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
Joining joining us from washington at the Washington National Committee Headquarters is ronna mcdaniel, rnc. Its your job to make sure that voters get to the polls, and in key states like michigan where youre from, how are you dealing with that. We went virtual as states were shutting down coming up with protocols and making sure that ppe is available and weve switched back to a fully in force ground game and knocking doors in all the Battle Ground states. We had the infrastructure in place already and now were knocking about a million doors a week. Are you worried about covid19 . Are you taking precautions . Were taking the safety and Health Precautions necessary, we went completely virtual at first, so that we made sure that there was ppe available, that all the procedures are being put in place and now weve gone to the full ground game. We feel really good about it. We obviously are cognizant of the home owners and making sure were putting their safety first, but so far, theres been
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
News when he was asked about Election Night he said we are going to see what happens. From your standpoint, what does that mean . Guest of course the president is going to accept the results of the election, but i think that the president is concerned, as am i. , about many of the walls across the country being changed by democrats that are undermining the ability to get results, allowing ballots to be counted in some cases up to 14 days past election day and i think these are real concerns we have and why we are engaged in many lawsuits across the country. I dont understand why democrats are systematically in such an uncertain time with the country so divided going state by statee in trying to undermine the integrity especially when it has been said that its safe to vote in person. With michigan they had a Million People vote in their primary and there was no uptick in the coronavirus across the country democrats are undermining many of the processes that have been indicted and tried
Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Then opinion editor for book on the his new road in trumps america, a journey into the heart of a divided nation. The journey included stops in pennsylvania, ohio, michigan. What did you see and hear . What did you hear . Would i found, you not be surprised, a divided country. Talking to many people, and many people over those three years, very few people have changed their mines about President Trump. Those who supported him for years ago support him today. Those who opposed him in 2016 still oppose him. It is not that peoples views of the president have not changed, but where they have, people have a more extreme and, i say, deeply entrenched view of the president , so if they voted for him, started liking him now, they love him. If they sort of opposed him in 2016, now they hate him. I was say that is a product of our tribal nature of our politics. People use words like we are divided, pol