doesn't work. [boos] in some areas they are paying 60%-80% more than last year. it is over for a obamacare and hillary clinton wants to double down in and make it more expensive. i called it when it first came out. it is only getting worse and not only for you but for the country because our country cannot afford it, you cannot afford it, we are going to have great health care at a fraction of the cost. you watch, it will happen. on top of that, over two thirds of the counties are losing insurance and if you look at it all over, they are losing the insurance and one in five americans trapped in obamacare will only have one single insured to choose from and boy are those insurers going to have a good time with you. it is ridiculous. even bill clinton admitted that obamacare, he said, is the craziest thing in the world

where people wind up with their premiums doubled into their coverage cut in half. he had a rough night when he went home that night, i will tell you. but he was telling the truth. it is one of the most important reasons why we have to win november 8. repeal and replace obamacare. have to win. we cannot go on like this. you cannot go on like that with respect to affordable -- you know, they call it affordable health care. the democratic of her, by the way, of minnesota said affordable health care is no longer affordable. which is -- change has to come from outside of the crept in and broken system. the fact that the washington establishment has tried so hard to stop our campaign is only more proof that our campaign

represents the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime. this is once in a lifetime. this is our last chance. in four years, it is not going to happen. it is not going to happen. you have got to get out and vote. this is our last chance. not going to happen. this is it. i am asking the american people to rise above the noise and clutter and to embrace the faith and optimism that is crucial and the most crucial ingredient of the american character. i am asking you to dream big once again. remember we used to dream big in this country? and imagine all of the amazing things we can do for our country. real change begins with fixing our rigged and broken system. [cheers and applause]

mr. trump: this is a big crowd of people. this is something. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: so let's try it. or you ready? these people are among the most dishonest people in the world. the media. they are the worst. [crowd booing] mr. trump: they are trying to fix the election for crooked hillary. let them turn their cameras to see the crowd. let them turn their cameras. they never do it. they never do it. they do not want to show the crowd. they don't want to show the crowd. they don't want to show what is happening. they don't want to show the movement. they don't want to show the crowd.

so sad. look at that. they do not move those cameras. i will go home, my wife will say, it sounded like a lot of people. but they never show the crowd. because, you know why they don't? because they are dishonest. they don't want to show it. now, if we had one of those paid for protesters that you read about last week. $1500 to people to act violent at our rallies. you read last week, $1500 to people to act violent at our rallies. the best evident that the system is rigged is that hillary clinton, despite her many crimes, was even allowed to run for president in the first place. [crowd booing]

mr. trump: so sad. hillary deleted 33,000 e-mails. and, by the way, sophisticated all, people that really know the internet and this stuff said they had never even heard of bleaching because it is such an expensive process and she bleached and deleted 33,000 e-mails, lied to congress under oath, made 13 phones disappear, some with a hammer. and then told the fbi she could not remember anything 39 times. and she runs for president, right? just today or were

shocking new revelations about how the clinton campaign has corrupted our government. it was just learned a little while ago that one of the closest people to hillary clinton, with long-standing ties and her husband gave her $675,000 to the campaign of the spouse of the top fbi official, his wife. who help oversee the investigation into mrs. clinton's illegal e-mail server. [crowd booing] mr. trump: so listen to this, the fbi is investigating clinton for -- or as i would call her, crooked hillary.

and virtually her best friend has absolutely closest ally gives $675,000 in campaign contributions to the woman who is married to the fbi person who is doing the investigation. no wonder they found nothing wrong. how does that look? how does that look? so dishonest. this represented a large portion of the money the for the official's spouse had or the purpose of campaigning, this was a tremendous amount of the money.

big proportion. we have to investigate the investigation, folks. our system is rigged. our system is rigged. she never had a chance of being convicted even though everybody in this audience and boy do we have a lot of people, everybody here -- [applause] mr. trump: -- knows that she is 100% guilty. horrible. a former state department 82 hillary clinton just pleaded, just now, just needed the fifth or the young 90 times in a -- more than 90 times in the deposition despite being given

immunity by the obama justice department. do you know how many people have been given immunity? meaning they're not going to be pressed? you know how many? tell me, five plus one, probably keeps going. no, this is our country in terms of justice has never reached a lower point than what we have reached today. the same aid previously told the and ghazi committee that he had no knowledge of the server's existence. what he did. we learned this aid not only know about hillary's illegal server but ordered his employees not to discuss its existence. wikileaks also shows how john podesta, a man who speaks family of hillary and everybody else.

he is a nasty guy but he speaks that. she says he has bad instincts but bernie says she is bad judgment. so why do you want to put somebody in office of the top people says that judgment, bad instincts. would you make her our president? i don't excel. i don't think so. john podesta oh rigged the polls by oversampling. he said, do this. over sample democrats. i mean, you see this. you see it all. a voter suppression technique. podesta, right? have you heard about this? just came out. podesta is also linked to a major crime on-backed carmen trump. every time cap -- every time russia is brought up, they

say trump. what do i have to do with it. by the way, how would you like to be -- she always likes to timing and with russia. i have nothing to do with russia, ok folks? i will give you a written statement. nothing to do with it. all the time they like to time into russia and they say such bad things about when mayor putin and then they are supposed to negotiate with vladimir putin? why would they do this? folks, we are read by people who are not smart people. to put it in a different way, to put it a different way, we are run by stupid people. stupid people. [applause and cheers] mr. trump: the cropped media never talks about things. they never talk about it.

the media also does not talk about hillary's reckless lands for starting a shooting war in syria that would involve nuclear armed russia. she just has bad judgment. she just has bad judgment. if you look at her plans for syria, these are the plans of a child. these are the plans of a person that does not know what she is doing but look which is doing in iraq. look which is done anywhere. look what she has done in libya. the level of corruption is so great, hillary clinton even got the debate questions in advance from donna brazil. she got the debate questions in advance. [crowd booing] mr. trump: thing about. did you hear this? hillary clinton got to debate lessons in advance from donna brazil.

and she knew it was wrong. but never said anything to anyone. but used the questions anyway. she is crooked hillary, folks. [applause] mr. trump: she know is wrong. donna brazil is now under pressure. but she knew it was wrong and she should be more guilty than donna brazil. she took questions, no is wrong, when up to the debate, had the answers, i mean -- how corrupt are we going to get? but the media is not just against me, they are against all of you. that is what it is. like hillary clinton, they look down on hard-working people within our country. the media is entitled, condescending, and even

contemptuous of people who do not share certain elitist views. while the media politicians celebrate washington, d.c., our inner cities crumble. innocent children are shot in the street and working families who just want a raise cannot even get a job or get a break. hillary raises hundreds of millions of dollars from wall street, from foreign governments, and from special interest. all the while the people she pretends to carry about struggle and suffer. she has not done anything for anybody but herself. believe me. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: just look what clinton and her party of done to the inner cities and to the african-american and hispanic communities. they failed them. they betrayed them.

they abuse them. she has abused the african-american community. she has abused the hispanic community. terrible. they want to vote. they get to vote. they do nothing and they say, see you in four years. just like when she ran for the senate in new york. she ran for the senate in new york. she said she was going to bring back talks to -- jobs to upstate new york. we lost jobs. it is a disaster area. a disaster area. she lied. she lies than more than any other human being. they deliver only more crime, poverty, joblessness, murders. her largest single year increase in the united states in the last 40 years. more murders. more murders and we have had in

