America for making these conversations possible and thank you for joining us on these many platforms. You can find us on twitter. Our first guest is senator tim kaine of the commonwealth of virginia, one of only 30 people who has served as mayor, governor, and United States senator. And how is this for a fun fact . Asave been his constituent mayor, governor, and now as my senator. Senator kaine, welcome to axios. Sen. Kaine mike, its great to be back. We talked about how election day is now election month, i saw some pictures of you earlier in the county, my old stomping grounds outside of richmond voting and you are out there with congresswoman abigail stan , the numbers for early votingf. I think virginia might be leading the nation starting in person voting on the 18th of september, male were returned by the 18th of september, people understand that stakes are so high the selection i think you will see a dramatic increase in turnout over four years. And second because people are wor
Your thoughts on the Supreme Court in the response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Virtual Event in newspapers, americas road ahead i am mike allen and cofounder, welcome to my home in arlington virginia, i will be joined by the morning podcast of today. We would like to thank the bank of america for making these conversations possible and thank you for joining us on the many platforms of the events, we would love for you to follow along on twitter, our first guest is senator tim kaine of the commonwealth of virginia one of only 30 people of American History who serve their neighbors as mayor, governor and United States senator and how is this for a fun fact, i have been senator keynes can situate as richmond mayor and governor and now is my senator, senator kaine, welcome. It is great to be back together talking to you. We talked about how election day is now election month, i saw some pictures of you earlier in the county, my old stomping grounds outside of richmond voting and you a
That nobody really knew how it would turn out as far as viewership goes, is a little bit disappointing on night one. We will see what happens tonight with dr. Jill biden as the anchor of tonights program and see if we can attract more viewers. David do they have much of a hope of doing that . Michelle obama was a pretty big gun the first night. You would expect her to have the draw. Im not sure whats going to happen. Jeanne yeah, i think we have to be a little careful because so much of this is streaming. All of the numbers rick is right. Viewership is down on live tv. There is streaming. Students do not watch anything live. And afterwards. One of the things that last night did, they talked about the fact that trump is not in their view qualified to be president. I think the democrats really have to think about, they want to pull over these voters but they need to persuade in these swing states. They will have to do much more than just talk about how he is not just qualified and what j
Our panel tonight, capri caforio, steve moore, carol roth and jonathan hoenig. Well have the latest on ground from the key locations, were moments away from brandnew voter analysis, first read on how voters are responding to issues that matter most. But first we go to Connell Mcshane in North Carolina. The state is up for grabs with sanders and biden and bloomberg garnering support, what is the read from where you stand . Connell people dont know, i tell you joe biden had a huge night in South Carolina saturday night, in North Carolina, membership of the voters here, have voted early, how they make their decision visavis biden performance and how much momentum he carries to this state remains to be soon. Really people are wondering whether this shapes as a oneonone race today between Bernie Sanders and former Vice President. One of the things we will watch, in terms of wild cards that could play into that. Further Mike Bloomberg he is on ballot for the first time is a major factor well
The major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. She spent most of her professional career. To quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. I turn it over to jessica how we urned it over to a juggernaut. Thanks so much. Ok, great. The line is open. The juggernaut is powered by a lot of coffee and a lot of hard work. I appreciate everyone coming here today. Im the president of the dlcc d announcing our flip 2020 campaign. And we flipped 10 chambers from red to blue and did that since Donald Trumps election and flip red to blew and why state legislatures matter. So we will talk about the dlcc. We are charged with winning americas state legislatures. For me, this is personal. In the 2010 election cycle i was the National Field director and junior staffer and i saw what happened in 2010. In the last 28 days, i was sent