Anna good tuesday morning. My name is anna palmer, i am coauthor of the politico playbook. I am joined by my coauthor, jake sherman. And welcome to a special addiction of the playbook interview, election countdown. Joining us this morning is House Democratic whip jim clyburn of South Carolina, and former attorney general eric holder, who now is chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. You can follow this conversation on social media, and using the hashtag politico election countdown, and share your questions by tweeting at politico live. Jake what an election it has been so far, and what a next month it will be. The contort of this contest between the President Donald Trump and joe biden continues to be upended almost every day. As we sit here less than 30 days before the election, President Trump and a growing number of his inner circle, practically his entire inner circle has been diagnosed with covid19. Biden, who has largely been off the campaign trail, is now on t
You can follow this conversation on social media using the hashtag politico election countdown, and share your questions by tweeting at politico live. Jake what an election it has been so far, and what a next month it will be. The contours of this contest between the President Donald Trump and joe biden continues to be upended almost every day. As we sit here less than 30 days before the election, President Trump and a growing number of his inner circle, practically his entire inner circle, have been diagnosed with covid19. Biden, who has largely been off the campaign trail, is now on the stump. He was in miami yesterday, and he is going to gettysburg, pennsylvania today. There are increasing concerns about absentee voting and access to the polls. We are going to talk about all of these things and a few quick news of the day questions at the top, so lets get started. Anna congressman clyburn, we have got a lot to talk about to the election and voting, but with regard to the election an
America for making these conversations possible and thank you for joining us on these many platforms. You can find us on twitter. Our first guest is senator tim kaine of the commonwealth of virginia, one of only 30 people who has served as mayor, governor, and United States senator. And how is this for a fun fact . Asave been his constituent mayor, governor, and now as my senator. Senator kaine, welcome to axios. Sen. Kaine mike, its great to be back. We talked about how election day is now election month, i saw some pictures of you earlier in the county, my old stomping grounds outside of richmond voting and you are out there with congresswoman abigail stan , the numbers for early votingf. I think virginia might be leading the nation starting in person voting on the 18th of september, male were returned by the 18th of september, people understand that stakes are so high the selection i think you will see a dramatic increase in turnout over four years. And second because people are wor
This. And hear your questions by tweeting at politico, live. What a next month it will be. The contest between the President Trump and joe biden seems to be upended every day, as we sit here less than 30 days, and practice his inner circle with covid19. And biden has been on the stump and going gettysburg, pennsylvania, and there are increasing concerns about absentee voting. And the news of the day, lets get started. All right, congressman clyburn weve got a lot to talk about with the election and voting. The news of the day, coronavirus continues to rage and infiltrated the u. S. Capitol, three senators have been diagnosed with covid19. And the Democratic Leadership, to implement mandatory testing. Where do you stand on this . Do you think that there should be mandatory testing for members and staff . And thank you for having me, congratulations to the two of you that you all may be looking towards greener pastures, but congratulations on the good run here. But let me say this, nancy
Sometimes inflammatory, he has won the support of mainstream republican policymakers and voters alike, so what are we to make of this presidency . Have President Trumps policies been successful . If so, to what degree does populism deserve the credit . What should politicians learn of this recent rise of populism on the left and right . We will be discussing the issue with our guests, a professor of economics at university of chicago who served as chief economist for the council of economic advisors in the Trump Administration from september 2018 to august 2019. His most recent book released just last month is youre hired untold successes and failures of a populist president. And the director of Economic Policy studies here at aei, the author of the American Dream is not dead but populism could kill it, released in february of this year. To start off, casey will speak for about 10 minutes, and then mike will offer a 10minute response. After that, we will have a Panel Discussion for a w