good day. i m chris jansing live in beautiful cleveland, ohio. this state home to one of the most critical and close races in the country. you can t go anywhere without finding someone with a strong political opinion. that doesn t mean their minds are made up. how many of you have decided on every single person you re going to vote for? no. i talked to a panel of cleveland area voters. all of them still waiting to cast their ballots about why they are still on the fence and whether the brutal attack might play a role in pushing them off. as we speak, the candidates are in five senate races separated by three points or less, including tim ryan and j.d. vance. but are voters happy with the choices that are out there? we ll talk about that and why millions of voters are identifying as independents and living their tickets potentially, a phenomenon not just in ohio but critical races around the country that could make a difference. finally, the message voters want to send to ca
we hear this is the election of the youth vote. it will not be this year. as far as students reaction to politics, i don t know that there is because you will have students disconnected from politics. for the most part, 18 to 20-year-olds are disconnected from politics. it will be the usual political environment of 2022 and the last couple of years will have any lasting change. that will only be known over time. ben collins, thank you. basel, justin, reid, you are all sticking around. it wasn t long ago that the
Project and worked under dhs under president george h. bush. here with me on sight, justin bugler, political of science at case western reserve university professor. it s good of you to come out, justin. you can hear in their tone and what they said how disgusted they are with politics, and particularly disgusted with what happened to paul pelosi. we don t know whether and how that might manifest in the voting booth. how do you hear what people say in terms of their frustration and how it might end up coloring who they ll vote for? so, the frustration and the fear is understandable. it s a pretty disturbing event. it s unlikely many votes are going to be affected. unfortunately one of the things that s happened is the way people view these kinds of events gets filtered through party identification.
It if you were talked to someone at the supermarket today, i would say it would be 50/50 if you would get that it was a break-in, that someone was trying to kill him because he was the husband of the speaker of the house and because he was into qanon, and far right cabal stuff or this wild sex cult thing. they have turned him into a hate object even though he was bludgeoned with a hammer three days away. justin, which leads me to your students. we hear it will be the youth vote this time around. they know and use social media a lot more than you and i i m going to guess. do they look at what happened with paul pelosi? does it motivate them? does it make them throw their arms up and say the system is broken, i don t need to get involved? what do you hear from people who are in their late teens, early 20s?