Issues are motivating voters this year and look at Political Trends to give us a clue on how the state may vote in november. Today, florida. Pennsylvania on wednesday. On thursday we will take a look at North Carolina. And onay at michigan, saturday at arizona. Today we are focused on florida, aney. Oining me is rick mull must begin with what makes florida a battleground state. Aest not only is it battleground state, its the big prize. The path to the white house is through the state of florida. First of all, the electoral college. It is 29 electoral votes. We already know california comprises 55 and will go to joe biden. Texas, 38, will go to donald trump. Will go to joe biden. The 29 in florida is a big prize. Florida is a purple state. It can go either way. Twice it voted for barack obama, twice george bush, bill clinton, and last time by a narrow margin, donald trump. The history of florida is one that is close, hard to predict, consequential. Thedonald trump it is in must win category. If he wants to be president he must win florida. For joe biden there are other possibilities. Joe biden would love to win florida. If you does he is most likely the next president. Host why does President Trump have to win florida, and where does he have to win florida . Guest it is the electoral map, really. In part because of the big states. California going to joe biden. If we look at the battleground states, it is mathematically possible for President Trump to but hehe loses florida, has to sweep pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, and pick up New Hampshire or another state along the way. It would be challenging for him to do that. If you look at the real clear politics averages, one. 7 favoring joe biden, it is a dead heat in florida. It will come out to turnout. President trump knows he has to win florida, so he is designating resources here. You will see an allout effort. He will have to maintain a support frome in the hispanic community, especially cubanamericans in south florida. I would draw a distinction between the hispanic community, cuban, versus the President Trump is doing well with the hispanic vote, not so well in the suburbs. Florida reflects much of the rest of the country when you look at how the urban areas tend to favor joe biden. The suburban areas are battleground area in which donald trump did extraordinarily well last time in florida with areas favoring donald trump. This time he is making inroads withburban areas collegeeducated white voters. For him to do well in the suburban area he will have to maintain the hispanic vote. Joe biden is making inroads into seniors and trump is fighting back. Look for this to be close. Host the president eked out a victory in 2016. Where did he win in the state of florida, and can he repeat in those areas . Guest if donald trump wins this time, i believe it will look a little different than last time. Last time Hillary Clinton went by the playbook and did really well in urban areas such as miamidade and broward, orlando, tampa. She should have done well and maybe take in the state. Donald trump did extraordinarily well in the suburbs and rural areas. Florida is made up of 67 counties, very big state. Over 21 Million People in florida. Just because you take the five or six biggest markets, it is still a big state. Last time donald trump was dominant in the suburban counties and rural areas. Where i from, while duvall thety is close, two of surrounding counties, st. Johns and clay county, 93 thousand votes plus margins for donald trump in those suburban counties alone. This time around, i believe it will be a little different. He has an increasing support from the hispanic vote with a little challenging suburban areas. Joe biden is making a little inroad into seniors. This is a dead heat in florida, very hardfought, it will be very close. Viewers are showing map of florida as you are talking. Where are the counties . Guest duvall county is in the northern part of the state. When you look at florida, generally speaking people feel the north is more conservative. There is truth to that. The center of the state, the i4 corridor from orlando to tampa is more of a battleground area. Miamidade,a, with broward, and southeastern florida is more liberal. If you look at it more closely, in north florida it is the panhandle, the western part that is the most conservative. If you look at those counties, like your pensacola is and out west, you will see strong support for donald trump. Northeast florida, there is duvall county. We are talking about to fall county. It is a big urban city. The last time donald trump took duvall county high 6000 votes. That was a surprise to many people, that republicans here can have such a narrow margin. Keep this in mind. In 2018 when ron desantis was running for governor against Andrew Gillum, Andrew Gillum took the majority in devol county. Rick scott running for senator against bill nelson, bill nelson had the majority in duvall county. Dont be surprised 42 days from now if joe biden carries duvall county. Be shocked and dont expect him to carry the surrounding counties. Adjacent to st. Johns county, baker county, all of those will go to donald trump in big numbers. As you move more to the