Transcripts For CSPAN2 Washington Journal Jessica Taylor 202

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Washington Journal Jessica Taylor 20240712

Watch our president ial debate video from the cspan video library. With just four weeks to go now until election day, 2020 we take a look at the battle for control of the senate were joined by Jessica Taylor of the nonpartisan political report Jessica Taylor it will take a net game of four seats for democrats to take the senate, three if they also take the white house. S how likely is that outcome as you survey the senate battlefield today . You know in july we were saying thatel democrats had a slight edge. And i think that that edge has now really grown. And especially over the past, you know, very tumultuous week with trump that clearly turned off a lot of voters were seeing that reflected in. National pols of the president ial race, and sundays nbc washington journal poll, that had him up 14. But excuse me joe biden up 14. Cnn poll had him up 16. Those kind of numbers have a major effect on down ballot senate races and you know republicans strategist that ive been talking to yesterday, that are working in these races, i mean, you know its just theyre like the numbers are just bad everywhere. Theres a lot of pessimism that im hearings sort of you know because we have now less you know today is four weeks from election day. Theres not a lot of time to turn things around especially when a lot of people are already voting. And so you know those you mentioned they need four seats if joe biden does not win three seats if they do not. I think at this point the livelihood that biden wins is slightly greater than if the senate flips so theyre looking at three seats. I think of that really as four because the seats that democrats are most likely to lose is in alabama with doug jones. Though that leads them with a negative one so they need four seats and those four most like lie seats are arizona, colorado, maine and then f probably North Carolina although theres been son scandals there that i have kind of shaken up the race but democrats haven expanded battle field we have ten republican seats that we consider competitive. And you cann see just the superpack spending over the past week when, you know, places leak the Senate Leadership fund that thats aligned with Senate Leadership is spending in places w like kansas and South Carolina. Rs thats sort of tells you how really bad things are for republicans everywhere. You use the term tumultuous week earlier you mention North Carolina whats happening there in that key race for thom tillis seat. It was on slot of news, of course, if you were following the news that day and night, of course, we started in the Early Morning with the news for President Trump and first lady melania covid diagnosis. Later on that evening, we learned that North Carolina senator thom tillis republican incumbent very much in trouble there has also tested positive for the virus. So he is now having to quarantine. That he also sits on Senate Judiciary committee begin hearingte the confirmation hearings for for judge Amy Coney Barrett thats supposed to begin october 12th. And then so you know if that wasnt enough, then we have a scandal that broke with the democratic nominee former state Senate Cal Cunningham admitted that hes sent elicit text to a woman not his wife, you know if you want to get out the news i think friday night if you want to get out bad news friday night was probably best time to do it buts this was on front page of Charlotte Observer over the weekend Raleigh News Observer i think its still he canceled at a Forum Last Night that he was supposed to be at so we havent seensu him in public answering questions since then so puts into doubt i think in North Carolina was sort of the Tipping Point state for democrats to win the majority how much does this scandal affect that . We really havent seen a quality poll coming out since then. Live collar poll that can sort of test the fallout of this. You know, ting theres a big question you know if is there l more to drop, of course, of this scandal of this. Was there you know, more than just texting was there an affair . How long did this go on because some of the Text Messages suggest he was talking about 100 days from the campaign so suggest this was happening while he was campaigning. And then theres also even the possibility of a courtmartial perhaps because hes in the reserves. The wife of this woman or excuse me the husband of this woman he was texting also in the military. So you know theres military repercussions that could come into play as well. So this is a headache that no candidate or party wants, you know, just weeks away from the election so i think that thats a, you know, arose a lot of uncertainty into this race. But again the good news for democrats is that they still have multiple seats following that one that are very much in play. Other tossups that we have are iowa, joni earnest, montana, steve dane, georgia, david purdue and sort of i think almost there is South Carolina where Lindsey Graham finds himself the Senate Judiciary chairman in a tough race so good news for democrats there are more seats because they have expanded battlefield beyond just that. So if something happens in North Carolina, they have alternatives in a s way. And then, you know, these