Concluded with this analysis is this republican women in pa were not as likely to abandon their party and vote for Hillary Clinton while democratic men were more likely to abandon their party and vote for donald trump. Ill give you the first crack at this, rich. What do you think . What does that tell you . You know, its not just that there were some changes around the demographics in terms of voting patterns, but also the areas of the state, right . Southwest pennsylvania came out huge in big ways with workingclass whites. The Democratic Party has to learn how to reconnect with those voter if theyre ever gonna win a president ial election again. What do you think, brian . I think theres a sense of passion around there. I mean, i think i saw one number that, you know, the democratic vote went from 46 of democrats voting to 42 . The republicans had a reverse five or six points up in terms of it. And i think the message of making american great again, which some looked at as kind of like a cartoon kind of a message, was a more affirming, positive message in the end than stronger together, which was about how they should feel, and a lot of people arent happy, you know, and fundamentally, they want something thats actionoriented, and thats what donald trump was talking about. You work a lot with messaging, jeff. [ chuckles ] i mean, it was his message all along. He actually patented it well before he even announced running for president. It worked. Yeah, and i think if you look at one area of the state now southwest pennsylvania had been trending more in the republican column on the president ial election, not necessarily down ballot. So, mitt romney had won like, the collar counties around allegheny, which holds pittsburgh. So if you looked at scrantonwilkesbarre as the arbiter if you looked at it four years ago, mitt romney lost it in Single Digits to president obama. This time president elect trump beat Hillary Clinton by double digits. I think it was about 12 Percentage Points if you look at luzerne county, scrantonwilkesbarre area these are democrats. This is where Vice President joe biden, and Hillary Clinton, have familial connections and roots in. If you look at that area, i think thats a good point of where the democrats where bob caseys from, our senator. Yeah. To where they need to reconnect, that would be it. Mmhmm. I think a more bruising primary on the democratic side would have helped Hillary Clinton, too. I think the fact that it was kind of a cakewalk, and there wasnt much of a fight, and people anointed her she didnt go through the rough and tumble of becoming a better candidate that donald trump had to go through. Okay, let me give you a crack at this, ajay. So, a couple of names ill throw out here josh shapiro he won statewide. Hes a democrat. He avoided the trump wave. But at the same time, a republican otto voit who ran for state treasurer lost, and he was all in for trump. How do outliers like that happen . I think that all the assumptions weve made about identity politics were turned upside down, on its head. But i think one of the main reasons the takeaway from me from the election was that there was a resounding rejection of Hillary Clintons expectation to be president , the idea that she waited her turn, the idea that she was cashing in a rain check from 2008 was a turnoff for the voters. Yeah, yeah. She was clearly the most qualified candidate to ever run for president , but she wasnt the candidate for the here and now, and what trump captured was a zeitgeist of the working class, the zeitgeist of all the identity politics that pundits said would flip the other way in favor of democrats. Were learning now that people are frustrated, and it was a fight against the status quo. Then you have exceptions like shapiro and others. Mmhmm. Where that was the deviance, right . It was really about Hillary Clinton not being the right candidate for this moment. It was less about i think in the long run about identity politics as we are debating today. I ran into mayor jim kenney, who has always been a critic of donald trump, talking about him winning the presidency. Heres what he said. So, President Trump is organizing his transition team, the president elect trump. Yep. And hes met with some rivals like mitt romney and other people. Yep. And this is just a hypothetical situation if he were to invite all the bigcity mayors to washington to talk, would you go . Yeah, sure. What would you like to tell him . President of the United States i would like to tell him that, you know, much of our population, whether theyre documented or undocumented, are contributing members of our society that run businesses, employ people, raise families, and theyre human beings, and we need to treat them like human beings. So, there you have the sanctuarycity thing. Mmhmm. Which is very important to mayor kenney. Do you foresee trump being on a collision course with him and maybe a lot of the other bigcity mayors, up in new york city for example, that are liberal . Now, im not an expert on music, but was that band foreigner in the background . Toto. Toto, okay. [ laughter ] okay, good. I wasnt sure about