center of the state, orange county, orlando, tampa, that has become a shifting battleground. That is hardfought in that area. You have seen a great deal of immigration in the Puerto Rican Community that is more liberal and democratic. The nellis county is Pinellas County is one that donald trump surprise people by carrying last time. If donald trump is to win the nellis county this time that would be a good sign for his campaign. It is unlikely he will, but it would be a good sign. On the Southeast Side with miamidade and broward, those are big population centers, heavily democratic, but also a hispanicionate community, particularly cuban americans who are more conservative. This state rakes down state,hically, very big the northern end is more conservative. The further south you go, the further north you get in terms of ideology. The center of the state is the battleground state and the south is more liberal. Demographically, very diverse, too, obviously. Host we invite our viewers to call in about the battleground state of florida. If you are supporting the bidenharris ticket file in at 202 7488000. If you are supporting the president and Vice President , 202 7488001. A line for florida residents this morning, 202 7488002. , on electionney duvallif joe biden wins county, do you think he wins florida . Guest not necessarily. There is a good chance he carries florida that he duvall fall county county, but florida is too close to call. Watch what happens in panola county. Look at the margin of joe bidens victory in miamidade and hillsboro county. It is so close in florida it is hard to come up with these lines. To give you an example of how close it can be, two years ago in the governors race of ron desantis and Andrew Gillum, the polling showed that Andrew Gillum would win the day before the election. Went to ans automatic machine recount. Rick scott was in a battle with bill nelson, a Popular Democratic senator. The day before the election bill win. N was going to instead, rick scott one by 10,000 votes over 8 million cast that went to a mandatory manual recount. In florida it is hard to come up with one litmus test, because it is such a big state, is so diverse, and tends to be so close. Host on Election Night will we know who won the state of florida . Guest i think so. There is a lot of discussion in the country about, will we know who the president is going to be on Election Night . Part of that conversation is because of mail in ballots. A lot of absentee and mailin ballots in the state of florida, too. I will talk about why it is different in florida. Because of that counting, there is concern we wont know on Election Night and it could go on for a long time. In florida, i believe you will know the results by midnight. There is a welldeveloped system here as part of the result of happened in 2000 and reforms that took place. In florida, you can begin processing and counting the votes as soon as you receive them, unlike other states where you cannot start until election day. Flora has developed a better system since 2000 florida has developed a better system since 2000. As a result you will know the results hopefully by midnight. If joe biden wins Election Night in florida, he will most likely be the next president of the United States. Gamenald trump wins, it is on. We will have to see what happens in the other states and it will be very close. Host rene in michigan, supporting the president. Caller how are you . Guest good morning, renee. Host go ahead with your question or comments. Caller i just want to say that i support President Trump wholly , and i think that florida is very important. I am from michigan, and just like michigan we have different demographics in the larger generally,e they like the inner cities that generally vote democratic and are starting to switch because of all of the good President Trump has done in the last four years. Caller makes a good point. In michigan, which is an incredibly important state with electoral votes, and less time 10,000 votes decided state. One thing about michigan and florida that is very important is the black vote. Can joe biden turn out that vote, particularly in michigan . There were historic numbers in michigan and florida for barack obama who did not turn out as much for Hillary Clinton. The turnout of the Africanamerican Community in florida and michigan. Host what about the demographics of the state of florida and the other populations and how they tend to vote. Guest as i was mentioning, the Africanamerican Community is very strongly democratic, but make no mistake there were inroads by ron desantis. A little subtle what happened, but worth mentioning, republicans at the rnc, the republican convention, on all four nights you heard speakers bringing up education policy and particularly support for choice and charter schools. In part, that plays well with the black community in florida, and some believe it helped ron desantis become elected the governor. While the black community in florida will heavily go for joe biden, donald trump wants to make some inroads into that community. What joe biden wants to do is to turn out that vote. In the hispanic community, Hillary Clinton took it by wide margin, but do not expect