The 40th annual american book awards. I say it is very appropriate that we are holding this ceremony on the day of the dead. In San Francisco. And in california, and at the end of the west. Not just geographically mind you, you go any further west, you are in the east. Far east. So just this last month, afghanistan turned 18. I say its you say is going to vote . Congressional budget for every 24 hours the war cost hundred and 74 million. So in a city named for st. Francis, who city fathers and mothers now treated citizens as if they were merely detritus of capitalism, is trying these big two. And if state named for a black lesbian amazon clean of the islamic faith took up on that, but these are just the names that we know right now. Because there are monday names for this place became long before any of us were here and there will be monday names to come. In fact the origin of those names came from a group of people who arrived from youre up are increasingly starting to up here within
Them passed on standalobe bases. Problem is, no sign House Democrats are willing to do this piecemeal and Senate Republicans will not support this big package. That means that no matter what the president tweets, and yesterday he tweeted or retweeted 65 times, those millions and millions of struggling Americans Still waiting for help will probably have to keep waiting. Inside the white house, the biggest focus right now is a rising number of covid cases. Inside the white house itself on tuesday, President Trumps longtime aide stephen miller, the 18th person connected to this administration or the campaign to test positive. And you can bet coronavirus is going to be a key topic this evening with Vp Mike Pence also head of the Coronavirus Task force who meets senator Kamala Harris in their one and only debate. And vp debates are not normally your thing, remember, when one president ial candidate is 77 and the other is 74, sick with a potentially deadly disease, the running mates become a
Tuesday night. By aggressive they mean declaring victory before he hits the threshold of 270 electoral votes. Apparently they think gets close is enough even though it is not. And even though potentially millions of ballots could still have not been counted. The president at the moment calls the reports false. And speaking of false, there was a lot of that at the president s rallies sunday. He repeated the false claim that only votes counted november 3rd are valid. The Supreme Court gave them more time, more time. So, what does this mean . Does this mean we go and we wait so its not november 3rd . Its going to be much later than that . No, no. We should know the result of the election on november 3rd, the evening of november 3rd. Thats the way its been and thats the way it should be. Whats going on in this country . Whats going on . That is simply not true. Its also not possible and its really never been true. As for joe biden, hes making it clear that he knows his path to victory runs
Sonja perez, the largest hispanic advocacy Rights Organization in the nation. She has conducted and published research on latino social policy and demographic issues, including editing, moving up the economic ladder, latinos and the nations future prosperity which includes the Current Employment status of latinos and factors that influence their social economic. We will begin with comments, followed by time with questions. For those of you in the room, if you have a question, please write it on the cards that have been circulated and pass them to kate. Her hand is up. She is collecting those cards. Remember to print legibly, i cannot ask what i cannot read and i want to ask as many questions as we have time for. For those of you watching online, email your question two headliners press. Org. We are looking forward to an insightful discussion today. Thank you both for joining us. Sonja, the podium is yours. Good morning. It is a privilege for me to join today with our longtime partner a
A clip of a Hispanic Virginia voter telling Telemundo News that President Joe Biden played a factor in his vote for Republican Glenn Youngkin on his way to defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe Tuesday night made the rounds on Twitter Thursday.