Welcome to Washington Post live, are program at 1 00 p. M. Eastern everyday. Today, we will hear from two leaders on the frontlines lines of the campaigns. We will hear from senator todd , ofg later in the program indiana, running all the Senate Campaigns for the republicans as they hold onto their majority. And we will hear from a representative from Washington State, the cochair of the progressive caucus in the house. One of those leaders in washington who, regardless of who wins, will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come. She is already campaigning across the country. And i will have two of my colleagues, who i have been waiting to hear from for a long emily, who will be with us later in the program. Lets go to the headlines. It is the day before election day and voters get to decide. Not anyone else, it is you who gets to decide. Here is what im hearing. Campaign, the trump republicans are concerned about my home area. The philadelphia suburbs. And have seen eros
Color, young people for biden and harris. So we have been doing an amazing effort. We have had working with pennsylvania stands up, great grassroots organization, we have inn training our volunteers sevenhour deep canvassing training. Over 600 of them have participated in this effort. We have made over 140,000 phone calls in pennsylvania in the last 3. 5 weeks. Now we are focused on geo tv. In the early weeks, we were focused on persuasion, listening, and helping to move people along the scale, on addressing some of their concerns if they were either thinking about it for trump, turning them around, or if they were not sure theyre going to vote for biden, moving them along that scale. It has been an amazing effort. I am so proud of our volunteers and people who are refusing to leave anything on the line to make sure we do everything we can to elect joe biden and Kamala Harris. Looks no doubt the efforts we made, the congress woman, what about in pennsylvania or other key states, if the
Welcome to Washington Post live. Our program election daily 1 00 p. M. Eastern every day. Well welcome representative jaapal from Washington State. The cochair of the progressive caucus in the house. One of those leaders in washington who regardless of who wins will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come. She is already campaigning across the country. I have two of my colleagues i have been waiting to hear from a long time. Steve, whost the news letter and emily. Lets go to the program. Voters finally get to decide. It is the voters, you who get to decide. Here is what im hearing. Number one, the Trump Campaign, republicans are concerned about my home area. The philadelphia suburbs. They have seen rogues there. Because of that erosion in the philadelphia suburbs so critical, you heard the chant of fire fauci last night at the trump rally. He is turning to his base. Running against the doctors stoking that base in central pennsylvania and other parts of the country. It
All candidates from all parties appear together on the same ballot in november. Again, the same rules apply. Gets 50 plus on e, it goes to a runoff. There are three democrats. Matt lieberman and a former u. S. Attorney. With those five major candidates on the ballot, it is almost impossible any of them win outright. That race is heading to a runoff. The other race is extremely tight. Know for at least a few days who won that race be margine the final matters. One is ahead we know for a fact on november 3 that that is the case, it does not matter he is ahead, we need to know if he has hit the magic number of 50 plus one. Counting every one of those votes could take a day or two. I would not be surprised if we do not have concrete results on Election Night in georgia. If that race does go to a runoff, we will have two separate races in georgia with a 2021, twofebruary of days after the United States senate comes back into session. They come back into session on january 3. There is a poss
Alliance for democracy and a senior fellow at the in your moderate for today. With that to introduce our special guest both have had the pleasure of working with. David is the author of race, america russian 100 years of covid interference. Foreignpolicy reporting going the new york times, the new yorker in foreign affairs. Steven is pursuing a doctorate in natural relations at the oxford up as a marshall scholar. He is an associate fellow at Yale University where he received his undergraduate and masters degree i got to know david his interning on Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. John brennan is a distinguished fellow he is a former scholar the university of texas in austin. His director of the Central Intelligence agency where he spent many hours in the situation room and previously served as assistant to the president , Homeland Security and counterterrorism. Specialists in middle Eastern Affairs and counterterrorism, john has received cell several awards for his contributio