the same margin for joe biden. Donald trump is doing well, particularly in south florida with cuban americans, venezuela, nicaragua. Concerns over socialism, they are very concerned. That vote is appearing to trend towards donald trump. It is not monolithic in the hispanic community, so the Puerto Rican Community with increasing numbers in central florida, you are seeing that go heavily to joe biden. Which is one of the reasons last week joe biden made his first trip to florida and went to tampa. That is an area he was courting the Puerto Rican Community in central florida. Seniors are big part of the florida vote, maybe 20 . They show up and they vote. Their mind is Social Security, medicare, and covid19. That is a big part with donald four taking the handle years ago and joe biden making inroads this year. Among collegeeducated whites, joe biden is doing well and among noneducated whites donald trump is doing well. Joe biden in the urban areas and donald trump in the rural areas. An edge to donald trump in the suburban areas, but a battle is going on. Host supporting the former Vice President , hello, maria. Caller i am very hopeful that biden will win. We fear that the republicans and the Supreme Court nominee will cause mayhem and turn it around as they did in the bushgore. I find republicans are ruthless and relentless. We see new jersey unfortunately coming into turning into a ghetto. Tto. People are losing their homes. Democrats are not evil people. Republicans are not thinking straight. All they care about is their money. We fear there will be a wrong turn, as they did with bush and gore. , but theyn, overturned the winning to their favor. We saw in the economic collapse came and they blamed it on president obama. People have to get out and vote. Vote as if your life depends on it. . Ost Richard Mullaney concerns aa raises lot of people have in the country. I say this as a biased floridian i was ongh a charter the campus board in 2000 and was Legal Counsel in representing the supervisor of elections at that time. It is 36 days i will never forget. There were a number of reforms that took place. It is kind of stunning for those who dont remember, but at the end of Election Night president bush was up i 1700 votes. We did a mandatory recount because it was in the. 5 arjun of error. A couple hundred votes in duval county, bush was still in the lead. It had decreased some. Over the next 36 days there were manual recounts, litigation on the floor of the Supreme Court, and bush maintained a lead. Ofthe end he won by a margin 537 votes, which proves every vote counts. In two thousand one reforms were instituted in florida and investments were made in technology. We came up with a 10point plan to improve the system. Florida has come along way in 20 years. The reason i say that is because i want the country to have confidence in the results in florida. I have confidence it will go well. We had a test run two years ago when we had a mandatory recount with governor desantis, and a manual recount with senator scott. It is a big state. Over 5 million absentees, historic numbers. Last time over 9 Million People voted, this time it could go 11 million or 12 million. The volume will be a norm is and it will be contentious, but i want the country to have confidence in the outcome. I know the supervisor of elections personally in jacksonville, and he is a person of integrity. The supervisors are working hard for a result that has integrity that you can count on. I want people, regardless of who wins, to have confidence in that outcome. Florida has come along way since 2000. But its hard. We have 11 million or 12 million happenast, and that can when it comes down to less than 1 . I am hopeful and somewhat optimistic you will see a result in florida you should have confidence in. Strategists are saying that if the president Barbara Lagoa y that could help him win florida. Is this vacancy and his pick that big of a deal in the state . Answer thate directly. I dont know. [laughter] from what i hear the president has narrowed it down to two. Barrett. Dge amy coney she has an outstanding background and was number one in her class at notre dame and clerked for justice scalia. She certainly wooed the crowd at jackson university. She conducted herself. When it comes to judge lagoa, she is a rising star. She went to undergraduate school in florida and then to columbia law school, and was practicing here before governor bush appointed her to the District Court of appeal. She is the daughter of cuban exiles. That is why your question is important,there is a school of t that suggests politically it would be a popular choice. Both judges are conservative with strong resumes and backgrounds, and that could appeal to the cubanamerican community. Im not sure people will cast their vote on that basis. I do think whats going on in terms of moving forward with the nomination and the passing of judge ginsburg and moving on with this process that this will change the conversation. In the first president ial debate, i expect this will be a big topic will stop i think the country will engage in this debate. I think it will have a big impact on the president ial election in terms of the issues and how people are looking at race, but im not sure picking one candidate or the other will have a big impact in florida. Host ed in jacksonville, florida. Your turn. Caller i would like to know if the military plays any role in the election. I know that florida has the military complex in jacksonville, if that has anything yes, it does. In jacksonville. In 2000 is a good example of that. Overseas absentee votes were coming from the military overseas. At that time it was a few hundred votes difference. 