You can hear that live tuesday at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org or listen live with the radio out. With 85 days to go before election 2020 we are joined by the managing editor at the university of Virginia Center for politics. We start in the battle of control for the senate. If you had to pick a hand to play right now would you rather be in the position of democrats or republicans . Guest the democrats are going to lose in alabama. Fourneed to net or when republican seats to get to a 5050 tie. Democrats look good in the senate races of arizona and colorado. They are favored and there are better than 5050 in North Carolina and maine, two other republican seats. The tricky thing for democrats is, once you get beyond those states, they have other targets, but none of them are as good as those four. Theate Playing Field core targets look good for democrats and if you are winning 53ate majority you want 52 so you have majority. You cannot have any vacancies. Host in terms of e
The sub head said while the g. O. P. s ideological diversity is straining to govern, democrats divisions are propping up a big tent for now. Tell me about the democratic side of things first. Joe biden has key decisions to make here in the coming week or so about who will be his vicepresident ial pick. What do you think that comes down to in terms of the important things in his decision, whats going to count most . Guest right. I think the number one issue for joe biden is doing no harm. The vicepresident ial pick is only going to have so much of an impact on the general election in november. What he probably is most concerned about at this point is making sure hes choosing somebody not going to hurt his prospects. Luckily for joe biden democrats are not in a majority in the senate and they do not have control of the white house. That means that all those democrats divisions we hear so much about and that were front and center in 2016 president am primary are not really being showcased
The court. His class is about 75 minutes. All right, today we are going to be looking at is the development of Controversial Supreme Court nominations in the late sixties and early seventies. We are looking at the war in court, this increasing surge of controversial decisions from the court. Theres basically two basic principles. This idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support, whether it was atheist, Civil Rights Activists, or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. Second, the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called rightsrelated liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily for the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, that is if youre going to be governing, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices and as we will see this becomes a froth prospect for liberals. The backdrop, london be joh
On the s p 500, there were a lot of concerns that we would not close that gap overnight. I think we just about closed that gap at the close. Thatine it is interesting you are getting this risk on move in stocks but also seeing yields getting crushed. Taylor it is incredible, the moves we have seen. When is the last time we saw the nasdaq at a record high, gold at a record high . Where do you find value when spreads are already compressed. Caroline lets get back to nancy. Please, onctive, which is speaking your truth. Is it the bond market, or the stock market and sheer liquidity winning out . Nancy i think the bond market is more right than the equity market. Be ague that this will stairstep recovery. Acronymsalphabet soup for how we recover. We saw anarizona, so opening and a partial shot again. States have shut down 30 of gdp. The real concern that the equity market will have after the election is what is a sustainable level of earnings growth. Aile Technology May eke out 1 number fo
Were here to talk about the president ial race, the Key Senate Races obviously. Lets start with a piece of yours, divided party or big tent. The subhead says while the gop is straining ability to governor, democrats divisions are propping up a big tent for now. Tell us about the democratic side of things first. Joe biden has some key decisions to make here in the coming week or so about who will be his Vice President ial pick. What do you think that comes down to in terms of the important things in his decision . Whats going to count most . Right. I think the number one issue for joe biden is doing no harm. The Vice President ial pick is only going to have so much of an impact on the general election in november. What hes probably most concerned about at this point is making sure hes choosing somebody who is not going to hurt his prospects. Luckily for joe biden, democrats are not in a majority in the senate and they do not have control of the white house. That means that all those dem