45 years. we're going to turn it all around. we are going to fight for world america, urban america, suburban america. because we are all one america. [cheers and applause] [chanting "usa"] mr. trump: the forgotten man and women won't be forgotten anymore. forgotten men and women. i see you. i hear you. and, i will never ever let you down. i promise. we will never let you down. i will be your voice and i will fight harder they in anybody has

ever fought we do for and i will win because i know how to win. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: i propose a contract with the american voter that will give the government acted the people where it belongs. my contract with the american voter begins with a plan to end the rampant government corruption and to put special interest and donors out of business as we know it today. [applause] mr. trump: and by the way, who knew the other side of the picture better than me? i knew it. and i knew that our country was going so bad, so fast. does not easy to do folks. this is not easy, it is hard. i built a great, great company. some of the greatest assets in the world.

i have to tell you our movement is being talked about all over the world because it is a movement of common sense and it is a movement of making america great again will stop remember that -- a movement of making america great again. remember that. i want everyone in washington to hear, to hear the words i've said and i'm about to say. if we win on november 8, we are going to washington, d.c., and we are going to drain the swamp. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: under my contract with the american voter, on my first day in office, my

administration will immediate he pursue the following reform to stop government corruption of which there is a lot. term limits on all members of congress. a hiring freeze on nonessential federal employees but not the military. the military, we are going to make your, stronger. we need a strong military. [cheers] mr. trump: for every federal regulation, regulations are putting our businesses out of this is. federal regulations will be eliminated for every new one. a5-year ban on lobbying by executive ranch and congressional officials. they will not be to happy.

a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for foreign governments. a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for american elections. [applause] mr. trump: under my contract, i am also going to take the following actions on day one to protect the american worker. that is why i did this in the first place. i saw what was happening. we are losing our jobs like a bunch of babies. we are going to renegotiate nafta or leave the deal, withdraw, and make a brand new far superior deal. it is a two-way street. we are losing our jobs. we're losing our country. it has got to be a two-way street. moving to mexico, they are moving everywhere. everywhere but here.

we are going to withdraw from the transpacific partnership. a disaster. a disaster. we are going to have a great relationship with china. but we can beat china. we can win. we have the cards. our people do not know that. we are going to label china a currency manipulator, which is what they're doing. they are taking our business. they're taking our jobs. they are making our products and so are plenty of others. and, i have no problem with china. i have no problem with their leaders doing what they are doing. what i have a problem with is our leaders allowing them to get away with this stuff. i have a real problem with them taking our jobs. we are going to enforce violations of trade rules that hurt united states workers of

which there are many. lifting restrictions on the production of american energy. we are to improve energy infrastructure just like keystone pipeline and many more. we are going to cancel billions and billions of dollars in payments to the united nations climate change program and use the money to fix america's environmental infrastructure including the florida aquifer. we're going to fix our own environmental infrastructure. spending billions and billions of dollars making it impossible for our companies to compete. additionally, on the first day i will take the following actions to restore the rule of law and order. i will cancel every ill legal obama executive order.

[applause] mr. trump: we will appoint great justices to the united states supreme court. we will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. we will begin removing all criminal illegal immigrants from our country. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: you know, when hillary clinton was secretary of state they would catch a murder, drug lord, getting members, violent criminals, and they would bring them back to their country where they came from. hillary clinton was told that their countries won't take them

so she said, oh, that is ok. bring them back we don't want to create waves. who can blame their country? so they brought them back, put the back on the streets, and that is where we are now. i can guarantee you one thing, whether it is for years or eight years, never want will that happen to the united states when we bring them back, they are back. and when you hear about the high murder rate in 45 years, there are a lot of reasons for but that is one of them. we are going to suspend immigration from regions comprised -- think of this -- think of this -- hard to believe -- by islamic terrorism. including the suspension of the syrian refugee program. [cheers and applause]

mr. trump: we are allowing thousands of people, we do not know who they are, where they are from. we know nothing about them. thousands and thousands are pouring into our country and crooked hillary clinton wants to allow a 550% increase. we have enough problems. it will be the great trojan horse. the great trojan horse. next, i will work with congress to introduce these 10 legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my administration. they include repealing and replacing obamacare, a tax cut for all middle-class families. a big one. and by the way, hillary clinton is going to raise your taxes substantially.

you take a look. caps on companies that outsource american jobs, the company's leave, they fire their employees, we're not going to let it happen any longer. they call it the greatest job theft in the history of the world. the greatest job theft. think of that. legislation to provide school choice for the labor unions that labor unions want to allow and we are going to end common core and bring education local. we are going to authorize $120 in new, private public infrastructure. that is going to be so important. projects to be funded including repairing the bridge in florida. when you look at bridges,

tunnels, roads, highways, has common schools, we are and that schools. -- we are in bad shape. the national debt has doubled -- doubled! -- since obama became resident. so it has gone up. $10 trillion. so we are now going to be $20 trillion. and a benefactor, we have not done anything. our roads are bad. our schools are bad. our highways, tunnels, our bridges are falling down. you see the reports. there dangerous, many of them. so we're going to get our infrastructure taking care of. we are going to bring jobs. we have to do it for our country.

legislation to immediately begin the wall and impose tough penalties -- [cheers and applause] mr. trump: we are going to build a wall. we're going to build a wall. 100%. who is going to pay for the wall? crowd: mexico! mr. trump: 100%. they do not know it yet, but they are paying for. thousands of americans have been killed by illegal immigrants including americans like josh wilkinson whose mother have gotten to know very well through the remembrance project which is amazing. amazing people. josh, a student in a high school, wonderful student, loved by everybody was tortured, strangled, and beaten to death by in a legal immigrant and then his body was set on fire.

this was somebody that should not have been in the country. they had chances to get him out of the country but they never acted. i have also met julie, whose son spencer was shot in the head by in illegal immigrant. spencer had just dropped his girlfriend off and was driving innocently home and was brutally murdered by somebody that should have never, ever been in our country. this crime wave ends when i become president of the united states. i guarantee you. i guarantee you. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: we are going to protect our country and we're going to protect our children. we are going to create tax-free child care savings accounts which is going to be amazing.

increase funding for local police. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: for our military can for our own good, we're going to eliminate the obama-clinton defense sequester. we do not put the money into our military anymore. at a time when we needed as bad as ever before. the rebuilding for the military will include major new assets across the state of florida including new navy and coast guard ships to patrol the sea. new advanced manufacturing on florida's coast and new aircraft that will fly from mcdillon air force base and naval air station pensacola. we know that. we are going to set high standards for ethics reform to end government corruption of which we have plenty.

with the victory in november, everything will change. just think about what we can accomplish in this 100 day period. we will accomplish so much for our country that we all love. we are going to have the biggest tax cut since ronald reagan. eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. support the men and women of law enforcement. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: we are going to save the second amendment, which is totally under siege. and appoint justices to the united states supreme court who will uphold and defend the constitution of the united states. [cheers and applause]

mr. trump: i will end the wasteful government spending and hold the bureaucrats accountable. i will faithfully execute the sacred office of commander-in-chief and create a new foreign policy that always, always, always will put our country first. america first. when i am president, the tide of egg government will never threaten to wash away our dreams, our jobs, and our borders. we must unite so we can save this country. the country that we love. and have a rebirth of american liberty and prosperity. we need a rebirth. we are headed so wrong, folks. this is why i am doing this. i am going to fight for every last citizen in this nation. i'm going to fight to bring us

all together as americans. just imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people under one god saluting one american flag. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "usa"] mr. trump: go out and vote. vote tomorrow. vote the next day. but definitely vote and if you have not voted by november 8, no matter how you feel, no matter how bad things are, and get up and vote. we have to vote. and if we win, together, we will

make america wealthy again. we will make america strong again. we will make america safe again. and we will make america great again. god bless you. god bless you. god bless you. ♪ mr. trump: thank you, everybody. ♪ [playing rolling stones' "you can't always get what you want"] ♪

