Democratic ticket. K looks atey beycho campaign news. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Good morning, this is the washington journal for august 18. There is the Wisconsin Center in milwaukee, site of some of the activity of the Democratic National convention. A lot of it being done by zoom and other means. Day one taking place yesterday. Day two tonight and it will feature speeches by bill clinton , alexandria of garcia cortez, and dr. Jill alexandria ocasiocortez, and dr. Jill biden. You can watch on cspan and cspan. Org or follow wrong or follow along on our cspan radio app. We will get your impressions of the first set of the convention. What you think of the format and the speakers that were featured. Among them, Michelle Obama. If you support joe biden, collis that call us at 202 7488000, if you support ,resident trump, 202 7488001 and if you support if you are undecided, 202 7488002. Our Facebook Page if you want to post there, fac
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Arrival, the democratic candidate joe biden, told his supporters to keep the faith and said he is still on course for victory with predictions the democrats could win at arizona, a once reliable conservative seat. We will have to be patient until the hard work of counting the votes is finished and it aint over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted. The counting continues with the president outperforming pollsters predictions. It is a tight race to the white house with results in key Battle Ground states still to come. It may take hours or even days for the final result to be known. At the touch screen and keeping track of the votes is Reeta Chakrabarti. With the votes is Reeta Chakrabarti. With the president ial race absolutely neck and neck i will be plotting what each man has to do and which states they have to carry in order to win. A closely contested and highly divisive president ial race is farfrom highly divisive president ial race is far from over. Stay with us f
Forget hollywood, if you want to see real stars go to yorkshire. Two National Parks in the north of england have been designated dark sky reserves. The Prime Minister is heading to brussels for dinner with the European Commission president ursula von der leyen. Ahead of leaving, borisjohnson said no british pm could accept the current eu terms but says there is still a deal to be done. Major disagreements remain between the two sides on fishing rights, business competition rules or the so called level Playing Field and how a deal will be policed or any future disputes resolved. And time is running out to reach an agreement. The uk will stop following eu trading rules on the 31st december deal or no deal. Our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. Can you get this over the line, Prime Minister . For the Prime Minister, who was the face of the brexit campaign, decision time is coming. Will borisjohnson sign up to a trade deal or are the two sides too far apart . Tonight in brussel