Ballots. In the meantime, they arent getting there. By the way, those are two items. If they dont get those two items, you cant have universal mail in voting because they arent equipped to have it. Later in a news conference, the president chose slightly different wards implying it was Democrats Holding up the deal but the point was the same. If the post office, if they dont approve a bill and the post office therefore wont have the money and if they dont approve a big bill, a bigger bill and theyre not going to have 3. 5 million, how can you have those votes . It would mean is the people have to go to the polls. The comments come after the president spent months and despite those in charge of national sec tourry but there is an evidence 06is there is a slowdown in mail in at least nine states in part because of concerns about the coronavirus. A memo sent to workers and obtained confirms as much about the slowdown, quote, unfortunately this initiative had unintended consequences that i
President and Vice President. It will be a virtual fourday event, the convention cochair phil murphy says the parties message to the nation of voters is clear. The theme uniting america says it all. We are the big ten party, this is a moment in American History where weve got to put the us versus them in the Rearview Mirror and come together in common purpose. Eric peter doocy is live in delaware and covering the Biden Harris Campaign with the presumptive nominee will be making this acceptance speech virtually later this week. Hi peter. Good afternoon, both Joe Biden Kamala harris will speak a few hundred yards away from where im standing and willing under wilmington and this afternoon were learning where highprofile democrats are going to make their remarks to delegate remotely. I am very honored to have been asked to speak at the convention, i will be speaking with the statue of liberty looking all over my shoulder from the brooklyn waterfront and speaking about immigration and its i
The fallout from the russian matter that happened just hours ago but first, chief White House Correspondent john roberts kicks off our coverage from the north lawn. Good afternoon on this friday. Good afternoon to you. And just the last couple of hours upping the pressure on democrats to come back to the table and sign a Coronavirus Relief bill in a series of tweets outlining what he is prepared to do immediately said that democrats are holding him up but the president said he is prepared to do more direct payments to all americans to the tune of 3400 for a family of four, that mirrors the first direct payment and also additional paycheck Protection Plan payments to Small Businesses and spend more money for states and local governments including 105 billion to schools. One of the main sticking points in getting the deal has been mining the democrats are demanding from the post office, 25,000,000,000. 03 and a half billion dollars to handle the expected surge of mailin voti voting. The
Take a look. Joe biden is not a savior. If given the chance he will be the destroyer of american greatness. They will make every city look like democrat run portland. No one will be safe in bidens america. At the Democratic National convention you barely heard a word about their agenda. Thats not because they dont have one. Its because their agenda is the most extreme set of proposals put forward by a major party nominee. Joe bidens agenda is made in china. My agenda is made in the u. S. A. Joe bidens plan is not a solution to the virus but a surrender to the virus. The president and republicans reaching out to three groups of voters during the rnc. Maga supporters and africanamerican and swing voters. Were they successful in selling the message . Greg, lets say, virtual experiment in conventions is over. Ratings were down all around. But the Biden Campaign bragging that their candidates speech got more viewers than President Trumps speech. Why do you think that was . Probably there is
The president as you mentioned on his way to arizona, a state that was last won by the democrats way back in 1996. The previous time before that was harry truman in 1948, so this has been for the most part a pretty reliably red state. The president won by three and a half points but the democrats smelling some blood in the water in the grand canyon state. Biden is up by 2 in the real clear politics average which is why the president headed there today to be in yuma for a tour of the border wall, the border barrier has been replaced on the president also receive the endorsement of the National Border control and contrasting his policies with those of joe biden. Earlier in cedar rapids, iowa, one of the few battleground states for the president leads and public bowling up about 2 there, the president was surveying the damage from that terrible storm last week getting a briefing after approving a disaster declaration for the Hawkeye State yesterday. It was done in record time and we are o