>> these are the most recent ads released by the clinton and trump campaigns. hillary. be voting for >> she definitely has the experience. >> i don't want someone running the country and ths a business. >> if we want to hotel we will call donald trump. >> that is what i appreciate from hillary clinton. >> if obama votes for hillary, i will vote for hillary. >> make sure you get out and vote. >> i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> the man who murdered joshua

was an illegal alien and he should not have been here. with a closet rod so hard it broke his skull in four pieces. he was doused with gasoline and set on fire. the hardest day of my life. >> hillary clinton's border policy is going to allow people into the country just like the one that murdered my son. >> with two weeks until election day, this is the headline at politico.com -- "donald trump's window is closing." joining us on the phone is dan, thank you for being with us. >> many have been warning since he was nominated that it will be an uphill battle and at this point there are few officials

who will say publicly or privately that they feel confident. host: early voting is in place and well over half the country. what do the trends indicate for the democrats and republicans? >> they are relatively encouraging for democrats. republicanswhere have consistently outperformed democrats in mail-in and early voting, that narrow advantage has narrowed further this year, and democrats tend to outperform it in person, early voting, which is just starting. in north carolina, republicans in 2012 totally dominated democrats in terms of mail-in voting. that margin has shrunk considerably. republicans need those margins to be competitive. very, veryda, we saw

well organized efforts by democrats, with the help of unions, to get people to the polls, depending on surrogates -- katy perry, for example, was in nevada, urging people to get to the polls early. overall, it is positive for democrats. host: you write about utah, which is not known for democrats. not since 1964. right now the polls are showing a tight race, with an independent potentially picking up the state for the first time since 1968. what can you tell us? >> it is tight. polls tend to show mcmullen and trump the connect with hillary clinton not far behind, but clinton is sending more staffers to the state, deploying resources late. privately republican operatives think mcmullen is the favorite. we could see those conservatives

and independence picking up the electoral votes. any time that you are a republican and utah is in doubt, it is a sign not just of trouble but potential catastrophe. >> another state where democrats are deploy more resources, new hampshire, where kelly ayotte is in a tough free election against the democratic governor. look to the polls say? >> polls have been afghan to earlier this month -- have been that caneck in neck earlier this month. ayotte has struggled with trump throughout the campaign. she said she was voting for him and then not endorsing him, but when the tape leaked, she totally disavowed him. the latest poll i have seen was last week from wme wire, showing her -- from wmur, showing her behind, which speaks to the pickle republicans are in. it's dangerous to embrace him

but he has many diehard supporters. host: where does this put hillary clinton as she tries to run up the score in the electoral college and pick up key senate races to the democrats back in the majority? and also some of the other down ballot races are democrats, hoping for the possibility of recapturing the house of representatives? >> they're going on offense now, refocusing and down ballot races. we have interred hillary clinton do much senate campaigning up on the stump, but we did hear her go after pat toomey in pennsylvania. that was a first and we are likely to see more of that. we saw barack obama come out and endorse house races, trying to go on offense, pick away even further at the republican majority. ways,s becoming, in many

more a story about how bad the congressional losses are going to be for republicans. that,yet based on all of had to the democrats make certain their voters still go to the polls on election day? one of the biggest risks for hillary clinton is prematurely resting on laurels. >> that's right. lashley it comes down to executing on your ground game. democrats have an advantage here. donald trump is barely invested in the get out the vote operation. they have to execute on that and they have to manage expectations. there's a danger for both sides in concluding that this race is over. voters will potentially stay home if they think it is a done deal. so managing expectations and executing on ground game. host: bottom line and the remaining 14 days before the november election, what can we

expect from each candidate? what will be their approach? >> sure. with clinton, we will likely see an increasing focus on nongressional races and a increasing focus on giving her the strongest possible hand to play in terms of the congress you will deal with. she's now expecting by all indications to win this thing. ath trump, he has been wildcard and will continue to be a wildcard. when things got really bad for him about two weeks ago with those allegations of sexual assault coming out, you saw him ratchet up his rhetoric. it got more extreme, he posited the vast conspiracies against him. it's possible that if things get down to the wire, it becomes ever more clear where the polls stand. new rhetorical extremes -- it's possible he will position himself to not be the fall guy,

position others to take the blame for an expected loss. it will be interesting, given the post campaign media venture, to see what he has to say. host: we will look for euro porting at politico.com. thank you very much for being with us, we appreciate it. >> thanks her having me. >> coming up on c-span, a look at the role of north carolina and the 2016 elections. then, a debate between pennsylvania senator pat toomey and is democratic challenger katie mcginty. then, secretaries of the army, navy, and air force on national security threats and the transition process of the pentagon. analogday, a congressional oversight powers of the executive branch. former house and senate staffers take part in an event hosted by the constitution project, live at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span

2. experts on how news and social media shape public reactions to terrorism, live on c-span2. >> c-span brings you more debates this week from key u.s. senate and governor races. tuesday evening at 7:00 a.m. eastern, live coverage on c-span -- the indiana governors debate between er-- 7:00, live on c-span, democratic congressman chris van hollen and caf a cap they shall egg a. then, a debate for the florida senate between republican senator marco rubio and democratic congressman patrick murphy. thursday night at 8:00 eastern, republican senator kelly ayotte and democratic candidate maggie

hassan debate for new hampshire. now until election day, watch key debates on the c-span listen, c-span.org, and on the c-span radio app. c-span -- were history unfolds daily. >> this week, "washington journal" is looking at the election season's battleground states. next, dallas woodhouse, north carolina republican executive director, on the makeup of the tar heel state. is 40 minutes. "washington journal" continues. host: a weeklong look at battleground states this week. today, we take a look at north carolina and focusing specifically on that state, we are joined by dallas woodhouse, the executive director of the north carolina republican party. mr. woodhouse, thanks for joining us. guest: great to be with you. host: if you take a look at the averages on the real clear

for the state of north carolina when it comes to the presidential race, it shows hillary clinton up by 2.5 points or so. how do you feel about those numbers so close to election day? guest: i think republicans are closing strong in all their races. it is ironic. . we've been in full campaign mode for over a year and we are almost exactly where we started in the beginning with three 'sjor races for north carolina presidential electors, the u.s. senate race in the governor's race, all within a margin of error with the polls. if turnout is going to be the issue, what is the republican party and the state doing to ensure it -- to ensure party turnout? guest: we have an incredible ground operation we have built with our partners in the republican national committee. we not done over a million doors in north carolina. we've got people in every part

of north carolina. we've got people scouring all 100 counties, getting republicans out to the polls, s to seeunaffiliated things our way, talking to voters on the telephone. that will continue right up to the close of the polls on election day. host: mr. woodhouse, how does that campaign or at least that effort compared to the donald trump effort, his campaign and his on the ground campaign there? guest: it's interesting. i can't speak to what everybody else has said in their state, but we have a great working relationship with the trump campaign. there have been in my office more times than not. the a now have their own office space near us, but we shared office space for a long time. we worked very closely on getting the vote out. that is the biggest a-list a party does. we are totally -- that is the biggest thing the state party does.