25 came from duval county because of the air station. The military vote typically is very conservative. Donald trump did well within last time. I think you can see at the rnc one of their focuses was the military. When Vice President pence was giving his speech, one of the things he talked about was the hollowed out military, which he claimed was under obamabiden. Language comes from believing the sequestration was both wrong, and under donald trump you have seen an increase in military spending. Donald trump and the Republican Party have courted the military vote. It is important in florida, though not as big as other constituencies. You can expect that to go to donald trump, but you are seeing inroads with joe biden. The article in the atlantic did not help the president. In the end, the caller makes a good point that the military vote is important. Host apollo beach, florida. Caller richard, you are right on. The vote will be not about the man but the mission. What trump is going to do with the Supreme Court nominee is going to change the heart and mind of floridians. I have family of the new york background and do not want new york in florida. We are hoping that this debate on the 29th will open the eyes and the Supreme Court will again become the primary issue. Your comment . Guest i do believe what is happening with the Supreme Court has significant consequences. It has consequences for the president ial debate. It has consequences for the u. S. Senate. It will change the dynamic over the last 42 days. Looking to the debate next week, it will be a big topic. For donald trump, this is helpful, i believe. There is a conventional school of thought that i think is fairly accurate is that the election is a referendum on covid19, that is an advantage to joe biden. If its a referendum on Donald Trumps behavior, that is favorable to joe biden. To the extent that you shift it to a binary choice based on the policies and what the future looks like, it becomes a more competitive race, and i think theres a lot to that school of thought. This helps to accomplish that. It changes the topic, shifting from covid19 to things that donald trump wants to talk about, like the Supreme Court and issues such as law and order. The caller makes a good point that how much youll affect things is hard for me to predict. There is an opportunity i can remind our viewers of marco rubio [laughter] there is an opportunity for joe biden and democrats to seize this moment to their advantage, and theyve done that with fundraising and turning out the vote. Theres opportunity for the Trump Campaign to recast the debate. I had a partner in the law firm Say Something that stayed with me forever. Let me define the issue, and i will win the argument. Both campaigns are trying to define the issue. If they are successful at defining the issue, they will win the argument. Donald trump wants to recast the discussion, so does joe biden, and the Supreme Court will be a part of that. Host let me show you joe biden trying to frame the issue with its personal. This is what he had to say on Social Security. [video clip] i was sworn into the United States senate in a hospital. My wife and daughter had been killed in an automobile crash. Lying in the bed were my two little boys. I couldnt imagine what it would have been like if i didnt have insurance to cover them immediately and fully. 40 years later, one of those little boys, my son beau, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, given months to live. I cant fathom what would have happened if the Insurance Companies had the power say, thw months you are on your own. The fact of the matter is healthcare is personal to me. Obamacare is personal to me. When i see the president try to eliminate healthcare in the minute middle of a Public Health crisis, that is personal. Every american deserves affordable healthcare. I am joe biden and i approve this message. Joe biden tried to cut Social Security and medicare for decades. When i argued we should freeze federal spending, i meant Social Security as well. I meant medicare and medicaid. I tried it twice, a third and a fourth time. Now biting is promising her benefits to Illegal Immigrants. President trump is protecting Social Security and healthcare, lowering costs, expanding access and keeping his word. Pres. Trump i am donald trump and i approve this message. Host our viewers have probably seen those ads of what the two campaigns are doing to try to win over voters in this battleground state. Guest we are seeing lots of ads in florida. Let me talk about the first one if i could. Biden campaign tries to do two things that are very helpful to his campaign. One is joe bidens story. The dnc did a really good job in an unconventional