Is the reporting of the arizona republic. Biden increases lead in arizona, ending trumps hope continuing vote count would put the state in his column. They write seemingly every National News that has not called arizona for joe biden, called it late thursday shortly after Maricopa County reported results from its latest round of ballots. Fox news and the Associated Press had already called arizona for biden last week but at that point President Trump had a chance albeit slim to pull ahead of his democratic challenger. Biden needs trump with a margin greater than the estimated number of ballots remaining to arizona. D in the thursday evening results from about 4000 Maricopa County ballots went 53 for biden and 43 for trump. It hadnt changed much, the map was already called for arizona by the associated dress. That is the data by the Associated Press. That is the data we use for cspan. Quoting from the Washington Post turning arizona blue is a huge achievement fro for biden. Since 1998,
Lettie for organizing this event. I want to thank my agent, gail for being here, you have probably already seen one of the 10,500,000 Mike Bloomberg ads, the tagline is mike gets it done, no, gail gets a ton. So, thank you for being here. What an admission also, another great book that you have to re, my friend, Melissa Rogers who is a visiting scholar here we Work Together for 20 years. Her book, religion in public life and faith with the American Public life which has a nice double meaning is a great book to read. And i cannot resist honoring my entire doctor Mark Sheppard who came here today. I honor him because he is an awesome dr. Because he is a great sports fan, kids play sports together but he was actually the dr. To about half of the people in my part of bookings and there is enormous morning in this building that you decided to retire but also so many other friends here come i want to thank you all for coming. But, this is one of the coolest events brookings has ever had. And
Even during the heart of the Mueller Investigation and his testimony you had a bipartisan majority that opposed impeachment. It only received 35 percent, 40 support. We learned more about the president s relationship with the ukraine as we saw with these texts. You see in most polls a majority americans supporting at least the impeachment inquiry, supporting the democrats position. And even when you ask, do you support actual removal of the president , thats about 45 , 48 support at the rally. It is growing. So, that is an opinion that is affecting democratic support of impeachment. How about when republicans are polled . What is the trend their . You are right. The Democratic Base is consolidating around impeachment. Thats responsible for some of the jump. But independent voters, the one consistent theme is they were overwhelmingly against impeachment a month ago. Now they are split and the trend line is moving toward beinghment, moving toward concerned about what they are seeing on t