we are totally in sync. and they're helping us with our candidates down the ballot. has taken arty bigger role on the ground operations then perhaps it does at other times. it seems to be working really well. we are comfortable with where we are. host: specifically what areas of the state are you focusing on? not only with the donald trump, but the other candidates at play as well, senator burr and governor macquarrie? mccrory?nor guest: what you like to know. [laughter] host: i would. guest: we scour every four corners of the state, the rural areas, the urban areas on the suburban areas. republicans have done very well in the rural areas. democrats a little better the center city. and we duked it out for the

suburbs. i think that is no different now. m you sawc the stake go just barely 10 mitt romney back in 2012. d.c. that kind of emphasis or enthusiasm for donald trump? kinds he has brought all of new activists and volunteers into our party. he has given our party a lot of energy. that is a positive thing for our party. so it is good to see a lot of new faces. these races are very close. you're doing everything you can to squeeze out every single voter you can. one thing that i feel really good about -- we have done tremendous work with our partners.

democrats have dropped significantly on registration election.a's we have come up converter registration about 150,000 voters since 2008 erin it is a significant number. it makes a big difference in a close election. host: our previous guess was talking about the impact of the voter id law. what did you make of the decision and what ultimately the legal system decided about the law? guest: the decision that came out of theguest: fourth circuit, what it has done is told north carolina citizens that they'd don't have the same rights as citizens in indiana and georgia to have voter id. citizens have not been treated fairly in this regard. we ought to be treated the same as any other state and be able to have a fair, const to show voter id system. the judges, some of the

decisions, as the sum the commentary coming out -- not guest: i think that is -- coming out -- guest: that's exactly right. i think that was a lyrical that -- amore political decision more than a legal decision. it is a really fascinating thing. the judges found that the political actors acted with discriminatory intent, but not a discriminatory result. that is almost unheard of. if people intend to discriminate, the in fact to do it. but the could find no examples where people were discriminated as a result. african-american voting is up. our african american registration is up. what they're saying is that we believe you acted within 10. it is flawed legal strategy.

and it is virtually unprecedented. we will eventually get reversed. or, if we don't come other states will have to lose their voter id provisions. because north carolina cannot continue to be treated as a redheaded stepchild of voting law and not allowed to have the same constitutional protections at their ballot that many other states already have. host: dallas woodhouse with us. north carolina residents come if you would like to ask some questions -- steve is our first call. he is from hickory, not throwing up. -- he ishank you for from hickory, north carolina. caller: thank you.

this goes to the what the previous caller said. ,he north carolina legislature ruled by the judge, used the data as it pertained to african-americans in north carolina, used in such a way that the actually precisely went at the voters in the sense that the word -- they were disenfranchised. most african and -- most african americans would be open to the republican party. some of the policies that a nobleman, same thing with hb 2 -- i am not for it or against it -- but one has to actually look at how it impacts the residents of north carolina. by getting back to the ruling on the voting here in north ourtlina, the appeals c

determined that the data actually targeted african-americans and disenfranchised them and that is why the ruling was as such. host: ok. the court performed all kinds of legal jujitsu in the made.on it the one thing that has been so frustrating is the legislature are and received hundreds and thousands of pieces of information on all kinds of things. you can arguably say that there have to look at how certain voting things a certain groups to be in compliance with the voting rights act. what they'd don't tell you is north carolina, what it added in his voter id provision put in a safe harbor for people who have hardship. in other words, if you could not

get an id, could not afford one, even we give it to you for free, couldn't find a birth certificate left your wallet home, all you had to do was sign something that said it's the case and you can go. hardshipna put in a provision. it's really ironic. what is frustrating is that courts have not allowed north carolina's voter id to go through. at the same time, the justice department cut a deal with the state of texas to let an identical law go through for this election cycle. north carolina continues to have among the most liberalized voting laws in all the country. 17 days of early voting. you cannot function in this society without some sort of id. and if you don't have one, we have a responsibility as good citizens to help you get one. that's why we're willing to do it. help you get the documents for free. help you get the id for free. our party will take you to get one. we have a program to help people with that kind of thing.

but this was a political decision by a political court. host: whiteville north carolina. good morning. caller: yes, good morning, sir. i would like to say that i will be voting in just a few minutes from now for miss hillary clinton because she is the lesser of two evils. and what donald trump has said -- i have three daughters -- and what he said about women showed me what type of man he is. and the republicans gerrymandering of districts in north carolina and governor pat crushed the -- industry no caps on up. carolinaought to north the texas-style government, the way texas runs their state. from my understanding -- guest: how did the governor do anything to the film industry? caller: he crested down in walton, north carolina. guest: he stopped giving the moneyguest:? caller: he took the -- guest: should the film ministry

make it on its own or should we subsidize? mr.: let himself -- woodhouse, let him finish his thought and and you can respond. the loss of the all-star in the ncaa games and broke -- the straw that broke the camels back come other week before last, and african-american man atplained about hog waste the lagoon broke. host: a lot out there. we will in our guest respond. just a lot of factual inaccuracies there. i'm glad the voter will be will beng -- participating in our electoral process. north carolina's economy is now booming under governor mccrory. we had one of the biggest unemployment numbers, on employment rates in all the southeast of the country. we had the highest taxes in the southeast. the governor has turned that around.

we now have a much lower, flatter state income tax. the fastestave growing economy in all of america, measured by gross thomistic product -- gross domestic product. i think that is why governor mccrory will be returned to the governor's mansion in a couple of weeks. host: lee, you are up next. i have a comment and a question. first of all, everyone voting for jill stein; a day after the election, you will be outran to get signatures on the about so we can have legitimate third parties. my question, i understand there are several states that receive more in tax subsidies than that contribute to the federal taxes. i wondered if north carolina is one of those. and is that a comment on the efficiency of the governmental philosophy in that state? correct,do believe is but i will say, in north carolina, i will say that north

carolina's governor and our legislature have a real regard for all tax dollars. and the realize that federal taxpayers are also state taxpayers in the trade to make sure that tax money is not wasted, no matter whose scoffer it is at the time. the caller mentioned miss stein who it -- ms. stein who is running on the green party ticket. she had a bout of pneumonia. i hope she is at her. i've had it, too. i don't know how a presidential candidate can manage with it. i had a hard time with it. i hope ms. stein goes better. north carolina come even call us. from charlotte, this is david. i'd like to say several things. i've been working the polls. number one, there are not enough machines. it's heavily overcrowded. people have been standing in line the days i have been there

for at least two to two and a half hours to get to vote. that is a suppression if you ask me. i have a concern of many of the election officials. i called the board of directors, etc. everyone plays the reason to have destined not having all the pull stations of -- we'll have 10 open and the are all spread out. the reason for not having the rest of them open is just because the cutbacks that mccrory has instituted. number two, listened to your show all morning and i've been listening to these ladies particularly the christians and say they're going to vote for truck. i don't know how that happens. i like to say a quick thing about mccrory. i have a daughter who teaches in the public schools. she is an eight-year teacher. when mccrory says that he gave a raise to the teachers, yes, he

gave raises to the first and second year teachers because we have lost so many and no one was to come here -- guest: what does that do for your daughter when she's governor? didn't she gave raises over four years? mccrory has been better about that, right? caller: if i make him a mccrory is the one who claims he gave all these resisted teacher. host: we will let the guest respond. guest: i wanted to point out that it is a fact that governor teachers given more in raises than any other governor in all 50 states during his three and a half years in office. that's just a fact. the caller does bring up an interesting thing about early voting. north carolina has 17 days of early voting. i think it is available. -- debatable whether that's a little too long are not. the what we have done is we made it ready think the will have to

