Mcconnell and she were making arguments for and against the nomination. The clerk will report the culture motion. In accordance with provisions of rule 22, standing rules of the senate to hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett from indiana, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States signed by 18 sanders as follows. Mcconnell, ernst, blackburn, cap until, graham perdue, grassley. Cotton, for, alexander. Majority leader. My First Experience with Supreme Court confirmation here in the senate, i was a young staffer for the judiciary committee, that was also the same time i met a young guy demed Alexander Just left the senate to go to the white house and work in congressional affairs. Ive had the opportunity for quite a long time to observe the confirmation process, various ups and downs. When nominees were consumed almost overwhelmingly during which they were hated, contest over the nomination i could safely about the senate, over the
As a learning opportunity for students. We have students involved in the process. We Contact People from North Carolina only. We started doing a statewide poll. Live caller with students being the callers. Now we do online and live caller. With covid because of restrictions we have on campus, we have had to temporarily go to online only. Almost everyienced method of survey people from North Carolina. Fare inw did your polls 2016 . What have you changed . Guest that is a great question. In 2016, the polling average had Hillary Clinton up by 3. 3 . We know that donald trump won the state. We were in the middle that. We recognized that something was wrong with our sampling. We tried to look at who really turned out versus what we were predicting . Theirllsters weight samples to try to predict what the turnout will be. We looked very carefully at that. We adjusted our turnout models based on 2016 and 2018 to get a more accurate model. We adjusted the questions in our survey to try to get a
For those not voting this year you can call us at 202 . 488003 we begin with a story from the Associated Press this morning about early voting. A record avalanche of early votes has transformed the 2020 election. You can see pictures of folks voting in durham, North Carolina for the beginning goes like this. More than 22 million americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election. A record shattering avalanche of early votes. The pandemic has transformed the way the nation votes. 22. 2 million, thats as a friday night, ballots submitted, representing 15 of all votes cast in the 2016 election. Even as eight states are not yet reporting their totals and voters still have more than two weeks to cast ballots. Americans rushed to vote, leading that a record of 150 million votes may be cast and turnout rates could be higher than any president ial election since 1908. The story goes on to say that so far, the turnout has been lopsided with democrats out in 42 republicans by 21 states. Re
Wildfire risk of the year. The wind is already picking up at this hour and gusts could reach 70 miles an hour in the highest elevations. Pg e is closely monitoring power lines and any trees that could knock them out. The entire bay area except San Francisco could be in the dark by the end of tonight. The first round of shutoffs are underway in parts of napa and sonoma counties. In less than an hour residents in marin could lose power and the shutoffs are expected to sweep across a large portion of the east bay and the peninsula. The threat of powerful gusts once the sun goes down. Yeah. The wind is already picking up and our red flag warning is already in effect. I guess well go to darren first. Paul, i know youll focus heavily on the red flag warning. In fact, i could do that first. The red flag warning has been extended. It start tonight and it will take us through the remainder of this evening and into tuesday. Read the details on the bottom lefthand corner. Extreme fire weather bay
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