Smerconish in philadelphia, the final day of voting is four weeks from tuesday. And even without my showing you the latest polling, you already know the State Of Play while Vice President Kamala Harris has a slight edge over former President Trump at a popular vote the seven widely recognized Battleground States are within the margin of error this after a long strange trip in which nothing has moved the nation from an intractable divide when it began, there was a lot of talk about a third Party Factor but they couldnt find a ticket to meet the moment. And the fresher face from florida never got the traction that some had anticipated so trump cruised to the nomination without ever having to debate his opponents and was actually bolstered by four indictments and suffered know setback among republicans, even after being convicted. The general election field, then took shape. Age was immediately a factor. The only thing these candidates could agree on was to debate at the start of summer a
Next, in an interview with cspan, former first lady rose lynn carter talked about the lessons she learned as first ladies, as well as her time in the white house and working alongside her husband, former president jimmy carter. Do you remember when you and president carter started having conversations about him running for president . I do. What was that like . What was that conversation . It was very interesting. We had a friend that wrote and told jimmy that he thought he ought to run for president. Well, we couldnt even say the word. That my husband is running for i didnt tell anybody because we kept it very quiet. And but then once he decided that he would do it, that was when i couldnt he could hardly say im going to be president. It was just something that was we never ever dreamed would happen. And but it was exciting. I was excited about it. I had campaigned whole last year before the governs race. And it was hard. And amy was a baby. And i didnt like to leave her all the time.
Lessons she learned as first lady as well as her time in the white house attending meetings, working on Mental Health issues, and working alongside her husband, former president jimmy carter. Rosalynn carter, do you remember when you and president carter started having conversations about him running for president . What was that like . What was that conversation . It was very interesting. We had a friend that wrote and told jimmy that he thought he ought to run for president. Well, we couldnt even say the word, that my husband is running for, well, i didnt tell anybody because we kept it very quiet. But then once he decided that he would do it, that was when i couldnt he could hardly say im going to be president. It was just something that was we never ever dreamed would happen. I was excited about it. I had xacampaigned the whole la year before the governors race for him and it was hard. Amy was a baby. And i didnt like to leave her all the time. I enjoyed it. I learned so much about
Striking distance, stocks are on track for what would be well see, the first loss in four sessions, but really cant get much of anything out of the future moves right now plus, deal or no deal, tmobile sprint battle heads to court. 13 state attorneys general led by, of course, california and new york are seeking to block that merger. And it is an m a monday, we have two big premium deals in biotech, sanofi and merck. Im going to get to that jim does too stock picking so important there in terms of figuring out where those premiums are going to end up stocks overall set to look for a modest open this morning, this after fridays jobs report rally. That resulted in the s p erasing its losses for last week trade once again in focus here, heard jim talking about it on squawk box. The next round of u. S. Tariffs against chinese goods set to go into effect, this sunday so we are now counting down. And new data Shows Chinese exports to the u. S. Fell 23 in november i dont know how much more th
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