Speaker paul ryan. Lets begin with the election. What do you think is the state of the Republican Party after november 3rd . You know, its surprising, its an election where you had the rare event of an incumbent president getting voted out and yet republicans seemed pretty happy generally with the outcome not because hes lost but because downballot they did so well. I think there was a lot of expectation after this election, if the polls were right and it was going to be a blowout for democrats, that there would be a lot of grappling within the party about what it stands for and what the future is and where to go from here. I havent seen that at all. In a lot of ways republicans feel like what the outcome particularly down ballot is justification of everything that the president has been doing and that trumpism, if you will, has worked. You had a situation where democrats were expected to take another 10, 12, maybe 15 seats and in fact had lost close to 10 in the house. Certainly, demo
Now. Hes tlets begin with the election. What do you think is the state of the Republican Party after november 3rd . Its surprising. Its an election where you had the rare event of an incumbent president getting voted out. Down battllot, they did so well. There was a lot of expectation that after this election if the polls were right and it was going to be a blowout for democrats, that there would be a lot of grappling within the party about what it stabnds for and what the future is. I havent seen that at all. Republicans feel like what the outcome particularly down ballot is justification of everything that the president has been doing and that trumpism has worked. You had a situation where democrats were expected to take another 10 to 12, 15 seats and have lost close to 10 in the house. Democrats are very demoralized about not getting the senate. Everybody that waswas hoping fo conversation among the party about what we stand for, i think thats put on. For the time being, despite the
Again going to be really warm well into the 90s for many spots, inland. While remaining in the 60s at the coast jace. All right john, thank you now lets get the latest on the coronavirus pandemic or one day after Governor Newsom gave us warning about a spike in covid19 cases we saw the states highest singleday total of cases since this pandemic began with more than 5,000 new cases confirmed yesterday alone and so heres a look at the numbers and where they stand state why we have more than a 191,000 confirmed cases now covid19 with more than 5600 deaths and locally across the bay area with more than 20,000 confirmed cases and now 538 deaths. Alameda county is reporting the most new cases in the past 24 hours with more than 250 kron fours reyna harvey is live there now with the details reyna. Dorian james good morning like you mentioned coronavirus is not just spreading but its spreading rapidly like california. You mentioned we hit a record high yesterday. 5,000 new cases in the state.
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And they consume and accumulate power and money and homes based on cronyism. Host taking about the scandinavia argument is a big part of the book and the debate we have without the counter, gentler form of socialism but you point out trend lines in scandinavia moving away from socialism in reliance on taxes. Where we see scandinavia 25 years from now and what trends do you see that answer back the arguments. The peak of socialism in sweden was the 70s. They have been moving more to the right. Of five countries that are scandinavian countries four or five are led by centerright government, the trend line on taxes is all the way down and they are big trading nations involved with International Trade and worldwide trade. They have economic indexes, heritage does one. They are ranked pretty high and it is important to know whether they are socialist or not. We need to know whether they are socialist are not and they are not, this private property, ownership, people in their own houses. It