Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. Good morning. It is veterans day, november 11, 2020. This is washington journal. We will talk about the continuing standoff in this first hour. We want your calls this year. If you are a supporter of joe biden and Kamala Harris, the line is 202 7488000. Supporters of donald trump and mike pence, 202 7488001. All others, or if you did not vote, the line 202 7488002. Also, send us a text if you would like. It is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. Andwitter cspanwj faceb
Were elected through back channels, small party conventions. In 1968, 73 of democratic delegates through the convention had been elected this way. Less than 25 were elected in the way we normally do it. President Lyndon Johnson took himself out of the race. He was not up for reelection in 1968. This initiated a freefall in the Democratic Party between a number of candidates. One of which who was very popular was unfortunately dead by august of 1968. That was robert kennedy. He was a peace candidate. He had been a unifying candidate for many people in the party. He was assassinated in june of 1968. That is one thing lying behind the convention in august of 1968. The kennedy delegates who had been elected, pledged to kennedy. Hubert humphrey, Lyndon Johnsons Vice President had become the nominee by august. There was another peace candidate, mccarthy who had delegates like kennedy who showed up in chicago in august. It is something of a freeforall where the delegates are concerned. It is
Black political organizing that culminated in the election of course black mayors like cleveland, atlanta and detroit from 1967 to 1974. They feel particularly vital right now as blackled struggles in the wake of Police Murders of george floyd in minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in louisville, and kenosha have sounded the call for black liberation while raising questions about the role of electoral politics and black freedom struggles. 50 years ago gibsons landmark election came on the heels was 1967 rebellion in newark when the Police Beating of an unarmed black man, john smith, had whit supremacy and its enforcers in blue in the jim crow north. Amid heightened racist renewal projects and educational injustice, it recalled countless Police Killings that had gone unpublished into the years and brought thousands into the streets that july. State police and National Guardsmen were brought into the city to violently suppress the uprising, claiming two dozen lives in the process including ed ed
Damage the cleanup begins in the philippines after one of the most powerful storms this year at least 16 people are dead. And a journalist is killed every 4 days well find out why most perpetrators are not held to account. With your sports news sports host called begins here in russias appeal against a 4 year. Relationship. But we begin this news out in afghanistan where 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured during a gun battle inside Kabul University. That attack ended just in the past hoffa nowa multiple attackers entered that campus earlier on monday and security Security Forces killed 3 of them and the taliban says its fighters are not responsible for that raid well lets now speak to control for 8 in kabul for us for you and i this is literally just ended were still getting more details what do we know at this stage. When this says it the Afghan Ministry of interior confirmed to us just a little while ago that the operation to secure the campus of Kabul University and it
Year killed 16 people and displaces close to a 1000000. Anger as well as resignation across europe those restrictions are tightened to fight a 2nd wave of coronavirus and m. P. To statements as sports highest court begins hearing the russians appealed against a 4 year ban for anti doping violations. That are just 24 hours left before polls open in the u. S. President ial election both donald trump and joe biden are using the final day of campaigning to focus on crucial battleground states a record 19000000 voters have already cast their ballots polls indicate biden has a lead nationwide but the race appears to be tight in some crucial swing states and gallacher has the latest from. Miami. President donald trump began his campaign sprint of battleground states in chile michigan 4 years ago trump took this state breaking the Democratic Partys socalled blue wall in this nations industrial rust belt as election day approaches National Polls show hes trailing biden. Thank you very much i lo