convention. Extraordinary job of telling the story. Whether you are republican or democrat, it is an extraordinary story. The loss of his wife in a car accident, later on the loss of his son. He is not only a sympathetic figure, he is a figure of resilience. You dont want to overplay that. It ties it to healthcare. When you are talking healthcare, generally speaking that is advantage to joe biden and democrats. Whether you are in the democrats debate, there was risk of squandering that advantage. A big fracture in the party of whether it would be medicare for all, Affordable Care act or none of the above. Here it is preexisting conditions, universal coverage and other healthcare issues, it is an advantage to the Democratic Party. For donald trump, the second ad is more targeted. It is directed at seniors in florida. They care about Social Security. They care about medicare. One suggests it would be at jeopardy with joe biden and the other reinforced the president s message that he has their back, that he is going to support them. He brings up another message that they are giving the money to Illegal Immigrants. Illegal immigrants in florida will play well the notion of Illegal Immigrants as opposed to illegal immigration legal immigration. Both of the ads are strategic. We are seeing lots of them in florida. Orangeburg, south carolina, shirley is watching supporting the biden harris today. Good morning to you. Im a supportive joe biden because when he comes on my television screen, i see a man. There,llowhead comes on i see a bag of scum. Have a nice day. Those are some strong feelings. I certainly think that when it comes to President Trump that some of his support some people believe it is all about his base and his base is critical to him winning. They are energized and as donald trump said, he could choose someone on medicine attitude madison avenue and they would be with him. His tweetssay that and behavior is not something they would necessarily approve of. Like his policies and they are concerned about the policies of joe biden. The other comment she made was positive about joe biden. Thatpeople would tell you joe biden is a likable person. I dont think the republicans other than at the republican convention, going after his son and what happened in ukraine, most people have not gone after joe biden in that way. Instead it has been more the argument that he is a trojan horse. The color highlights that there are strong feelings the caller. Inas a very young teenager 1968 for the convention in chicago. I remember those blackandwhite images and the violence back then. Of course there was the vietnam war and racial strife. I think today the divide is very strong. The other side become the enemy. It is very unhealthy for our country. I wish we could start with the notion that we all love the country and we may disagree as to whether we want to raise Corporate Tax rates to 21 to 28 or not. There is still patriots on the other side. I hope there is a solution. Optimistic that the partisan divide this is bad to see in my lifetime. Host this is steve in North Carolina supporting biden. Good morning too. Caller hello. And re you doing, greta ick. There is a general concern in america that within the Democratic Party they are swinging toward socialism. I want to talk about florida. You guys make it interesting. Predict that whoever winds florida is going to win. , we can put upna a map and pick all of the states. We are going through a constant state of change. People are fleeing the northeast and coming here. I am guessing they are doing the same in florida. The problem is when they come blue whichare voting may turn it into something. It is a confusing phenomenon. The same thing is happening in arizona. People are jumping across the border from california to aaron zona and they are going through a change like this arizona. A merrygoround except somebody has to win your on a merrygoround, nobody ever does. Given your feelings on the democratic exchanges down there. Thank you. Guest you make some good comments. It is interesting in florida. For a number of years in Broad Strokes that i75 corridor from the midwest. A little bit more of a conservative. The i95 interstate on the east coast and landing in miamidade and broward reflecting more a liberal vote. I dont have the numbers because i dont know the changing demographics of where people have moved. Those trends have been around. Florida is very diverse. You do have a lot of seniors coming to florida because of the weather and it is a very appealing state. 