Moderate a panel on havel candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I wanted to introduce our panel. Viannaichael steele, carmen, and jesse wegman. Statesooking back at the visited by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Ohio, north carolina, florida, pennsylvania. Democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin more. If we did change the system, what would be the impact of campaigns and their strategies . They visited the large states. I was amused when senator cramer of north dakota, defending the Electoral College said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Guess what. When it comes to president of politics, north dakota is totally irrelevant right now. Lets say we had a president ial election that was looking close in terms of popular votes. Then every vote would count and candidates would have an incentive to try to maximize the turnout in places like north dakota. Things when we dissected Hillary Clintons loss , one
Even during the heart of the Mueller Investigation and his testimony you had a bipartisan majority that opposed impeachment. It only received 35 percent, 40 support. We learned more about the president s relationship with the ukraine as we saw with these texts. You see in most polls a majority americans supporting at least the impeachment inquiry, supporting the democrats position. And even when you ask, do you support actual removal of the president , thats about 45 , 48 support at the rally. It is growing. So, that is an opinion that is affecting democratic support of impeachment. How about when republicans are polled . What is the trend their . You are right. The Democratic Base is consolidating around impeachment. Thats responsible for some of the jump. But independent voters, the one consistent theme is they were overwhelmingly against impeachment a month ago. Now they are split and the trend line is moving toward beinghment, moving toward concerned about what they are seeing on t
What are the processes for holding a president accountable . Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. Today, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee talked about the 2020 campaign and the chance for President Trumps recent rally in North Carolina tournd her back, directed toward ill on omar. It was discussed at it was hosted by the question signs monitor. It is an hour. Linda its a little after 9 00. Were going to start and im good to talk a little bit and let the congressman eat quickly. Im Linda Feldman from the Christian Science monitor Washington Bureau chief for our guest is congressman tom emmer of minnesota the chairman of the National Republican campaign committee. This is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Now we will give you bennett queue ground. He was born in south bend indiana and grew up in the dina minnesota attended First Boston College and the university of alaska fairbanks and played hockey for both. Then he got his law degree
Pretty simple. They talk about jobs, a strong economy, a strong defense. But in this particular case i was doing it about ridgecrest and it was about disaster assistance. Just had a multiple of earthquakes, some even yesterday weve been through. They were looking to see where their government would be. Theres a military base there too, see if wed be able to rebuild it. When i answered questions about what was going on in the house for the last week, talked about an impeachment bill coming up. The contempt. And anything else this new socialist democrat majority wanted to do to go after this administration. Whats interesting is, i didnt turn to the republicans for the question, i found a question that i agreed with that came from a chief of staff from a democratic member. That challenged anyone to name one thing that the democrats have done to help the voters around the issues around the Kitchen Table of that telephone town hall that night. I agree with him, theres not one i have found.
So matt its wonderful to be with you and its a delight to be able to get to do this with you. And weve known each other for years, and i find you to be a singularly happy, hopeful and patriotic person. And i think anyone who cares about our system of governance and representation will learn a lot from your hard work and your deep research. Despite the subtitle, the swamp creatures, latte liberals and ruling class elites cashing in on america, you do not aim with filthy rich politicians to enrage your fellow citizens. You instead outline rational, doable, commonsense reforms that we can all support and we should. So lets dig right in. Why does it matter that politicians are rich, even if theres a perception that they are allowed to feather their nests . Yeah, well, look, i think that the reason it matters is that it is eroding trust in, liberal democracy and elected officials. And we have seen a correlation. I would say in the last four or five decades between the gap widening, between