that. Good ear, jeff. Good ear. But anyway look, hes the president , so if i was the mayor of a city, and id be a democrat, my first thing would be this is not the guy i voted for, etcetera, but now i figure out okay, how do i build a relationship with him, because im gonna get an extra whatever for my constituents by having a better relationship rather than take him on. I think the issue of sanctuary cities is an interesting one, and i think its a bit arrogant though, to some level, to say that a citys gonna say no matter what the federal laws are, were gonna do this differently here. So i think he is on a collision course, and if i was the mayor id be trying to find some way to be you know, have honest, reasonable disputes with the president , but also trying to figure out how to make sure that my city got a little bit extra than maybe chicago or other cities. Former managing director right here for nutter. What would you be telling your boss . The big issue around sanctuary cities that concerns me is that we ask our Police Officers to do too much. They have one of the hardest jobs. We dont want to turn them into, you know, immigration officers. Right. And thats the big issue while were expecting professionalism and great conduct and really reforms from our police department, we cant expect them to do all of those things. We cant turn them into federal officers, and thats a huge risk, i think. And thats why its important for us not to be in the immigration business, and why we need strong, comprehensive Immigration Reform that comes from the federal government. Thats go ahead. Im just gonna say quickly i like the mayors message at the beginning where he talked about these are folks who create jobs. These are small businessmen and women. Yeah. Thats speaking trumpian, if you will, or thats speaking republican. In is tone, thats the way he needs to communicate. Is that by accident . Well, no. I think thats very purposeful, and, b, in saying i think were seeing already in trump, sort of the transition well, i said this during the campaign, but, actually, in thinking about it more meh, Climate Change might be real. I think it does have a human cause. Yeah, we dont need necessarily the boarder wall. Maybe a fence would do. Its very transactional, and where are the transactional opportunities for philadelphia to trumps a businessman. How do you barter with him . Where can philadelphia win on that . He did go to school here. Thats true. He did go to penn. Let me talk about pennsylvania one more time here. The legislature rode the trump wave big time. The republicans have a 34seat majority in the senate. This is one of the things, i think, people didnt really talk about much. Yeah. Thats the largest majority in the state senate since 1950. They have the largest majority in the house since 1958. Is Governor Wolf going uhoh looking at the next two years, saying im not gonna get anything done. I think look, youre in now to the campaign season, etcetera, etcetera. But Governor Wolf had a better second year than a first year when he realized. Theres three branches of government. Theres the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. So you cant just say i was elected on this, cause every state rep says, hey, i was elected on the opposite, so where do we find the compromise . It seemed like Governor Wolf the second year was able to find those compromises. And i think he could ride that spirit of things. What do you think, ajay . Well, i think hes wellintentioned and earnest, clearly, but hes had a difficult time wrangling with the Republican Legislature, even in the second year, and has a difficult time getting the public to rally behind his agenda. This sounds very familiar to the other tommy. [ laughs ]. Who was the governor around this time. Tom corbett. You know, we have a history where governors, especially incumbent governors, have almost a walkin layup in a reelection, except that streak was broken. Whether tom wolf will be the second onetime tommy, is the issue. And i think hes walking into a weaker than an a typical incumbent. Youre talking about a 2 billion youre talking about a 2 billion deficit in pennsylvania going to next budget year, and this is the budget year where things have to get done, because if you look at 18 and thats out of what, 30 billion . True, in the big picture. Its significant though. It only can come from a few different places. If the Republican Legislature is not going to raise taxes, and thats a hard sell in a very dominated Republican Legislature, which has the votes to overturn his vetoes now. Sure. It must come somewhere, and its probably gonna come from cuts. Were gonna see a big rigmarole, i think, this upcoming 2017 budget cycle. But as we head into 18, when 1 3 of the senate is up, all the state reps are up obviously, its a gubernatorial election. But you cant look at it and say, were not gonna be able to raise taxes, so then theyre gonna yeah, i guess they i guess they have to. But they havent. Because nobody wants to cut nobody wants their taxes raised, to be honest with you, cause i think were feeling, like, before you ask me for more money, how