Ipsos rou ipsos reuters poll has biden up by 9 percentage point. Biden by 10, cbs. Fox news, biden by 8. And with regard to the all important battleground states here are some the latest results. Franklin and Marshall College poll of pennsylvania shows biden up by 9. Cnn poll wisconsin voters, biden by 11. And cnn ssrs poll tells the same story, biden leads trump by 4 in arizona, 12 in florida, six points in michigan. You would say that swing voters decidedly favor joe biden but that may not be true at least from a firm that conducted data for more than a year with swing voters in seven swing dates. That nonpartisan firm is called engagedus. And in pennsylvania, ohio, minnesota, and florida. These swing voters are people who voted for romney in 2012 and then clinton in 2016. Or they voted for obama in 2012 and then trump in 2016. Focus groups dont yield quantitative data. But they do generate significant qualitative information. Theyre often seen as Early Detection systems of shifting Public Opinions that polls can be slower to capture. And in all but one of these focus groups, one in erie, pennsylvania, the swing voters said they are favoring donald trump. For example, last week in mccomb coun county, michigan, swing voters told engageus that they had questions about biden. I dont think biden is going to be running the country. Whoever the Vice President is going to be running the country. The Vice President or whoever the Public People are telling him to say. He doesnt have his own ideas. I think biden wouldnt really be the person controlling the country. Whereas, trump is, i believe, actually the person actually running the country. Biden has been in there forever. You know, what, 50 years in politics and doing all of this stuff. And hes never done anything. So, how can both of these things be true . That biden is winning the race handily, but swing voters favor donald trump . Joining me now is rich towel, the president of engageus who has conducted all groups and theh host of the atlanta whisperer. She predicted taking the house and had ultimately 40 making her prediction the most accredit of that cycle. Okay. Rich, where have you been and what have you learned . Well, ive been to those seven states that you mentioned over the last 17 months. The bottom line, the old quote from margaret thatcher, first you win the argument, then you win the vote. Right now, donald trump is winning the argument with twothirds of the people that im talking to. I think from a perspective of the people who would determine or could determine the outcome of this election, the energy is still with President Trump. Rich, if you had found that in half the focus groups, i dont think youd be booked on the program today. Its the fact you that tell me that 16 of the 17 reached the similar consensus. What was different about erie, pennsylvania . What was different, erie was done in june, right after the social unrest. And people were sorting out emotions. And some were frustrated with President Trump than typically would be. This past week in mccomb county it reverted to form and seven out of ten people would take trump. Is there selection bias in the way youre going about this . I dont think theres selection bias. In fact, the professor has conducted research which i came across which validated what i found qualitatively. Twothirds the trump voters when given the choice between trump and biden would take President Trump. Onethird would take biden. This has been consistent across the country, again, with that one exception in june in erie. Doctor, can both things be true that richs data is accurate, and yet, that joe biden is handily ahead . Yeah, this is fascinating data to hear. Again, i did a little preview before the show. So, this is the first im hearing about the dates and hearing that theres a focus group in june that swung the other way. And hes seeing a reversion in the new data. Im just dieing to hear what the new focus group data will show. And ive been arguing, look, i just put out an argue in market watch and im talking about how my forecasting model is based on negative partisanship and how its guaranteed basically a fourpoint advantage for the democrats and now that nominee is biden coming into this president ial election based on a woken demographic giants but also democrats that lien le s s okay . So these focus groups, to me, the onethird two third is theres twothirds leaning independent. So its rightwing independents who have hung with trump that have happened in the last four years, the last time they broke with him is when the access Hollywood Video was released before the election. And they stuck with him through it all until this pandemic mismanagement. And the data is still showing that they are swinging away, at least in the generic, or headtohead ballot stuff. So it will be interesting to see, if youre right in the qualitative data is a leading indicator in what we will expect to see is the expected renarrowing of that head to head ballot as the rightleaning indyes begin to return. Now, one thing that i say, a stimulus happens and it disappears. The pandemic is not something thats disappearing. Its pretty stable in its severity and probably going to become worse in the fall. So thats one thing that is different. Rachel, is it possible that the way to read your conclusions and richs conclusions together, and not being at odds, i know from our prior conversations and my reading of your work, that you are very big on turnout. Not swing voters. Is it that richs analysis doesnt take into full consideration the passion that exists among antitrump voters . Pew research, for example, said two thirds of those who are for joe biden are for joe biden because they want to get rid of donald trump . Right, which is exactly my model. No i dont think i just think rich is in a Different Research