Discusses the 2020 campaign. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its the washington journal. President trump is in arizona and joe biden is in ohio. Senator harris returns to the campaign trail in floor. Early voting begins in that state. Vice president pence is in pennsylvania. He will also go to maine. Devoted to youis telling us about your top issues heading into election day. What is it . Perhaps its the pandemic. Maybe there are other topics. This is how you can let us know. If you support joe biden. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can text us. You can post on our facebook. The Gallup Organization pulled republican men and women what their top issues were. Gauging that and response, when it comes to matters of the economy, 48 of republican men and 49 of republican women say the economy versus 38 of democratic men. When it comes to the coronavirus, 19 of republican men say it was extremely important to them. 27 of republican women said the same. 59 of democratic men also expressed that when they said the responses the most important issue. Relations, it is 15 of republican men and 33 of republican women same thats extremely important. 62 ofdemocratic men and Democratic Women same that issue is very important to them. You may have other issues you say are top issues for you. You can call and let us know that. 202 7488001 if you support the president. If you support joe biden. If you are002 undecided and support others. Andcan let us know off text twitter. The wall street journal highlight some of the final stretches of the campaign. The president is holding Campaign Rallies nearly every day. Its a brisk return after he tested positive for coded covid. We will wait for you for a few minutes to let us know what your top issue is. We will talk about matters of the supremeof court. Amy Coney Barrett had her hearings last week. That process resumes this week. Senior reporter from the hill. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Guest good morning. Host walk us through the next steps. Whats going on behind the scenes as the week starts off . Next steps are october 22, there will be of vote in committee on her nomination. Shes expected to get every single republican vote. Isry single democrat expected to vote against her. Is goingonnell says he to take up her nomination on the floor friday. What that means is he is going to file cloture. The expectation is there would be a procedural vote. Intervening day for the vote. If mcconnell could speed things up by keeping the senate over the weekend, the expectation is he files on friday. On tuesday. The final up or down vote will be wednesday. Senators 30ive hours of debate to talk about the nomination. Then its in the books. Strategy goinghe into next week . Guest theres not a lot they can do. Graham has blocked in the vote for the 22nd. Typically what happens, democrats hold over the nomination for an extra week. Thats not going to happen. Graham has locked in the vote. There is nothing they can do. Boycotting the meeting on the 22nd. Willepublican say they rewrite the rules. Rule that yourum need to have minority members present to vote on something. Deprive the to republicans of the quorum, it wont make any difference. They will vote on a new set of rules. That is something ted cruz has said, hes been in contact with Lindsey Graham. They will do whatever it takes to get this moving. Democrats have said there is no procedure to stop this. Host this is alex bolton of the hill. Morning,a story this when it comes to looking at joe biden and Chuck Schumer in the senate and what might happen if the democrats win the white house and the senate. Could you talk about this . One of the big stories coming out of the confirmation hearings is you calling for dine feinstein to step down as a top democrat of the committee. Its a preview of the headaches that biden and schumer will face if they do win. If democrats take back the senate, if bidens president , there are expectations. Forhave groups gunning Dianne Feinstein after she at the end of the hearing, praise Lindsey Graham for his leadership. Was what 25 years ago it was not so remarkable. The committee has been wracked by acrimony going back to Brett Kavanaugh and before. After she did that, you had groups calling for her head. That democratic activists and some of these ,unior firebrands in the caucus they are not any mood to conciliate with the republicans. They want to get things done. They want bold change. There isoes to show pressure on schumer right off the bat to move ahead with withuster reform, to move old change. There will be pressure for medicare expansion. Thee will be pressure for public option or repealing the trump tax cuts. There hasnt been a lot of talk about what the governing strategy is going to be for democrats. They havent talked much about the agenda. There is somet tension between the establishment and the activist groups. Them byun afoul of doing something as minor as its a Lindsey Graham, call for you to be stepped down. I think its a tough call for schumer. The first group that called for her was to man justice, a group that opposed trump nominees. Its a relatively new group. Other groups, a major group in the democratic think that becomes very tough. Back theemocrats win white house and the senate, its not going to be peachy keen. There will be internal arguments that we havent begun to see. We are starting to. Host if you want to read the story for yourself, thank you for your time this morning. Guest thank you. Host your top issue for the campaign. In maryland, thanks for waiting. Issues, whats on the top of the list . Caller thanks for taking my call. My number one issue is the coronavirus response. This president has been a total disaster. Coronavirus, i remember italy and germany and south korea. They dont have the number of deaths we have in the United States. Its because of the disorderly nature of how he responded to the virus. Thats why i support joe biden. I think they will bring change. They will bring a coordinated response to the virus of people can go back to work. To do a virtual debate with joe biden. Doing virtual classes. Heare working virtually and refuses to do a virtual debate. He is out of touch with reality. He doesnt care about people. We will go to virginia. Hello. I am for joe biden. Stop you going to because this is a line we dedicated to those who support the president. An undecided voter. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am definitely undecided. I think what we have in washington dc is kurtz and politicians. Weve got the number one crook is the president. And should bed locked up. Evasion, is under age and girl ring. Host we are not going to accept that. To North Carolina, hello. Caller Social Security and medicare. Here,lling the seniors on trump said he wants to get rid of the payroll tax, which will kill Social Security. If they take the aca to court and rule it is not legal, they will go after any government insurance, which is medicare. If the republicans it in there, you can forget it. Medicare is gone it. Host what is joe biden going to do . Caller he said hes going to take the cap off, people that make over hundred thousand dollars dont pay so security tax. We pay all our lives. Im still paying taxes on my so security. They will make sure that we have it. They save it all the time. Republicans always want to get rid of it. To the wall go street journal opinion section, a piece taking a look at the plans for joe biden, including the issue of taxes. Nearly every develop country says the rich dont pay enough, theplan would retain levy. There is more to that piece in the wall street journal if you want to take a look at issues of Social Security. From North Carolina, a supporter of President Trump. Good morning. Caller good morning and thank you. Gettingampaign issue is all of our Government Back to work. Representatives, Speaker Pelosi has canceled 90 of our votes, whether we voted for the representative that is in their. Activated thet government in eight months. Because talked about it votes will be taking place on the floor of the house and there are hearings that they do virtually. Thats happening on both the house and senate side. Months, whenight nancy pelosi said they were going out for two weeks. Host are you there . Lets go to brenda. Brenda is in ohio. Hello. Caller thank you for taking my call. Is the virus. Biden and senator they will do something. I have an adult daughter who thinks the virus is only 1 deadly. Only 9000 people have died because of what she watches. She doesnt watch the news. She just goes to her computer. Thats the information. People in theany United States who go from watching, thinking the regular news channels are liars against trump because trump is their king. Host what do you think joe biden brings when it comes to the response . What will be the difference . Caller he is going to actually help each person, not depending on what color their state is. Rulesl follow scientific instead of propaganda. To get the that virus under control, you have to have people working. You have to have them working smart. Be like a law because it is right now. Not putting everybody at risk for the stock market, for his own ego. This is joe biden from yesterday. He is talking about the president s handling of the pandemic. Than two hooded 17,000 americans dead because of covid19. Carolina. 00 and north on friday, we saw the highest number of new cases in one day since july. In the last two days, the worst day since july. The other night, trump said at one of his rallies weve turned the corner. Say thisather would guys gone around the bend if he thinks weve turned the corner. Turn the corner . Things are getting worse. He continues to lie to us. Experts say we will lose his money is 200,000 additional lives between now and the end of the year. All because this president cares and theut park avenue stock market than he does about you. He refuses to follow the science. Masks, we would save 100,000 lives. This is a viewer on twitter. This is rare on twitter. The top issues in the Campaign Cycle for you. We want to get your response. You can call us on the lines. 202 7488001 if you support the president. 202 7488000 if you support joe biden. For our undecided viewers or if you support other candidates, 202 7488002. While he was campaigning, the president was taking interviews and talking about another round of stimulus relief. That has been active in congress. Nancy pelosi offered a deadline i tuesday to come to a resolve. The senate is planning voting on its own package. This is the president talking on what he would like to see. I want the money by tonight. Nancy pelosi thinks its politically good for her not to approve it. Numbers, weat the are incredible. To 11. 4 numbers are up million. Standpoint, wec will announce thirdquarter numbers. I think theyre going to be phenomenal. You will have over 25 gdp. If you look at the number of people being hired, nancy pelosi doesnt want to approve anything. She wants to bailout puli run democratic states. We dont want to do that. , at top issues here supporter of joe biden. Caller for me, my top three issues are the economy, the pandemic, racial inequality. Afraidf republicans are to have this conversation. Three topicsmain or issues that i am concerned about. Was it about the economy that is concerning you most . Caller we see how the pandemic part of the some business where there is hospitality or small businesses. You dont have any traffic. If we get a handle on the pandemic, they go handinhand. How well we respond to the pandemic means we will have a faster recovery with the economy. Some restaurants, i have friends who run restaurants. Their numbers have been going down since the pandemic hit. If we do a better job of handling it, those businesses that are affected have a faster recovery versus what we are currently doing. Host don is. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. I would just like to say my number one topic is the economy. I saw the numbers a while ago. A lot of people agree with me that the economy is the number one problem. So much of this government will falter. We cant have that. What do you mean . You said the economy needed to be corrected. Caller weve got to put people back to work. Ande got to open up smartly control the pandemic. People have to open their businesses. Small businessmen are the heart of the country. Host how much of that is dependent on the white house or governors of states . I live in california. The governor of the state is completely off course. Look at new york city. Mike from ohio. Talking about top issues for the campaign. Hello. Caller thank you for taking my call. , trump issue for me thinks he is above the law. That he won except the election results. He attacks new york and california and illinois. Attack americans who dont agree with him. I think his behavior is shameful. He is disgusting. Thank you. Host rick is joining us from idaho. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Social security, costofliving adjustments, its a one page report. Is 2008cks out the most two 2016. When you look at president 2. 0, a 2. 8. Sted a the question is why . 16. Second reference, april and 30. Ges 28 50 billion. We cut foreign aid. We put americans back to work. My message is simple. Joe biden didnt it right. America, get on board. John is in ohio. An undecided voter. Hello. I think i tried to find a third party. They are barred from any balance. The candidate of the green party, i will probably vote for him. Both parties are united and bipartisan about death and destruction. The trillion dollars that were taxed every year through propaganda from the media. You will find out ever since the vietnam war, democrats and republicans bankrupted our country for the benefit of the war profiteers. Host have you always voted third party . Have you voted for democrats and republicans in the past . Caller thats a long time ago. Since ive gotten alternate we aretion, i realize being lied to by the existing rightwing media. Contrary to what these rightwing radio stations say about the liberal media, it doesnt exist. War. Peddle propaganda for host that is john in ohio. Howie hawkins is the candidate of the green party. He was on this program the same day the libertarian candidate was on this program. Questions about their campaigns. If you go to our website, you can find information about that. New york is next. Hello. Caller good morning. There are three main issues for me. That are so many things are going haywire today. , thehree main issues handling of covid19 and the economy and Social Security. If covid19 had been handled correctly and he had listened to the scientists, we would not be in the condition were in now. We have people out of work. Its going crazy. The governor in michigan who is trying to keep her people safe, they saw how these people went into her office with guns a rally. They did nothing about it. Look what happened. A kidnapping. Ting he makes fun of it a rally. Thats crazy to me. I dont understand. If we have another four years of trump, i dont know where we will end up. Host host ok, we will go to canton, ohio, a supporter of President Trump. Say my i would like to main issues in this campaign is jobs, jobs, and jobs. All the rest is just a bunch of bother. To think that the president shut the economy down or really to do anything about a covid virus nobody can run from a virus. Nobody can hide. The numbers from the cdc not break anything out anymore. Every death in america is a covid death. We need to get a grip and get away from this crap and get back basee big six two the get back to the basics. Host what should be done at all . Caller i will take a repeat of the first three years before this crap covid came along because we were smoking on our economy. If the guy could do it once, i trust him to do it again the rest is just because. Host to give you a sense of what is going on in papers across the United States, particularly battleground states, we will show you some of the headlines. Miami herald starts us off. You may have seen them in your own state, but they highlight the fact that ahead of early voting, which starts today, campaign caravans are going through miamidade county, some supporting the president and some supporting joe biden. More of that if you go to the miami herald and look at its pages. If you go to the Orlando Sentinel, it gives you a highlight, right at the center, of returned mail ballots, and issue going on in many states. Thoseling state wide of returning ballots. 754,346 republican ballots being turned back. 1,222,436 democratic ballots. A little more than half a million. That is just a feature you can find on the Orlando Sentinel website if you want to check out those returned ballots. Maybe your state has similar information online. If you go back to the miami herald, it talks about what will be a feature in many states, also including florida, lawyers being deployed for this election, and they highlight and 2000ck to bush v gore, the election, and highlight some of the numbers that you can see of lawyers and those who will be watching polling places and the like. That story in the miami herald. States, too,round the North Carolina paper, it talks about the Vice President s recent stop there. You saw a little bit of what he had to say, and he also criticized the president on leadership and also issues of health care. If you go to the columbus dispatch, it talks about the potential of ballots being tossed out in that state and what that could do to the overall count. The story you can find delayed the dispatch saying nearly 23,000 ballots could be discarded in ohio. Found the ohion ballots could be more than one million rejected nationwide, compared to 316,000 in 2016. There is more there. You can find out what is going on there in ohio at the columbus dispatch. A sampling of some of the papers in battleground states. We are talking about Campaign Issues for wherever yo