The november president ial election. The vermont senator made the remarks at his first in person political event since ending his 2020 democratic president ial campaign. Held in washington, d. C. , this is half an hour. Let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon. This country faces an unprecedented set of crises where struggling with a pandemic that has already cost us over 200,000 lives. We have an economy in which we have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, where the middle class today is being decimated, where millions of workers have lost their jobs cant half of our people continue to work paychecktopaycheck, we are living in the moment when Climate Change is imaging this planet is ravaging this fires in theng to west coast, drought, and unprecedented levels of extreme weather disturbances across the globe. Only major country unearthed not to guarantee health air to all people as a human right. Over 90 million americans are uninsured or underinsured, and w
The latest campaign 2020 initiative. And Oakland University Political Science professor will talk about michigan is a key battleground state in november. Good morning. Its friday, september 20 fifth. We begin with your reaction to President Trumps remarks this week about a peaceful transfer of power. Supporting the biden harris ticket dial in at 202 7488000. If youre supporting the president and Vice President pence, bite dial in at 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate, 202 7488002. ,lso text us with your comments first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Or join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Call,we wait for your heres a question and answer from the president on a peaceful transfer of power from wednesday evening. Inits win, lose, or draw this election, will you commit today for a peaceful transferral of power after the election. There has been rioting in many cities across this country, and your socalled red and blue states. Will you commit
Battleground states, looking at the key states that could play a crucial role in this years election. We turn our attention to the state of michigan, and we begin with Detroit Free Press washington correspondent Todd Spangler. Where do things stand right now in the state of michigan . s leadlooks like riding in michigan is still pretty solid looks like bidens lead in michigan is still pretty solid. The last one had him at eight points up. Looks like he is doing well. Not as big a lead as it was a month or so ago. Host why has he lost that edge . Guest frankly, as we get closer to the election, we always expected a tightening of the race. During the summer, the height of the black lives matter protests and some of the actions being taken by the administration, that number balloons, at one point as high as 16. We expected it to come down. Considering an election the four years ago trump won michigan by. 2 , eight is still a pretty big number. We expect it to come back down and narrow eve
Charge to implement unprecedented Police Reform to curb Police Brutality and racial profiling and eliminate qualified immunity as part of the justice in policing act, or as it is going to be renamed, the George Floyd Justice in policing act. Now the hard part. Getting these historic changes past. Congresswoman, so great to see you. Thank you for being here. Chairwoman bass thanks for having me on. Jonathan lets talk about atlanta and the shooting of rayshard brooks. Shot twice in the back according to the medical examiner. How does this fit in with george floyd in minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in louisville . Chairwoman bass this was such a tragedy and it leaves everybody distraught. , hebig difference is clearly engaged in a fight and then he ran and he turned around , at least it looks as though he turned around with his taser, but the question here is, why were the Police Involved at all . , he hadhad done was fallen asleep in a takeout line. Why did they call the police on to, and
12 point lead for biden in the wake of the pandemic. There was a hot spot in michigan for a while. A lot of partisan feelings. Then having the military come into deal with protests, and some of the tweets President Trump has done fighting with Governor Whitmer, who was well liked michigan according to polls. At this point, things look pretty bad for him. That does not mean he could not make it back up, but comparing michigan with wisconsin and pennsylvania, other states he won closely, michigan is looking better for biden. Host lets go back to 2016, many said michigan was a blue wall for Hillary Clinton. President trump winning it by a thousand votes. Why did he win it, and what is the lesson for democrats this year . Todd from all the work i have done post 2016, looking at a lot of data, the thing that jumped out at me, neither Hillary Clinton nor President Trump were wellliked. Michigan was seen as a state democrats had won since 1988, and Hillary Clinton did not spend a lot of time