten , democrats picked up for statewide seats on top of that. It is starting to become as purple as you can get for that large county. We are expecting a crazy month of turnout. The county alone is expected to hit 2 million voters end of the state is expecting 3 million voters. Mind, talkthat in about the attention each of the campaigns are paying to the state in terms of visits, ads, things of that nature. Guest President Trump has been to arizona four times this year. Once before it was a campaign visit, but he has come during the pandemic when he was advised not to. He is close with doug ducey. Ducey has got to d. C. To visit President Trump and helping with campaigns for joe biden has not been here once. He is expected to make a stop here sometime soon after labor day. I do not know when specifically he will be there, but joe biden s absence from visiting the state despite there being a pandemic has affected things from what voters see. To a groundt comes game, give us an idea on what is going on. Coupleit wasnt until a nonths ago that biden set up a arizona tp arizona team. President trump obviously has had ground game since he became president. Arizona was a big win for him, one of his biggest from joe arpaio. He has a lot of republican ties in the state. As the election starts to get closer and joe biden starts to make appearances, he has a lot of ads in the state. It is going to be within two, or maybe 1 . It wouldnt even be decided on nights, an election lot of arizona elections have been decided days after. Host another feature of this campaign, and you can talk about this as you wish, there have been stories the last couple of days about things press he has said, attribute it to what he said about john mccain. How does that play out . What kind of impact does that have . Caller it does have an impact in arizona. It may not have as much of a national impact, but john mccain was one of the biggest presences in arizona since barry goldwater. Maybe more in recent memory. Supporters, former staff members, former advisers altogether coming to endures joe biden was huge for zona. Ive been talking to mccain staffers who told me to expect the mccain family make their own official endorsement of joe biden. If that happens, it is probably going to happen close to when early ballots are mailed to arizonas arizonans. Ballot,ey receive their to hear john mccains family may be endorsing a democrat is going to mean a lot. Host you had mentioned it, but lets go into more detail. The current status of Martha Mcsally and the chances she stands today about winning another term. That she was appointed to seat. Jon kyl received the first appointment after mccain died, and make sally got the appointment from our governor. She has been campaigning since 2017 pretty much, now her second seat. She is in danger of giving up her Second Senate seat to a democrat within two election cycles, which has never been done in arizona history, especially by one person. She trails in the polls. R. Kelly is crushing her in fundraising. Which isnt to put lately how much money she is bringing in. Leader Mitch Mcconnell just put in about 11 million into backing her against mark kelly, but she is in danger. A lot of polls have mark kelly up by significant amounts. There was a recent poll that had him up about 17 points come over to think is excessive. I think it is in single digits. Mcnally has shown she is not a great campaigner. A lot of republicans do not support her. Theres about 26 who voted for her unknown political opponent in the august primary. Only win thenot line shent which does not even have the full support of her party. Host were going to show people the ads currently running in the state. You will hear them, lets show people over ad campaigns are. [video clip] lot, they call me the closer. Need to get grandma in a lemon . Done. Ive got to help i have got to hand it to mark kelly. Flash new watch . Mark kelly has got those too. Mark kelly will do anything for a buck, and say anything for a vote. Martha mcsally is at it again. Distorting facts and her own record. Her attacks on mark kelly are not true. They have been called ridiculous, shameful, desperate. Mick sally has spent millions on attacks that independent fact checkeds sayegh nor critical facts. Calling some misleading, or false. We have seen her games before, but this time arizona is not playing. Where talking with Dylan Rosenblatt. You have probably seen and heard these, what kind of impact . Guest i dont know how much the ads are going to play in this election cycle. Hasmick sally campaign attacked mark kelly on china since march. That came out of the mrsa playbook on attack your democratic opponent if you are in a Close Senate Race on their ties to china, especially as the pandemic hit. She continues to use that playbook every month. I do not think it really has that much of an impact on the kelly campaign. Forthave gone back and with what you just showed come of attack ads. The biggest thing mick sally has on mark kelly is a voting record. To seven, and him unprecedented number of debates. He agreed to two. One was supposed to happen before ballots are mailed. Ofk kelly still has a lot points of view that people do not know. I am sure a lot of voters are concerned, especially independent ones that will end up determining the selection. S with aay, take poll grain of salt. Dylan rosenblatt, political reporter with the arizona capital times. Azcapitaltimes. Com. Host if you more calls before we end the program. Audrey in cleveland, ohio. Thanks for waiting. Caller thank you. I was a lifelong democrat. I worked on both of obamas campaigns, no i am for trump. This business with biden, i am a catholic. He keeps making the sign of the cross every time they ask him something, he is all for abortion as is Kamala Harris. There was a policeman shot and killed in california, he should have got the man that shot him. He shouldve got life, he didnt. Bidenncerned aboutss health bidens health. I am a retired a counselor my look at him and i feel sorry for him. He should not be running, he should just go rest someplace. I dont mean to be disparaging them into it just doesnt make any sense. The things that were said about trump and that atlanta newspaper, all anonymous. Anybody can come out and Say Something. It is outrageous what they are doing to trump. Host that is audrey. A cleveland resident. Jack. R ohio income at guest caller i watch this from the beginning. I remember seeing donald trump n he was still young man playboy in the programs they did. They talked about him and they warned about the things he did. [indiscernible] i do not believe my years. He has been able to sucker the christians. Unbelievable. This ought to scare the be jesus out of everybody. Host why do you support joe biden erica joe biden . Caller [indiscernible] host clearwater, florida. Caller [indiscernible] trump is a liar. They can come up with all these lights all these lies he has done, and never asked how money times biden has lied in 40 years. The other fact that you showed on the military, that is a high end ad. That took a long time. It had all the makings of hollywood. Host ok. Caller that is not an ad you do overnight, that is a set up. Host patty in harrisburg, pennsylvania. A supporter of joe biden. Caller i have two comments. Can you hear me . Host yep. There is medical research. The Republican Administration is known for not believing in science. Science is [indiscernible] where is this information coming that bidens mind is not as sharp as it is . Why are they saying he has something wrong with his mind . I want to ask you a question. Did you say you were for biden and harris . Caller biden and harris. Host just wanted to clarify. North carolina come a supporter of President Trump. Karen, hello. Ir i did not vote voted for mccain. Are you still there . Host yeah. Caller i voted for mccain in 2000. My husband voted for obama. , trump, i was looking we need somebody from the outside. He gave up his millions and his time. He doesnt take pay, he has helped this country. The democrats are so hardheaded they dont want to work with him. We have got a mess on our hands. Biden has been there way too long. Dont even mention hunter. That commercial is wrong. The commercial is a lie about trump. Host karen in North Carolina. Battleground states coming at the last minute before the end of this program. If you want to go to our website, you can see information about the events we will take in. The forget Kamala Harris, her visit today at 4 50 this afternoon. Cspan,watch that on cspan. Org, and our radio app that is it for todays program. The sea then