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likely to be inaugurated as president. host: this is hugo gurdon of the s all they are asking for -- a fair shot. host: again, you can see the full speech not only from the president elect but the vice president elect, as well. you can go to c-span.org for that. we will take calls up until 10:00. phoenix, arizona. victoria, she said she did not vote. caller: good morning. thank you for having me. i am currently living in phoenix, arizona. i am a california resident. aam 47 years old and i have 15-year-old daughter and i am a former city council candidate in the city of lancaster. the democrats have been working on this for over 25 years. it would really be sad if mr. .iden does pass away
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it is really pathetic that all this time, she is the highest in decriminalization and arrests, back-and-forth, left and right, it does not make sense. host: tell me why you did not vote. caller: i did not vote because i was disenfranchised in 2010. i was a former city council candidate. the democrats endorsed me. believe, i was never a citizen of lancaster city. anas a citizen of unincorporated area. there are a lot of people out there in this country that get disenfranchised every day. we do not talk about the democratic party, the republican
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party, the independent. host: ok, that is victoria and arizona. we will go to missouri for a supporter of the president elect. why i votedreason for joe biden, joe biden will get stuff done in the white house. the reason why the virus is not going away is because the virus -- the virus -- the reason why it won't go away is because kamala harris said back in august that barack obama and joe obamaback then -- barack was in the white house back then. council inl security china, had an emergency plan in
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place and that emergency plan in peoplesotects american lives. host: the president again between the out from his twitter account, this time quoting the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. here is what he is reach waiting -- we believe these people are thieves. the big-city machines are corrupt. in britainllster wrote this was clearly a stolen election. mattered, they stole what they had to steal. that was a quote from newt gingrich on the president's twitter account. for those who did not vote, phoenix, arizona, the torah, hello. i think we already took that call. let's go to chad in
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pennsylvania, is supporter of president trump. caller: good morning morning, everyone. the reason why i supported president trump is because his policies and everything he has done for the country. we can go on and on about how it was a race thing and everything else, but if you look at the overall facts as far as the peace, unemployment low before the pandemic. all of this stuff plays out. joe biden, kamala harris, they have a history of locking up black americans. if you look everything up, you can see it, the facts are out there. host: what was the key accomplishment of president trump? caller: i think there were a couple of them. as far as peace with israel and making us a exporter, not an importer. unemployment was at a low for
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black americans, hispanic americans. think we were going in the right direction. now, i think we are backtracking harris.ing biden and i think the polls show the election, everything, i am hoping the supreme court comes up with a fair judgment and hopefully turns this around so we can go back the right direction. host: chad in pennsylvania. pennsylvania was one of those states closely watched. yesterday, there are electoral votes plus nevada bringing joe biden from the vice president of the united states formally to the president elect of the united states.
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we are taking calls up to the end to show what you are thinking and what the candidates were saying -- or at least now the elected ones. this is kamala harris from last night, a portion of her speech. [video clip] v.p.-elect harris: what a testament it is to joe's character that he has the -- thatto break a barrier exists in our country to select a woman as his vice president. [applause] honking]s be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. [applause] every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.
