President ial election and the latino vote. There is no question that 2020 for the first time in our countrys history, latinos were the largest ethnic minority, with 32 million eligible voters and with record numbers of latinos turning out the vote. Indeed, both President Donald Trump and president elect joe biden benefited from the high turnout of latino voters across the us yet the support that they received from this very diverse and complex electorate and why they are read in different parts of the country. While nationally the majority of latinos mailing democratic, when it comes to the state level, there are many constituencies that cannot be so easily counted on by either party. We are thrilled that maria selena will moderate. As we transition to a new administration and enter a new year, it is important to focus on the Lessons Learned and to know that the latino voice and our vote cannot be taken for granted. It requires an authentic connection and investment. I want to take a
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
Id like to start this interview by talking about you. I was talking a little more about you but i like the audience to start off honestly in your introduction. You got a note from a professor i believe saying youd never be apolitical scientist, can you talk about that . I put that in the book is i wanted to major in college and it was really torn between going into science and going into the humanities and social science and i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. And in my Political Science course we read all these great political philosophers on up and they were all asking the question what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people and particularly to make justice. So i ended up before i decided to become a Political Science major, i already had kind of a lack of confidence in my skills as a humanist for a social scientist be
Political reporting this morning a grand scheme as their headline. Trumps election defines consumes gop. It was just noise when it started, donald trump spouting unsubstantiated claims about election fraud. His lawyers at a press conference in the parking lot of a philadelphia landscaping business one week after an election in which joe biden received close to 5 million more votes than trump and captured more than 270 electoral votes. The president and Party Officials are nowhere near conceding. With his cheering and statements pompeo,ials like mike trump is fueling a bonfire that is consuming the gop and disrupting the traditional transfer of power. Only, steve is in sydney, ohio. Good morning. You are on the air. Caller im very pleased to be on the air. I vote in sydney, ohio. 18,000 people be for donald trump. 4000 people for mr. Biden. We thought that would go that way all over the place. But it did not. Have people here that are getting their food in parking lots. Have a lady call
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