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pick the proper candidate to lead our country, and whether you are not sure you should definitely get out and vote. >> i vote because my ancestors bled and died for me to vote. >> i am voting this year because it is specific responsibility. it is the most direct way that citizens have two influence what goes on in the country. >> one of the most important elections of our lifetime. a lot of people say that about every election, but this election is vitally important. we have a lot at stake, and i think it is important for everyone to get out and vote and make your voice heard. announcer: be a part of the conversation. ♪ e candidates will be the the next days, this is from the
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journal sentinel this morning saying the vice president on friday evening will hold a rally at the wisconsin state fair exposition center, according to an event posting. former president trump will hold a competing rally friday evening six miles away at the fiserv forum. you will remember that is the site of the republican national convention. both candidates make a final push in the battleground state ahead of tuesday's election. when it comes to some we can defense to keep track of, the observer highlighted the fact this morning that former president trump will spend the weekend to north carolina, including a stop in the charlotte area. there will be a rally in gastonia on saturday. the event will be held at noon at the airport, according to the campaign announcement, as trump rallies supporters and scheduled to hold a rally in greensboro saturday night, and then when it
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comes to vice president harris, she will be traveling to pennsylvania, the headline saying that it is on monday night, that vice president harris will hold an election in front of the philadelphia museum of art. and that is according to the philadelphia inquirer, as well. call us about the current state of the race at (202)-748-8000 if you support the harris-walz ticket. (202)-748-8001 if you support the trump-vance ticket. if you are going to support neither candidate or are undecided, (202)-748-8002. and text us at (202)-748-8003. as always, stay close to our website at c-span.org, and our free video app, c-span now, where you will find a archives of all the events we are taking in.
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and those are options you can do as you keep track of campaign 2024. deborah, north carolina, supporter of president harris, go ahead. caller: good morning. yes, i'm supporting the harris-walz ticket. people need to take a long look at donald trump and understand our democracy is at stake. i have great nieces and nephews who will be growing up in a country where things are going to be different for them. i'm 67, i've seen quite a bit. the fact that mr. trump has this affinity to disrespect women and to scream that he would like to make sure that women are held under the thumb of men, that's
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one of the reasons i voted for harris-walz. host: james, maine, line for those who support the trump-vance ticket, hello. caller: yes, hello. it took me a long time to decide who i was going to vote for. i sometimes vote democratic, sometimes republican. i'm a registered republican. but this year, i was having a really hard time with it. i just subscribes to some democratic magazines, and the use a lot of scare tactics about trump. i listen to republican radio, and the republican radio people kind of made me think maybe trump was the better choice, but i had a really tough time with this one. thank you. host: james in massachusetts. both of those calls mentioning the idea of anxiety, and a
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recent poll at the associated press saying americans are frustrated and anxious about this upcoming election. here are the results saying the majority of adults are feeling anxious, saying the percentage of adults for those who feel excited about the election, 61% say that does not describe them this time around, versus 36% saying it does when it comes to interested in the election, 24% say that describes them, and 25% says it does. when it comes to being asked if they were frustrated by the election, 65% say that is the sentiment they feel versus 29%, and then anxious, 69% of the respondents say they were anxious about the election and 28% say that does not describe them this election cycle. that is from the associated
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press. you can see that. frederick, new york, supporter of the harris-walz ticket. caller: saying that does not describe them, 75 -- host: you are on, go ahead, frederick. caller: i asked if they were frustrated -- host: like i said, you are going to have to turned on your television. for those waiting, if you would not mind turning down the television and not depending on that feedback, it makes the conversation go a lot smoother. andrew says neither candidate he is supporting. go ahead. caller: my question is for normal people just working their jobs, when they see a lot of these political events and rallies, if it is foreign to them, sometimes it is weird or awkward. i noticed candidates are moving into new media, doing podcasts, doing the kind of things people consume on a more regular basis,
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especially young people. i've also heard, and i would like to know if this is true, the trump-vance ticket is getting a lot more traction on that new media, and i'm wondering why? host: at this point, you support neither candidate? undecided? tell us what. caller: i'm undecided because i don't think that there is a complete answer that has been given from either campaign yet, and i would like to wait until he finish the campaign before i decide. host: what do you mean a complete answer? caller: it takes the full campaign to let the discussion play out on a lot of these issues. host: so you will that decision by monday night? caller: by tuesday morning. host: ok. andrew pennsylvania, giving us his thoughts on when he will make his decision. you have seen stories about the