wait in line on election day where we have hundreds and hundreds of precinct open. and we funnel them to the early voting site, especially in the first weekend in the last week in of early voting so the lines are very long. if you want to go during the week this week, the lines will be very long. if you want to vote by mail, which anybody has the right to do in north carolina, you don't have to wait in line at all. i think north carolina will have to decide whether it is going to continue to have a traditional election day or not, because the state cannot afford to keep every voting site open for a month. it is extremely expensive and inefficient. veryready have -- we have liberalized early voting laws. we support early voting. but you're never going to have -- the caller was referring to a mecklenburg county, where there is 10 or a dozen early voting sites. there are hundreds of precinct on election day. there's just no way all of those

will be open for 17 days. no state could afford that. no state is a for that. host: let's hear from hollywood, florida. hank is up next. caller: yes, hello. can you hear me? host: go ahead. caller: i want to talk about something different. what is the view of republicans and democrats on sharia law, the muslim law, with all the muslims coming into this country. they'd prefer to be under sharia law, which is totally against women and homosexuals. would you allow in north carolina or anywhere in the united states the practice of sharia law to get a foothold in america? and no one has answered that question yet. guest: i believe our legislature specifically banned that practice. certainly people who come to the state of north carolina, no matter what their religion is, no matter what their gender is, no amend or -- no matter

anything else, they're expected to follow the laws of the good people of north carolina without regard to anything else. is a very law and order state. we have a large military population here, a lot of retired military. we are a state that expects people to behave and behave accordin to the rule of law. host: talk a little bit about the impact of the passive beds -- the passage of hb 2 on this electoral cycle. do you think it's going to affect people and how the vote? a lot of things affect a lot of people and have a vote. that piece of legislation has stirred up a lot of passions on both sides. i believe in north carolina the democrats didn't have much of an issue because the governor had the economy going, getting people back to work, dropping unemployment, offerings will chose -- offering school choice

that there wanted to create a divisive issue and they'd managed to do it. host: we will hear from tim kaine and what he had to say about it aired we will get your response to it. here is tim kaine. [video clip] >> when the city of charlotte passed an ordinance to protect against discrimination, state leaders wanted to crack down on the ability of cities to do that. even though the city was doing what their voters elected them to do. now a to b 2 has become a national cause that has rocked the wrong kind of attention to north carolina. because you are not a place where bigotry is ok. north carolina values are progressive values. and i know that that is a huge issue that drives a lot of us. host: mr. woodhouse, your thoughts on that. guest: tim kaine ought to go clean up his own backyard. slapping sillyis virginia when it comes to job

creation, lower taxes, getting the economy moving. he can come here and play partisan politics. here is a message republicans are going to send. we are not going to put young girls into the same bathroom facilities and shower facilities as grown men. we weren't going to do it. not going to do it. not going to do it. not going to do it. if tim kaine wants to do that in the state of virginia, by all means, he can go back up to the commonwealth under that. but we're not going to do that here. we are going to do the things that are required a necessary to protect people's rights, safety and security. host: would you say there has been an impact upon businesses? we heard about the ncaa and other businesses pulling out. what you think are the long-term effects of that? guest: the long-term effects is the u.s. of premature will have to figure this out. theuld just say this -- u.s. supreme court will have to figure this out. but i would say this.

if you have a business and you have to have single gender restrooms, the same kind that we had since plumbing was invented, if you decided to keep that in your business, the city of charlotte could put you in jail. that is inappropriate. that is the kind of government overreach that republicans are not point to stand for. we should leave from the sector decisions about their bathrooms to the private sector. has signed some executive orders making special accommodations for people in need them in government restrooms. i just do not believe that the forle in north carolina are grown men going into the showers of 11-year-old girls. facilitating that in any way, even if by accident, to the charlotte ordinance. so we are not going to do that in north carolina. host: our guest is dallas woodhouse.

good morning, mr. woodhouse. guest: good morning. caller: i want to let everybody know that i am not biased. intory clinton can look the mirror and the reflection will be jeb bush. the architectas of nafta. hillary's husband signed into law. our textile factories and furniture factories in north today, two candidates. one says he was he wants to bring jobs back to this country. the other candidate, hillary, says those jobs are gone and never to come back. and we as consumers have to be complacent. every product has a sticker on it that says made in china. bernie fans out

there, he's so that the machine. host: thanks. we will let our guest respond. guest: there is certainly a lot of conversation about jobs in north carolina. and republicans have done a good job at bringing some back. i think we do have to rebalance our trade deals some, as mr. trump has talked about. host: from greensboro, julius is up next. caller: good morning. times, i heard you say one that you just wanted to have one , asing place in charlotte big as charlotte is, you just wanted one polling place open. you -- patat macquarrie is a bath -- pat mccrory is a basket full of

deplorables. guest: i would not say that about you. come on. caller: you said you want one polling place open. guest: i do believe i said that i wanted. i believe i said that is what the law required. there's a difference between say what i wanted and what the law required. but here is the bottom line on early voting. north carolina, under republican boards of election, has provided more early voting hours and opportunities across the state. the republicans are in charge and the have passed more early voting hours in the democrats ever did. period. host: talk a little bit about the senatorial races. i want to get this in there before with the ego. richard burr -- before we let you go. richard burr, will cut of challenges does he face? guest: the biggest challenge he faces is all kinds of liberal

special-interest money pouring into the state. but this was always meant to be a close race. i think he will pull it out by two or three points. in north carolina politics these days is a landslide. records has a very long in the legislature and through her time as attorney for the american civil liberties union, which reflects some values and interest i do not think match very well with the people of north carolina, including being very soft on crime, not for being against the original creation of the child sex offender registry. certainly state that has a moderate street to it, they will find that miss ross is too liberal for the state of north carolina. host: what you expected turnout

to be this year compared to previous cycles? guest: we expect turn out to be really healthy and really good. it may not quite match 2008, but 2012,l probably be into that range, somewhere in there. it will be a good, strong turnout. host: how much did you -- host: how much did you get in 2012? guest: i would have to look back at it. i think we were in the 70's. we are certainly going to have a lot -- we had 75% people voting in wake county, where i am at. i think we will rival that. we will have a good, strong turnout. the thing is, most of the presidential years, people turnout. it's your off year elections where there are wilder slip -- swings in who votes into doesn't. host: david, ohio, on the line

for others. guest: good morning, fellows. is athe public what welfare state. after president lincoln won the war, all the slave states became welfare states. dimessippi used to send a to washington and got back a dollar. how much does north carolina send? my next question to you -- black people are the only people in america that don't have a real birth certificate because their fromage was taken away them, all right? i'm listening to your answer. please tell the people what a welfare state is. north carolina is a welfare state. how much -- i don't don't know -- know where the caller is going there. in north carolina, if you want to get voter id -- and we think it is the compassionate thing to so to help people get an id that they can function in

society. so that they can buy sudafed, go to the doctor and do other will help you find a birth certificate or get the necessary documents free of charge. i assure you, north carolinians pay plenty of federal taxes. more so than they should. marie is up next. harrisburg, pennsylvania. hello. good morning. thank you for taking my call -- caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. i am for donald trump because hillary trump clinton, none of them can tell us the truth. everybody knows it. democrats either don't recognize it or they just overlook it, deny it, and let her get high with the things that she has done that are so corrupt. corrupted the fbi. she has corrupted the attorney general's office. there is no law anymore.

