Headlines. Later, we are joining joined by Terry Madonna of Franklin Marshall to talk about pennsylvanias role as a battleground state this election year. We have an obligation under the constitution, should we choose to take it vantage of it, with a president of the same party as the senate to advance a nomination. Republicans say we do not care about anything. Senate, thehe institution. Just move forward. Everything americans value hangs in the balance. The looming battle over President Trumps Upcoming Supreme Court nominee dominates capitol hill come out with Senate Democrats warning they will retaliate if they win control the chamber and the white house on election day. We will talk with democrats only on this wednesday, september 3. What is the best strategy for your party on filling Supreme Court vacancy . Eastern,ve in the central part of the country, 202 7488000. Mountain pacific, 202 7488001. You can also join us by texting with your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003
Journal looks at key battleground states with political reporters and analysts on the ground. Focusing on key battleground states, with reporters on the ground, what has changed, what policy issues are motivating this year. And clues about how people might vote in each state in november. Today we turn our attention to the keystone state of pennsylvania, and Franklin Marshall College Professor and poster Terry Madonna joins us from harrisburg this morning. Lets begin with what happened in pennsylvania in 2016. 2016, then candidate donald j. Trump carried the state of pennsylvania by 44,000 votes. He won the state because of the turnout and the high proportion of votes that he got in central pennsylvania, and also in the southwestern part of our state, in the old mining and mill towns. I call it small towns and rural pennsylvania, and in the northeastern part of our state, largely because he developed what has generally been referred to as the rustbelt strategy, ofre he campaigned in par
Getting a little tiny speedbump as we headed to the final hours of trade, we are seeing a tiny bit of profittaking, nasdaq down 18 points but this is after the index with names to an alltime intraday high, maybe charles will be right if they get back up there. The dow and s p 500 continuing to trail along for global stimulus efforts, the dow at 281 but with a few days left on the clock, topper Administration Players are running a full court press in the halls of congress to follow in the footsteps of the European Union which reached in a historic covid stimulus to overnight. As we say on the countdown theres always trades to be made. The top stimulus stocks the floor show says can juice up your portfolio. Top redhanded, just hours ago the Justice Department making official, two Young Chinese hackers now formally accused of covid espionage. Attempting to steal research from the u. S. Biotech that are trying to rush to develop a vaccine. We have a fox business exclusive with the ceo biot
The attention to spend, and maybe most bullish of all, prime pe penetration. They reached a record high level. We think globally they started around 150 million subs. We think they will exit this year doclose to 100 million sub. When were more bullish we will raise the price target how sticky do you expect that model to be based on the research you said some of those satisfaction results among consumers have come down a bit yeah, it is an issue we first saw it clipped down in our survey work, and why would satisfaction be falling and slipping at amazon it used to be high 80 of customers described themselves as very satisfied. That number now is in the high 60s. We think near term there was probably disappointment around covid disrupted deliveries i am worried they have increasingly put more and more vendors on the sight and they have sacrificed quality for selection. So those are some issues, but in the next five to ten years they need to get the satisfaction scores higher. Good mornin
Over to you. All right tyler, thanks very much. All three of the major averages are hanging onto their gains in the month of may tension escalating with china. My theme is still intact thats a broadening of the rally. This is in stutter steps you get a day like today where you pull back a little bit but not numuch obviously, some of the china etfs, thats first one down today on concerns about whats going on in hong kong. Look at the leadership this week russell. Its been bank stocks and Energy Stocks oil is on the downside thats what i mean those groups have been leadership stocks here look at these china stocks we did get alibaba thats down concerned to whats going on hong kong what was down, transports, russell down the nasdaq, the big tech names is under performing this week. This is rotation this is broadening out of the market that trend continues if you look at individual secto sectors, banks were behaving horribly they are outperforming this week so the Energy Stocks even though