At 8 45, the Washington Examiners Joseph Simonson talks about joe bidens relationship with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Good morning, it is friday, september 18, 2020. The house is set to meet in a pro forma session at noon today. The senate will convene on monday. We are with you for the next three hours on washington journal. Hearing from you on how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Newly released data show that nearly one million americans file for firsttime jobless benefits last week. Our phone lines split up a bit differently this morning. If you are unemployed, 202 7488000. If you have senior hours reduced, 202 7488001. If you have recently returned to work, 202 7488002. The phone line for business owners, that number 202 7488003. You can also send us a text this morning. That number also 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up with us on social media, on twitter, c spanwj. Very good friday morning
Doing focus groups for the last three years trying to understand what was going on with voters inside my own party, and one of the things i learned was that voters had reservations about donald trump, especially women, even if they voted for him. They did not like him, and a lot of their 2016 vote had more to do with disliking Hillary Clinton than liking donald trump. I have been thinking for a long time about how do you move those voters from Donald Trumps column in order to defeat him in 2020, and that is we found that is why we founded Republican Voters against trump, because we needed to hear from other Republican Voters who just could not do it anymore in terms of voting for donald trump. If you go to our rep website t. Org you can see that there from000 testimonials people who voted for trump and 2016, but they are doing little testimonials that talk about why they cannot support donald trump in 2020 and will support joe biden, and for people who have been culturally, privately,
The hunt and lies also fed into a deranged Conspiracy Theory about jews bringing migrants into the u. S. It also brought violence to a walmart in el paso where 20 people were killed and more than two dozen injured by a man whose racist hatred was aimed at immigrants and latinos. I will immediately terminate president obamas illegal executive order on immigration. But after the inauguration, he seemed to soften. He was getting a lot of private counsel that ending daca would be a total disaster. Daca is very, very difficult subject for me, i will tell you. As early as january 9, 2018, President Trump had an opening during a bipartisan white house meeting on immigration. Were here today to advance bipartisan immigration reform. Reporter democratic senator dick durbin was seated right next to the president. He was saying things that did not fit into the republican platform when it came to immigration. Republicans were not going to vote for a bill that simply gave legal status to the dreame