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amongst the $100,000 in cash prizes is a $5,000 grand prize. videos must be submitted january 20, 2023. is it our website at studentcam.org for competition rule tips, resources, and a step-by-step guide. >> top issues facing your state. for many, it is the economy. it is an issue that president biden has a low approval rating on. yesterday, he was up in syracuse, new york, with kathy, trying to talk about what his administration is doing on the economy, as that governor faces an unexpected tight race with congressman lee. with congressman lees eldon. here is the president. [video clip] >> my republican friends in congress seem to be hoping for a recession, present company excluded. today, the gdp results came out

and the economy is growing. the economy grew at 2.6% last quarter. although it may not feel like it for everyone, people's incomes went up last quarter more than inflation. so economic growth is up. inflation is down. real incomes are up. the price of gas is down. people continue to spend. but now at a more stable pace than during our rapid recovery. businesses continue to invest in america. exports are up, which means we are making things in america, shipping the products overseas instead of shipping jobs overseas and sending them back. supply chains are running more smoothly, helping companies build inventory. my predecessor promised, and you heard it for four years, infrastructure week, seemingly every week for four years, but

it never got done. it became a punchline when he talked about infrastructure week. on my watch, we turned infrastructure week into the decade of infrastructure. and a headline. a once in a generation investment in our nation's roads, highways, bridges, ports, railways, water systems, high-speed internet. the american people are seeing the benefits of this economy that works for them. families have more net worth today than they did before the pandemic. host: president biden addressing the economy during his visit to new york state. the wall street journal, economy grows. the u.s. economy grew in the third quarter but showed signs of abroad slowdown as consumer and business spending faltered under high inflation and rising interest rates. the issue of rising energy costs

was a topic in this week's governor's debate in new hampshire between chris sununu and democratic challenger state senator tom sherman. take a look at this exchange. [video clip] >> nobody is talking about taking away natural gas or fossil fuels because every state is dependent on that to some extent. massachusetts is 20% renewable. new hampshire is around 1% or less. and that is because every attempt to expand our energy options has been blocked by the governor. we know that if we actually did that, from studies out of massachusetts, a study commissioned by the puc, and the experience of our surrounding states, the actual benefit goes to the rate payer. >> high energy prices have been a problem here for years. not just this year. for a long time. how should the state address that? >> the bill that comes that says

we will increase our portfolio. the department of energy says that will cost $180 million a year. that goes on top of your bill. this idea that renewables lower your energy costs is wrong. beyond wrong. it is on your bill. whether you are in -- you are on a fixed income, low income, you have to pay. there has to be a transition. he is right. massachusetts has tons of renewables and they have higher electricity vices than even we do. pci comes. they say will be the transportation climate initiative of new england. i killed it because it would have started another $.17 per gallon on top of your gas. those are not debatable facts. those are known.

all these renewables require a subsidy. you have to make the transition. you have to not overburden the biomass plants. democrats wanted to keep those running. i vetoed that bill. >> what would you do to lower costs? >> we have to talk about the heart -- in terms of fuel or electricity? >> electricity. >> it is all related. biden starts closing everything down, this incentivizes more production, limits the amount of natural gas. we need more natural gas. while you make that transition, you need the sustainability, the reliability of natural gas in the region to sustain your system. host: from the new hampshire governor's debate. the issue of energy prices. is that the top issue facing your state? that is our conversation this morning with you. politico has a story about how

some of these races, including the new hampshire race, could help turn the senate for either party with a 50-50 senate as it stands now. from politico's reporting, new hampshire governor chris sununu is strongly favored to win reelection, giving republicans longshot hopes of lifting their nominee against senator maggie hassan of new hampshire. republicans largely pulled out of the race, however, raising the possibility that both sununu and hassan are reelected and maintain new hampshire's split ticket reputation. in minnesota, independent voter, thank you for joining us. what is the top issue? caller: i'm calling in the sense of i wanted to say that governor tim walz did a fantastic job with the pandemic. he's a man of science. he is very articulate.