about you getting a little more efficient on your side . How about you doing some fundamental Union Reforms in terms of those sort of things . You know who you sound like . [ laughs ] scott wagner. Yeah. Scott wagner has already said, yes, im running for governor. Youre gonna be hearing a lot from this individual. Hes a member of the senate. He actually was the first writein candidate to win a state senate seat in pennsylvania. Hes a frequent wolf critic, hes a political newcomer serving his first term. He ran a wastemanagement business. So hes primarily a businessman. How do you see things working out right now, given that one of the biggest critics is gonna be running for governor . And hes got pockets full of trumpian cash, too. Sure. Hes a very wealthy individual. Hes run against the grain. He ran a writein candidate in the primary. Right. Lets be clear he beat the favored republican. He doesnt owe anyone anything, he has also been the Campaign Chair the Republican Senate campaign committee, and he but he has to have the trump brand. I think theres a crowded field. You know, if trump was immediately, you know, oh, trump. My god, the tv show. He doesnt have it. No. I dont think he has the charm, frankly, that trump had when he wants to turn it on. I agree with that. I think of the candidates who are potentially the republican challengers, i think jim cawley probably has the charm. Former lieutenant governor. Hes a good, moderate leader, probably somebody who would govern on policy, less on populist demagoguery. It makes a difficult primary, unfortunately. And you hear names like rob wonderling, obviously who mike turzai, jake corman. Itll be a crowded field. Itll be a crowded field. And theres no trump brand. Dont expect things to coalesce around a certain candidate. I mean, its 2018 from ill tell you one thing about wagner for a lot of republicanelected officials they view him as somebody that is not quite a trump kind of he doesnt have that brand. And also, not a very collegial guy to work with, so itll be interesting to see how that works out. But he has some interesting positions. Hes been very good on opening antidiscrimination against the lgbt community. Yes, he actually is moderate on some things. Hes not this rockrib conservative. You know, hes got some interesting positions. Okay. Lets talk about the Electoral College. I dont know what the exact numbers are right now, cause they change by the day it seems. But Hillary Clinton seems to lead the popular vote by 1. 5 million votes. Theres one of the earlier maps. I know that Donald Trumps gonna get more than 300 electoral votes. But the elections where the winner lost the popular vote are as follows 1824, john quincy adams. 1876, rutherford b. Hayes. 1888, benjamin harrison. 2000, george bush. 2016, donald trump. Why did it happen twice in the last 16 years and then didnt happen in the entire 1900s . I mean, does anyone know . Yeah, thats a great question. I mean, the Electoral College is there, and we all know why. Its really there to give some of the smaller states, you know, to level the Playing Field a little bit. But the problem is that your vote in montana is worth about four times what your vote is in pennsylvania, and thats the inherent injustice. And i think one of the things were able to the popular vote cant be totally irrelevant. We have to figure out a way, whether its reducing some of the numbers of the Electoral College in other states and actually giving you a certain number of Electoral College votes when you when the popular vote, whether its 25 or 30 make it a real thing. Make it count. Well, we do have that formula. We do have that formula right now. I mean, i think part of the reason why the popular the popular vote doesnt count at all right now. Well, in certain states like maine based on the percentage of and thats two districts in the entire country. Oh, and by the way, the republicans run the white house, the congress you think theyre gonna want to change it now . Its not gonna change, no. But heres the thing i mean, our Founding Fathers had a reason for it. They wanted to make sure that it wasnt just about one part of the country. If you change it, itll be and as donald trump, i would have campaigned differently. Right. Itll be new york, philadelphia, california. Thatll be it big cities, forget it. Yep. Right. Flyover states. Flyover states. Right. How about making it proportional by state . You see what i mean . Like, say pennsylvania you win 60 of the vote, you get 60 of the electoral votes . They do a variation of that, but its not precise, and as you can see i think the latest number that i saw this morning was she was 2 million votes ahead. Okay. When trump was against it. [ laughing ] right. Yeah, of course. He will obviously for this to happen, to get rid of the Electoral College, you need a constitutional amendment, which not happen. Yep. Number two you need the bully pulpit of the president. Why would he be against the mechanism that gave the just put him in office. This is a delicate thing. Our countrys been around for quite a long time, so to change this is not a small thing. I mean, in the same way