Make America Great again i truly do believe as you do that we are on the road to victory and we will make America Great again again. Thank you. Thank you thank. You. Ok but what youve been listening in to the President Donald Trump and his Vice President mike pence. Basically trying listing all of his gains repeatedly saying they call it catches referring to those swing states such as pennsylvania. Also you know describing the results as phenomenal cinequest surprised himself the way the vote has gone thus far what are your thoughts well 1st and foremost have you noticed how like almost tied he looked ukes you would from trump you would expect more energy more output move you know be done stand the campaign trail he looked like he was very tied very probably from all the stress during the elections and he sounded very sounded very calm surely he used many of his signature words like phenomenal beautiful success and tremendous and so on and so forth he by i think he went through but thr
Congress and the books they are reading. Throwing up again on tv, democrat, give an update on your reading list. As you know, i read at least a book a week and since the last book of the, there will to ill start with. When is this monumental biography, probably the definitive biography of douglas and especially whats going on in the u. S. , nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on question of race in america. What ahead of his time. This not only an abolitionist and passionate as a former sla slave, he insisted on the earliest time in the 1840s right through his death for the end of the 19th century was the goal is no deviation from that. It is very clear what the goal was. So many words went through the recommended by girl, it is long but very powerful. One thing i learned about douglas this year, hes very active. Yes. Very consistent and had a distinguished career and able to talk to a mixed race audience, it was unusual, his belief. It was powerful when they
President trump leading 51 to 47 and here are some numbers that miami dade already reporting 97 percent broward at 100 percent and Palm Beach County 95 percent and that especially broward is where youre looking at that democratic stronghold and you were hoping to get that turnout and that could actually if you were on the left thats where youre hoping to see that number pulled up lets go to michigan and see where theyre reporting now were not seeing huge numbers yet 35 percent reporting and its give you this 55 percent to President Trump 42 percent to Vice President biden and remember when we talk about michigan they had they were going to be a little bit slower they were seeing day of voting reporting now and its about mail in voting is going to come a little bit later and wayne county and Oakland County in the detroit area were not seeing big numbers reported yet so this could be very wide open 43 percent in wayne 28 percent in Oakland County as of now and then lets move to ohio wher
Joining us once again on book tv is congressman gerald connolly, democrat from virginia. Give us an update on your reading list, congressman. Peter, as you know i read at least a book a week and the last broadcast, the book read update, there are two i want to start with. One is this monumental biography of Frederick Douglass by david wright. Its probably the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass and especially with whats going on in the United States and its fight for Racial Justice nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america and Frederick Douglass, way ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist and a passionate abolitionist as a former slave, but he insisted from the earliest times in the 1840s, right towards the end of the 19th century the quality was the goal. And he would brook no deviation from that. It was very clear about what the goal was and so many of his words ring true today i really recommend the biography
By david wright. Its probably the definitive biography of douglas and especially of what is going on in the United States and the fight for racial justice. Nobody was more consequential and has been more consequential on the question of race in america. Boy ahead of his time. He was not only an abolitionist, passionist and former slave but he insisted from the earliest times in the 1840s, almost towards the end of the 19th century, that equality was the goal. And he would book no deviation from that. He was very clear about what the goal was. And so any of his words ring true today and i really recommend this biography to everybody is a long read but it is really powerful. Peter one of the things that i learned about Frederick Douglass this year was that is also very active secretary. Connolly yes he was very consistent and had a distinguished career and was able to talk to a mixed audience. In a time when that was unusual to say the least. And really its powerful when they had been id