area, right . Hes talking about hes trying to delve qualitatively into what swing voters i mean, rich is discounting, i mean not in a pejorative way, but hes not focused on the new model that im advocating for. That is the ultimate partisan including independent leaners, partisan composition of the electorate and pure indies are going to break heavily against it. I dont think that hes advocating that trump is going to win the election. I dont think theres any signs in the election data right now positive for trump. But i do think, and other analysts are arguing this, these large leads that were seeing for biden now may not hold. And thats why ive said on my election analysis that it would be probably foley to completely go all in on the idea that you would win over the trump voters and ignore the other part of your electoral strategy. Because thats what the Clinton Campaign did, too. They were thinking, oh, these trumpleaning independents will break. And then they ended up leaving them at the altar. Sure. So, it really is a, i think, a risky strategy. Rich, one final note, i just want to make this clear. You did 15 of these focus groups with swing voters in swing states. They pretty much told you the same thing. Number 16, you get to erie. And theres a reversal. And it makes you think, hey, maybe the pandemic has caught up to donald trump. Lets underscore this. Number 17 which you just did was mccomb county, michigan, home of the famous democrats for reagan. And there had been a reversal back to what youd be getting previously, is that accurate . Thats accurate. I just want to stress im not saying that trump is going to win the election. Im not saying that biden is going to win the election. What im saying we have tremendous amounts of humility after what happened in 2016. I know there are so many outside event where is people will be comfortable voting during a pandemic in in person. Outside events that we cant foresee will happen between now and november 3rd. Those are things in my mind about projections about whats going to happen. We just have to be really, really humble. A quick final question for dr. Bitecofer if i might. Youve seen the commercial, weve all seen the commercial of the woman dialing 911. Shes looking for the response because somebody is going to break into her house. In fact, kathryn, show a couple seconds of that so everyone knows what im talking about. This has been the big topic of the Trump Campaign, oddly, theyve gone dark in the last couple of days. My question, rachel in a commercial like this, who are they trying to reach, swing voters like rich is talking about, or the base . Are you going to show the commercial . Oh, you must not have seen it. Thats okay. So, theyre trying to reach both. Bit i think the trump strategy, which, by the way, they are pulling off the air and are going to retool because its obviously not working is its about trying to its really out of date. And its trying to convince people that, you know, racial minorities are coming to disrupt their peaceful suburban lifestyle and hedge off of that suburban loss. Its a total misread of like what the mentality of what the suburban collegeeducated voters are about. And heres what i will tell you, i will tell you this, the Trump Campaign is not a campaign thats been tooled for addition which is how traditional campaigns are too manied. Its one that has been tooled for subtraction from the biden campaign. It was a dubious strategy from the getgo. And i think theyre starting to realize how ineffective it is. To be continue. This is a fascinating dichotomy if there is one. And i thank dr. Racial bitecofer and rich tau. Thanks. Thanks for having me. This comes from twitter, i believe. What do we have . Smerconish, starting the show with an attempt to shore up trump. You are so transparent. Ducky, are you blanking me . Theres a disconnected information here that i want to illuminate. I want to shine a spotlight on. I rattled off now im going to have to respond to you in a substantive way. I rattled off all of the data that shows you that biden is winning nationally. Gave you swing state data. But ive been interviewing rich tau from all of his focus groups and swing voters going one way and all of the other data says something else. Your interpretation is im in the tank for trump because i bring you data . 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One astrophysicist who has worked for the pentagons ufo Program Since 2007 told the New York Times that he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency about retrievals from, quote, offworld vehicles not made on this earth. Are we on the brink of full disclosure about visitors from outer space . Joining me now is christopher mellon, he served as dispute assistant of defense for intelligence during the bill clinton and obama administrations. He also cohosts unidentified ufo investigation on the history channel. Chris, i sense theres a sea change recently in the way the reports are carried and covered. What accounts for it . What has gone on recently . Yeah, thank you very much. Youre absolutely right. And a good example of the sea change is the fact that none other than that Scientific American itself has published an article saying the subject ought to be taken seriously and investigated by the scientific community. I think the exchange is largely, primarily a result of the fact of that the Defense Department and the navy themselves have stood up and publicly acknowledged that this phenomenon is real. That this is happening. That our navy pilots are encountering these vehicles. And so that imparts a credibility that simply did not exist prior to that time. I was quoting eric davis. I know youre familiar with this work when i read that the New York Times paragraph a moment ago. Do you believe that there are objects in