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various podcasts both candidates have appeared on recently, not only the main candidates but there buys presidential running mates. you can factor that into the mix as we hear from janice, tennessee, supporter of vice president harris. hello. caller: hello. host: you are on. caller: good morning. harris and they want trump in there, what he did before, what is he going to do now? horse? -- worse? take away our voting rights? host: janice tennessee, giving us her thoughts. if you go to real clear politics, they have that section where they tried to determine where the favor is going this time around. when it comes to the averaging,
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they list the polling there, but when you take those and average them out, it is former president trump with 0.3% advantage at this point of the contest. when it comes to battleground states, the average aggregate for the former president is 0.9%, taking a look at the specific state of arizona, mr. trump with a 0.9% advantage in nevada, vice president harris with advantages in wisconsin, and 0.8% in michigan, and then former president trump with that zero point 3% advantage in pennsylvania, north carolina, and georgia at this stage. these are the aggregates of various polls that are taken. you can take a look at what makes that up and the real clear politics site, if you would like to look at that. joanne, massachusetts, supporter of former president trump, good
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morning. caller: good morning. i would just like to say i don't know how harris can go on tv and say that trump is unstable. she is unstable. all she talks about is nothing, and that is what i think of her. she talks nothing about the policies. she has all of bidens policies. i would also like to say, how can she put her head on the pillow at night and think of all the people who have been killed at the border? she never talks about the border. she is unfit to be president, and that is how i feel. i'm really disgusted with her. thank you. host: joanne in massachusetts for our line for people who are voting for neither candidate or perhaps they are undecided at this time. from pennsylvania, one of those battleground states a lot of people are watching. you will hear from gary. hello. caller: hi, pedro.
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i'm leaning a little bit towards kamala harris on a number of factors. first was that statement made about puerto ricans that was in bad taste, whoever that guy was who did that. we still have four days. i guarantee you that a lot of latino and puerto rican voters are going to change their minds. he also made a statement that was on cnn this morning, where he said that he would seek liz cheney -- sit liz cheney across from me and put a 15 barrel gun or something like that. that is going to really anger dick cheney, who is going to rally more republicans towards kamala harris. really, i'm leaning towards that further harris-walz ticket, and by sunday, i should be able to make up my mind. thank you. host: that is scary in pennsylvania, former president trump in phoenix with statements
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made that the caller had referenced, here's the ap headline, trump says liz cheney might not be "such a war hawk with a gun pointed at her." here's a portion from yesterday. [video clip] >> i don't blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. very dumb. she is a radical war hawk. with nine barrels shooting at her, let's see how she feels about it, if the guns are trained at her face. the war hawks, when they are sitting in washington, let sent 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy, but she's a stupid person, and i have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people, so whether it is her, i was surprised a little
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bit with dick cheney. i did not know him at all. i only essentially had the one or two phone calls, and it was a phone call saying thank you very much for doing that, and scooter libb e, by the way could not believe that it happened. they should have done that for him years before, but i was little surprised because i actually thought that dick cheney would go with me over his daughter, and he did not. i understand it, but she is a bad person. host: those are the comments from yesterday regarngiz cheney. liz cheney posted on x in spse saying this is how dictators destroy free nations. they threaten those who ea against them with death, cannot interest our country and freedom to a petty and unstable man who would like to be a tyrant. those are the comments and thoughts from liz cheney from
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yesterday's reaction. let's hear from massachusetts, supporter of vice president harris. jerry, city sits. caller: good morning. there are so many issues that are going on. a lot of issues that are against trump are phenomenal. he led an insurrection against our country. he should not even be able to run as president and they are allowing him to run. he has six bankruptcies. people say he is good in business. he has had six bankruptcies, he defrauded the country, and they still hold him up to standing character. he is the worst character i've ever seen. and for people to downplay what harris has done, she has done a lot throughout her life, and she stands up for a lot of american people, and for anyone who
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thinks they are a patriot, or anyone who thinks they are able to hold on to the sanctity of the united states, they should look really close to trump. remember billy bush and his comments that trump made, statements that he made. those were added to the onslaught of rhetoric that goes against him, and people listening to republican stations, they don't get that over again. host: joe, ohio, supporter of neither candidate, undecided line, go ahead. caller: hey, this is joe. i have got an absentee ballot, and the problem was that the three of us who got absentee
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ballots, only half of them got their ballots, so i called down to the board, and they sent me another ballot, and i still have not gotten it. and the other two got their ballots because i have come down to florida for the winter. i'm just wondering if that is going to be a problem with the election this year. host: supporter of former president trump in california, hello. caller: good morning. i'm for trump because i can make money off of him, and that gives me more freedom with a job. as for the democrats, i don't believe in them and anyway they do stuff. i also believe that when he is elected, and there will be riots, it does not matter who wins, they will be riots. they are boarding up d.c. right
