two dozen house contests, three gubernatorial elections are all within two points. that is called a statistical tie. now, as a reminder, three key swing states , if you go back to twenty sixteen , propelled donald trump to victory in 2016. the combined vote of those three swing states . seven thousand votes, 2020 forty three thousand votes in three states. that would be georgia, wisconsin and arizona decided the election. if you stay home, democrats. well, they re likely to win and you will get the government you deserve. we are warning we warned you. and this brings us to the most important question. every american this election needs to be asking themselves, are you better off? are you better off than you are ? twenty one months ago, are you happy we have a 40 year record high of inflation. we have backbreaking gas prices ,diesel prices and a diesel shortage. are you happy about that? is that is that the best we re capable of? are you happy that our borders are wide open?
Lets get ready to go. Once again, im going to give everyone the reminder, when you have a question for the speaker, come up to the question mikes, say your name, your university and your nice concise question. It is my great pleasure, were very fortunate to have Michael Steele with us, the former chairman of the Republican National committee and former Lieutenant Governor of maryland. When he was elected Lieutenant Governor in maryland in 2003, Michael Steele made history as far as the first africanamerican elected to state office. As chairman of the rnc he was charged with revitalizing the Republican Party. A selfdescribed lincoln republican, under steeles leadership, the rnc broke fundrairaising questions durin the 2010 congressional cycle and republicans won 63 house seats. His commitment to Grassroots Organization and Party Building at the state and local levels produced 12 governorships and the greatest share of state legislative seats since 1928, over 600 seats. As Lieutenant Gov
Good afternoon again. Please take your seats. Were trying to stay on time here. Id like to get started as soon as possible. Good afternoon. Im Malu Harrison i would like to welcome you back to this session. Miami book fair, 2017, if you are here this morning, and you know Miami Book Fair very well you know that book fair is presented by Miamidade College and thousands and thousands of volunteers among whom are students, faculty, staff, administrators, and many, many individuals from the community and from the corporate success tore as well. In fact, our corporate sponsor the main corporate sponsor is ohl, this year and were have been very, very grateful for its sponsorship and its support and were also grateful as ive mentioned in previous session to the circle of treads trends of Miami Book Fair i know youre here in abundance this year as you have been in past years, since 1984 when our book fair began and we would like to extend a special thank you to our circle of friends. And so wi
[applause] so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry is this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library, fivestar library this week from library journal. Thank you. [applause] hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editorinchief of congressional quarterly, and more recently the editor of the National Interest and the american conservative. The american conservative has, he says its collaborative, but it sounds a lot like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound Monetary Policy to, clearly delineated borders, protection of civil liberties, authentically free markets and restraint in Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We
Primary. Graduated with b. A. s in Political Science and journalism and an editor of the University Daily camden and you can see her frequently and she msnbc. Quent guest on thank you so much for being here today. William hope that introduction of the rest of the panel going end, so margaret, someone i had the opportunity to wello know very, very because she is also a White House Correspondent and we actually have deckses that are a each othereet from at the white house. Thank you for being here today, margaret. So thank you for being here today, margaret. She also covered the 2016 president ial campaign. We were both on the campaign, but she is that Foreign Correspondent for bloomberg, and she is president of the White House Correspondents association, and a contributor as well. Moving on to tony fratto, he is the founder of the Hamilton Place strategies. Before that, you were at treasury as well, though you can provide a lot of economic context when we get to the tax cuts. And then w