[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
Voting early at much higher rates than republicans and so we can expect to see that the early vote will look a lot more democratic than republican and that the in person vote on election day will look a lot more republican than democratic which balance things out in ohio speed. Host what are the productions for voter turnout overall . Guest ohio traditionally has a higher rate of voter turnout then other states in the country because it is a swing state and because our elections are so competitive. In the past it is been upwards of 60 and i think we can see even higher percentageses of vor turnout rates this election season. Host walk us through the history of how ohio has voted in previous president ial elections . Guest sure. There is a saying that so goes ohio, so goes the nation and it is a saying that has the virtue of being true and no republican has ever won the white house without winning the presidency and since 1964 ohio has voted for the winning candidate in every single pre
2016 if you look at the election, donald trump won the state by eight percentage points, about 450,000 votes. All of the public polling and on the ground stuff you see really does point to this being a close race. I dont know it is necessarily tilting one way or another, but maybe a slight tilt toward trump right now. Shift in is a massive the land the land, even from a year ago from what we were expecting. You have seen both candidates really investing as of late in heretate, biden being twice over the past month and Kamala Harris being here. The Trump Campaign is ramping up, so they come to the state with mike pence and trumps children making a lot of appearances. Trump himself appearing outside of circleville, outside of columbus last week. The trunk campaign is trying to exude confidence and say, we have the state locked up. Joe biden is wasting his time there. Yet you keep seeing these indicators that maybe this race is closer than everybody things. Levelsoting is at record of tur
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Journal, we focus on the battleground state of ohio. Coming up in an hour, seth richardson. Copeland. M. , lauren host good morning on this wednesday, october 28. We are six days away from President Trump asking america to give him a second term. This morning, we will focus on his first term. Has president kept his promises . If you are supporting the president , dial in at 20274 80001. If you are supporting the former Vice President , dialin a if you are0, undecided or supporting another 4880002. , call 2027 2027488002. Usa today put this piece together, donald trump made many promises. What has he cap and what is he still working on . Kept by the president , tax cuts, conservative judges, deregulation, he left the paris accord and move the Israeli Embassy to jerusalem. The newspaper says these are the promises the president has partly accomplished, renegotiate trade bills, build border wall and have mexico pay for it and defeat isis. Here is where the president here is where they say