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now and they expected. i would say this, we are going to go through trouble, we will get through it to the other side, and that should do it. host: this is where the vice president was yesterday, las vegas, north las vegas, joint appearance with the vice president there, but also the actress and singer j. lo. the vice president talking and directing supporters, here's a bit of that event in las vegas yesterday. [video clip] >> we all know who donald trump's, this is not someone thinking about how to make your life better. this is someone increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and he is out for unchecked power. look, in less than 90 days, it
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is either going to be him or me in the oval office. and here is the thing we know, and this is part of what we are fighting for because we have the image of what it could be, it will not be, but what it could be if he was elected. if you were reelected on day one, donald trump would walk into that office with an enemy list. when i'm elected, i will walk in with a to do list on behalf of you. [end video clip] host: that event available at c-span.org, our free video app at c-span now. kansas, supporter of vice president harris, hello.
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caller: good morning. i was shocked to hear the news this morning that somebody is a felon, and somebody that is calling for the murder of somebody can be running for president, so i like harris, i like that she is focusing on health care and prices, and she is standing up to dictator, and how do we have somebody that is threatening the life of people running for president? really, i don't understand. thank you. host: supporter of former president trump, bradley, west virginia. caller: good morning, c-span. it is kind of early here, raining. when i turned 75, i changed from democrat to republican. i hated to do it, the democrats got so out of line, just like the lady who was just on,
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talking about trump going to shoot cheney. i did not see it that way. i had seen cheney had a gun in her hand, there were seven pointed at her, and he was trying to make a point on how brave she would be if she was in battle. that is in war. it is sad, and i have got another thing. how is the government going to pay for all these border runners, is what i call them, and not raise taxes? where's the money coming from? are going to write checks and they bounce? and like the twitter guy, if that is what he would like to do, you know, getting awards out or something, that is fine, but they have blown that out of proportion. they have blown the portion out of biden, saying everybody was garbage. it is a shame that the
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politicians cannot have better voices of other politicians, no matter whether democrat or republican, they have got to run their mouth, diarrhea of the mouth. it a full. host: marshall, illinois, supporter of vice president harris, hello. caller: good morning, america, thank you for taking my call and for this wonderful service you provide all of us. i cannot think of any other channel out there that allows us to do this. it is important that we all hear from each other. when i was growing up in the 1970's and 1980's in school, i recall we constantly would hear how in our history classes, we would be blaming the german people saying, how could you let hitler come to power? how could you be so blind to it? we were caused reminded of that and the german people had to
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apologize for decades. i feel like this is our hitler's moment. and all the writing is on the wall about this man. i just ask my fellow americans, look in the mirror. and if you are thinking of voting for him, it is not really a reflection of him in donald trump, it is a reflection of you. do you hold those values? is that truly who you are? if that is who you are, that really saddens me that you are a fellow american and that is all i have to say, thank you for the opportunity. host: this is ed, line for supporting either candidate or undecided at this point, go ahead. caller: good morning. sorry i'm going to be the one to tell c-span listeners the biggest news story this year, is
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that two scientific journals have given a date [indiscernible] , this century, 2056. host: how does that relate to campaign 2024? caller: the democrats, they are trying, and the republicans will not use science. you cannot use science on abortion and not climate change. host: you are saying you are voting for neither candidate or you are undecided, why? caller: because the democrats are right, but they cannot explain it. they cannot talk or communicate. the republicans are combining church and state, and the democrats cannot explain that. they do not want to tell people,
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which i understand, but do not combine church and state. the first amendment -- host: ok, this is from the associated press this morning, regarding the white house and the garbage comments from president biden, reporting that the transcript released by the press office rendered a port with anapostrophe, saying supporters with anapostrophe rather than supporters without one, which aims to talk about the comedian, and it was made after the confirm the president according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers office obtained by the associated press, the authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials spoke on the and
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anonymity, and the supervisor in the mail called a press conference handling a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the stenography and press offices, going on to say that if there is a difference in interpretation, the press office may choose to hold, but cannot edit it independently, writing that the transcript related to the national archives is no different than the version edited and released to the president by press office.. there is more there and that associated press story and you can find it online. all part of campaign 2024, (202)-748-8000 if you support the harris-walz ticket. (202)-748-8001 if you support the trump-vance ticket. if you are supporting either candidate or undecided, (202)-748-8002. a supporter of vice president harris, minnesota, hello. caller: morning.