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and to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message -- dream with conviction,ad with and see your selves in a way that others may not, simply because they have never seen it before. youknow we will applaud every step of the way. host: we showed you this a little bit yesterday from after the results. black lives matter plaza in washington, d.c., people already starting to gather for another day of responses to the election of joe biden from yesterday. we will show you a little bit of that throughout the morning. charles,e, new jersey, is supporter of president trump. hi. caller: thank you for giving me a chance to talk. first thing i want to say is
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congratulations to ms. harris and mr. biden on being elected, if that is the case. president trump, as far as i am concerned, what happened back in 2000 with al gore, i think this is important that the president does fight for -- if he really believes that some of those states did go to him, he should him,lly -- i expected being the president and everything in the cello i voted for-- and a fellow i voted -- to do something and see if the states did go to him. host: the hill website is reporting the republicans drop a lawsuit in arizona over sharpie
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marked ballots. county's board of supervisors and other county officials alleging that sharpies were given to voters and damaged the ballots. the arizona democratic committee got involved in the case, according to "the washington post," my office has been putting out information for months and all we do to secure security and fairness. if you have not been paying attention, that is on you. do not show up if you do not like the results and scream "fraud" with no evidence. good morning, you are next. caller: good morning. that iwanted to say voted for biden because i voted for change. from what i have seen, this
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country is divided. biden, to me, he struggled, he knows what it is like to struggle. he is not filthy rich. he was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, unlike donald trump. donald trump has no idea what it to decide whether or not to pay your electric bill, your water bill, your car insurance or even your car note. he has no idea what it is like to walk in a middle-class shoes. he does not know what the cost of a gallon of milk is. how much i have to spend on groceries compared to what i have to spend on my medication. host: what changes are you
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looking for from the vice president elect? economy.ne, i need the i have heard a lot of people say the economy was good up until the pandemic. well, not in my neighborhood. i never saw it, and i am still looking for it. rural area, i see a lot of people struggling, trying to figure out what to do. losing homes, losing cars. nebraska, omaha, supporter of joe biden, as well. hello. caller: hello, how are you? host: i am fine. go ahead. caller: i changed my party affiliation to independent. the democrats are coming out so to the left with socialism,
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everything else, and my concern on the right -- i debated because nebraska is usually a republican state -- is, i just felt that trump, he did great things -- there were some really good things trump did. they can talk about the bad, he did some good things. mouth,all, it was his twitter, it was dividing this nation. somebody has to -- we have to quit being so far left and right. we have to come together. we have one nation and it is precious. if we do not come together, we are going to lose this. host: ok. caller: i think in the future, people need to work together. that is my solution. let's talk to each other. host: that is mary nebraska. let's hear from leslie in texas,
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a supporter of president trump. caller: thank you, c-span, for being the only station i can watch on any of this. you head-on, it is ironic, that is my message, as well. i supported trump, not ashamed of it. he did amazing things under pressure of media. i work in journalism, i do not think national media has been fair for a long time. when trump got elected, it was not just a message to democrats, it was a message to the establishment -- when you change, someone who will come in and cut through the junk. his mouth got him in trouble, it some divisive this, i think the divisiveness is already there. until we want to protect the constitution and the wait was established, we will have division. marxism's one of
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great ways to succeed is to divide and conquer. is that going to happen in the united states? not to that degree, but it worries me greatly the path you're heading down toward a state that has to interfere in our lives. host: just a few more minutes left. we will show you some tape from yesterday. rudy giuliani appearing with others in pennsylvania, talking about some of the legal efforts. it was during this press conference, that you can see in total on c-span.org, that he found out the news about joe biden. rudy: they don't decide the election. who wasn't called by? oh my goodness. the networks! wow!
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all the networks?!?! we have to forget about the law! judges don't count! all the networks! all the networks thought biden was going to win by 10%. what happened? don't be ridiculous. networks do not get to decide elections. courts do. set aside courts elections when they are illegal. in this particular case, i do not know if there is enough evidence to set aside the entire election. maybe in pennsylvania. however, there is certainly enough evidence to disqualify a certain number of ballots, the ballots that were not properly inspected should be thrown out. that number of ballots should be taken out of the account -- that could affect the election. host: one of the voices weighing
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in, lindsey graham, who just won reelection, saying he would investigate all credible allegations of voting regularities and misconduct after receiving a sworn affidavit from a pennsylvania postal worker that officials devised a plan. the remarks from the senator came less than two hours after it was officially projected joe biden and kamala harris would be the winners in the race for the white house. from charlotte, north carolina, a supporter of joe biden. caller: good morning, pedro. good morning, c-span. i have a quick three points and please let me finish. what i have been hearing the last few days, the narrative is being changed. it is going to the point where -- reason why the democrats it was so far to the left. it is nonsense. the reason why the republicans