our possession, broadly defined, our possession, that are from something other than this earth . What i will say about that is i think that assertion should be taken seriously. Im aware of i know eric very well. I understand his arguments. I was present in his briefings on the hill. And he tried to provide leads for them to follow to enable them to potentially confirm this. It is an issue that should be taken seriously. In fact, curiously, President Trump himself on fathers day, indicated on air, while being filmed that he did have classified information about new mexico, which most people know is the legendary site of the alleged crash of the ufo. And when asked by his son about that, about would he classify it, he said i would have to think about it. I dont know other than roswell other than that particular issue. So there is lot of new press, new information coming forward. Again, as i said, i think this is a top take the Oversight Committee should take seriously and investigate. Its the only thing missing from this election. Who knows what the next 90 days brings. This is a global issue. This is not a United States issue. Are there other countries that have taken the lead in the exploration of this subject . Absolutely. In fact, were behind several other countries. France for many years has had an official process involving their National Security forces and police forces. Every year, they examine a number of cases and bring in outside scientists. A lot of that information is public. My colleague lou alazondo has made trips to italy and south america. We present a lot of information on the show, as well as information from current and former u. S. Military personnel and their experiences. But youre absolutely right, its not just United States. And further, our military personnel had similar experiences when they were deployed abroad in the middle east and afghanistan and elsewhere. So by all accounts its definitely a worldwide phenomenon. The final question, can technology alone account for what you and i are discussing . It occurs to me by day i make my living by speaking on sirius xm and my voice is bouncing across the United States on a satellite. I assume right now, this conversation is doing sloulikew. Theres a lot of stuff in the atmosphere that didnt used to be there, can that be an explanation or is it too simplistic . I think its too simplistic, because we had information from multiple systems, infrared systems, multiple personnel in the ground and in the air, tracking these objects performing maneuvers that clearly indicate they were under intelligence control. Theyre responding to our aircraft. Theyre outmaneuvering them and doing things far beyond any capability we possess. So thats certainly a hypothesis to consider. We have to keep an open mind going forward. Chris mellon, thank you so much. Absolutely, thank you. What are you saying social media, i think this comes from the world of facebook. What do we got . Ufos are not alien. No such thing. Hey, theres something out there that hasnt been identified. And ufo is no longer the acronym favored by those who study it. For the benefit of those watching it and saying, my god, how are you on the so show thats newsworthy and topical and gives us the four or five hottest things, i would suggest youre not read in. 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For weeks some political experts have been raising the questions would biden be better off skipping the debate. Former Clinton Press secretary joe lockhart wrote an oped for cnn. Com entitled joe biden could still lose this election. I was struck by this provocative paragraph that says, whatever you do, dont debate trump. Trump has now made 20,000 misleading or false statements according to the Washington Post its a fool ace errand to enter the ring with someone who cant follow the rules or the truth. Biden will undoubtedly take heat from republicans and the media for skipping the debates. But its worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win. Joining me now to discuss is political analyst joe lockhart. If the president is watching this right now, i can see him rubbing his hands together, and say oh, my, that would be perfect because i could, of course, say hes afraid to get on the stage and his cognitive abilities. Yeah, he will say that. And as i say, its worth the risk. This is a president as i said in the article is incapable of telling the truth. He spins these conspiracy theories out there. Up till now, most of those theories are broadcast by fox news. And, you know, on his twitter feed. You know, most americans dont see that. The debates are very different. This is the one thing, now that were not really going to have conventions where the public will tune in, you know, 50 million, 60 million people. And this will see all of this nonsense from him. He will take the truth and destroy it. And biden will be in the position of correcting him over and over and over again. I dont think he should give him that platform. If you were contacted by the former Vice President s campaign staff, hey, joe, we ahead your piece, and were really intrigued, how do we execute this . What would you say . Well, id say, you know, look at what i wrote. Its not really a debate. If only one side is willing to tell the truth. We saw in the debates in 2016, Hillary Clinton showed a mastery of the issues. I think she at every point was more honest and bested trump. But trump came out of the debates doing better. He repeated the same old lies. Were going to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for it. Were going to keep the mexican rapists out of the country. Nothing of those have come to pass. And giving them to get to spout 21,000 or 22,000 lies, i dont think its worth it for the democrats or for biden. Heres another strategy for joe biden. Im