Im more than willing to work with him. A senator, a Vice President , and finally President Elect on his third try. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Tonight, do you see yourself as the Polar Opposite of donald trump . I hope so. A cnn special report. Fight for the white house joe bidens long journey. Its a good night its a good night and it seems to be getting even better. More than 30 years after his first run for the presidency joe biden with a lead tonight and a lead overall in the del inaugurate race. On his third try for the white house. We are very much alive it was the Sweet Super Tuesday that joe biden had always dreamed of, setting a clear path to the nomination finally at age 77. It was like, okay, lets buckle up. Were going to go. It was a really good feeling. It was glorious. Glorious and unusual to say the least. Fact no one has ever come in fourth in iowa and fifth in New Hampshire and gone on to become the democratic president ial nominee. To
Registration and dramatically increased the number of latino elected officials in this nation. His appeal to the Hispanic Community was simple, passionate, and direct. Su voto es su voz. Your vote is your voice. We are going to be talking about the records of the southwest Voter Registration education project. They are the oldest and largest nonpartisan latino Voter Registration organization in the country. The collection contains the first 20 years of the organizations existence. They are still in existence today. It is a very deep and wide collection if you are interested in learning about Voter Registration, particularly in minority communities. The organization was started in 1974 by willie velasquez. He is from san antonio. As a very young man, he was heavily involved in the chicano movement. When he was in college, he was one of the founders of the mexicanamerican youth organization, which was involved in doing Voter Registration drives at local colleges. Also involved in high sc
Journalists peter baker and Susan Glasser on the brandnew book on james baker, the life and times of james baker. Iner baker, no relation come Susan Glasser, welcome to washington journal. Let me start with a question about the idea of doing this book on james baker. This obviously predates the 2020 election, but this is earlier than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off bal
[laughter] natalie, you previously worked for npr and are now working with a get out the Vote Organization you have told us about. We are proud your supporting democracy and you are doing social media. Democracy, media and the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building an app to tell how long polling lines are. Bringing in the democracy, media, and the public sphere. We need those apps. My husband is in line now, a 70minute wait where he is. Both of you get a hat. They each get a hat that says cspan 2020 on the front. On the back, unfiltered. [laughter] you each get a hat. You each get something that you clean screens and microfiber. That is right. And then, very handy, always needed, a pen. [applause] thank you, both, for your work promoting democracy, media, and the public sphere, which is why we are all here today, right . Today we are going to talk about political advertising in campaigns. This is from chapter 13 in our book. There is much to discuss. Something that came to
Hello, everyone. So glad to have you back for democracy media in the public sphere. So first were going to do a shout out to begin our class as weve done before. Can i have natalie and ryan come up here, please . Okay. Natalie and ryan. Natalie and ryan are giving you a shout out, a special shout out to start class. Go ahead and have a seat. So Natalie Natalie has previously worked for npr, you are now working with a get out the Vote Organization which youve told us a little bit about and were just really proud that youre supporting that democracy and youre doing social media to democracy media in the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building an app to tell us how long the polling lines are, which is just incredible. So bringing in, again, that democracy media and the public sphere. We need those apps, my husband is in line right now, 70minute wait where he is so people are really going to need this app that ryan is creating. So to you both, you get a hat. A round of applause.