The postelection risk rally faltering. Of good morning, everybody. 7 00 in london. Eight in paris or berlin. Lets have a look at the equity markets. Look like europe this. Negative. This is indicative of what we have seen on u. S. Futures or are seeing. U. S. Futures down 0. 5 . Nasdaq futures off their lows but still pretty negative. We are losing our nerve on Global Equity markets. Three days into this neverending election account it seems, the context of course is important. The rally we have seen must have been forgotten when we look at nasdaq futures, up nine, down one. Lets have a look at the gmm. Going on other things here. Oil prices are interesting, down by just over 2 . Dollar, not all about what is going on the dollar. Inflation trade unwinding. Investors wait, the electorate in the United States waits for the counting to continue. The race for the white house is still too close to call. Counting continues in crucial swing states with joe biden catching up in georgia and pen
8002. U are unsure, 202748 you can text us at 2027488903. On twitter it is cspan. Wj. And facebook. It is republicans only for that question. We will open it up tomorrow for democrats only in our first hour of the program as well. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. One of those former supporters and fox opinion commentator opinion writer in the wall street journal. Bases his peace. The headline, this election result will not be overturned. Occasionally change margins in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands. It has been an unsettling year, at deadly virus claimed almost a quarter million lives, a lockdown demolished personal routines and left us gasping for normality, a sudden deep depression snatched newfound prosperity for families, so why not finish out with a miscast election as the finale . Trump is that mr. Pursuing legal challenges in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, nevada, and there will be an automatic recount in georgia given bidens. 29 lead.
This should give us all great hope. It could be here as early as december and we will be ready. We will be ready to get it out as soon we receive it. We have been told that it will come in batches. In the first several months the priority will be to get it out to protect the most vulnerable and to protect our essential health workers. We will then be able to move to the general population. At some point after that, we hope to achieve significant immunity in ohio. , i want to talk to you about what we do until then. We are now at the most crucial phase of this pandemic. Of our third midst wave in ohio. In the spring, as the virus , we shut things down, flattened to the curve, and were able to open back up. In the summer, we got hit again. The virus was heaviest in urban areas and some of our mayors in the department of health issued mask orders in these hotspots. Mask wearing in those areas went up dramatically. As a result, cases dropped dramatically. Now seeing a third spike. But this
Congressman bob barr is with his deputy serves as president resd Law Enforcement Education Foundation. The question we ask our viewers in the first hour of our program today was are they concerned Political Division inth this country will spur violence for after the election . How would you answer that question . Guest its a question we should never really have to ask but the state of the country date is such that it is a relevant question to ask unfortunately. We have seen the past six months or so significant violence erupting in cities from coast to coast and in americas heartland. It does raise the question in peoples mind how much of this violence, if any, i is related o the political environment and whether it will continue after the election. None of us really have an answer for that but i worry a great deal that for example, it President Trump is elected those who are opposed to him which seem to be many of those engaged in violent acts will continue their violence. But its dif
202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. That michigang story yesterday, a special line for michigan residents, 202 7488003. That is also the number that you morning. Us a text this if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, on twitter cspanwj, and on facebook facebook. Com cspan. Good friday morning to you. More on that Governor Gretchen Whitmer and michigan story. Today storya yesterday about a yougov poll. 7 ,d that nearly half, 40 disagreed with the idea that the election is likely to be fair and honest and significantly more than half, 51 , will not generally agree with on who is a legitimately elected president of the United States. That online poll conducted october 1 through second. It also noted that another found poll of 1500 voters that 56 found they expected the an increased in violence as a result of the election. Those results by yougov published in usa today. A politico, this focusing on