he was very proactive in many ways and his opponent, dr. scott jensen, a medical doctor, was the one in the country that first started this conspiracy theory stuff about how the government gets more money if they put down that you died of covid on your death certificate and someone. it just started all these rumors to make medical facilities out as if they were just choosing to put covid on the death certificate and so on, so anyone who promotes any of this conspiracy stuff for that, i feel they are disqualified from leading in the government, so i'm supporting tim walz as a man of science and a fantastic governor. host: you are an independent. have you voted for republicans before? caller: many times.

but i feel the republican party has left me as a conservative person. this conspiracy thing is the worst thing that's happened to our country. if promotes chaos and i cannot take it anymore -- it promotes chaos and i cannot take it anymore. host: what is your ediction for this race? caller: he is going to win by a littleit but i believe he will win. host: why do you think just by a little bit? why is he resonating in minnesota? caller: primarily because rural minnesota is strong with republicans and the twin cities area is very much strong as democrat supporting, so we are divided by a population. some of the people will not listen to any logic. you can tell them stuff and they will not listen. they are just staunch

republicans. they will not listen to any logic. i still believe tim is going to win. host: what is your prediction for voter turnout in the state? caller: i think minnesota is literally the highest percentage turnout. minnesota very much is a very strong polling place and we have a wonderful secretary of state here who just had a debate here the other day talking about all the safety measures and so on. so all this conspiracy stuff has got to be stopped. host: that is in baxter, minnesota. we will hear from gwendolyn, a democratic caller in detroit, michigan. hi, gwendolyn. top issue in michigan. caller: hi appear thanks for taking -- hi. thanks for taking my call. host: how are you going to vote and what is the issue driving you to vote that way? caller: i'm voting straight

democr because i want to make sure we save our democracy. goveor whitmer, she's an excellent governor, and our top issue is abortion because women's rights are human rights and, you know, they are not trying to take away men's rights, but also what i wanted to say is that nobody is mentioning that president biden made a proposition to the republicans in regard to all this oil that they keep talking about that we need, and he made the proposition that, when he takes oil from the reserves, he is telling them that -- to replenish the oil in the reserves, he will pay the oil

companies in the united states to put oil -- to pump more oil and then he will buy the oil from the united states. and i haven't heard anybody talk about that, bring that up, because they are always talking about how oil refineries are shut down, they are destroying everything. those pipelines were not finished and it will take years to do that. host: all right, gwendolyn. the issue of abortion is one of the top issues facing your state. it was one -- it was part of the governor's debate between incumbent gretchen whitmer and republican challenger tutor dixon. here is part of them sparring over proposal three, a question that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. [video clip] >> it removes parental consent

and makes it so you don't have to be a doctor to perform an abortion, but it does align with her agenda. proposal three allows abortions up to the moment of birth for any reason, including sex selection. there will be no legislating around proposal three because it will be language in the constitution. we cannot put the protections we have had in place back in place that we've had in place for all these years. when governor whitmer tells you that this is going to be roe, it is not even close. it is not codifying it in our constitution but it would be the most radical abortion law in the country. the only places that have something similar are china and north korea. >> governor whitmer, 30 seconds to rebut. >> none of what she said is true. here is why you cannot trust anything she's saying when it comes to reproductive rights. she said a 14-year-old child raped by her uncle is a perfect example of someone who should not have reproductive rights and

the ability to choose. she went further to say it is healing for a person's rape to carry that child to term. i could not disagree more and she's proven you cannot trust her on this issue. you want to protect roe v. wade? vote yes on three. host: from the michigan gubernatorial debate. here are the states that have abortion ballot measures this november coming up in 11 days. the orange states, montana, kansas, kentucky are supported by abortion rights opponents. the green states, michigan, vermont, california, supported by abortion rights proponents. that is the map of abortion ballot measures for this november 2022 election. is that the top issue facing your state?