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i like with the caller from illinois said about how to get that far? i grew up in germany, and to me, a big sign of an autocrat is they know it all. don't take note advice, do not apologize. they think themselves perfect, and people around him, and loyalty is a one-way street. only expecting loyalty, but don't give it back. normally, i call independent, but in this case, it is important. and good luck to us. host: sherry, indiana, a
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supporter of former president trump, hello. caller: i don't even know where to start, support and truly believe that president trump is what our country needs now. the caller from illinois, we need to open our eyes and he's right on a certain part of that, only because the media for eight years, the media and democrats have been brainwashing america that president trump is bad. that was obvious from the call from the lady from virginia or georgia earlier, who says he does not like women and he's always putting women down. that is not true. he had more women in his administration more than any other democrat in history, so people are getting too much of what they believe from the media and democrat party, and they sound like politicians and the media would never lie to us, right?
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i was disappointed when the guy called and said president trump was charged with insurrection, nobody was, and that is probably why people don't trust the media, because you don't call it out when you see it. everybody has their opinions, but at the same time, i have heard on c-span before, people being corrected, that's not true, but that never seems to be the case when it is on the other side. i hope people can really soul search. the only thing i watch on fox news is the five and then i switch over to newsnation, and i try cnn to make sure to have all sides and stories, and i encourage everybody to do that. host: brian on the undecided line massachusetts, good morning. caller: yeah, i was undecided until i heard your last caller talk about how trump was a fascist. he governed like ronald reagan and kennedy by cutting taxes,
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deregulating and supporting the military. fascism is the definition of a government that uses the military to control people, so i don't know what the hell democrats are talking about. host: it sounds like you were decided before you called. caller: i was decided after i heard your radical caller called in and call trump a fascist when he is not. host: you can call in, the lines are for the harris-walz ticket, the trump-vance ticket, undecided. (202)-748-8003, text us if you wish, and on facebook.com/c-span , you can post on x that -- @cspanwj. you can call the lines that test represent you. if you have done so within the last 30 days, hold off from
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doing so today, and then as always, if you are online are waiting, turn your television off if you wish so that there is no feedback or interference. ohio is next, supporter of former president. rich, and marion. caller: after 9/11, people said never, ever, ever with the ever do that again. well, we have people coming in from china, russia, north korea on what they are going to go after. just close the border. we have generals sitting here trying to figure out what to do, just close the border. and now we know it is coming at us, and people are not closing the border, that is why trump is
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going to be the right person to put in there, and maybe we would not need to see people dying. host: the olanta journal-constitution reports this morning when it comes to election results next week, saying that results in georgia will come in faster than ever after the polls closed tuesday night, giving the nation an early look at which rate a critical swing state is leaning right after 8:00 in the evening, early and absentee votes for president, three quarters of all votes will be posted online and brought past after election results unlikely finish before midnight. the results are required to any state law that calls for early votes and most absentee votes to be reported within one hour of post closing. legislators mandated the early results, helping to address early suspicions about fallacy. and this year, georgia is one of
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the quickest counted states in the nation and that does not necessarily mean whether the former president would win on election night. that is the atlanta journal constitution if you would like to see the story. in ohio, sarah, supporter of vice president harris, hello. caller: hi, good morning. i'm supporting harris when i go and vote on november 5. there was a professional economist on msnbc this morning, supporting harris. i did not listen completely to what she had to say, so i had to tune in to c-span, and i would like to comment on the economy that biden was given, and he is a democrat. he worked his way out of the terrible pandemic we had, and i'm not disappointed because i'm
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a democrat, i feel the democrat always had a good economy headed over to the republicans, and that was explained by barack obama because he said he had to president trump, and he messed it up, so now we are digging our way out of the pandemic and a rotten economy that he could not handle with the pandemic either, so, yes, i'm going to vote and stay with democrats. host: we will hear from dan next. go ahead. caller: hi, thank you for having me on. i think this morning, i mean, i see it every single day, but this morning really hits home as far as why the american public are so up in arms and are so on