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did have the numbers they had is the people who they have inside of their party. the american people need to vote, if- whatever you you vote republican, that does not mean that because you are republican the people who supported this president -- those people were not part of the particle process. they were not voting for trump to be a president, they were voting for trump to be a dictator, a bully. they wanted trump to be there mouthpiece for a bunch of nonsense. real -- thefrom the republican party needs to see who they have inside their party. host: i apologize because we only have a few minutes left. seattle, washington, is supporter of president trump. caller: i just want to say i do
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not understand why people cannot see there is a possibility there was voter fraud. for four years, we have learned we cannot trust the other side after putting our president through all of the things he has been through -- ukraine, the impeachment. at least let us look. why could a computer glitch not have happened that caused all of the votes to go to biden. i think it is possible. if russia could interfere with our election, why could our computer systems not do it? host: do you think it could make a measurable difference? caller: i think it could. what if there was a glitch and all of the states that run the same software came up with more biden supporters than trump? i think there needs to be an audit. host: let's go to william in connecticut, is supporter of joe biden. caller: i have a couple of
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comments i want to make. one is that this whole thing about joe biden -- joe biden has been a very fair man and he has said to anyone who will listen that he is interested in uniting the country. talking with the republicans, working with them to work things out so this country can move forward. there are a couple other things i want to say. of -- ihat in terms have not experienced the tax release they are talking about. i think they are referring to big corporations that receive huge tax relief. a lot of them became more rich. host: let's hear from jack in
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wisconsin, a supporter of president trump. hello. caller: good morning. for people who voted for joe record, hese of his was in office for 47 years print list 47 things he did, one a year. donald trump, however, in three moved the conflict tom jerusalem -- or jerusalem, all the president said they would do that, he did that. he reduced the military footprint in the middle east, he started the middle eastern peace process. he reduced unemployment in america to record lows. he had the best economy the country had ever seen. it goes on and on and on. when you look at joe biden's record, it is nada.
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he was involved in a crime bill that is unfair to minorities, or people involved with drugs and things, they are in jail for minor drug offenses for years print donald trump released 10,000 of them. host: massachusetts, we will hear from is supporter of the president-elect. caller: hold on one moment. i support biden. biden is decent. these people calling about trump being decent, he let 30,000 people be killed in syria. he let 13,000 people be killed in the ukraine. babies -- he seven has allowed seven babies to die there. i do not understand, what is the matter with these people? these people are all wearing
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red? putin.e all worshiping i do not understand why they can't see that. host: fred is next in massachusetts, a supporter of president trump. hi. fred and lawrence, massachusetts? we will give fred one more chance. ok, let's hear from rebecca, georgia, a supporter of joe biden. caller: good morning. am consideredi not necessarily a republican or democrat, or a moderate. i do not agree with either party's policies completely, but i voted for joe biden for several reasons. he has experience. he has been in politics for over 29 years as opposed to the inexperienced trump has, who allowed his own personal
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businesses to go bankrupt. we expect him to lead that country and go far. joe biden has interest for the people. as far as sam selecting come -- as far as him selecting kamala harris as his running mate, people say it is because she is a woman of color. why not? we should be looking at that anyways. she has experience in government. the other thing with president disregard fors all of the people that have died from covid-19. we have this experience in our family, it might surpass the way covid has over 225 days. covid,r he was saying covid, covid, tired of them talking about covid, i believe people hurt.ssing
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>> c-span's washington journal. callsday, we take your live on air and discuss the policy issues that impact you. coming up, we will talk about campaign 2020. a staff writer from the hill newspaper joins us to discuss how the recent election could affect the house. washington examiner chief correspondent could talk about how the election will impact the senate. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 easter monday morning. and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. q&a, david savage on the 2000 bush versus gore
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supreme court case, which decided that presidential election, and how the case compares to the legal challenges filed by the trump campaign. >> it was a once in a generation case where, from the beginning, there were five members of the court, republicans who took the was of the bush team, which all the votes had been counted in florida and governor bush has won. that is the position president trump is in. lost, thence you have votes have been cast and counted, and you lost, it is very hard to go to court and persuade a court to essentially step in, jump in, change the rules and overturn that result. >> the l.a. times david savage tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a.
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