there isn't any. because they don't believe in it . it's all -- everything is for hillary clinton. and she is just going to take is down the rest of the way. one thing that really scares me is that she wants open borders. this morning on another station that one family had taken in what they thought was a 15-year-old refugee. found out he was a jihadist and threatened to kill the family. that's how they found out. where is all that vetting that hillary says we're going to do? it scares me to death. i heard her say in the speech that she was going to raise taxes on the middle class. people sat there and clapped for her. i just hope that north carolina has the good sense to come through like they usually do. host: got you, color. on thewe are counting

good sense to come through. the but we respect the people who like ms. clinton and the other folks. we like to have a respectable dialogue. i do think that one of the big issues in the campaign and the complete just collapse of law and order. people coming across borders with impunity. people not telling the truth to the fbi, setting up servers outside of their homes. people cleaning them while under subpoena. all sorts of other things that most of us know would be answering to the fbi if we did personally. i do think that one of the driving factors in this election , one of the things that has is thisifted mr. trump sort of sense that the system does not treat people the same who are wrapped up in the political culture, wrapped up in the tax culture, that sort of thing. , the frontoodhouse

page of "the charlotte observer" shows secretary clinton speaking at unc. what is the strategy for the republican party in the state, reaching out to students not only for donald trump but in the down ballot races? guest: well, we have a very active campus outreach program, people who work on staff and the republican leadership initiative , going out and training young folks. college campuses have traditionally been pretty right for democrats. that's not going to change. democrats. that's like going to change. we just want to make sure that they grow up to be republicans, that is what has traditionally happened. we expect, you know, all of

these races to be settled by just a few thousand votes and every vote counts. host: because of those colleges and research areas in the state, who do they benefit primarily? the republicans will capture about 70 of north carolina's 100 counties. democrats will probably win 30. heavilyocused on the urban areas of wake county, mecklenburg county, guilford county. some of our far northeastern counties that are friendly to democrats. we just have to see how the rural versus urban vote balances out. how many ticket splitters we have. certainly there will be people that vote for miss clinton who also vote for miss mccrory --

mr. mccrory for governor. people that vote for mr. trump and mr. burr. we will have to see how the strategic voting works out. off, north carolina. steve, good morning. caller: i just wanted to make a couple of comments and ask a question. number one, if you really want to know what teachers make in , look up thea north carolina's teacher salary schedule. , i never once saw a kid take a shower in middle school. not once did i ever see a kid take a shower. the question is, north carolina -- guest: smelly kid. is a north carolina university id considered a valid form of identification? thank you for that

question. first of all, it's a moot point, because there is no voter id for this election. student ids were very did notous because they prove residency. remember, you have to be a resident to vote where you are. there was absolutely no consistent standard from college to college, whether it be private university or public university. so, student ids were not any -- not in original the original legislation. we will see if that changes in future years. of course, there are multiple ways that college students were able to get a hold of a valid id for voting. next up is herald, from east bend, north carolina. good morning. good morning. i wanted to ask the gentleman if he thinks there is a slim

possibility that in america's history there has ever been a presidential race where both candidates were disliked to such a degree. i would like a follow up after his answer. well, since we are in north carolina, i will bring up the presidential election of 1824. felt like that election was stolen from him by the speaker of the house, henry clay. they fought that out for four years until jackson came back and won four years later. i don't think anybody was very popular after that election. that is one that comes to mind. host: harold, your follow up? caller: what does he think about the federal civil lawsuit filed in civil court against the sheriff's department for engaging in state-sponsored terrorism? guest: i have no knowledge about that. not familiar with it. can donald trump win the

presidency without north carolina? i don't know, but that's i going to happen. donald trump is going to win north carolina. it will be close, we will win. we will return patrick rory and a great member, chairman richard burr back to the u.s. senate. north carolina is going to stay read. maybe not by a lot, but by enough. host: columbus, georgia, on the line for others. hello. mrs. miller? go ahead, you are on. caller: ok. host: you are on, go ahead, please. caller: good morning, c-span. mr. woodhouse, i have a question. we hear a lot about immigration. my question to you is -- do you have any idea how many illegal immigrants are in the state of north carolina that did not come

across the border from mexico? i will be waiting for your answer. guest: i don't. i don't. i think immigration is a complicated issue that we have seen roiling not only our state and our country, but the world. one of the reasons that britain left the eu is because they could not control their own borders. got to have people on goodwill from all sides coming together to try to solve this immigration question. we have illegal immigrants in north carolina, just like any other state. a lot of people are offering great value to our society who are undocumented. is just a very complicated issue. there is no one political side that is ever going to fix this issue. it is going to take everybody coming together and probably

taking a little bit by a little bit and solving some along the way to try to develop some consensus. for oure more call guest. this comes from craig, in wilmington, north carolina. good morning, how are you? caller: all right. my question is -- why does the republican administration in north carolina get rid of a ?cholarship they had an assault on public education. they no longer offer the teaching fellow scholarship. guest: our governor in north carolina has offered the largest teaching pay raises of any governor in america. we have done a lot of things to try to get our education compensation system up. we have offered liability protection that the democrats offer. there have also been hard choices that have had to be made. when the democratic governor

left republicans with a $3 billion budget debts of it -- a lot of difficulty had to be figured out and republicans have done a pretty good job paying the debt back without raising taxes. host: a couple of our viewers on this out -- pointed this is from the appearance you made with your brother back in december a couple of years ago. they asked if this is one of the brothers made famous through airtime last election, they wanted to see how family relations were going. guest: i think it would be better for everybody when this election is over. host: dallas woodhouse, he is with the north carolina and -- north carolina republican

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irst ladies' historians. first ladies in paper back published by public affairs is now available at your favorite book seller and also as ane-book. >> next, we continue our look at politics in north carolina with john dinan of wake forest yufrlte. this is that minutes. -- wake forest university. >> all this week, our show is going to take a look at battleground states. watching. the race is not own anthony presidential side and other sides as well. north carolina, our focus today and joining us from

winston-salem, north carolina, to set things up for us and start our conversation is john dinan, a professor at wake forest university. professor, thanks for giving us your time and welcome to c-span. guest: good to be here. thank you. host: could you tell us in simple terms why north carolina is a baghdad ground state? guest: well, there's several metrics. one is you could make the state that north carolina this most competitive state in 2012. barack obama won it in 2008. mitt romney ron it by two percentage points in 2012. you could make a case that no other state was that competitive in both of those elections in the last two times. not surprising in 2016 would be a continuation of that. second thing is you look at where the candidates are devoting-to-air scarcest resource and they've been devoting as much time for visiting north carolina as any other state. the traditional battlegrounds,

ohio, florida, it's been right p there. host: secretary clinton was there on sunday. she will be back with michelle obama this week as well in wake forest university. guest: right here. i say, in some ways other states, ohio, florida, pennsylvania, and virginia, they've been getting these regular visits by the candidates. north carolina got a little bit of that in 2008. a little bit of that in 2012. but 2016, it's become a regular event that you might have a chance to go see one of the candidates, or one of the candidate's family members, one of the vice president, one of the other surrogates for north carolina, that's very continuance. host: data shows us when it comes to the breakdown of the state itself, about 10 million residents and political party, 2.7 registered as democrats and