sort of scandals move numbers. Theres more of a nationalized election sort of about the party and more of a backlash against republicans. So Jessica Taylor our guest this morning i want to point viewers to cook political. Com. If you want keep track of the race ratings that were going to be talking about in the senate races a very easy chart there to find to see where cooke political and Jessica Taylor rank these races right now were going to be talking more about race ratings but do want to give viewers number to call in if you have questions about senate battlefield or a particular race now would be a very good time to call in. Republicans 202748001. Independent 2022478002 Jessica Taylor beginning to talk about Lindsey Grahamou the chaimplet Senate Judiciary committee where Amy Coney Barrett will be having her hear physician republicans moving forwards with those hearings next week is fashion Jamie Harrison the democrat in that race over the weekend they held their debate and one of the issues that came up was the Supreme Court nomination heres a little bit from that South Carolina debate. Sometimes listening to senator graham is like playing monopoly he changes rules every time he place. Senator you said, use my words against me and you said it after the kavanaugh meeting not before the kavanaugh hearings after the kavanaugh hearings in your words your promise was that no judicial nominee should be considered or proved or what have you in the last year of an election and you even named President Trump when you said it. And so this was my thing you know my grandfather always taught me i said jamie is a man only as good as his word senator how good is your word when you made a a promise to American People and even more you made a promise to the folks in South Carolina. That you wouldnt be doing what youre doing right now. And thats the problem that i have greatest i think the greatest that you could do as a Public Servant to betray trust of the people that you took to serve and thats what you have done. Now just be a man of it and stand pup say you know whey change my mind ill do Something Else but dont go back and blame it on somebody elsedo for a flipflop that s youre making yourself. So if i may i said in august if an opening comes about, well see what market will bear bare this will get confirmed because president has the Constitutional Authority to do and heres what i can seeing judges. When president obama was honored that he won election and voted for two people i wouldnt have chosen and ive watched the democratic elparty try to destroy one conservative judge after another harrison encouraged filibuster of gorsuch and cheered on the destruction the Brett Kavanaugh all i canin say is that amy barrett is. Highly qualified and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the president has every right to do this. And if youre counting on mr. Harrison to vote for conservative judge youre making a mistake of high proportion you can kowngts on me for conservative judges. Jessica taylor of political you have that South Carolina senate race in the leads republican category, did this weekends debate make any difference . I think it did. You know this is a first chance of voters had to sort of see these two men up against each other. And another interesting that you may have seen on that video Jaime Harrison brought his own plexiglass screen because he met with senators who have tested positived recently he tested negative but ofng of course as we know testing, you know, even if youve been exposed to someone with a virus youre recommended to quarantine. Since he was doing that mr. Harrison wanted to take extra precautions to see in the Vice President ial debate happening on wednesday. And you know Jamie Harrison caught fire down there. Hes a really inspiring story, came from poverty and one of the, you know, poorest cities in South Carolina, orangeburg ended going to yale and georgetown was, you know, raised by a single teen mother and his grandparents and hes, you know, hes been airing ads since spring really and hasnt gone down, and at this pongt you know hes spending just, you know, what i think last week he was over 7 Million Dollars on tv ads hes been one of the biggest fundraisers for democrats you know and Lindsey Graham has clearly seen this because last week he was sort of going on fox news really begging for money. And harrison you saw in that clep hes hitting for sort of switching his positions. I think lindsay gram is one of the most fascinating politicians out thereef this sort of very shortlived run for the presidency in 2016 he called President Trump, you know, a race bating zen phobic religious bigot now closest allies underingo a major evolution in fast few years. He was hit, you know, always conservative back in South Carolina were kind of skeptical of him. Because pushed Immigration Reform part of the gang of eight, and then now hes really much trumps ally so i think hes underperforming with republicans and i think he really hopes now that hes the face of these kifnlings confirmation hearings for judge barrett he can solidify his standing every question in that debate he ended up turning back to about judges and the Supreme Court versus Jamie Harrison wanted to focus on coronavirus and state hit and how he could fix it so i think this is one of the mostings solid republican at