42020, 42 days from now for 2020, i think youre going to see what we have described. I am not sure what the future holds because there are shifting demographics in the country and shifting demographics in florida. Host we will go to greg in florida. How do you pronounce your city . Lochaway. E local say foreignere tell a lochawa. It is an indian term for a base which is a sinkhole famous in this area. Host how are you going to vote . Kind of funny. The older you get, the more you successfule more you you become because your children grow up. You tend to become more conservative. I grew up as a liberal hippie, gungho for the peanut man in 1976. I was in a ceremony in 1956 when i likely was in an ike tour. Family. Republican in my they were pretty democratic except for eisenhower. The localding newspaper. It is a College Newspaper outside of gainesville. Because of the lean in all the stories tends to be democratic. We are all confused by this. Ivision they claim sadly i do not see it except in newspapers and in watching the local news on tv or watching the national news. I try to watch all three or four different Media Outlets just to try to get a balanced view and that is my fear. A lot of people do not watch the different Media Outlets to get a full picture. How Many Democrats know what happened last week when we signed a very famous Peace Agreement which people are trying to downplay and say it was just a business deal. Sure it is. What it is leading to is a future. I would like your opinion on how you feel media will influence the election. Thank you. Guest did you go to the university of florida . Caller yes. University in mexico. I lived in mexico for three years. Guest i spent seven years in the county, that is home to university of florida. I appreciate your call. Said, i of things you take a little bit of issue with when you talk about division and the divide on television on what you or what you read. That division is very real. You can see it at your thanksgiving dinner tail or maybe this year it is smaller because of covid19. The division in the country is passionate, it is real, i believe. Do i think the media contributes . Yes. Do i think it is the cause of it . Not necessarily. I think it is a cause of great concern. I believe it is. Attainly if you are looking other than here on cspan, you will get a pointed view when you look at other Cable Networks and news networks. As you said earlier i would encourage people to hear different points of view to try to be open to them. This notion that this is contrived or that it is the media or something you are reading in the paper. I think it is deeper than that. It is very real and i think it is something a country has to address and the first step is recognizing it. That with your inner dealings with other people you have seen this divide raise its head whenever politics comes up. Thank you for your call. Host florida is next. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I live in lee county in fort myers. I grew up in ohio. I am an old lady, world war ii. I feel left out. There are millions of us who feel left out. I did not vote for trump. I do not intend to vote for trump from the start of his campaigning. I did not like his language. I thought he was demeaning to everyone, not just women. I just did not care for that. I am not a conservative, i am a moderate. On the flipside i feel left out. All white people are bad, well when i wentained health campaigning for president obama. Both are campaigns. None of us are perfect but that was not an issue for me. Thatpeople are forgetting he is biracial and it does not matter. It was his message and what his thoughts were that led our country. I did not agree with everything, but i would say 80 of the time, i did. So what is the answer for people like me . Es. Dont get freebe i have been paying into Social Security for 62 years now. Medicare is so crummy that i cannot even use it because i dont have the money to come up with the deductible. I dont get any assistance whatsoever. There has got a buddy got to be a different answer to this. Host Richard Mullaney . Guest i think what susan raised is not that uncommon. While the far right is very vocal and while the farleft is very vocal, there are a lot of people like susan who feel alone. That is true of republicans and democrats. I think there are centerright and centerleft people in this country who feel alone. They dont feel that the fractures in the parties leaves them in a place in which they dont know where to turn. Some people like to say you either love donald trump or you hate him. In fact certainly there is a group in his space that is fully supportive and passionate about him. But there are others who are more moderate. There are those on the left to a very passionate. There are others who are less passionate. What she said with her comments about feeling alone and not connected, i think there was a large number of people in this country who share that. That is also part of this divide. This intimate she is expressing is why one that a number of people would express. Texas, supporting the president. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have a few comments and a question. Consistentced that a raite of donald trump t of donald trump. Traitidered it a strange that i cannot consider whether it helps. It is a distinct characteristic. How does it help President Donald Trump to take questions from the press whether positive or negative questions are given. I appreciate it. Guest my suspicion is that he is doing it to contrast himself with joe biden. One of the attacks of the Trump Campaign is that joe biden for long time was hiding out in his basement in delaware. He did that through the time of the convention. They believe they got momentum out of the convention and they were trying to flush them out of the basement and get him out speaking. Part of their argument is is when they have him