For joeicted a victory biden and Kamala Harris in the state of florida in 2020. What gives you confidence that they will win . Downturns an economic because of covid. Decrease in the state of florida, it is the largest economic driver. What has happened here is we have 1. 2 million floridians out of jobs. They are looking for leadership. Former president who has a plan to not only beat covid but also get our economy back on. Herent get tourism back until we get our economy under control. Is going tobody who be empathetic to the situation, have a plan and are smaller farmers who have been waiting for support from the federal government. They are looking for new leadership. To donald trump is not going buy the game plan hes been putting off the last four years. Host just to remind viewers of the challenge ahead for the democrats, just looking at some recent votes in florida. In 2018 and the senatorial vote, rick scott edged out mel nelson by a percentage point. The governors race in 2018
Roy discusses the herd immunity approach. With the new school year beginning in schools and colleges across the country, the acrostic candidate joe biden said if he is elected help is on the way. To School Systems and parents. Good morning, this is washington journal. We start the program asking you about your experience so far. How is it going back either remotely or in person, is it working . Four those of you in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific. For educators, our number is 2027488002. If you want to send us a text, that line is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. And ontter or twitter. It was his Second Campaign appearance after his convention, biden in delaware yesterday. You can find it at cspan. Org. The Washington Post, biden blames trump because the education gap a national emergency. Joe biden sought to channel the frustrations of students, parents, and teachers around the country i blaming trump for School Districtss inab
Lets start off with a topic we talked about earlier in the program. Wrote, why its mostly safe to reopen the schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classroom and the evidence from europe shows no wider harms. As you see the schools opening across the country, has your opinion changed on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . I would say the reopening experience we had thus far confirms and is consistent with the evidence weve had around the world and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12. For reasons we dont fully understand, younger children dont appear to not only are they actually themselves at very serious illness or death from covid19 but they also appear to not transmit the virus to adults and this is counterintuitive for a lot of people. Most of us have been parents are used to our kids picking up whatever bug is going around at school and bring it back to us. The idea that coronavirus doesnt wo
Schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classrooms. The evidence from europe shows no wider harms. Its more complicated with older students. Has your opinion changed any on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . Guest i would say that the reopening experience we have had thus far in the United States actually confirms and is consistent with the evidence that we have had around the world, and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12 that for reasons we obviously do not yet fully understand, younger children, particularly preadolescent children, do not appear not only are they themselves are very low risk of serious death from covid19 but they also appear to virus tomit the adults. This is counterintuitive to a lot of people. Most of us are used to our kids going to school, picking up whatever bug is going around school, and bringing it back to us. The idea that covid19 does not work that way, you know, its
Mr. Biden good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the queen theater. Im here today to talk about a crisis. A crisis being felt across the United States of america. And jill and i have just been briefed, as you know, in this room by our Public Health and education experts about what it is going to take to be able to reopen schools safely and effectively. Backtoschool has always been a special time. It is in your family and mine, but particularly in mine, all the years jill and i were married, she was going back to school, too, as a teacher. She would be the first one to tell you this should be a season of promise for our country. Times when classrooms are crackling with the possibilities of the new year, students hopes, all about the future. But this year, we are facing the most difficult circumstances. We are seeing a lot of heart and grit from our educators, our students, to try to rise to the occasion. But our government has not come up to that bar. Hasnt shown much grit or determination.