For joeicted a victory biden and Kamala Harris in the state of florida in 2020. What gives you confidence that they will win . Downturns an economic because of covid. Decrease in the state of florida, it is the largest economic driver. What has happened here is we have 1. 2 million floridians out of jobs. They are looking for leadership. Former president who has a plan to not only beat covid but also get our economy back on. Herent get tourism back until we get our economy under control. Is going tobody who be empathetic to the situation, have a plan and are smaller farmers who have been waiting for support from the federal government. They are looking for new leadership. To donald trump is not going buy the game plan hes been putting off the last four years. Host just to remind viewers of the challenge ahead for the democrats, just looking at some recent votes in florida. In 2018 and the senatorial vote, rick scott edged out mel nelson by a percentage point. The governors race in 2018
Roy discusses the herd immunity approach. With the new school year beginning in schools and colleges across the country, the acrostic candidate joe biden said if he is elected help is on the way. To School Systems and parents. Good morning, this is washington journal. We start the program asking you about your experience so far. How is it going back either remotely or in person, is it working . Four those of you in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific. For educators, our number is 2027488002. If you want to send us a text, that line is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. And ontter or twitter. It was his Second Campaign appearance after his convention, biden in delaware yesterday. You can find it at cspan. Org. The Washington Post, biden blames trump because the education gap a national emergency. Joe biden sought to channel the frustrations of students, parents, and teachers around the country i blaming trump for School Districtss inab
Businesses are failing, tourism has collapsed, and confidence is shot. Sweeping new security loss for hong kong later on tuesday after imposing visa bans on americans it says are interfering in its affairs. Look at the take a set up after the u. S. Paring back some of the gains. Betterthanexpected housing data overweighting these continued can turns and continued resurgence. Continued returns and continued resurgence. Sophie. Sophie futures are pointing higher. Chinese pmi is expected to show some stabilization from manufacturing while Services Face a setback. From south korea, we are getting a may industrial output. That was a bigger contraction than the expected 4. 5 via well vol that was seen in a survey. Nikkei futures in chicago heading higher and this is adding up the topix for the best quarters 2016. Since 2013, for the last of market rights, raising concerns with heavy concentration on japanese growth stocks. The yen wrapping up a sleepy quarter. Valuations as cheap as they com
Stabilized but that doesnt tell you what is happening beneath the surface. The 10year yielding 0. 8 . Updates on the outbreak in america. We are now more than 4,600 confirmed cases. At least 85 deaths last night, President Trump vowing to backstop u. S. Industries saying the u. S. Will be power fully supporting those Industries Like airlines and others impacted by the virus weigh will be stronger than ever before the eight largest u. S. Banks announcing they will be jointly accessing funding from the Federal Reserve. There has long been a stigma and they are all doing it together Morgan Stanley being the first bank to do it. We should not take anything away from that decision the ceo also happens to be the chairman of the committee that put this group together that went to do this. Joe. Investors are looking for a substantial fiscal response from washington to try to stem the he can economic damage. Reporter we do expect congress to move today not sure when the senate will take action,
Lets get over to china correspondent in beijing for more. What are the latest developments . The economic front, we did hear from the finance minister over the weekend. There will be additional measures from china to cut taxes and fees to support the economy. We saw additional meters over bond issues at the local government level. Additional letters from policymakers to support the economy. Meet its social and economic target. The question is how much budgetary pressure china will be under and how aggressive these stimulus measures are going to be. Pboc has lowered Interest Rates ensure Financial Markets in terms of cases, 68,500 are the latest numbers in terms of infection. 1600 deaths. The rate of infections continues to slow. We had a doctor out of one of the hospital say that now according to state media, this is starting potentially to peak the rate of infection. The new officials on hubei profits, wuhan is the capital, population they are told not to leave their homes. Leadership