speaking, he is getting, according to the president , softball questions. He is not subjected to digital difficult questions. If he has difficult question, he struggling or he makes omission when he was questioned about nafta and about the agreement with canada and mexico which biden made concessions that the new agreement was better. I think the color makes a good point. I am not sure it is helpful to the president when he subjects himself to difficult questions and some of the answers he struggles with. My suspicion is he is trying to draw a sharp contrast and he is trying to get his supporters to look at this and say, the president is willing to answer anything, to be transparent, to take anything on. Look at joe biden who is not subjecting himself to those types of questions which is one of the reasons why the debate we are going to have will get bigger than in the past and could be more significant. Host nate in milwaukee. Morning. Who are you supporting and why . Caller i am supporting joe biden. I think he would be a better president and i think his policies are better. One of the things that does worry me and im trying to keep an eye on is a possibility that dirty tricks for rigging the election would happen so you dont get a what the people really want. In case anyone questions this, a june5, 2012ut compares a 2000 attempt where in 2000 well over 1000 people were improperly purged from floridas voter rules and the election was supposed to be stunted by hundreds of people. Extended by hundreds of people. We dont know if george bush or al gore was really the choice of the majority of people in florida. And he got a senate seat with thousands of ballots not being buted for u. S. Senate race supporting a democratic candidate for state agriculture. Worry if reasons to the popular vote hes really being shone through on a statebystate basis and there are people out there who do things that are sneaky to read the election. I am from wisconsin. Gerrymander like florida. It is Union Certification elections which assign republicans at the state level. Numbersly more union vote to keep their union than to get rid of it and yet the republicans get rid of the union anyway because they are undermining peoples ability to choose for themselves and nobody called my former governor out on that when he went before congress. Article, in 2011, majority of education unions fought to certify in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had an article that mentions more people voted to keep their union than get rid of it. Host we are running short on time. . R. Mullaney guest you are certainly hearing from the republican side that they are concerned about the integrity of the election. A lot of times you hear the allegations but you dont hear the story behind it. He mentioned one about the ballots in south florida in which it appears to be an irregularity. It turns out that was a democratic supervisor election. There were issues as to how it was designed. It had nothing to do with dirty tricks or trying to disenfranchise voters. Sometimes things happen that should not. For the election ahead in florida i am very hopeful and optimistic that it will be with integrity. Supervisors in florida and around the country are gearing up to do the best of their ability to make it fair and accurate. Will accrue a lot of scrutiny. The margins are wide. Nobody really cares. When the margins are narrow, it can be difficult and you can begin to question everything. The caller is expressing a view that many in the country have on both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats. I think there was a strong effort in florida to make sure that this election is one that is done with integrity and reveals account that can be trusted. Host amy is in orange park, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am actually from clay county, a conservative county. I am right outside of jacksonville in duval. My concern is just how President Trump is dividing the country. Divided. Are very be votinglly going to for biden this time. For jill spine because i could not bring myself to vote for hillary. I used to be republican. The last time i voted republican was in 2012. I have to admit when trump beat hillary, there was a small sliver of me that was really pleased that he beat her. Since he has become president , i really am very concerned for the country. I feel like we are being torn apart. Most of my friends my best friend is a trump voter. All of my friends on facebook are trump supporters. It has got to the point if i post something about something very factual about what the instance,did, for we will leave this conversation here. Awmakers will be working on a 10week federal spending extension. Spending authority runs out when new budget year begins october 1. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] lord god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. During the deliberations of this day, send your spirit of wisdom and good judgment upon the members of the peoples house. The appropriation provisions they must address would be to the benefit of all americans. Bless those throughout our nation who are suffering from disease and Natural Disaster and protect those who labor