youve got two u. S. Senators from every state no matter what the population, right . Sure. So, you know, montana gets two, california gets two. The constitution was written so that we can avoid the situational logic and again, five times in our history. Yep, and twice in the last 16. But fake Facebook News next. Inside story is presented by temple university. Remarkable change isnt easy, but for those who take charge, it comes naturally. Explore temples impact. Visit temple. Edu impact. Hello, peco. Hi. Can you help me save on my energy bill . Old appliances. Like a hot water heater . Its around here somewhere. Nope. Nope. What is this thing . Sir, have you looked in the basement . Huh. Oh, yeah. No wonder. It was hidden behind all of my free weights. If youre not an expert, peco can help. We have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. Peco. The future is on. Lets talk about fake news. [ laughter ] first of all, lets make you realize this is all real. Right all these people are here. Its not holograms or anything. Lets keep it real. So, both facebook and google promise changes to their sites in response to the recent uproar over all this fake news spreading like wildfire leading up to the election. Action news even presented a special report on the problem, and this is what one expert told me that i thought was pretty important. He said, the internet is like a hammer. You can build a Beautiful House with it. You can also bash someones brains in, okay . [ laughs ] so it really is, you know, the user and its the consumer that needs to be really responsible. Ajay, do you think fake news swung the election . Absolutely. Were all susceptible to confirmation bias. We go to news to either confirm a narrative that we already believe in, and these online communities like facebook or Comment Sections philly. Com, etcetera, have become these gated communities where we find our tribe members, and then attack the other. They become the ghettos of grievance for us to sort of lash out against anybody we dont agree with. So when you go on to news, youre not really looking to learn something new. Youre looking to confirm to your own biases and fight against anything that challenges your own prejudice. So, did it swing the election . Absolutely. So, message man im talking to you, jeff. Sort of a tyranny. [ laughs ] well, yeah. Thats what i learned from. Well, youre the new guy. Okay, thank you. Newish. Thank you. Its dangerous, and facebook knows this, cause theyve originally said, oh, its not a problem. Its okay. Its dangerous for them to have to select whats fake and whats not. Its subjective, right . And facebook and zuckerberg has said are we the media, or are we the technology . Mmhmm. And i would argue that its more the technology that we use as a platform. Facebook is not putting out the news. Now, let me be clear, there has to be an arbiter. I would argue that the best arbiter are the folks sitting around this table and our friends to counter the fake news. But i can tell you zuckerberg it was reported this past week, that in china theyre talking about editing the news there. So you cant play the onehat that scares me. That scares me a lot. And it reminds me of the quote of Vladimir Lenin that capitalists will sell us the rope that we use to hang them, is what he said back about 125 years ago. So in philly. Com, when i publisher of the inquirer you know, on the one hand, you wan to have in letters to the editor, theres a curation process, etcetera. Here you are very sensitive to not editing, and at the same time, you sometimes just say rather than edit, were just gonna shut down this whole Comment Section here today, cause some of it gets kind of ugly. But if youre conservative, you watch fox news, if youre a liberal, you watch msnbc, and its a shame that people dont i mean, there was a time not that long ago when the trusted content was 6abc, the philadelphia inquirer, and you knew that there was an editor there, somebody still is [ laughter ]. Versus just affirming your bias. I understand, but but go back to the technology. The algorithms are designed to give you more of what you already want. Thats reconfirming the confirmation bias. Mmhmm. How about this, rich . You know what, news flash social medias not a fad. Yeah. For the first time ever, 62 of people get their news over social media. As managing director for the city of philadelphia, i get Police Reports on major incidents that occur across the city. Im not kidding. I would hear about it on twitter first, before i heard from the police command. Thats where we live today. So theres a huge responsibly, and i think youre right. We need great stations like 6abc, like you did with your special. We need the new york times, we need others. You are under so much pressure. Oh, yeah. To be first, that the balance there around being right and being first needs to be stricken the right way. But were up for it, man we are. You are. [ laughs ] we should put you on the panel, and say how do you attract the next generation . How do you attract the young viewers. And youre doing it through social media. How do you get journalists online . But