Recent Political Trends given clues on how the state might vote in november. Today our focus is North Carolina. Were joined now by Jason Roberts university of North Carolina chapel hill professor mr. Roberts happened in 2016 in the state of North Carolina. Why is it a battleground state heading into november . 2016 was one of the least close elections. They been very evenly divided, 2008 barack obama had a very narrow victory here on president obama. President trump won by about three points heremp in 2016. The biggest change between 2008 and 2012 to 2016, we saw a sharp decline in turnout in 2016. House the ray shaping up for november . Is very, very close. If you look at the real politics average going into today, they have Vice President biden with. 5 lead. Think its the closest of any of the battleground states gradual thing ive seen a poll yet this election season that shows either candidate leading outside the pole margin of error. At this point its 50 52 close to call. And a can
I think thats why were here. [applause] mayor lyles but before i talk about the seriousness of this conversation, what id like to do is make sure that everyone recognizes where we are. We are in camp north end, but more importantly, were in a place where creativity flourishes. The artists that have worked on the art that youre going to see today, we have to recognize them. Theyre people that give so much, and they dont get paid enough. And thats the kind of thing that were beginning to see. In a pandemic, we ought to be rewarding people that are doing the work that makes us better people, and thats what artists do. So i want to recognize dammit wesley. Is dammit around . Okay. Gianna mccantz. Wheres gianna . Gianna . Marcus,w as, garrison, frank, and john harrison. They have done a mural that says camp north in charlotte, north , carolina build back better. And we all know whose plan that is. So thank you very much for being here this morning. I am going to say that i would like to int
Debates in the fall of 1960 between Richard Nixon and john f. Kennedy. At the white house, President Trump spoke to reporters about the coronavirus pandemic and the. Atest on developing a vaccine he. Was also asked about his pick for Supreme Court justice before turning the rest of the News Conference over to his advisors. Hello. Thank you very much. Thank you. Today, Johnson Johnson announced that there vaccine candidate has reached the final stage of Clinical Trials in record time. This is the fourth vaccine candidate in the United States to reach the final stage of trials and we have four candidates already at a very late date, late being a positive word in this case. Earlier this year, Johnson Johnson anticipated they would reach phase i trials by september, but due to our support, under operation warp , and to some of the incredible scientists involved, they reached phase three trials by september head of schedule. Interesting, it will be a terrific thing for our country. We encou
Confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with hurricanes, wild fires, and now covid, amongst many other responsibilities. More security is a huge issue. Hes done a pretty good job of establishing the out of control, illegal entry we are experiencing were experiencing over a year ago. The department is concerned about cybersecurity, election security, the security of our Critical Infrastructure. As we just witnessed, some of the protests have sprung into riots, was a protec
Chapel hill. Later, Washington Post associate editor rob woodward talks about his new book rage based on a series of interviews he had with President Trump. Nationwide protests were reignited yesterday in the wake of the grand jury decision on Breonna Taylors death. We begin with your reactions this morning to the case. If you live in the easterncentral part of the country, 2027488000. Mountainpacific area, dial in at 2027488001. Text us with your thoughts with your first name, city, and state , and on488003 twitter cspanwj. A grand jury indicted one of three officers in the Breonna Taylor shooting but not for her death. Here is Kentucky Attorney general David Cameron yesterday charges. G the after hearing the evidence from our team of prosecutors, the grand jury voted to return an indictment for three counts of wanton endangerment for wantonly placing the three individuals in apartment 3 in danger of serious physical injury or death. The charge one endangerment in the first degree is