Watch our president ial debate video from the cspan video library. With just four weeks to go now until election day, 2020 we take a look at the battle for control of the senate were joined by Jessica Taylor of the nonpartisan political report Jessica Taylor it will take a net game of four seats for democrats to take the senate, three if they also take the white house. S how likely is that outcome as you survey the senate battlefield today . You know in july we were saying thatel democrats had a slight edge. And i think that that edge has now really grown. And especially over the past, you know, very tumultuous week with trump that clearly turned off a lot of voters were seeing that reflected in. National pols of the president ial race, and sundays nbc washington journal poll, that had him up 14. But excuse me joe biden up 14. Cnn poll had him up 16. Those kind of numbers have a major effect on down ballot senate races and you know republicans strategist that ive been talking to yester
On the senate elections. Author and Vice President ial scholar Joel Goldstein reviews wednesday nights Vice President ial debate. Nightsews wednesday Vice President ial debate. Host good morning. 6 2020. Esday, october President Trump returned to the white house after a three day hospital stay. The president declared that he felt that her than he had in decades and urged americans not to be afraid of covid or let it dominate their lives. We are asking our viewers whether the president s Coronavirus Diagnosis has changed your view of covid19. Give us a call. Republicans 202 7488001. Democrats 202 7488000. Ndependents 202 7488002 if you have had covid19, 202 7488003. You canalso the number send us a text this morning. Please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise on social media, on twitter it is at cspan wj. Good tuesday morning. You can start calling in now. When president y hemp announced via twitter would be leaving walter reed. He said, i feel better than i did 20 years a
How likely is that outcome as you survey the senate battlefield today . Guest in july, we were saying that democrats had a slight edge. I think that edge has now really grown. Especially over the past tumultuous week that we saw beginning with the disastrous debate for President Trump that has clearly turned off a lot of voters. We are seeing that reflected in National Polls of the president ial race and sundays washington journal poll. As cnn poll had joe biden up 16. Those kind of numbers have a major effect on senate races. Republican strategists i have been talking to that are working like,se races, they are the numbers are just bad everywhere. There is a lot of pessimism i am hearing. Today is four weeks from election day. There is not a lot of time to change things around, especially when a lot of people are already voting. You mentioned they need for seats if joe biden does not win and three seats if they do not. I think the likelihood that joe biden wins is slightly greater if
Recent Political Trends given clues on how the state might vote in november. Today our focus is North Carolina. Were joined now by Jason Roberts university of North Carolina chapel hill professor mr. Roberts happened in 2016 in the state of North Carolina. Why is it a battleground state heading into november . 2016 was one of the least close elections. They been very evenly divided, 2008 barack obama had a very narrow victory here on president obama. President trump won by about three points heremp in 2016. The biggest change between 2008 and 2012 to 2016, we saw a sharp decline in turnout in 2016. House the ray shaping up for november . Is very, very close. If you look at the real politics average going into today, they have Vice President biden with. 5 lead. Think its the closest of any of the battleground states gradual thing ive seen a poll yet this election season that shows either candidate leading outside the pole margin of error. At this point its 50 52 close to call. And a can
This was about half an hour. Governor cuomo good morning, thank you for being here. To my right is new york city police. To my left is melissa derosa. To her left is the budget director. It is another long and ugly night in the United States of america. Last night, as it was in new york state. Day 97 of the coronavirus crisis, day 12 of the civil unrest dealing with the aftermath of mr. Floyds murder, and this is a dangerous combination, colliding crises, compounding each other. But, our job is to address what is presented, and this is the reality presented, and this is what we will deal with. On the coronavirus situation, there is a lot to learn from what we just went through, and i believe it is a transformative situation for society, and something that we can really learn from going forward. Coronavirus was a medical issue, and economic issue, but more than anything, it was a social issue. It was about how people behave, and to address coronavirus, what we had to do was to change so