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one side or another. the reason is this. trump has talked about liz cheney because she is a warmonger, and she likes to go to wars. he was putting into perspective how would she feel if she was the one being at war, right? that is exactly what he said talking to tucker carlson, but you have this morning, on programs like this morning joke where have professors, everyone the left would want to listen to fairfax, every single one of them stating that donald trump wanted to kill liz cheney and that is what he was going to do. pedro, you sat there when a caller said the same thing, and you said nothing. do you have a comprehensive problem? something this important, and
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you have the media and the public being misled thinking trump would like to kill liz cheney. that is unacceptable, completely unacceptable. host: dwight, california, supporting either candidate or undecided. hello. caller: good morning, washington journal. yes, pedro, i'm not supporting any of the candidates. i have not loaded for a presidential candidate since barack obama, and i have no clue to where they even give us choices on who to choose from, it is utterly ridiculous. i have voted already, absentee here in california. we have a lot of things going on here, especially on the down ballots that we have going on and school boards, trustees,
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city council, etc. things in washington, d.c., in my opinion, it is too much money involved. i'm listening to the right and left, and everybody is correct on one side and wrong on the other, and america is doing all this internal fighting, and it does not make any sense. one last thing, i hear people talking about policy all the time. we are under the rules of law. the president can set a policy anytime he would like to. if it is not law, then the next president who comes can change it, so until legislators, congress and the senate get together and pass laws, nothing is going to change. host: ok, dwight in california, giving us his thoughts. you can send us texts, posting on social media. the caller mentioned down ballot
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issues, and one of those is pro-choice. usa today saying that it is on the ballot in three states, saying that the ballot item in colorado and kentucky proposed adding language, supporting language and constitutions but neither lays out specifics, saying that if the colorado and kentucky measures pass, they were joined states that already have some form of school choice language on the book, according to education week. it also highlights a measure to aim and repeal a $10 million school voucher program that a state legislature passed this year, putting that decision in the hands of voters. usa today is where you will find that story when it comes to the down ballot and initiative issues across the. virginia, john, supporter of vice president harris. caller: i'm shocked the previous
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caller that is accusing you of why you don't respond. they think they know everything. they don't know what they listen to. the recent called, the reality is, they make one time a state, the next time, they don't. donald trump, you make a mistake, and you become a president. i grew up and the issue is not about whether or not donald trump should be president or not. the president has some kind of dignity he runs with the country. donald trump does not have that. insulting women is not policy. and i'm sick and tired of those people calling and saying that what donald trump did against females is acceptable. if you have a wife and
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daughters, take about one minute. if someone talked to your daughter that way, you have to understand one thing, america, you don't know what you have, believe me, the freedom that you have. you think this freedom comes easy? it did not. host: david in maryland, supporter of former president trump, hello. caller: thank you for taking my call, i'm totally eight trump fan. when trump was there, the economy was great, our supporters -- are borders or secure. that last guy talking about what he did was ridiculous. anyone who is a harris supporter, they are asinine. she is going to make our country a communist country, she is anti-god, anti-america, and we don't need that. we are not running for that. even in the year 2024. and trump, he is a great guy.
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when he was in there eight years ago, he had done a regular job, and kamala harris is nothing but a liar. you are for taking my call. host: florida, supporter of vice president harris, you are next. caller: i'm from pensacola, florida. host: you are on, go ahead. caller: i wanted to ask all the trump supporters, where were they at one cubans flocked to florida and south florida and stol lack -- stole black's jobs, and obama was out
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there, calling and saying that obama was not born in the united states of america, he is a racist as all get out, and he is just like adolf hitler, and i'm a moderate republican, and i'm voting for kamala harris, and i already voted for kamala harris, and these far right-wing radical republicans are nothing but garbage. host: ray, tennessee, supporter of president trump, hello. caller: hello, yes. my comment is that the republican party is a communist party. bottom line.
