Filming. Also, if youre wondering what all the equipment is in the back of the room, its cspan, so make show your nicest smile, brush your hair, get ready, just in case you get a cameo. And when we get to the q a part, there is a microphone in the back of the room, and well let you know when its time for that, and well ask you to line up this to ask your questions. In a politically restive time, its always worthwhile revisiting the documents that set us apart from british rule and created the framework for our government. Tonight, our guest speaker, kermit roosevelt, explores these documents and shares his interpretation of their meaning and relevance. Professor roosevelt teaches constitutional law at the university of pennsylvania law school. He was born and raised in d. C. And attended Harvard University and yale law. Before joining the penn faculty, he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David souter. His book, the myth of judicial activism, making sense of Supreme Court
We are back with nick clark. Clark, associate professor at susquehanna university. What do polls say right now in this snapshot of time about where the race stands . Average thenes that different polls put Vice President biden ahead between roughly 4 and 6 . Frank then and marshall has a new poll this morning i think with some of the upper end of that trajectory. There are some single polls that give him more of an advantage. It is looking like biden as an advantage between 4 and 6 . Host is it enough to get out of the margin of error . Guest i believe so. On the high side the margin is around five point. Even if the Vice President were to come down a percentage point, that would be enough to do it. That is a high margin though. Most cases will be between 3 and five point. We will not know on Election Night because they will be ballots being counted for the days afterwards. It does look at the polls. If they are accurate, the Vice President will pull this off. Host 20 electoral votes a
A virtual rally, senator Kamala Harris will be speaking, hosted by bernie sanders. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We deserve to be protected and demand the protection we need to get through this. Many of us dont have pto or six time. We are struggling to get paid time off to take care of our families. If i took unpaid time off to protect myself, i could be penalized or fired. The American People are sick and tired of subsidizing the largest some of the corporations in this country. Workers fighting for a higher minimum wage. To providehe ability for my family. Trying to balance between meals today. Then i can go to work or i skip a meal and i can pay my rent. Does it scare you . Billionaires while my family struggles to know where our next meal was coming from. It is sad. Pay your workers. A living wage is 15 an hour. Mr. Sanders good evening and thank you for joining us for what i think is going to be a very interesting discussion. Let me think the workers that have particip
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Im bob costa, reporter from the Washington Post. Welcome back to the post lives daily show. We launched this show yesterday so you could have uptotheminute election news every day at 1 p. M. Eastern. Today, i will be joined by former House Speaker, newt gingrich, who is a strong supporter of President Trump. In just a minute, i will be joined by former attorney general eric holder, who has been working on redistricting for years now with president obama and he has been advocating for democratic nominee emma joe biden. Two great guests today. First, i wanted to run through my notebook with the headlines im paying attention to in these final days. Number one, florida remember tim russert 20 years ago in 2000 said that was the focus for that election. It seems to be the focus once again. Biden andPresident Trump in florida today. They know that that corridor is vote rich. You see them going to broward county, making sure black voters come out strong. We will talk about Voter Suppression i