Ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. Is fast in the east the river is 35 closer to how long. Was more i think were a part of the earth for. Less than a week into action day 2020 with voting on just cause of very anxious America Christine todd whitman the cereal with her take on this edition of politics. Welcome to politicking on larry king less than a week to go until election day on the swami with the voting lines across a very anxious america. Lets get perspective from a well a long republican or as in dos the democratic candidate for President Joe Biden she is Christine Todd whitman former administrator of the Environmental Protection agency the former governor of the state of new jersey the election is a week away of us in the week in the give me a look where you think you know ive chest i dont know i honestly dont know area its you know a trump voters clearly have a huge passion and they get more riled up every time he has a rally whether its those there are thos
Synod for god and everybody to hear that he had total authority i was done it is against democracy while trump does have a sturdy base the strength of republicans coming out against him cannot be overlooked. All right its coming up to 23 actually actually gone past 2300 hours g. M. T. 6 pm on the east coast and youre watching aljazeera special coverage of the 2020 u. S. Election as you can see from the truck at the top right of your screen were about an hour from the 1st polls closing on the east coast go straight to our White House Correspondent kimberly. Kimberly the big question looming of course is when when when when will we have an election whats the feeling at the white house behind you. I can tell you that the feeling at the White House Well the president projected a lot of optimism you can tell that there is a lot of tension behind the scenes the president has been very optimistic promising that there will be a red wave that he will be able to flip states that were typically d
Time when it comes to today, what is your assessment from what you see going on . Operatives, party insiders, experts, we poll those who are inside of the politics, and the conventional wisdom is most of them give a slight advantage to President Trump in florida, a state where republicans have a lot of muscle memory for victory. Democrats have had a tough time winning statewide elections here, when president obama is not on the ballot, so republicans have an edge in that regard. We have seen democrats going in with a slight advantage in their turnout so far. Host what is the expectation of turnout . Guest that remains to be seen. We have had so much early voting, it is hard to know if people were just shifting how they vote to earlier in the process. Voting by mail is tried and true here, and people are taking advantage because of the pandemic, more so than in years past. It is unclear if they turn out will carry over to election day, where we will see 80 in some of these large countie
Is still being done. Todays talk is the eighth this calendar year and we have one more in november when we will hear from charles stuart, Political Science professor at m. I. T. , longtime friend and supporter of this center who will talk about his coauthored book about electing the senate and direct democracy before the 17th amendment. That ought to be a pretty good talk. I have been looking forward to hosting todays guests. Since i first saw her in action at last years policy history conference chairing a panel that included members and that will include a tax historian who is in the audience today. Thank you for attending, carl. And we will hear from carl soon. Molly is an associate professor of history at Washington University and received her ph. D. Degree from the university of michigan. She is the author of the highly regarded tax and spend, the welfare state, tax politics, and the limits of american liberalism. She will also Say Something about her current book project which bu
The successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1970, gibsons administration marked a turning point for the black Freedom Movement in newark and was part of a National Wave a black political organizing that culminated in the election of black mayors in cities like cleveland, dairy, atlanta and detroit from 1967 to 1974. These histories feel particularly vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence in the wake of the murders of george floyd in minneapolis, jacob blake in kenosha, breonna taylor, as once again sounded the call for black liberation while raising familiar questions about electoral politics and black freedom struggles. 50 years ago, gibsons landmark election came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, when the Police Beating of an unarmed black man named john smith sparked a fiveday uprising against White Supremacy and its an forces in blue in the jim crow north. Amidst heightened organizing around rac