spitballing here for both campaigns. It is to say, let donald trump continue to say all of those things he continues to say about joe having lost a step. The joe i saw last week in wilmington, questions arent too hard, he was fine. And if trump goes out and constantly banging the drum about biden. Then joe goes and performs in that first debate, the bar has been set so low that he exceeds it and then people say well there was nothing to trumps charges. What about that . You know what, my guess is they probably will debate. And that say factor, i think, you know, trump is setting the bar so low for biden that it will be impossible for him to not reach it. But more than anything, the debate will be a spectacle. A circus. Right. Right. Trump is unable to do anything but that. And the circus atmosphere, we know more than anything, helps trump. Hes better at being the circus clown than any other politician weve ever seen. And i just dont think that biden gets anything from entering that the circus ring. One last thing, joe, if i may, im going to put on a screen a map on where in the country people can begin voting before the first debate. Its really stunning. Look at that, if youre able to see on the screen. Its twothirds of the nation, ballots will be bailed out before the first president ial debate takes place on september 29. I wonder by the time you get to debates two and three if this thing isnt already over. Yeah, you know, its something that people dont speak about a lot but its a very important development, particularly this year, where i think youre going to see a lot more mailin ballots, despite whatever trump says about voter fraud which is another issue on the debate. Trump in the debate, will try to degrade the legitimacy of the election. And thats the worst thing that could happen for our democracy. Were looking at, if you look at the last 30 or 40 years, the debates really havent moved the election one way or the other. And in this case, i think by the second debate, you may have had more than half the country already voted. So theyre not as important this year, i think, as they have been in other years. And trump is an unique candidate. We need to treat him as an unique candidate who shattered all the norms. Not like, you know, the standard candidate that youd want to get up on the stage with. Final question, tensecond answer if you can, youre totally wired, especially on the democratic side of the aisle. What kind of reaction did you get to this part of your cnn oped . You know, listen, i think a lot of people are worried about what you started with, that biden will get beaten across the head on this. I think they have to take the longer view. Thats why i think he shouldnt get on stage. Thank you, joe. Appreciate it. Thank you. Joe lock heahart has inspire todays survey question smerconish. Com. Make sure youre voting. This kims from twitter. What do we have . Hell yeah, the debates are not optional. The citizenry demanded such headtohead confrontations in order to test their mettle. For a president , factcheck me on this, wasnt it jimmy carter who said im not going to get on the debate stage if John Anderson is given a platform. I think i am in 1980. Is joe biden obligated, is he obligated to debate donald trump . Go to smerconish. Com and cast your ballot. Still to come, america is desperate for a Coronavirus Vaccine, but when one get as proved, who will be first in line and who gets to decide . [indistinct radio chatter] mom come on, hurry up all systems go . Mission Control 5 4 3 2. And liftoff. vo audi etron. The next frontier of electric. Get audi at your door Remote Services through participating dealers. To visit all the places we didnt know meant so much. S to get out and go again. But were all going at our own speed. At enterprise, peaceofmind starts with our complete clean pledge, curbside rentals and lowtouch transactions. With so many vehicles of so many kinds, you can count on us to help you get everywhere you want to go. Again. 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Look at the antiviral drug remdesivir which has proved effective in reducing the risk of death for severely ill patients, but its also in short supply. So pennsylvania has implemented a, quote, weighted lottery, giving preference to individuals with financial need and essential workers. Is that how the vaccine should be distributed . Joining me now is art caplan professor of ethics at medical school of medicine. Look at you, all coming true . We used to debate this as if it would never happen and it was theoretically interesting, and here we are. What thoughts do you have for who is first in line . Let me start with the vaccine, its about 50 what were shooting for were not going to vaccinate ourselves out of this pandemic right away. We still have to live with the virus. So partially affected. Lets be clear about that. And there are folks who say i dont want to take it. Well come back to that, michael, in a minute. But, the right way to go you got to address needs and lives. You just started a list. I think that list makes sense. We want to make sure we not only protect Health Care Workers but people who are likely to die, who are severely impacted. That means folks who are prisoners, as well as people who are Health Care Workers. It means extra attention to poorer minorities, nativeamericans on reservations, they show huge risk of dying from this covid virus. I cant imagine a debate in the country if policymakers say we need to protect the elderly because theyre at irisk, lets make sure they have access to the vaccine. One of the rinksks, say, obesit. I cant imagine that obese people are going to get it and somebody at the gym saying im there every day, why are they prioritized. They are. Certainly, people are going to say, well, if you didnt wear a mask, maybe you should be