carla in new york, democratic caller. go ahead. caller: the top issue for me is kathy hogle's response to health-care workers. kathy hochul fired every health care worker that did not want to get vaccited and they could not collect unemoyment as a result. i think is disgraceful. i don't think she's fit to be governor moreover, after she did this, she asked the president of the hospital where i work if she could spare any health care workers because she realized she had to go out and hire people at four or five times the rate she was paying them. she punished the people who did get vaccinated because this is a group of people who are day in and day out for well over a year not getting any time off and she decided she will punish them even further by taking away the

staff of already depleted hospitals. i am a registered democrat. i already voted by ballot. i really think this is something people should think about. she is also made an issue of choice and how she's pro-abortion and health care. these should apply to everybody. i would also like to add that it's probably a hipaa violation because it is nobody's business about if you want to get vaccinated or have an abortion or any other health care decision. people need to think about this. she's done this at a time when inflation is off-the-wall. i don't know where they are getting this 8% inflation rate. in new york city, the prices in a grocery store are more like 20%. host: before you go, you have called on the democratic line. did you vote for democrats before this election? you said you voted for lee selden. caller: yes, but this time the

issue was personal for me, and i appreciated his response during the debates with the other republican candidates, how they felt that she should not have fired them and if they were governor they would rehire them and with back pay. it was to me a personal issue. i know there were issues with him with election deniers and all this other stuff, but no candidate is perfect and it was too personal for me, so i had to go for the person who i felt would be better. host: if president biden was on the ticket i 11 daysn, would you vote for him? caller: there are other reasons. he was not a great candidate to begin with, but at this point i would not vote for biden. i don't know if i would vote for

a republican candidate, but i definitely would not vote for him. host: joe in charleston, south carolina, republican. your turn. caller: people are mentioning national issues. although we have to recognize that inflation and the price of fuel and rising prices affect everyone in the country and state, fuel affects every industry and price. one thing we are facing -- let me back up. henry mcmaster has done a good job. he tried his best to keep us open during covid. he kept our port open. they stayed open 24/7, unlike some other ports around the country, trying to keep people at work. i never lost any time during covid. now his challenger, joe cunningham, would have you believe south carolina is one of the worst states in the union.

people are moving here in droves to escape the oppressive tax codes of the northeast and some of the midwest. we are having a big influx of people and that is good. people are welcome. we are business friendly, have jobs and we are tax friendly. people love it here. so joe is just wrong. the issue is, for my state, for me, is trying to keep up with the infrastructure to support our new friends coming in. it is tough. the schools are overcrowded, the roads are overcrowded. people love it here. people are moving here and that is a valid issue. everybody is welcome but it is true. and it is probably unique to maybe texas, florida, other states where people are moving as fast as they can. if you want to go to the next election, and i'm not talking about with guns, joe cunningham

is a big marijuana guy. if you vote for him at the polls you might be as high as a kite. that's a joke. host: daniel in hawaii, democratic caller. caller: i would just like to -- host: can you mute your television and then go ahead? caller: ok. hold on. host: tell us what the top issue to you is. caller: in general, legislation comes about that improves the life of ordinary people is automatically voted against by republicans, and i would also like to say that any minority or woman who backs trump is

like a jew backing hitler. host: jonathan in canton, ohio, democratic caller. caller: glad to be on c-span. i have a universal comment. like, everyone wants to be christian and federalist and all these right wing and left wing and this, that, and the other. the government should start allowing people like the working class be in the government. these people are so out of touch with the real america, these people call in, i don't understand. it is like the blind leading the blind. i don't understand how the democrats cannot come up with a resolution to combat what the republicans fight against with them about. host: our conversation this morning as the top issue facing your state. we are just 11 days away from election day.

