Ahead, we are joined by the chief Congressional Correspondent from the Washington Examiner, great to have you with us. Guest good morning. Host lets leap ahead to january and the two runoff races in georgia, the race against the incumbent senator david perdue any other race with senator Kelly Loeffler. Have we ever seen to Senate Runoff races in any state before . Guest not my history of covering congress. Its really unusual. Its also unusual in georgia that the race has ended up in runoff territory. Georgia had been traditionally a very red state where republicans could usually count on an easy win in the statewide races. That was the last few election cycles. There has been a shift in the electorate in georgia over the areas ande the urban their suburban surroundings have gotten more blue, more democratic in their electorate. That has led to some close races where republicans cannot be assured of an easy win. Thats one reason you are seeing runoffs. I think people had thought david p
Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand on cspan. Org Supreme Court or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual talk series but im virginia prescott and im your host for this talk. Tonight and talking with lisa napoli about her new book up all night, ted turner and the birth of 24 hour news for you can purchase the book directly from a cappella books and the link is in the chat on the right of your screen and the link is also at the Atlanta History Center website. As lisa and i talked please submit your questions and use a q a feature at the bottom of your screen and will try to answer as many as we can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday and you will hear me do what we call a re id to keep consistent sound while we are going. So excited to speak with lisa napoli who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york, and bc bureaus as a teenager and she is a repo
Lot of ballots need to be completed in alaska. We continue to bring you results here on cspan. Arly today president elect joe biden spoke about covid19 and a possible future vaccine. Goals of his he coronavirus Advisory Board and he called on all americans to mask. Delaware, this , is about 15 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. As i said on saturday, im humbled by the trust and confidence that the american placed in me and vicepresident elect harris. And were ready to get to work the needs of the American People. Today, that work begins. It starts with doing Everything Possible to get the covid19 under control. That we can reopen our usinesses safely and sustainably, resume our lives us put this pandemic behind and we just received positive news in this fight, that there toward a rogress made successful vaccine. The the expectation is, f. D. A. Will run a process of rigorous reviews and approvals. Must also be grounded in science and fully ransparent so the American People can have eve
Analytical adrenaline going . I certainly hope so. Seriously, of all the times weve hosted this conference over the years, this has got to be one of the more fraught election cycles in our lifetime. Certainly a roller coaster counting process and still clarifying picture of what is happening down ballot for several weeks. So we have assembled a stellar team to help us navigate a couple of key questions what happened and why . Was there an expected gap between expectations and eventual results, and if so, what was the cause of that . And how are the two parties, democrats and republicans, now going to move forward in terms their programs and policies but how they position themselves electorally over the next couple of years. With that, let me turn the microphone to my coconspirator in this endeavor, ellen tess cano. Ellen im the cofounder of the inside american politics experience. Last year and this year at nyu. 2008 following the historic election of barack obama as president. , we co
[inaudible] gentlemen, please welcome to the stage our senator, susan collins. [inaudible] [applause] i want to publicly thank sarah for her call. We had a good talk. I very much appreciated her taking the time to call. Extraordinaryt an honor it is to represent the great state of maine and to know that i will have the opportunity to serve all of maine for the next six years. [applause] know, during our great bus tour, we traveled to all 16 counties. We visited more than 80 communities. 6500 miles on the bus. We had a wonderful time talking with people in their hometowns, their workplaces, it was a wonderful experience and one that i always enjoy. I feel that this is an affirmation of the work that im doing in washington to fight hard every day. To fight hard every day for the people of maine. Say that this is an honor that is historical as well. Sincehe first person maine directly elected it senators to win a fifth term. [applause] so to the people of maine, thank you, thank you. I wi