the beginning of the year it was not supposed to be this competitive, and you know i think a lot of that is credit to the really Strong Campaign that Jamie Harrison is running. Hes the former state Party Chairman there in South Carolina. Used to work for jim clyburn in the house as floor director and i think it is really this is, you know, of course, South Carolina has a, you know, very throughout racial history and if he wins actually South Carolina wowblg the first state to have two black senators that place where the civil war start. Dozen this cycle we want to hear which ones yowpts you want to talk about Jessica Taylor with us until about 8 45 eastern this morning. So go ahead keep calling in well start with david out of philadelphia democrat, david, good morning. Good morning, my question and topic is generally about the travel ban in particular. I know that the republican members of the senate and donald trump has been tagging joe biden saying that he said that the president was zen phobic and i believe thats determined that its been false. You just said that Lindsey Graham has called President Trump zen phobic president obama was calling him based off of his record with the muslim ban things of that sort. And it wasnt specifically for the travel bans that was instituted in the beginning of the year. And also the airline take this up Jessica Taylor this issue of handling the coronavirus very much an issue in in of these campaigns. Absolutely. I think that this is just overshadowed everything really up ended campaigning as we know it. You know, from march forward these campaigns had to, you know, sort of transform and to a lot of online ventures. Now we do see candidates going out more. You know but a lot of republicans as we was seen, you know, this issue furniturely take a very partisan divide, we seee a lot of republican candidates out there that are not wearing masks. That are not adhering to social distancing while mostly democrats have been very careful on that issue if theyre Holding Events outdoors requiring mask and Different Things certainly some republicans are taking precautions. But theres a lot of them just because, you know, again unfortunate sort of partisan connotations i think thats been set by the top down by the president , and yes the president is like the point too that china travel ban but i think it is more than that. Because you know, we even had, you know, listen one of the i senators that is very vulnerable is georgia senator kelly she was appointed to the seat at the beginning of the year. Ironically she was appointed over the white house objections and orderwa to appeal to suburbn women, of course, there in the very growing, changing atlanta suburbs has become republican achilles heel we saw that in 2018 housech democrats took back the house pep and now that sort of their path to taking back the senate and states like this. So i mean georgia has two races this cycle. But in that special election which is actually a jungle primary in all party primary, that will happen on election day 21 candidates that will appear on ballot regardless of party the top two vote getters will advance to a january fifth 2021 runoff. Sop depending upon how other senate races shake out that could be, you know, a majority maker. And she is have been having to run so far to the right to prove her conservative bona fide that shes also being challenged from the right by congress by doug collins Ranking Member on the house Judiciary Committee that was, of course, one of the president s defenders during impeachment proceedings, and you know she came out this weekend after trump was diagnosed and repeatedly on twitter sort of blamed this on china. But i think that most americans we see joe biden is having the advantage on handling the coronavirus who would do better on these things because i think that okay yes this virus may have come from there. But once it was here and america we did not see leadership from the topre and the white house of how to, you know, implement very quick stiesing. Testing to, you know, proper procedures like people like dr. Fauci as we learn more about the virus pushing for mask and social distancing. And you know the president also, you know, wanted to open things up very quickly that allege resurgences in many places and so were still seeing republicans i think this is one of the biggest things that i think has not only hurt the president. But its hurt race face down ballot. Youhe mentioned at the top of the segment republicans best pickup opportunities this cycle coming in alabama, the seat of Democrat Doug Jones there sharon is in coleman, alabama a republican sharon good morning to you. Hi folks thanks for taking me call and you spoke clearly about what i had said when i called in. Ms. Taylor, i dont know if shes partisan or what, and its okay if she is. But she keeps implying its not just her but other facets of the media doom and gloom behind in polls, and ive always wongdered why it is not broken down more evenly with democrat senators behind inre polls. There are Democratic Senators who are beingbe challenged and its getting closer. And i would like for her to speak on that some too. Jessica taylor do you want to talk what about you do as rating dges well a lot depends on which senators are up and senators

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