at the end of the vaccine line. Im going to say from the Health Care Point of view, the Public Health care of view, we dont sort out the saints and sinners figuring out who to care for in the hospital. We try to save lives. Thats the reasonable thing to say with the vaccine policy. Ill tell you another thing, michael, are we doing America First and what about the rest of the world . What if we get the vaccine and we have it, a lot of international groups, w. H. O. , saying you got to share it from the start. I dont think thats going to happen. I think were going to take care of people in need in America First. I dont think thats just selfphiself selfi selfish. Thats what a community does. You sort of look to your own first. Its like, when youre on an airplane, they say put your mask on first and help your child. They dont say help a random stranger. You build it and they will come. I put the numbers on the screen. I think the risk is 20 who say ill never get one. 30 say ill get it as soon as a can. 50 say ill consider it. Ive made a point before, dr. Caplan, that 20 is not an antivaxer crew. I hear it on the radio show, people saying its happening so fast, im uncomfortable. Yeah, its a worry, michael when the president and white house keeps saying warp speed and race were doing what we can fast. What theyre doing is undermining trust. You got to say warp speed to a safety vaccine. You dont want a vaccine, you want a safe vaccine. So, what i believe will happen, there will be large numbers of americans who say i dont want to do this. Well have another debate, thats mandates. And ill answer that question and say, i dont know that the government is going to put up governmentissued mandates to take a vaccine. But private enterprise, your boss, your sports team, your bar, your tattoo parlor, theyre all going to want to see proof of vaccination before you calom in. I think well see mandates but in the private sector. My fear is like the masks. It becomes a red state blue state issue. I sure hope im wrong. I hope youre wrong. What i hope people see the vaccine and its effective. Then well get the lineup and have that debate who will goes next. Look at that background. How are your ratings . You know, im strong, michael. And this i have to give some credit to my lovely wife. The setup here is 9 out of 10 on they say, i dont know what that guy is talking about, but hes got good book shechllv. Thank you, dr. Caplan. Thank you, mike. Still to come, your worst and best tweets. The finals results of the survey question. You have a chance to quote. Is joe biden obligated to debate donald trump . Today, were facing a serious threat. We have to meet it as one country. Numbers dont lie. Infection rates are now going up in more states than they are going down. Weve got to fight this together. Wear a mask, keep your distance, limit the size of crowds. 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Is joe biden obligated to debate donald trump . Survey says 67 say no. Wow. Look at the voting on that. More than 18,000 people since ive been on air have cast ballots and two thirds plus say, you know, joe, youre not obligated to do it. I said this to joe lockhart, wouldnt that play right into President Trumps hands . I mean, i can just envision him saying, oh, that would be ideal because then it will give heft to my argument that he cant with stand, you know, the grilling that he would get from me or from Chris Wallace in a sunday interview. That sort of thing. One other observation, if i may. I dont think that Vice President biden makes his pick for a veep in the next few day. I say that because you may think this par snickty, when he had that presser in wilmington last week, he said the first week of august. I thought, thats an odd word choice. Today is august 1. If he meant the next few calendar days he would have said next week. Not the first week in august. So i may be wrong. Its got to be within the next two weeks, but i dont think it will be this week. Some of the reaction coming in from social media. What do we have, katherine . Are there really people who are waiting for the debates to decide who they will vote for . Stacy, there are. And you know, rich has interviewed many of them over the course of 17 different focus groups. Youre referring, of course, to the lead segment of the program today where i expressed curiosity about this disconnect where youve got data that says swing voters like and are sticking with trump, but a mountain of data that says right now joe biden is winning this thing handily. Can both be true . I think they both probably can. Theres a lot of passion involved in this race and passion will call the shot. Also, what do we have, social media appreciate getting your tweets and facebook comments. Anyone, i mean, anyone that swings on an opinion of trump is a trump supporter. Its impossible to be wishywashy on such a polarizing figure. Paul, you saw the results of the most recent mccomb county focus group that engages had i know that this seems foreign to many of us political junkies, read in and paying attention to the news each and everyday. The people that rich interviews are low information voters. That doesnt mean low intelligence. It just means theyre not as caught up and engaged in all of this as are the rest of us. They exist among us and, yes, some went from romney to hillary. Or they went from obama to trump. And their vote matters as much as the rest of us. All right. Have a great weekend. Be safe. Wear a mask. See you next week. Got it . Got it. Its slippery. Nooooo. Noooo. Nooooo. Yeeeesss. Quick, the quicker picker upper bounty picks up messes quicker and each sheet is 2x more absorbent, so you can use less. Hey look, i got it. Bounty, the quicker picker upper. And ask your doctor about biktarvy. 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