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i'm 80 years old, vietnam veteran, and i'm sitting in my living room watching wheel of fortune, and they are sending people to hanoi for vacation. that is the same thing with the man who fought in afghanistan. they are going to do the same thing. donald trump would like a strong military so we don't have to go to these foreign wars and lose american people. that is common sense, basic knowledge, and if the democrats can, than they are paranoid people. host: political reporting as of last evening that with four days until the election, if donald trump would like to engage nikki haley, the last candidate to drop out during the primaries, and remains on standby for the trump campaign, and has focused
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on the media, but at a time when democrats have been courting so-called hayleigh voters, republicans cast the vote in gop primaries, and so far chose not to schedule any appearances with the former un ambassador in the final stretch, adding that the trump and hayleigh teams have remained in contact about appearing together. a spokesperson for hayleigh did not return requests for comment, deciding the former president has been largely dismissive of the former idea. in california, supporter of former president trump, talking about campaign 24. good morning. caller: hello, good morning, pedro. calling in support of donald trump, i voted for him the first time. also because this country will be able to see the effects in our lifetime, also the fact that
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he got shot a couple of months ago, and he is still confident. you don't see him running around with a vest or is overly paranoid. he's more visible, seemed going to work every day, talking about policies. i may -- i'm a black male, and i feel like a lot can relate to him. one, i'm a felon, two, he is a felon, and two, he has children with alterable women, nobody is perfect, and if i was running this campaign, it would say donald trump, america's choice, america's answer. thank you for allowing me to speak this morning. host: ohio next, supporter of vice president harris, go ahead. caller: good morning, america. i support harris and tim walz.
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i voted early. i'm curious, where is downey junior -- donnie junior, ivanka, jared mark where they asked to stay awake or do not support him? in regard to the man from ohio, which i am from, i had never heard of vance until he turned up on the scene, he called trump hitler, and trump thinks he has a cool beard, so that is why he is going to be running with him as vice president. and god and trump just plain don't go together. host: yesterday, donald trump was at high point diversity in a forum with younger voters and then spoke about with the next election to him means. voters.
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[video clip] >> i think young voters have the most to lose or the most to gain from getting the election right or wrong. one of the things that worries me when i hear kamala harris because i hear a person who does not have strong or sincere views about what she would actually like to do, setting aside policy disagreement you have with kamala harris, and i have a lot, by the way, policy this agreement you may have with barack obama, and i have a lot there, what i would say for barack obama but not kamala harris, is he actually has beliefs and thoughts and his head for how he would like to govern the united states of america and i don't think you could say that about kamala harris. the problem there is that person becomes an empty vessel for whatever the prevailing efforts that are prevailing in washington, d.c., r, and one of the prevailing ideas that affects young people's number one, we should use our young people as cannon fodder for foreign military misadventures
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that are going to get a lot of your peers killed unless we have a smarter foreign policy. i think you guys have a lot to lose because we are on the precipice of many broad, regional wars, potentially even a world war. would you like a person that kamala harris negotiating in private rooms with people at vladimir putin and xi jinping? or would you like a guy like donald trump sticking up for the united states of america? the answer is obvious. the second prevailing idea in washington, d.c., is we should let in millions upon millions of illegal immigrants to compete against young americans for important jobs, to undercut the wages of american workers, and it is american workers of every color and background, but we have to recognize that when you let and aliens upon millions of illegal aliens, it severely undercuts the wages of people, especially those entering the workforce, which is true of every person in this room.
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[end video clip] host: that is available at the website and app. deborah, maryland, undecided. hello. caller: good morning, c-span. i appreciate hearing the views from my fellow americans. typically, i vote on policy and the policies of the candidates. this is whether i'm voting for senate or president. i really believe that climate change is one of the major issues of our time. i now going to my school, i'm a schoolteacher, and never in my life have i seen 80 degrees temperatures on halloween. and one of the important things that the president does is he allows different people to
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control branches of government that affect all of us, like the fda, department of housing, and if we really do not get our climate change policy under control and try to meet the standards of the international standards for what we have to do, our world is going to change for our children and in children so that the idea of a white christmas or any of these things is going to be a thing of the past, and one of the reasons why that is so important is even though we have a lot of movement we think because of migrants coming in or immigrants coming in, it will completely change our way of life if we don't get things under control, and the president, he or she, will