there are 36 states holding gubernatorial elections. 28overnor's offices with democrats running the other 22. republicans are defending 20 of the 36 seats up for grabs in 11 days. whether or not you have an election, what is the top issue facing your state? ann in dallas says the economy and the border. both of these issues feed the rising crime rate. crime was an issue in the new york gubernatorial debates, crime and public safety, between democratic incumbent governor kathy hogle and republican congressman lee selden. here is selden on his opposition to cash was bail -- to cash was bail laws. [video clip] >> i don't think you should be

instantly released on cashless bail. as soon as it got implemented, she was bragging about it. that was her first big decision we need to the repeal cashless bail. we need to make our streets safe again. i'm running to take back our streets and support unapologetically our men and women in law enforcement. we need to make sure our streets are safe again and our subways are safe again. this is our opportunity. two weeks from tonight, we can continue with the status pro. we can take control of our

destiny and make sure law abiding new yorkers are in charge of our street. >> you can either work on keeping people scared or focus on keeping them safe. i have worked hard to have real policies that are making a difference. that debt is still being collected but i did focus on ballot reform -- on ale reform and the budget. there is no crime-fighting plan if it does not include guns. you refused to talk about how we can do so much more. you did not even show up for votes in washington when a bipartisan group of legislators voted for an assault weapons ban. we lost another child in teacher yesterday in st. louis because people will not support what i was able to get done in new york. you cannot even do that. it is extraordinary. it is about getting the guns off the streets. we have more to do but i'm the one to do it. host: new york's cuban and tory

race debates -- new york's gubernatorial race debates. you can find our coverage of campaign 2022, all of the key debates for house and senate and gubernatorial races. our coverage continues tonight with several u.s. senate debates on c-span. we will start at 8 p.m. eastern alaska with senator murkowski and her two challengers. at 9 p.m., we will take you to north dakota. at 10:00 p.m., a debate between lodo senator michael bennett and his republican challenger. you can watch all these debates tonight on c-span, our free mobile video app, online on-demand at c-span.org.

charles in jackson, tennessee, republican. good morning. caller: it seems to be eight up with inflation and high gas prices. with jobs everywhere, nobody is working. host: a government subsidy coming from the state? caller: i'm not sure where the money is coming from. where these people get the money not to work. i had to work my whole life. i don't understand why these people don't have to. host: george in circleville, ohio, independent. caller: it is the economy. we have the high inflation. yesterday, they talked about the gdp. of course it is going to go up if prices go up. that is gross domestic product.

for instance, i was at kroger yesterday, a local store where i live, and prices every week go up. dog food. we havthe dogs. we cannot afford to feed the dogs anymo. eight dollar increase on a bag of dog food in one week. i'm not kidding. its crazy what is going on. i did hear joe biden. that is the one thing that was good about all these hidden taxes. in ohio, i have to pay sales tax on propane. that is how i heat my house. it is all just for heating the house. i have to pay sales tax on my propane, which is crazy. it is like a luxury to heat your house. all the hidden tes. sales tax in ohio, you have to

pay on labor. it used to be tax-free. i'm a senior citizen. we had an 11.5% construction loan back then. prices didn't go up as high as what they are going on now. i don't understand this inflation. it is got to be higher than what they are saying. it is crippling to the economy. you are going to see another raised by the fed next -- in november pretty soon. i guess it will be .75%. that will not help either. and i'm in independent but i'm leaning more towards the republicans now because it seems like they have a plan and when trump was president we were doing better, it seemed like. host: will a republican all the way down the ticket? caller: i have already voted, to be honest, and i did.

i had to. just the word democrat makes me sick to my stomach. i've never seen anything like this in my life. host: that is george in ohio. a politico report making some news yesterday. jessica taylor, who follows senate races, with this news. arizona senate shifts back to tossup. as the overall environment continues to improve in the republicans direction, the closer we get to election day, we are shifting another race the gop's direction. after we initially moved senator mark kelly into the lean democratic column, arizona goes back into a tossup amid a spat of -- amid a spate of private polling that leaves democrats worried about one of their strongest incumbents. we >>