A supporter of joe biden. Caller thank you for taking my call. I am four things here. I am an africanamerican woman. Im a veteran. I live in the suburbs. And 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 being 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 this entire 3. 5, going on four years. He doesnt recognize my race of people. So, it is his america. I dont feel safe in his america. Donald trump sits in that office. He is president. On his watch,on not joe bidens 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. And biden has made that very clear. But with donald trump, he wants to act tough and try to frighten people. I live in suburbia. Nowadays, that has become a code word that people only think white people live in suburbia. Black people live in suburbia as well. Host gloria, when it comes to the larger issue of race issues, what changes under joe biden . How would he address the concerns you addressed . Caller first of all, as you said, acknowledge it exists. This country has had systematic racism since the inception of this country. Acknowledge that. And then once you acknowledge a problem, you will be able to fix the problem. Come to the table. Have meaningful dialect. Dont just say, oh, no, it does not exist. It does exist. Host do you think the previous president expressed these issues as well and where things things fixed under his administration . Caller well, with obama, his hands were a little tied because he was the first africanamerican president. I think he try to do a little something. Remember the louis gates incident where you had the beer gate at the white house. He tried to do something, but i think his hands were tied because he did not want to appear that he was favoring one side over the other. He always tried to come down in the middle. But i think to simply not acknowledge a whole group of people exist is crazy to me. Host ok. Gloria, i apologize, i have to go to another caller, but thank you for calling. Victoria, florida, supporter of trump. Caller my biggest and only issue is to stop the bidensanders 110 page task force playbook. It is basically a playbook to abolish our constitution and replace it with a communist, marxist regime at a cost of 30 trillion based on confiscation and redistribution of wealth within our energy independence, destroy the family structure, destroy our suburbs, destroy our freedoms of education, religion, businesses, and self 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 all the people supporting biden to read it. Each section is basically broken down into, well, the environment host well, give me a specific from it. Caller well, basically a lot of talk about redistribution of wealth. There is talk about how they would change the suburbs, how they would give citizenship to immigrants and complete funding for housing, education, medical care, everything. And then it is also it focuses on it is a communist marxist doctrine. I am familiar with marxism. I studied it. Host are you there . Ok. Philadelphia, pennsylvania, a supporter of joe biden. Caller i just wanted to say that trump is basically a con man. He claims credit for anything he sees as successful and he will never take responsibility for the things that he has done wrong and the things he has done he has broken, like the pandemic. His response has been egregious. Like the national debt. He has spent money 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. He keeps saying he sent in the National Guard. That is alive. That is a lie. The governor of minneapolis in the National Guard in. He is taking credit for something you didnt do. He keeps talking about, i forgot the name of the law, the insurrection act. That is not something he did. He keeps taking credit for it. Even with veterans, veterans choice. That was a law put in place by president obama. But yet President Trump is taking credit. And you have people that are naming things that trump is saying that he did but he did not do. He is such a liar. And 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. And the rate of abortion has declined. Out prolife and theyt 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 we will take you live to milwaukee, where, harris is blackg a roundtable with Business Owners. Thank all these leaders. I will start with the new tenant governor, with the work you have been doing during these difficult times around the country, including here in wisconsin. Thank you for your leadership in bringing this group of Business Leaders together this afternoon. We have a very important discussion. This is a discussion that continues on a discussion i have been having throughout today, about the dignity of work. Beings,dignity of human and the importance of leadership to tap into that dignity and way that is about the capacity of individuals on the capacity of community and growing the capacity of our country to be strong and healthy. We have had an extensive conversation about the fact that if we are going to have safe communities, we must invest in Healthy Communities because Healthy Communities are safe communities. One of the attributes of Healthy Communities is that there is access to capital for the Small Businesses that are the heartbeat of those communities, that are part of the fabric of those communities. What we know about Small Businesses and small Business Leaders is, they are not only leaders in business, they are civic leaders. They hire locally, they understand the jewels that exist within their community and the need to then encourage all the good things that can happen in those communities. We talked about that. There have been a number of issues that have been raised, including pointing out that covid, its pandemic, has been an accelerator in many ways. One way we talked about in particular is highlighting the disparities in Technology Based on race. Those who have access to