Hington journal continues. Host back with Howie Hawkins the green Party President ial candidate and hell tell us how his campaign is going and what the green party offers for his candidacy for president. Howie, good morning. Guest good morning. Host we havent seen each other on this show since july. So tell us what has happened with your campaign from july until now and how your campaign is going. Guest well, the first thing weve focused on, july is when we got the national nomination, me and my running mate angela walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and i
Almost 10 years worth of its annual energy. When march in u. S. Cities to protest against president on trumps nomination of judge amy clooney. And person Prime Minister just into our day and enjoys a landslide election victories New Zealanders award half a curbing covert 19. And tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests and theyve been rejecting corruption in the ruling elite level and has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic saying a look at how we got here in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whats the cation triggered protests. Right across lebanon but it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service it led to the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and then only oldest a partial explosion ripped through central
Since july. Tell us, what has happened with your campaign from july until now . Your campaign is going. Guest well, the first thing weve focused on, july is when we got the national nomination, me and my running mate Angela Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is gettin
President ial election a record 69000000 americans have already voted both sides have been campaigning furiously as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cast a shadow mike hanna has more from washington d. C. On Campaign Efforts starting with. The 3 states hes visiting in the course of the day he took very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with joe biden by a shrunk that gap that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on the states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and or to do his within the white house. Polls have opened entire president ial and parliamentary elections president john mica food is seeking a 2nd term his governments been accused of cracking down on the opposition stifling dissent in the run up to the vote. Police in italy of 5 to gas up people protesting against new code 19 measures in restaurants now have to start much earlier than normal much of europe is see
Might happen especially. The opposition senses defeat weve been hearing very aggressive words opposition opposition both in towns in both in the mainland tanzania and zanzibar using a very aggressive told saying that they already believe that the election is being rigged attuned least to in his final campaign telling his supporters that if these results are announced prematurely if amys sense that election is being stolen then this people that hes supporters should go out to the streets and mosque process close to 17000000 americans have already voted with just under a week to go before the u. S. President ial elections the coronavirus pandemic continues to cast a shadow over campaigning with nearly half a 1000000 new infections just in the past week. U. S. Secretary of state mike compares his out of chinas ties with sri lanka during his latest stop on a tour of the region hes warned against Chinese Investment called its influence predatory china accuses washington of bullying smaller