-- talk about that unaffiliated. is that where the focus is? guest: well it is un aaffiliated, no surprise. but it's also on turning out the vote on republicans and democrats who are voter turnout average somewhere in the high 50's, maybe get up to 60%. so you've got a lot of work to be done to motivate your base oters. one of the advantages is you can vote in either republican or democratic parties. sometimes you'll find a lot of people are very strongly democratic or republican. that being said, there's a lot f true host: john dinan joins took us

about battleground states. we start with north carolina today. if you want to ask him question about what his state and what it's looking like, we have divided the lines this way. if you're a north carolina resident, give us a call at 202-748-8000. all others, 202-748-8001. and you could post thoughts on twitter as well. we start the show with the map taking a look at the state of north carolina and highlighting some of the key cities in that map. tell us what areas of the state favors hillary clinton and what areas of the state favor donald trump? guest: sure. we've got some key population of senators in north carolina. that is how you go down to scommoorlt over of the triangle region, chapel hill, raleigh and the triadic region where i am, greensboro and high point, we

only can -- asheville, the major population is in the cities the urban centers will be the strongest area for the hillary clinton campaign in north carolina as in other states. donald trump's key support and republican support traditionally is going to be in the rural areas. and the real battleground oftentimes becomes within a suburbanound are the ex- areas. and that's oftentimes where there's votes to be won and you take the urban areas going to democrats and the rural areas going to republicans. host: are the campaign spending a lot of time in those areas and especially where areas are up for grabs? guest: what's interesting is the clinton campaign is going to charlotte, going to winston-salem, greensboro. and donald trump is going to some of the same areas which you've also seen donald trump go to some rural areas. he went to one town which has a

population of under 1,000 people. it's unusual in eastern north carolina. that's a recognition of that's where a lot of the votes are that he's going to have to win to run up the vote totals. republicans always do well in the urban areas. that's been a promise of the trump campaign. host: we here tribe as red or blue. how would you describe your state right now? guest: i would say it's neither one. it's become increasingly competitive and the most competitive state in non-presidential years when we talk about years in which there might be a senate race up or congressional races, the turnout still gives an advantage to republicans over democrats. but when we're talking about a presidential election year 2008, 2012, 2016, the turnout boost

makes north carolina increasingly very competitive. . >> john dinan from wake forest university is joining us and taking your call. we start with lucia from raleigh, north carolina. our line for north carolina residents. good morning. go ahead. caller: hello. my question is the republican party has sent a clear message in north carolina to african-americans and that message is we don't want you to vote. we hope you don't vote. we're going to make it very difficult for you to vote. we've been through think three lawsuits. they spent like $9 million trying to suppress the vote. and i want to know why does the republican party seem to put the party over the people. thank you. host: professor? guest: it's worth rehearsing that north carolina, the legal challenge in 2013 passed a voter reform law and had a number of

components to it. it imposed a voter i.d. requirement for the first time. it reduced the number of days from early voting from 17 days to 10 days and eliminated the same-day registration, the ability during the early voting feared register your vote and vote on the same day. this is an ominous deal. it was challenged in federal court. initially, the judge upheld the law in all respects. and then it went up to the appellate court and they struck it down. went occupy the u.s. supreme court for an emergency appeal and the supreme court deadlocked 4-4. therefore allowing the appellate court decision to stand the sum total means that there is no voter i.d. requirement in this election. there's the full complement of 17 voting days and there is the opportunity to reblingstrer and vote during the early voting period. those all have various implications. scholars have looked at and what deference did this make?

not clear whether voter i.d. requirement had much effect on voter turnout and not clear that the voting period had much of an effect. the one environment that has a lot of effect the scholars have shown is the ability to rej store vote and vote on the same day. that does seem to boost turnout and the key point is that is stored in a way that it would not have been present. host: our next call is our line for others. peter is up next worry guest. you're on. go ahead. caller: good morning. thanks for having a me on. new jersey is known as the crossroad states in revolution wars. but all of america is a battleground now and that we're fighting fur our survival in intonation. i want to make the comment about a news blackout about hillary and her transferring america's anium stockpile to russia in exchange for $130 million being put in the clinton foufpks the

on one i've heard mention that was rudy giuliani in his speech in introducing donald trump in the new hampshire really a rally the same nonsense happened when bill clinton was president and the information started to come out about beijing date where is he transferred the technology for the chinese to target their mitches to the in american cities and then oh thing was the monica lewinsky on curing his real crime, the bigger crime of treason. host: gotcha, peter. any thoughts, professor? guest: it's not surprising that in the final months, many of the candidates have begin focusing not what they can going to the table positively. there are some of that -- we're in a polarized era in which a lot of people make their decision on what to vote and

about with a they perceive to be the negatives of the other candidate. you'll see a number of charges, claims made, criticism brought up about the other candidate. that could be expected to dominate the final few weeks of the campaign because that's what will motivate a number of peep to vote not so much for here's my plan for fixing the school system. that's in keeping with the tradition that we've seen. host: we've heard a lot a.p. the clinton foundation. do most north carolinans follow that storyline? do they care? guest: well they'll care when it's salient, when it's brought up. donald trump has been bringing up those matters at his rallies. he gets applause at his rallies. it's a matter of whether or not things get salient and prominent treatment outside of trump rallys and outside of trump appeals to the extent that it gets network news broadcast or

others. that leads voters to get a signal oh, this is something that i care about. but here, if it's unclear what it has about the trump appeals. host: jessies up next, north carolina. our line for residents. jesse, hello. go ahead. caller: i like to make some comments, please. i've always been a democrat. but now i am not a democrat because of the fact that this woman has stood up there. she has lied. she wants to have free trade. she wants to open the borders up. how does the people in america, especially the women, how do they realize or what did they say about having jobs? if we give them all to the other people, we're not going to have anything and there's too many people, not just in north carolina that need the help. wish that they would be more

educated in the next 15 days and realize what is going on. this woman's doing nothing but using women and the blacks and it's a crime and shame. and it's especially going to be a crime in shame when we got her in office. because you got four years of her. host: prefer professor, your thoughts. guest: the caller mentioned two issues in particular that really resonated the trump campaign rallys and trump campaign advertisements and that would be the free trade issue and the immigration issue. if you go to a donald trumpump , you would hear about it within the first five to 10 minutes of the campaign. it has had prominence in the

trump campaign speeches and attends to resonate at his rallies. the issues another one that trumbull bring up, not quite as prominently as a free trade issue, but so pretty prominently. the criticism there is that we don't have border security, how do we get more control of the border. those issues you here at other trump rallies and other trump speeches, he will he -- see them at as an other states, but particularly in north carolina. collar wouldt the mention those in note those have been prominent features of the trump campaign here. according to the department of labor, how does in employment in the state of north carolina play out in the economy and jobs? see an interesting dynamic in a north carolina economy. we have a republican governor, pat mccrory, who took office four years ago and he is running

for reelection against democratic challenger roy cooper. one of his main arguments for reelection is that he has brought the north hill back where it should be. the carolina comeback. he said the unemployment was among the highest in the nation when he took office four years ago. now it's more towards the national average and more healthy. you can see a different dynamic, and that's what you would expect an incoming governor searching reelection, how did the economy is. this challenges to the economy. so there you are a little bit more inclined to emphasize some negatives about the economy, some challenges in the economy. so there are some different messages that the north abutters would be getting, depending whether they were hearing a -- whether there would

be getting -- host: larry lives in morgantown. you are next. hello. caller: good morning. i have two questions for the professor. i want to know why the closed college campus voting and no more sunday voting days. the caller is referring to the voter reform act we were discussing if you meant to -- a few minutes ago. one of the changes they've made was a -- that they've tried to make was in the early morning period. it had 17 days in early voting. and it would include sunday in some counties and in others, there would not have it. was where there

should have voting precincts and what should be open on election day. that law was put in place. it had affected in 2014 for those elections. but for the current elections, ased on an appellate court, three half and judge panel, the fourth circuit, those changes are not in effect anymore. the full 17 days of early voting, it is the case that counties have decisions to make. do you have early voting precincts at ted prefix of the county or at 16? those debates have continued. those continue to be a local decision. they've may see sunday early voting. some counties, there may not. it is one of the testaments -- people come from another country in the expect a uniform election run in the united states. in first comment is how its discretion there is at the state

level and the other surprise is how much discretion at the local lowell, within counties in the state. how many voting precincts, where there should be a place, though still rest at the local level. you see decisions made in different ways. tot: some issues due flooding, did that affect voting could vote?e who guest: as a result of hurricane matthew, there were highways closed and parks. it dominated attention for people in the state. we had several debates in the prior week, lastly, -- last week. the first in the candidate said as i start off is all prayers for the people who have been displaced and affected by an lost their lives as an effective hurricane matthew.