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control the outcome of the epa in particular for the next four years. it is so critical that we have someone who understands the science of what is happening. host: mississippi, supporter of vice president, tracy, hello. caller: good morning. host: you are on. caller: yes, i have one question. i'm going to ask a question to america. how are you all voting for trump when he has not been anything the last four years that he was in office? i think the government system is messed up for letting him be on the ballot as a president running for president, and i'm voting for kamala harris and tim walz, and thank you. host: governor tim walz was in pennsylvania yesterday, campaign stop there, talking about economic policy. here is a portion from yesterday. [video clip] >> pennsylvania created over
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560,000 jobs [applause] . and she sat on the mall yesterday, spoke and looked like a president talked about unifying country, and she laid out a list of what she was going to do going forward because you know she will do it. she will go into the white house with a to do list, not an enemy list. starting by putting more money back in your pocket. that is the priority every single day. for starters, we will announce the price gouging that all groceries. here are a couple of examples of price gouging. we have a hurricane coming, they are telling you to get out of florida, and airline tickets went through the roof. that is not capitalism,
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free-market, or ethical, that is price gouging. grocery prices are up, guess what? our farmers, my farmers in minnesota, went grocery prices were lower, they were getting about four bucks, and now they are really high, and farmers are getting about four bucks a bushel. you get it, price gouging. 37 states, democrats and republicans, and then we will focus the tax cuts on the middle class. [applause] reducing childhood poverty with the tykes credit we -- with the child tax credit we propose. [end video clip] host: to give you a rundown of what to expect today as part of campaign 2024 coverage, continuing with jd vance in michigan. you can see that at 1:00 this afternoon on the platform at
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3:30 this afternoon, governor tim walz will be in flint, michigan, and then later on, former president trump expected to speak to supporters in warren, michigan. and then governor tim walz on c-span2, see him in detroit as they continue making their case up to election day. jd vance in carolina, later on c-span2, and then tonight in wisconsin, this is kamala harris . you can follow along on the main channels, c-span1 and 2, our video app, c-span now, and as part of our coverage there, rachel, north carolina, supporter of former president trump, hello. caller: yes, hi. my name is rachel from north carolina. god bless you all today. i hope you all are praying about
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the right choices to make for this campaign. the only thing i can say is that ms. harris, vice president harris, i got a phone call yesterday from her campaign saying that at our polls on tuesday, there would be a party. that is the clarity in what i have with what she has set forth. we had the hurricanes in the mountains, pushing all this electric vehicle stuff, people would have been down without vehicles at that point, yes, it is just regulation on climate change and stuff, but you have to think outside the box sometimes. the only thing i have a definite on what she has proposed before us is that she will sit down at the table, and we are having a party at our polls, so let's pray about the selection, and
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everybody have a blessed day. host: sharon, supporter of vice president harris, in oregon. caller: i just have a couple of points. the first one, it is always brought up, were you better four years ago? we were not. four years ago, we were locked in our homes, you could not bite toilet paper, people were dying by hundreds of thousands, we were being told to drink bleach. i'm a lot better now. i can go out, i can buy stuff, etc. also, let's look back at trump's track record in the two big things he did, a big tax cut that i far helped the top 1%, which i'm not. i'm a retired person. it did not help me at all. the second thing he did was set
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tariffs, which he had to spend millions of dollars to prop up the farmers because they lost their chinese and the outlets to sell the products. that did not help us, and it raised prices. now he is talking about big tariffs again. haven't we learned from the last time when somebody does something and it does not work, why are you applauding it now? even the wall street journal says that his economic plan is far worse, the wall street journal, a republican paper. host: thomas, maryland-, undecided. caller: hello. yeah, i'm roughly undecided. i look at what folks are saying about the democratic party and
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how they have been soft on border security issues, and i gave that consideration. i also look at the economy. i take that into consideration. i also take into consideration that job unemployment is at a historical low. i also looked at as a veteran myself, i look at really the consideration of former trump staff. i think about former vice president mike pence, he said trump is unfit to lead. i look at james mattis, these individuals are not far left individuals. these are conservative christian individuals, so as a former military member, even if i think sometimes maybe trump has may a decent economic plan, even
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though he doesn't talk about it, or he says he will increase tariffs, which i think is not a great idea, i also look at what these individuals have said, and i'm like, ok, your former chief of staff and secretaries have said you are unfit to lead. i have to take that into serious consideration when making a decision. so that is it. host: one more call, alan, new york, supporter of former president trump, hello. caller: i'm calling from albany, new york. i voted for trump as soon as we were able to. the democratic party is controlled by george soros, who would like an open society, he would like wide open borders, and he is the democrats biggest donor, if you vote for kamala harris, they will keep the borders wide open. we have 20 million here already
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that invaded our country and our spending hundreds and billions of our tax dollars supporting these people, and we will be supporting them for decades if we do not deport them. hundreds of billions of more dollars will be spent on them, and they will keep the borders wide open, they will not shove them if kamala harris gets in. if you would like that, vote for kamala harris. >>
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