Stay by zedd and alessia ]ara playing by bruceising ]pringsteen playing becky good morning, everybody. Martin, andisher welcome to our virtual series, women on wednesdays. We are glad you could join us. Nonpartisan, non personal institute. Andupport Research Discussions like this come on women in politics. With less than two weeks ago before the election, we wanted to get an update on what republican groups are doing to elect more gop women to congress. A few weeks ago, we got an update on the democratic side from the leaders on emmas lease emilys list, and we want to hear from women on the others of the aisle. From wpi,o women julie conway, executive director of v. I. E. W. Pac, and rebecca schuller, executive director of women for winning for women pac. Thank you to both for being here. Before we start, i want to let everyone know that we will save some time for questions. At the bottom of your skin, you screen, will notice the button to ask questions. Please feel free to do that dur
Side of the aisle, as you say in washington. We are excited to have two julie conwaywti, and rebecca. Things see both for being here. Sure. I want to let everybody know we will save time for questions. Free asked questions during the discussion and you will be up to a vote other peoples questions. If you missed any discussion, we will have the same podcast to register. , let me rewindgo the clock a bit to the 2018 midterms. It was not a great year for republicans. Only themen, number of republican women fell to 13. That was compared to 88 Democratic Women in the house. Needless to say you have had your work cut out for you. I wonder if you can give assistance of your organization and what your strategy has been and what your forecast is in the next two weeks. Lets start with you. Vew pack. We are expecting great things in 13 days. We have them working really hard. It has been a record year in terms of republican women and signing up to vote two run. 208 is the magic number, which is tw
A bit this morning. Jonathan we were told it is all about the past two fiscal stimulus. Would it be smooth . Would it be downhill . Would it be quick . Right now that path looks rocky, with storms only arise in, yet still this equity market gets bid. Now startsarrative with chris harvey of wells fargo, and others are saying it. Not my view. It is the view other people share. You may not get the tax hikes. Tom some of these states 7000 apart. Some 20,000 apart. Michigan just dribbling in here. Moments ago, that gap closes 227,000 in michigan. Many people on the bot inside people on the bidens had wondering. Lisa lets give you the hard mass. We are talking about where the votes are coming in and where things are close. To 270 this is the path electoral votes. With 238 joe biden with 238, President Trump with 217. Pennsylvania, of course, we are not going to know for a very long time. These are the big swing states, there are more paths to get to 270 electoral votes. President trump, stil
They created the vice presidency for two reasons, in case the president died, resigned or was incapacitated, summary can step in. That was not clarified and was indeed, controversial until the 1840s. The second reason, potentially was because of the Electoral College structure. About thew anything Electoral College, you know that one of the rules of the original design was that Electoral College electorate vote for two people. They have to be from two different states. The way it worked was that you votes perwo boats president. They had to come from two different states. The founders did that because they thought that at some level or some point, they would vote for somebody from their own state. That second vote was there to force people to vote for somebody else from another state to try to run in the region and get summary from the national reputation. Then they used those two votes to get a first and second place winner. Otherwise, it was just a placeholder. Carlisle, infessor the
President Trump Holding rallies in four of them today. North carolina, michigan, wisconsin and mustwin pennsylvania Vice President biden making time in pa. A live look in pittsburgh where the former Vice President is about to get some celebrity backup from lady gaga at a drivein rally while biden focuses on pennsylvania. Former president obama is on the ground in georgia and florida. Both states voted for candidate trump in 2016 but the polls now show very tight races. President trump firing up a crowd in travers city, michigan, before heading to wisconsin for another rally. Were covering all the angles in both campaigns ali vitali following the biden camp but lets begin with jeff bennett, hi, jeff. The Trump Campaign counting on an election day surge tomorrow to help fuel his path to reelection the Trump Campaign is drawing some confidence in these large crowds the president has been pulling as he campaigns across the country despite the polls showing him behind people spent seven or