were all journalists. I read a column where it said this you know how you go and see a magic show . You know its not real, but its fun. Yeah. Yeah. And they compared fake news to that. Its entertainment for a lot of people. Its titillating. Yeah. So, is it all wrong . I mean, when you have one side of an election blaming when we were younger i mean, im showing my age here, but. [ laughter ]. The inquirer, or whatever that thing was that that crap piece of paper . The fact that Michael Jackson came from mars was not a story that we believed and ran with. The national enquirer. The national enquirer. Thats all im saying people like to read boy, im glad today if similar news on facebook not only does it get shares, the more shares there are, the more believable the story becomes. Thats the dangerous aspect of it. I want to get to get porngate real quick. The report was released, and it was like, eh, theres nothing to see here, nothing to see here. Pennsylvania attorney general bruce beemer finally released the results. It cost 385,000 to commission. Former ag Kathleen Kane actually was the one who commissioned it. These are about pornographic emails that were sent around. Beemer released it, and he redacted all the names. Brian, do you have a problem with that . I dont, because this was a political vendetta, a personal vendetta from Kathleen Kane who tragically has destroyed at least this era of her life. I hope she, when she gets out of jail, can kind of move on with things. They were pornographic emails, which was a catholic talking about he ate a hot dog for lent, okay . That wasnt pornographic. Or it was women, pornographic emails, talking about Breast Cancer month, etcetera, etcetera. But there were others that you know were maybe across the line. Yeah, well, then okay, so far the bills are almost 400,000. Theres a thought that the final bills gonna be over 1 million. We could keep going out about this on and on and on. I think its just its time to move on here, you know . Release the names . Anyone . Look, i think were all tired of talking about porngate. I thinks salacious, and everybody wants to kind of flutter it around. I think the missing story that is in there is the ex parte communications, which is attorneys talking to judges over email about cases and arguments when they shouldnt in violation of ethical rules. We got to go. They said that wasnt in the report. They didnt catch any of that. Inside stories of the week coming up. Inside story is presented by temple university. Remarkable change isnt easy, but for those who take charge, it comes naturally. Explore temples impact. Visit temple. Edu impact. Inside stories of the week. We start with ajay. Matt, four weeks before the outbreak of world war ii, gandhi wrote a letter, sevensentence letter, to hitler urging him to not reduce humanity to a savage state. That letter is now illuminated on a screen of mist by the artist Jitish Kallat in an exhibit called the covering letter at the Perelman Center very powerful and meditative piece that triggers the gandhi and the hitler in all of us. A mustsee. Thanks, ajay. Brian. First of all, thanks. First grandchild yay, bayard. Okay, thats what im thankful for. Thank you very much. Inside story of the week this time last year, the Pennsylvania Society was about to kick off, itll kick off next week again, and a controversial move was by rob gleason, the republican state chairman who had the temerity to invite donald trump to speak at their big luncheon. A lot of people didnt show up, protestors showed up. Rob gleasons looking like a very smart, savvy guy for identifying him way in advance. Thank you, brian. Rich . Matt, just a few days ago, after orlando was a show that was played here in philadelphia by the Philadelphia Theater Company honoring and supporting the victims of the families of the pulse nightclub in orlando. Its been almost 200 days since that incident occurred, the worst mass shooting in america, and we still dont have gun reform in america. After this election, that just became harder, so weve got to work a lot harder, all of us. Thanks, rich. Jeff. After elections, win or lose, you look at the next cycle, and democrats are certainly looking in the mirror, but then also be looking at their bench. Who is the next obama . And if you look at pennsylvania, while republicans carried it in the president ial election, it went red, the raw offices went straight blue. You have josh shapiro, whom we talked about earlier, you have Eugene Depasquale reelected as auditor general, and joe torsella many of us around the table know former head of the National Constitution center who won for treasurer. These are the democrats to watch out for as we move into 20172018, because the democrats and legislature are really hamstrung, given their strong minority position. Post thanksgiving you guys want to give a shoutout what youre thankful for, like in one word, maybe . Family. Family . Family and bayard. Sofie, ali, tracy, cutch. A more peaceful philadelphia. The action news viewers. Youre the best. See you later. Im nydia han along with gray hall. 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