Former congresswoman Liz Cheney, Vice Chairman of the January 6th Committee And Face of the republican dynasty in america who earlier this weekend dorised Vice President Kamala Harris has gone even further. This time saying that she and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will do something that, if you are a casual follower of American Politics might mean hell has frozen over. Dick cheney is voting for the democratic nominee for president. Dick cheney is voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. Here she is in conversation with the atlantics Mark Leibovitz making this news in austin, texas. Dick cheney, a beloved figure among democrats for many, many years. Do you if you know who he will be supporting or who hell be voting for, do you care to share with us who he might be voting for . Dick cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris. [ applause ] wow. Words i never expected to hear. Yeah. Yeah. You know, if you think about the moment that were in, and you think about how serious
Numbers. We close in on counties beginning the certification process. I know there were questions mainly concerning the military ballots, which were the last ones to come in on friday. With that, at the end of the were 18,407 military votes that were accepted and outstanding, which means they cannot come in now, but those were the out there available and ones could have come in but did not, 7786. Separate from that was regular absentee ballots. So with that, the ballots cast were 1,303,749 absentee ballots, and then theres 126,400 that were not cast. You will see that the lower number than the original request because we literally had hundreds of thousands of people show up to vote in person that had absentee ballots canceled, which is a process legal in in the state of georgia. So far, weve seen a little over 7000 provisionals had been a part of the reports that if have come in from the counties. We know at least 7300 provisionals have been accepted already and continue to work with c
And donovan and reached from that was published early last month in june we will have an extended conversation up to 35 minutes and also a few slides here and there as needed with supplemental images and once were done with that wrap up with audience q a we will read some buyers and get the reading under the way. Miles the author of the national and International Bestseller the land of lost maps with the Chicago Tribune best book of the year. In this interlocutor is the true story of a New York Times notable book for nonfiction in the literary science award and the second book published early last month. But these men graduated from the university of michigan a few blocks away from the bookstore. Otherwise i would appreciate it if you wouldnt mind putting your reactions together for our reading. Thank you. Good to see you. So this is why your book is longer than mine and also teaching nonfiction here in chicago so its nice to see you here and i want to be clear to everyone and i will g
Than 100 Million People cast their ballots early, which means incould see the is turnout the print see the biggest turnout in president ial election. But we are seeing attempts to undermine it. Tols and texts attempting discourage and intimidate voters today. How keytalk about social platforms like facebook, twitter, and youtube are looking andrevent disinformation postelection civil unrest. First, a check on the markets, where u. S. Stocks rallied for a second day. Investors have been incredibly anxious leading up to this moment. Just how anxious were they today . Abigail not so anxious today. At one point, the s p 500 index up 1. 2 . Thehe close, up about 1. 8 , best day in about a month. Around anxiousness, the vix below 35. Some are saying that it suggests that it means that there will not be decision soon, that that is no longer the case. That the volatility investors are telling us that we are more likely to know who will be the next president sooner rather than later. We had bon
Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Events Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring myles harvey. Lets get underway and i want to extend a thank you for your support of ourVirtual Events programming. We feel lucky that were able to continue to offer Virtual Events and we wouldnt be able to do that and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our policy for tonights event. We ask you keep your a video feed disabled throughout the duration of the that event and if you dont we will disable it for you and if you enable it a second time we will have toreview you from the event we appreciate your cooperation. I just wanted to briefly go over our plan for tonight, a reading by both miles and after myles reads from the king of confidence which was published this last tuesday and donovan reads from his book publishe