Described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large to support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership Survey and James Buchanan always falls at the bottom of the list as the worst leader in american president ial history. How would you characterize his leadership skill
Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
Republican incumbent senators market Martha Mcsally and cory gardner lost their races. Right now, republicans control 48 seats. Democrats hold 46 senate seats. There are two independent senators. More of your reaction to the election from washington journal. Or reason for voting for joe biden. Issuet to follow up on an some of our callers particularly those who support joe biden have brought up when it comes to the u. S. Postal service. Concerns about delivery of mailin ballots. This story from usa today. A federal judge upgraded lawyers after the agency failed to make its election day order for postal inspectors to sweet Mail Processing facilities in more than a dozen states. Sullivanjudge emmet said he was shocked to learn that some and crucial battleground states of florida, arizona, texas, wisconsin, pennsylvania, had not been searched. Leaving authorities unavailable to determine if all ballots had been delivered. It leaves a bad taste in everyones mouth. To governmentthat lawyers
A thirdparty candidate, 2027488002. If you want to texas with your 2027488003. You can tweet us and our Facebook Page available at facebook. Com cspan. Throughout the day there will be a lot going on, not only with vote counts but legal challenges and other things adding up to an ultimate result. Here to keep us updated on those events as they happen throughout the day is john mcardle. Guest the numbers we are working on is the Associated Press numbers, looking to them for results and calls. You may see other numbers and calls elsewhere, but we will be going back to the Associated Press numbers. To take you to the president ial battlefield, the map you just saw, President Trump and joe biden separated this morning with 60 electoral votes to get. Joe biden at 264 electoral votes , President Trump a 214. Joe biden picking up electoral votes yesterday when the Associated Press called michigan and wisconsin. President trump currently up in pennsylvania. Still about 10 left to count in penn
Right now, looking live from our Sales Force Tower camera. Bit foggy as we look south. Good morning. Its wednesday, november 11th. Happy veterans day. My dad always said he is a vet. He says hug a veteran. Coronavirus dont hug a veteran. You can do an air hug. Thats true. Like that. Like that. Thats like jazz fingers. We are giving mary a hug. Jazz hands. Yeah. Good morning to you. We are looking at the clouds. You saw that fog on the Sales Force Tower camera. That indicates changes for us as its not as cold as yesterday morning or the day before. We have that cloud cover acting like a blanket. Thats why its more of a mild start. Here is a live look with our mark hop kins hotel camera. You can see the clouds and fog as we start off our day. Our temperatures this morning are looking in the 40s and 50s as we start off our day. We are looking at 55 in concord. 54 oakland. Livermore 52 and San Francisco. San jose and santa rosa at 49 degrees with those clouds. As we head through the aftern