The latest campaign 2020 initiative. And Oakland University Political Science professor will talk about michigan is a key battleground state in november. Good morning. Its friday, september 20 fifth. We begin with your reaction to President Trumps remarks this week about a peaceful transfer of power. Supporting the biden harris ticket dial in at 202 7488000. If youre supporting the president and Vice President pence, bite dial in at 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate, 202 7488002. ,lso text us with your comments first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Or join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Call,we wait for your heres a question and answer from the president on a peaceful transfer of power from wednesday evening. Inits win, lose, or draw this election, will you commit today for a peaceful transferral of power after the election. There has been rioting in many cities across this country, and your socalled red and blue states. Will you commit
Battleground states, looking at the key states that could play a crucial role in this years election. We turn our attention to the state of michigan, and we begin with Detroit Free Press washington correspondent Todd Spangler. Where do things stand right now in the state of michigan . s leadlooks like riding in michigan is still pretty solid looks like bidens lead in michigan is still pretty solid. The last one had him at eight points up. Looks like he is doing well. Not as big a lead as it was a month or so ago. Host why has he lost that edge . Guest frankly, as we get closer to the election, we always expected a tightening of the race. During the summer, the height of the black lives matter protests and some of the actions being taken by the administration, that number balloons, at one point as high as 16. We expected it to come down. Considering an election the four years ago trump won michigan by. 2 , eight is still a pretty big number. We expect it to come back down and narrow eve
This is about an hour and a half. I am a professor at the university of michigan. I am honored to be here and a member of the board of trustees. This is the final question in the symposium. The question seeks to part four of the exhibit, which you will hopefully have a chance to see which followse, case study examples and thematic analysis, including some things that might resonate with the panel we just had. It seeks to sum up, pull together, congeal the insides of the divot on the side of the data we have had today. Part of what we are about is reclaiming history. The easy part is about making invisible stories visible. It has been one of the fundamental goals of this great museum. Harder as weart is do live in a largely ahistorical time. The culture that shapes those students tend to focus a lot on the new, the now, the future. As if time begins at this moment right now. Or maybe yesterday, last week, or at test last year. Meaning that problems may have a history, but the history do