it did dominated attention. it does have some political effects. everything has plentiful -- has political effects these days. governor macquarie focused on reaction and relief to the hurricane. mccrory focused on reaction and relief to the hurricane. that's probably the political effect we saw in the past few weeks. host: janet lives in west virginia. thanks for calling. go ahead. caller: ok. that hillary is qualified and trump isn't. the only thing i see she is qualified for his filling her pocketbook. in benghazi, i just

can't believe that anybody could vote for her. and she lied that lady, the mother, telling her there was a movie. and so did obama. it was on tv. and open our borders, i just can't understand that. says, a house divided cannot stand. and when you have people in here who have such a radical thing about -- i don't know if you would color religion or whatever they'd do, the have cut people's heads off over here and i don't policehat of an issue every day. we never heard of that until obama got in and hillary. and she is as phony and you can be. and it started way back in arkansas. i just think people's blinded. host: that's janet in west virginia. professor, go ahead. there's no doubt -- people have said it before and it is worth repeating.

we have not had to candidates of the two major parties with such historically high and favorability ratings. that's true of hillary clinton. that is true of donald trump. littlendidates have a higher. we can can clear clinton and trump. othermpared to candidates, that is the situation we are in. the question is what effect does that have on people's turn up to vote? there's probably the case it's of people who do not turn out so vote. they're just turned off saying i can't really vote for either of those candidates and third party candidates always have a tough time of it. there is one third-party candidate in north carolina. libertarian gary johnson is on there. joel stein is not on the ballot. you can write her in, but she is not all about. does that push people towards third-party candidates? does it push them toward the libertarian?

we will see. that is what we will be watching for. historically, third-party candidates might gain a few points a couple weeks out, but generally that fades. host: can you tell us abou the religious makeup of the state and how that plays out? host: historically, it has been predominantly protestant. other religions have been moving into the state as the has been a significant info migration of people into the state. that being said, if you look at the evangelical population, it is still quite high, as you would expect in other southern states and other similarly situated states. there's no doubt that the religious domination --

denomination plays a role. we used to have a traditional understanding. we understood that protestants would give their support to republican presidents. catholics a long time ago would give their votes to democrat candidates. the frequency and the commitment to religious worship, if you could ask one question these days -- you probably have several questions, but one of the leading questions if you wanted to predict whether they'd like to vote republican or democrat for president, you ask times a week or how many times a month you -- you attach -- you attend religious services. -- we don't ask anymore whether you are catholic or protestant or jewish. we asked about your

commitment. caller: i'm 68 years old. up medicare.t it paid up for my heart surgery. it is taken out of my social security check. the democratic party set that up for us. now it's taking care of us. they look at the great depression. if we have donald trump in there, you have to protect what you have. host: ok, thanks. has rarelycaller focused attention on one of the that isortant programs government run. social security, medicare. we have talked about medicaid, the state shared responsibility of health -- health care for the low-income people.

what is striking to me and two other political analysts is how low amount of attention those types of issues have gotten in the debates, in the campaign as a whole. you saw in the third theidential debate, moderator tried to press the candidates on these very issues. the candidates did not want to spend as much time talking on his issues. yet those are crucially important. social security program is now beginning to enter a situation which will evenly face and challenges economically. is taking an increasing percentage of the budget. among the many things disappointing about this presidential campaign -- and there have been many -- for me, that would rank right up there rank rightailure -- up there. the failure or opaque attention to her focus on how do we keep these programs healthy going forward? you would not see a lot of attention given to that end a

trump campaign or a clinton campaign in north carolina. perhaps those issues deserve more attention than others. caller: summon a and want to talk to about -- so many things i want to talk to you about. people who are so in favor of donald trump. where do you think -- where do the think there will have the .oney for social security donald trump pays no taxes. forle thinking of voting someone who does nothing to support our government, i don't know where their minds are heard this racial thing -- mines are. that's itl thing makes no sense.

it makes no sense to give up right as an american citizen to follow someone who says it he will do what he wants to do. he looks like a dictator. he talks like a dictator. he asked like a dictator. the caller has focused among other things our attention on the tax plans of the two candidates. i would say that the tax plans have gotten somewhat more attention than the plans for social security and medicare. but here is well, think we put a -- put more attention there. voters and analysts are wishing there was more attention and drilling down. their tax reforms would have what features?

from a few give voters a soundbite, how would you characterize the trunk tense plan -- the trump tax plan versus the clinton tax plan, it hasn't been a salient or comment. there's one issue on the table for the last two to four years and will certainly be on the table the next two to four years, there is a window of opportunity for reforming the tax code. because have a plan. the republicans have a plan. it will make a significant difference and it very much will be that not much gets their washington, but there is the possibility of movement on tax reform. the more important to hear from the candidates how will you use a policy window and how we change the taxes some? host: our focus is on battleground states as week. john dinan joining us. carol lives in glenville, north carolina. go ahead.

caller: thanks for having me on. callerng to address the about voter id to suppress votes. . it protects legal voters. voter idhe have that requirement in many states. i voted for a long time in the state of georgia where we had voter id, and it seemed to be just fine. the say these people that are there ishis say that not a way for everyone to have an id. europe think -- i cafe who it is that doesn't have an id these days. passed by the

legislature made it easy to get id, to see the people signed on for a voter id. host: thanks, carol. doubt that theno voter id issue has been a very contentious one in north carolina. ever since the legislature passed it in 2013, which would a photo idd requirement, it has been a matter of political debate, a matter of legal finding. as the colorid, mentions, north carolina now does not have a voter id or any voter id requirement to vote. respect, north carolina is now out of line with the majority of states, which now do have an id requirement of some kind. those id requirements vary. non-photo it can be id. sometimes it can be a photo id. but it is the case that north carolina is out of touch with its neighbors, its neighboring

states, each that would require a voter id of some kind. but that has now been resolved by the court of appeals for this election. there will not be a voter id in north china. host: we have a viewer on twitter who asked this question are makes the statement. can you put that in conctext. guest: the city of charlotte withd an ordinance protections for transgender rights along with other provisions, including the use of the bathroom with their gender identity. this the legislature held a one-day session and passed a law overturning the charlotte

ordinance and the going even further than that and said individuals in public facilities in north carolina will not be required to go to bathrooms -- would now be required to go to bathrooms that corresponded with their gender, not their gender identity. it has been the matter of legal filings. court.w tied up in people haveome made decissions. the ncaa decided to withdraw various championship events from the state. it's the last development, the glencoe's conference in the end of -- ncaa, to