technology thinking about things like the fact that families now are sending their children back to school virtually, and whether that family has access to broadband, whether that family has access to the knowledge about how technology works, that has everything to do with the capacity of the children of that family to actually survive through this moment, much less thrive. We have talked about the importance of building an entrepreneurial class, meaning having our government, as our priority, it is part of joe biden and my priority, investing in entrepreneurship and investing not only through the work we will do that is about access to capital through Small Business administration, access money into putting opportunity zones is one part of inbut 150 billion dollars new capital in opportunities around investing in private Venture Capital as well as what the government can do. This is about an investment in not only those specific communities, but in our country, understanding that some of the ,reatest sources of wealth intergenerational wealth, come about through that kind of focus. We have talked about the importance of community banks. During the course of this crisis, up to 90 of minority and women owned Small Businesses dont get the benefit of the ppp. In large part, because unlike how donald trump has been concerned about the wealthy, the people who are working every day and trying to raise their families dont have the access to those kinds of relationships and havent received the benefit of Something Like the ppp. We talked about the need to make doingedits permanent and that, through doing that, increasing funding to as much as 5 billion annually provide credit for Equity Investment in Small Businesses that benefit low and moderate income areas. These are some of the conversations we have had this afternoon. It is also in the context of a pledge that joe biden and myself are making to Small Businesses throughout our country, including here in milwaukee, that we see you, we understand the significance of what you are in terms of the health and wellbeing of communities, and we see the benefit to the entire country to invest in our Small Businesses and our small Business Leaders. So that is why we are here today, and i couldnt be more thankful for this, for the Business Leaders who took time out of your days. Today is labor day, of course. So part of the work we have been doing today is to honor the men and women of labor, including, we talked about this, the pride milwaukee and any of us have in organized labor. The Lieutenant Governor talked about that. And what we must do to always support the working man and woman, to be able to engage in collective bargaining and have all of the wages and benefits that come with a hard days work and the acknowledgment of the dignity of work. With that, Lieutenant Governor, i will pass the microphone to you. Thank you so much. I want to thank you for being here. I want to remind people that this is senator harriss first trip so we are excited that you are able to participate and i think i speak for everybody because we know how crucial wisconsin and milwaukee will be in the election. It is an important thing to have leaders that care, who will show up and listen to the concerns, especially with so many black Business Owners here at the table right now. Recentte houses decision to cancel all trades related to race, that is unfortunate at a time when we have many disparities and will walkie and wisconsin in milwaukee and wisconsin and across the country the donald trump wont respond to that crisis. We are proud and lucky to have senator, soon to be Vice President harris with us today. I will pass it back to you. We will head out the same way we came. I will [indiscernible] wisconsin. Wisconsin is part of my story. Thank you. We will head out the same door. We are all set. [indiscernible] americans t many bidens record is a shameful roll call of the most catastrophic trails and blunders in our lifetime. He has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history. Our current president has failed in his moat most basic duty to the nation. He failed to protect us. He failed to protect america. My fellow americans, that is unforgivable. The first president ial debate between President Trump and former Vice President bidens tuesday, september 29th at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Watch live coverage on cspan, watch Live Streaming and on demand at www. Cspan. Org or listen live on our free radio app. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, former white house chiefs of staff to the past four president s, mac mclarty, andy card, Denis Mcdonough and mick withney on how they dealt crises. The processing of information, while always important to any leader, becomes extraordinarily important when you are dealing with crises. You have to stick to the process the chief has created, and hopefully the president has empowered, to make sure the president is getting all the information they need to make the right decision. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. To returns is about from summer recess with the senate back in session this tuesday. They will take up a number of judicial nominations starting with brett ludwig to be a judge in wisconsin. That is live tuesday at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. The house returns to business the following week with work expected on combating antiasian and two items, not on the schedule but we could see by the end of the week, a pared down covid package from republicans and a deal to fund the government passed past september 30. Watch the senate live on cspan2, the house when they return on cspan. Joeresidential candidate biden met with Union Members and veterans in lancaster, pennsylvania. During the discussion, biden talked about military service and labor Union Apprenticeship programs