Proposal, calling on the increased role the federal government and the National Election process. Good morning welcome to washington journal. Its a great pleasure to be with you thisfo morning. See him before he gets your proposal and me ask about the election itself. Nahor jumped four weeks hence, record turnout and by the federal governments on statement a secure election, the most secure election in u. S. History. What are some of your observations. Things that you found surprising in this years election . Guest the election was a very secure election b all standards. But, and weeks and months leading up to the election there was a tremendous amount of litigation and dispute over how mail in ballots would be counted and other issues of electioneering. And followinghe election, as everyone is aware a terminus amount ofitigation. A fair amount of uncertainty as to how and when results could be certified. So i think it has certainly been a secure election. But it isn election and which
Joining us cat zakrzewski the Washington Post john hendel of politico and ilhan omar of axios. Mr. Dalewood would start with you what you think is going to be one of the major issues that the incoming byte Administration May face . Guest one thing that the byte Administration Early on is going to have to figure out what to do is they are inheriting a google transit from the doj and there is speculation about how politically motivated it may have been but never asked about the text of this thing. Its fairly narrow in fairly focused on issues that democrats have raised as well about the market power of google so they have to decide okay almost certainly they will continue to litigate this but do we want to expand this, do we want to try and look at some as state attorneys general who are also investigating google. It has the support of a group of bayji is that there are republicans and democrats looking at the stuff to sell how expansive do we want to go on antitrust . Host do you think
A totally different policy. If you critias, the value of the last international, he seems to realize that the United States is a lot stronger to get its allies rather than to go it alone. And under and the trump we saw a more you knew lateral america going to do alone. Policy, and i think that will change fundamentally in one of your recent analysis of times when policy you single out, its 3 primary strands, disengaging the us from local politics, does deigning allies, you just retreated. That point right now. And the friending autocratic leader, hes now naturally as a russian, as and perhaps at in your new as a shill for one set arc radek leader. I want to ask you specifically, what has it mean befriending autocratic leader . Well, we had a very disconcerting closeness under trumps. That for example, trump became very close to Saudi Arabian crown. And you know that the crown prince was at least implicated in the murder, also generalists, cutchogue, and by everybody. Then that trump di
Have in obligation to show you how we are doing that. To that end, i wanted to answer questions that we had been receiving in our office the last few days and updates. Namely, lets discuss the unofficial turnout numbers, election day registration, and the mechanics of a recount. We have put out a press release with this information and encourage you to share the facts with others who may have questions or concerns about the election process. Unofficially, wisconsin voters cast 3,929,374 votes for president. That is the most ever in the state of wisconsin, exceeding the previous record of 3,071,434 set in 2012. That makes the unofficial turnout percentage of wisconsin, which has a voting age population of 4,536,417 voters the unofficial turnout percentage is 72. 67 . It is important to note an effort questions about this that some jurisdictions choose to report their unofficial turnout as a percentage of registered voters. For example, if the city has 100,000 registered voters as they h
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