The latest campaign 2020 initiative. And Oakland University Political Science professor will talk about michigan is a key battleground state in november. Good morning. Its friday, september 20 fifth. We begin with your reaction to President Trumps remarks this week about a peaceful transfer of power. Supporting the biden harris ticket dial in at 202 7488000. If youre supporting the president and Vice President pence, bite dial in at 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate, 202 7488002. ,lso text us with your comments first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Or join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Call,we wait for your heres a question and answer from the president on a peaceful transfer of power from wednesday evening. Inits win, lose, or draw this election, will you commit today for a peaceful transferral of power after the election. There has been rioting in many cities across this country, and your socalled red and blue states. Will you commit
Battleground states, looking at the key states that could play a crucial role in this years election. We turn our attention to the state of michigan, and we begin with Detroit Free Press washington correspondent Todd Spangler. Where do things stand right now in the state of michigan . s leadlooks like riding in michigan is still pretty solid looks like bidens lead in michigan is still pretty solid. The last one had him at eight points up. Looks like he is doing well. Not as big a lead as it was a month or so ago. Host why has he lost that edge . Guest frankly, as we get closer to the election, we always expected a tightening of the race. During the summer, the height of the black lives matter protests and some of the actions being taken by the administration, that number balloons, at one point as high as 16. We expected it to come down. Considering an election the four years ago trump won michigan by. 2 , eight is still a pretty big number. We expect it to come back down and narrow eve
The faang index down 1. 7 . If you can believe it, from the low in march to the recent high, the faang index up more than 100 . We are seeing healthy consolidation. The question is whether or not there is more to go. If yes, there could be big pressure on the indexes. David i can believe it because i read it in your note. Big tech is one thing. It has gone up a long way, but can it come down without taking the rest of the equities down with us down with it . Abigail very difficult. The reason100, and we have the underperformance toward that index down more than ing 40 of its weight goes to the big tech names. We have chinese stocks week for the third day in a row. Over last month that new york faang index and the big tech stayathome names tracking exactly with the shanghai composite, which you could call a mini bubble. It appears to be bursting. If that is the case, there could be more pain ahead, not just for u. S. Big tech but the overall indexes for the reason youre talking about. T
Odonnell you know, a lot of times when i open up a doorknob i go like this and i open it like that. Is that okay . Well, its certainly better than using your bare hand, but since youre still carrying your sleeve with you and you may touch your sleeve with your other hand, its ideal if you had some wipes with you and you could actually reach for that doorknob with a wipe. Odonnell you have written extensively about loneliness as a Public Health concern. How about that now with this social distancing . Well, i think we have both a risk and an opportunity here. The risk is that as we distance ourselves socially from other people, we run the risk of being increasingly lonely. If we are conscious of the fact that our social connections may take a hit here, what we need to do is compensate for that. It turns out that compassion and care for others are one of our greatest weapons. Odonnell be kind to one another. Check in on one another. Dr. Vivek murthy, thank you so much. Thank you, norah.
Others asking if that daily commute is too risky. Basketball, soccer and hockey seasons suspended. Tournaments, marathons and baseballs opening day canceled or postponed. Its weird circumstances right now. Brennan disneyland and disneyworld shut down, lights out at broadway on carnegie hall. The president called for a national day of prayer, but many churches are closed. And wall streets unprecedented 11 year bull market run officially ended last week. Military exercises were also scaled back, and protective measures taken to help those serving overseas. Those on the front lines at home. Doctors, nurses and First Responders continueed to show up and serve. As did the journalists who need to keep the public informed. That hit home for all of us at cbs this week. Our new york headquarters shut down after four of our colleagues tested positive for the virus, leaving us all scrambling to get the news on by remote. That meant it was all hands on deck in our network buer oats, and at our nat